December 2008 - Posts
I’m won’t be blogging for a couple of weeks over Christmas and the new year.. Happy Christmas and new year to all.
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This is the last of a few blogs about designing for availability and resilience… The first two are here: Recovery Scenarios for E2K7…..I & Recovery Scenarios for E2K7…..II So after understanding what the types of failures we might encounter, and the
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I've been asked a couple of times about stress testing an Exchange server sitting on a hardware virtualisation platform. What would you have to do differently? Well to be honest I haven't ever done it and a quick trawl of the Internet and internal Microsoft
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TechNet Events Live: TechNet Event : Managing Windows Servers with PowerShell V2 Location: London Date: 10 February 2009 TechNet Event: Microsoft Systems Management and understanding the role of System Center Location: Birmingham Date: 12 February 2009
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Powershell Explore Your [Environment] on the Windows Powershell blog, written by Jeff Snover. The article takes a bit of reading but has a great walk through of using Powershell to invoke the System.Environment .Net class. For example: “ [Datetime]::Today
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One of the fundamental decisions that you might make in the early stages of an Exchange Server 2007 design is whether you favour the use of asynchronous or synchronous replication of Exchange Server data, particularly if you require data centre resilience.
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Following on from my DCM blog last month here are a few more bits of Powershell that can be fed into DCM… Checking Autodatabasemountdial: $server=hostname $cmsobj=Get-MailboxServer | Where-Object { $_.RedundantMachines -contains $server }$cmsname=$cmsobj.name
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This is the second of a few blogs about designing for availability and resilience… The first one is here . So after understanding what might happen we now need to understand the pro and cons of each component of the proposed solution, the cost associated
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Registration is now available for Session Number 10 of the MCS Talks Series – application virtualization this time. Please see the MCS Talks blog for more information. If you are new to MCS Talks they are a series of online webcasts driven
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Have had a number of conversations with customers concerning the merits of achieving both data centre resilience and cost cutting by stretching CCR and avoiding deploying both CCR and SCR. i.e. 3 for the price of 2. Firstly I wouldn’t consider
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Just received a copy of a good Exchange 2007 and Powershell book: ‘Professional Windows PowerShell for Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1’ (Programmer to Programme) by Joezer Cookey-Gam (Author), Brendan Keane (Author), Jeffrey Rosen (Author), Jonathan
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Just seen this on Jason Langridge’s blog (which if you haven’t seen it already is the place to go for windows mobile device information). ActiveSync error codes and solutions at PocketPCFAQ.com: Exchange ActiveSync Errors and Solutions This is also worth
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I’ve heard a couple of queries recently concerning Windows NLB and the CAS\HUB combined role. The point is that you should use NLB to load balance network traffic and you can therefore effectively de-couple HUB from CAS. For the Hub Transport
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I blogged recently about log roll and CCR – ‘ New log created every 90 seconds... ’ and I need to qualify something… To quote the relevant bit; “In effect log roll will occur every 90 seconds when insufficient transactions occur to fill the current
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Nice article on Wired … ‘ Ray Ozzie Wants to Push Microsoft Back Into Startup Mode ’ “I love software, because if you can imagine something, you can build it. I love Windows, because without it there would be no PC. There would be no PC developers. There
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OK here are my top 10 Exchange Server blogs\feeds. 1. You Had Me At EHLO… Everyone has seen this one by now RSS Feed 2. Carpe Diem: Flaphead.com ..from an ex-Microsoft Exchange guy RSS Feed 3. MSExchange.org Collection of blogs from MVP’s and other experts
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Then DCM , or Configuration Manager 2007 Desired Configuration Management to give it it’s full title, could be the way to go… It’s part of the System Centre suite of products [ SCCM ] and it appears to be a really useful bit of software. You effectively
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This is the first of a few blogs about designing for availability and resilience… WHAT FAILURES MIGHT OCCUR AND HOW DO WE CHOOSE THE RIGHT DESIGN TO PROTECT US? In the very early stages of a messaging design, and in particular at the point at which
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I know this has been blogged about on a number of occasions so apologies to those for which this is not news. As I’m sure everyone is aware Windows 2008 is installed with 128-bit IPv6 support alongside 32-bit IPv4 but can actually run IPv6 exclusively.
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Let's say that over a period of an hour only a very small number of transactions are generated for a particular CCR enabled storage group in Exchange Server 2007. If those changes add up to less than 1MB's worth of transactions and are therefore
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