In our daily jobs as Systems Engineers and Administrators we come across systems that are in need of our help… and may even be asking for it. Beyond checking your Event Viewer’s, this article looks at some common issues you might find on the server you are running Exchange on. As a Network and Systems Consultant, I see many times that Exchange itself is not the problem, but the fact that Exchange is installed on a sub-par system. Either the server hardware isn’t enterprise class, or the minimum hardware requirements weren’t addressed. In this article, we will take a look at checking the fundamentals of your Exchange System and look at a real world production server suffering from a common problem.
In this article, I will show you how to move your Exchange Server 2003 databases to new disk space on a file server on which storage is published over iSCSI.
In this article I’ll explain what SMTP Tar Pitting is all about, as well as show you how to implement this relatively new feature (at least for Windows-based servers) in your messaging environment.