MS Digest is a personal blog about Microsoft technologies, started in January 2005 as IIS Digest and maintained 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 Internet Information Services, Windows Server, Exchange, Office Communication Server 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 Server and Microsoft PKI.
I write articles on a regular basis about Microsoft technologies for:
Forums, pages and communities where I am active:
- IT-experts.dk (petsch)
- Experts Exchange (petsch75)
- IIS.net Forum (petsch)
Besides working on a more professional level with the technologies above, I play around with my Mediacenter and Xbox 360 at home.
I currently hold the following Microsoft certifications:
- MCITP: Enterprise Administrator
- MCITP: Enterprise Messaging Administrator
- MCITP: Server Administrator
- MCSE-Internet/Messaging/Security
- MCSA-Messaging/Security
- MCDBA
Microsoft MVP Award
1st of July 2008 I recieved the Microsoft MVP award in Internet Information Services (IIS) for my contributions to the IIS community.
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 by clicking 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 with a K2 style: K2-U3 by UtomBox.
