There have been some blogs on VSS backups in the past. Over last few months, we have worked on several cases where troubleshooting VSS was required. Seeing that the documentation around how to troubleshoot this is somewhat lacking, we decided to put together Read More

Please go to our Mailbox Server Role Storage Requirements Calculator updates tracking page to see what is in this new version! A blog post explaining the calculator (updated for this new version) is here. Comments welcome! - Ross Smith IV Read More

Wanted to let you know about this Webcast as it is happening next week... Ross Smith IV is presenting; you can expect an awesome look into designing Exchange 2007 Storage! You can find the details and register here: TechNet Webcast: Microsoft Exchange Read More

So you've heard some folks saying large mailboxes are a good idea. Your users have been screaming for mailboxes with more than 1GB quotas. Your management wants you to be able to recover from outages in minutes, not days. Everyone is telling you to do Read More

Microsoft IT just released a new IT Showcase whitepaper that you might find very interesting. Here is what the problem they were trying to solve was, and the solution: Situation: Microsoft IT ran Exchange Server 2003 mailbox servers in a clustered Read More

As I previously posted about the DPM 2007 Storage Requirements Calculator, I wanted to post a quick note saying that it got updated today. You can get it here: http://blogs.technet.com/dpm/archive/2007/10/31/data-protection-manager-2007-storage-calculator.aspx.  Read More

Microsoft System Centre Data Protection Manager (DPM) is one of the suite of System Centre products to be released last year. DPM offers a new approach to backing up our Exchange data and introduces a number of new alternatives to traditional approaches Read More

Single instance storage is a feature of Exchange that we haven't talked about much since the 1990s. We made some changes to how single-instancing works in Exchange 2007, so I wanted to give everyone an overview of what's changed and why. But first, some Read More

It's been a while since we announced an update to Exchange 2007 Mailbox Server Role Storage Requirements Calculator. Yesterday we have updated the calculator to version 13.0. Updates: We have updated the log generation numbers per message profile Read More

Exchange 2007 Service Pack 1 introduces several changes in the Extensible Storage Engine (ESE). In my first blog article on the subject, I discussed the removal of page dependencies and the disabling of partial merges. In this blog, I discuss other changes Read More

Exchange 2007 Service Pack 1 introduces several changes in the Extensible Storage Engine (ESE). Two of these are: Removal of page dependencies Disablement of partial merges But first, in order to understand what is discussed below, we should have Read More

Today the Data Protection Manager (DPM) team has released the DPM 2007 Storage Requirements Calculator to the web.  You can download it here - http://blogs.technet.com/dpm/archive/2007/10/31/data-protection-manager-2007-storage-calculator.aspx.  Read More

Please go on our Mailbox Server Role Storage Requirements Calculator updates tracking page to see what is in this new version! A blog post explaining the calculator (updated for this new version) is here. Comments welcome! - Ross Smith IV Read More

Beta 2 of Service Pack 1 Exchange Server 2007 is available for public download and preview for MSDN and TechNet subscribers. As I wrote in my blog entry, Standby Continuous Replication in Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1, SCR extends the continuous Read More

Please go on our Mailbox Server Role Storage Requirements Calculator updates tracking page to see what is in this new version! A blog post explaining the calculator (updated for this new version) is here. Comments welcome! - Ross Smith IV Read More