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It’s hardly surprising that many SysAdmins are willing to pay over the odds for sophisticated backup solutions which they don’t necessarily need, just to make sure their data is safe ASAP. Thankfully, Antoine Khater is here to give you a short and sweet walkthrough on how to keep your Exchange 2010 Server backed up for free. [...]

If you’re a Systems Administrator concerned about information security, you could do worse than implementing Microsoft’s Information Rights Management system; especially if you already have Active Directory Rights Management Services in place. Elie Bou Issa talks Hub Servers, Transport Protection Rules and Outlook integration in this excellent guide to getting started with IRM. In my [...]

Having recently been on the front lines of a massive PST import operation, Sean Duffy offers advice and points out pitfalls. More than anything, he wishes he had a simple tool with which to banish PST hell, and finishes with some hard-won guidelines. Every SysAdmin knows what kind of a nightmare PST files can be. [...]

Once you have set up Office Communication Server 2007 R2 to provide IM within the organisation, the next stage is to provide full telephony by setting up the OCS Mediation Server and the OCS Edge Server  to connect ‘outside’ the organization, and escpecially to a SIP trunk provider of  Internet phone services.  In my previous article I explained about OCS in [...]

Cluster continuous replication (CCR) uses log shipping and failover to provide a more resilient email system with faster recovery. Once it is installed, a clustered server requires different management routines.  These are done either with a GUI tool, The Failover Cluster Management Console, or the Exchange Management Shell. You can use Powershell as well for some tasks. Confused? [...]

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 One of the more obscure parts of Exchange Server is the Dumpster. This allows the recovery of one or more deleted emails, in much the same way as the recycle bin in Windows, even if the user has purged them. Although it is seen as an alternative to backup, or as a means to document [...]

In Jaap’s second article on upgrading straight from Exchange Server 2003 to 2010, he explains how to move the various services from the older version and fully decommission the Exchange Server 2003 servers. Jaap’s first article can be found here. In my previous article I explained the initial steps that are needed when you want [...]