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The DAG (Database Availability Group) is a new feature in Exchange 2010. In Exchange 2007 it was still difficult to ensure high availability for the mailbox role. However, the concept has been thoroughly revised with Exchange 2010 and now makes it easy for the administrator to ensure high availability for the mailbox servers. This article deals with the configuration of a ... Read more
If you want to change or add the display name for users, you can easily do this for individual or all users via the Exchange Management Shell. The attribute of the mailbox that contains the display name is called "DisplayName". This command can be used to display the current display names: Get-Mailbox -Database "Name of the mailbox database" |select Name,displayname If you now want to ... Read more
To plan future Exchange 2010 installations and the necessary hardware, there are currently 2 nice tools: Exchange Processor Query Tool Exchange 2010 Mailbox Server Role Requirements Calculator Both tools can be found in the Exchange Team Blog and require some practice to use, but are then very helpful.
In previous articles I have dealt with the high availability of the mailbox and CAS roles. This article will now focus on the Exchange 2010 Hub Transport role. However, the Hub Transport role is somewhat different to the CAS or mailbox role in terms of high availability. The Hub Transport role is actually already highly available, ... Read more
Introduction The DAG (Database Availability Group) makes it easy for administrators to ensure high availability for the mailbox servers. Spanning a DAG with several databases across several servers is quite simple. But what about the other Exchange Server roles? If there are highly available mailbox servers, but due to a defect the only CAS server in the ... Read more
Microsoft has published the architecture poster for Exchange Server 2010. For all those interested, the poster is available for download at the link below: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=cea0cf7e-d824-49bb-8924-39d66a5fb88e PS: For Exchange 2007, the architecture poster is available at the following link: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=FDCDF6E5-DE47-4B58-8086-282101BCDDE9&displaylang=en
The Best Practice Analyzer issues a warning if not all organizational units (OUs) of the organization are protected against accidental deletion. If you do not want to do the work of clicking on all OUs individually and activating the protection, you can let Powershell do the work for you. We first import the Active Directory module into the Powershell: ... Read more
When installing Service Pack 1 for Exchange 2010 on Server 2008 R2, errors may occur when checking the prerequisites. Setup reports that some patches are not installed. Here is the detailed list: Client Access Role Prerequisites Error Error: Install the hotfix from Microsoft Knowledge Base article 982867 at http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/KB982867. Click here to view the ... Read more
Anyone installing a new DC should synchronize it with an external time source. It is advisable to use a time server on the Internet. The following instructions synchronize the DC with the NTP server of the Physikalisch Technische Bundesanstalt in Braunschweig. Simply copy the text into a text file and save it with the extension .REG, then execute this file and ... Read more
It has been possible to change passwords via OWA for some time now. What is new, however, is the possibility to change expired passwords via OWA. The prerequisite for this is Exchange 2010 with Service Pack 1 or Exchange 2007 with Service Pack 3 on Server 2008. To be able to use the new feature, a DWord (32Bit) ... Read more
