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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.

Just a note to let you know I have Joined Microsoft as a PFE

Posted on May 22, 2012 by Mitch Roberson

I have recently Joined Microsoft as a Premier Field Engineer. And wanted to let everyone know. I plan on continuing to blog. And hope I can do more of it as time permits.

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Exchange 2010, password prompt and or Certificate prompt

Posted on February 20, 2012 by Mitch Roberson

Since this is one of the most common complaints I see I thought I would take some time to explain how I trouble shoot this. I will attempt to explain the trouble shooting methodology that I use and why it … Continue reading →

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Interview Questions. Why I ask the questions I ask.

Posted on February 12, 2012 by Mitch Roberson

I often am asked, why I ask some of the questions I ask during an interview. In some cases some people are not happy and feel that some of the questions are out of line, and some have even said … Continue reading →

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DNS Load Balancing VS DNS Round Robin

Posted on February 12, 2012 by Mitch Roberson

Aren’t they the Same thing? Well not really, matter of fact they are not even closely related to each other. One DNS round robin is handled by the server. where DNS load Balancing is a function of the client. So … Continue reading →

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More then 1 IP on A Server

Posted on February 1, 2012 by Mitch Roberson

IT MAY NOT WORK THE WAY YOU THINK IT SHOULD So for years with windows 2003 it was very common to add additional IP’s to a NIC. This was very common with Web servers. If you wanted to host multiple … Continue reading →

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Hotmail fails with authentication error from Android, and or smartphone applications

Posted on February 1, 2012 by Mitch Roberson

Recently I spent some time trouble shooting why my wife’s Hotmail would not work on here Android phone. As this article states it should work. http://www.windowslivehelp.com/solution.aspx?solutionid=f49bdf1f-8bb9-47e4-9633-e3a6ba15e2f8 However I kept receiving an authentication error, and it seemed like the password or … Continue reading →

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Hello world!

Posted on February 4, 2011 by Mitch Roberson

Welcome to WordPress.com. This is your first post. Edit or delete it and start blogging!

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Exchange 2010 and Licensing

Posted on November 23, 2009 by Mitch Roberson

I am seeing a lot of posts that have some interesting comments about licensing. However many are not referencing Microsoft’s own how to buy documentation. http://www.microsoft.com/exchange/2010/en/us/licensing.aspx This provides pretty solid information about what is needed for Database Availability or as … Continue reading →

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Exchange 2010 Archiving

Posted on November 21, 2009 by Mitch Roberson

It is awesome that Microsoft has put archiving into exchange. However it is interesting how much buzz, and how many questions there are around it. In the past several months I have been fielding questions about archiving and many of … Continue reading →

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Pulse Pen

Posted on August 28, 2009 by Mitch Roberson

Well I have not blogged in a while but I think it is time to start again. I just bought a new pulse pen since my last one is no where to be found. and I can not seem to … Continue reading →

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