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Sign up for MMMUG upcoming meetings...
There are two more Microsoft Messaging and Mobility User Group events coming up later this month and...
Author: Doug Gowans MSFT Date: 09/06/2007
Tafiti
Now this is very cool... https://www.tafiti.com/ Not messaging related I know but still worth a look...
Author: Doug Gowans MSFT Date: 09/03/2007
E2K7 SP1 Beta 2
Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1 Beta 2 has now been released. For more information have a read...
Author: Doug Gowans MSFT Date: 08/15/2007
TechReady5
Back from TechReady... Great week with some really interesting stuff. One of my personal favourites...
Author: Doug Gowans MSFT Date: 07/31/2007
DPM at TechReady
At TechReady 5 this week... Big highlight for me is the DPM stuff for Exchange. Thought I'd share...
Author: Doug Gowans MSFT Date: 07/24/2007
E2K7 Backup and Recovery with DPM
Beta 2 of the 'System Center Data Protection Manager 2007' was released recently and is available...
Author: Doug Gowans MSFT Date: 07/19/2007
MM and M UG UK event
Co-presented on my first messaging and mobility user group community event in Victoria last night....
Author: Doug Gowans MSFT Date: 07/12/2007
High Availability in Exchange 2007
Messaging is mission critical for most companies now and high availability is a major focus for any...
Author: Doug Gowans MSFT Date: 07/07/2007
Backing up CCRLCR and E2K7
One of the advantages of using CCR and\or LCR is the ability to offload the backups to the passive...
Author: Doug Gowans MSFT Date: 06/29/2007
Standby Continuous Replication (SCR)
Great blog on 'You Had Me At EHLO' released yesterday on SCR from Scott Schnoll - 'Standby...
Author: Doug Gowans MSFT Date: 06/29/2007
Update Rollup 3 for Exchange Server 2007 released today
A 3rd rollup update for Exchange 2007 has been released today under KB935999. Doesn't look like...
Author: Doug Gowans MSFT Date: 06/29/2007
ServiceConnectionPoints
Just been doing some reading on SCP's and how they are used by Exchange 2007. They are not something...
Author: Doug Gowans MSFT Date: 06/28/2007
Designing for CAS and Site Resilience... [some more thoughts]
Just carrying on from my previous blog.... Exchange 2007 has been designed to integrate even more...
Author: Doug Gowans MSFT Date: 06/27/2007
Designing for CAS and Site Resilience...
One of the challenges that Exchange 2007 and the CAS role introduces is how to design for site...
Author: Doug Gowans MSFT Date: 06/24/2007
...Microsoft Messaging and Mobility User Group
I've been at Microsoft for over 3 years now (admittedly only 18 months of which based in the UK) and...
Author: Doug Gowans MSFT Date: 06/23/2007
The SubmissionServerOverrideList...
Obviously we all know that Link State is going and E2K7 bases its routing decisions on your AD site...
Author: Doug Gowans MSFT Date: 06/14/2007
Run your own Exchange Server Health Check.... Part 6
Active Directory Generally our main concern here is if the Global Catalog servers are responding...
Author: Doug Gowans MSFT Date: 06/12/2007
Run your own Exchange Server Health Check.... Part 5
Routing The first place to start for this section is definitely Winroute. Winroute is used to...
Author: Doug Gowans MSFT Date: 06/12/2007
Run your own Exchange Server Health Check.... Part 4
Server Performance I wrote a blog earlier this year on the subject of performance monitoring called...
Author: Doug Gowans MSFT Date: 06/12/2007
Run your own Exchange Server Health Check.... Part 3
Security There are of lot of different parts to this topic. A lot of this will be covered in the...
Author: Doug Gowans MSFT Date: 06/12/2007
Run your own Exchange Server Health Check.... Part 2
General Administration This bit of the health check is really done for me. ExBPA was released nearly...
Author: Doug Gowans MSFT Date: 06/12/2007
Run your own Exchange Server Health Check.... Part 1
Operations This section is the most difficult to blog and in my experience, is the most likely to be...
Author: Doug Gowans MSFT Date: 06/11/2007
Run your own Exchange Server Health Check.... The Tools
The Tools 1. Microsoft Exchange Best Practices Analyzer (ExBPA) ExBPA was released in September 2004...
Author: Doug Gowans MSFT Date: 06/06/2007
Run your own Exchange Server Health Check....
I have worked at Microsoft for over 3 years now and have spent a lot of that time working on the...
Author: Doug Gowans MSFT Date: 06/06/2007
Want to know more about CCR?
Just been reading a couple of blogs from Scott Schnoll on his site. If you want to know how CCR...
Author: Doug Gowans MSFT Date: 06/05/2007
CCR, Site Resilience and decision making processes...
The ability to continue to provide a full service to your user community in the event of the loss of...
Author: Doug Gowans MSFT Date: 06/01/2007
An update for Exchange 2007 has just been released...
Update Rollup 2 for Exchange 2007 has just been released. The update is available from the following...
Author: Doug Gowans MSFT Date: 05/09/2007
Using CCR for site recoverability
The ability to be able to continue providing a full service to your user community in the event of...
Author: Doug Gowans MSFT Date: 05/08/2007
Fantastic Deployment Guides for Exchange 2007
Just found these deployment guides.... 'Exchange 2007 - Recommended Deployments'...
Author: Doug Gowans MSFT Date: 02/07/2007
The blindingly obvious..
Not sure why this has only just struck me but it has. If you are designing databases, storage groups...
Author: Doug Gowans MSFT Date: 01/30/2007
AD Integration - from 2003 to 2007….
So AD integration with Exchange 2003 was split into 2 components: DSAccess & DSProxy....
Author: Doug Gowans MSFT Date: 01/04/2007
Getting Ready for Exchange 2007 – where to start…
So Exchange 2007 was released to market at the end of last year. Realistically most customers will...
Author: Doug Gowans MSFT Date: 01/03/2007
Transport troubleshooting...
This article looks good. It’s just been re-released and consolidates several other articles: General...
Author: Doug Gowans MSFT Date: 01/03/2007
A very quick guide to Monitoring the Performance of your Exchange Server…..
Performance Monitoring is one of the dark arts which administrators are rarely given the time to...
Author: Doug Gowans MSFT Date: 01/02/2007
On email archiving
Keeping control of your messaging data can often be a frustrating experience. Administrators can...
Author: Doug Gowans MSFT Date: 12/04/2006