Test-CsGroupIm operation has timed out

Yet another one of those interesting discoveries that took most of my afternoon to figure out. What I was trying this time was synthetic test cmdlets available to test different […]

Automatic collection of configuration data failed

As I was building my Lync 2010 lab today, I came across an interesting problem. I am calling it interesting because I had already installed two front-end servers which were […]

New Beginning (aka Leaving Microsoft)

For those of you who followed my blog on TechNet may already have know the news and you can tune me out… or should you? If you are only following […]

Interesting 802.11n discovery

Off the Exchange/Lync topic train but interesting enough this was for me to pass it on without writing about it. After a long period of laziness and ignorance of my […]

If Retention Tags weren’t confusing…

UPDATE: Please read updated guidance due to changes introduced in SP2 RU4 here: http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2012/08/14/calendar-and-tasks-retention-tag-support-in-exchange-2010-sp2-ru4.aspx. It specifically addresses Calendar items and tasks. I wouldn’t be talking about it today! When the […]

Exchange Management Shell Error 500 – Internal Server Error

I have come across this issue enough times that even if it is documented on TechNet it deserves mention here. When you launch Exchange Management Shell or try to connect […]