January 4, 2011 – 10:42 am
Today I thought I would do a quick run through of the basic features of the administrative interface for Archive Manager from Quest Software. Archive Manager is an email archiving platform which is quick to implement and generally once up and running requires minimal maintenance. Archive Manager is developed around standard Microsoft Technologies such as [...]
December 7, 2010 – 11:40 am
I thought I would take a better look at the new Exchange 2010 feature, the personal Archive which is effectively a second mailbox for a user. The personal Archive was introduced to Exchange server to give administrators an option for dealing with .pst files which traditionally have the following problems: Access to .pst files sitting [...]
October 11, 2010 – 7:53 am
While working on a migration involving Exchange Server 2003 recently we encountered an interesting bug with the SMTP connectors in Exchange Server 2003 which is not publicly documented by Microsoft. The diagram below demonstrates the configuration in Exchange Server 2003 that we were using The configuration that we had in place was where the Exchange [...]
October 11, 2010 – 7:39 am
One of our clients recently had a requirement to migrate a subset of mailboxes from another company that had gone into administration. From the point of engagement we had few days to complete the design work and then from the point of start of implementation less than one month to build new servers into the [...]
Today I am going to have a look at what is involved in installing Blackberry Express Server 5.0 with Exchange Server 2010. What is Blackberry Express Server Blackberry Express Server is supported to be installed directly on an Exchange 2003 SP2, 2007 SP1 or 2010 RU1 server in order to support up to 75 Blackberry [...]
February 23, 2010 – 7:44 pm
It has been a while since I have posted so here goes for the first post of 2010. PowerShell v2 has brought with it the ability to connect from remote machines as PowerShell is made available via an IIS published URL. This allows support engineers to connect to PowerShell over the internet and administer servers [...]
November 16, 2009 – 2:04 pm
An interesting development occured this week where we have found that Quest Migration Manager for Exchange v8.3 is not compatible with Exchange Server 2007 SP2 for customers who are running this QMM version and are tempted to upgrade their Exchange server versions. As of the time of writting, Out of the Box QMM v8.4 is [...]
October 9, 2009 – 2:03 pm
It has been announced that the final code for Exchange Server 2010 has been signed off as complete so it should be with us soon as this is a big milestone towards RTM. By the looks of things Microsoft may launch Exchange Server 2010 at TechED Europe. The announcement can be found on the Exchange [...]
August 11, 2009 – 4:03 pm
Exchange Server clustering has been with us since Exchange Server 5.5 but left Exchange Administrators having to know the complexities of Microsoft Clustering and Microsoft Exchange in order to support it. With the advent of Exchange Server 2007 Microsoft introduced new clustering options to the Exchange server product line that gave messaging architects increased flexibility [...]
When I first started to seriously look at the Beta version of Exchange 2010 that has been released by Microsoft I saw the term CAS Array mentioned in various articles on the internet but not a clear definition of what an CAS Array is or how to configure it so I had a look into [...]
