Jaap Wesselius SMTP Routing Changed in an Exchange Database Availability Group In Exchange Server 2010 it is possible to make the system more resilient by creating a Database Availability Group (DAG)... 03 February 2011 3 min read
Wesley David 7 Things that High Availability is Not Wesley has heard High Availablity touted as all sorts of technological cure-all for busy SysAdmins and DBAs, and now he's... 13 January 2011 8 min read
Laerte Junior Fun with SQL Server Profiler trace files and PowerShell Running Profiler traces against multiple servers becomes a painful process when it's time to collate and filter all that data.... 25 November 2010 13 min read
Dr. Masha Petrova 5 Steps to Making Your Boss Read Your Technical Reports As an IT professional, you probably find it hard to communicate effectively with your less-than-technically-adept manager. Dr. Masha Petrova is... 18 November 2010 10 min read
Johan Veldhuis Monitoring Mailbox Moves Mailboxes moves happen all the time, and given how precious the data in mailboxes can be, you should know exactly... 17 November 2010 13 min read
Brien Posey PST Horror Stories Brien has been on the front line of Systems Administration for long enough to both respect and fear PST files.... 16 November 2010 10 min read
Jaap Wesselius Importing PSTs with PowerShell in Exchange 2010 SP1 Unless you use Red Gate's PST Importer, the import and export of PST files with Exchange 2010 is a complex... 21 October 2010 8 min read
Neil Hobson Exchange 2010 DAG Creation and Configuration, Part 2 Now that you've created your first DAG in Exchange 2010, you'll need to be sure it's correctly configured for failovers... 20 October 2010 16 min read
Michel de Rooij Connecting the Disconnected in Exchange 2010 Since Exchange 2000, and the introduction of the document retention period it has been much easier to recover mailboxes, disconnect... 22 September 2010 12 min read
Jonathan Medd PowerShell Version 2: What is new and why is it important? It was a year ago that Microsoft shipped PowerShell 2. Jonathan Medd lists the top ten reasons why PowerShell 2... 21 September 2010 16 min read
Ben Lye Identifying Exchange ActiveSync Users with PowerShell Just recently, a problem involving the iPhone/iPod's synchronisation process with Exchange 2007, made it necessary for Exchange Administrators to alert... 26 August 2010 7 min read
Sean Duffy Setting up your own free Virtualized test environment If you need to test new software, configurations, or operating systems, a virtual machine saves time, risk and hardware. You... 26 August 2010 12 min read
Krishna Kumar Increasing Email Size Limits for your High Profile Users in Exchange 2010 If you ever need to set up fine-grained rules to control the maximum size of messages a subset of your... 26 July 2010 14 min read
Bob Cramblitt Reinventing the Exchange email archiver If you could design an Exchange email archiver from scratch, what would you do differently and how would you bring... 19 July 2010 6 min read
Sean Duffy Manageable and Trim: A Review of Exchange Server Archiver 3.0 Sean Duffy, always keen to be on the cutting edge of making his job as a production SysAdmin as painless... 19 July 2010 10 min read
Jaap Wesselius Hyper-V R2 Live Migration on Server Core – Part I If you're working with Hyper-V, it's recommended that you use Windows Server 2008 R2 Server Core for your root partition,... 06 July 2010 12 min read
Antoine Khater Restoring Exchange Server 2010 using Windows Server Backup In his previous article, Antoine Khater made sure that every Exchange SysAdmin knew how to backup their servers. Now that... 24 June 2010 8 min read
Jaap Wesselius What’s New in Exchange Server 2010 SP1? The very latest and greatest incarnation of Exchange Server 2010, Service Pack 1 Beta, is now available for the public... 22 June 2010 6 min read
Neil Hobson Exchange 2010 DAG Creation and Configuration Part 1 If you're using Exchange 2010, then you're probably interested in using the new Database Availability Group feature for your High... 07 June 2010 13 min read
Jonathan Medd 10 Steps to Kick-Start Your VMware Automation with PowerCLI Virtualization is a powerful technology, but it comes with its own host of monotonous and time-consuming tasks, no matter how... 02 June 2010 17 min read
