Tag Archives: Exchange 2010

First appearance of an Exchange 2010 Messaging Appliance

Posted on January 21, 2011 by Tony Redmond

On January 19, 2011 HP and Microsoft announced the HP E5000 Messaging System for Microsoft Exchange. The name is a mouthful but the important point is the creation of a solution designed to make Exchange 2010 easier to deploy. This … Continue reading →

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Beware the effects of enabling an Exchange 2010 archive mailbox

Posted on January 11, 2011 by Tony Redmond

The introduction of archive mailboxes is one of the major new features offered by Exchange 2010. Matters are substantially improved in Exchange 2010 SP1 as it supports the separation of a user’s primary mailbox and their archive mailbox across different … Continue reading →

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Exchange in the Cloud

Posted on January 8, 2011 by Tony Redmond

I wrote this text as a “web-only chapter” for Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Inside Out, (also available at Amazon.co.uk and as a Kindle edition, with other e-book formats for the book are available from the O’Reilly web site). Unfortunately the chapter … Continue reading →

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Installing an Exchange 2010 Roll-up Update

Posted on January 5, 2011 by Tony Redmond

Microsoft announced roll-up update 2 (RU2) for Exchange 2010 SP1 amongst the set of updates for different versions of Exchange that the CXP team released in December 2010. I believe that CXP means “customer experience”; in previous times this team … Continue reading →

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On the naming of DAGs

Posted on January 1, 2011 by Tony Redmond

Most Exchange administrators, even those who don’t have much hands-on experience with Exchange 2010, are now aware that the Database Availability Group (DAG) feature is built on Windows 2008 failover clusters. Exchange 2010 does an excellent job of hiding the … Continue reading →

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One or two NICs?

Posted on December 15, 2010 by Tony Redmond

During the development of Exchange 2010, Microsoft originally required that any mailbox server participating in a Database Availability Group (DAG) had to be equipped with at least two NICs (Network Interface Controllers). One NIC handles “MAPI” or client traffic; the … Continue reading →

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Exchange 2010 SP1 Store Driver throttling

Posted on December 7, 2010 by Tony Redmond

The Store Driver is a very important Exchange component. Running on all hub transport servers, its function is to provide the mechanism to deliver inbound messages to mailbox databases. Unlike Exchange 2003 and previous versions, all messages go through a … Continue reading →

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Tweaking the Mailbox Replication Service configuration file

Posted on December 3, 2010 by Tony Redmond

The Mailbox Replication Service (MRS) is an essential component of any Exchange 2010 deployment as it controls the movement of mailboxes between databases. MRS runs on all Exchange 2010 Client Access Servers (CAS). MRS gets involved in migrations from Exchange … Continue reading →

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Clearing out mailbox move requests

Posted on November 22, 2010 by Tony Redmond

After you’ve run Exchange 2010 for a while, you’ve probably moved a few mailboxes around and have accumulated some completed mailbox move requests. When it begins to move a mailbox, the Mailbox Replication Service (MRS) stamps the user object for … Continue reading →

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Thoughts on lagged database copies

Posted on November 19, 2010 by Tony Redmond

One of the best things about delivering training to smart people is the questions that they pose after you introduce a topic. During the recent Exchange 2010 Maestro seminars that Paul Robichaux and I delivered in Boston and Anaheim, I … Continue reading →

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