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Discovering AutoDiscover in Exchange 2007
In my post “Exchange 2007… Better Later than Never” I mentioned one of the post-deployment difficulties I faced was getting the "AutoDiscover” function to behave the way it was designed. For those unfamiliar with the feature, it allows for automated discovery and configuration of various connectivity methods to an Exchange Server. Exchange MAPI clients,…
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Living with ISA 2006 and the ISA Firewall client
One of my big projects in 2008 was making the transition from my old firewall to a new solution. I’ve had 18 months or so to work with ISA and the workstations running the Firewall Client software, and thought I’d share my experiences. First, a little background. The network I inherited long ago was…
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Exchange 2007… Better late than never
Count me in as one of the many Administrators that finally got around to moving from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2007. Yes, it’s almost 2010, and probably just a few months away from the release of Exchange 2010. I never disagreed with Microsoft’s decision to release Exchange 2007 as a 64 bit only application. …
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Virtualization. Making it happen
It’s difficult to put into words how exciting, and how overwhelming the idea of moving to a virtualized infrastructure was for me. In 12 months, I went from investigating solutions, to presenting our options to our senior management, onto the procurement process, followed by the design and implementation of the systems. And finally, making…
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It’s all about the name
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An introduction of sorts…
There are a thousands of great blogs out there, with extremely smart people contributing all sorts of great information. This may not be one of them. Let me explain. Every IT Administrator that is a staff of one or two knows that your strength isn’t in knowing every nuance of one particular thing, but rather,…