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They say it better than I can...
Just want to point you to a few blog articles I have read recently just in case your search doesn't...
Author: Doug Gowans MSFT Date: 06/02/2008
Continuous Replication, Site Resilience & decision making processes...
The ability to continue to provide a full service to your user community in the unlikely event of...
Author: Doug Gowans MSFT Date: 05/13/2008
Loadgen latest..
An updated version of the Exchange Load Generator: 'Loadgen' has now been released. If you are...
Author: Doug Gowans MSFT Date: 05/06/2008
Need 2 billion objects in an AD forest?
This is slightly off-topic but this is an interesting article recently published in Technet which is...
Author: Doug Gowans MSFT Date: 04/22/2008
Some more thoughts on SAN v DAS. Is it actually time to consider DAS?
Ok so here's my thoughts on the whole SAN (Storage Area Network) versus DAS (Direct Attached...
Author: Doug Gowans MSFT Date: 04/21/2008
SAN v DAS
This is a great white paper for anyone evaluating what storage solution to deploy for Exchange...
Author: Doug Gowans MSFT Date: 04/16/2008
Site resilience with both DPM secondary's AND SCR targets...?
Let's say I have two data centres and a requirement that in the event of the loss of the primary...
Author: Doug Gowans MSFT Date: 04/16/2008
Providers, Requestors, Writers? Some VSS Basics...
Have been researching some basics of VSS and thought I would put together a quick diagram to show...
Author: Doug Gowans MSFT Date: 04/11/2008
Add a disclaimer to a message with a carriage return..
(**Be warned - this is not an interesting blog...) Nevertheless there might be someone out there...
Author: Doug Gowans MSFT Date: 04/10/2008
How can the same email have two different sizes?
If you look at the size of an email in OWA and then preview the same email in Outlook you'll see...
Author: Doug Gowans MSFT Date: 04/04/2008
My DPM article on 'You Had Me At EHLO' generated a number of comments...
I recently posted an article to the Exchange Team site here - 'Protecting Exchange data with...
Author: Doug Gowans MSFT Date: 04/02/2008
But I only want to restore a single mailbox...
I'm using DPM to backup my Exchange data and I want to restore a single mailbox only. Is that...
Author: Doug Gowans MSFT Date: 04/01/2008
Two connectors; same cost; same number of hops to destination; message delivery will be load balanced across the two connectors?
No. If you test this scenario then you'll find that Exchange 2007 will select one of the routes and...
Author: Doug Gowans MSFT Date: 03/31/2008
Want to check the health of your E2K3 environment?
I wrote a series of blogs a while back which might help.. 'Run your own Exchange Server Health...
Author: Doug Gowans MSFT Date: 03/28/2008
Virtualization support...
This is not a new topic but a very popular one which we get asked about a lot. Our stance is...
Author: Doug Gowans MSFT Date: 03/28/2008
So what blogs do I read?
..thought I'd pass on some of the links to blogs that I read on a regular basis and particular...
Author: Doug Gowans MSFT Date: 03/28/2008
My 1st DPM blog needs updating...
I wrote a blog some time ago deconstructing the calculations within the DPM Storage...
Author: Doug Gowans MSFT Date: 03/25/2008
Protecting Exchange data with DPM
Microsoft System Centre Data Protection Manager (DPM) is one of the suite of System Centre products...
Author: Doug Gowans MSFT Date: 03/12/2008
Planning an OCS Topology?
Just seen this blog on the OCS Team blog about the planning tool for OCS 2007 which has just been...
Author: Doug Gowans MSFT Date: 03/10/2008
The 2008 Community Launch Event
Message from Nathan Winters regarding a combined IT Pro User Group event... "Over the last few...
Author: Doug Gowans MSFT Date: 03/10/2008
More on ...Windows 2008 or Windows 2003?
A blog on this same subject has just been posted to You Had Me At EHLO... and there are a few points...
Author: Doug Gowans MSFT Date: 03/06/2008
Vista blog and SP1
Not a new piece of information but Service Pack 1 for Windows Vista has been released to...
Author: Doug Gowans MSFT Date: 02/29/2008
Windows 2008 or Windows 2003?
So you're about to deploy Exchange Server 2007 with Service Pack 1 and want to know which operating...
Author: Doug Gowans MSFT Date: 02/29/2008
Unified Communications Expo 08
Microsoft have got some great stuff planned for their stand at UC Expo this year.. The show is at...
Author: Doug Gowans MSFT Date: 02/15/2008
Exchange 2007 Service Pack 1 on Windows 2008...?
So now that Windows Server 2008 has been released what versions of Exchange Server can we run on...
Author: Doug Gowans MSFT Date: 02/12/2008
Single node cluster as SCR Target?
Site resilience is a requirement of a lot of companies but on a lot of occasions it is not a...
Author: Doug Gowans MSFT Date: 02/11/2008
Hiding Distribution List Memberships...
This is one of those issues in Exchange Server 2007 that will come up from time to time and this is...
Author: Doug Gowans MSFT Date: 02/08/2008
POPIMAP migration etc...
Couple of things that might be of interest.... An updated version of the Transport Suite was...
Author: Doug Gowans MSFT Date: 01/28/2008
Unified Communications...
Attended 'OCS Voice Ignite' last week in Barcelona which I can highly recommend for those who are...
Author: Doug Gowans MSFT Date: 01/21/2008
A closer look at the DPM 2007 Storage Calculator...
*Please note that the storage calculator has been updated since this blog was released and so some...
Author: Doug Gowans MSFT Date: 01/17/2008
Support for running E2K3 on a virtual machine...
Just found this article on the 'Support policy for Exchange Server 2003 running on hardware...
Author: Doug Gowans MSFT Date: 01/10/2008
PIFEM - Pay It Forward Email Management..
This is a nice article I've just been pointed to. If you use Outlook 2007 and want a much...
Author: Doug Gowans MSFT Date: 01/09/2008
MM and M UG UK events for January and February
Some information about the January and February Microsoft Messaging and Mobility User Group UK...
Author: Doug Gowans MSFT Date: 12/20/2007
Backup solutions for Exchange 2007... (4)
Continuing on from previous blogs in this series; 'Backup solutions for Exchange 2007', 'Backup...
Author: Doug Gowans MSFT Date: 12/19/2007
CAL Suites..
Just found a nice blog by Ewan Dalton on the subject of licensing, specifically concerning Unified...
Author: Doug Gowans MSFT Date: 12/19/2007
Backup solutions for Exchange 2007... (3)
Just to continue on from previous blogs; 'Backup solutions for Exchange 2007' and 'Backup solutions...
Author: Doug Gowans MSFT Date: 12/19/2007
MM and M UG UK for November
Had the opportunity to be involved in the November Microsoft Messaging and Mobility User Group...
Author: Doug Gowans MSFT Date: 12/17/2007
Backup solutions for Exchange 2007... (2)
Just to continue on from a previous blog on 'Backup solutions for Exchange 2007' in which I...
Author: Doug Gowans MSFT Date: 12/17/2007
DPM Calculator.....
This has been advertised a lot recently but thought it was worth a quick post. The calculator is...
Author: Doug Gowans MSFT Date: 12/17/2007
Technorati...
In a blatant attempt to drive more traffic to my site I have created a new Technorati profile.......
Author: Doug Gowans MSFT Date: 12/17/2007
Do we actually need to backup our Exchange data anymore?
A number of administrators are currently reconsidering their approach to backing up their Exchange...
Author: Doug Gowans MSFT Date: 11/26/2007
Backup solutions for Exchange 2007...
The continuous replication technology available in Exchange 2007 gives us some interesting new...
Author: Doug Gowans MSFT Date: 10/16/2007
Item Counts and E2K7
Just been advised that article 905803 which discusses the impact of high item counts on Outlook...
Author: Doug Gowans MSFT Date: 10/10/2007
SCCM, SCM, SCE....?
Over the last few weeks I've heard a lot of new acronyms bounded about which seem to skirt the world...
Author: Doug Gowans MSFT Date: 10/09/2007
Decision Matrices for Inter-Site CCR Recovery in E2K7
Thought I would take the opportunity to re-blog my CCR decision matrices that I first blogged back...
Author: Doug Gowans MSFT Date: 09/27/2007