While I was at TechEd, I had a great time talking with our customers and hearing about their experiences as Exchange administrators. One of the areas that have come up in discussion a lot has to do with planning sufficient disk throughput for the back-end exchange servers. A Lead Program Manager in the...

Many of you have heard about the changes we've made in Exchange 2010 that combine to give you the ability to use less expensive storage and deploy large mailboxes. There have been many discussions around the choices you have around Exchange storage, and along the way we've heard some interesting questions...

Since I occasionally troubleshoot performance problems, I thought I’d write up the basics of the process I use. Due to the nature of this topic, this isn’t going to be a comprehensive coverage of all possible performance problems. I just want to focus on the main process, and list a few of the things...

These days, some customers are deploying Exchange databases and log files on advanced format (4K) drives. Although these drives support a physical sector size of 4096, many vendors are emulating 512 byte sectors in order to maintain backwards compatibility with application and operating systems. This...