Exchange 2010 RTM introduced Retention Policies as the successor to the Message Records Management (MRM) technology introduced in Exchange 2007. MRM was the successor to Mailbox Manager Policies in Exchange 2003. Message Records Management is called MRM 1.0 and Retention Policies is being called MRM 2.0 for short. MRM 1.0 as well as MRM 2.0 are both available in … [Read more...] about Exchange 2010 SP1 Retention Policies
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Exchange 2010 SP1 Personal Archive Mailboxes on Separate Databases
Exchange 2010 introduced the ability to move your personal archive mailbox to a separate mailbox database. This was a common request due to the limitations in Exchange 2010 RTM where the personal archive mailbox would be housed on the same database as the user mailbox. This would of course limit the ability to use a tiered storage model.In order to move the personal … [Read more...] about Exchange 2010 SP1 Personal Archive Mailboxes on Separate Databases
Exchange 2010 RTM High Availability Load Balancing Options
With Exchange 2010 comes many advantages in the HA realm. One of them is the ability to connect to the Client Access Server for RPC. This means, when a Mailbox Server does a *over (failover or a switchover), the user is still connected to their RPC Endpoint. You can also create a Client Access Array which load balances your RPC Endpoint on your CAS … [Read more...] about Exchange 2010 RTM High Availability Load Balancing Options
Exchange 2010 RPC Client Access Service and Multiple Sites
A common question I see out there is if the RPC Client Access Service (including Client Access Service Arrays) can access databases in other sites. The answer is, yes. Let's take a look at a couple scenarios. Scenario #1 - Full Site Failure Let’s say you have a Client Access Server Array called array.domain.com. Primary Site goes down. As a part of the manual site … [Read more...] about Exchange 2010 RPC Client Access Service and Multiple Sites
Exchange 2010 Moderation Features Grayed Out?
Exchange 2010 introduces a new moderation feature. This moderation feature can be used to perform moderation on both messages submitted to a Distribution Group and/or requests to join a group through the self-service options provided by the Exchange Control Panel (ECP). The Issue For both the Distribution Group Mail Flow Message Moderation as well as the Membership … [Read more...] about Exchange 2010 Moderation Features Grayed Out?

