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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). 
 

Continue reading Free/Busy between two Exchange Online / Office365 Organizations

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Diagnostic Logging helps you to find free/busy issues in Exchange. Depending on your Exchange version you will use different configurations described in this article.

Warning- Diagnostic logging saves data to the Application log. The log should be carefully monitored since it can fill and/or cause performance degredation on the server monitored.

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A reply to

"Cross Org Availability using Federation Trust and Organization Relationship" - Published by The Exchange Team 28 Jun 2011 1:30 PM

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NETsec GALsync - Published at http://netsec.de/products/galsync

Organizations often need to share availability (aka Free/Busy) information with other Exchange organizations. Depending on the version of Exchange Server you're on, there are different ways to do this. Let's take a look at three common scenarios and go through the exact steps required in order to achieve sharing of availability information between two on-premises Exchange organizations.

Scenarios:

1.       Scenario 1: Both organizations running Exchange 2010 SP1

2.       Scenario 2: One (or both) organizations running a mix of both Exchange 2007 and Exchange 2010 SP1

3.       Scenario 3: One (or both) organizations running a mix of Exchange 2003, Exchange 2007 and Exchange 2010 SP1

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 There is a quite good article posted by Dominic Savio TROUBLESHOOTING FREE/BUSY ISSUES IN EXCHANGE 2003 SERVER

http://exchangeserverinfo.com/2009/08/28/troubleshooting-freebusy-issues-in-exchange-2003-server.aspx

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Information workers frequently need to collaborate with external recipients such as vendors, partners, and customers, and share their availability (free/busy) information, calendar, or contacts. So we speak about

1.     Federated free/busy sharing
Access free/busy information of an external user in a partner's company. The published Exchange availability service of the partner's company answers directly using the requested information from user's mailbox. No public system folder is used anymore.

2.     Federated calendar sharing
Access calendar information of an external user in a partner's company. The user has to ask the external user to share his calendar by using the features of Outlook or Outlook Web App.

3.     Federated contact sharing
Access private contacts information of an external user in a partner's company. The user has to ask the external user before to share his contacts by using the features of Outlook or Outlook Web App.

In this second part I will give a technical level overview about what Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Federation services provide and what the limitations are.

Continue reading GALsync and Federation using Exchange 2010 - Part II

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Information workers frequently need to collaborate with external recipients such as vendors, partners, and customers, and share their availability (free/busy) information, calendar, or contacts. So we speak about

1.     Federated free/busy sharing
Access free/busy information of an external user in a partner's company

2.     Federated calendar sharing
Access calendar information of an external user in a partner's company

3.     Federated contact sharing
Access private contacts information of an external user in a partner's company

In this first part I will give a high level overview about what Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Federation services provide and what the limitations are.

Continue reading GALsync and Federation using Exchange 2010 - Part I (Update)

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You might want to change from using availability service to classic public folder usage for accessing and storing free/busy information.

What you have to consider if using free/busy information with public folders in a pure Exchange 2010 environment after installing Exchange without a public folder store?

Continue reading GALsync Special - Part 7:: Free Busy with Exchange 2010 (Update)

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GALsync version 4 provides an important and heavily requested new feature: synchronization of free/busy information.

Aditionally it has a new Look & Feel following Exchange 2010 and Outlook 2010. Unless we spent a lot of time in developing this feature, this version is a no chargeable upgrade.

see upgrade instructions here . . .

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Galsync v4 With Extended Free/Busy Functions And New User Interfaces

Dueren, Germany, November 2009. The NETsec GmbH & Co. KG, supplier of productivity solutions for Active-Directory- and Exchange-Administrators, introduces the new version of Exchange-synchronization software Galsync on 15th November. Besides the synchronization of exchange address lists, Galsync v4 can now also synchronize the free-busy-information of contacts between various Exchange-Installations.

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Dueren, Germany  2009-10-12

NETsec announces a major release of its famous software GALsync for 15th of november. This release offers free/busy synchronization or so called InterOrg Free/Busy Replication between untrusted forests . . .

Continue reading Press Release: GALsync Version 4 now with Free/Busy

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What happens behind the scenes when synchronizing free/busy data between multiple Exchange organizations using GALsync?

When synchronizing different mail organizations GALsync reads the free/busy information of selected user objects in source and stores them in target as free/busy information related to the synchronized contact object.

GALsync does not sync free/busy every time it is modified in source. You might want to export free/busy times in a time window of minimal 5 minutes.

Continue reading GALsync Special - Part 2 :: Free Busy (Update)

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Microsoft offers some tools or build-in-features to make free/busy available.
The below described scenarios show some useful links helping you to configure free/busy access in different scenarios for trusted and untrusted relations.

Continue reading Configuring Free Busy information between Exchange organizations

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The Need
There are some companies - small or large, most working on international level - which have to handle multiple Active Directories and multiple Exchange organizations.
Outlook users inside one of each organization can list all mail addresses and some more information like phone numbers and departments in the so called Global address list.
Open Outlook, click New message, click To . . . and you will get all addresses of your companies employees. But: what about your colleagues in the other companies organization?

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