About

MS Digest (www.msdigest.net) is a blog about Microsoft technologies, started back in January 2005 as IIS Digest (www.iis-digest.com), it have since then changed domain and name, because I wanted to write about other things, than just IIS, since my main focus today is Exchange and OCS, along with IIS. The blog covers Microsoft technologies, mainly Exchange, OCS, IIS and it is maintained and owned by Peter Schmidt.

My blog will contain the latest news, scripting, tips and miscellaneous for Microsoft Technologies of my interest, which means areas such as Exchange, Office Communication Server, Internet Information Services, ISA/TMG and everything else around those technologies that I find interesting.

About the author

My name is Peter Schmidt and I’m from Denmark.

I have been working as an IT Pro since 1996 and working with Microsoft technologies ever since.
I’m currently an Infrastructure Architect working at a consulting firm in Denmark. My primary focus is Microsoft Unified Communication and Messaging solutions, based on technologies like Exchange, Office Communication Server and Directory Services (AD etc.) and then security based on ISA/TMG Server and Microsoft PKI.

I write articles on a regular basis about Microsoft technologies for:

Forums, pages and communities where I am active:

Besides working on a more professional level with the technologies above, I play around with my Mediacenter and Xbox 360 at home and is an amateur photographer.

I currently hold the following Microsoft certifications:

  • Microsoft Certified Master: Exchange 2007
  • MCITP: Enterprise Administrator
  • MCITP: Enterprise Messaging Administrator
  • MCITP: Server Administrator
  • MCSE-Internet/Messaging/Security
  • MCSA-Messaging/Security
  • MCDBA

Microsoft MVP Award

MVP

1st of July 2008 I recieved my first Microsoft MVP award in Internet Information Services (IIS) for my contributions to the IIS community. I was re-awarded 1st of July 2009, still in Internet Information Services (IIS).

The Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) Award is an annual award that is given to outstanding members of Microsoft’s peer-to-peer communities, and is based on the past year’s contributions those members make in those communities online and offline.

You can see my MVP profile here:

Technology

The website is running on a Windows Server 2008 (IIS 7.0) and is powered by WordPress.

The publishing system used on this site is WordPress 2. Variety of plugins are installed to extend the functionality of WordPress. These plugins are:
- Akismet
- Google Analytics
- Google Sitemap
- Feedburner Feedsmith
- AddThis (social bookmarking widget)

This website was designed using web standards technologies. All pages on this site validate as XHTML 1.0 Strict. CSS is used to style the presentation of this website. The use modern web browsers is recommended to access this site. Examples of modern browsers are: Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Opera.

The design of the template used: K2 used is credited by: K2, customized based on a K2 style: K2-U3 by UtomBox.