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 [...]
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 [...]
In my previous post on this topic I discussed at a high level how the Inter-Organizational Replication tool works to synchronize Free/Busy information between Exchange Organizations and then discussed some of the problems that could occur at a later date if a migration was then attempted to consolidate the Exchange Organizations. In this post I [...]
Some organizations that are going through a merger or looking to consolidate Exchange organizations may choose to quickly install the Inter-Organizational replication tool so that Free/busy and Public Folder replication can be provided between the Exchange Organizations and then look to migrate one organization into the other at a later date using a product such [...]
I installed the beta1 release of Exchange 2010 into a lab today and I thought that I would share screen shots of the installation process. The installation process is almost identical to Exchange 2007. First important point is that Exchange 2010 only installs on to Windows Server 2008. There are a number of Windows Server [...]
Technorati Tags: E14,Exchange 14,Exchange,Beta The public beta of Exchange 2010 (referred to as Exchange 14 or E14) has been made available on the Microsoft Downloads site. Of course as this is beta software it should not be used in a production environment. The public beta can be downloaded from here http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=1898ed2c-2f88-48ac-824e-d3d20fad77d7
