Blogging and Evangelising about Microsoft Unified Communications and Internet technologies by Peter Schmidt [MVP].
Pedro Alves has made a nice blog post about DPM 2010 and Exchange 2010 DAG Protection.
DPM 2010 provides node based protection so the state of the database on the node – whether it is an Active copy or a Passive copy of the Exchange 2010 DB does not matter. The state of the database may switch back and forth from Active to Passive, but DPM will continue to protect the DB as long as the Exchange server is up and running.
Read his blog post here.
The DPM team has released a couple of new whitepapers, one of them “How to protect Exchange with DPM 2010“, regarding backup of Exchange 2010 with DPM 2010.
Along with the Exchange 2010 whitepaper, they also released whitepapers about SQL Server, SharePoint, Hyper-V, Windows 7 backup, see more at source.
Download the DPM 2010 Exchange whitepaper here: How to protect Exchange with DPM 2010 whitepaper.
Also see the DPM 2010 datasheet – How to protect Microsoft Exchange with Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager 2010.
Source: The DPM Blog.
Here is a quick tip on using the Exchange Management Shell to enable Auto Accept on all of your Room or Equipment mailboxes with a single command in Exchange Server 2010.
This is useful when you have just created a bunch of new Room or Equipment mailboxes for a new environment and want to save time configuring the meeting processing settings.
Continue reading ‘How to Enable AutoAccept on Multiple Exchange 2010 Room or Equipment mailboxes’
Ever experience a disconnected mailbox, that doesn’t show up in Disconnected Mailbox, after the mailbox has be disabled or removed ?
If you disable a mailbox within the Exchange Management Console or EMS and you for some reason want to reconnect it again, soon after. But are unable to find the disconnected mailbox within Disconnected Mailbox.
There is a reason for it, it will show up in Disconnected Mailbox after the nightly maintenance. But it is possible to force this, like it was in Exchange 2003.
Continue reading ‘Mailboxes not showing up in Disconnected Mailboxes’
HP has released their sizing tool for Exchange 2010. This successor to the Exchange 2007 Sizing tool does recommendations for deployment and sizing of servers and storage and includes a (HP) bill of materials. The tool supports multi-site deployments, Database Availability Groups (DAG), DAS or or SAN-based storage and high availability and client options.
As with the 2007 version it uses a combination of technical and business requirements and projects best practices for high available Exchange configurations (when applicable). The tool can update itself and the product information it uses.
This tool can be used as a good guideline together with Microsoft’s own Exchange 2010 Mailbox Server Role Requirements Calculator.
You can download the HP Sizer for Exchange Server 2010 here.
Microsoft has released the first update for Exchange 2010, the Exchange 2010 Rollup Update 1. It includes minor updates to areas including calendaring, OWA, and transport.
Read more and download here.
