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www.TestExchangeConnectivity.com
Nice tool to help you sort out problems accessing Exchange from out on the Internet. For more information see the blog on You Had Me At EHLO.. here and there is a quick presentation on Edge.TechNet.com here . Test EAS with Windows Mobile 5, EAS with Windows Read More...
NLB and the CAS\HUB role
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 Read More...
Continuous Replication, Site Resilience & decision making processes...
The ability to continue to provide a full service to your user community in the unlikely event of the loss of a datacentre is an increasingly common requirement. The use of Continuous Replication (CCR and SCR) with Exchange 2007 Service Pack 1 is an obvious Read More...
Virtually a solution...
Surely it's time to consider virtualising at least some of your new Exchange 2007 deployment?  Microsoft , VMWare and others now have some great solutions that on the face of it seem perfect for increasing the efficiency, scalability and uptime of Read More...
How can the same email have two different sizes?
If you look at the size of an email in OWA and then preview the same email in Outlook you'll see that the message size might not be the same....? The reason of course is that Outlook is displaying the message via MAPI (and TNEF) and it's connection to Read More...
More on ...Windows 2008 or Windows 2003?
A blog on this same subject has just been posted to You Had Me At EHLO... and there are a few points that I'll add here which I didn't include in my original blog 'Windows 2008 or Windows 2003?' .  (...and I apologise for lifting these points directly Read More...
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...
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...
High Availability in Exchange 2007
Messaging is mission critical for most companies now and high availability is a major focus for any Exchange Server implementation. Exchange Server 2007 gives us some great options to enable us to achieve 'high availability' including LCR, CCR and, in Read More...
ServiceConnectionPoints
Just been doing some reading on SCP's and how they are used by Exchange 2007. They are not something that I have come across before so thought I would share what I managed to put together... The 'service-connection-point' class is defined in the schema Read More...
Designing for CAS and Site Resilience... [some more thoughts]
Just carrying on from my previous blog .... Exchange 2007 has been designed to integrate even more closely with AD, a central part of which is AD sites. Therefore it is most logical to assume that your preferred design is that which also makes sense for Read More...
Designing for CAS and Site Resilience...
One of the challenges that Exchange 2007 and the CAS role introduces is how to design for site resilience. Companies are going to want a solution that makes the most efficient use of the WAN, provides as seamless as possible a return to normal\full operation Read More...
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