Architecture

Situation Normal, Everything Must Change

2011-12-02

This is one of the best talks on cloud computing I have ever seen. If you work with cloud computing, are interested in cloud computing, fear cloud computing, or just want to know what cloud computing is, take 30 minutes and watch this. It is as informative as it is entertaining…Simon Wardley is an excellent presenter.

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Hosted, and service, and cloud, oh my!

2011-11-03

I’ve been a member of LinkedIn practically since the beginning, and have joined (and followed) several groups as a lurker, but today was the first time I actually engaged in a thread. A fellow member posted a question about just what makes a something that which can be offered “as a Service.” There were many [...]

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Who are you, and how do you prove it?

2011-10-26

Usernames and passwords are not enough to authenticate users in today’s threat-filled environment. Two factor authentication is something that needs to be on your radar now, for internal, external, and cloud-based applications.

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Why does your organization need an email archiving solution?

2011-05-20

If your organization uses an in-house mail server, an email archiving solution is the only way to take full advantage of the information contained within company emails while simultaneously reducing the amount of storage space required to maintain the messages. Archiving the ingoing and outgoing emails and attachments being sent to and from your employees, [...]

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The Exchange Pre-Deployment Analyzer

2011-03-25

Over at TheEmailAdmin I go over yet another in a long string of tools that Microsoft has released, that do great things, and that no one seems to know about. For the architect or admin tasked with planning out a migration or deployment to Exchange 2010, the Pre-Deployment Analyzer is a great tool for dotting [...]

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Build it bigger

2011-03-04

Whether you are building a new email infrastructure, or just getting ready to upgrade your existing one, take my word for one thing if nothing else…build for BIG-ARSE mailboxes. Think gigabytes (lots of them) per user. If you aren’t willing to take it on faith, then click the pretty picture below and read five reasons [...]

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Hey! You! Get off of my cloud!

2011-02-04

Everywhere you look, folks are jumping on the bandwagon that is The Cloud. The Cloud may soon come to rival the late 90’s habit of putting “e-“ or “cyber” in front of every service and application offered in the hopes of making it sound cool*. While I absolutely believe that cloud services have their place [...]

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Block ActiveSync? Inconceivable!

2011-01-12

The other day someone asked me if we should block users from connecting their personal devices to Exchange. It seems a VP connected their personal iPhone (we’re a Crackberry shop until Verizon gets the iPhone…so come on Verizon, get with it!!!) and the boss was concerned about security. I don’t blame him, I am concerned [...]

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howto://design your back-up plan

2011-01-03

Hard drives die and accidents happen. One of the most important tasks for a systems admin is to back-up data to protect against data loss. A well thought out back-up plan can help ensure that all eventualities are covered and that your company can continue to operate no matter what kind of disaster may occur. [...]

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Imagine a $10 million mistake…now hit send.

2010-12-20

I read an article the other day about an email sent out by a Swiss bank that wound up costing them a $10 million dollar account, and I started thinking about how much I missed the outbound email scanning that I used at a previous employer. If that bank had the same tool the bank [...]

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Living on the edge

2010-12-10

When it comes time to design your Exchange infrastructure, one of the key design decisions is going to include how you bring email in from the Internet to your system. Believe it or not, you have options, and you can read about them here. If you find enjoy the post, please retweet it. Thanks. And [...]

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Zen and the Art of Naming Conventions-service accounts

2010-10-13

Follow these best practices for naming and maintaining service accounts and enlightenment will surely follow.

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