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Saturday, April 11, 2009 3:52 PM

Backing Up Exchange 2007 on Windows 2008

It has been suggested to me that my series on backing up Exchange Server 2007 on Windows Server 2008 was so complicated that the content was truly inaccessible for the novice admin. For that, I apologize. At heart, I am a techie kind of guy and I spend...
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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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Wednesday, January 14, 2009 8:48 AM

Volume Shadow Copy Services (VSS) and Exchange - The Basics

Introduction The Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) was originally added to Windows Server 2003. The first version of Exchange Server to support VSS was Exchange Server 2003. The primary reason for the existence of VSS is to improve the performance of backup...
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