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Thursday, September 04, 2008 2:22 PM

Exchange 2007 Backup and Restore - The Minimum

In larger organizations, the overhead associated with backing up every server in an organization (where every server is already redundant in some way) can become onerous and expensive. In those types of organizations, with dedicated virtual servers for...
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Thursday, August 07, 2008 1:45 PM

Exchange Disk Space, version 2.1

It was pointed out to me, by a party that shall remain nameless, that I depended in today's earlier post Finding Disk Space Used By Exchange Version 2 , that I ASSumed that msExchCurrentServerRoles would never be higher than 64 and that that was a...
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Thursday, August 07, 2008 10:36 AM

Finding Disk Space Used by Exchange, version 2

In July of 2006, I had a blog entry named Finding Disk Space Used By Exchange , and it was quite well received and it worked well for most people. However, it had a few issues: It doesn't work with Exchange Server 2007 because the streaming file was...
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Monday, April 28, 2008 11:33 AM

Exchange ESE, Failed Backups, the Checkpoint Depth, and You

A question came up recently on a mailing list I hang around. A poster wrote: "I'm looking for a concise explanation of when/how the transaction logs are committed. Specifically, is there another way to force logs to be committed other than the...
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Monday, April 14, 2008 8:31 AM

Live from Redmond - it's Geeks Argue!

I and 4,000 MVPs from around the world have accumulated in Seattle/Redmond this week. Where do we all go? To the bar, of course! Last night, a few Exchange MVPs and the odd PowerShell MVP were sitting around discussing stuff I can't talk about here...
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Saturday, March 29, 2008 8:08 AM

Exchange Server 2007 and Domain Controllers - A Summary

Over three years ago, I wrote my most popular (in terms of number of times it has been read) blog post ever: " Exchange Server 2003 and Domain Controllers - A Summary ." Since it was written in January of 2005, Exchange Server 2003 service pack...
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Tuesday, March 11, 2008 10:24 AM

Suppressing Non-Delivery Reports (NDRs)

Once the spammers find your domain, which usually only takes a few weeks after it has come online, you'll start seeing lots of error messages being returned to your Exchange Server - for email that was never sent from your server! This is commonly...
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Monday, March 10, 2008 3:49 PM

Microsoft Enters Collaboration Hosting Arena

In a move that was likely a surprise to no-one, last week Microsoft announced its offering for hosted Exchange 2007, hosted SharePoint (MOSS 2007, not WSS 3.0), and hosted LiveMeeting. This was the next logical progression from the Microsoft Office Live...
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Friday, March 07, 2008 9:23 AM

Exchange 2007 Disk Performance/Partition Alignment - A Little Quickie

A perennial recommendation to squeeze the utmost in performance from your Exchange 2007 (and Exchange 2000 and Exchange 2003...) disk spindles has been to align the partition boundaries of the disks to a 8 KB boundary - since Exchange will always read...
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Monday, February 25, 2008 7:47 AM

The (Very) Basics of SSL for Exchange/Windows

SSL stands for Secure Sockets Layer. As the Secure part of the name implies, the purpose behind SSL is to secure communications between a client browser (such as Internet Explorer or FireFox) and the server service with which the browser is communicating...
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Friday, February 22, 2008 9:52 AM

Local\Administrators vs. Builtin\Administrators - Exchange Server on a DC

Originally published in January of 2005, my blog post Exchange Server 2003 and Domain Controllers - A Summary has been the most searched-out article on my blog. While, with the release of Exchange Server 2007, the post is beginning to show it's age...
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Friday, January 18, 2008 1:54 PM

Exchange Server Caches and Their Lifetimes

In this post , I discussed the various ways that Exchange Server accesses Active Directory. In large environments, Exchange Server has the capability of stressing the domain controllers (especially global catalog servers) that it uses, based on the number...
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Thursday, December 06, 2007 7:30 AM

'Tis the season... for patching!

Microsoft is practically flooding us with service packs right now (similarly to the flooding that is going on in Washington state and Oregon this week!). As I earlier noted, Exchange 2007 service pack 1 is now released, and available here . For information...
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Sunday, December 02, 2007 9:47 AM

Information Store Antivirus for Exchange

In my recent EMO article, I referred to the fact that there are two different kinds of anti-virus that may execute on an Exchange Server: file-level scanning and information store scanning. In this article, I write more about information store scanning...
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