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Extra Extra: Recommended hotfix for your dag…
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http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2011/11/20/recommended-windows-hotfix-for-database-availability-groups-running-windows-server-2008-r2.aspx
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Exchange 2010: Implementing a dedicated backup network for a Database Availability Group…
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Occasionally, customers that deploy highly available Mailbox servers use a dedicated or secondary network for backup operations. The way in which you do this in Exchange 2010 has changes, and it’s important that when you implement such a configuration...
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Exchange 2010: Get-DatabaseAvailabilityGroup does not return all attributes of a DAG
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4 months ago
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When administrators run Get-DatabaseAvailabilityGroup they notice that certain fields within the output are not populated. In some scenarios this leads administrators to attempt to change settings of the DAG or believe that there is an operational...
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Error–567 ( JET_errDbTimeTooNew )
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4 months ago
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I recently worked with a customer who presented an interesting issue. The customer had installed an Exchange 2007 Cluster Continuous Replication solution where nodes leveraged independent direct attached storage. On the active node of the...
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Exchange 2010: HomeMTA and msExchHomeServerName are not updated on mailboxes.
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4 months ago
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In Exchange 2003 and Exchange 2007 when clients would attempt to connect to a mailbox it would be based on the server where that mailbox was homed. Specifically these attributes would contain information about the server where a particular...
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Exchange Server 2010 and System Center Data Protection Manager 2010
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4 months ago
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When using System Center Data Protection Manager 2010 to protect an Exchange Server 2010 solution there are four essential steps that need to occur in order for the backup to be successful. 1) Volume shadow copy is made of the Exchange data...
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Exchange 2010: Collapsing DAG Networks
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4 months ago
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As a post configuration step in an Exchange 2010 Database Availability Group installation the administrator may need to collapse Database Availability Group Networks. Unfortunately this is a commonly missed configuration which results in the replication...
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Exchange 2007 - Standby clustering with pre-staged resources (part 2)
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4 months ago
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Recently I’ve worked with several Exchange 2007 customers that are leveraging storage replication solutions with a Single Copy Cluster (SCC) as part of their site resiliency / disaster recovery solution for Exchange data. As a part of these implementations...
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Exchange 2007 - Standby clustering with pre-staged resources (part 1)
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4 months ago
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Recently I’ve worked with several Exchange 2007 customers that are leveraging storage replication solutions with a Single Copy Cluster (SCC) as part of their site resiliency / disaster recovery solution for Exchange data. As a part of these implementations...
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Exchange 2010: VSS backups of passive database copies fail with error C7FF07D7 when preparing snapshot.
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4 months ago
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Recently I worked with a customer that was having backup failures when attempting to backup passive database copies on an Exchange 2010 DAG member. Active database copies would backup without any issues. The issue reproduced with both the...
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Exchange 2010 SP1: StartDagServerMaintenance.ps1 fails on databases that have only two database copies.
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4 months ago
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In Exchange 2010 Service Pack 1 we introduced some new DAG management scripts. These scripts can be found in the Exchange Server installation directory \ scripts. (This is usually c:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange Server\v14\scripts). One of...
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Exchange 2010 and Windows 2008–Partitioned Cluster Networks
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5 months ago
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Recently I had the opportunity to work on an Exchange 2010 Database Availability Group installation where nodes were installed in multiple data centers. Although not uncommon to have nodes installed in multiple data centers what was uncommon was...
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Another recommended read….
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6 months ago
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http://blogs.technet.com/b/jamec/archive/2011/08/01/exchange-2010-database-page-fragmentation-caused-by-archive-solutions.aspx
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Exchange 2010 SP1: StartDagServerMaintenance.ps1 fails when a server contains databases with a single copy.
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6 months ago
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In Exchange 2010 Service Pack 1 we introduced some new DAG management scripts. These scripts can be found in the Exchange Server installation directory \ scripts. (This is usually c:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange Server\v14\scripts). ...
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Exchange 2010 - Using VSS to perform an online offline database seed.
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7 months ago
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When implementing an Exchange 2010 Database Availability Group it may become necessary to perform a database seeding operation. The operation is typically performed as part of adding a mailbox database copy to a DAG member but may also be performed...
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Exchange online streaming backups…
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7 months ago
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In Exchange 2003 and revisions prior the most common backup taken of an Exchange server leveraged the ESE Online Streaming APIs. The use of ESE Online Streaming APIs carried forward into Exchange 2007 as customers migrated backup solutions to utilize...
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Exchange and Windows Server Backup
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7 months ago
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When using Windows Server Backup to backup Exchange 2007 and Exchange 2010 there are essentially four processes that must occur in order for the backup to be successful: 1) Volume Shadow copy is made of the Exchange data on the host where...
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Do I need to do a backup after I do a restore?
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7 months ago
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Over the last few days I’ve received questions from several people inquiring if it is necessary and / or a best practice to perform a backup after a restoration of a database has occurred. In general I do not think there is a best practice / guidance...
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Exchange 2007 / 2010: Windows Server Backup and Backup Completion Times
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7 months ago
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Administrators are choosing Windows Server Backup to backup their Exchange 2007 and Exchange 2010 installations. In some cases administrators are reporting that backups are not completing in a timely fashion. Remember that a Windows...
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Exchange 2007 / 2010: Windows Server Backup and Performance Issues
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7 months ago
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Some administrators choose Windows Server Backup to backup their Exchange 2007 and Exchange 2010 mailbox databases. In some instances administrators report that during the backup process they experience performance issues on the server and issues...
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Exchange / VSS / and differential block size…
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7 months ago
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Today’s backup and restore operations require close coordination between backup applications, the line-of-business application being backed up (for example, Exchange 2010), and the storage management hardware and software. The Volume Shadow Copy Service...
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Another good read….
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7 months ago
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http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2011/05/31/exchange-2010-high-availability-misconceptions-addressed.aspx
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Recommended reading - Exchange 2010 Data Guarantee API
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9 months ago
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http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2011/05/06/exchange-2010-mailbox-moves-and-mailbox-resiliency.aspx
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Exchange 2010: Restore-DatabaseAvailabilityGroup fails to evict nodes error 0x46.
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9 months ago
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Restore-DatabaseAvailabilityGroup is one of the cmdlets used as part of the datacenter switchover process. The purpose of Restore-DatabaseAvailabilityGroup is to read the DAG’s list of stopped servers and evict the listed servers from the DAG’s...
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Exchange 2007–Using LCR to perform an online offline database seed.
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9 months ago
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When using continuous replication in Exchange 2007, an operation that sometimes needs to be performed is a database seed. This operation is first performed as part of enabling replication, and thereafter it is performed infrequently as part of the...
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