I took a while Today to figure out how the DAG really work behind. And I will not walk through the whole steps of building a DAG, as you can find many well written instructions by Google. What I would like to talk about are something that help you understand DAG better. Like my previous … Continue reading What is DAG? (part 2)
What is DAG? (part 1)
DAG stands for Database Availability Group, which is a new architecture in Exchange 2010. With the DAG deployed, the mail system has high availabilty and site resilience. Take my project as an example, we have two Exchange mail servers. One of them is in the ShangHai office and the other is in Chicago office. And … Continue reading What is DAG? (part 1)
Move boot attribute off OS partition
One of my team mates failed to install the DPM (Microsft Data Protection Manager) agent on a Windows 2008 R2 server. He digged into this issue for a while and finally fix it. The issue was caused by that the OS boot attribute is on a FAT partition named OS, which I think is the … Continue reading Move boot attribute off OS partition
Create address list for rooms and equipment
Exchange Management Shell is a great tool to manage the Exchange 2010 server. Take this as an example, I did not see a place in the Exchange Management Consoloe that allows me to create a address list that is specifically for rooms or equipment resources. But by using the PowerShell command, I was able to … Continue reading Create address list for rooms and equipment
Allow owners to manage distribution lists
I am currently working on an Exchange 2010 project, the mail system has already been built up for couple weeks. And it works perfectly so far. In next days, I will write up some tips that I have learned. I would like to start with this one - how to allow the owners to manage … Continue reading Allow owners to manage distribution lists
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