Month: April 2004

Tuesday we all hopped on buses from our various downtown hotels and were taken to the Microsoft campus. I believe the bus drivers were all instructed to drive us around the entire facility to see the entire layout. Lots of buildings – separated by parking lots, soccer fields, baseball fields, and more parking lots. The SBS team spent the morning with the other Windows server MVP’s being briefed. The afternoon was spent with the SBS Dev team, with them asking us questions all day. Personally, I wrapped up the day by attending my first Seder meal with Steven Teiger (SBS … Continue reading Song of the Day – Day 3

MVP Sunday. After the get together on Saturday night, I expected everyone to sleep in on Sunday morning. But, not SBS’ers! As my wife and I strolled out of the hotel Sunday morning at 8am, we passed by the Starbucks, and there we saw Susan, Jeff and several others huddled over their cups of coffee, strategizing activities for the rest of the day. We had a wonderful meeting from noon to 4pm with Microsoft to discuss MVP and Partner issues. We then gathered for a few minutes up in the SBS suite, and then headed down as a group to … Continue reading Song of the Day – Day 2

Arrived in Seattle Saturday night ahead of schedule, as a tailwind helped cut an hour off the flying time from Florida to Seattle. Unfortunately what we gained in the air, was lost on the ground as our van driver didn’t know where the Grand Hyatt hotel was and we went around in circles for 15 minutes!   My wife and i had no sooner checked in when Chad was ‘Johnny on the Spot’ calling me on my cell phone to see if I had arrived, and to make sure that I was coming down to the Sat nite ‘SBS Welcome Party’ at … Continue reading Song of the Day – Day 1

Added 6/22/2004: Here is a link to a Microsoft page with their recommendation for cleaning out the BadMail folder: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=782AAF0F-6239-40AD-ADDA-97863D852FF7&displaylang=en If the ..\Program Files\ExchSrvr\Mailroot\vsi 1\BadMail is filling up with lot’s of files (.bad, .bdr., .bdp), you can simply delete them. However, it has been noted that if you have thousands of these files, simply deleting them may cause Exchange to slow to a crawl for awhile. It is therefore recommended to create a batch/command script that will clear this directory out. You can then schedule this scriupt to run daily or weekly, as required. You may ask why this script … Continue reading Script to clean out the Bad mail directory