Introduction We have been working on a problem that surfaced with the release of Exchange 2007 Rollup 5. A number of customers reported that some of their Exchange 2007 managed services did not start automatically after Rollup application, however they would start manually. In most of these cases the computer in question was not connected…
Collecting and Monitoring information from WMI as performance data
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Exchange 2007 Performance Counters and Thresholds
Performance analysis and troubleshooting can be a very complex and daunting area with Exchange Server. Being able to quickly and accurately identify and resolve issues requires a thorough understanding of the most interesting and important performance counters. With the July content refresh we’ve just released new content detailing these counters and many of the important…
Did you just say you wanted a large mailbox?
So you’ve heard some folks saying large mailboxes are a good idea. Your users have been screaming for mailboxes with more than 1GB quotas. Your management wants you to be able to recover from outages in minutes, not days. Everyone is telling you to do more with less. Well, with Exchange 2007 you can have…
The Network Design that could bring you down
[Update – This article applies to Windows Server 2003 ONLY ] 1. Introduction Recently I worked in a case where the ISA Server was not used only as an edge firewall but also as main concentrator of “ALL” network traffic. While this could really sound nice in terms of central management and security…
Which servers are DOWN in my company, and which just have a heartbeat failure, RIGHT NOW?
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When searching for objects to include in reports – the results are limited to 500 objects
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How does Outlook Anywhere work (and not work)?
EDIT 8/22/2008: Corrected a typo in a “DisabledComponents” registry key name. It’s been a while since I’ve been thinking of writing a blog post about various aspects of Outlook Anywhere that people have been asking questions about. Somehow, I keep getting myself caught up in one thing or another, and have consequently delayed writing this…
To Backup or Not to Backup? Yes! To backup!!
There has been a lot of discussions in the Exchange ecosystem (see comments on this post and other posts on our blog for example) about the fact that Windows Server 2008 built-in backup application (Windows Server Backup) is not Exchange-aware. Even though we have also clarified that the limitation does not apply to Windows Small…
The Exchange Team Blog: How we do it
Every so often, a question comes up for us that are running this blog: how do you do it? What is the process that you follow for your blog posts? Where do you get ideas from? Recently – as part of the INTERACT2008 conference, I had a chance to present on this subject to Exchange/UC…