When you are looking for something, like a piece of hardware, and you don't know where to start looking, it is always useful to have a good set of tools.
For example, I wanted to find what IP address that a new UPS device was using. I could not locate it in the DHCP tables and figured it must have a static IP address. The administration tools could not access it via the USB cable, so I needed to brute force search for the IP address. What I would do for an IP scanner right then? Code one!
In the last 10 years, email has evolved from the uber-geeky tool into the corporate mainstream solution that no one can live without. At the base, Internet email is a 40+ year old technology that was originally designed to provide a reliable (not time sensitive) solution for communications between colleagues. As it has gained popularity corporations have started to rely on it for business critical communications with their customers and vendors. Nowadays, IT departments learn about their outages by how well the email solution is performing.
In the rest of this article, I plan on covering a few of the troubleshooting techniques I use to resolve Internet email issues and what may have caused them.
As of lately everyone is getting into YouTube. This online website allows end-users to upload videos and share them with the world.
Here's my first one (view) from our last trip to Maui.
We are working to decommission our existing Exchange 5.5 environment and looking to migrate all services to Exchange 2003. As part of the decom, we need to re-direct the Internal SMTP traffic off our Exchange 5.5 bridgeheads. This meant, determining which servers were connecting to the server. First we changed all MX records in our DNS to point to the new server. Then we watched the Application logs on the server for MSExchangeIMC - ID: 2000 events.
