This little script and associated registry file can help avoid lots of support calls about how to enable or disable cached mode in Outlook. To make this work you will need to do some manual testing which will give you the ideal values for your environment.
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Upgrade E-mail Address Policies
During a migration to Exchange 2007, one of the often overlooked steps is the upgrade of the E-mail Address Policies. Remember that these policies need to be upgraded before they can be modified or really even viewed in the Exchange Management Console.
Hot Dog Eating Contest
Today ESPN had complete coverage of the Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest in Coney Island, NY. I couldn’t help but notice that the commentary was very serious. At one point a comment was made about a competitors mask and there was concern expressed over the constriction of his jaw by the mask. Seriously? Has the “sport” of competitive eating come to this level?
Migrating the Citrix data store to SQL Server
Moving the Citrix data store is a fairly straight forward practice. Often times a farm is created with an Access database as a data store, but this does not lend itself well to a scalable, highly available environment. Here are the basic steps involved in moving the data store from Access to SQL Server.
Holy Toledo!
I am here in lovely Toledo, OH tonight. Traveling for work again, seems to be becoming the rule rather than the exception. When I checked into my hotel I was greeted by the gentlemen behind the counter who worked rapidly to get me checked in. After a few moments of working he looked up and said “you were here last week, weren’t you”? Confused, I told him that I hadn’t been to this hotel before and he insisted that I looked familiar and he thought I had been a hotel guest the previous week.
Good Eats in Shelbyville
If you ever find yourself in Shelbyville, Kentucky apart from asking yourself why you are there, you should check out some of the local dining establishments.
Claudia Sanders (wife of Col. Sanders of KFC fame) restaurant is an excellent place to go for traditional southern cuisine. I had my first ‘hot brown’ which is a native Kentucky dish that consisted of turkey, ham, sauce, with cheese on top, baked in a small casserole dish.
Kentucky Family Dinner
After consulting the restaurant ‘ban list’ I arrived at the Kobe restaurant. Kobe is your typical hibachi/sushi place with seating for eight around a large grill. Since I was dining alone I was placed with a group of seven others who were at Kobe to celebrate a birthday.
Top Ten Causes of Slow Replication with DFS-R
In doing some DFS-R troubleshooting I came across the directory services team blog. The DS team blog might seem like the place to go for Active Directory insights but they do have a good bit of information around DFS as well.
VDI Connection Brokers
There are only a handful of companies that are currently producing a connection broker product. If you dig through the documentation from HP, IBM, and others they mention this “optional” magical box that serves as the bridge between the client devices and the hypervisors. Very few of these vendors who are pushing VDI have come forward and presented a solid connection broker component, which I would consider to be one of the most critical components of VDI. I have listed them here for convenience in evaluating end-to-end VDI solutions.
Autodiscover Service with Wildcard Certificate
This change was required on the Exchange 2007 Client Access Server (CAS) in order for clients to accept the wildcard certificate that through the Autodiscover Service (AS) for Outlook Anywhere.