NETsec announced version 5 of its favorite software GALsync to synchronize Global Address Lists between Exchange organizations. 

• With version 5.0 of GALsync,  support for Exchange Web Services and PowerShell 2.0 was added.
• GALsync now can synchronize with Exchange Online (Microsoft Office 365).
• GALsync version 5 is able to synchronize the Global Address Lists between Exchange 2007 SP1, Exchange 2010 SP1, Exchange 2013 and Exchange Online.
• The former built-In Free/Busy solution (Synchronizing Public Folder contents using MAPI) has been deprecated, thus version 5.0 of GALsync enables customers to set up an live Free/Busy using Online Free/Busy or MS Federation.
• Extended performance improvements and less bandwidth needs
• GUI of GALsync is updated to the new Windows8-Style

more information at NETsec Website

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Setting up a untrusted  cross-forest environment supports a simple Free/Busy query between two the forests using „galsynced“ contacts.  This feature I described in article  Cross-Forest Free/Busy without Federation and its corresponding troubleshooting guide.

In this article I want to share some experiences with troubleshooting the Cross-Forest Delegation feature. Cross-Forest Delegation allows completly to manage a delegated calendar even if people are placed in different mail-organizations. But there must be a domain-trust in place.

To synchronize objects I prefer NETsec's GALsync, which is much easier to use than Microsofts FIM etc.

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With GALsysnc v5 we introduce a software for synchronizing Global Address List between independent Office 365 and Exchange On-Premise organizations.  Some people call it Federated GAL sharing.

The only thing you need, is GALsync. In this article I provide you with a Quickstep installation (i.e. for testing environment).

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In this blog I will describe how you can provide Free/Busy information between different Exchange Online / Office 365 organizations.
Usually people are able to send requests to share calendar individually, but we want to implement an enterprise-wide configuration.
If you want that all the mailobjects of your partners organization are present in your own Global Address List (GAL) then you can use a tool like NETsec's GALsync.

Between 2 Exchange Online Partners you do not need to establish a Federation Trust or configure autodiscover records because this is already present (by default). 
 

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In a previous article I described how to share free/busy information in an untrusted cross-forest environment. The procedures are published not very often and you sometimes get some "nice errors".  I use the follwoing steps to troubleshoot these issues.

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CopyOUStructure is a command-line solution to aid cross-forest migration scenarios.

Most cross-forest migration projects happen under heavy time pressure. The structure of organizational units within the common target forest is in most cases no subject to change, as the current structure shall be kept from the source. The redesign of the OU structure is in most cases part of a later project, as it should not have any impact with the migration itself, and would only increase the budget and lenght in time of the migration project.

The effect will carry out the most when using ADMT: It is only able to migrate all user-objects in one target OU or to clone source OUs with users direct to the target root. But in most cases you will want to replicate the source OU-structure into on sub-OU on the target. There is  a possibility to copy a whole OU-structure, but only at top-level, which is desaterous when planning a company-merge.

We also need to replicate the source OU-structure to be able to migrate the GPOs of the source and link them corresponding to the source domain. Groups on the other hand are not in the scope of this tool, as for a membership it does not matter where the group physically exists.

As our consulting is involved in many migration projects, we developed this tool to aid the projects.

We also decided that we want to provide this tool without any cost:

Download free full-version

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We want to supply GAL between 2 untrusted Active Directory forests with Exchange organizations. This we will perform with NETsec's GALsync software.
Additionally we want to share Free/Busy information without configuring a Microsoft Federation (using the MS Federation Gateway). We do not want to use the Free/Busy feature of GALsync.

In this article I will demonstrate the procedure to supply Free/Busy in this way.

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After downloading the installation file, open the *msi-Installer. If you make an update, the directory \program files\NETsec\epr will be checked.The existing data are transferred, so you can continue to work with your pre-defined reports. If the directory does not exist, it will be created.

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Corona, CA – July 10, 2012

ENow, a Microsoft Independent Software Vendor specializing in the development of software to simplify Microsoft system management, announced the release of ForeSite, a SharePoint management solution.  

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The new version 3.5 of Enterprise Permission Reporter now includes

• File Security Reporting
  who has access to folders and files? What's new - which modifications are made between 2 scans
• Active Directory Object Permission Reporting
  who has access to AD objects like OUs, users groups?  What's new - which modifications are made between 2 scans?
• Active Directory Group Membership Watcher
  who is added or removed from a certain important group? Real-time reports.

EPR v3.5 combines basic reports which scan and document all found entries and DELTA reports which contain only the difference made.

The security administrator, the department or the group which is responsible for auditing gets only the information it needs. The IT administrators setup the software, define the policies and send the reports to the responsibles. That's all for the IT!

In this blog I describe shortly how the Active Directory Object Permission Reporting works.

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