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If you have to consume a Web Service that requires Basic Authentication, the normal flow of things is that the first request the client makes is unauthenticated. The server then response with an HTTP 401 response (‘Authentication required’). The client then sends the credentials to the server and the SOAP request goes through. That is [...]

This quick how-to shows you how to create and use certificates in a development environment for use with a self-hosted WCF service. This means that the WCF service is not hosted with IIS, but runs, for example, as a Windows Service. We will use the makecert.exe tool that ships with the Microsoft Windows SDK. The [...]

Okay, here are just 10 random thoughts that I can come up with and that I had to deal with lately with regards to Exchange 2010. Could very well be I have to expand the list a little in the coming days or weeks. The only high-availability Exchange 2010 is offering is through the Database [...]

Today, Microsoft or better; the Microsoft Exchange Product Group released a new version of the Storage Calculator for Exchange. In good Microsoft fashion, this version has been renamed. It’s now called the “Exchange 2010 Mailbox Server Role Requirements Calculator”. That new name should better cover the tool’s use… But when would you be using this [...]

During Interact, I asked Scott Schnoll, former MVP and currently a Blue Badge at the Technical Writing Team on Exchange, about the DAG in Exchange 2010. Don’t get me wrong; I think it is by far the most elegant HA solution has offered so far and everyone should at least look at it! But I [...]

During the Tech Ed 2009 Keynote in Berlin, an overenthousiastic Microsoft employee showed, live and on stage, for over 7,200 people, how to create a new Virtual Machine in Hyper-V by a few mouse clicks using System Center Something. During his presentation he created a new instance of a Windows Server 2008 R2 machine, 32bits. [...]

Thinking I was smart, I took the bus to the “Messe Berlin”. My bad. After being on the bus for over half an hour, I had to take into account the possibility that I might have made a small miscalculation. So I hopped off, crossed the road and took the same bus in the opposite [...]