How to On-boarding guide Exchange online Skype On-Premise
Remote desktop connection
Remote desktop connection is built in windows tool. It is used to remotely access the other machine with ip address. If you are accessing a different machine in your own network, then the private ip of machine can be used. But if it is out of your network then you must give live IP of the machine you want to access using another network interface card.
- To run remote desktop connection just search it in the windows search bar and open it.
How to add a user in AD.?
- We connect to our AD server using server name. Click Show Options.
- It’ll give further options, select advanced and the click Settings.
- Check the circle of “use these RD Gateway” and put server name in it.
- Check the tick of “use my RD Gateway credentials”.
Click Ok. Click connect. Add credentials
- Active directory
Active Directory (AD) is a directory service that Microsoft developed for Windows domain networks. It is included in most Windows Server operating systems as a set of processesand services. in charge of centralized domain management and directory-based identity-related services.
DC is a domain controller it authenticates and authorizes all users and computers in a Windows domain type network—assigning and enforcing security policies for all computers and installing or updating software.
- Now that you have been connected to AD server, click Server Manager Icon.
- Now you have opened Server Manager, click Roles, click active directory domain services.
- Go to a [Symbol] OU and right click there and select new which'll give further options, select user.
- A new dialog will come asking for complete name and name for its domain. Enter it.
Next it'll ask for the password. Uncheck the highlighted box. Enter the password. And you have created a new user.
- Enabling user on Lync
Now that you have created a user in active directory, it’s time to enable it for Lync. As our Lync is on prem. We don’t have to put its proxy address manually.
Just go to [Symbol]FE server. Once you are in FE server search for Skype for business control panel.
- Open it. Go to [Symbol]users.
- Click Enable users.
- Click add, search the desired newly created user and add it.
Choose the domain from pool. Choose the format for logging in. Select UPN. Put its extension number and choose telephony policy (Enterprise Voice).
- Enabling user for Exchange
After enabling for Lync. Now turn comes for exchange. If the exchange is on cloud we have to put its proxy address manually. For this go to [Symbol] DC server. Go to [Symbol] active directory. In the tabs given above click view. You can see the advanced features tab, click it.
Now find the created user and right click on it and go to [Symbol] properties. Here find attributes tab, click it. Find here the proxy addressproperty. Add SMTP:XXXX.
- Syncing Active Directory at the spot
- Go to [Symbol] DC server using remote desktop connection.Search PowerShell and run it as admin.
- For syncing active directory users urgently using PowerShell run the command
“Start-ADSyncSyncCycle”.
- Assigning Microsoft License to user
Go to [Symbol] portal.office.com. login with admin credentials
- And go to admin settings.
- Search user you want to assign the license. Click the edit button written against Product Licenses.
- Assign the license to it.
- Enable Unified Messaging
Go to [Symbol] portal.office.com, Login with Admin credentials
- Go to Admin settings in the portal.
- Click on Admin Centers and choose Exchange.
- Click on mail boxes in Exchange admin center.
- Choose the newly created user you want to enable UM for.
- After selecting user, click enable.
- A new window will pop up, click browse.
- Select Global Default Policy.
- Enter Sip address, extension number (last four number of line url).
- Click finish and you have enabled UM for a user.
- Enable user for Cs hosted voice mail policy
- Go to [Symbol] FE server as described above in the Lync section.
- Search for Skype for business Management Shell.
- Open it.
- Run the command in Server Shell.
- Set-CsUser -HostedVoiceMail $True -Identity "domain\logon name"
- Group Assignment to the users on AD on Premises
- Go to [Symbol] AD server as described above in the AD section.
- Open server manager.
- Now in AD users and comps open the OU of newly created user.
- Right click on the user and select properties.
- Go to [Symbol] Member of.
- Click add.
- Now add the group name in the object name field you want the user to add to.
- Click ok and the user is now the part of that group and the policies it follows.
- Group Assignment to the users on Office 365.
Go to [Symbol] portal.office.com, Login with Admin credentials
- Go to Admin settings in the portal.
- Go to [Symbol] groups.
- Choose the group form the list you want to make the user member of but the group should be in cloud.
- Click the edit button in the member’s pane.
- Click the add member button.
- Now search the user, select it.
- Click save.
