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Vermyndax on November 2nd, 2008

One item you’ve probably learned by now if you’re an Exchange admin working on a 2007 deployment is that Microsoft has changed the behavior of the recipient update policy.  Most of you won’t care about this and that’s just fine.  You shouldn’t.  I would dare say that if your Exchange environment is engineered well and [...]

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Vermyndax on September 4th, 2008

Continuing my recent tradition of expressing what are likely to be fairly unpopular opinions with my peers, tonight I’m going to rag on Google‘s “Chrome” project and tell you why this is a Bad Idea ™.  I’ll try to keep this short (update: I failed).  This is considered to be a discussion starter, not a [...]

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Vermyndax on August 21st, 2008

Image via Wikipedia This post is focused on those of you who have decided to deploy Exchange in a resource forest.  You’re in for tears.  While the resource forest is technically a supported deployment method for Exchange, I’m going to point out what can go wrong in your Exchange world that will keep your admins [...]

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Vermyndax on October 15th, 2007

I was one of the engineers on the call documented here from last weekend. This was the Friday night from hell. I won’t rehash the technical details of what happened. If you want to know the tech piece of it, head to the link. There’s no need to restate it – besides, it would bring [...]

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