Tag Archives: Exchange 2010

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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The scourge of autosignatures

Posted on June 22, 2015 by Tony Redmond

Have you ever wondered just how much valuable storage is occupied in email databases by totally useless autosignature content? You know, logos and other tasteful adornments to the bottom of email, repeated ad nausem on every message, internal and external, … 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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Selecting the right compliance framework to use with Exchange

Posted on December 22, 2014 by Tony Redmond

Exchange 2010 upped Microsoft’s game when it came to the out-of-the-box compliance features available in the server. Exchange 2013 builds on that foundation to refine matters through features such as in-place holds and integration with SharePoint 2013; increased integration is available … Continue reading →

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Brick backups and Exchange – not recommended

Posted on November 28, 2014 by Tony Redmond

I was recently asked whether a company should invest in brick-level backup for Exchange 2010. This request came as quite a surprise because I hadn’t run into anyone who was interested in this kind of technology for a number of … Continue reading →

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AQS and KQL: Two query languages for different versions of Exchange

Posted on October 21, 2014 by Tony Redmond

Exchange 2010 uses AQS (Advanced Search Syntax) to construct its discovery searches. Exchange 2013 takes a difference approach and uses KQL (keyword query language). Why the change? AQS is shared with other Windows search components such as Windows Desktop Search. … Continue reading →

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Using Search-Mailbox to look for items with a specific date

Posted on October 17, 2014 by Tony Redmond

A question from a reader is often a good start to a useful discussion or to probe into a topic. Tim Read contacted me to discuss some problems he had with using the Search-Mailbox cmdlet (available in cloud and on-premises … Continue reading →

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Recoverable Items and Calendar Versioning

Posted on October 8, 2014 by Tony Redmond

Keeping track of calendar items such as meetings to ensure that a definitive version of the item is available is sometimes hard to do, especially when multiple clients or multiple users access a calendar. Exchange 2010 made architectural changes in … Continue reading →

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Retention policies: the fat-busters of the Exchange world

Posted on August 13, 2014 by Tony Redmond

Exchange messaging records management (or MRM for those who deal in acronyms) has long been an interest of mine, if only because it seems to me that it makes a heap of sense to have some intelligence that processes user … Continue reading →

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Exchange 2013 modern public folder limitations – what next?

Posted on March 13, 2014 by Tony Redmond

I’m sure that you all enjoyed the breaking news about the restrictions that exist for public folder mailboxes and the public folder hierarchy in the new, improved, and much-hyped modern public folders implemented in Exchange 2013 (and Exchange Online in … Continue reading →

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