Occasionally, when working with the User State Migration Tool, it may be necessary to force the scanstate and loadstate functions to find file types that are not necessarily part of a user's standard profile. One particular customer I've been working...

Okay, so this has nothing to do with federated infrastructure. However, occasionally, I come across something worth preserving so I wanted to make sure I wrote it down. The hat tip here really goes to Antonin Foller ( http://www.motobit.com/tips/detpg_list...

I got an unusual request from a customer today. She is in an environment where everyone is currently a domain admin (not a good thing). Although they are taking my advice and moving to a least priviliged scenario, things are sometimes slow in federations...

This script, available in the Exchange Management Pack for MOM 2005, attempts to contact all the configured GCs and generates alerts if either there are not enough GCs configured, or if not enough GCs are contactable. You can easily discover how this...

I seem to find myself having the same conversations with customers, over and over, regarding the risks associated with raising the functional mode of the domain or forest. I could name (but I won't) 6 customers in the past few years that developed expensive...

A question that comes up frequently involving federated customers is how does an organization need to configure its firewalls to allow users in a trusted, but not fully trusted, domain to access their resources. Consider the following scenario: [WEB...

A few months ago, I wrote about some issues I was having getting the Exchange SLA Scorecard for MOM implemented with one of my federated customers. At the time, of course, the issue was compatibility with SQL Server 2005 . I am being put in the unfortunate...