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    Brian Desmond

    Brian is a Microsoft infrastructure expert focused heavily on architecting and deploying Active Directory, Identity Management, Exchange, and Office365 architecture/engineering projects for commercial enterprise and higher education customers. Brian has worked in numerous large scale enterprise deployments numbering upwards of 500,000 seats at various Fortune 100 and larger scale organizations as well as dozens of K-12 and Higher Education institutions and public sector customers across state and local government. Outside of conventional consulting and support roles, Brian has deep expertise managing and building combined offshore/onshore delivery teams in delivery locations around the globe. Since March 2003, Brian has been recognized as a Microsoft MVP for Active Directory for my contributions to the Microsoft technical communities at large. Brian is the author of Active Directory, 5th Edition published by O’Reilly as well as a frequent contributor to leading industry publications. You can often find Brian speaking at conferences and events worldwide.

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    Cisco ACE Sample Configuration for Exchange 2010

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    Brian Desmond

    Cisco’s ACE appliances and modules are something that I see constantly at customers. Unfortunately, Cisco’s application specific documentation is rather lacking. There’s a rather simplistic sample config on Cisco's site.

    The problem is that information does not provide you with everything you need. The folks at F5 on the other hand have extremely well documented application guides for their hardware and that’s one of the reasons I usually send customers to F5 first. The contents of this post are essentially the same for ACE appliances and ACE modules.

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