Microsoft System Center DPM 2010 (Data Protection Manager) allows for centralized backups of your servers’ data and for recovery. In this article, I will show you how to create a protection group in DPM. A protection group defines a collection of data sources with the same protection settings and schedule. In other words, a protection group [...]
Managing messages for a large organization can be difficult. As time goes on, messages build up in users’ mailboxes, creating a larger burden for mail servers and making it harder for the Exchange administrator to keep mail flowing efficiently. Creating a default retention policy is a good way to automatically manage messages. In Exchange, a retention [...]
Exchange offers Unified Messaging (UM) as a way to integrate your e-mail, business phones, and personal phones among other devices. If your organization runs Lync, it is possible to integrate it with Exchange UM as a voicemail solution. This article will show you how to integrate Lync with Exchange UM. Prerequisites This article assumes you already [...]
This is the 3rd article in my series about DAG’s (database availability groups). Check out my other article on DAG’s – Performing a manual copy of a mailbox database in a DAG and Realize high availability of your Exchange 2010 mailbox database with a DAG. In this article, I will go more in-depth on requirements for [...]
In my last blog about DAG’s(Database Availability Group) I mentioned that there might be a scenario where a user might have to perform a manual copy of a database – check out the blog here. In this scenario, using the EMS(Exchange Management Shell) cmdlets and EMC(Exchange Management Console) methods for creating a copy of the database [...]
What is a DAG? A DAG or database availability group is a new feature introduced in Exchange Server 2010 that enables high availability of Exchange mailbox databases. So what’s so great about a DAG? In previous versions of Exchange, high availability was possible, but required Exchange servers to be clustered when initially installed, required dedicated hardware [...]
SCE(System Center Essentials) 2010 provides a great collection of monitors from the first time you use it. Monitors in SCE look at the performance and availibility of your servers along with other things; if there seems to be a problem, a monitor raises an alert which can be seen in the SCE management console. SCE takes that [...]
Notifications are a great way to get important alert information from SCE(System Center Essentials) wherever you happen to be. Notifications can be received by e-mail, text, or IM. You can customize notifications so that the right people get the right information in the right way. In this tutorial, I will show you how to set [...]
SCE(System Center Essentials) 2010 allows administrators to easily manage updates for computers in a production environment. During SCE installation, you can specify whether or not SCE will create a group object on your domain’s active directory domain controllers for SCE managed computers; by default, the installation wizard creates an SCE managed computers group object in active [...]
Agents allow the SCE(System Center Essentials) server to talk to all managed servers. During deployment, SCE can be set up to automatically discover computers or specific groups of computers in the domain SCE was deployed on; alternatively, SCE can be initially configured to only allow manual discovery of computers. Which ever way SCE is deployed, in [...]
