Virtualization, Cloud, Infrastructure and all that stuff in-between
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Category Archives: Exchange
Exchange Outlook Feature Request: Where’s Waldo?
Posted by on August 18, 2011
There was recently some discussion at a customer about the use of Outlook/Exchange’s calendaring functionality, this is a commonly deployed solution in businesses yet few people seem to “get” how useful the calendaring functionality can be or how to use it properly. I almost see it as a democratic process for keeping control of [...]
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 [...]
VMWare Server Performance – A Practical Example
Posted by on April 19, 2008
The following screen dump is from an HP DL380G5 server that runs all the core infrastructure under VMWare Server (the free one) for a friend’s company which I admin sometimes. It is housed in some co-lo space and runs the average range of Windows servers used by a small but global business, Exchange SQL, [...]
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 [...]
Running Exchange 2007 on VMWare ESX Server
Posted by on February 26, 2008
Interesting article here on some stress testing VMWare have done running Exchange 2007 under virtualization on VI3.5. It’s working.. .and working well, now – official support?
Disaster Recovery Resource for Exchange
Posted by on February 23, 2008
Stumbled across this site earlier; looks like there is some good practical information here if you are looking for how to handle Exchange backup and disaster recovery. Sites like this are so much more valuable than the usual vendor white-paper approach as they show people’s real world experiences, mistakes, etc. This is an employee [...]
Support for Virtualized OS/Applications – an Open Debate..
Posted by on February 21, 2008
Martin’s post here prompted me to blog something I’ve been meaning to do for a while. Virtualization projects and services are cool; we all understand the advantages in power/cooling and the flexibility it can bring to our infrastructures. But what about support, if you are a service provider (internal or outsourcing) you normally need [...]
