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About Mitch Roberson

Having worked as a consultant at multiple VAR’s as well as Microsoft. Mitch has had the experience of Seeing a multitude of environments. As well as working with both Network, Systems and Security teams. This has allowed him to broaden his knowledge in many areas of IT. Because of this broad experience it has driven him to an almost fanatical desire to have visibility in his environments so he can understand what is happening with in an environment. He still is responsible for day to day operations of Active Directory, Exchange, and much more. But his passion is to learn how applications communicate so he can decrease mean time to resolution.

My Journey into Network Visibility and how much data is available to us. And how that data can help solve I.T. challenges.

Posted on March 19, 2018 by Mitch Roberson

I have not posted in a while. Well more like years. I think my last post was in 2012. Since then a lot has changed. But most of all I wanted to be able to pass on knowledge. I have … Continue reading →

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It is nice you want to know me. But why do you keep asking? (Part 2)

Posted on November 26, 2012 by Mitch Roberson

So I started this some time ago and wanted to continue to try to do the next part now that my lab is back up. In the last post we talked about auto discover and how it can affect authentication. … Continue reading →

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My First work week with a surface

Posted on November 16, 2012 by Mitch Roberson

So as most of you know I work at Microsoft. So obviously I was extremely excited about the surface. And wanted one as soon as they came out. I stood in line just like anyone else to obtain one from … Continue reading →

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Authentication Prompts in Exchange and Lync

Posted on October 15, 2012 by Mitch Roberson

I recently started a series of Posts titled “It is nice you want to know me, But why do you keep asking” the idea was to give you the administrator the tools to trouble shoot authentication prompts. However I have … Continue reading →

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It is Nice you want to Know me. But why do you keep asking (a discussion on authentication prompts in Exchange and Lync) Part 1

Posted on October 11, 2012 by Mitch Roberson

Account Blog So last week at MEC I held 2 sessions on Authentication prompts. I was actually amazed that the room was a full as it was. And most people indicated they have had some sort of problems with prompts. … Continue reading →

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Configure MRS to Efficiently and Consistently Move Mailbox’s

Posted on August 22, 2012 by Mitch Roberson

One questions I receive often is around Mailbox Replication in Exchange 2010. And at first I didn’t think I really needed to write this post. Why you might ask? Well like many of you I initially thought well you only … Continue reading →

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How to determine Number of NSPI Connections needed for an application.

Posted on August 20, 2012 by Mitch Roberson

  I often receive questions about NSPI connections and how many connections I should allow. The reason for this is a change that was made to Windows 2008. Windows 2008 limits the number of NSPI Connections to 50 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/949469. Where … Continue reading →

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DAG availability (cluster Math)

Posted on July 12, 2012 by Mitch Roberson

  So one of the biggest misunderstandings I run into is related to DAGS and availability of the databases. Often times people ask why is their databases offline after a failover to another site. And even the same question may … Continue reading →

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Dealing with challenges with Message Records Management

Posted on June 22, 2012 by Mitch Roberson

So one of the Questions I receive most often is around how do I cleanup Peoples mailboxes for them. In Exchange 2003 it was possible to setup a recipient policy really it was a Mailbox policy but because it is … Continue reading →

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Trouble Shooting Exchange Active Sync

Posted on May 31, 2012 by Mitch Roberson

With so many devices out there today using Active Sync I decided to write about some of the basics of trouble shooting active sync. But remember in some cases there is not a fix. Because Microsoft has the standards out … Continue reading →

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