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Exchange Server 2010 News & Reviews..

douggowans — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 13:34:47 GMT

Exchange Server 2010 Reviews Microsoft Exchange 2010 Beta Looks Solid from Core to Cloud (and related slideshow Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Includes Welcome Improvements ) – eWeek First look: Exchange 2010 beta shines – InfoWorld Exchange Server 2010...(read more)

www.TestExchangeConnectivity.com

douggowans — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 17:46:30 GMT

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)

What are all these changes to Active Directory?

douggowans — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 16:50:07 GMT

This is a great blog if you are wondering about some unusual behaviour in Active Directory – specifically the following: “- Why has my AD database size increased by 500MB in the last three weeks? - I see lots of AD replication in Domain Controller...(read more)

CCR or SCC?

douggowans — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 21:31:41 GMT

Have had this discussion on many occasions and this 3Sharp whitepaper by Missy Koslosky would have proved very useful as an external reference point… High Availability Choices for Exchange Server 2007: Continuous Cluster Replication or Single Copy Clustering...(read more)

DPM in Paperback…

douggowans — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 11:48:14 GMT

Just found this DPM book: ‘ Mastering System Center Data Protection Manager 2007 ’ by Devin L. Ganger (Author), Ryan Femling (Author) [..both 3Sharp, LLC] Has anyone read it? Is it any good for Exchange?...(read more)

Microsoft and Google in the Education Cloud

douggowans — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 11:19:52 GMT

This is worth a quick read if you are interested in what’s happening with Exchange in the cloud at Live@Edu and Google Apps … “Both Queensland University for Technology (QUT) and Ohio State University (OSU) have now signed up to Live@edu, Microsoft’s...(read more)

Want more Virtualisation?

douggowans — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 14:19:03 GMT

Go to VirtualizationFeed.com and get the latest on virtualisation in Microsoft and in the wider world. Also worth keeping track of what’s happening in the #virtualization community on Twitter at the same place ....(read more)

To my fellow bloggers..

douggowans — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 15:57:12 GMT

Quick list of the blog articles that have helped me and might help you… 10 Steps to Becoming a Better Writer 21 Ways to Make Your Blog or Website Sticky 20 Types of Pages that Every Blogger Should Consider How to Write With Confidence 7...(read more)

A bit of love from Network World…

douggowans — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 13:05:44 GMT

Exchange alternatives: Pros and cons Testing shows Microsoft's Exchange still tops for features and management hooks @ http://www.networkworld.com/reviews/2009/030909-exchange-alternatives-test.html “In this Clear Choice Test, we explore how Exchange...(read more)

Deploying Exchange 2007 on VMWare?

douggowans — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 18:31:21 GMT

VMWare Podcasts – VMWAre Infrastructure 3 Podcast: Disaster Recovery (DR) for Exchange using VMWare @ http://www.vmware.com/resources/podcasts/server_consolidation.html by Scott Salyer, VMware Technical Solutions Architect Using VMWare infrastructure...(read more)

Free Powershell eBook

douggowans — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 21:59:06 GMT

‘Effective PowerShell: The Free eBook’ from Keith Hill available on Keith Hills’ blog here . Definitely worth a look…...(read more)

Friday Dilbert

douggowans — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 16:27:44 GMT

You gotta laugh…...(read more)

I used to do it this way…

douggowans — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 16:54:39 GMT

Just found some useful stuff on a colleagues blog - Gerod Serafin ; a field engineer in the US. It’s a series of blogs showing the difference in administering Exchange Server 2007 from Exchange Server 2003… Part 1 - I used to do it this way… Now how do...(read more)

Software plus Services Guide & Business Advisor Podcast

douggowans — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 16:39:19 GMT

Not something I would normally blog about but will be interesting to any of our partners who operate in this space. Guide to Opportunity: Software-plus-Services https://partner.microsoft.com/UK/productssolutions/40099765 This 16-page guide explains how...(read more)

Offline defrag a replica database…

douggowans — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 13:01:09 GMT

Let’s leave the “ why would you? ” to one side for the moment but is it actually possible or supported to defrag a continuous replication target database? Well not surprisingly er ‘No’. An offline defrag creates a new database with a new signature...(read more)