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Managing Exchange 2007 Mailbox Quotas with Windows PowerShell

by Ben Lye | 24 November 2008 |

The use of PowerShell with Exchange Server 2007 can do a great deal to ease the task of managing mailbox quotas. You can, for example, use scripts to customize quota messages, retrieve mailbox sizes, and set the quotas. Ben shows you how, in the 2nd installment of... Read more...

Optimizing Exchange Server 2007

by Brien Posey | 24 November 2008 | Not rated yet

Brien Posey ponders an 'off the cuff' remark that Exchange 2007 runs so well with a default configuration that you don’t even have to worry about optimizing Exchange any more. He decides that there is actually plenty that can be done to help Exchange to perform... Read more...

Virtualizing Exchange: points for discussion

by Nathan Winters | 20 November 2008 |

With the increasing acceptance of the use of Virtualization as a means of providing server infrastructure, this technology is being applied to production Exchange servers. This is a solution that is not just limited to the small shop, Nathan Winters discusses the... Read more...

Virtual Exchange Servers

by Jaap Wesselius | 20 November 2008 |

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Microsoft now supports running Exchange Server 2007 in server virtualization environments, not just on Hyper-V, but on any virtualizing solution that is validated in the Server Virtualization Validation Program. Before virtualizing Exchange Server, you will need to... Read more...

The Road to Beta - Exchange Server Archiver speaks!

by Michael Francis | 10 November 2008 |

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Richard, Robert and Marine at Red Gate Software talk about designing, developing and testing Exchange Server Archiver (ESA) to beta. Not to mention the copious amounts of user input to the project, and the use of Nerf shotguns in a software development context. Read more...

Red Gate's Exchange Server Archiver Screenshot Gallery

by Michael Francis | 10 November 2008 | Not rated yet

These are some screenshots from the newly released beta for Red Gate's Exchange Server Archiver tool. Read more...

Online Exchange Backups

by Jaap Wesselius | 18 October 2008 |

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In the third of Jaap's popular series on Exchange Backups he explains Online backups. These have major advantages over offline backups since the backup application does all the logic, and work, for you. Read more...

Reporting on Mobile Device Activity Using Exchange 2007 ActiveSync Logs

by Ben Lye | 10 October 2008 |

In this new column giving practical advice on all things Sys Admin related, Ben Lye takes on the often difficult task of keeping track of mobile device activity Read more...

Configuring Exchange Server 2007 to Support Information Rights Management

by Brien Posey | 02 October 2008 |

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In Exchange Server 2007, Information Rights management is easy to set up once you have set up the prerequisites. It is also much cheaper, and easier to use. This is just as well, because of the increasing statutory regulations to prevent the mishandling of... Read more...

Exchange Server Log File Replay

by Jaap Wesselius | 22 September 2008 |

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Exchange Server stores information in a database and uses log files for transactional processing. To restore, defragment or repair a database, the ESEUTIL tool is essential . It is always possible to recover data when the database is lost, if you have backed up the... Read more...

Deploying Exchange 2007 on Windows Server 2008

by Nicolas Blank | 19 September 2008 |

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Nicolas Blank recounts his Experiences deploying Exchange 2007 SP1 on Windows Server 2008, when not everything worked out of the box as it should have. In this article Nicolas writes about the fixes to the issues he faced when installing on Server 2008. Read more...

Message Classifications in Exchange 2007

by Neil Hobson | 18 September 2008 |

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In Exchange 2007, you can now classify your messages in any way you wish, so that, for example, you can flag messages as being sensitive information that should not be sent outside the company. You can also create transport rules for all messages of a particular... Read more...

When Email Collaboration Could Have Changed History

by Owen Sanderson | 26 August 2008 |

In our mission to make history relevant to the busy IT executive, we speculate how Email might have helped pivotal events in history. Could the War of Independence have been due to a misunderstanding? Read more...

Exchange Database Technologies

by Jaap Wesselius | 22 August 2008 |

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One of the most misunderstood technologies in Exchange Server, regardless of its version, is the database technology. Most people, even Exchange administrators know it is something to do with ESE and tools like ESEUTIL, but once it’s running they leave it that way... Read more...

Top Tips for Exchange Admins

by Michael Francis | 22 August 2008 |

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Michael Francis hands out imaginary Olympic medals to the winner of the August 'Top Tips for Exchange Admins' Read more...

Exchange 2007 Mailbox Server Clustering

by Jaap Wesselius | 12 August 2008 |

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The original, rather complex, Exchange clustering, 'Single Copy Cluster', protects you against a server failure but not a database failure. 'Local Continuous Replication' protects you from database failure, but not server failure. The more simple 'Clustered... Read more...

Controlling Email Messages using Exchange's Transport Rules

by William Lefkovics | 22 July 2008 |

Some tasks that should have been easy in previous versions of Exchange just weren't. Now, with Transport Rules in Exchange 2007, administrators have a much improved set of tools to manage message flow. Read more...

Using Exchange 2007 for Resource Booking

by Nathan Winters | 16 July 2008 |

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The process of booking various resources to go with a meeting room just got a whole lot easier with Exchange 2007. Nathan Winters explains Exchange’s resource-scheduling functionality and offers practical advice on how you might go about configuring Exchange to... Read more...

Message Hygiene in Exchange Server 2007

by William Lefkovics | 03 July 2008 |

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Around four out of every five email messages are spam. Now that the nuisance threatens to engulf what has become the normal route of business communications worldwide, all the vendors of Mail Servers are taking more active steps to confront the problem. William... Read more...

High Availability in Exchange 2007

by Neil Hobson | 10 June 2008 |

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Neil Hobson writes about the ways that MS Exchange 2007 can ensure that your organisations messaging remains available. He looks at the way that the Mailbox Server role can be made more available using features as Single Copy Clusters, Local Continuous Replication,... Read more...

Free Exchange Server eBook

by Tony Davis | 09 June 2008 | Not rated yet

Simple-Talk has teamed up with Sybex to give you a free copy of "Best of Exchange Server 2007" Read more...

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