February 2009 - Posts
..and ExBPA warns you to consider consolidating servers..? “ There are more than 900 Exchange servers in your Exchange organization ” ..because you’re nearing the default MaxPageSize limit of 1,000 that’ll be returned by an LDAP query. Wonder if
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OCS R2 session on Technet from a couple of colleagues: “In this 60 minute session Brett Johnson and Julian Datta Shepherd (?) will provide an overview of OCS 2007 R2 covering the new features and functionality which will enhance business productivity
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When you use the Exchange 2007 Mailbox Storage Calculator on the face of it you seem to get a lot of fluff added to your storage design. ..fluff upon fluff. Will run through some of the reasoning where it may not seem obvious in the cell comments
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Following on from the recent announcement on CloudRecovery for DPM from IronMountain ( Backup your DPM data into the cloud…? ) the DPM blog has just announced a webcast on the subject… ( here! ) “ Iron Mountain has recently announced the availability
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This is a new one on me - ‘ Personal folder files are unsupported over a LAN or over a WAN link ’. “The .pst files are not meant to be a long-term, continuous-use method of storing messages in an enterprise environment. (!?!) The article also suggests
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What’s the guidance if you’ve got 3 data centres, you're stretching Exchange 2007 mailbox CCR nodes between two of them and the link speed and latencies are similar between all 3. Should you put the File Share Witness (FSW) in the 3rd data centre?
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This is an interested blog from a Microsoft escalation engineer – Eric Norberg posted on his Technet blog : How to Remove an Invisible or Corrupted "Out of Facility" message with MFCMAPI If you suspect you might have a problem with a corrupted
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Entitled ‘ Introduction to Exchange Online- Uncovering BPOS (Part 3) ’ has just been posted. …to follow on from my previous blog – BPOS [ which is nothing more than a couple of links to his blogs – sorry. ]
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Not a new subject but have been doing some research again and found a couple of useful links which I thought I’d share.. Microsoft Exchange and Search Folders @ http://blogs.msdn.com/dgoldman/default.aspx?p=2 (Dave Goldman’s blog) “A search folder is
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For companies who have to support a lot of ‘heavy usage’ clients connecting to their Exchange 2007 platform 24 hours a day, tuning online maintenance is going to be important.. You have to be quite careful about staggering online maintenance to minimise
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Blackberries are great but BES ( Blackberry Enterprise Server ) can be an Exchange administrators nightmare.. One example being the significant load that BES can place on an Exchange Server. As an example, a Blackberry device synchronising
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The Microsoft UK UC Blog is now alive and kicking after a slow start… The blog will have contributions from various parts of the Unified Communications teams across Microsoft – so that’s support, field engineering, consultancy and pre-sales… …couple
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This is a nice blog from Tim McMichael (a Microsoft Escalation Engineer)… If you want to know why replicated storage groups sometimes appear to be initializing have a read. Get-storagegroupcopystatus = Initializing “When storage groups are in an
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Ok so this may not be a straight choice for most and an archive solution can complement Exchange for many environments, but there are some who have not yet deployed an archive solution and who can look at it as a straight choice – small mailboxes and
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So can you just use a crossover cable for private cluster communications between CCR (& SCC) nodes. Well the answer, not very surprisingly, is yes; but there are a couple of caveats… Be careful and test the cable, especially if it’s a DIY job;
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Well yes they are… “Microsoft will continue to support Public Folders in the next major release of Exchange Server, after Exchange 2007. This means Public Folders will have full support for 10 years from release of the next major release of Exchange
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Excerpt from the latest Technet Newsletter … “Finally, I'd like to announce the launch of our ASKTechNetUK Twitter. If you want to ask a question about TechNet or Microsoft, or just fancy a general chin wag with us, then ask us at ASKTechNetUK . We'll
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I’m a bit late to the party but in case you haven’t seen this already there’s some information on the OCS blog about the new ‘ Microsoft Certified Master (MCM) Program for Office Communications Server 2007 ’. ..and on a related note most will already
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Really nice couple of articles on msexhange.org about BPOS (Business Productivity Online Standard Suite) by Henrik Walther : Introduction to Exchange Online - Uncovering BPOS (Part 1) Introduction to Exchange Online - Uncovering BPOS (Part 2)
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Quick transport rule to remove the recipient field of an SMTP message header from messages going out across an Edge Transport role server… Not going to win any awards but it’s worth a look if you haven’t tried mucking about with transport rules with Powershell
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As in previous years UK User Groups are coming together to put on a two day event on March 11 th and 12 th . The SharePoint User Group and the Microsoft Messaging and Mobility User Group will be hosting a unique event at the Unified Communications Expo
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So this is the last of these blogs for the moment. This is the list of blogs that I wrote on the subject: Part 1 (Fewer Servers supporting More Mailboxes) Part 2 (Make your backups more cost effective…) Part 3 (Storage) Part 4 (Big Mailboxes) Part
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