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Recently installed Windows 7 and really liking it so far… Not a single issue with it over the...
Author: Doug Gowans MSFT Date: 01/29/2009
OK so the idea of big mailboxes has become a viable option for a lot of organisations since Exchange...
Author: Doug Gowans MSFT Date: 01/26/2009
Not that I believe you should be, but if you are concerned about the server names and ip addresses...
Author: Doug Gowans MSFT Date: 01/25/2009
..announcing the next meeting of the Microsoft Messaging and Mobility User Group in the UK… This...
Author: Doug Gowans MSFT Date: 01/23/2009
Tech Workers Get a Raise “The average information-technology pro made $78,035 last year, a 4.6%...
Author: Doug Gowans MSFT Date: 01/22/2009
“Iron Mountain Digital and Microsoft Work Together to Deliver Cloud-based Backup and Recovery...
Author: Doug Gowans MSFT Date: 01/22/2009
Just a quick one – if you want to make sure that your hardware virtualisation platform is supported...
Author: Doug Gowans MSFT Date: 01/21/2009
Ah yes that old chestnut… SAN versus DAS – switch to DAS and save a load of money. It’s...
Author: Doug Gowans MSFT Date: 01/20/2009
When I started this blog at the end of 2006 I chose to stick it on MSDN mainly because the set of...
Author: Doug Gowans MSFT Date: 01/19/2009
The boss is tightening the purse strings and you're having trouble justifying an Exchange 2007...
Author: Doug Gowans MSFT Date: 01/16/2009
This is a smart idea… The DPM UI can be used in conjunction with Iron Mountain CloudRecovery...
Author: Doug Gowans MSFT Date: 01/14/2009
Let’s start with one of the obvious ones - Fewer Servers supporting More Mailboxes… OK so it’s...
Author: Doug Gowans MSFT Date: 01/14/2009
I’m guessing that over the next few months IT managers are going to be pushing their IT staff really...
Author: Doug Gowans MSFT Date: 01/09/2009
Just one more quick line to plug into DCM.. (plus a few powershell links which might be...
Author: Doug Gowans MSFT Date: 01/09/2009
DPM 2007 SP1 -- how to do individual item restore for Exchange “This video continues the series of...
Author: Doug Gowans MSFT Date: 01/08/2009
Joined Twitter a long time ago but finally going to try and actually use it. Follow me here…
Author: Doug Gowans MSFT Date: 01/08/2009
Have been using Live Mesh for about 6 months now and would definitely recommend having a look at...
Author: Doug Gowans MSFT Date: 01/07/2009
Alright so there is quite a lot of information out there now about Read Only Domain Controllers...
Author: Doug Gowans MSFT Date: 01/06/2009
To quote Technet: “The Infrastructure Planning and Design (IPD) guides are the next version of...
Author: Doug Gowans MSFT Date: 01/05/2009
I’m won’t be blogging for a couple of weeks over Christmas and the new year.. Happy Christmas and...
Author: Doug Gowans MSFT Date: 12/19/2008
This is the last of a few blogs about designing for availability and resilience… The first two are...
Author: Doug Gowans MSFT Date: 12/19/2008
I've been asked a couple of times about stress testing an Exchange server sitting on a hardware...
Author: Doug Gowans MSFT Date: 12/17/2008
TechNet Events Live: TechNet Event : Managing Windows Servers with PowerShell V2 Location: London...
Author: Doug Gowans MSFT Date: 12/16/2008
Powershell Explore Your [Environment] on the Windows Powershell blog, written by Jeff Snover. ...
Author: Doug Gowans MSFT Date: 12/15/2008
One of the fundamental decisions that you might make in the early stages of an Exchange Server 2007...
Author: Doug Gowans MSFT Date: 12/12/2008
Following on from my DCM blog last month here are a few more bits of Powershell that can be fed into...
Author: Doug Gowans MSFT Date: 12/11/2008
This is the second of a few blogs about designing for availability and resilience… The first one is...
Author: Doug Gowans MSFT Date: 12/10/2008
Registration is now available for Session Number 10 of the MCS Talks Series – application...
Author: Doug Gowans MSFT Date: 12/09/2008
Have had a number of conversations with customers concerning the merits of achieving both data...
Author: Doug Gowans MSFT Date: 12/09/2008
Just received a copy of a good Exchange 2007 and Powershell book: ‘Professional Windows PowerShell...
Author: Doug Gowans MSFT Date: 12/08/2008
Just seen this on Jason Langridge’s blog (which if you haven’t seen it already is the place to go...
Author: Doug Gowans MSFT Date: 12/08/2008
I’ve heard a couple of queries recently concerning Windows NLB and the CAS\HUB combined role. ...
Author: Doug Gowans MSFT Date: 12/08/2008
I blogged recently about log roll and CCR – ‘New log created every 90 seconds...’ and I need to...
Author: Doug Gowans MSFT Date: 12/05/2008
Nice article on Wired… ‘Ray Ozzie Wants to Push Microsoft Back Into Startup Mode’ “I love software,...
Author: Doug Gowans MSFT Date: 12/05/2008
OK here are my top 10 Exchange Server blogs\feeds. 1. You Had Me At EHLO… Everyone has seen this one...
Author: Doug Gowans MSFT Date: 12/04/2008
Then DCM, or Configuration Manager 2007 Desired Configuration Management to give it it’s full title,...
Author: Doug Gowans MSFT Date: 12/03/2008
This is the first of a few blogs about designing for availability and resilience… WHAT...
Author: Doug Gowans MSFT Date: 12/03/2008
I know this has been blogged about on a number of occasions so apologies to those for which this is...
Author: Doug Gowans MSFT Date: 12/02/2008
Let's say that over a period of an hour only a very small number of transactions are generated for a...
Author: Doug Gowans MSFT Date: 12/01/2008
Have been tracking a few internal discussions concerning dynamic disk provisioning – the idea of...
Author: Doug Gowans MSFT Date: 11/28/2008
Earlier this month Microsoft announced DPM Service Pack 1. Some pretty significant updates...
Author: Doug Gowans MSFT Date: 11/27/2008
Microsoft Online Services was officially released this week and so we move a step closer to a world...
Author: Doug Gowans MSFT Date: 11/26/2008
The support policy for Exchange 2003 running on a NAS (Network-Attached Storage) device is pretty...
Author: Doug Gowans MSFT Date: 11/25/2008
I recently made the assumption (not very accurately as it turns out) that deploying large mailboxes...
Author: Doug Gowans MSFT Date: 11/24/2008
Registration is now available for Session Number 9 of the MCS Talks Series – Sharepoint this...
Author: Doug Gowans MSFT Date: 11/21/2008
One of the most often asked, and most difficult to answer, questions concerning Microsoft System...
Author: Doug Gowans MSFT Date: 11/19/2008
Concerned about search in Vista and its impact on your Exchange Server? Windows Search 4.0 released...
Author: Doug Gowans MSFT Date: 06/09/2008