Nicole Allen has a great post over at the Exchange Team blog with step-by-step info on disk sizing for Exchange servers. This is the same sort of information that you can find in the Optimizing Storage for Exchange 2003 whitepaper, but Nicole does a great job of making it make sense! In support, it’s become very common to see servers…
Year: 2004
Geo-clustering over at the EEC
Bryce posts about some Geo-clustering work that they’re doing over at the EEC (Enterprise Engineering Center).
WebRelease 1.1 tools on the web today (including EXBPA and others)
Today we see the release of the “Web Release 1.1” tool downloads at: http://www.microsoft.com/exchange/downloads/2003.asp There are a bunch of great new tools and updates to existing tools. The big release today, of course, is the Exchange “Best Practices Analyzer” tool which can be used to scan your Exchange organization for a bunch of different known-problems and…
IMF on machines with 15 character names
If you’re running Intelligent Message Filter (IMF) on an Exchange server with a 15 character servername (for instance, if your gateway with IMF installed is called ABCDEFGHIJKLMNO), you may have noticed that IMF doesn’t process the inbound messages. This is because IMF does not bind properly to a server where the NetBIOS name is 15 characters in…
Technet article on new Recover Mailbox Data wizard in Exchange 2003 SP1
I completely forgot to post this link when it first went live in mid-July! Better late than never, have a look at my Technet article on the new “Recover Mailbox Data wizard” introduced in Exchange 2003 SP1. This is the new feature built-into the Exchange System Manager GUI that allows you to bypass Exmerge when…
So what if the "stub" objects never go away?
A while back, I wrote a blog post about verifying that you are ready to remove the source site after undergoing the process of SP1 mixed-mode site consolidation. See here for that intro. Since that post, I’ve run into a few questions about what to do if these validations never pass. Suppose you keep checking for…
Configure IMF gateway settings per server?
Someone sent me email the other day asking about the global configuration of the Intelligent Message Filter (IMF). “Is there anyway to configure the IMF settings at the Admin Group level or something less than global,” they asked. Well, it turns out there is a way to configure the IMF (or at least, the gateway portion…
New Domain Rename (Rendom.exe) tools released
Windows group released an updated set of Domain Rename tools last week — download here: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/downloads/domainrename.mspx. You’ll still need to understand and follow the steps for the XDR-FIXUP utility. Note the required Exchange version information from the website: Important: The domain rename operation and the use of the domain rename tools is not supported in…
Do I really need to run the Exchange/Outlook Profile Redirector (ExProfRe)?
Recent newsgroup posting caught my eye: I’ve done cross sites moves today from 5.5 servers to 2003SP1 servers. The documentation says I need the exprofre.exe tool to update the Outlook profiles. But I don’t need it, the profile connect automatically to the new server in the other administrative group/site. Why should I use it? This is…
Should I use the SP1 cross-site moves?
First, my apologies to the folks I’d planned to grab lunch with while I’ve been out in Redmond these past few weeks. The project I’m working on has been keeping me much busier than I had expected. Maybe next time! Onward — Someone commented a few weeks ago on an earlier post: a question about…