Archive for the ‘Exchange 2007’ Category

Moving Exchange 2007 to new hardware and keeping the same name

Old server is an IBM with an EXP400 external storage attached
New server is a Dell PowerEdge 2950
I’m using setup.com /M:RecoverServer /DoNotStartTransport
Steps:

Make sure the new server has the same drive configurations. If you had C:\OS, D:\LOGS, and E:\Database on the old server, make sure you have the same on the new one.
Install the same OS. In [...]

Exchange 2007 Offline Defrag - Beware of the tmp file

Last weekend, we had to do an offline defrag of our exchange database. According to the event log and online defrag results, we can free up 21GB of space from the EDB files. The EDB file was originally 60GB in size.
So, we followed Microsoft Technet instructions on the offline defrag which are pretty straight forward.
There is [...]

Migrating email from Linux to MS Exchange 2007

To migrate emails from a Linux system to MS Exchange 2007 server, use the Microsoft Transporter Suite. There are some prerequisites but the installation itself is straight forward. You can get a copy of this tool, both 32 or 64 bits from Microsoft Website. This tool is really good as it allows to keep the [...]