BradHugh's WebLog

Understanding Migration Concurrency

A common source of confusion for customers using MRS and Migration Service to perform migrations...

Author: Brad Hughes [MSFT] Date: 10/03/2017

It's always the Load Balancer

Ok, this is probably an (intentionally) inflammatory title, but in this case, it's absolutely true....

Author: Brad Hughes [MSFT] Date: 02/21/2017

Source mailbox already being moved errors while moving mailboxes

It's been a long time since I wrote a blog post, but this one comes up a lot so I figured I'd do a...

Author: Brad Hughes [MSFT] Date: 12/16/2016

Internet Explorer 8 impacts OWA Load Balancing Scenarios

Recently we’ve had several issues reported regarding Internet Explorer 8 and Outlook Web Access load...

Author: Brad Hughes [MSFT] Date: 10/15/2009

Autodiscover and Client-only Sites (Revisited)

Previously I had posted a problem regarding Autodiscover site-scoping and client-only sites. For...

Author: Brad Hughes [MSFT] Date: 05/20/2008

How NOT to Deploy Client Access Servers

I have obviously been really busy since December since that is the last time I posted a blog entry....

Author: Brad Hughes [MSFT] Date: 05/05/2008

Autodiscover HTTP Redirect Method using ISA instead of a second web site

Many customers that are hosting multiple SMTP domains need to use one of our Autodiscover "redirect"...

Author: Brad Hughes [MSFT] Date: 12/18/2007

Handy way to restart downed Exchange Services (and only the ones you need)

Here's a quick Powershell one-liner to start up all the necessary Exchange Services for any given...

Author: Brad Hughes [MSFT] Date: 11/20/2007

CAS Load-Balancing Best Practices (Part 2)

CAS Load Balancing Best Practices (Part 2: Load balancing Intranet aka "Non-Internet...

Author: Brad Hughes [MSFT] Date: 10/29/2007

New Updates to Autodiscover Whitepaper available

Just wanted to let folks know that a new update to the Autodiscover Whitepaper is now available....

Author: Brad Hughes [MSFT] Date: 10/15/2007

AutodiscoverSiteScope and Client-only sites

The Exchange Autodiscover service is very smart when it hands out URLs for web services to clients....

Author: Brad Hughes [MSFT] Date: 09/11/2007

CAS Load-Balancing Best Practices (Part 1)

There just isn't much in the way of How-to / Best Practices type of information regarding load...

Author: Brad Hughes [MSFT] Date: 09/10/2007

Ah, leftovers from DST...

Yesterday I got looped into a call where a customer that reported that meeting requests were ahead...

Author: Brad Hughes [MSFT] Date: 09/06/2007