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.
The first two parts of my scripting series discussed Exchange users in almost every possible angle. This third part of the series will go over ways for accessing Exchange objects, such as servers, storage groups and databases.
The storage subsystem is one of the most critical elements on a Microsoft Exchange infra-structure, mainly because of the aggressive random I/O requirements of the Exchange Server 2003 database. The key to a healthy environment is proper configuration of the storage array, considering performance before capacity. One of the measures you can take is to realign the hard disk tracks with the Windows physical disk partitions, increasing performance up to 20 percent.
The Exchange Management Pack Configuration Wizard can make configuring the Exchange management pack really easy and here I show you how. When you’ve done that, you should also check out the Exchange Best Practices Analyzer (ExBPA) management pack.
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.
Due to the many different theories about the best practice of configuring a Exchange Server 2003 deployment in an organization, Microsoft tried to give each administrator and consultant an easy way to deploy Exchange using Microsoft’s recommendations on best practices. With release 2.0 of the Exchange Best Practice Analyzer, Paul Bowden, the “father” of this tool, has provided a powerful tool for easily configuring and optimizing your Exchange Server environment. In this article you will get a brief description of the features of Exchange Best Practice Analyzer 2.0 and how to use it to optimize your configuration.
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