Microsoft Exchange and Active Directory Blog
Here is a list of the maximum database sizes for the various Exchange versions. Starting with Exchange 2003 up to the current version Exchange 2010. Exchange version Maximum database size Exchange 2003 16 GB Exchange 2003 Service Pack 2 75 GB (see below) Exchange 2007 250 GB Exchange 2010 2 TB The information refers to a single ... Read more
To coincide with the first birthday of Exchange Server 2010, Scott Schnoll from the Exchange Server Team Blog has put videos on high availability online. The video consists of 4 parts and is available here. Anyone planning or using a highly available Exchange environment would be well advised to watch the video. If you are interested, here is the ... Read more
If you want to change mailbox features via Exchange Management Shell, you can use the CMDlet set-CASMailbox. For example, to disable OWA for all users, the following command is sufficient: Get-Mailbox -database "Name of database" | set-CASMailbox -OWAenabled $false In this way, the features can be quickly configured for all users. Like the parameters of the other features (ActiveSync, ... Read more
On December 14, 2010 new Update RollUps for Exchange 2007 and Exchange 2010 were released, here are the download links: Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 1 Update Rollup 2 Exchange Server 2010 RTM Update RollUp 5 Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 3 Update Rollup 3 Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 2 Update Rollup 5 The Update RollUp 3 ... Read more
If the installation of an Exchange service pack or the setup of Exchange complains that a restart of the server is still pending. However, if the server has just been restarted, a key is probably stuck in the registry. The problem can then be solved as follows: Exchange checks the following registry keys: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Updates\UpdateExeVolatile HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\PendingFileRenameOperations To tell Setup ... Read more
A white paper on Jetstress has been published in the Exchange Team Blog. The document describes how Jetstress can be used to determine and test the performance of mailbox servers. In my opinion, the white paper is well worth reading and contains useful information about the Jetstress tool. Here is the link to the document: http://msexchangeteam.com/files/12/attachments/entry456925.aspx
Shadow Redundancy is another way of ensuring high availability for the Exchange 2010 Hub Transport Server. The way it works is quite simple. If a user wants to send a mail, the mail lands in a queue on a Hub Transport Server. The Hub Transport Server then establishes an SMTP connection with an Edge Transport and sends the ... Read more
Microsoft has put the new version of the Exchange Remote Connectivity Analyzer online. The website makes it easy to test the accessibility of the Exchange Server. New configurations or adjustments can be checked quickly. Here is the link: https://www.testexchangeconnectivity.com/
If you are performing an Exchange migration or simply want to move mailboxes to another database, you can use the Exchange 2010 move request. If you already want to move the mailboxes to the new server or database, but do not want to complete the move request yet so that Outlook 2003 does not have to be restarted, you can use the ... Read more
When users are deleted from the Active Directory, the Exchange mailboxes are not automatically deleted but disconnected. This means that the mailbox still exists in the database, but is no longer assigned to a user. If the user associated with a mailbox has only recently been deleted, the disconnected mailbox is not displayed directly in the ... Read more
