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Microsoft UK Consultancy Services
Support for Virtualising Exchange Server 2010 SP1 has changed..?
The support stance for virtualising Exchange Server 2010 SP1 has changed significantly over the last...
Date: 05/17/2011
Want to work for Microsoft UK?
Microsoft Services in the UK are actively recruiting.. “You have unique experiences, skills and...
Date: 02/07/2011
Office 365 and Exchange Online
A very quick summary of Office 365 blogs, wiki’s and articles… Exchange Online – the first place to...
Date: 01/17/2011
Strange Jetstress 2010 results..?
Are you running the latest version of Jetstress 2010 against data created using the beta? If...
Date: 06/24/2010
Cmdlet Extension Agents
This is one of those blogs that it’s worth absorbing.. Using Cmdlet Extension Agents to cause...
Date: 06/23/2010
July ‘Microsoft Messaging and Mobility User Group’ meeting…
MMMUG are getting physical meetings going again. To kick off their first meeting after re-launch,...
Date: 06/22/2010
3 into 4 can go…
Once you’ve determined the number of Exchange Server 2010 mailbox database copies you’re going to...
Date: 06/18/2010
1 AD Site, 1 DAG = no DAC
So as the TechNet article (Understanding Datacenter Activation Coordination Mode) explains you can’t...
Date: 04/29/2010
Next year’s got to be better…
So it’s been a poor second half of the year as far as blogging goes…. First half wasn’t too...
Date: 12/18/2009
MCM Exchange Server 2007
At last funding and time permitted me to attend the Microsoft Certified Master program last month in...
Date: 11/30/2009
Exchange Server 2010 News & Reviews..
Exchange Server 2010 Reviews Microsoft Exchange 2010 Beta Looks Solid from Core to Cloud (and...
Date: 04/15/2009
What are all these changes to Active Directory?
This is a great blog if you are wondering about some unusual behaviour in Active Directory –...
Date: 03/24/2009
CCR or SCC?
Have had this discussion on many occasions and this 3Sharp whitepaper by Missy Koslosky would have...
Date: 03/18/2009
DPM in Paperback…
Just found this DPM book: ‘Mastering System Center Data Protection Manager 2007’ by Devin L....
Date: 03/18/2009
Microsoft and Google in the Education Cloud
This is worth a quick read if you are interested in what’s happening with Exchange in the cloud at...
Date: 03/18/2009
Want more Virtualisation?
Go to VirtualizationFeed.com and get the latest on virtualisation in Microsoft and in the wider...
Date: 03/16/2009
To my fellow bloggers..
Quick list of the blog articles that have helped me and might help you… 10 Steps to Becoming...
Date: 03/13/2009
A bit of love from Network World…
Exchange alternatives: Pros and cons Testing shows Microsoft's Exchange still tops for features and...
Date: 03/11/2009
Deploying Exchange 2007 on VMWare?
VMWare Podcasts – VMWAre Infrastructure 3 Podcast: Disaster Recovery (DR) for Exchange using VMWare...
Date: 03/10/2009
Free Powershell eBook
‘Effective PowerShell: The Free eBook’ from Keith Hill available on Keith Hills’ blog here....
Date: 03/09/2009
Friday Dilbert
You gotta laugh…
Date: 03/06/2009
I used to do it this way…
Just found some useful stuff on a colleagues blog - Gerod Serafin; a field engineer in the US. It’s...
Date: 03/05/2009
Software plus Services Guide & Business Advisor Podcast
Not something I would normally blog about but will be interesting to any of our partners who operate...
Date: 03/04/2009
Offline defrag a replica database…
Let’s leave the “why would you?” to one side for the moment but is it actually possible or supported...
Date: 03/04/2009
Now we’ve got loads of items – what do we do about it?
So you’ve identified that high item counts is causing issues with Outlook performance.. but what do...
Date: 03/02/2009
You’ve just installed your 901st Exchange Server..
..and ExBPA warns you to consider consolidating servers..? “There are more than 900 Exchange...
Date: 02/27/2009
Technet Session – OCS R2
OCS R2 session on Technet from a couple of colleagues: “In this 60 minute session Brett Johnson and...
Date: 02/27/2009
Why so much fluff?
When you use the Exchange 2007 Mailbox Storage Calculator on the face of it you seem to get a lot of...
Date: 02/27/2009
IronMountain CloudRecovery webcast…
Following on from the recent announcement on CloudRecovery for DPM from IronMountain (Backup your...
Date: 02/25/2009
PST’s not supported on the LAN…?
This is a new one on me - ‘Personal folder files are unsupported over a LAN or over a WAN link’....
Date: 02/24/2009
3 Data Centres and a File Share Witness
What’s the guidance if you’ve got 3 data centres, you're stretching Exchange 2007 mailbox CCR nodes...
Date: 02/23/2009
Corrupted OOF?
This is an interested blog from a Microsoft escalation engineer – Eric Norberg posted on his Technet...
Date: 02/20/2009
Part 3 of Henrik Walthers BPOS blog…
Entitled ‘Introduction to Exchange Online- Uncovering BPOS (Part 3)’ has just been posted. …to...
Date: 02/19/2009
Item Counts, Search Folders and Restrictions
Not a new subject but have been doing some research again and found a couple of useful links which I...
Date: 02/18/2009
24 hour operation, several thousand mailboxes, high concurrency, heavy profiles – how do you tune Online Maintenance?
For companies who have to support a lot of ‘heavy usage’ clients connecting to their Exchange 2007...
Date: 02/17/2009
Blackberry without BES?
Blackberries are great but BES (Blackberry Enterprise Server) can be an Exchange administrators...
Date: 02/16/2009
MSUKUCC lives…
The Microsoft UK UC Blog is now alive and kicking after a slow start… The blog will have...
Date: 02/13/2009
Initializing Storage Groups…
This is a nice blog from Tim McMichael (a Microsoft Escalation Engineer)… If you want to know...
Date: 02/12/2009
Archive v Big Mailboxes
Ok so this may not be a straight choice for most and an archive solution can complement Exchange for...
Date: 02/10/2009
Crossover cables and CCR…
So can you just use a crossover cable for private cluster communications between CCR (& SCC)...
Date: 02/10/2009
Are Public Folders supported in E14?
Well yes they are… “Microsoft will continue to support Public Folders in the next major release of...
Date: 02/09/2009
Technet UK on Twitter
Excerpt from the latest Technet Newsletter… “Finally, I'd like to announce the launch of our...
Date: 02/06/2009
OCS Master and ‘The Master Blog’
I’m a bit late to the party but in case you haven’t seen this already there’s some information on...
Date: 02/06/2009
BPOS
Really nice couple of articles on msexhange.org about BPOS (Business Productivity Online Standard...
Date: 02/05/2009
Quick Transport Rule
Quick transport rule to remove the recipient field of an SMTP message header from messages going out...
Date: 02/04/2009
MMMUG Event at UC Expo
As in previous years UK User Groups are coming together to put on a two day event on March 11th and...
Date: 02/02/2009
Getting your Exchange 2007 project approved – Part 6 (A few last ideas…)
OK so I just wanted to add a few more ideas that are worth exploring.. Data Centre Consolidation The...
Date: 01/30/2009
Windows Backup, Windows 2008 and Exchange 2007…
What are the options for backing up Exchange 2007 SP1 on Windows 2008? Microsoft’s VSS based...
Date: 01/29/2009