A short story – by Mark Myers
Many Exchange consultants and administratators have often pondered why Microsoft names the temporary Routing Group connector the way it does. The situation is you are installing a new Exchange 2007 server into an existing Exchange 2000 or 2003 environment. A temporary Routing Group connector gets created from the E2k7 server and the designated E2k / E2k3 server. The name of this connector is assigned automatically by the installation routine with a name of:
DWBGZMFD01QNBJR
as part of the connector name. Is this a random name? Is this the PIN of Bill Gates’ bank account? Is it something you even care about?
The mystery has been solved. Here’s the real scoop on the naming convention of this connector.
If you advance each letter in the routing group by one letter (D becomes E, W becomes X, B becomes a C, and on and on), then DWBGZMFD01QNBJR becomes EXCHANGE12ROCKS.
Case solved.
