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Michael Epping

Michael Epping

Michael is one of Concurrency’s Systems Engineers on the Unified Communications Team. His core expertise is focused on Microsoft’s unified communications offerings, specifically Exchange Server and Skype for Business Server.

  • Michael also has extensive experience with other Microsoft platforms including Office 365 and Azure Active Directory.
  • In addition to his core expertise, Michael also has deep background in SCCM and Hyper-V.
  • Contributions by Michael Epping

    Exchange Server Storage Changes

    Microsoft revealed some interesting new changes for both Exchange Server 2013 and the upcoming Exchange Server 2016 release when it comes to storage at the Microsoft Ignite Conference.  The biggest o...

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    Exchange Server 2013 Support for Windows Azure IaaS

    The Exchange Team made a number of interesting announcements at the Microsoft Ignite conference, including support for Exchange Server 2013 servers on Microsoft Azure IaaS.  Previously Microsoft ...

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    Find OCS Live Meeting Users with a SQL Query

    During a recent OCS to Lync Server 2013 project I found that we needed to identify the OCS users who utilized Live Meetings the most heavily. Lync Server 2013 doesn't really handle the migration of L...

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    Hybrid Mailbox Migrations Fail when using SSL Offloading

    I recently ran into the issue where I had an Exchange 2010 SP3 RU2 Hybrid server configured with Office 365 Wave 15.  I used the Exchange Management Console to configure Remote Mailbox Move Requests,...

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    Migrate ADFS for Office 365 to Windows Azure

    One of the more common complaints I hear about Single Sign On with Office 365 is that it requires the creation of at least 3 new servers (Dirsync, ADFS, ADFS Proxy), which may exceed the number of Ex...

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    Change Users' Exchange UM Dial Plan

    I ran into an issue recently where Lync users couldn't call an Exchange auto-attendant, so I dug into the Exchange UM server's Application log and discovered this: Note the section "MainNumber.Lyn...

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    Automate Mailbox Size Reporting in Office 365

    Office 365 grants users relatively large mailboxes at 25 GB per person, but in some organizations a few users may push the limits on a mailbox even this large.  Luckily, remote PowerShell with Office...

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