Ben Lye Customizing the Outlook Address Book It is possible to change the fields in the Outlook address book to make them a better fit for your... 17 December 2009 6 min read
Dr. Masha Petrova The Art of Dealing with People Technical people generally don't easily adapt to being good salespeople. When a technical person takes on a customer-facing role as... 15 December 2009 8 min read
Jonathan Medd Active Directory Management with PowerShell in Windows Server 2008 R2 One of the first things you notice with Windows Server 2008 R2 is that PowerShell 2.0 has become central to... 19 November 2009 15 min read
Brien Posey Implementing Cluster Continuous Replication, Part 2 Cluster continuous replication (CCR) helps to provide a more resilient email system with faster recovery. It was introduced in Microsoft... 19 November 2009 15 min read
Ben Lye Implementing Windows Server 2008 File System Quotas File system Quotas are used to restrict the amount of space users can consume or to report on the space... 19 November 2009 10 min read
Dr. Masha Petrova Increase Your Value as a Professional in the Technical Industry It has never been so important to enhance your employability as it is today. Job security can never be taken... 17 November 2009 7 min read
Matt Simmons The Ego and the System Administrator Because the Sys Admins and DBAs who are efficient end up wielding a great deal of power, there is always... 22 October 2009 5 min read
Jaap Wesselius Introduction to Exchange Server 2010 What's new in Exchange Server 2010 and what features from Exchange Server 2007 have been deprecated? What has been done... 22 October 2009 32 min read
Ben Lye Using Group Policy to Restrict the use of PST Files Outlook PST files are a problem for Exchange users, and give no benefits over Exchange mailboxes. You have to use... 08 October 2009 5 min read
Matt Simmons Hiring System Administrators Hiring someone for a technical post is a task that should never be tackled half-heartedly. Matt Simmons provides some general... 24 September 2009 10 min read
Brien Posey Implementing Cluster Replication – Part 1 Imagine that you're researching Continuous Cluster Replication, looking for a simple, direct guide to the basics of getting it set... 23 September 2009 14 min read
Neil Hobson Exchange 2010 High Availability In April 2009 Microsoft released a public beta of Exchange 2010, the latest and greatest version of a part of... 18 September 2009 14 min read
Ben Lye Monitoring and Scheduling Exchange 2007 Database Online Maintenance To keep the Exchange database healthy, it is important to make sure that online maintenance and online maintenance and online... 25 August 2009 11 min read
Jaap Wesselius Update: Exchange Server 2010 Release Candidate Exchange Server 2010 Release Candidate is now available for download from Technet, so we asked Jaap to review it for... 18 August 2009 7 min read
Ben Lye Restricting Outlook Client Versions in Exchange 2007 There are good reasons for preventing old versions of Outlook from connecting to Exchange Server. You'll probably, at least, want... 29 July 2009 7 min read
Jaap Wesselius Installing Hyper-V and Beyond In his previous article "Hyper-V, an introduction" Jaap Wesselius explained about the Hypervisor, the parent partition, the child partition, and... 28 July 2009 15 min read
Ben Lye An Introduction to Messaging Records Management There are a number of features in Exchange that can be used in creative ways to solve problems in Exchange... 07 July 2009 5 min read
Matt Simmons Manage Stress Before it Kills You The key to a long career in IT is in learning how to cope adaptively with stress. Matt Simmons, like... 29 June 2009 8 min read
Jaap Wesselius Building an Exchange Server 2007 environment Of course, changing a 32,000 mailbox system, based in 40 Exchange Servers, to a centralised 25,000 mailbox solution is not... 29 June 2009 11 min read
Neil Hobson Cluster Continuous Replication Network Design Cluster continuous replication (CCR) is a means of providing a more resilient email system with faster recovery. It was introduced... 18 June 2009 16 min read
