I had some time over the holiday weekend so I caught up on the stuff that had been lagging behind. Specifically I posted Rob's SAML presentation from MWLUG. This is pretty much a step by step deal that explains the ins and outs of putting together a SAML environment. MWLUG was fantastic!

You want to collapse two domains into one. Then at the end, you'd like to remove all servers from the OldDomain from the environment. All you want to have around are servers in the NewDomain.

I did my Advanced Monitoring and Alerting Techniques presentation at Connections 2013 on Sunday afternoon. I'd like to thank everyone who attended. It was a fun two hours and we had a lot of laughs.

Here's how it works. Or maybe I better say here's how it's working for me.

You know the symptoms. You have heavy email flow through a gateway system and sometimes it just can't keep up. Why is that? Is it because some user was sent a list of all users in the company in the "To:" field of a message and now that user did a reply to all? And then other users did a reply to all with the message, "Stop replying to all!" And then some other users did a reply to all with a lot of, "Tee hee hee, did I just hit reply to all?"