As more and more admins install Exchange 2010, they are quickly faced with an error message. What is the first thing that admins want to do when configuring the mailbox role?…create production mailbox databases and delete the default database that Exchange installed. Well, Exchange 2010 installs a few special mailboxes on the first database. Oh…
This is the next post in a series describing how the Portfolio Analysis pieces of Project Server 2010 work under the hood. This post will discuss how the Efficient Frontier is calculated for a portfolio of projects. I wrote this post as part of an exercise to make sure that I understand what’s going on…
Well, a very pleasant surprise this afternoon when the plane landed and I checked my e-mail. Lo-and-behold, it would appear as though I now can add three more letters to the IT alphabet soup already on my name card. I am very excited about this. To keep things in perspective, my kids couldn’t care less…
This post is provided as-is, use at your own risk. My latest lab is on Server 2008 R2 and I was having a weird issue with the MP not installing. Even though I had configured WebDav correctly as per the TechNet article here, however my mpsetup.log was still giving me errors about WebDav not being…
This is the next post in a series describing how the Portfolio Analysis pieces of Project Server 2010 work under the hood. This post will discuss how portfolios are impacted by forcing in or out specific projects. I wrote this post as part of an exercise to make sure that I understand what’s going on…
Scenario: Say you have been using Public Folders in Exchange to share contacts among users or you have a master contacts database somewhere. If you wanted to create these contacts in AD/Exchange with the least amount of effort, what would you do? Ok…so this scenario doesn’t really come up that often. Hopefully you can apply…
Here is the next post in my series describing how the Portfolio Analysis module works in Project Server. I wrote this post as part of an exercise to make sure that I understand what’s going in Project Server – as well as making an initial attempt to lay the pieces out in a way that…
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DISCLAIMER: (Just to make sure this is clear, I am adding this disclaimer to the posting.) The worksheet referenced below is not a competing product to Project Server 2010, and does not contain references to any proprietary code. It was developed based on publicly available information as an Excel mock up of the server-side portfolio…
UPDATE: Note that this post is based on Exchange 2010 RTM. Guidance has been changed slightly for SP1. Please see the wiki post HERE. In one of my recent Exchange 2010 deployments at a client, the design was a highly available 3-node Exchange environment with all roles (MB, CAS, HUB) installed on each server. So…
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