17 January 2011 ~ 3 Comments

Exchange CAS crashes, users get 503 when accessing OWA… but ActiveSync works

TweetUpdated 9/18/2011: This happened to me again, see my latest post about this issue. Since migrating to Exchange 2010, every couple of weeks it looks like IIS crashes on the CAS. Going to the OWA URL in a browser would yield a 503 error. Strangely enough, ActiveSync worked fine (though Outlook Anywhere over HTTPS didn’t). [...]

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02 August 2010 ~ 1 Comment

Microsoft Office 2007's awful user interface

TweetOffice 2007 is pretty old by now, and I know much has been written on the move from a “normal” looking app to the “Ribbon” UI. I personally hate the change and feel Microsoft just changed the UI as a way to make the application look “different” so that people will look at it and [...]

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20 July 2010 ~ 0 Comments

The Joy of Migrating from Exchange 2003 to 2010

TweetI’ve been working on migrating from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2010 for several weeks. Actually, at this point it feels like several months. Now that I think about it, I guess that’s because it’s actually been several months. Back in January or February, I got fed up with the Exchange setup I inherited: our Exchange [...]

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