I recently worked on an issue where the domain controllers kept intentionally disconnecting the Exchange servers. The error messages that described the reason for the disconnect were rather misleading, and we ended up wasting quite a bit of time taking steps that had no chance of improving the situation. In this blog post, I'm going…

In a post last month, called Cleaning up Microsoft Exchange System Objects (MESO), I described how to determine which objects can be eliminated from the MESO container if you have completely removed public folders from your environment. But what if you still have public folders?

Today, I want to highlight a behavior that isn't really called out anywhere in any existing documentation I can find. This is the behavior that occurs when Offline Address Book generation on Exchange 2010 logs an event 9414, such as this one:

Today over on my new blog, I posted about another public folder replication problem we see people hit from time to time. In this case, I'm focusing on a MapiExceptionNotFound (0x8004010f) hit during content replication. Find the post here: http://bill-long.com/2014/01/30/MapiExceptionNotFound-during-content-replication/

For nearly a decade, I've been occasionally blogging on the Exchange Team Blog, and later on my personal TechNet blog. Those platforms are stable, easy to use, and perfectly acceptable. But they're not much fun. I want something I can tweak, break, and put back together again.