http://www.windowsitpro.com/authors/author/author/5002559/rsscomment/5002559en-USSun, 27 May 2012 03:28:02 GMTSun, 27 May 2012 03:28:02 GMThttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/user-management-and-profiles/creating-a-upn-suffix-as-an-ou-property#commentsAnchorTue, 04 Aug 2009 12:35:09 GMT
What use is it to publish knowledge based articles accessible only to "VIPs"?]]>DanielTue, 04 Aug 2009 12:35:09 GMThttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/user-management-and-profiles/creating-a-upn-suffix-as-an-ou-property#commentsAnchorhttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/user-management-and-profiles/enabling-upn-logon-for-owa#commentsAnchorTue, 21 Oct 2008 04:43:15 GMT
cde]]>vbraos Tue, 21 Oct 2008 04:43:15 GMThttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/user-management-and-profiles/enabling-upn-logon-for-owa#commentsAnchorhttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/performance/load-testing-exchange-2000-analysis-and-esp#commentsAnchorMon, 08 Oct 2007 04:51:06 GMT
adfsadf]]>RamMon, 08 Oct 2007 04:51:06 GMThttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/performance/load-testing-exchange-2000-analysis-and-esp#commentsAnchorhttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/exchange-server/using-thread-compressor#commentsAnchorWed, 03 Oct 2007 02:57:25 GMT
Since Frank’s comment came 3 years after the original article, I feel I can riposte it just over 2 years later :) I wrote Thread Compressor originally for Outlook 2000, as a COM addin. That is the version which Evan talked about here, although there was a VB sample called Thread Compressor which was published on MSDN, is completely unrelated to my version, and isn’t as good. To answer Frank’s comments: 1) No, you don’t. TC compresses the conversations within a folder - all you need to do is tell it what folders to compress. 2) No, they aren’t. Threads are identified based on the conversation index and are completely unaffected by subject line changes. 3) No, they won’t. Since it uses conversation index, TC identifies replies to messages so handles "forking" of threads, successfully keeping the last messages in each fork, regardless of date/time. 4) Possibly; if someone replies to a message and alters the original content of the message within their reply (ie they reply, and delete chunks of what the original message said within the text of their reply), then that modified version stays. This is the principle risk of running TC. 5) There is the option of keeping the original mail - ie the mail which started the thread, and all the mails which finished each of the forks within the thread. TC doesn’t build a single view of the thread, it only removes the spurious replies within it. I suspect Frank may have been commenting on the MSDN sample, but thought I’d respond anyway :) TC is, according to the thousands of users inside MS, very useful indeed. One day, Outlook will hopefully include something similar but more robust, taking into account the concerns with point 4) above. See http://blogs.technet.com/ewan/archive/2007/04/23/thread-compressor-for-outlook-do-you-want-it.aspx for a bit more detail, or http://search.live.com/results.aspx?q=threadc4.zip for links to where you can download the older version. Ewan]]>ewandmsft Wed, 03 Oct 2007 02:57:25 GMThttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/exchange-server/using-thread-compressor#commentsAnchorhttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/performance/the-7-habits-of-highly-available-exchange-servers#commentsAnchorWed, 25 Jan 2006 08:17:49 GMT
Is this article likely to be updated for Exchange 2003 or later? I’d be happy to have a go.]]>ADAMWed, 25 Jan 2006 08:17:49 GMThttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/performance/the-7-habits-of-highly-available-exchange-servers#commentsAnchorhttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/exchange-server/using-thread-compressor#commentsAnchorThu, 14 Jul 2005 13:08:32 GMT
Problems with Thread Compressor: 1) You have to manually locate the first email you want to start each thread. 2) Threads are identified by the subject line, so if the subject line changes, or someone later starts a new thread with the same subject line, you get unpredictable results. 3) Emails might be placed in the newly compressed thread out of order. 4) Links at the front of the newly compressed thread might refer to an email that was dropped and not present in the newly compressed thread. 5) The newly compressed thread has the timestamp that it was created, and not the timestamp of the original starting email in the thread. Nice try, but not really useful. ]]>FrankThu, 14 Jul 2005 13:08:32 GMThttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/exchange-server/using-thread-compressor#commentsAnchorhttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/raid2/comparing-raid-5-and-raid-0-1#commentsAnchorSat, 12 Mar 2005 21:38:57 GMT
Can one set up a Raid 0 configuration and then use a good backup utility to reinstall a crashed Raid 0 array? This way, you get the speed of Raid 0, and only minor inconvenience if you have a crash and have to restore. hhhhzzzz@aol.com]]>Anonymous User Sat, 12 Mar 2005 21:38:57 GMThttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/raid2/comparing-raid-5-and-raid-0-1#commentsAnchorhttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/user-management-and-profiles/creating-a-upn-suffix-as-an-ou-property#commentsAnchorSun, 20 Feb 2005 04:35:36 GMT
Very good stuff. It helped a lot. Andy]]>Anonymous User Sun, 20 Feb 2005 04:35:36 GMThttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/user-management-and-profiles/creating-a-upn-suffix-as-an-ou-property#commentsAnchorhttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/user-management-and-profiles/exchange-2000-hosting-the-asp-model-part-1#commentsAnchorWed, 15 Dec 2004 00:32:17 GMT
it’s good article]]>Anonymous User Wed, 15 Dec 2004 00:32:17 GMThttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/user-management-and-profiles/exchange-2000-hosting-the-asp-model-part-1#commentsAnchorhttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/exchange-2000-server/zero-downtime-exchange-2000-recovery#commentsAnchorSat, 18 Oct 2003 14:54:35 GMT
For real disaster recovery procedures, you must assume that the original Exchange server is unrecoverable, this could happen due to a fire or where a SAN goes down and takes days to get back up. In this event these procedures cannot work, you have to install exchange again with the /disasterrecovery switch, even then this procedure does not work for an exchange clustered service. I have been talking to MS regarding a zero downtime solution where the original server is unavailable and we have yet to come up with a solution. Any help you could give in this matter would be great!]]>Rory Niland Sat, 18 Oct 2003 14:54:35 GMThttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/exchange-2000-server/zero-downtime-exchange-2000-recovery#commentsAnchorhttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/ldap/exchange-2000-hosting-the-asp-model-part-2#commentsAnchorFri, 19 Sep 2003 15:33:08 GMT
I need to create a Recipient Policy that stamps an SMTP address on a group of Contacts in a Specific OU. Is there something similar I could do that would modify all the contacts in that OU so that I had something to select in the Filter List?]]>JerryFri, 19 Sep 2003 15:33:08 GMThttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/ldap/exchange-2000-hosting-the-asp-model-part-2#commentsAnchorhttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/administration-tools2/exmerge-options#commentsAnchorWed, 30 Jan 2002 18:38:47 GMT
What exactly does the option Folder Permissions do? Will it modify server permissions (which permissions, client, server, etc.)? Also, if I have set views and various client and server rules, will these options be able to transfer these settings accross different sites, or will it only work only on multiple servers sites?]]>Manny Artola Wed, 30 Jan 2002 18:38:47 GMThttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/administration-tools2/exmerge-options#commentsAnchorhttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/performance/the-7-habits-of-highly-available-exchange-servers#commentsAnchorFri, 18 Jan 2002 14:59:31 GMT


Not Just a Storage Solution Provider

I’m writing in regard to Evan Morris’s "The 7 Habits of Highly Available Exchange Servers" (August 2001). Although Marathon Technologies is pleased to be included in this article, the article represents the company’s solutions too narrowly.

Habit 4: Back Up with Restores in Mind mentions Marathon as a storage solution provider. Marathon has storage capabilities, but the company’s key goal is to ensure that mission-critical applications keep running.

In keeping with the title of the article, mention of Marathon’s NoFail EMail offerings seems appropriate. Marathon’s NoFail Email continuous Exchange solutions guarantee that email will always be available and accessible with no loss of data or transactions. Marathon’s Long Distance SplitSite Disaster Tolerance offering lets you physically separate Marathon Exchange Servers and place them in different geographic locations, thus providing high availability and disaster tolerance.

As you can see, Marathon is more than just a storage solution provider. Marathon is an overall system-availability solutions provider for the Windows environment that spans a variety of applications, including messaging, storage, process automation, e-commerce, online financial services, computer-aided emergency dispatch, and Web-based applications.

Linda Mentzer, Vice President of Marketing, Marathon Technologies
]]>Linda Mentzer Fri, 18 Jan 2002 14:59:31 GMThttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/performance/the-7-habits-of-highly-available-exchange-servers#commentsAnchorhttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/ldap/exchange-2000-hosting-the-asp-model-part-2#commentsAnchorThu, 10 Jan 2002 17:25:33 GMT
It worked good, but what about DL (groups)? People from different companies can still see groups from other companies unless the LDAP query built the way so there’s no group at all. Is there any way to manually edit query for an address list? The other problem is when I specify properties for user object in LDAP query all groups keep disappearing from address list and vice versa.]]>Ilya Kligman Thu, 10 Jan 2002 17:25:33 GMThttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/ldap/exchange-2000-hosting-the-asp-model-part-2#commentsAnchorhttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/performance/the-7-habits-of-highly-available-exchange-servers#commentsAnchorSat, 11 Aug 2001 22:46:22 GMT
I agree with the previous comments about the perils of clustering. I’ve just spent the week from hell fixing a major problem with Exchange 5.5 running on a Win2k cluster at one of our client’s sites. After a week without mail, users (and more importantly Management) were becoming increasingly frustrated at their inability to do their jobs...heads were on the block here. The problem was eventually traced to a cluster node misbehaving badly (the node was evicted, rebuilt and brought back into the cluster without problems), however there were very few indicators pointing to the cluster node as the source of the problem. For what this client actually requires (which is **NOT** 24x7 availability) clustering is a complex, overpriced solution that has it’s own set of problems. A single server solution with RAID 0+1 and RAID 5 storage would have been more appropriate for this customer, however the cluster was sold to the client as a "must have". Beware the perils of an over-ambitious sales department where clustering is concerned...]]>Shane Woodman Sat, 11 Aug 2001 22:46:22 GMThttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/performance/the-7-habits-of-highly-available-exchange-servers#commentsAnchorhttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/performance/the-7-habits-of-highly-available-exchange-servers#commentsAnchorWed, 08 Aug 2001 02:59:43 GMT
I agree with Nigel and Calin. The best method for backing up your Exchange org environment is still cloning the disk/partition, rather than wasting time and money on clustering solutions.

In my company, we use a 2 HDDs with ($700) Lucor ExactCopy software installed on NT 4.0/Exh 5.5 SP3, and we scheduled twice a week a complete exact copy (sector by sector) through ExactCopy program from Disk 0 to Disk 1, in addition to our weekly tape backup for Exchange server databases. In case of HD failure, simply remove the failed disk and replace it with the other one. Thanks to ExactCopy to maintain for you 100% copy of your original HD. If the copy disk fails, just replace it and rebuild it again with ExactCopy!. For any other DB/Mailbox restore reason, use the weekly back-up from the tape on NT server.]]>M. Yassin Wed, 08 Aug 2001 02:59:43 GMThttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/performance/the-7-habits-of-highly-available-exchange-servers#commentsAnchorhttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/performance/the-7-habits-of-highly-available-exchange-servers#commentsAnchorMon, 06 Aug 2001 03:23:51 GMT
One method we have used for fast recovery (Exch 5.5).
(a) Shutdown services.
(b) Cold backup to disk ( clone / snapshot etc. ).
(c) Backup disk to tape.

In the event of failure:-
(a) Point Exchange server databases to clone copies
(b) restart services ( applying transactions )

This saved my skin once and was pretty quick. Probably not recommended by anyone though.]]>Nigel Robinson Mon, 06 Aug 2001 03:23:51 GMThttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/performance/the-7-habits-of-highly-available-exchange-servers#commentsAnchorhttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/performance/the-7-habits-of-highly-available-exchange-servers#commentsAnchorTue, 31 Jul 2001 11:56:43 GMT
PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE reconsider the clustering advice for Exchange 5.5, at least on an NT4.0 platform. We have had such an environment (based on Microsoft initial advice) for close to six months now - and we - FINALLY - got rid of it last weekend (with Microsoft’s agreement and support). It doesn’t do one any good because the Exchange database is still shared - and - like in our case - when we had corruptions of it - it was actually more damaging to have a cluster environment, as the second server won’t come up either ("shared" data), and it would require much, much, much more work for rebuilds. We have gone through all options a couple of times, with Microsoft by our side (support), when we were finally advised to get rid of it altogether. And - guess what - even the response time of the server improved now. Just my $0.02 Regards, ]]>calinTue, 31 Jul 2001 11:56:43 GMThttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/performance/the-7-habits-of-highly-available-exchange-servers#commentsAnchorhttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/raid2/comparing-raid-5-and-raid-0-1#commentsAnchorThu, 26 Jul 2001 21:04:21 GMT
Not only do most raid 5 implementations not do a parity check on all reads as would be required for detections of flipped bits they als calculate ECC as XOR so they could detect an error (data stripe and parity don’t match) but couldn’t know if the partiy or data is right.]]>Howard Marks Thu, 26 Jul 2001 21:04:21 GMThttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/raid2/comparing-raid-5-and-raid-0-1#commentsAnchorhttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/raid2/comparing-raid-5-and-raid-0-1#commentsAnchorThu, 26 Jul 2001 07:56:17 GMT
RAID 5 if implemented correctly provides error detection and recovery at the individual flipped bit level for hard or soft errors -- thus reducing file corruption. Mirror based arrays alone are worthless for anything other than an identifiable disk failure, i.e. which bit is correct?]]>Clayton Falter Thu, 26 Jul 2001 07:56:17 GMThttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/raid2/comparing-raid-5-and-raid-0-1#commentsAnchor