Since Exchange 2007 was released and carrying on with Exchange 2010 part of the installation process is running setup commands /pl, /p, /ps, and /pd (more information here). Even during service pack upgrades some of the setup commands are needed. During each setup command an ExBPA pre-check is ran before making any changes to the infrastructure to ensure the environment is ready for the new version of Exchange. A common problem that I have noticed over the years is that when pre-check fail, for ... [More]

Right before my trip to Japan one of my Desktop machines "died". It's a BitLockered Windows 7 x64 machine. Since the machine wasn't "mission critical", it had to wait. Now, a month and a half later during the Thanksgiving holiday, I was finally able to look into the issue. Essentially all I did was a reboot to install updates. On the way back up, it essentially said no bootable disk, press F1 to continue. How exciting…. Also, though, I'm a "Platforms" engineer, my specialty isn't "setup",... [More]