Introduction This is the second of a four-part blog on the features in Exchange Server 2007 that are designed to increase availability, and the hardware strategies you can use to increase fault tolerance, service availability and service continuity.  Read More

Now that Beta 2 of Exchange Server 2007 is available for public download and preview, I thought I would present a blogcast about one of my favorite features: Cluster Continuous Replication, or CCR for short.  CCR is a high availability feature of Read More

There have been a lot of queries regarding deploying Exchange in a Multi-site/data replication environment. I'll try to answer some of them here. Deployment Guidelines The Deployment Guidelines for Exchange Server Multi-Site Data Replication whitepaper Read More

As I already mentioned on my blog, here is some information on a somewhat confusing subject. I added two more questions about MSDTC that we hear often:   Over the years, the best practice recommendations on where to place the MS Distributed Transaction Read More

Executive Summary   The dynamic disk management functionality in Microsoft® Windows® 2000 Server and in Microsoft Windows Server 2003 is based on technology licensed to Microsoft by VERITAS Software Corporation. VERITAS Volume Manager Read More

You may have previously evaluated clustering and decided it wasn't for you. If so, this may be the time to take another look. Both Exchange and Windows have made dramatic improvements in clustering for the 2003 releases.   The most obvious improvement Read More

Exchange 2003 SP1 brings us a lot of new features that customers have been requesting, as well as product fixes since Exchange 2003 was released. Here is a list of major features that SP1 is bringing with some descriptions. Please do ask questions on Read More

Prior to releasing Exchange Server 2003 we didn’t test this scenario, and since we only support scenarios that we have tested and have confidence in this was considered unsupported.  However, with so many customers interested in this method Read More

Active/Passive configurations are enforced in clusters with more than two nodes (more than two Exchange nodes in Exchange 2003). This means that the scaling and monitoring limitations required for two-node Active/Active do not apply to clusters with Read More