Articles focused around Exchange 2007. There’s quite a lot of content around clustering and CCR as well as quite a bit around segregating a single Exchange 2007 organisation into multiple tenants.
It’s also home to what turned out to be my rather popular “Populate Lab Users” script.
Sorry folks, it has been a while since I last posted, it has been a very busy period for me; not just with rebuilding a Data Centre (which is now completed), but I have also been working on a few very large Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2007 migrations (see an up and coming post) – […]
Ok, generally speaking – in production environments you would not consider running a Storage Group with Circular logging enabled. But, there are a few occasions where it is useful to do so – the most common of which is during large Migration Scenario’s. You see when you move a mailbox from Exchange 2003 / or […]
Been doing a little tidy up and performance review recently on a number of my Exchange Servers in work, and whilst doing so I noticed that I have (over the years) made a number few changes to the Windows Registry in relation to the Exchange Services. Whilst reviewing these changes, I can recall that there […]
I have been very busy recently on a number of projects which have, alas taken me away from working with Exchange (much to my dismay). However a requirement has arisen in work where we needed to add in another clustered CCR mailbox server to support an additional 1200 users (my company has assimilated a number […]
As many of you probably know, the Exchange team released Service Pack 2 for Exchange 2007 last week (perhaps this was a little overshadowed by the release of Exchange 2010 RC1). Service pack 2 contains a number of of fixes and some really useful new features (the following is take from the Microsoft TechNet site). […]
I have for a little while wanted to put together a set of articles which attempt to explore the mindset of CCR clustering when being put to work in a production environment. Essentially my line of thinking (at least on the surface as this is a huge subject) is to go through some of the […]
Yet again it has been a long time since I last posted on this subject – I have my usual repertoire of excuses being busy etc, etc but its bumf really – I should have finished this series of sooner. Of course since my last posts (more info on them below) there has been much […]
Just a a very quick tip for those of you whom might come across this problem when trying to move an Exchange 2007 SCC Clustered Mailbox Server instance over to the passive node: Move-ClusteredMailboxServer -id lab-scccms-01 -TargetMachine lab-sccexnd-02 -MoveComment "Reboot" -Confirm:$False Move-ClusteredMailboxServer : Cluster Common Failure Exception: The cluster node was not found. (Exception from […]
I was contacted last night by an online buddy whom had installed Exchange SP 2 onto one of his Windows 2003 based Exchange 2007 mailbox servers, but since the upgrade was now getting the following error message from DPM when he attempted a store backup: Volume Shadow Copy Service error: An internal inconsistency was detected […]
Just a quick post to take you through what I thought would be a simple task, but turned out to be a little more tricky than I expected. As a quick scene setting – I have been messing around with various Client Access Server configurations within my test lab in preparation for a larger article […]
Back in Exchange 2003 most of us will have used the concept of policies to apply global settings such as Limits, Maintenance Intervals and deleted item retention – and indeed I liked that feature very much as it was a good way to configure a number of settings across databases with a single click. Of […]
I have been working on the installation of a few new CCR Clustered Database servers where I work, which has been pretty cool (I have some scripts heading your way when I am done). Whilst doing this, I thought that it might be a good idea to implement the latest Roll up for Exchange 2007 […]
So there I was today installing my spanky new Exchange 2007 CCR Cluster Servers when I can into a small problem during the final phase of the Mailbox GUI install on the first CCR node. Essentially setup erred with the following message: The computer account '<EXCLUSTERNAME>' was created on the domain controller '\\<YourDomainController>, but has […]
You learn something new everyday! – There I was bumbling away today minding my own business – then … bang! – my TAC queue lit up with calls from customers complaining that they could not access their archives in Symantec Enterprise vault from Outlook and OWA. After a quick attempt to access my own vault […]
Ok, I admit it – there definitely seems to be a distinct Linux flare to my posts over the last few months considering the continuing series of articles based around iSCSI which make heavy use of the Linux based SAN OpenFiler and indeed now I am writing about using the popular Linux Distribution Ubuntu server […]
