If you are configuring FBC for a hybrid Office 365: Remember that the FBC for a hybrid O365 is configured only between Notes/Domino and the local on-premises Exchange, while synchronization of the local Exchange to O365 is configured apart from CMN (and documented separately by Microsoft). Configuration of CMN’s FBC for a hybrid O365 is therefore the same as configuring for a local on-premises Exchange—as described here.
CMN’s Free/Busy Connector can facilitate the flow of free/busy information among multiple subdomains supported by both the Exchange and Domino servers. To support this scenario, run the Add-AvailabilityAddressSpace cmdlet on the Exchange server or Office 365 for each Domino SMTP domain supported.
The F/B Connector process overview in the FBC section of the CMN User Guide lists the five FBC subcomponents used in typical configurations (in environments without Outlook 2003 clients). With public folders, however, the configuration must include one or both of these additional F/B Connector subcomponents:
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CMN Public Folder Writer Service: Required in any scenario with Outlook 2003 clients, but unnecessary for any other Outlook versions. This service contacts Domino (via CMN’s Domino FBC Service) at specified regular intervals to get F/B information from Domino, and then writes that information to the Exchange public folders. The service also communicates with Active Directory to get a current list of Domino contacts in the Exchange system, communicating with Exchange via MAPI. |
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CMN Public Folder Reader Service: Accepts a F/B query originating from Domino and relays it to the Exchange F/B public folders. It is required where Outlook 2003 clients use Exchange 2003 public folders, but is optional if Outlook 2003 clients use Exchange 2007 or later public folders. (Exchange 2007 can instead relay a query to its public folders via CMN’s Exchange FBC Service and the Microsoft Autodiscover and EWS web services.) The CMN Public Folder Reader Service communicates with Exchange via the WebDAV (Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning) component of IIS. |
Option 1: Uses CMN’s Public Folder Reader Service to relay Notes F/B queries from CMN’s QCalCon task (on the Domino server) to Exchange public folders, and relay the F/B info back to QCalCon. |
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Option 2: Uses CMN’s Exchange Free/Busy Connector Service to relay Notes F/B queries from CMN’s QCalCon task on the Domino server to Microsoft’s Autodiscover and EWS on the Exchange server, and relay the F/B info back from MS Autodiscover and EWS to QCalCon. (Microsoft’s Autodiscover and EWS in turn relay Notes F/B queries and info to and from Exchange public folders.) |
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Note that Option 1 is required if you need to support Outlook 2003 clients connected to an Exchange 2003 server. For an Exchange 2007 server, however, either option will work. These procedures include pertinent notes for configuring either option of the F/B Connector with Exchange public folders.
Option 1 uses CMN’s Public Folder Reader Service to relay Notes F/B queries from CMN’s QCalCon task (on the Domino server) to Exchange public folders, and relay the F/B info back to QCalCon.
Outlook users’ queries for Domino F/B info are routed directly to Exchange public folders (internally within the Exchange environment), and the public folders transmit the F/B info directly to the Outlook users. (No CMN components are used for that query-reply portion of the F/B functionality.) But CMN’s Public Folder Writer Service is used to get Notes users’ current F/B info from Domino and, at regular intervals, refresh the corresponding F/B info held in the Exchange public folders. The Public Folder Writer Service also communicates with Active Directory to get and maintain a current list of Domino contacts in the Exchange system.
Option 2 is one option for an Exchange 2007 environment (Option 1 also works with Exchange 2007), but is not an option with Exchange 2003. These procedures include pertinent notes for configuring either option of the F/B Connector with Exchange public folders.
This configuration uses CMN’s Exchange Free/Busy Connector Service to relay Notes F/B queries from CMN’s QCalCon task on the Domino server to Microsoft’s Autodiscover and EWS on the Exchange server, and relay the F/B info back from MS Autodiscover and EWS to QCalCon. (Microsoft’s Autodiscover and EWS in turn relay Notes F/B queries to Exchange public folders, and receive the public folders’ F/B info.)
Just as in Option 1, CMN’s Public Folder Writer Service is used to get Notes users’ current F/B info from Domino and, at regular intervals, refresh the corresponding F/B info held in the Exchange public folders. The Public Folder Writer Service also communicates with Active Directory to get and maintain a current list of Domino contacts in the Exchange system. And Outlook users’ queries for Domino F/B info are routed directly to Exchange public folders (internally within the Exchange environment), while the public folders transmit the F/B info directly to the Outlook users—again the same as in Option 1.
To configure CMN’s FBC Web Server:
All CMN FBC components are installed by the AutoRun utility that accompanies the CMN product kit.
The AutoRun installer automatically checks the environment to verify CMN prerequisites, but you can bypass the prerequisites check by running the installer from the command line and appending ignoreprerequisites=1 to the command before executing.
For a typical configuration (with only Outlook 2007 and higher users in Exchange):
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On the CMN FBC Web Server: Run AutoRun to install the Autodiscover, EWS and the Domino FBC Service on the CMN FBC Web Server. |
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On either the same CMN FBC Web Server or a separate CMN Exchange FBC Server: Run AutoRun to install the CMN Exchange FBC Service. |
You must install CMN’s Public Folder Writer Service on the FBC Web Server, and maybe also the Public Folder Reader Service, which are available only via the Custom Setup option of CMN’s F/B Connector Setup utility. These scenarios are explained in step 3 of this procedure. In these scenarios the CMN Domino FBC Service is still required, but CMN’s Autodiscover and EWS web services are unnecessary and need not be installed.
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