A litte backstory: We use Quest's MailArchive and the process failed for some time so the mailbox used for Archiving ballooned to about 78GB according to get-mailboxstatistics. We started the process, ...

There could be many reasons why you need to restore a database. Let’s look at some common reasons. The server has been re-installed, after failure. The database gets corrupted or is not mounting.

A regular backup can help restore the mailbox database and mailbox connectivity after a malicious attack, database corruption, or server crash, with minimum and acceptable downtime depending on the ...

Email communication is the backbone of modern businesses and organizations. For organizations running the Exchange Server, ...

Accidental deletion of a user mailbox, shared mailbox, public folder, or any other item is a common scenario in an Exchange Server environment. When a mailbox is deleted, its associated Active ...

For this blog post, I’m going to jump right into a topic of most interest to organizations deploying Exchange Server 2010, which is Disaster Recovery of databases. New to Exchange 2010 is the concept ...

Exchange Server 2010 incorporates a number of high-availability features that system admins will find useful, including a new database availability groups (DAG) feature. Mailbox databases and the data ...

Doing some preliminary planning for when I introduce Exchange 2010 into our environment. Given that we have vsphere for redundancy/recovery initially we're going to start the same as we are now with ...

E-mail is an essential business communication tool, so ensuring high availability (HA) with Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 is important. Here's how. There are several layers in Microsoft Exchange ...