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

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

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

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

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