July 30, 2010

Some Recent Articles

Here are some of the blog posts I’ve written for other sites in the the last few weeks.

Exchange Server 2007 Backup and Recovery

Read my five part series covering the fundamentals of Exchange Server 2007 backup and recovery. Learn how to backup each of the Exchange 2007 servers roles and then recover from common disaster scenarios.

Free Microsoft Exchange ebooks

From MSExchange.org:   Configuring Microsoft Exchange for Fast Recovery is a free e-book available from Realtime Publishers. Microsoft Exchange is the premiere authority for email in today’s global marketplace. With the impact email has on the workplace and corporate communications, along with the advent of Exchange Server 2007, maintaining an optimal environment is vital.  This [...]

Enterprise Systems Backup and Recovery (Book)

Dan lets us know that the book Enterprise Systems Backup and Recovery: A Corporate Insurance Policy written by local guru Preston De Guise is available now.  The book is a platform-agnostic guide to comprehensive backup and recovery systems and should be compulsory reading for IT decision makers. In the author’s own words:   Instead of [...]

Recovering a single Domain Controller from a USN Rollback

Some time ago I wrote about my experience recovering a customer’s Active Directory from a USN Rollback condition that had been caused by some virtualisation work.  There has been some discussion in the comments in that post about what to do when you have a single domain controller that thinks it is in a USN [...]

Exchange 2007 Backup Products

To continue my harping on about Exchange Server 2007 I thought I would link to an interesting blog entry from Harold Wong (Senior Technology Specialist, Microsoft) on backup solutions for Exchange Server 2007.  We have at least one Exchange Server 2007 deployment being delayed for production due to incompatibilities with the client’s backup product of [...]