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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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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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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.

Continue reading Cross-Forest Free/Busy without Federation

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"GALsync is one of those products that does exactly what it advertises. In fact, with the ability to handle free/busy information, combined with so many necessary features (everything from method of export/import to encryption options to specific attribute export selection) it goes above and beyond what I expected based on first glance."

says J. Peter Bruzzese at msexchange.org, taking a look at NETsec's GALsync.

Continue reading GALsync recommended by MVP Peter Bruzzese

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This Tutorial describes all steps to create a new shared E-Mail address for two different domains.

We use GALsync for sychronizing objects, a script to modify the SMTP-addresses and built-in Exchange 2010 features.

Continue reading Creating a shared address space for two different forests.

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There is a feature called Cross Forest Delegation introduced with Exchange 2007. It enables a user in forest A to manage a calendar of a user in forest B.

Continue reading GALsync and Exchange Server 2010 Cross Forest Delegation

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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.

Continue reading Diagnostic Logging and Free/Busy

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Netsec's Product GALSNc NameD

2011 Editors' Best Award WINNER BY Windows IT Pro Magazine

Editors' Best Award selects GALsync as a Silver Medal winner in the category of Best Interoperability Product

December 12, 2011, Dueren, Germany - NETsec today announced that its Product: GALsync was named as a silver medal winner of the "2011 Editors' Best Awards" in the category of Best Interoperability Product by Penton Media's Windows IT Pro magazine.

The 2011 Editors' Best Awards are based on a product's strategic importance to market, its competitive advantages, and its value to customers.

"Our Editors' Best Awards let us leverage our contributing editors' expertise to provide well-earned recognition to products that exceed industry standards," said Jason Bovberg, senior editor, Windows IT Pro. "As we did last year, we've also added valuable, in-the-trenches insight from our reader community about the winning products. We're proud to now share this invaluable information with our Windows IT Pro and SQL Server Magazine communities. Our winners should be extremely proud of this recognition from our editorial experts."

To learn more about NETsec's GALsync please visit http://www.netsec.de/en/products/galsync/.

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Introducing GALsync 4.2

We are happy to announce a new Version of GALsync has been released. This new version contains many new and important features.

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Question:

 . . . we have recently installed GALsync 4 into our environment to share GALS with a similar sized third party company. My question is, when we run the import - which works perfectly well, it (obviously) doubles the size of our GAL - which makes life a little more complicated for our user base.

Is there a documented procedure you can recommend - that would enable us to view the imported contacts (in this case some 14,000) in their own dedicated address book - and NOT in the GAL itself.

Continue reading GALsync, Exchange Server 2010 SP2 and GAL Segmentation

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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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 From customers using GALsync in a high secure environmnt we received this request:

" . . . please forward me any documentation you have which details the cryptographic mechanisms used by GALSync, specifically I'd like details of:

Which algorithms are used (I believe you said AES and RSA), Key lengths, key generation and key management, Details of the MS .Net components used.. . "

Find answers below:e

Continue reading GALsync Special - Part 6:: Encryption

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Continue reading How to check free/busy information in Exchange

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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.

Continue reading Press Release: Synchronize Exchange Address Data And Calendar Entries

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 When synchronizing mail objects between forests you might want to modify the display name in the target. This is sometimes required if in source display name is built by "<surname> <lastname>" but in target you need "<lastname>, <firstname>". Or you want to present synchronized objects as "<lastname>, <firstname> [external]".

Continue reading GALsync Special - Part 5:: modify display name

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Continue reading How to use GALsync in a migration - Part 2

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In this first part we describe how to use GALsync during an inter-org migration. It should be guarenteed that all users can send mails to each other, wether they are moved to the new environment or not. 

Continue reading How to use GALsync in a migration - Part 1

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Script in step 1 will create a dynamic distribution list for all contacts in a specific OU that do not have legacyexchangedn filled.

Script in step 2 will walk through all current contacts found in the dynamic distribution list and add a legacyEchangeDN corresponding to the variables you have set.

Continue reading Exchange PowerShell Scripting - legacyexchangedn task with Distribution List

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OCS (Office Communication Server 2007) can profit from GALsync so that all addresses  from multiple forests are available in each OCS addressbook.

You only have to include Active Directory attribute msRTCSIP-PrimaryUserAddress when configuring export policy.

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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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Continue reading GALsync Introduction - Part 4 :: Directory Data

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If you want to share address lists between multiple forests (cross-forest sync) different topologies are to be considered. Using GALsync in a mesh-topology provides a synchronizing of Global Address List between each Exchange organization, in a uni-directional 2-way sync only data between a source and a target organization would be exchanged. In this blog we describe the basics of different topologies realizing a synchronization model as you need.

Continue reading GALsync Introduction - Part 2 :: Topologies

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A transfer mode in GALsync's terminology is the technical way data are transmitted between the source and the target forest. GALsync offers different options like email, windows file share or ftp.

Continue reading GALsync Introduction - Part 3 :: Transfer Modes

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GALsync is written in C# using .NET Framework. The GUI is Outlook 2007 like. In this blog I describe how the most important features are represented in our Graphical User Interface (GUI).

Continue reading GALsync Introduction - Part 1 :: The GUI

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Our team (ForteDownloads - Team) tested GALsync under new Windows 7 operating system. GALsync software passed by this test and we inform you that GALsync software received the "Windows 7 Compatible" award.

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3d2f.com editors called the program GALsync "the best among the like" and "the most promising in its class".
Below we publish the editor's article:

"Full of partial integration of several Active Directory forests may be required in a number of situations. For instance, a company may be using two or more forests for different groups of employees -- the core one for the company as a whole and a separate one for the international or regional sales personnel. Another example would be a company take-over or merger -- two or more AD forests would have to be integrated. Solving this problem could be potentially very time-consuming and technically complex. Fortunately, there is a tool can make this task a snap. It's called GALsync. "

Continue reading Press Release: GALsync - an elegant solution for integrating multiple Active Directory forests

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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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We developped version 3.0 to offer you a great new Graphical User Interface (GUI) with a much better look % feel.
As well we added some new cool features being requested by our customers and their "daily life" requirements.

Continue reading GALsync Versions - What's new in version 3.0?

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