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Tag: Exchange 2010 SP1

  • HP releases videos about E5000 messaging system

    Last February, Paul Robichaux, Brian Desmond and I were invited by HP to come to Cupertino to look over the HP E5000 messaging system. Over two days we had the chance to quiz Dean Steadman, the HP product manager, and Jeff Mealiffe, from the Exchange development group (Jeff specializes in…

  • Exchange 2010 SP2: Not the headline release that SP1 was

    As part of their announcements at TechEd, Microsoft revealed the worst secret in the Exchange world and told us that they’re working on Exchange 2010 SP2. The software is still in a restricted beta and won’t be available for some time yet, but the outline of the new features is solid…

  • Updated virtualization guidelines for Exchange 2010

    On May 16, Microsoft took advantage of the start of TechEd North America (the marketing folks always like to have news to reveal at major conferences) to make a significant announcement about virtualization support for Exchange 2010. The two biggest and most welcome changes are outlined as follows: “As of…

  • Excluding disclaimers for encrypted or signed messages

    In a recent post, I described the basic approach to building an Exchange 2010 transport rule to build corporate disclaimers containing Active Directory data and formatted nicely with HTML that are then appended to all outgoing messages. The approach works well in most instances, but there are situations when you…

  • On email disclaimers

    The April 7 article “Spare us the email yada-yada” published in The Economist provoked some consideration of how email disclaimers have evolved to a point where they have become one of the “minor nuisances of modern office life”, mostly because the information inserted in the disclaimer is designed to make the…

  • Scaling connections with Exchange 2010

    It’s an undeniable fact of being an author of a book on a technical topic that you cannot cover everything in the number of pages that a publisher allocates. Sometimes this causes you to cut material that you think is perfectly good but is less interesting in the grand scheme…

  • Microsoft reveals the truth about single-role servers

    In the April 8 post on the Exchange team’s blog, a clear direction is given that single-role Exchange servers are not the preferred starting point for designs. In fact, a rather bold statement is made: “… always start design discussions with multi-role, and that is the recommended solution from the…

  • The changing need for backups

    New technology and different business requirements are seminal events that cause technologists to ponder on well-held tenets of their trade. The need for Exchange backups is one such instance. The technical developments are the elimination of streamed backups in Exchange 2010 (only VSS-based backups are now supported) allied to the…

  • Thoughts about having a dedicated archive server in a DAG

    An article covering some aspects of the deployment of archive mailboxes posted on SearchExchange by Brian Posey, a well-known and respected writer about Exchange, attracted my attention. While Brian makes some good points, I think the general thrust of his argument is flawed. Here’s why. His central point is that…

  • Be careful with VM snapshots of Exchange 2010 servers

    Those who are considering virtualizing production Exchange 2010 servers should read the fine print contained in the TechNet article “Exchange 2010 System Requirements“. In particular, this text is crucial: “Some hypervisors include features for taking snapshots of virtual machines. Virtual machine snapshots capture the state of a virtual machine while…