Very common for most orgs evaluating cloud based mail to not know where to start, or understand where the benefits are. This morning I was made aware of a free tool from Quest, called the Quest Migration Assessment Tool, or QMAT for short. It’s a browser-based application that provides guidance for evaluating Microsoft Exchange Online […]
CAS Array’s may be a bit confusing What are they What do you call them? Do CAS Array names need to be included in your certificate names What about load balancers What are they? A CAS array is a logical Grouping of CAS servers within an AD site represented by a single DNS name, […]
That one little blog post could generate so much heat: http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2009/07/16/451784.aspx The Exchange team blogged about their decision to stick with ESE. The media jumped on the band wagon and reported in a slightly neutral stance while comments abound on the blog post. There’s much heat being generated, and the comments display a fair amount […]
What’s Exchange 2010 – Exchange 14 of course, or the public name for the next version of Exchange. I’ve picked a few things to talk about in this post and more will follow in due course. Two links that will be immediately interesting are the download link and the beta documentation link. Download the Beta […]
REALLY good question – I’m glad you asked. The question isn’t really SHOULD you anymore, however under what circumstances should you virtualize. Microsoft has released some great guidance as to why and under what circumstances virtualization is a good idea and under some circumstances why it should be actively encouraged. 4 Scenarios are discussed which […]
So what’s large ? In My Mind a large mailbox is anything to impractical for an OST, so anywhere above the 2GB mark, depending on hardware. The slower the hard drive – the smaller the OST becomes. Microsoft published a new white paper Planning for Large Mailboxes with Exchange 2007, and it’s an interesting read. […]
Microsoft Released this two days ago, and it fills the gap between the Edge Deployment document and real world deployment questions. Some of the topics covered include: Commonly Asked Questions Architecture and Networking Best Practices How to Set Up Load Balancers How to Set Up a Firewall Summary of Best Practices A lot of this […]
Yup – it’s not a Windows phone – it’s a Blackberry – Why ? Battery life with good follow-me email support. The Blackberry service knows how to suck mail out of OWA and push it to my phone – while it’s not the rich phone experience I’m used to on the Windows Phone platform, it’s […]
This has got to be one of the most subjective matters, ever – How fast/slow is Outlook performing. While researching another topic, I came across a blog post from the Exchange team which allows us to give our users guidance on how to structure their mailboxes and why. Check it out here: http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2005/03/14/395229.aspx This is […]