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Dude, Where's My Single Instance?

In Exchange Server 2010, there is no more single instance storage (SIS). To help understand why SIS is gone, let's review a brief history of Exchange. During the development of Exchange 4.0, we had two primary goals in mind, and SIS was borne out...

Published 02-22-2010 6:49 AM by You Had Me At EHLO...

Filed under: All Posts, Role: Mailbox, Storage, Exchange 2010

Exchange 2010 Mailbox Server Role Requirements Calculator Updated to Version 3.2

It's been a while since we discussed the Exchange 2010 Mailbox Server Role Requirements Calculator. Well I am pleased to say that today we are launching version 3.2 of the calculator. This version includes the following improvements and new features...

Published 01-22-2010 10:06 AM by You Had Me At EHLO...

Filed under: All Posts, Role: Mailbox, Tools, Storage

Raising diagnostic logging for Message Access might cause calendar issues with Exchange 2007 SP2

There is potential for calendar related problems when new diagnostic logging for Message Access, which is available in Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 2 (SP2) is raised from its default setting of Lowest . A Knowledge Base article and a fix are in the...

Published 01-11-2010 9:04 AM by You Had Me At EHLO...

Filed under: Exchange 2007, Troubleshooting, Role: Mailbox, Calendaring

Troubleshooting MailTips

MailTips brings together information from many sources; its value to users is taking what can be complicated on the backend and presenting it very simply. This does mean, however, that there are a few different places to look when troubleshooting MailTips...

Published 01-06-2010 12:37 PM by You Had Me At EHLO...

Filed under: Troubleshooting, Tips 'n Tricks, Role: Mailbox, Role: Hub Transport, Exchange 2010

Early look: Exchange 2010 perf counters and thresholds to watch

Seeing that many will be finding a copy of Exchange 2010 under the tree soon (...right?), we wanted to let you know that we have been working to create the performance counter guidance for Exchange 2010 as we have for Exchange 2007 (see Monitoring Without...

Published 12-14-2009 2:38 PM by You Had Me At EHLO...

Filed under: Role: Client Access, Tips 'n Tricks, Role: Mailbox, Role: Edge Transport, Role: Hub Transport, Role: Unified Messaging, Exchange 2010

Finding High Item Count Folders Using the Exchange Management Shell

Working in Exchange Customer Service and Support, we often see cases where user performance, or overall server performance, is impacted because of a high number of items in critical folders within user's mailboxes. This issue has already been documented...

Published 12-07-2009 12:06 PM by You Had Me At EHLO...

Filed under: Exchange 2007, Troubleshooting, Tips 'n Tricks, Role: Mailbox, Tools, Exchange 2010

Exchange, meet ExFolders

Six or seven years ago, I was faced with several cases where the permissions on public folders had been made non-canonical by programs running against the M: drive. This was back in the Exchange 2000 days when IFS was still around, and it exposed the...

Published 12-04-2009 7:51 AM by You Had Me At EHLO...

Filed under: Exchange 2007, Role: Mailbox, Tools, Announcements, Exchange 2010

Exchange 2010 Mailbox Server Role Requirements Calculator

Overview The Exchange Mailbox Server role is arguably one of the most important roles within an Exchange deployment for it stores the data that users will ultimately access on a daily basis. Therefore, ensuring that you design the mailbox server role...

Published 11-09-2009 1:43 PM by You Had Me At EHLO...

Filed under: Tips 'n Tricks, All Posts, Role: Mailbox, Tools, Storage, Exchange 2010

Single Item Recovery in Exchange Server 2010

Introduction Users often delete data from their mailboxes that they later want recovered. Recovery of these deleted items is the most common reason for IT admins to recover data from traditional point-in-time backups today. With previous versions of Exchange...

Published 09-25-2009 12:22 PM by You Had Me At EHLO...

Filed under: Role: Mailbox, Documentation, Exchange 2010

Loadgen 2010 (Beta Preview) now available

We have released the Exchange Load Generator 2010 Beta to our downloads site. Please note that this version should be used against the Exchange 2010 Beta only at this time . Exchange Load Generator 2010 Beta (64 bit) Exchange Load Generator 2010 Beta...

Published 09-01-2009 1:11 PM by You Had Me At EHLO...

Filed under: Role: Client Access, Role: Mailbox, Community, Tools, Exchange 2010

Jetstress 2010 (Beta Preview) now available

Download location: Microsoft Exchange Server Jetstress 2010 Beta (64 bit) Jetstress has been updated to support the new IO characteristics of Exchange 2010. This build is now available for everyone to test with. CHM Help File The Jetstress 2010...

Published 09-01-2009 10:21 AM by You Had Me At EHLO...

Filed under: Role: Mailbox, Community, Tools, Exchange 2010

Troubleshooting Exchange Store Log and/or Database growth issues

A while ago I posted something on this subject, but - I wanted to let everyone know that Mike Lagase has just posted a very detailed troubleshooting guide for those problems on his blog . This is the most comprehensive collection of information on how...

Published 07-14-2009 12:35 PM by You Had Me At EHLO...

Filed under: Exchange 2007, Troubleshooting, Tips 'n Tricks, Role: Mailbox

Troubleshooting Move-Mailbox operations in Exchange 2007 that fail due to an attribute "Being Too Long"

You may experience problems performing mailbox move operations if the number of characters on a given Exchange attribute is greater than the default values defined by /SchemaPrep. Most commonly this issue occurs because of an administrative and unsupported...

Published 07-09-2009 3:30 PM by You Had Me At EHLO...

Filed under: Exchange 2007, Troubleshooting, Tips 'n Tricks, Role: Mailbox, Administration, Exchange 2010

Restores from Online backup fail to Recovery Storage Groups configured on USB storage

You may find that recovery operations from online backup fail when the target of a restore is a Recovery Storage Group that exists on an External USB storage device. Most commonly External USB storage is implemented as a temporary measure due to lack...

Published 05-27-2009 3:16 PM by You Had Me At EHLO...

Filed under: Exchange 2007, Troubleshooting, Tips 'n Tricks, Role: Mailbox

Details of Exchange 2007 SP2 in-box backup when running on Windows Server 2008

There has surely been enough discussion on this blog (and other community sites) how Windows Server Backup on Windows Server 2008 does not provide any out-of-the-box functionality to backup Exchange 2007 when installed on Windows Server 2008. Some of...

Published 05-13-2009 12:51 PM by You Had Me At EHLO...

Filed under: Exchange 2007, Role: Mailbox, Community, Tools

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