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Over the past few months there have been rumours of a website that will list everyone who has passed their MCM or MCA. It is possible for people to opt out of the website if they do not wish their details to be published, but I would expect it to
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Everyone knows its a good idea to automate your installations of Exchange. It provides a solid, repeatable process by which to deploy your infrastructure – and it takes less time – win/win!. One area that I have witnessed repeatedly over the last
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By default when you run a command through PowerShell to retrieve values with registry keys, the response shows the values as being empty. Here’s an example – I use the following command to set an excluded DC: Set-ExchangeServer -Identity CSX2K71 -StaticExcludedDomainControllers
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One my personal bugbears with Exchange over the last 10 years or so has been the total lack of a useful auditing function. Sure, you can see who accessed a mailbox, but since Outlook 2003 and the extended Free/Data the Windows Server event logs
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I have just received a note from Erin Bookey announcing the public beta of JetStress for Exchange 2010. You can download your copy here… http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=13267027-8120-48ed-931b-29eb0aa52aa6#tm
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Looks like the team have been busy finishing off the test tools for Exchange 2010. The Exchange 2010 Loadgen beta has also gone live in the last few weeks, here is a link… http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=cf464be7-7e52-48cd-b852-ccfc915b29ef
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As Exchange technologies using multiple AD site infrastructures become more popular, Exchange PFE engineers have to build LAB’s spanning multiple AD sites using Virtual PC/ Virtual server or Hyper V. I always used to use multiple NIC’s and Routing and
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Over the past few months I have lost count of the number of times I have been asked is “X” version of Exchange supported on “X” OS or against “X” GC’s. Well, finally someone has put together all of this information in a single location… http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee338574.aspx
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One of the things I like about Jetstress is that it tends to identify failing or failed components before the servers go live. Its not all about how many IOPS a storage array can provide, sometimes its just as important to prove the stability of
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Well, its been a long time in the making and I for one have been waiting for a long time for this data to be published publically. I was fortunate enough to be taught by Bill Thompson at the ECoE during my Masters rotation and he went through some
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Working with customers I have come across a number of scenarios where the caller ID presented from the PBX is not in E164/DID (Direct Inward Dial) format. Some gateways allow for extensive manipulation of the caller ID, some less so. The good news is
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Further to my blog post on April 30th , I have updated the powershell script to output in a more usable manner and also detect more information about your exchange servers… ServerName TransportVer CASver StoreVer SERVER1 08.01.0336.000 08.01.0336.000
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I attended the Microsoft Certified Master : Exchange 2007, rotation 2; prior to attending I had the good fortune to be able to talk to previous Ranger/MCM candidates within Microsoft, who helped prepare me for the program. I thought it would be
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Over the last 12 months I have had various occasions where I needed to quickly check the store.exe version installed on each mailbox server within the organisation. Seemingly there is no way to do this directly via PowerShell or Exchange cmdlets.
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I’m guessing that over the next few months IT managers are going to be pushing their staff really hard to justify any spend. ..and projects to upgrade to Exchange Server 2007 are not going to be immune. Clearly to have any chance of getting the
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