Zachary Loeber

I eat complexity and am never without a meal.

Run Updates = Rocket Science

So, I just recently tried to do some basic updates for ocs 2007 R2 by running the venerable “serverupdateinstaller.exe” found HERE. Thank goodness I setup a highly redundant load balanced farm of front end servers as the first server updated immediately had issues with the front-end services starting. Wow, updates strike again (other stories forthcoming soon, I promise).

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Exchange 2010 SP1: DAG Node Maintenance

If you are performing maintenance on DAG nodes here is the process you want to go through (along with a slight caveat to fix a possible active copy move issue you may run into). In my environment I have three nodes in a cross-site dag.

All the commands below are run in an administrative exchange powershell prompt.

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Microsoft Unified Access Gateway 2010 Notes

If you are new to the Microsoft Unified Access Gateway then you really should know some of these things I ran into while trying to get my array setup and running smoothly. Sure, to find my single post among the masses is probably not going to happen, but if you do find it before you start your endeavor then I promise you will be saved time and frustration. The first major frustration, the installation….

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