Infrastructure snapshots
The place where you will find posts for Microsoft infrastructure articles, info, latest news and offcourse articles that i create!
Update Rollup 9 for Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1 has been released
We have released Update Rollup 9 for Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1 (KB 970162) to the download...
Author: Mohamed Baher [MSFT] Date: 07/26/2009
Exchange 2010 Archiving... Why to Archive???
From few weeks I was reading about Exchange 2010 archiving and I thought of blogging about it to...
Author: Mohamed Baher [MSFT] Date: 07/24/2009
Common Unsupported Exchange 2007 Configurations
This is an interesting section in the Exchange 2007 help file that i wanted to share and recommend...
Author: Mohamed Baher [MSFT] Date: 06/17/2009
Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 2 available in Q3 2009
Key new features of Exchange Server 2007 SP2 unveiled today include: Enhanced Auditing - New...
Author: Mohamed Baher [MSFT] Date: 05/18/2009
Exchange 2010 setup wizard
In this article I’ll give you a tour for the Exchange 2010 setup wizard, if you deployed Exchange...
Author: Mohamed Baher [MSFT] Date: 05/01/2009
XP is going to Extended Support
As of 19th of April 2009; Windows XP will go from the mainstream support to the extended support...
Author: Mohamed Baher [MSFT] Date: 04/16/2009
Exchange 2010 beta is online
Wanted to test and play with Exchange 2010, go and get the beta from here...
Author: Mohamed Baher [MSFT] Date: 04/15/2009
SCVMM P2V... Feel the heat!!!
This week I was working with a colleague in bringing up a staging environment as a replica from the...
Author: Mohamed Baher [MSFT] Date: 12/05/2008
Who wants to be a Certified Master???
And finally the Microsoft Certified Master program is live. I was monitoring the progress of this...
Author: Mohamed Baher [MSFT] Date: 06/14/2008
Microsoft.com Operations Virtualizes MSDN and TechNet on Hyper-V
If you were at MMS 2008 and heard Bob Muglia’s Keynote, you already know that...
Author: Mohamed Baher [MSFT] Date: 05/24/2008
Auto complete, Reply-ability, I need my X500!!!!
Sometimes i join discussions regarding Exchange cross-org migrations and the most hot topics is...
Author: Mohamed Baher [MSFT] Date: 02/17/2008
Excessive paging on Exchange 2007 servers when working sets are trimmed
Mike posted a fantastic explanation for an excessive paging problem that you might get on Exchange...
Author: Mohamed Baher [MSFT] Date: 02/10/2008
Recommended readings
The below is some of my favorite and recommended articles thought of sharing them and I recommend...
Author: Mohamed Baher [MSFT] Date: 01/30/2008
Who said that transaction goes from Logs to DB!!!!!
I've heard lot of discussions going about how Exchange ESE works and that the transactions goes from...
Author: Mohamed Baher [MSFT] Date: 01/22/2008
Installing service packs and hotfixes on Exchange 2007 with Forefront Security for Exchange installed.
Installing service packs and hot fixes on an Exchange 2007 server with Forefront Security for...
Author: Mohamed Baher [MSFT] Date: 12/31/2007
Exchange 2007 SP1 ESE Changes - Part 2
This is part 2 of the very interesting article about the changes in ESE in Exchange 2007 SP1. Highly...
Author: Mohamed Baher [MSFT] Date: 12/14/2007
Outlook Anywhere changes in Exchange Server 2007 SP1
Interesting blog about changes in Outlook Anywhere (RPC/HTTP) in SP1, i recommend reading it at...
Author: Mohamed Baher [MSFT] Date: 11/10/2007
Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Management Pack for Operations Manager 2007
And finally we released our Exchange 2007 management pack for OPS 2007 you can download it from here...
Author: Mohamed Baher [MSFT] Date: 10/14/2007
Recommended Exchange 2007 hotfix
There is a .NET CLR hotfix that has just been released and which is recommended to be applied on...
Author: Mohamed Baher [MSFT] Date: 10/04/2007
Exchange 2007 SP1 content is online
Check Exchange 2007 SP1 technical information at...
Author: Mohamed Baher [MSFT] Date: 09/08/2007
IMAP Migration FAQ
A major update for the MS transporter suite is released which supports migration from IMAP/POP...
Author: Mohamed Baher [MSFT] Date: 04/17/2007
Exchange Management Shell Tips of the Day
Just wanted to let you know that we’ve published the Power Shell tips "those tips that you see when...
Author: Mohamed Baher [MSFT] Date: 04/10/2007
Clustering SQL 2005 and Administrative shares
One of our partners was installing SQL 2005 64 bit cluster and while he was in the components...
Author: Mohamed Baher [MSFT] Date: 03/23/2007
Windows 2003 SP2
We have released Windows 2003 SP2 to the web, go read about it and download it from here...
Author: Mohamed Baher [MSFT] Date: 03/14/2007
Exchange 2007 help file refresh
New refresh for the Exchange 2007 help file is here...
Author: Mohamed Baher [MSFT] Date: 02/27/2007
Populating CCR FSW with CNAME
Exchange 2007 CCR became one of most popular implementation now specially for customers who seeks...
Author: Mohamed Baher [MSFT] Date: 02/14/2007
Public Beta for Microsoft Transporter Suite 2007 for Domino Released
Copied from the Exchange team blog. Today, Microsoft publicly announced its new set of tools to make...
Author: Mohamed Baher [MSFT] Date: 01/23/2007
Exchange 2007 mailbox server role storage requirements calculator
We have released our Exchange 2007 storage calculator, get the calculator and the full article at...
Author: Mohamed Baher [MSFT] Date: 01/16/2007
Exchange 2007 CCR and Transport Dumpster
Exchange 2007 introduces new high availability feature which is the cluster continuous replication...
Author: Mohamed Baher [MSFT] Date: 01/15/2007
Java 6 - Vista compliant
Looking for a Java runtime environment edition that is Vista compliant, go and download version 6...
Author: Mohamed Baher [MSFT] Date: 12/20/2006
Upgrading Reporting Services farm? Check the IP Address binding
Doing an upgrade from SQL 2000 Reporting Services to SQL 2005 Reporting Services in a scale-out...
Author: Mohamed Baher [MSFT] Date: 12/19/2006
How to setup QMS on backend cluster
I was trying to install Exchange 2003 Quota Message Service "QMS" on a backend cluster and I found...
Author: Mohamed Baher [MSFT] Date: 12/17/2006
Group Policy Settings Reference Windows Vista
This spreadsheet lists the policy settings for computer and user configurations included in the...
Author: Mohamed Baher [MSFT] Date: 12/17/2006
Final release of the new ISA firewall client
Vista users, the final release of the ISA firewall client is released. Go and download it...
Author: Mohamed Baher [MSFT] Date: 12/17/2006
Running IIS 32-bit Applications on IIS 64-bit
Do you have IIS on Windows 64 bit and want to run application that is for 32 bit. No problem. From...
Author: Mohamed Baher [MSFT] Date: 12/17/2006
Large Logical Unit Support and Windows Server 2003 SP1
today I got a question about the maximum size for a partition that windows can see and that it is...
Author: Mohamed Baher [MSFT] Date: 12/17/2006
Ports required for external trust using ISA 2004/2006
You want to establish an external trust between two domains where there is an ISA 2004 or ISA 2006...
Author: Mohamed Baher [MSFT] Date: 12/17/2006
Active Directory Performance for 64-bit Versions of Windows Server 2003
If you are interested in AD performance on 64 bit you shoud read this great guide...
Author: Mohamed Baher [MSFT] Date: 12/16/2006
Enabling SSL in SQL 2005 cluster
Did you tried to enable SQL encryption between the client and your SQL instance? I thought that...
Author: Mohamed Baher [MSFT] Date: 12/16/2006
How to move the storage of email and attachments out of main memory and on to the storage card for WM5
First thing you need to do is create a couple folders on your storage card.The first folder should...
Author: Mohamed Baher [MSFT] Date: 12/16/2006
SQL 2000 scale out reporting services upgrade
I was doing an upgrade for a scale out deployment for SQL Reporting Services 2000 and the servers...
Author: Mohamed Baher [MSFT] Date: 12/16/2006