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.

For this blog post, I’m going to jump right into a topic of most interest to organizations deploying Exchange Server 2010, which is Disaster Recovery of databases. New to Exchange 2010 is the concept ...

Moving Exchange mailboxes from one database to another is sometimes required to reduce the size of database, for migration, and other purposes. To move the mailboxes to another database, you can use ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Being an Exchange administrator, sometimes, you need to export the Exchange mailboxes to PST files. There are several reasons why you would need to export mailboxes to PST. Here are a few common ...

Many IT pros have managed Microsoft Exchange Server since its inception. My own 15-year experience began with Exchange 5.5, launched in November 1997. One of the issues I addressed early on was using ...

What do you use for your database naming convention? Anything in particular to identify the quota such that the helpdesk correctly provisions accounts? However... DBs should not be geared towards a ...

You may be new to Exchange and perhaps you are new to messaging servers in general, but one thing is certain: You are not new to email. Email has become the underlying foundation for a new ...