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High Availability & Recovery Articles

Generating Active Directory Accounts using the mailbox information in the Mailbox Database (Part 2): Date - Feb 07, 2008; Author - Anderson Patricio; How to generate Active Directory accounts from a Mailbox Database using Exchange Server 2000/2003.
Recovering Deleted Items in Exchange Server 2003 (Part 1): Date - Oct 19, 2006; Author - Anderson Patricio; This article explains how to recover deleted items at the mailbox store level and in Public Folders.
How Recovery Storage Groups Work: Date - Sep 05, 2006; Author - Rodney Buike; Recovery Storage Groups (RSG) are one of the most administrator friendly features of Exchange Server 2003 SP1. You may have used them already, and you may have had the same questions I’ve been asked. This article aims to answer those questions.
Creating a Virtual Exchange Server for Exchange 2003 Clustering: Date - Aug 22, 2006; Author - Marc Grote; In this article I will show you the detailed steps that are necessary to create an Exchange Virtual Server for Exchange Server Clustering with Windows Server 2003.
Backing Up Exchange with Data Protection Manager: Date - Jul 13, 2006; Author - Rui Silva; Microsoft Data Protection Manager (DPM) 2006 can be used to help you protect your Exchange Server data. In this article I’ll show you how.
Load Balancing Exchange Front-End Servers: Date - May 11, 2006; Author - Rodney Buike; Many organizations cluster their Exchange back-end servers in an effort to provide high availability. This article will cover two methods you can use to load balance your front-end servers in an effort to maximize performance and availability.
Fixing a Damaged or Incorrectly Configured OWA 2003 Installation: Date - Mar 16, 2006; Author - Henrik Walther; In this article I’ll explain how you can you fix a damaged OWA 2003 installation in a few minutes.
Recovering a Failed Exchange 2003 Member Server Using the Disaster Recovery Switch: Date - Jul 26, 2005; Author - Henrik Walther; What could be worse than facing a seriously corrupted mailbox store? Yes you guessed right – facing a completely dead Exchange Server. In this article I’ll shine some light on the steps necessary in order to restore an Exchange 2003 Member Server, that has experienced a major hardware failure causing a complete loss of data.
Restoring Exchange Server 2003 to alternate Hardware: Date - Jul 19, 2005; Author - Markus Klein; There are several steps you will have to do if you have to restore your Exchange Server 2003 System to alternate hardware. This is very often a task if your old Exchange Server box crashed and you did not have a chance to get the same or very similar hardware back. The goal now will be restoring your Exchange Server 2003 System on new hardware that is not the same as the old. Within this article we will get a drill-down on how this works and what steps and tasks need to be done to make things run properly.
Key Archiving and Recovery: Date - Jun 30, 2005; Author - Marc Grote; In this article I will show you how to setup a Windows 2003 Enterprise CA for archiving and recovering keys for e-mail encryption.
Demystifying The Exchange Dial-tone Restore Method (Part 3): Date - Jun 28, 2005; Author - Henrik Walther; We have reached part 3 which is the final one in the Demystifying The Exchange Dial-tone Restore Method article series. In this article I’ll show you how to make sure the Mailbox Store we previously restored to the Recovery Storage Group is in a consistent state, as well as provide you with the necessary steps in order to swap the restored Mailbox Store with the dial-tone database. Finally I’ll show you how to merge the two databases.
Demystifying The Exchange Dial-tone Restore Method (Part 2): Date - Jun 07, 2005; Author - Henrik Walther; In Part 1, I talked about what an Exchange dial-tone database is, also showing you how to create one. In this article (Part 2), I’ll delve a bit more into the Outlook 2003 Exchange Recovery Mode, as well as show you how to restore the crashed Mailbox Store to the Recovery Storage Group using NTBackup.
Demystifying The Exchange Dial-tone Restore Method (Part 1): Date - May 24, 2005; Author - Henrik Walther; In this three part series I’ll try to explain what the Exchange dial-tone restore method (aka the Recover now, restore later method) is all about, as well as inform when and why it can be a good idea to use this method in conjunction with the Recovery Storage Group (RSG) feature, when faced with one or more corrupt Mailbox Stores.
Exchange 2003 Backup and Restore with NTBACKUP: Date - May 17, 2005; Author - Marc Grote; In this article I will show you how to Backup and Restore your Exchange Server databases with the help of the built-in NTBACKUP from Windows 2003. I will show you the simplest form of Exchange Backup and Restore. For complete Exchange Server Backup and Recovery follow the links at the end of this article.
Implementing High Availability for Outlook Web Access using Network Load Balancing: Date - Feb 01, 2005; Author - Markus Klein; Today nearly every company that is running Exchange Server 2003 publishes Outlook Web Access to provide their users with the ability to read and write emails from nearly all around the world. The only thing you need to have is a computer connected to the Internet. This means that it is now more important than ever that you provide high availability and high performance to your users. Windows Server 2003 provides a powerful solution regarding this topic: Network Load Balancing, formerly known as Windows Load Balancing. In this article we will see how to configure Network Load Balancing for Outlook Web Access Services.
Implementing a Two Node Cluster with Windows 2003 Enterprise: Date - Nov 23, 2004; Author - Marc Grote; In this article I will give you a high level overview about the installation of Exchange 2003 on a Windows 2003 two node Cluster. This article doesn’t explain every necessary step for clustering Exchange, but it should give you an overview about the installation process and some basic handling.
Recovering Mailboxes with Exchange Server 2003 Service Pack 1: Date - Aug 12, 2004; Author - Markus Klein; If someone already tried the Exchange Server 2003 Beta 2 he should have found out that at least one feature was missing in comparison to the final release. With the Beta 2 you were able to reconnect a mailbox that was mounted via the recovery storage group feature with a user from your Active Directory. So it was quite easy to configure and no Exmerge utility was needed at that time. With its final release things changed and you have had to use Exmerge to recover the mailbox. Now with Service Pack 1 this feature is back.
Exchange Backup Strategies: Date - Jun 22, 2004; Author - Amit Zinman; The ability to restore Exchange is important but not trivial as there are various options to choose from. Taking the time to evaluate these options can be critical and save you time and money if you make the right decisions.
Exchange Server 2003 Mailbox Recovery: Date - Aug 01, 2003; Author - Markus Klein; Presenting his first article for MSExchange.org, we are pleased to welcome Markus Klein (MCSE & MCT) to our team of authors. With the new release of Exchange Server, Microsoft provides some more ways to easily recovery a mailbox from an online backup or if it is accidentally deleted. Within this article we will have a close look at these new features.