Recently, I've been discussing a problem I am working with a federated customer that involves mailbox storage limits. I've described the problem in previous posts, as well as some potential ways to audit delegated administrations that have set overrides...

Active Directory Users and Computers (2003 version) provides a feature called Saved Queries that takes advantage of LDAP queries to find objects in Active Directory that might meet a specific condition. When I am working with customers, I am often surprised...

I am working with a politically federated customer inside a single domain. So far, they've taken Microsoft's recommendations quite well regarding delegation and centralization, but they are running into a problem that I feel is worth sharing. Email is...

"Always read the release notes." That's all fine and dandy when the release notes are clear about what is and what will never be. The release notes for the Exchange 2003 SLA Scorecard for MOM 2005 Reporting Services state that SQL Server 2000 with...

I struggle regularly with the visions of our company. Are we a software company or a media company (licenses or ads) or can we really be both? I am still on board with Microsoft as a software company and question whether advertisements really represent...

Calendering is a human problem, made easier somewhat with Outlook and Exchange, but also made harder in how those programs have shifted our expectations on the ease of scheduling people and resources. Perhaps my largest frustration with Exchange and Outlook...