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Monday, April 14, 2008 8:31 AM

Live from Redmond - it's Geeks Argue!

I and 4,000 MVPs from around the world have accumulated in Seattle/Redmond this week. Where do we all go? To the bar, of course! Last night, a few Exchange MVPs and the odd PowerShell MVP were sitting around discussing stuff I can't talk about here...
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Saturday, March 29, 2008 8:08 AM

Exchange Server 2007 and Domain Controllers - A Summary

Over three years ago, I wrote my most popular (in terms of number of times it has been read) blog post ever: " Exchange Server 2003 and Domain Controllers - A Summary ." Since it was written in January of 2005, Exchange Server 2003 service pack...
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Tuesday, March 11, 2008 10:24 AM

Suppressing Non-Delivery Reports (NDRs)

Once the spammers find your domain, which usually only takes a few weeks after it has come online, you'll start seeing lots of error messages being returned to your Exchange Server - for email that was never sent from your server! This is commonly...
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Friday, March 07, 2008 9:23 AM

Exchange 2007 Disk Performance/Partition Alignment - A Little Quickie

A perennial recommendation to squeeze the utmost in performance from your Exchange 2007 (and Exchange 2000 and Exchange 2003...) disk spindles has been to align the partition boundaries of the disks to a 8 KB boundary - since Exchange will always read...
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Monday, February 25, 2008 7:47 AM

The (Very) Basics of SSL for Exchange/Windows

SSL stands for Secure Sockets Layer. As the Secure part of the name implies, the purpose behind SSL is to secure communications between a client browser (such as Internet Explorer or FireFox) and the server service with which the browser is communicating...
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Friday, February 22, 2008 9:52 AM

Local\Administrators vs. Builtin\Administrators - Exchange Server on a DC

Originally published in January of 2005, my blog post Exchange Server 2003 and Domain Controllers - A Summary has been the most searched-out article on my blog. While, with the release of Exchange Server 2007, the post is beginning to show it's age...
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Thursday, December 06, 2007 7:30 AM

'Tis the season... for patching!

Microsoft is practically flooding us with service packs right now (similarly to the flooding that is going on in Washington state and Oregon this week!). As I earlier noted, Exchange 2007 service pack 1 is now released, and available here . For information...
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