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.

Accidental deletion of a user mailbox, shared mailbox, public folder, or any other item is a common scenario in an Exchange Server environment. When a mailbox is deleted, its associated Active ...

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 ...

Synopsis: I have an Exchange 2003 database file, but the server that uses it is dead. How do I get another Exchange server to mount that file as a mailbox store?<BR><BR>Detail: We have two Exchange ...

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 ...

Only two years after Microsoft Exchange 2007 was released the first public beta of "Exchange 14" (Exchange 2010) has arrived. For those interested in trivia, Exchange 2007 was version 12 — so what ...

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 ...

“A déjà vu is usually a glitch in the Matrix. It happens when they change something.” Needless to say glitches happen a lot with new software and Exchange Server 2010 is no stranger. As we all know, ...

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 ...