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. The download is here. Comments welcome! - Ross Read More

To read the updated Exchange 2007 Storage Cost calculator blog post and get the calculator, go HERE. All future calculator updates will be rolled into this page, sorted from newer to older. UPDATE ON 12/02/2008: Version 4.0 This release of the Storage Read More

Hi from Alabama. This is a follow-up to my last post, which was about building a lab with Exchange 2007 on Windows Server 2003 using a PowerShell script. This post is about building the same lab using Exchange Server 2007 SP1 on Windows Server 2008. I 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

Are you prepared for outages that affect e-mail service or data availability? Have you defined recovery strategies and procedures for disasters big and small? This Webcast will cover the recommended strategies for protecting Microsoft Exchange Server Read More

Many of you have been wondering how continuous replication works in Exchange 2007.  The Continuous Replication Deep Dive whitepaper discusses how log shipping, log inspection, and log replay work within Exchange 2007.  In addition, the paper Read More

Please go to our Mailbox Server Role Storage Requirements Calculator updates tracking page to see what is in this new version! There are a lot of usability improvements as well as a whole new section on Storage Design. A blog post explaining the calculator Read More

This blog post discusses several top issues seen to date by the Microsoft Exchange Product Support Team regarding the Standby Continuous Replication (SCR) feature introduced in Exchange 2007 Service Pack 1. We wanted to share this information as it can Read More

The ability to continue to provide a full service to your user community in the unlikely event of the loss of a datacentre is an increasingly common requirement. Continuous Replication (CCR and SCR) with Exchange 2007 Service Pack 1 can be used to provide Read More

Hi! This is my first post to the Exchange Team Blog - hope this is of use! My name is Robert Gillies, and I'm a Senior Consultant in the Federal Civilian Practice of Microsoft Consulting Services. One of my recent projects for one of my customers had 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

Now that Exchange Server 2007 SP1 is available, I thought I'd demonstrate installing Cluster Continuous Replication on Windows Server 2008. As stated by Scott Schnoll in his blog post, Windows Server 2008 includes a number of improvements and enhancements Read More

In Exchange Server 2007 RTM and SP1, the Exchange team has published guidance for using a CNAME record in DNS as part of the provisioning process for the file share witness (FSW) component of a Majority Node Set (MNS) quorum on Windows Server 2003, and Read More

Please go to our Mailbox Server Role Storage Requirements Calculator updates tracking page to see what is in this new version! Some great new enhancements and features such as: Projected Number of Mailboxes Growth Network Failure Tolerance Read More

Folks over on Clustering and High Availability blog have decided to (re)start their blog. Seems like they have lined up some good content which they should start posting soon (January 2008 is here after all)! So - if clustering and high availability is Read More