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 ...

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.

Lucid8 is a Washington-based company that offers products designed to make Microsoft Exchange run more smoothly and more reliably, focusing on disaster prevention, optimizing Exchange message stores ...

What do you use for your database naming convention? Anything in particular to identify the quota such that the helpdesk correctly provisions accounts? However... DBs should not be geared towards a ...

An Exchange Server holds data in databases (EDB files). The EDB files, which are proprietary of Microsoft, are accompanied by transaction logs. Although the server and its configuration are important, ...

It is imperative to understand what would be at stake if your Exchange Server was compromised. Data is the primary at-risk component in these situations, but service interruptions also hamper business ...

So I increased the default limits of one my Exchange Storage Groups, but I couldn't get it to take effect without restarting the service. So I scheduled downtime and rebooted the server (yeah I know I ...