Tag Archives: Database Availability Group

Exchange’s underappreciated single-page patching capability

Posted on October 23, 2015 by Tony Redmond

I really like single page patching, the facility first introduced in Exchange 2010 to enable a database to detect that a database page is corrupt and to retrieve replacement data from another database copy. It’s one of those elegant pieces of functionality … Continue reading →

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Write some code and you can influence DAG failovers (for now anyway…)

Posted on May 20, 2015 by Tony Redmond

A recent debate on the Exchange 2013 (unofficial) Facebook group started off with the question “can I built my own failover criteria in a DAG?” and pointed to the TechNet page on Active Manager. The debate began with sheer denials, … Continue reading →

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Fixing a “FailedAndSuspended” content index for an Exchange 2013 database

Posted on April 27, 2015 by Tony Redmond

For space reasons, this text is another bit that was cut out of my Exchange 2013 Inside Out: Mailbox and High Availability book. FWIW, here it is… Imagine my annoyance when I ran the Get-MailboxDatabaseCopyStatus cmdlet on a test Exchange 2013 server … Continue reading →

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Exchange Unwashed Digest – October 2014

Posted on November 3, 2014 by Tony Redmond

October 2014 was an interesting month for my “Exchange Unwashed” blog on WindowsITPro.com. I had the chance to write about some new technology (Delve), old technology (Exchange 2003 mega-clusters), bad technology (Chrome bugs), and current technology (various posts). All in all, … Continue reading →

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NFS and Exchange: Am I a sheep? Some at Nutanix think so…

Posted on June 25, 2014 by Tony Redmond

A number of people working for Nutanix have been in the vanguard of those who would like to see NFS supported as a valid storage option for Exchange deployments, some of whom cheerfully recommend that “customers continue to run Exchange … Continue reading →

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Exchange Unwashed Digest – February 2014

Posted on March 2, 2014 by Tony Redmond

The big news in February 2014 was the release of Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 Service Pack 1 (build 847.32), the much-awaited version long deemed as “the” software worthy for deployment in many corporate environments. SP1 includes many new features and … Continue reading →

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Upgrading the database schema within an Exchange 2013 DAG

Posted on January 8, 2014 by Tony Redmond

In my conversation about life, the universe, and Exchange development (well, mostly the latter) with Microsoft’s VP for Exchange development, Perry Clarke, he said “There isn’t a part of the core Exchange Server that is not shipped to our on-premises … Continue reading →

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Exchange Unwashed blog digest October 2013

Posted on November 2, 2013 by Tony Redmond

October began with the Exchange Connections conference in Las Vegas and ended with some thoughts on whether to go to TechEd or MEC next year. In between, I contemplated some of the questions raised by attendees at Exchange Connections as … Continue reading →

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Hello from 38,000 feet

Posted on September 29, 2013 by Tony Redmond

Welcome to a blog post facilitated by Aer Lingus Wi-Fi at 38,000 feet en route from Dublin to Boston, a service provided by T-Mobile. Apparently the connections didn’t work at all two weeks ago so it’s good to have progress. … Continue reading →

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Exchange Unwashed digest: April 2013

Posted on May 22, 2013 by Tony Redmond

April 2013 saw the appearance of Exchange 2013 CU1 to release the restrictions that had previously stopped anyone running a “legacy” version of Exchange from installing Exchange 2013 into an existing organization. More stuff happened during April too, and some … Continue reading →

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