A litte backstory: We use Quest's MailArchive and the process failed for some time so the mailbox used for Archiving ballooned to about 78GB according to get-mailboxstatistics. We started the process, ...

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.

Mailbox databases and the data they contain are critical to any Exchange organization. To ensure high availability for mailbox databases, Exchange Server 2007 provided a variety of replication and ...

Exchange Server 2010 incorporates a number of high-availability features that system admins will find useful, including a new database availability groups (DAG) feature. Mailbox databases and the data ...

An Exchange Server database plays a pivotal role in smooth functioning of the business as it stores critical data, such as user mailboxes, archives, public folders, etc. However, sometimes, due to ...

Email communication is the backbone of modern businesses and organizations. For organizations running the Exchange Server, ...

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 ...

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 ...

With the release of Exchange 2007 and then 2010, Microsoft moved admins to a role-based model for deployment, with changes both to roles and services that admins should understand. Exchange 2013 takes ...

With the push for larger mailbox sizes by users and increasing compliance requirements by legal departments, e-mail archiving is no longer optional for most organizations. But thanks to new ...