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Microsoft Exchange LCR Compliments Archiving
Recently I had an opportunity to meet with an associate and email administrator in New York City named Lisa Bruno. She and her team are involved in a Lotus Notes-to-Microsoft Exchange migration....
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How compliant is in-the-cloud storage?
In-the-cloud storage got a setback last week when both HP’s and Yahoo’s online storage services were shut down for good. HP’s Upline has had a rocky past, with the young service having experienced...
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Exchange Server 2007 Backup and Recovery Part 1 – What Needs to be Backed Up?
One of the least exciting yet most important parts of an Exchange administrator’s job is making sure that the Exchange Server environment is properly backed up. Throughout my career I’ve spent many...
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Exchange Server 2007 Backup and Recovery Part 4 – Client Access Servers
In Part 1 of this series I explored the backup requirements for each of the Exchange Server 2007 server roles. In Part 2 I demonstrated Mailbox server database backup and recovery, and then in Part 3...
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Is Separation of Duties in IT a Help or a Hindrance?
As companies and organizations grow in size, departments internally supporting the business grow as well. IT of course is one that must scale to accommodate business needs. If your department is...
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Christmas Checklist for Email Admins
The end of the year is upon us, and for most of us this means time off from work to celebrate Christmas with our families and take a much needed break. But before we shut down our computer and head...
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Are You Sure Your Backups Are Working?
Backups are one of those things in IT that most people know are very important, but not everyone treats them that way. More times than I care to remember I have entered a disaster recovery situation...
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3 Technologies for Improving Backup Efficiency for Growing Exchange Environments
Ten years ago we measured mailbox sizes in megabytes. A 20mb mailbox was adequate. A 100mb mailbox was a luxury. Today we measure mailbox sizes in gigabytes. A single message in today’s email...
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Exchange Server SLAs, and Why You Need One
The worst possible time to define your uptime and availability requirements for an Exchange environment is when that environment is unavailable. No email administrator wants to hear “We need this...
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5 Simple Mistakes When it Comes to Email Security
In just one week Google, the International Monetary Fund and Citigroup have all made headlines as a result of email associated with them being under attack. The reason we continue to see companies...
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5 Essential Tips for SMB Email Security
When looking at solutions on securing email, many people don’t take into consideration the type of business environment they work in. All too often, after spending a great amount of time and money,...
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How to Go about Circular Logging Data Loss Error
As a System administrator saving disk space is one of the key issues we are bound to run into. There is a great feature that Exchange Server has, called circular logging that is used to save space....
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