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Federated Infrastructure

A discussion on politics, architecture, random experiences and good cheer from the Microsoft field.

Automating Port Query (portqry.exe) for Testing Connectivity

Recently, I was working with a federated customer that wanted to deploy Exchange 2003 in an...

Author: Anthony Witecki Date: 03/19/2005

Exchange Address Lists For Federations

One of the issues that came up recently with a federated customer of mine was how they were going to...

Author: Anthony Witecki Date: 03/17/2005

Building a Header File for Exchange 5.5

When upgrading Exchange 5.5 servers to Exchange 2003 in a federated model, I have found that I often...

Author: Anthony Witecki Date: 03/05/2005

Pre-Populating SELECT Boxes with HTC Controls

When building web based applications, I frequently have a need to pre-populate the value of SELECT...

Author: Anthony Witecki Date: 03/05/2005

Send SMTP Mail from a Web Site

The following function (written in VBScript) can be used to mail-enable a web-based application. If...

Author: Anthony Witecki Date: 03/05/2005

Web Page Functionality Based on Group Membership in Active Directory

The following function (written in VBScript) queries the domain controller and iterates the group...

Author: Anthony Witecki Date: 03/05/2005

Using JScript in DHTML to Manipulate Objects in a SELECT tag

The following code can be used to dynamically add, remove or select all items in a SELECT object....

Author: Anthony Witecki Date: 03/05/2005

Political Forest and Domain Design

In my work with a large number of federated customers, the unavoidable component of Active Directory...

Author: Anthony Witecki Date: 03/04/2005

ADC Lessons Learned the Hard Way

What happens when a federation, each with its own domain, separated by firewalls within a single...

Author: Anthony Witecki Date: 02/27/2005

Security Misunderstandings in Federations

What does it mean to have a secure environment? Is it proper authentication and access controls?...

Author: Anthony Witecki Date: 02/25/2005

An OU Can Be A Spoke, Too

If you've read any of my other posts, I deal with a number of government organizations at the state...

Author: Anthony Witecki Date: 02/24/2005

Private Namespaces In Active Directory

For purposes of this post, a private namespace refers to the DNS name of the forest root in...

Author: Anthony Witecki Date: 02/23/2005

ADC Role Confusion

A customer of mine hosts mailboxes for several smaller departments, acting somewhat like an...

Author: Anthony Witecki Date: 02/23/2005

The Federation Firewall Boundary

As a specialist by trade in both technology and financial audit, internal control structures and...

Author: Anthony Witecki Date: 02/22/2005

Post-ADC Problems In Federations

Okay, so these problems could potentially exist anywhere. The reason I draw attention to them is...

Author: Anthony Witecki Date: 02/22/2005

The Legacy Exchange 5.5 Federation

The following scenario plays out one of the most common histories we see in the Exchange 5.5 design...

Author: Anthony Witecki Date: 02/22/2005

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