Since I started posting back to my own blog I have been asked by lots (ok 2!) people why I called it “Rock n Roll Nerd” so since I am stuck for a useful post today I thought I would explain where it came from…. I am a huge Tim Minchin fan and the night...

NOTE:  This is reposted here from HMLee’s blog back in 2007 – he is no longer posting to the blog and I wanted to keep this post just in case his blog gets deleted – after all, it is useful information, I have a brain like a sieve and this is probably...

I recently wrote about gathering user profile data for Exchange Server 2003 and 2007 by using the Exchange Server Profile Analyzer tool.  As a re-cap the EPA tool uses WebDAV to interrogate the mailboxes and generates user profile data, including.. ...

Ok, so this post is not exactly worth reading because I am just using it to test my feed burner and twitter integration.. feel free to disregard Neil.

For those that didn't know, I am a huge consumer of information, however I am also quite selective about what I read – the most important thing usually for me is who wrote the material, rather than the topic.  This may sound an unusual way to choose...

One thing that I often waffle on about is gathering good quality user profile data before beginning an Exchange design.  I was out in Redmond recently and a new Exchange consultant asked me a great question.. “OK, so we know that gathering good quality...

This has been steadily escalating this afternoon and the decision has finally been taken to remove RU4 from the download servers.  From what little I know one of the changes that was made to fix a bug in Exchange has highlighted a latent problem...

So, this is something we have all wanted (Expected?) to see in Exchange for years!  It seems that finally we will have a solution for PST ingestion directly into Exchange… As soon as I can get my grubby hands on a copy I will provide some more information...

So.. with all of the launch fuss I failed to notice that the service descriptions for Office 365 had also been released as non-beta for the first time!  When I am working with new customers and they want to know “what” Office 365 is in more detail...

Throttling policies in Exchange Server 2010 have been an often discussed and much misunderstood part of Exchange over the last few years.  Especially with Exchange Online!  However, Michael Mainer has written a great article about Exchange Throttling...

This great news just arrived in my inbox from Kurt DelBene…  I have been working with the Beta of Office 365 for a little under 12 months now and its great to finally see it unleashed upon the world! Office 365:  Open for Business Today, I’m...

I have been involved with a number of Office 365 deployments over the last 12 months, one thing that they have all had in common was struggling to find good sources of information.  Things are generally documented… somewhere.. its just a matter of...

If there is one thing that has always been lacking in Exchange its a mechanism to inventory and report on your infrastructure.  Personally I think its something that should be in the Exchange Management Console, but that's a different story… The...

I have just been told that RU4 for Exchange Server 2010 SP1 has been released to web for… Download Link is here… http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=26554 Issues that the update rollup resolves 2537099 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb...

One thing I often do when I am learning a new area of technology is look for webcasts or recordings from TechED about that topic.  I find that it helps me understand topics much more quickly by watching a presentation and then going off afterwards...

Last Updated : 21/06/2011 The field guide is released at major intervals on the Exchange Team Blog, however I have decided to keep dot release updates here to ensure that the very latest information is available to those that do a lot of Jetstress testing...

Over the past 18 months I have been dealing with more and more cloud engagements.  One thing that crops up during the planning phase of all of these engagements is network link latency and bandwidth requirements. Bandwidth prediction is something...

Recently one of our partner has highlighted an issue in the current version of Jetstress that means the test may run in performance mode when in fact it should be running in stress mode. What's the difference between performance and stress mode? Put simply...

I don't usually like posting to other peoples blogs, but the one I will make an exception for is the Exchange Team Blog.  I specifically want to raise awareness of Scott’s HA misconceptions article – not only does it clear up quite a few misconceptions...

I have been involved with a few escalations recently (I don't even work in support!), the cases have been mostly due to Jetstress tests failing – typically then the relationship between customer and storage vendor becomes more hostile and eventually someone...

I often see customers struggle to make use of the export mailbox features in Exchange Server 2010.  I suspect this is because it is an area that has changed in the last few years and there is a lot of conflicting information online that doesn't clearly...

Last week a colleague from the MCM Exchange 2010 community asked some questions about disabling Exchange Server 2010 Background Database Maintenance.  Essentially they wanted to know if they disabled  the checkbox for BDM, what would happen...

I have been working on a number of Exchange projects recently with cloud integration.  One common area of concern when you move a workload to the cloud is end user performance – will my users have an acceptable experience? To help customers make...

Over the past few months there have been rumours of a website that will list everyone who has passed their MCM or MCA.  It is possible for people to opt out of the website if they do not wish their details to be published, but I would expect it to...

So it had been around 2 years since I last posted to this blog, mainly due to me posting things to other shared blogs or internal only sites.  With the Exchange 2010 launch imminent I felt it would be a good idea to concentrate my posts here. Standby...