One of the challenges with analyzing complex Exchange issues is data collection. Once the server goes into the failed state, any data collection at that point only shows us what the failed state looks like. It doesn't show us how it went from working...

Over the holiday weekend, I was deleting some old projects out of my coding projects folder when Powershell returned an error stating, "The specified path, file name, or both are too long. The fully qualified file name must be less than 260 characters...

Back in January, I wrote a blog post about PF replication failing due to corrupt TNEF . The problem is caused by the presence of a couple of properties that have been deprecated and shouldn't be present on items anymore. At the time I wrote that post...

There are a lot of little problems I run across that I never investigate, simply because there's no impact and no one seems to care. I have my hands full investigating issues that people actually care about, so investing time to chase down something...

It's my job to solve difficult problems involving Exchange Server, and this often involves a lot of various types of tracing. Almost daily, I find myself needing to parse through huge amounts of text to find the relevant information. For one issue...