Essential Exchange

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, space didn't allow me to talk about SANs (Storage...

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 a specific feature or multiple pieces of physical...

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 bad assumption on my part, for reasons that shall...

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 removed from Exchange If a Recovery Storage Group...

Learn something new every day... I was working with a new client today, on an SBS 2003 computer, and they use external e-mail. However, the original technican that had done the installation of their server had gone through the process of installing Exchange Server, and then disabled all of the services...

Jeffrey Snover of Microsoft, PowerShell dude extraordinaire, recently reminded us of a way to Speed Up PowerShell Startup times, based on an article of over a year ago titled Update-Gac.ps1 . And yes, this does help to speed up the Exchange Management Shell and the OpsMgr Command Shell too. Taking that...

The question was recently posed on a mailing list asking whether there was any book that covered the Exchange 2003 security model in depth. The question came up for the poster because of a recent video that is making the rounds on youtube and elsewhere ( http://www.thewebsiteisdown.com ). In that video...

I've brought up a number of new clients on Exchange 2007 recently, and a common issue is this event log warning: Event Type: Warning Event Source: MSExchangeIS Mailbox Store Event Category: General Event ID: 1025 Date: 7/18/2008 Time: 10:26:40 AM User: N/A Computer: EXCHANGE Description: An error...

In 2004, I wrote an article Why Can't I Have Outlook and Exchange on the same Computer? It applied to versions of Exchange prior to Exchange Server 2007. When written, E12 (Exchange 2007) was still quite early in development at MSFT... Today, times and situations have changed. With Exchange Server...

I don't often just link to another blog posting for MY blog posting, but this one deserves it. It's not new, but last year fellow Exchange MVP Glen Scales wrote a script which allows you to export large mailboxes to ANSI PSTs. It does this by copying each item in a source mailbox to a destination...