Exchange has an Online Maintenance task that runs every night. In the Exchange Management Console (EMC), go to Organization Configuration > Mailbox > Database Management Tab > Right-Click our Database > Properties > Maintenace Tab. We can then see our Maintenance Schedule.In Exchange 2010, this will appear as:As you can see, in Exchange … [Read more...] about Exchange 2010 24×7 Online Defragmentation and Online Database Scanning
OCS 2007 R2 Load Balancing – Response Group Service Unavailable
I ran into an issue where we had two OCS 2007 R2 Front End Servers behind an F5 Load Balancer. We kept getting "This service is temporarily unavailable" from our Communicator Clients after we configured the Communicator 2007 R2 Response Group Tab. For those that are unfamiliar with this tab, it is a web based extension to the Communicator interface that allows users to log in … [Read more...] about OCS 2007 R2 Load Balancing – Response Group Service Unavailable
Exchange Unified Messaging – OVA not playing voicemails
I ran into an issue today where Exchange Unified Messaging's Outlook Voice Access (OVA) feature was not playing old voice mails. For example, when you dial into Outlook Voice Access, you will hear the following:"You have no new voice messages and no new e-mail messages. Please say voicemail, e-mail, etc...." A tip here is that you can press 1 if you want OVA to revert to … [Read more...] about Exchange Unified Messaging – OVA not playing voicemails
Exchange 2010 Client Throttling
Exchange 2010 introduced a new feature called Client Throttling. The goal of this functionality is to ensure that no one user can tax your Exchange Server. I'm sure many of us have had to troubleshoot Exchange performance issues and one of the tools that we utilize is the Exchange Server User Monitor (Exmon) tool. Often, you will find a couple users who are … [Read more...] about Exchange 2010 Client Throttling
Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Audio/Media Negotiation
Read the Lync Server 2010 version of this article here.There are several ways in which we can utilize Audio/Video streams in Office Communications Server (OCS) R2. The same "should... but not verified" work the same in OCS 2007 R1. There aren't really any places out there that describe how the media session works in different circumstances. For example, what servers and … [Read more...] about Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Audio/Media Negotiation
