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Please go to our Mailbox Server Role Storage Requirements Calculator updates tracking page to see what is in this new version! A blog post explaining the calculator (updated for this new version) is here . The download is here . Comments welcome! - Ross...
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To read the updated Exchange 2007 Storage Cost calculator blog post and get the calculator, go HERE . All future calculator updates will be rolled into this page, sorted from newer to older. UPDATE ON 12/02/2008: Version 4.0 This release of the Storage...
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Overview Earlier versions of Exchange did not scale well enough, at a low enough cost per mailbox (because of expensive hardware and recovery options) to allow IT administrators the ability to match the ever increasing mailbox sizes of personal e-mail...
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Please go to our Mailbox Server Role Storage Requirements Calculator updates tracking page to see what is in this new version! A blog post explaining the calculator (updated for this new version) is here . Comments welcome! - Ross Smith IV Share this...
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Recently we have learned that some of our customers that use Recovery Storage Group and add multiple databases to it, ran into the following issue: Recovery configured through Database Recovery Management in Exchange Management Console has and issue with...
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As Green IT becomes increasingly sexy, there has been much chatter about the power savings that solid state storage can bring into the datacenter. Does this make economic sense, or is it yet another case of greenwashing? Let’s walk through some napkin...
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There have been some blogs on VSS backups in the past. Over last few months, we have worked on several cases where troubleshooting VSS was required. Seeing that the documentation around how to troubleshoot this is somewhat lacking, we decided to put together...
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Wanted to let you know about this Webcast as it is happening next week... Ross Smith IV is presenting; you can expect an awesome look into designing Exchange 2007 Storage! You can find the details and register here: TechNet Webcast: Microsoft Exchange...
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Microsoft IT just released a new IT Showcase whitepaper that you might find very interesting. Here is what the problem they were trying to solve was, and the solution: Situation: Microsoft IT ran Exchange Server 2003 mailbox servers in a clustered configuration...
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As I previously posted about the DPM 2007 Storage Requirements Calculator, I wanted to post a quick note saying that it got updated today. You can get it here: http://blogs.technet.com/dpm/archive/2007/10/31/data-protection-manager-2007-storage-calculator...
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Microsoft System Centre Data Protection Manager (DPM) is one of the suite of System Centre products to be released last year. DPM offers a new approach to backing up our Exchange data and introduces a number of new alternatives to traditional approaches...
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Bill Baer’s white paper: Database Maintenance for SharePoint is now live. Here's a sneak peak into the contents. Kudos Bill! This level of content is outstanding! CHECK FOR AND REPAIR CONSISTENCY ERRORS BY USING DBCC CHECKDB About DBCC CHECKDB DBCC...
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Single instance storage is a feature of Exchange that we haven't talked about much since the 1990s. We made some changes to how single-instancing works in Exchange 2007, so I wanted to give everyone an overview of what's changed and why. But first...
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It's been a while since we announced an update to Exchange 2007 Mailbox Server Role Storage Requirements Calculator. Yesterday we have updated the calculator to version 13.0. Updates: We have updated the log generation numbers per message profile...
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This new whitepaper paper provides key recommendations and best practices to help administrators of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 plan and monitor their SQL Server storage requirements to support optimal performance and operation of their server...