I frequently write documents for large federated customers that may have anywhere from 3 to 30 reviewers. Microsoft Word 2003 has made such collaboration easy with the track changes and merge documents features (although some learning curve exists in...

Recently, I was working with a federated customer that wanted to deploy Exchange 2003 in an environment where mailbox servers and routing bridgeheads would be separated by firewalls. As part of this effort, it was my job to determine that we had full...

One of the issues that came up recently with a federated customer of mine was how they were going to manage the address list needs of 30 different departments. To centralize it would prove futile, as that group would undoubtedly become unresponsive, yet...

When upgrading Exchange 5.5 servers to Exchange 2003 in a federated model, I have found that I often cannot rely entirely on the ADC Tools to find potential problems. This is especially true given that I might be working with the central operations folks...

When building web based applications, I frequently have a need to pre-populate the value of SELECT controls. I found this code some years ago on Microsoft.com but don't remember the original author, but I certainly thank him for making several of my web...

The following function (written in VBScript) can be used to mail-enable a web-based application. If you are sending HTML based body, you must specify "HTML" as the msgType input parameter. The function returns either a success or failure notice as its...

The following function (written in VBScript) queries the domain controller and iterates the group membership of a user looking for a match. The function assumes that integrated authentication is used in an internal web application. Function DomainUserHasAccess...

The following code can be used to dynamically add, remove or select all items in a SELECT object. The code assumes that when objects are added to the SELECT object, that the display text and value are identical. <script language="javascript"> function...

In my work with a large number of federated customers, the unavoidable component of Active Directory design is the age-old question of "How many forests do I need?" This is simple to define, but challenging to discuss in the board room. There are three...