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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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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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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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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'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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Have been tracking a few internal discussions concerning dynamic disk provisioning – the idea of being able to add disk capacity to the storage supporting your Exchange infrastructure at any time. Now the way I understand it; and I imagine vendors
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The support policy for Exchange 2003 running on a NAS ( Network-Attached Storage ) device is pretty clear – we don’t support it. A NAS device relies on file-sharing protocols such as SMB to attach to databases and logs and doesn’t scale very well
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