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Friday, January 29, 2010 3:36 PM

A Brief History of Time...(ok ok, let's go with "An Introduction to the Windows Time Service")

Note: This article is written for "modern" versions of the Windows operating system - that is, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Vista, and Windows 7. For older versions of the Windows operating system, the concepts still...
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Tuesday, January 19, 2010 1:07 PM

Where oh where, did my AD site go...[Alternate title: It's the DNS, stupid.]

I recently had a very confusing issue arise at one of my Exchange 2007 clients and I decided to share it with you. At this particular company, an Active Directory site is reserved for Exchange, and there are two domain controllers (both global catalog...
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Thursday, January 14, 2010 3:46 PM

Speeding Reboot When Exchange is on a DC/GC

As I've noted in several previous blog entries (such as here and here ), installing Exchange on a domain controller and/or a global catalog server is not a best practice. However, if you are running SBS (Small Business Server) or EBS (Essential Business...
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Monday, January 11, 2010 2:39 PM

Disabling WSUS Logging (or any website on Windows Server 2008)

SBS 2008 has IIS logging enabled by default. For most websites on an SBS server, this probably isn't an issue. However, the WSUS Administration website can generate very high traffic. On my client's servers, I've seen 5 GB generated in just...
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Tuesday, September 29, 2009 6:45 PM

Exchange Server 2010 - Administrative Access to All Mailboxes

In Exchange 2010, the storage group has disappeared. Instead, the properties of a database and of a storage group have merged - the result being referred to as a database. Effectively, a database has been promoted to be as important as a storage group...
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Friday, August 14, 2009 7:45 AM

Mailbox Permissions: Pulling Back the Curtain...

Let's talk about mailbox permissions. People often get a little confused between store-level mailbox permissions and Active Directory-level mailbox permissions. They are similar but not the same. For clarity it may help for us to look at them all...
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Tuesday, April 07, 2009 2:39 PM

More Multi-valued Parameters in PowerShell (SourceTransportServers in Set-SendConnector)

In my first article on Multi-valued Parameters in PowerShell , I discussed a certain class of array parameters that Exchange 2007 uses many times - the [System.Object[]] (i.e., array of arbitrary elements) class for RemoteIpRanges. Unfortunately, that...
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Monday, March 02, 2009 1:28 PM

Monitoring Exchange Server 2007 with System Center Operations Manager 2007

Just a few days ago, my new book (of the subject title!) started shipping from Amazon. If it hasn't already, it should start appearing in your local bookstores this week. If you want to order from Amazon, you can get it here . Eight months in the...
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Friday, January 30, 2009 2:14 PM

A Small Patch: Online Exchange Backup

If you only had a single storage group, the script in Exchange 2007 and Windows 2008: Online Exchange Backup (part 6 of 7) would not find any storage groups. The primary reason for that I always have a RSG too! :-) The fix is easy. In getStoragegroups...
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Monday, January 26, 2009 10:56 AM

Exchange 2007 and Windows 2008: Online Exchange Backup (part 6 of 7)

In the first five parts of this series, I've given you the background to understand how Exchange backup works when using VSS and how to acquire the necessary information from your Exchange server to know what you should back up. Today, I present to...
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Friday, January 23, 2009 1:49 PM

Exchange 2007 and Windows 2008: Using Diskshadow for Online Exchange Backup (part 5 of 7)

If you hadn't noticed, I've been following a theme the last couple of months with some of the entries on this blog: Part 1: Getting a List of Storage Groups in a PowerShell Script Part 2: Getting a List of Stores in a PowerShell Script Part 3...
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Tuesday, November 04, 2008 7:01 AM

Exchange Connections - Fall 2008

Next week, in Las Vegas, Nevada is the semiannual Connections conference. The Connections conference is a technical conference covering SQL Connections, Windows Connections, Exchange Connections, etc. There are lots of individual tracks, both for IT Pros...
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Friday, September 19, 2008 6:50 AM

It's All About The IOPS, Silly!

In yesterday's EMO (Exchange Messaging Outlook eZine, subscribe at http://www.slipstick.com/emo ) I had an article named It's All About The IOPS, Silly! which discussed the impact of RAID-1 and RAID-5 arrays on total IOPS calculations. However...
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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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