Below are various notes when it comes to using the upgrade feature when installing Office 2013 and what it changes and what it doesn’t. These notes are put in program order. Office 2013 (in general) – the new look that they gave it is easy on the eyes and it can be customized in the [...]
A common problem which occurs when going to allocate a new database in Microsoft SQL is an extremely long operation which will occur by default due to a disk zeroing operation that is performed when creating a new database. By default this will take a very long time even on the most powerful of database servers.
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 [...]
DPM (Data Protection Manager) is a Windows solution for automatically creating backups of information. DPM offers disk and tape based backups. When using a disk based solution, DPM utilizes a storage pool for replicas of protected data on the DPM server or a custom volume. Replicas are placed inside of DPM-created volumes. On the DPM server, if you [...]
Yesterday I wrote a blog tutorial on how to add email account using Entourage. If you need to find it, you can click on this link. Today I’m going to show how to setup the Address Book feature for Entourage. Tutorial: To open the Address book click on the Address Book pane in the Entourage [...]
Today I’m going to give a short tutorial on how to add email account using Entourage. First a quick introduction to what is Entourage. Microsoft Entourage is an e-mail client and personal information manager developed by Microsoft for Mac OS 8.5 and higher. Microsoft first released Entourage in October 2000 as part of the Microsoft [...]
OWA (Outlook Web App) allows administrators to access their e-mail via a web browser without the need of VPN or direct LAN access. For administrators, OWA allows access to ECP (Exchange Control Panel) which enables remote management of Exchange. Accessing ECP is as simple as accessing OWA; you just need to have administrator priveleges for [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
