Today’s lesson is: Virtual PC and shared folders are slow. I mean really, really slow. Try install Exchange Server 2003 Service Pack 1 into a VM with the source files in a shared folder (Virtual PC shared folders), I almost slit my wrists waiting for that to install. It ended up taking well over an hour. My work around: ROBOCOPY the sources files onto the VM’s hard drive and install from there.

There are 3 reasons why I use Firefox:

Found this via Stanislas Quastana’s blog: ISA Client Spy. Free tools for ISA Server are great and this one, should be an excellent troubleshooting tool.

Placing an Exchange Front-end server in the DMZ does nothing to increase security.

This is a great article discussing the features of ISA Server as a layer 7 firewall (without the usual zealous bubble from Dr T. Shinder)