Federated Infrastructure
A discussion on politics, architecture, random experiences and good cheer from the Microsoft field.
Old Guys and Outlook Contact Cards
I am not a huge fan of the contact card feature in Outlook 2010 and later. I find the old-fashioned,...
Author: Anthony Witecki Date: 05/21/2013
Autodiscover.xml failed (0x80004005) and BPOS
A customer contacted to report a problem with Outlook's AutoDiscover feature. The customer was a...
Author: Anthony Witecki Date: 03/21/2012
Event 1006 FailoverClustering: Cluster Service was halted due to incomplete connectivity with the other nodes
Ran into this event on an Exchange DAG where the customer was reporting that Exchange seemed to be...
Author: Anthony Witecki Date: 02/22/2012
How Do I Programmatically Extract Numeric Data From Get-MailboxStatistics?
I recently was working with a customer to build a reporting solution for their Exchange 2010...
Author: Anthony Witecki Date: 07/28/2011
Beyond RBAC: Delegating the 'Mail-enable Public Folders' right
In the RBAC world, it should be possible to create a new management role, based on the built-in role...
Author: Anthony Witecki Date: 01/21/2011
Complex oPath Queries and the New-EmailAddressPolicy Cmdlet
I've been working an interesting challenge this week in attempt to convert email address policies...
Author: Anthony Witecki Date: 01/18/2011
Why bartenders may soon love Excel as much as accountants
UPDATE (3/28/11): I've been thinking about this post for awhile, unable to believe that someone else...
Author: Anthony Witecki Date: 01/17/2011
Viewing Deleted Active Directory Objects Using LDP
I am sure this information exists elsewhere, but it falls into that category of something I do just...
Author: Anthony Witecki Date: 01/05/2011
Dumping the RBAC Hierarchy
One of the things I noticed between RTM and SP1 for Exchange 2010 is the changes made to the RBAC...
Author: Anthony Witecki Date: 11/17/2010
38,505 Security Delegation Options in Exchange 2010
With the introduction of Role Based Access Control in Exchange 2010, it seems we have a lot of...
Author: Anthony Witecki Date: 05/12/2010
New-ClientAccessArray: What is it?
Having been through a few Exchange 2010 deployments, I've had plenty of questions without so many...
Author: Anthony Witecki Date: 05/12/2010
Where can I get Single Instance Store (SIS) for Windows File Servers?
The answer, it seems, is only from Windows Unified Data Storage Server 2003, which goes by so many...
Author: Anthony Witecki Date: 01/23/2009
When Legacies Are Baggage (Resolving the #550 5.1.1 RESOLVER.ADR.ExRecipNotFound error during Migration)
I was working with an education customer this week when I came upon an interesting problem related...
Author: Anthony Witecki Date: 11/07/2008
Windows Server 2008, IIS 7.0, Exchange 2007 and the Offline Address Book
I've been working through an interesting situation with one of my customers during the past couple...
Author: Anthony Witecki Date: 10/24/2008
NoMAS and Other Solutions to 9548 and 9551 Events (Exchange Server 2003)
I thought I had posted this information several years ago, but a customer recently contacted me...
Author: Anthony Witecki Date: 07/17/2008
Installing Exchange 2007 SP1 onto Windows Server 2008 with a WS2008 Active Directory
This post consists of some notes that I took during the installation of Exchange Server 2007 SP1...
Author: Anthony Witecki Date: 01/29/2008
The procedure entry point_except_handler4_common could not be located in the dynamic link library msvcrt.dll
Every now and then, I take a break from federated infrastructure to post something that is likely...
Author: Anthony Witecki Date: 12/06/2007
Pool Nonpaged memory Leaks on Exchange 2003
I am working with two independent customers. Each of these customers is running Exchange 2003 on the...
Author: Anthony Witecki Date: 11/27/2007
Using Powershell to Correct 9325 Events in Exchange 2007
Per knowledge base article 936197, Exchange 2007 may be dropping recipients from the Offline Address...
Author: Anthony Witecki Date: 08/23/2007
Mailbox Cleanup After Cross Organizational Moves
I thought I would share some code I wrote for doing bulk mailbox cleanups on Exchange 2003 for...
Author: Anthony Witecki Date: 08/08/2007
There is no primary SMTP address
Just a few more things I've noticed on the cross-organization mailbox move function in Exchange...
Author: Anthony Witecki Date: 07/31/2007
Having ZUNE Shuffle Issues?
Okay, so this has nothing to do with federated infrastructure, except that many of my customers have...
Author: Anthony Witecki Date: 07/13/2007
Moving Mailboxes Cross Organizations in Exchange 2007
I've seen a number of posts on other blogs talking about the new features of Exchange 2007 and the...
Author: Anthony Witecki Date: 07/05/2007
Improving the Exchange Availability Report
So, maybe it's not a total improvement, but I thought it would be worth sharing. The following SQL...
Author: Anthony Witecki Date: 09/29/2006
What exactly is "No Measurement %" in the MOM 2005 Exchange Availability Report?
If you've used the MOM 2005 Exchange availability report, you probably accepted the default...
Author: Anthony Witecki Date: 09/26/2006
USMT V3 (Beta) - Including NonStandard Files in Nonstandard Locations
Occasionally, when working with the User State Migration Tool, it may be necessary to force the...
Author: Anthony Witecki Date: 08/28/2006
Enumerating Folder Structures with VBScript to Extract ID3 Information from MP3 Files
Okay, so this has nothing to do with federated infrastructure. However, occasionally, I come across...
Author: Anthony Witecki Date: 08/26/2006
Auditing DNS Record Entries (or deletions)
I got an unusual request from a customer today. She is in an environment where everyone is currently...
Author: Anthony Witecki Date: 08/23/2006
Anything But Native Mode
I seem to find myself having the same conversations with customers, over and over, regarding the...
Author: Anthony Witecki Date: 08/12/2006
How does Authentication Work Cross Domain?
A question that comes up frequently involving federated customers is how does an organization need...
Author: Anthony Witecki Date: 08/02/2006
More Exchange SLA Scorecard Woes
A few months ago, I wrote about some issues I was having getting the Exchange SLA Scorecard for MOM...
Author: Anthony Witecki Date: 08/02/2006
ADMT, User Profiles With Unusual Requests
I was approached with a rather unusual request. My customer has two Active Directory domains: DOMA...
Author: Anthony Witecki Date: 07/22/2006
Understanding Your Exchange Users' Requirements
How well do you understand the needs and requirements of your end users? Everytime I ask this, I get...
Author: Anthony Witecki Date: 07/20/2006
Changing User CNs
After an upgrade or migration to Active Directory, many customers find themselves with "garbage" or...
Author: Anthony Witecki Date: 07/20/2006
Getting Started with Compute Cluster Server
If you're an infrastructure person, you'll likely be involved in the coming months or years with one...
Author: Anthony Witecki Date: 07/20/2006
Managing Exchange Federations with VBScript
Recently, I've been discussing a problem I am working with a federated customer that involves...
Author: Anthony Witecki Date: 06/26/2006
Active Directory LDAP Queries
Active Directory Users and Computers (2003 version) provides a feature called Saved Queries that...
Author: Anthony Witecki Date: 06/22/2006
The Centralized Mailbox Micro-manager and Control Problem in Federations
I am working with a politically federated customer inside a single domain. So far, they've taken...
Author: Anthony Witecki Date: 06/22/2006
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I struggle regularly with the visions of our company. Are we a software company or a media company...
Author: Anthony Witecki Date: 06/04/2006
Why can't we all share Free Busy Information?
Calendering is a human problem, made easier somewhat with Outlook and Exchange, but also made harder...
Author: Anthony Witecki Date: 06/02/2006
A Better Way to Render Video
Have you ever played with Microsoft Movie Maker, or any of the other programs out there designed for...
Author: Anthony Witecki Date: 05/29/2006
This account must be valid before continuing
So I am working with a federated customer, attempting to put Exchange Server 2003 into an...
Author: Anthony Witecki Date: 06/23/2005
Mailbox Move Error - MAPI or an unspecified service provider
Although not an Exchange Ranger myself, I've worked with several of these folks and as long as I am...
Author: Anthony Witecki Date: 05/21/2005
Moving Printers the Easy Way
Here's a script that I put together that allows network administrators to reconfigure client...
Author: Anthony Witecki Date: 04/21/2005
Recommend Read Only (Document Collaboration)
I frequently write documents for large federated customers that may have anywhere from 3 to 30...
Author: Anthony Witecki Date: 03/21/2005