About Me
My name is Michel de Rooij and I’m currently employed as a consultant at Inovativ UC.

After my bachelor study Computer Science in 1994, I started my professional career as a 3/4GL developer (Clipper or Powerbuilder anyone?). I quickly became interested in infrastructure technology and after making the switch from developer to infrastructure person, I got to work for some interesting customers in equally interesting projects where I gathered the necessary work experience.

I have participated in many projects that range from client migrations to designing standard desktops and servers, but my current field of work is mainly Exchange / Active Directory related. My background as developer comes in handy from time to time as projects sometimes require a certain amount of scripting or coding skills. If not for the project, then at least to speed things up or make procedures less prone to error. And with the current interest in and developments around PowerShell, these skills are proving to be a nice asset.

When I have time I’m participating in the Microsoft Technet forums; you can find me mainly in the Exchange or Active Directory topics.

You can also follow me on Twitter at http://twitter.com/mderooij, check my Facebook here or hit me up on LinkedIn at http://nl.linkedin.com/in/michelderooij.

To contact me by e-mail click here.

Certifications
I currently hold the following IT related certifications (older certifications condensed):

• MCTS: Office Communications Server 2007, Configuration
• MCTS: Microsoft Exchange Server 2010, Configuration
• MCITP: Enterprise Messaging Administrator 2010
• MCTS: Windows Server 2008 Active Directory: Configuration
• MCTS: Windows Server 2008 Applications Infrastructure: Configuration
• MCTS: Windows Server 2008 Network Infrastructure: Configuration
• MCITP: Designing/Deploying Messaging Solutions w/Microsoft Exchange 2010
• MCTS: Microsoft Exchange Server 2007: Configuration
• MCSE: Messaging 2000/2003
• MCSE: NT4/W2000/W2003
• MCSE + Internet
• Prince2 Foundation
• ITIL Essentials

You can view my virtual MCP business card here.

About EighTwOne
To create more visibility I started this professional blog early November, 2009. Most posts will focus on Exchange or related technologies like Active Directory, ForeFront Protection for Exchange, ISA/TMG or messaging in general.

Oh yeah, what’s with this name, EighTwOne. Well, I had to make up a name as all the variations on mistermail, exchangeguy and deliverydude were already taken. So, used the original RFC number for SMTP, which was RFC 821, wrote that fully: eight two one. Then I noticed that the letters connecting the words matched, so I left them out keeping only 1 letter in uppercase. So, RFC 821 became eight two one became EightTwoOne and ended up in EighTwOne. Simple as that.