Federated Infrastructure
A discussion on politics, architecture, random experiences and good cheer from the Microsoft field.
I am not a huge fan of the contact card feature in Outlook 2010 and later. I find the old-fashioned,...
Date: 05/21/2013
A customer contacted to report a problem with Outlook's AutoDiscover feature. The customer was a...
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...
Date: 02/22/2012
I recently was working with a customer to build a reporting solution for their Exchange 2010...
Date: 07/28/2011
In the RBAC world, it should be possible to create a new management role, based on the built-in role...
Date: 01/21/2011
I've been working an interesting challenge this week in attempt to convert email address policies...
Date: 01/18/2011
UPDATE (3/28/11): I've been thinking about this post for awhile, unable to believe that someone else...
Date: 01/17/2011
I am sure this information exists elsewhere, but it falls into that category of something I do just...
Date: 01/05/2011
One of the things I noticed between RTM and SP1 for Exchange 2010 is the changes made to the RBAC...
Date: 11/17/2010
With the introduction of Role Based Access Control in Exchange 2010, it seems we have a lot of...
Date: 05/12/2010
Having been through a few Exchange 2010 deployments, I've had plenty of questions without so many...
Date: 05/12/2010
The answer, it seems, is only from Windows Unified Data Storage Server 2003, which goes by so many...
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...
Date: 11/07/2008
I've been working through an interesting situation with one of my customers during the past couple...
Date: 10/24/2008
I thought I had posted this information several years ago, but a customer recently contacted me...
Date: 07/17/2008
This post consists of some notes that I took during the installation of Exchange Server 2007 SP1...
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...
Date: 12/06/2007
I am working with two independent customers. Each of these customers is running Exchange 2003 on the...
Date: 11/27/2007
Per knowledge base article 936197, Exchange 2007 may be dropping recipients from the Offline Address...
Date: 08/23/2007
I thought I would share some code I wrote for doing bulk mailbox cleanups on Exchange 2003 for...
Date: 08/08/2007
Just a few more things I've noticed on the cross-organization mailbox move function in Exchange...
Date: 07/31/2007
Okay, so this has nothing to do with federated infrastructure, except that many of my customers have...
Date: 07/13/2007
I've seen a number of posts on other blogs talking about the new features of Exchange 2007 and the...
Date: 07/05/2007
So, maybe it's not a total improvement, but I thought it would be worth sharing. The following SQL...
Date: 09/29/2006
If you've used the MOM 2005 Exchange availability report, you probably accepted the default...
Date: 09/26/2006
Occasionally, when working with the User State Migration Tool, it may be necessary to force the...
Date: 08/28/2006
Okay, so this has nothing to do with federated infrastructure. However, occasionally, I come across...
Date: 08/26/2006
I got an unusual request from a customer today. She is in an environment where everyone is currently...
Date: 08/23/2006
I seem to find myself having the same conversations with customers, over and over, regarding the...
Date: 08/12/2006
A question that comes up frequently involving federated customers is how does an organization need...
Date: 08/02/2006
A few months ago, I wrote about some issues I was having getting the Exchange SLA Scorecard for MOM...
Date: 08/02/2006
I was approached with a rather unusual request. My customer has two Active Directory domains: DOMA...
Date: 07/22/2006
How well do you understand the needs and requirements of your end users? Everytime I ask this, I get...
Date: 07/20/2006
After an upgrade or migration to Active Directory, many customers find themselves with "garbage" or...
Date: 07/20/2006
If you're an infrastructure person, you'll likely be involved in the coming months or years with one...
Date: 07/20/2006
Recently, I've been discussing a problem I am working with a federated customer that involves...
Date: 06/26/2006
Active Directory Users and Computers (2003 version) provides a feature called Saved Queries that...
Date: 06/22/2006
I am working with a politically federated customer inside a single domain. So far, they've taken...
Date: 06/22/2006
I struggle regularly with the visions of our company. Are we a software company or a media company...
Date: 06/04/2006
Calendering is a human problem, made easier somewhat with Outlook and Exchange, but also made harder...
Date: 06/02/2006
Have you ever played with Microsoft Movie Maker, or any of the other programs out there designed for...
Date: 05/29/2006
So I am working with a federated customer, attempting to put Exchange Server 2003 into an...
Date: 06/23/2005
Although not an Exchange Ranger myself, I've worked with several of these folks and as long as I am...
Date: 05/21/2005
Here's a script that I put together that allows network administrators to reconfigure client...
Date: 04/21/2005
I frequently write documents for large federated customers that may have anywhere from 3 to 30...
Date: 03/21/2005