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Category Archives: Exchange 2007
ExPrep – Script to Automate Exchange 2007 Pre-Requisite Installation
Posted by on May 13, 2009
If you have ever had to install Exchange 2007 on a Windows 2008 (and 2003) server you will know that there are a number of pre-requisites that need to be installed from the OS for each role; for example IIS web services and metabase compatibility components. You have two choices, do this via the [...]
Exchange 2007 Automated Install & Documentation Template Resources
Posted by on August 21, 2008
The Exchange team Blog (EHLO) has a pointer to some good resources for building an automated Exchange 2007 installation here and here it also has some templates for your server build documentation for Exchange servers, always better to start with something than start from scratch! Automation is one of those great things in Microsoft [...]
VMWare Workstation 6.5 Beta – Run Multiple Copies of Outlook/Exchange via Unity
Posted by on April 30, 2008
I use a single laptop for my day-day use, it has all the stuff i need, I run Vista and Office 2007, for our corporate mail we use Exchange like everyone else and I use Outlook Cached Mode to work online/offline.. My own personal email is also an Exchange mailbox – provided by fasthosts [...]
Exchange 2007 SP1 Upgrade Process on a CCR cluster
Posted by on March 1, 2008
I used this process to carry this out – worth bearing in mind that you do need some downtime to the clustered mailbox instance to carry this out – it took about 60 seconds to do that and installing the SP1 code on each passive node took approx 5 mins each + a reboot
Exchange 2007 CCR Configuration Notes
Posted by on February 29, 2008
Once you’ve followed the installation process and have your active and passive nodes setup you may not actually be able to failover and mount the stores – it fails and logs an event 9317 from MSExchangeSA as below; The fix is to register an SPN for each cluster node as per this KB article [...]
