Tag Archives: Exchange 2010

Some light appears at the end of the tunnel in the strange case of Exchange, IE9, and MMC


There’s been lots of debate about the issue that appears on computers running the Exchange 2007 or Exchange 2010 management console (EMC) after the installation of IE9.  The symptoms are described in the EHLO post of 9 September. Interestingly, the … Continue reading

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Another looming fiasco because IE9 doesn’t work with MMC


Just posted this blog to express some frustration on behalf of the Exchange technical community that Microsoft hasn’t been able to fix the problem that IE9 introduces for Exchange 2007 and Exchange 2010. Essentially, once IE9 is on a server or … Continue reading

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Office 365 sessions at Fall Exchange Connections


One of the factors that drives the selection of sessions for a conference is the kind of information that the conference organizers want to offer to attendees. In the case of Exchange Connections, that information is linked to Exchange Server. … Continue reading

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Microsoft tells BPOS customers to wait until they can be migrated to Office 365


I just made this blog post on WindowsITPro.com. It reflects on some issues raised by Microsoft’s August 7 post on TechNet that explains that basic steps required to migrate an organization manually from BPOS to Office 365. If you are … Continue reading

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Microsoft’s Messaging Records Management strategy still evolving


New blog post on WindowsITPro.com. Basically sine comments about the evolution of MRM since Exchange 2007 and how the strategy changed in Exchange 2010 (with MRM 2.0) and Exchange 2010 SP1 (changes to the UI and how the Managed Folder … Continue reading

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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 … Continue reading

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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 … Continue reading

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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 … Continue reading

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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) … Continue reading

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“The Register” runs ESEUTIL to rescue an Exchange 2003 server


It’s nice to see that “The Register” continues to support Exchange 2003 administrators with advice such as that offered in the article “Help my Exchange server just rebooted” posted on June 18, 2011.I’m assuming that the article was about Exchange … Continue reading

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