A while ago, I blogged about Messing with otherWellKnownObjects , http://blogs.technet.com/b/provtest/archive/2009/07/15/messing-with-otherwellknownobjects.aspx . I received request asking me how I know if there is any problem with the attribute as otherWellKnownObject...

For those who are planning to move from HMC to Exchange Server 2010 SP1 Beta Hosting deployment or if you are interested in doing a multi-tenant Exchange environment, you should definitely download the bit and give it a try. It will give you a sense of...

Microsoft has created a forum to respond to any question for hosters on Exchange 2010 SP1 Hosting. Here is link, http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/exchange2010hosters/threads So, what are you waiting? :)

Alright, first I provided the Powershell script to do MPS to AD check and now we are going to do the other way round, which is from AD to MPS. In this script, with the specified base DN, say OU=Hosting, DC=Fabrikam, DC=COM, it will start searching for...

Thinking about Hosting for SharePoint 2010 already? Here is a model that summarizes the support for hosting environments and illustrates common hosting architectures for SharePoint 2010. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=326845d1...

Here is a shameless copy and paste from a deck by Microsoft Communication Sector Industry Director. A pretty good high level diagram that tells you 2 different scenarios and how you can move to Exchange 2010 Hosting Deployment. Here, a picture says it...

So, have you tested Exchange 2010 SP1 beta yet? If not, you should really start looking into it if you like to maintain competitiveness by providing the latest and the greatest to your users in this hosting world. The changes are quite huge. As most of...

Want to get some quick statistics on your HMC environment, specifically, what's in the MPS database? I have a script to share with you guys, The script is the following link, http://blogs.technet.com/cfs-file.ashx/__key/CommunityServer-Blogs-Components...

Ever wonder if whatever in user objects in MPS matches whatever in your Active Directory? If yes, this script might be what you need to find out a bit more about the integrity of your current environment. This is a powershell script. Save the following...

Have you ever had a time when you quickly and without thinking too much or accidentally deleted the user objects (that you know are no longer needed) in Active Directory and then you said, 'Shoot, now I have some records in MPS database referencing an...

Most of you probably have heard about Exchange 2010 SP1 beta being made available a while ago. If you haven't, here is the link, http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=a0965fc9-2723-4947-ae6b-74bc3808e72a&displaylang=en Why is...

Well, well, well. What do you know? My passion to blog has called me back to share and I am going to continue to blog about HMC till this product reaches its' end of life. At the same time, I will also be starting 2 new blogs, one on Hosted Exchange with...