Thursday, March 22, 2012

Office 365 Virtual Labs for IT Pros


The following series of virtual labs shows you how to prepare an organization to move some of its on-premises user accounts to Office 365. In these labs, you will:
  • Walk through the process of setting up and configuring Active Directory Federation Services (AD-FS);
  • See how to install, configure and run Directory Synchronization; and finally,
  • Learn about the hybrid scenarios available in Office 365.
Standard Identity - Installing and Configuring Active Directory Federation Services
In this lab, you will learn how to prepare for and install Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS), which is a preliminary step to the Office 365 federation and hybrid scenarios.
Installing and Configuring Active Directory Synchronization
Learn how to install and configure Active Directory Synchronization in Office 365, which is a preliminary step to the Office 365 federation and hybrid scenarios.
Federated Identity - Configuring Active Directory Federation Services and Verifying Federation
In this lab, you will learn how to add and verify federated domains in Office 365.
 Note: We recommend that you work through the labs labeled 1 through 3 in the order shown here because this is the prescribed sequence of steps for deploying a hybrid environment in Microsoft Exchange and Microsoft Office 365. 

Exchange Online virtual labs

Hybrid Options with Exchange Server 2010, Part 1: Enabling Exchange Federation
Learn about hybrid deployment with Microsoft Office 365 and Microsoft Exchange Online. This is the first part of a two-part lab.
Hybrid Options with Exchange Server 2010 Part 2: The Federated Client Experience
Learn about hybrid deployment with Microsoft Office 365 and Exchange Online. This is the second part of a two-part lab.
Performing a Cutover Exchange Migration
Learn how to use Email Migration in the Exchange Control Panel to migrate all the mailboxes and corresponding mailbox data from Microsoft Exchange to your cloud-based email organization.

SharePoint Online virtual labs

Exploring SharePoint Online Administrator Tasks
Learn to create and manage Microsoft SharePoint Online sites, document libraries, and custom lists and views; work with documents; and perform other administrative tasks.
Exploring SharePoint Online End User Tasks
Learn how to perform the tasks associated with managing pages and documents in SharePoint Online. You will also perform online and offline activities.
Applying a Custom Branding Solution to a SharePoint Online Team Site
Review and apply a custom branding solution to a SharePoint Online Team Site.
Creating and Deploying a SharePoint Online Sandboxed Solution
Build a Visual Web Part as a sandboxed solution using the Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 SharePoint Power Tools, and then deploy the sandboxed solution to the solution gallery in a SharePoint Online site collection.

Tuesday, March 13, 2012

Move the View Dropdown for Wide Lists

One of the annoying "features" of SharePoint 2007 is how the View dropdown gets pushed off of the page when working with list views with many columns.


Left part of the page:




Two scrolls to the right and we can now find the view menu:




View menu just to the right of the other toolbar buttons. (After Adding the Javascript)




Complete Steps:


  1. Display the list's view page

  2. Click Site Actions, Edit Page

  3. Add a Content Editor Web Part and move it to the bottom of the page (below the list's web part)

  4. Edit the Content Editor Web Part, click the Content Editor button and paste in the following JavaScript

  5. Save everything and test!


Javascript code:

<script>


var x = document.getElementsByTagName("table");


for (var i=0;i<x.length;i++)


{


// find the table with this class


if (x[i].className=="ms-menutoolbar")


{


// change the widths of all of the cells to 0


for (var j=0; j<x[i].rows[0].cells.length;j++)


{


x[i].rows[0].cells[j].style.width="0"


}


// change the width of the last column


x[i].rows[0].cells[j-1].style.width="100%"


}


}


</script>

Saturday, March 10, 2012

RCC Call automatically put on hold.

RCC (Click to call) Call automatically put on hold.

Problem Description:-

While using MOC client 2007 R2 and users often complain that when they answer a call on the phone it automatically gets put on hold and it doesn't matter they to answer using speakerphone, headset or headset. If they kill MOC client on their computer and restart it the problem goes away.

Resolution:-
I have reproduced problem on few computers for testing and researched on issue.

-> Only one call is active the other calls are put on hold automatically by communicator, because by design OCS 2007 can only have one active call at a time, it puts other calls on hold.

The call was established on MOC 2007 R2.

When there was a new call coming, MOC found there was two call active so it sent HoldCall event and call put on hold.

Resolution at this point found -

1. Only solutions to quit MOC 2007 R2 or remove RCC from users account.

2. Upgrade the Avaya or Cisco software (soft phone).