Microsoft 365 Keeps On Changing
As IT professionals we perhaps hold a slight advantage over the average person when it comes to being prepared for a disaster. A lot of you deal with disaster planning and readiness on a daily basis in your jobs. Those same skills can, and should be put to use for your own personal life as well.
In Exchange Server 2003 the last logon time for a mailbox was visible in the Exchange System Manager. For Exchange Server 2007 and 2010 the last logon time was removed from the Exchange Management Console, and so we need to use a differnet method to find this information.
Mailbox moves in previous versions of Exchange were interactive in nature, in that a wizard, script or shell command was used to move the mailbox and it occured in real time. In Exchange Server 2010 mailbox moves are now handled using move requests.
Exchange Server 2010 treats some object attributes differently than Exchange Server 2003. The most common issue that this causes is invalid aliases on mailbox users.
During the co-existence period of a transition from Exchange Server 2003 to Exchange Server 2010 you may encounter an issue with the legacy Outlook Web Access URL redirection.
The Exchange Server 2010 Mailbox server role is responsible for hosting the mailbox and public folder databases in the organization. Of all the Exchange 2010 server roles the Mailbox server is the most important to ensure a good backup and recovery strategy is in place.
In this tutorial I'll demonstrate the step by step process for recovering individual mailbox items for an Exchange Server 2010 mailbox using Windows Server Backup.
When Exchange Server 2010 is first installed many administrators encounter an issue with Outlook clients and SSL certificate warnings, relating to the Autodiscover service and the use of SSL for Exchange Server 2010 by default.
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Microsoft has released an update for Office 2007 that adds support for Exchange Server 2010 Personal Archives. However there are still a few limitations to be aware of.
Microsoft publishes plenty of guidance on planning and sizing Exchange Server 2010 deployments, as well as deployment tools to help with load testing. However despite this there is often still some lingering doubt about just how well a given solution will work once it is subjected to real world conditions.
A week after Google's launch of Google Message Continuity Microsoft has responded, criticising Google's ease of use, support, and cost effectiveness compared to Microsoft HA solutions for Exchange.
