I eat complexity and am never without a meal.

Big-IP: Custom IIS SOAP Monitor

2011-01-22 2 min read BIG-IP IIS Linux Microsoft Networking System Administration Zachary Loeber

In working on a production issue with my company’s flagship SaaS product I worked with some of the brilliant F5 engineers to isolate one web server in the load balanced pool which was intermittently failing. The F5 engineer recommended a health monitor that does more than just poll for a static page. He suggested we implement some kind of soap call to make the application pool do some work and return a result (I guess in case the IIS application pool is misbehaving but not down). So I worked with one of our developers to do just that but ran into some caveats which required yet another custom health monitor.

Big-IP: Sharepoint 2010 Monitor

2011-01-21 1 min read Active Directory BIG-IP Linux Microsoft Networking Sharepoint System Administration Zachary Loeber

While specing out a Sharepoint 2007 to 2010 migration I discovered that the default monitor created by the application template on our big-ip LTM load balancers does not work. In seeking a solution I ran across this gentleman’s blog with a custom external monitor but found that it didn’t really work. The solution to make it work was simple (as I explained on his blog in a comment). I went ahead and extended it to be more environment generic.

Exchange – Notify Forwarded Accounts Script

2011-01-10 1 min read Active Directory Exchange Exchange 2010 Microsoft Powershell System Administration Uncategorized Zachary Loeber

In cleaning up a large number of disabled user accounts in AD I wanted a way to notify a large number of users specifically that they were being forwarded e-mail from another account. This was part of an effort to clean up AD a bit before moving everyone over to Exchange 2010 but it can be used independently of any one project as part of a general AD maintenance plan. Continue reading

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