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Tag: Information Store

  • SQL 2014’s link to Exchange 4.0

    It was nice to read the memories of ex-Microsoft Distinguished Engineer Hal Berenson in a post about SQL 2014’s delayed durability feature. Like me, Hal used to work at Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), where he specialized on database engineering. He tells the story of prototyping delayed durability to fix some performance…

  • What caused the crippling of Exchange 2013 modern public folders?

    Now that the initial fuss about the limitations that recently emerged for Exchange 2013’s modern public folders has subsided (but just a little), cooler minds turn to thinking about why these limitations exist. After all, there doesn’t seem to be any rhyme or reason why the limitations should kick in…

  • New Store, new memory tuning techniques required

    One of the more interesting observations that we will soon be able to make is how well the thoroughly overhauled and rewritten Exchange 2013 Information Store functions in production environments. Of course, there’s the small matter of the rest of the deployment prerequisites to be met, such as co-existence with…

  • Exchange 2010 SP1: Protecting data with a BSOD

    In conversation with an administrator of one of the world’s largest Exchange 2010 deployments, we talked about new Store behaviour in Exchange 2010 SP1 that can lead to Exchange forcing an abrupt termination of the server (a blue screen of death with a CRITICAL_OBJECT_TERMINATION). According to MSDN, a CRITICAL_OBJECT_TERMINATION error…