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Brien Posey is a freelance technical writer, and a five time Microsoft MVP. Over the last thirteen years, Brien has published literally thousands of technical articles and whitepapers, and written or contributed to dozens of books. Prior to becoming a freelance writer, Brien served as CIO for a national chain of hospitals and healthcare facilities. He has also served as a network administrator for the Department of Defense at Fort Knox, and for some of the nation’s largest insurance companies.
Implementing Cluster Continuous Replication, Part 2
by Brien Posey | 19 November 2009 |  1 comment |
Cluster continuous replication (CCR) helps to provide a more resilient email system with faster recovery. It was introduced in Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 and uses log shipping and failover. configuring Cluster Continuous Replication on a Windows Server 2008... Read more...
Implementing Cluster Replication - Part 1
by Brien Posey | 23 September 2009 |
Imagine that you're researching Continuous Cluster Replication, looking for a simple, direct guide to the basics of getting it set up and running. What do you do if everything you find is either too specialised, or goes into far more detail than you need? If you're... Read more...
A Beginner’s Guide to Virtualizing Exchange Server, Part 2
by Brien Posey | 10 June 2009 |  1 comment |
It isn't easy to measure the consumption of physical resources by servers in virtual machines, since each partition has its' own virtualised view of system resources. Not only that, but there is a subtle difference between virtual processors and physical processors.... Read more...
A Beginner’s Guide to Virtualizing Exchange Server, Part 1
by Brien Posey | 05 May 2009 |  1 comment |
The advantage of virtualizing your servers is that it helps you make better use of your hardware resources, and reduces some of your licensing costs, However, there are disadvantages: With Exchange server, it isn't always obvious as to which server roles are... Read more...
An Introduction to Unified Messaging
by Brien Posey | 26 March 2009 |
For many years, everyone involved in the administration of offices has wished that there was a way of combining the voicemail, fax, the PBX with the Exchange Email system, particularly for highly mobile users. . With Exchange Server 2007, this has now become a... Read more...
Optimizing Exchange Server 2007
by Brien Posey | 24 November 2008 |  3 comments |
Brien Posey ponders an 'off the cuff' remark that Exchange 2007 runs so well with a default configuration that you don’t even have to worry about optimizing Exchange any more. He decides that there is actually plenty that can be done to help Exchange to perform... Read more...
Configuring Exchange Server 2007 to Support Information Rights Management
by Brien Posey | 02 October 2008 |  1 comment |
In Exchange Server 2007, Information Rights management is easy to set up once you have set up the prerequisites. It is also much cheaper, and easier to use. This is just as well, because of the increasing statutory regulations to prevent the mishandling of... Read more...
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