Category Archives: Work

Back on the market

I sent out a brief tweet about this Friday and have received a number of queries, so I figured I should expand on this publicly. No, I am no longer with Trace3. No, this was not my decision — I … Continue reading

Posted in Work | Leave a comment

Beating Verisign certificate woes in Exchange

I’ve seen this problem in several customers over the last two years, and now I’m seeing signs of it in other places. I want to document what I found so that you can avoid the pain we had to go … Continue reading

Posted in Computers, Exchange, Work | 2 Comments

Exchange 2010 virtualization storage gotchas

There’s a lot of momentum for Exchange virtualization. At Trace3, we do a lot of work with VMware, so the majority of the customers I work with already have VMware deployed strategically into their production operation model. As a result, … Continue reading

Posted in Computers, Exchange, Work | 10 Comments

Devin’s Load Balancer for Exchange 2010

Overview One of the biggest differences I’m seeing when deploying Exchange 2010 compared to previous versions is that for just about all of my customers, load balancing is becoming a critical part of the process. In Exchange 2003 FE/BE, load … Continue reading

Posted in Computers, Exchange, Work | 13 Comments

Moving to Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 1

Microsoft recently announced that Service Pack 1 (SP1) for Exchange Server 2010 had been released to web, prompting an immediate upgrade rush for all of us Exchange professionals. Most of us maintain at least one home/personal lab environment, the better … Continue reading

Posted in Computers, Exchange, Work | 2 Comments

Manually creating a DAG FSW for Exchange 2010

I just had a comment from Chris on my Busting the Exchange Trusted Subsystem Myth post that boiled down to asking what you do when you have to create the FSW for an Exchange 2010 DAG manually? In order for … Continue reading

Posted in Computers, Exchange, Work | 7 Comments

The Disk’s The Thing! Exchange 2010 Storage Essays, part 2

Greetings, readers! When I first posted From Whence Redundancy? (part 1 of this series of essays on Exchange 2010 storage) I’d intended to follow up with other posts a bit faster than I have been. So much for intentions; let … Continue reading

Posted in Computers, Exchange, Work | 7 Comments