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I've talked about this topic in some of my other articles but wanted to create an article that talks specifically about this model and show several different examples in a Database Availability Group (DAG)'s tolerance for node and File Share Witness (FSW) failure.  Many people don't properly understand how the Majority Node Set Clustering Model works.  In my article … [Read more...] about Exchange 2010 Site Resilient DAGs and Majority Node Set Clustering – Part 1

I was asked by a client recently if there was anyway to export the Spoken Name in Exchange UM to a WAV file.  You can't export this to a WAV file but you can export it to a WMV-9 file which you can then use other means to convert it to a WAV file.Now when I say SpokenName, I am referring to the audio you hear when you press this audio icon in the Outlook Contact … [Read more...] about Export Spoken Name in Exchange 2010 UM

Exchange 2010 allows us to have Database Availability Group (DAG) members in several AD Sites.  For every subnet a DAG member's MAPI NIC is in, we must obtain a DAG IP.  This DAG IP is a separate IP than is located on the MAPI NICs themselves. We take this DAG IP to the DAG using the Set-DatabaseAvailabilityGroup command. Multiple DAG IPs Let's take a look at an … [Read more...] about Exchange 2010 Site Resilience, Multiple DAG IPs, and Cluster Resources

Connection Filtering Basics (Blocking Connection to the Server) Many of you know what Connection Filtering is in Exchange. It allows you to control what IPs are allowed and what IPs are blocked.   Taking a look at the following image, we can see exactly what parts of Anti-Spam utilize the connection filtering agent.In the following image, we can see in what order … [Read more...] about Exchange 2007/2010 Connection Filtering and Transport Configuration

Many will be upgrading to Exchange 2010 SP1 soon.  Many of you also have Blackberry Enterprise Server.  RIM has provided a pre-installation guide for Exchange 2010 here.  I wanted to touch on one of these pre-installation steps.  This is where we increase the maximum number of connections to the Address Book service.  The specific guide for this step is … [Read more...] about Exchange 2010 SP1 and Blackberry Enterprise Server (BES)