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Configuring Hosted Exchange 2007 using Powershell – Part 2

Cory — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 12:37:37 +0000

This is part deus of the "Configuring Hosted Exchange 2007 using Powershell" series. Part 1, which you can find here, covered deploying a new hosted domain. This new domain is fully segregated on the exchange server with its own Address Lists, and login using AD accounts with their own UPN. Part 2 will cover creating a new mailbox after the hosted domain infrastructure has been created. [...]

Configuring Hosted Exchange 2007 using Powershell – Part 1

Cory — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 19:59:53 +0000

Hosting Exchange 2007 is a difficult, tedious, and expensive venture to be certain. Taking into consideration the extensive hardware investments required, the development required to create an automated process to deploy new domains, create new mailboxes, set size and feature limitations on those mailboxes (or purchasing support for Microsoft’s HCM solution which uses the outdated [...]

Problems with Windows system state backups and SQL

Cory — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 21:55:05 +0000

It appears there could potentially be issues with VSS when installing SQL on a Windows 2003 server. We had a machine that we were backing up with DPM (which uses, in this case, NTBackup to capture the system state). The machine was backing up fine until SQL Express was installed (I narrowed it down to this [...]