New way to view Solutions articles!! - I "reworked" my blog and now I will be hosting all solutions articles out here as well. This will allow you to comment and ask questions much easier. Also articles not suitible (to small, different topics, etc.) for this site will be posted out there as well. Please come check it out soon!

Email Archiving Solutions - I recently implemented an Email archiving solution and I am sharing my experience and some insight on why I made my choices. Good info for anyone looking to implement and email archiving product into their MS Exchange enviornment.

Active Directory Editor Help page - I have been receiving a lot of requests on use of the Active Directory Editor Tool so I put together a help page to give a more detailed explanation of the tool.

Qlogic 4010 and Disk Queuing problems - We had severe performance issues related to disk queuing on our Exchange servers and a database server. After detailed analysis of the network we found out that the HBA was the culprit. And they all had the same 2 things in common; Qlogic 4010 HBA's and Cisco 4507r's.

Creating Flexible and scalable Storage polices - "In large companies security group management can be a nightmare if there isn't a good system in place. There are many approaches. This is a method that can help you manage those groups.

Creating Custom MMC's - "In large companies security group management can be a nightmare if there isn't a good system in place. There are many approaches. This is a method that can help you manage those groups.

Microsoft DST Updates - "So everybody is scrambling (including MS) to get these out. The server and workstation updates don't seem to be a problem but the Exchange thing is a BIG problem. So I gathered my recent experience and fixes as well as the KB articles you should be looking for..

KB Article 555410 - "So you keep getting event id 9548 logged in your Exchange server application log" This article explains how to fix this using the Active Directory Attribute Editor tool located on this site.

KB Article 281308 - When a client computer connects to a Microsoft Windows 2000-based computer or a Microsoft Windows Server 2003-based computer by using an alias name, the client may receive the following error message: "System error 52 has occurred, A duplicate name exists on the network. "