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Category: Exchange 2010

  • Microsoft releases Service Pack 1 for Office Filter Pack 2010

    New blog entry posted on WindowsITPro.com – ramblings about the update that Microsoft has released for the Office Filter Pack 2010 and its importance to Exchange 2010 as a whole. The IFilters in the pack can obviously be used with other products… find out what the situation is by clicking…

  • An interesting ZDNet comparison between Google Apps and Office 365

    The guest commentary by Louis Naugès posted on ZDNet (July 25, 2011) that compares Google Apps and Office 365 poses some interesting questions that deserve attention. Louis is the co-founder and chief cloud evangelist of international Google Apps integrator Revevol and is an admitted Google partisan. Although some of his points are debatable or just…

  • Useful Visio stencil for Exchange 2010 SP1

    Microsoft has made an updated Microsoft Office Visio stencil for Exchange 2010 SP1 available for download. As you can see from the screen capture, a wide variety of shapes is available in the stencil including some for Windows components (Active Directory, Certificate Server, domains, etc.), people, and other parts of the…

  • Microsoft embarrassed by Exchange 2010 SP1 RU4

    On July 13, Microsoft took the decision to withdraw Exchange 2010 SP1 RU4 (the fourth roll-up update for SP1). As you’re aware, a roll-up update (RU) is a regular release of the patches and other fixes that Microsoft has accumulated for a version of Exchange. RU4 was released on June 22, 2011…

  • Do PSTs contain anything of value?

    In musing about the news of the PST Capture tool that Microsoft plans to release soon, I started to consider the question of whether tools like this can actually find and recover any useful information. The worry of executives and lawyers is that PSTs contain all manner of corporate secrets and…

  • Moving a database between DAGs

    A recent email discussion between MVPs focused on a topic that I totally missed in my Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Inside Out book (also available at Amazon.co.uk), so think of this as an update to chapter 7. The problem arises after you set up a Database Availability Group (DAG) with mailbox servers and…

  • On PST ingestion: Microsoft brings a new tool to the table but…

    Today’s announcement that the Microsoft Exchange development group plans to release a tool to allow administrators to discover Personal Storage (PST) files on a network and then import the data into Exchange 2010 on-premises servers or Exchange Online (Office 365) left a couple of unanswered questions floating. Don’t get me…

  • Generating Exchange 2010 reports with PowerShell

    From time to time, someone in the Exchange community outside the Exchange development group comes up with a contribution that adds an enormous amount to many different deployments. I think that the PowerShell script posted by Steve Goodman on his blog may just be in that category. For years, I have…

  • Quick but important survey about Exchange 2010 licensing

    Paul Robichaux caused some ripples in the calm waters of Microsoft licensing when he wrote about a question that he had received from a Windows IT Pro Magazine reader. The reader was upgrading an Exchange 2003 deployment to Exchange 2010 gradually by introducing a new Client Access Server (CAS) only…

  • Chatting about Exchange 2010 SP2 and Office 365 with Matt Gervais

    Last week, Matt Gervais, site editor of SearchExchange.com, tracked me down in France to chat about my views about Exchange 2010 SP2, Office 365, virtualizing Exchange, and whether Exchange administrators are threatened by the cloud. Matt captured our conversation in a podcast, which you can now download from SearchExchange.com. Now…