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Wednesday, January 31, 2007 12:36 PM

Using ISINTEG for Exchange DB testing

ISINTEG is used to check and fix the integrity of the Information Store DB in Exchange. It is the only tool that understands the Exchange DB at a mail and object level rather than at the pages/table level which ESEUTIL operates at. Given that this tool
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Wednesday, January 31, 2007 12:23 PM

Clustering Exchange 2003 Resources

Hi, For those of you looking into Exchange clustering take a look at the documents below.   Windows cluster setup guide:   TechNet Exchange Cluster deployment guide   These have been really useful in a recent cluster deployment I have
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Thursday, January 25, 2007 3:17 PM

More Exchange documentation resources

For those who like reading! These are some of the more useful Exchange resources, thanks to Eileen Brown - http://blogs.technet.com/eileen_brown/archive/2007/01/15/useful-exchange-documents.aspx   I've been doing some Exchange work recently and
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Friday, January 19, 2007 12:18 PM

A massive number of Exchange resources

Hi, Now to be honest I can't take credit for all this info as it was provided to me by a friend! Anyway, it is far to useful to not post so here goes:     If you have ever wanted to test the latest Microsoft software within a sandbox environment,
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Tuesday, January 16, 2007 8:14 PM

New storage calculator for Exchange 2007

Just a very quick post to make you aware of the new storage calculator for Exchange 2007.   Check it out here: http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2007/01/15/432207.aspx   Cheers Nathan
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Thursday, January 11, 2007 7:56 PM

Old mail being resent on server reboot!

A strange issue occured today at one of our clients. We patched the server over night and did the customary reboot. Then this morning, the client reported that one of their customers had received mail that was sent in December!! Now although I have not
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Wednesday, January 10, 2007 11:16 AM

Some useful articles about Front end NLB and OWA publishing.

Hi,   Here is a mixed bag of articles which will help you out when thinking about high availability for your front end servers.   The first two are about setting up NLB with FE servers in Exchange 2003 and the last one is about publishing FE
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Tuesday, January 09, 2007 10:42 AM

Running Exchange 2003 with more than 4GB of RAM

I discovered this issue the other day whilst reviewing a design for a client. The client planned to deploy Exchange 2003 as part of a migration from Novell GroupWise which needed to occur rapidly. There was no time to wait for and test Exchange 2007
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Saturday, January 06, 2007 9:17 AM

How to setup ISA2006 to publish multiple OWA servers in different domains.

Hi, This is a great set of four articles from the ISAServer.org site written by Thomas Shinder. In summary "This article takes a look at how you can use the ISA 2006 Firewall’s LDAP authentication feature to publish multiple Exchange Servers belonging
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Thursday, January 04, 2007 11:26 AM

How to install Exchange 2007 Management tools on a 32bit OS. (Windows XP or 2003)

Hi, This requirement has come up recently in many forums. So here is the KB article from MS which details the steps required. http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/555841   Hope you find it useful Cheers Nathan
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Thursday, January 04, 2007 11:24 AM

Calculating storage requirement for Exchange 2003

Some of you will remember we had a session on this a while back at one of the meetings. Wel in case anyone needs it, here is a link to a great resource on how to calculate storage requirement (IOPS etc) for Exchange 2003. http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/exchange/Guides/StoragePerformance/fa839f7d-f876-42c4-a335-338a1eb04d89.mspx?mfr=true
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Wednesday, January 03, 2007 10:10 PM

An Excellent collection of Exchange 2007 articles

Hopefully everyone is getting excited about Exchange 2007 now! I know I am :) Anyway for learning purposes, after the Exchange help file and MSExchangeTeam blog, then it doesn't get better than this: http://www.msexchange.org/articles_tutorials/Exchange_Server_2007/
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Wednesday, January 03, 2007 10:07 PM

Recently discovered Exchange messaging site

Hi, Not sure whether this site is well known or not, but I recently discovered it whilst looking for some Exchange 2007 articles Hopefully it will be useful for people: http://www.messagingtalk.org/ Cheers Nathan
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Wednesday, January 03, 2007 6:45 AM

Multiple Forests running Exchange

I recently answered a questions about running two Exchange Orgs after a merger. The company required GAL sync, Public Folder replication and Free/Busy sync. Here are a couple of useful links on the same topic http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/exchange/Guides/PlanE2k3MsgSys/e477a729-e0d9-44e3-816c-f3fe39e6fa36.mspx?mfr=true
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Tuesday, January 02, 2007 9:56 AM

OneNote Mobile 2007

I recently heard this mentioned by Jason Langridge at an event at MS on the 12th December. I have finally managed to look into this further and found this excellent web page. http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/onenote/HA101956221033.aspx#1 Take a
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