Exchange 2010 SP1 Update Rollup 2 supports multiple public folder databases

I wasn’t going to bother posting this, because the release was already posted about on the MSExchangeTeam blog, but I saw that the nonchalant way they tagged this feature in the release notes really didn’t do it justice: 2409597 Implement OpenFlags.AlternateServer for PublicLogon What this really means is that one of the biggest annoyances about Exchange 2010 has finally been resolved (sort of). The public folders database (which also stores Free/Busy information for calendaring) is not part of the DAG, making it the one piece that’s not accessed through the Client Access Server — instead, MAPI clients connect to the … Continue Reading →

Sharing code between Facter facts

Spurred on by Jordan Sissel’s post about nodeless Puppet configurations, which are purely  fact-driven, I’ve started writing a lot of custom facts for our environment. One thing that’s been driving me nuts has been how Facter doesn’t have a real, supported mechanism for code reuse between facts. I can understand this decision — facts are supposed to be orthogonal. At the same time, there’s a lot of flexibility to be found in custom facts, and let’s face it, there’s only so much you can do without real code reuse. However, it is pretty easy to stick shared code into a … Continue Reading →