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Monday, May 31, 2004 9:02 PM

Where to install IMF (and other miscellaneous IMF explanations)...

Intelligent Message Filter (IMF) has been a hot topic since it was released to the web last week. I've seen a few questions fly by, and had a few directed at me so let's talk about some of the basics many of you may be wondering. First, let's talk about
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Saturday, May 29, 2004 3:54 PM

Trouble Upgrading your Exchange 2003 Cluster to SP1?

Note: This information is now available as a public KB article: KB.867624 Some folks on the newsgroups are having difficulty getting their Exchange 2003 clusters upgraded to Exchange 2003 SP1. One example of an error that's been reported: Not able to
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Saturday, May 29, 2004 1:02 AM

Looking for the hotfix KB.836489 for Exchange 2003 SP1 Site Consolidation?

If you're reading this, chances are you're contemplating Exchange 2003 SP1 mixed-mode Site Consolidation. One of the prereqs for moving public folders, mailboxes, distribution lists, or contacts cross-site with this new functionality is that you have
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Friday, May 28, 2004 9:20 PM

"My Bloginality is ISTJ"

Ran across this bloginality link at Adam's Mindspace and spent 30 seconds figuring out my “Bloginality“. I'm an ISTJ which makes me dependable and, from the sounds of the resulting explanation, a bit compulsive. I suppose I could do worse
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Friday, May 28, 2004 6:46 PM

Exchange 2003 SP1 - Store appears to take more memory

Since Sp1 released on Tuesday, I've received a number of reports that folks are seeing store taking a lot more memory than it did prior to SP1. This is showing up in monitoring programs like MOM or the SBS Monitoring, from what I understand, so it's causing
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Tuesday, May 25, 2004 10:58 AM

Exchange 2003 SP1 Releases!

This morning I see that the bits for Exchange 2003 SP1 have hit the web (download here ). This is excellent news, as SP1 has lots of great new features you want (this list taken from the announcement page, linked above): Enhanced security Updated deployment
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Sunday, May 23, 2004 6:19 PM

Host Headers and Exchange Clusters

Here's another topic that seems to come up on a fairly regular basis: how and when to use host-headers with Exchange HTTP protocol virtual servers. Host headers are a great invention: they let you bind an IIS protocol virtual server directly to the unique
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Tuesday, May 11, 2004 10:10 PM

Paul Robichaux on Geoclustering

Paul Robichaux commented on Geoclustering in last week's edition of the Exchange and Outlook Update. He points out that it can be quite expensive, but that it can also be a very good (and this is key: Supported/Tested) way to span your Exchange servers
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Saturday, May 08, 2004 11:10 AM

Evan returns

I've been neglecting my blog, it's true. I have spent the last 3 weeks going around to various MS support sites and training some of our support engineers, so I suppose I can use that as an excuse. Why, just yesterday when I was in the Redmond office
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Friday, May 07, 2004 2:35 PM

Cluster upgrades

Carol has posted the text of an upcoming KB article that details a newly-supported method for upgrading clusters from W2k/E2k to W2k3/E2k3 (evict and reload method, essentially) over at the Exchange Team blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/exchange/archive/2004/05/07/127968.asp
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