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Protecting Exchange Data with DPM, CCR Decision Making Flowcharts, SCR Decision Making Flowcharts, On email archiving.
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High item counts - what do you do about it?, Archive v Big Mailboxes, Getting your Exchange 2007 Project Approved, (and the follow up 7 blogs), Recovery Scenarios Part 1, Recovery Scenarios Part 2, Recovery Scenarios Part 3, How quick will DPM backup?, Synchronous or Asynchronous Replication?, Why not stretch CCR?, Backup solutions for Exchange 2007..., Do we actually need to backup Exchange?, SAN v DAS.
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February 2008 - Posts

Vista blog and SP1

Not a new piece of information but Service Pack 1 for Windows Vista has been released to manufacturing (RTM).. Wouldn't normally blog this but also wanted to point out the Vista blog which looks to be worth a feed... It shouldn't be new to me but Read More...

Posted: Friday, February 29, 2008 9:51 AM by douggowans | 1 Comments

Filed under: Misc

Windows 2008 or Windows 2003?

So you're about to deploy Exchange Server 2007 with Service Pack 1 and want to know which operating system to deploy. There are a number of issues that you should be aware of when you are making this decision so I thought I would summarise a few Read More...

Posted: Friday, February 29, 2008 9:21 AM by douggowans | 4 Comments

Filed under: Exchange 2007, Design, CAS, High Availability, Windows 2008, Hub Transport, Edge Transport, Mailbox

Unified Communications Expo 08

Microsoft have got some great stuff planned for their stand at UC Expo this year.. The show is at the National Hall at Olympia (London) from the 9th to the 10th April. You can register for the event here . Definitely recommend having a look at the Read More...

Posted: Friday, February 15, 2008 11:43 AM by douggowans | 2 Comments

Filed under: Misc, Voice, Unified Communications, OCS, UM

A very quick look at SCCP...

I've been taking a look at 'System Centre Capacity Planner 2007' which is now available for all to download . Up to now I have had very little exposure to this member of the System Centre suite so thought I would plug in some numbers and see if Read More...

Posted: Thursday, February 14, 2008 6:00 PM by douggowans | 1 Comments

Filed under: Exchange 2007, Design

Exchange 2007 Service Pack 1 on Windows 2008...?

So now that Windows Server 2008 has been released what versions of Exchange Server can we run on it...? Well the earliest version that is supported to run on W2K8 is Exchange Server 2007 with Service Pack 1. It is not supported to run the Read More...

Posted: Tuesday, February 12, 2008 8:45 AM by douggowans | 1 Comments

Filed under: Exchange 2007, Design, CAS, Windows 2008, Hub Transport, Edge Transport, Mailbox

Single node cluster as SCR Target?

Site resilience is a requirement of a lot of companies but on a lot of occasions it is not a requirement to achieve full local resilience immediately following a site failure. In other words a lot of companies are deciding that in the event of the Read More...

Posted: Monday, February 11, 2008 9:19 AM by douggowans | 11 Comments

Filed under: Exchange 2007, Design, High Availability, Mailbox

Hiding Distribution List Memberships...

This is one of those issues in Exchange Server 2007 that will come up from time to time and this is the best explanation I can find for why we don't support it (but also what you can do if you really need this feature)... Why hiding distribution memberships Read More...

Posted: Friday, February 08, 2008 11:28 AM by douggowans | 3 Comments

Filed under: Exchange 2007

MM and M UG UK events for March

See below details of the March MMMUG Meeting. This month the event will be held in Warwick at the office of Berica Ltd. As promised we are finally moving out of the capital for some events, and this time, we will be focusing on both Exchange 2007 SP1 Read More...

Posted: Monday, February 04, 2008 8:08 AM by douggowans | 1 Comments