Over the last several months there has been significant chatter around what is background database maintenance and why is it important for Exchange 2010 databases. Hopefully this article will answer these questions. What maintenance tasks need to be performed against the database? The following tasks...

With the changes in strategy we announced in Future of /Hosting Mode a few months back we wanted to take the opportunity to make clear what is supported in what are typically referred to as hosting scenarios. We announced that hosters would be able to use Exchange 2010 SP2 to provide hosted Exchange...

You hear from us pretty often. While we absolutely want you to read Ross’ blog and factor in transaction log space in your capacity planning or listen to Perry talk about how we’ve shifted to a services culture , we like hearing from you too. As part of our Exchange Ideas video series, we asked some...

With the release of Exchange Server 2010 SP2 later this year, we will add a new feature known as Address Book Policies . Following this addition, hosters who wish to deploy the standard on-premises configuration of Exchange and use ABP will be supported. As you may have read in a recent post over on...

I’ve recently returned from TechEd North America 2011 in Atlanta, Georgia, where I had a wonderful time seeing old friends and new, and talking with customers and partners about my favorite subject: high availability in Exchange Server 2010. In case you missed TechEd, or were there and missed some...

The Microsoft Exchange team is enhancing positioning by including additional supported scenarios regarding Exchange Server 2010 running under hardware virtualization software. As of today, the following support scenarios are being updated, for Exchange 2010 SP1, and later: The Unified Messaging...

Update 10/21/11 : To read the related TechNet documentation, please go here , here and here . Exchange 2010 introduced the database availability group (DAG), which enables you to design a mailbox resiliency configuration that is essentially a redundant array of independent Mailbox servers. Multiple...

In my post just the other day I provided a link to the new guide covering Exchange publishing via Forefront TMG or UAG. One poster followed up by asking, “How do I set things up when I have both TMG/UAG with a web farm and a hardware load balancer?” It’s a great question, as these days hardware load...

In Exchange Server 2010, there is no more single instance storage (SIS). To help understand why SIS is gone, let's review a brief history of Exchange. During the development of Exchange 4.0, we had two primary goals in mind, and SIS was borne out of these goals: Ensure that messages were delivered as...