Archive for month: August, 2011

What is Exchange 2010 Database Availability Group?

The services provided by Microsoft Exchange, especially the email system, are without doubt an essential part of any company’s infrastructure. Experiencing outages can result in substantial losses for an organization, both in terms of reputation and financially. In the past this would have been catered for by making a backup of the Exchange server. In [...]

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How to Export and Import Mailboxes with Exchange 2007

There are various reasons why organizations would want to import and export mailboxes from Exchange 2007. The primary reason most often being to have a backup of the users’ mailboxes.  There are a number of ways to effectively back up mailboxes off Exchange 2007; however, most of these require third-party tools. Luckily, Exchange 2007 offers [...]

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Understanding Exchange Storage Group

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This video will give you the basics of Exchange storage which you need to know before you start creating your Exchange storage groups and databases.   The process of installing Exchange will see to the creation of a default Exchange storage group with a single database.  In addition, a public folder database will also be [...]

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An Overview of Exchange 2007 SP1

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This video presents a quick overview and briefing of some of the key features in Exchange Server 2007 SP1.  This ranges from Active Directory (AD) integration with Exchange Server 2007 and a new GUI in the form of the Exchange Management Console used to manage Exchange 2007. Thanks to the new command line interface PowerShell, [...]

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Performing a Typical Installation of Exchange 2007 SP1

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Today’s video shows you the typical Exchange 2007 SP1 installation.  The Exchange Administrator is taken through a typical installation of Exchange Server 2007 SP1 starting from Step 4 of the Exchange Server installation menu. The walk-through operates on the assumption that the .NET Framework 2.0, Microsoft Management Console and Windows PowerShell components have already been [...]

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