Archive for month: April, 2012

Exchange 2010 Server Sizing Cheat Sheet

Planning an Exchange 2010 infrastructure properly can take weeks, and involve tons of information gathering, utilization forecasting, capacity planning, and differential calculus. Unfortunately, you don’t always have enough time to devote to planning our servers the way they ought to be, so we resort to SWAGs. While not as good as a detailed architectural review, [...]

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Create Room Mailbox in Exchange 2007

  In today’s video I will show you how to create room mailbox in Exchange 2007. To create a resource mailbox in Exchange 2007, first open the Exchange Management Console. Next, select Recipient Configuration from the navigation tree, and click on the New Mailbox wizard from the Actions panel on the right. In the opening [...]

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GFI MailArchiver Review

Product Review:  GFI’s MailArchiver 2011 by J. Peter Bruzzese. Product Homepage:  http://www.gfi.com/email-archiving-exchange. The case has been made repeatedly for an archive solution.  While Exchange 2010 has built in archive elements, in most cases, obtaining full compliance isn’t easy to come by with the tools provided and so many look to a third-party solution to assist. [...]

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What is a Resource Mailbox?

In this video we will define what a resource mailbox in Exchange 2007 is and how to use it. When creating a new mailbox, one option would be the creation of Resource Mailboxes.  Resource mailboxes are not used for the sending or receiving of emails, but are designed instead for use in the scheduling of [...]

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How to Set Exchange 2010 Message Size Limits

Email is a great platform for the exchange of messages, which can be plain text, rich text, or in HTML format. It is also a very popular method for transferring files between users, and that is where we, as email admins, can start to run into challenges. Using email as a file transfer mechanism places [...]

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