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
Brien Posey A Beginner’s Guide to Virtualizing Exchange Server, Part 2 It isn't easy to measure the consumption of physical resources by servers in virtual machines, since each partition has its'... 10 June 2009 14 min read
Ben Lye Using Exchange 2007 Transport Rules to Protect the First Entry in the Address Book Global Address Lists in MS Exchange can cause problems because the first person in the list often gets the reply.... 08 June 2009 5 min read
Jaap Wesselius Windows Server Virtualisation: Hyper-V, an Introduction For SQL Server and Exchange Server, Windows Server Virtualization is going to be increasingly important as a way for the... 01 June 2009 11 min read
Ben Lye Emulating the Exchange 2003 RUS for Out-of-Band Mailbox Provisioning in Exchange 2007 Exchange's Recipient Update Service was important in Exchange 2000 or 2003 in order to complete the provisioning or updating of... 08 May 2009 5 min read
Brien Posey A Beginner’s Guide to Virtualizing Exchange Server, Part 1 The advantage of virtualizing your servers is that it helps you make better use of your hardware resources, and reduces... 05 May 2009 17 min read
Ben Lye Message Tracking in Exchange 2007 'Where did my mail go?' In order to answer this question, to troubleshoot mail problems and to analyse mail flow,... 27 March 2009 9 min read
Brien Posey An Introduction to Unified Messaging For many years, everyone involved in the administration of offices has wished that there was a way of combining the... 26 March 2009 15 min read
Michael B. Smith Determining MS Exchange Disk Performance With an Exchange Server, how do you measure performance? How, in particular do you do about measuring your disk subsystem's... 26 March 2009 12 min read
Robert Sheldon SQL Server Index Basics Given the fundamental importance of indexes in databases, it always comes as a surprise how often the proper design of... 25 November 2008 10 min read
Brien Posey Optimizing Exchange Server 2007 Brien Posey ponders an 'off the cuff' remark that Exchange 2007 runs so well with a default configuration that you... 24 November 2008 17 min read
Jaap Wesselius Virtual Exchange Servers Microsoft now supports running Exchange Server 2007 in server virtualization environments, not just on Hyper-V, but on any virtualizing solution... 20 November 2008 14 min read
Ben Lye Reporting on Mobile Device Activity Using Exchange 2007 ActiveSync Logs In this new column giving practical advice on all things Sys Admin related, Ben Lye takes on the often difficult... 10 October 2008 6 min read
Brien Posey Configuring Exchange Server 2007 to Support Information Rights Management In Exchange Server 2007, Information Rights management is easy to set up once you have set up the prerequisites. It... 02 October 2008 15 min read
Neil Hobson Message Classifications in Exchange 2007 In Exchange 2007, you can now classify your messages in any way you wish, so that, for example, you can... 18 September 2008 13 min read
Jaap Wesselius Exchange Database Technologies One of the most misunderstood technologies in Exchange Server, regardless of its version, is the database technology. Most people, even... 22 August 2008 17 min read
Michael Francis Top Tips for Exchange Admins Michael Francis hands out imaginary Olympic medals to the winner of the August 'Top Tips for Exchange Admins'… 22 August 2008 5 min read
Jaap Wesselius Exchange 2007 Mailbox Server Clustering The original, rather complex, Exchange clustering, 'Single Copy Cluster', protects you against a server failure but not a database failure.... 12 August 2008 19 min read
Neil Hobson High Availability in Exchange 2007 Neil Hobson writes about the ways that MS Exchange 2007 can ensure that your organisations messaging remains available. He looks... 10 June 2008 17 min read
