Many of you have been wondering how continuous replication works in Exchange 2007.  The Continuous Replication Deep Dive whitepaper discusses how log shipping, log inspection, and log replay work within Exchange 2007.  In addition, the paper Read More

Please go to our Mailbox Server Role Storage Requirements Calculator updates tracking page to see what is in this new version! There are a lot of usability improvements as well as a whole new section on Storage Design. A blog post explaining the calculator Read More

This blog post discusses several top issues seen to date by the Microsoft Exchange Product Support Team regarding the Standby Continuous Replication (SCR) feature introduced in Exchange 2007 Service Pack 1. We wanted to share this information as it can Read More

The ability to continue to provide a full service to your user community in the unlikely event of the loss of a datacentre is an increasingly common requirement. Continuous Replication (CCR and SCR) with Exchange 2007 Service Pack 1 can be used to provide Read More

Hi! This is my first post to the Exchange Team Blog - hope this is of use! My name is Robert Gillies, and I'm a Senior Consultant in the Federal Civilian Practice of Microsoft Consulting Services. One of my recent projects for one of my customers had Read More

Microsoft IT just released a new IT Showcase whitepaper that you might find very interesting. Here is what the problem they were trying to solve was, and the solution: Situation: Microsoft IT ran Exchange Server 2003 mailbox servers in a clustered Read More

Now that Exchange Server 2007 SP1 is available, I thought I'd demonstrate installing Cluster Continuous Replication on Windows Server 2008. As stated by Scott Schnoll in his blog post, Windows Server 2008 includes a number of improvements and enhancements Read More

In Exchange Server 2007 RTM and SP1, the Exchange team has published guidance for using a CNAME record in DNS as part of the provisioning process for the file share witness (FSW) component of a Majority Node Set (MNS) quorum on Windows Server 2003, and Read More

Please go to our Mailbox Server Role Storage Requirements Calculator updates tracking page to see what is in this new version! Some great new enhancements and features such as: Projected Number of Mailboxes Growth Network Failure Tolerance Read More

Folks over on Clustering and High Availability blog have decided to (re)start their blog. Seems like they have lined up some good content which they should start posting soon (January 2008 is here after all)! So - if clustering and high availability is Read More

It's been a while since we announced an update to Exchange 2007 Mailbox Server Role Storage Requirements Calculator. Yesterday we have updated the calculator to version 13.0. Updates: We have updated the log generation numbers per message profile Read More

Exchange 2007 Service Pack 1 introduces several changes in the Extensible Storage Engine (ESE). In my first blog article on the subject, I discussed the removal of page dependencies and the disabling of partial merges. In this blog, I discuss other changes Read More

To demonstrate upgrading a CCR cluster from Exchange 2007 RTM to SP1, I have created a video demo that takes you through the process of upgrading the passive node followed by upgrading the CMS to SP1 and finally upgrading the active node. This demo also Read More

Exchange 2007 Service Pack 1 introduces several changes in the Extensible Storage Engine (ESE). Two of these are: Removal of page dependencies Disablement of partial merges But first, in order to understand what is discussed below, we should have Read More

There is some confusion and misperceptions about the correct tools to use to manage a clustered mailbox server (CMS) in a single copy cluster (SCC) or cluster continuous replication (CCR) environment. Specifically, folks are asking the following questions: Read More