January 2009 - Posts
OK so I just wanted to add a few more ideas that are worth exploring.. Data Centre Consolidation The idea of saving money by deploying Exchange Servers in fewer locations is not a new one and something which many companies have explored; but Exchange
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What are the options for backing up Exchange 2007 SP1 on Windows 2008? Microsoft’s VSS based application that supports the Exchange 2007 VSS Writer. (.. DPM in other words) 3rd party ‘Exchange aware’ VSS based application 3rd party ‘Exchange aware’ streaming
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Recently installed Windows 7 and really liking it so far… Not a single issue with it over the last 2 weeks which is a bonus to start with. Here are a few bits that I like… I’ve had a widescreen laptop for a long time and every once in a while
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OK so I work for Microsoft but hey it’s worth a try …consider the Edge Transport role server as a replacement to other services in the perimeter. You should only need deploy a very small number of Edge Transport servers in your environment and you may
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This is worth a look on Edge : Active Directory Recycle Bin “The new Recycle Bin functionality in Server 2008 R2 is really cool - you can actually undelete objects, and all their attributes are restored as if the object never went away - no requirement
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OK so the idea of big mailboxes has become a viable option for a lot of organisations since Exchange Server 2007 was released and now that we are seeing real examples of deployments of mailboxes of multiple GBs there is more information around to make
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Not that I believe you should be, but if you are concerned about the server names and ip addresses that are stamped on outgoing message headers have a look at the following blogs: Removing internal host names and IP addresses from message headers on Exchangepedia
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..announcing the next meeting of the Microsoft Messaging and Mobility User Group in the UK… This event will be held in London at the MSFT offices in Cardinal Place near Victoria. This month we have a evening about managing and automating Exchange led
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Tech Workers Get a Raise “The average information-technology pro made $78,035 last year, a 4.6% increase from 2007, according to tech job site Dice.com, which surveyed close to 20,000 of its visitors”
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“ Iron Mountain Digital and Microsoft Work Together to Deliver Cloud-based Backup and Recovery Solution for Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager 2007 ” ..announced in the NY Times last week. “Iron Mountain Digital, the technology arm of Iron
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Just a quick one – if you want to make sure that your hardware virtualisation platform is supported to run Windows then check the ‘Server Virtualization Validation Program’ here: http://windowsservercatalog.com/svvp.aspx?svvppage=svvp.htm “The program
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Ah yes that old chestnut… SAN versus DAS – switch to DAS and save a load of money. It’s obvious right? Well I’m not sure. This is still a hot topic but the bottom line is that Exchange 2007 now gives us a lot more options about which
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When I started this blog at the end of 2006 I chose to stick it on MSDN mainly because the set of instructions for setting a new blog up on MSDN was the only ones I could find. Let’s be honest it can’t have been that difficult to translate the instructions
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The boss is tightening the purse strings and you're having trouble justifying an Exchange 2007 upgrade? One area it’s worth focusing on is backups. ..but I wouldn’t tackle backups on their own – I would tackle them in conjunction with your
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This is a smart idea… The DPM UI can be used in conjunction with Iron Mountain CloudRecovery to backup your data into the cloud. For protecting Exchange Server this means that you could use short term protection of your databases to disk via
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Let’s start with one of the obvious ones - Fewer Servers supporting More Mailboxes … OK so it’s one thing being able to say that you can support more for less but it’s another proving it. So how do you prove that you actually save money by
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I’m guessing that over the next few months IT managers are going to be pushing their IT staff really hard to justify any IT spend. ..and projects to upgrade to Exchange Server 2007 are not going to be immune. Clearly to have any chance of getting
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Just one more quick line to plug into DCM .. (plus a few powershell links which might be useful) Returning a value set in the registry. For example if you optimise the TCPWindowSize in a CCR environment you can use the following in DCM to
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DPM 2007 SP1 -- how to do individual item restore for Exchange “This video continues the series of feature-level podcasts on DPM 2007, this week focusing on Exchange Server and item level restore. While DPM 2007 natively protects Exchange Storage Groups,
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Joined Twitter a long time ago but finally going to try and actually use it. Follow me here …
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Have been using Live Mesh for about 6 months now and would definitely recommend having a look at it. We use it for team documents within MCS and I use it for personal stuff like photos for example… It’s a great way of sharing content amongst
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Alright so there is quite a lot of information out there now about Read Only Domain Controllers (RODCs) and Windows 2008 and it won’t be new to most that both Exchange 2003 and Exchange 2007 effectively ignore them. See this excerpt f rom Exchange
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To quote Technet: “The Infrastructure Planning and Design (IPD) guides are the next version of Windows Server System Reference Architecture. The guides in this series help clarify and streamline design processes for Microsoft infrastructure technologies,
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Now we’re into a new year I suppose it’s the perfect point to ask “What will change everything? - What game-changing scientific ideas and developments do you expect to live to see?" The question was put to hundreds of scientists, writers, artists
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