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 [...]
Someone may have just given you the task to change a password for an Exchange user, and now you’re here; I’m not talking about changing your password, I mean change another user’s password as an administrator. Maybe you’ve never done any administration with Exchange, and the task just kind of fell into your lap. You [...]
With Exchange 2010′s hosted environment, end users can now manage their own Distribution Groups via the Online Web Access / Exchange Control Panel.
Microsoft Lync replaces Office Communications Server as a single, unified platform for communication. Voice communications, instant messaging, video, and Web conferencing are all handled by Lync. Lync offers a full range of common features for voice including answer, forward, transfer, hold, divert, release, and park, and extends these capabilities outside the office via secured Internet access without requiring a [...]
Troubleshooting mailflow in and out of an Exchange environment can be very simple if some simple preparations are made prior to any potential issues.
