JeremyK's [MSFT] WebLog

Bridging the gaps in Software Engineering

After reading Steve’s analogy on software development vs. building bridges, I figured it would be...

Author: jeremyk Date: 03/02/2005

A critical junction in support issues: Root Cause VS. Relief

In the lifetime of a case, particularly one of high impact, a point is reached where a decision is...

Author: jeremyk Date: 01/29/2005

The stages of conversion for Internet Mail

As Naresh pointed out in his history of content conversion blog, Exchange 2000 swapped the roles of...

Author: jeremyk Date: 01/13/2005

Watch out for that 16gb limit!

Part of my role is to understand trends and determine how technically we can solve our...

Author: jeremyk Date: 01/09/2005

Still Unable to Edit User Properties in ADUC?

This is an issue that I ended up spending 6 hours debugging, only because the answer could not be...

Author: jeremyk Date: 01/05/2005

Out of Control Transaction Log files?

An issue came up this week that I feel is worth making Exchange Admins aware of. The symptoms of the...

Author: jeremyk Date: 11/11/2004

Learning Essentails in Exchange PSS

Learning Essentials Ever wonder how we internally develop our people? How our top people continue to...

Author: jeremyk Date: 11/10/2004

VSAPI Postings just started going live on Exchange Team Blog!

I've been putting together several postings regarding the VSAPI including background, architecture,...

Author: jeremyk Date: 10/20/2004

Do you know your critical code paths?

In my role I interact with a lot of developers and it is continuously amazing how naive an...

Author: jeremyk Date: 09/28/2004

Don't believe everything the debugger is telling you!!! (aka Rootkit)

<sigh> So this issue was incredibly interesting, but you know at the end it just makes you...

Author: jeremyk Date: 07/19/2004

The Effects of Message Looping

I have seen this problem several times in the last few weeks and figured it was worth a quick blog...

Author: jeremyk Date: 06/30/2004

Teaching the Skill of Reading Code

One would think my last post related to this topic was a Oxidizing Agent in a Redux Reaction (yep, I...

Author: jeremyk Date: 06/29/2004

Using your Mailbox to Store Work-in-Progress documents

Like most people, I work on a collection of work-in-progress documents. Over time I started loosing...

Author: jeremyk Date: 06/28/2004

Chicken and the Egg... (aka. Read vs. Writing code)

So I have been asked to deliver training for a group of people on how to “read” source...

Author: jeremyk Date: 06/14/2004

Store Background Processes Part I - IS Maintenance

Overview IS Maintenance is the term applied to a series of operations performed by the Information...

Author: jeremyk Date: 06/12/2004

Making Heads and Tails of Roles in PSS

Ever wondered what are all the different roles are in Exchange PSS support experience? Well maybe...

Author: jeremyk Date: 06/02/2004

Attention all Recruiters

I must have been pinged a dozen times since I put up my blog by recruiters looking to sway me away...

Author: jeremyk Date: 06/01/2004

Follow up to "Large Messages Affect Server Performance"

This is a follow up to a previous post I made:...

Author: jeremyk Date: 05/25/2004

Determine the True amount of WhiteSpace in an Exchange Database

So we come across this from time to time so I thought it would be interesting to talk about…...

Author: jeremyk Date: 04/09/2004

Large Messages Affect Server Performance

I recent months we have seen issues where users (knowingly or unknowingly) send messages with LARGE...

Author: jeremyk Date: 02/29/2004

Who am I?

I work in part of Microsoft that has a very unique charter. Our organization is responsible for...

Author: jeremyk Date: 02/29/2004

Sherman Set the Way-Back machine to 1981

What was your first computer or experience with programming..? Well for me at the strapping young...

Author: jeremyk Date: 02/21/2004