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Jaap Wesselius is an independent consultant from The Netherlands focusing on (Microsoft) Business Productivity solutions. Prior to becoming an independent consultant, Jaap worked for 8 years for Microsoft Services in The Netherlands, specializing in Exchange Server. Jaap has a Bsc in Applied Physics & Computer Science, is an MCSE, MCITP and MCT, and has consistently been awarded the Microsoft MVP Award (Exchange Server, fifth year now) for his contributions to the Dutch Exchange community. For his Dutch blog posts, you can visit www.exchangelabs.nl. Besides Exchange Server, Jaap is also very active in virtualization and is a founder of the Dutch Hyper-V Community. If you'd like to get in touch, you can reach Jaap via email at Simple-Talk@jaapwesselius.nl, or on twitter as @jaapwess.
Exchange 2010 SP1 - A Practical Approach
by Jaap Wesselius | 17 January 2012 | Not rated yet
This update of Jaap Wessellius' popular guide to Exchange 2010 covers everything you need to know to install, run and maintain Exchange 2010 SP1. Read more...
Exchange 2010 Service Pack 2 - What's New
by Jaap Wesselius | 05 December 2011 |
Microsoft Exchange Service Pack2 (SP2)is now released, so Jaap Wesselius has taken a look at the latest update, highlighting some of the most interesting features of the latest build. Read more...
Recover a Mailbox Server in A Database Availability Group (DAG)
by Jaap Wesselius | 10 October 2011 |
When one mailbox server in a Database Availability Group (DAG) is accidentally deleted, then it is supposedly easy to fix the problem, but if the DAG is not fully cleaned up, it can prove a little more complex. Read more...
Managing Office 365
by Jaap Wesselius | 03 August 2011 |
As you start to use Office 365 more extensively, it becomes crucial that you understand all of the options for managing your new cloud-based infrastructure. Jaap Wesselius has done the research, and explains all. Read more...
Office365 and Lync Online
by Jaap Wesselius | 10 May 2011 |
Having gotten us up and running with the basics of Office365, Jaap Wesselius now dives deeper, walking us through the setup process for Lync Online, the Office365 component which provides cloud-based Unified Communications. He even shows us how to integrate it with... Read more...
Microsoft Office 365 Beta: First Look
by Jaap Wesselius | 20 April 2011 |
With the recent announcement of the Office 365 public beta, Microsoft has unveiled the next incarnation of their cloud-based services. Lucky for us, Jaap Wesselius has the inside scoop, and gives us everything we need to start using the new platform. Read more...
Dynamic Memory in Windows 2008 R2 SP1
by Jaap Wesselius | 11 April 2011 |  1 comment |
Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 has introduced what Microsoft calls ‘Dynamic Memory’.The start-up RAM VM memory assigned to guest virtual machines can be allowed to vary according to demand based on the workload of applications running inside. Fine, but it requires... Read more...
Upgrade from Exchange 2007 to Exchange 2010 - Part III
by Jaap Wesselius | 13 January 2011 |  3 comments |
Jaap has now walked us most of the way through the upgrade from an Exchange 2007 environment to an Exchange 2010. In this last article in the series, he takes us the rest of the way, and completes the migration. Read more...
Upgrade from Exchange 2007 to Exchange 2010 - Part II
by Jaap Wesselius | 14 December 2010 |  5 comments |
Having walked us through the initial steps of the migration from Exchange Server 2007 to 2010, Jaap now discusses the next stage of the process - Configuring External access to your Exchange environment, and setting up your new Exchange 2010 Mailbox Server. Read more...
Upgrade from Exchange 2007 to Exchange 2010 - Part 1
by Jaap Wesselius | 18 November 2010 |  7 comments |
Upgrading to Exchange Server 2010 is easy if you know how, and Jaap’s simple walkthrough will guide you painlessly through the process. Having already explained the step-by-step upgrade process for those of you using Exchange Server 2003, Jaap now makes life easy... Read more...
Importing PSTs with PowerShell in Exchange 2010 SP1
by Jaap Wesselius | 21 October 2010 |  2 comments |
Unless you use Red Gate's PST Importer, the import and export of PST files with Exchange 2010 is a complex and error-prone business. Microsoft have acknowledged this in the release of Exchange 2010 SP1, since they have now re-engineered the way that PSTs are... Read more...
Hyper-V R2 Live Migration on Server Core - Part I
by Jaap Wesselius | 06 July 2010 |  1 comment |
If you’re working with Hyper-V, it’s recommended that you use Windows Server 2008 R2 Server Core for your root partition, as its stripped-down nature makes it a more secure option than it’s more full-bodied sibling. But it can also be painful to work with. Jaap... Read more...
What's New in Exchange Server 2010 SP1?
by Jaap Wesselius | 22 June 2010 |  1 comment |
The very latest and greatest incarnation of Exchange Server 2010, Service Pack 1 Beta, is now available for the public to try out. Lucky for us, Jaap’s had access to the new release for quite some time, and he gives us a distilled guide to exactly what is new and... Read more...
Hyper-V R2 Live Migration
by Jaap Wesselius | 10 February 2010 |  2 comments |
Reliability is one of the great payoffs to virtualization, and failover clustering has got a whole lot better with Windows Server 2008 and Hyper-V. Now, you get failover without any downtime for the virtual machine. Jaap tells you how to implement it. Read more...
Upgrade Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2010 - Part II
by Jaap Wesselius | 15 January 2010 |  25 comments |
In Jaap's second article on upgrading straight from Exchange Server 2003 to 2010, he explains how to move the various services from Exchange Server 2003 to Exchange Server 2010 and fully decommission the Exchange Server 2003 servers. Read more...
Upgrade Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2010
by Jaap Wesselius | 11 December 2009 |  24 comments |
In this article, the first of two in which Jaap describes how to move from Exchange Server 2003 straight to Exchange Server 2010, he shows what is required before moving mailboxes from Exchange Server 2003 to Exchange Server 2010. He shows how to upgrade Active... Read more...
Introduction to Exchange Server 2010
by Jaap Wesselius | 22 October 2009 |  4 comments |
What’s new in Exchange Server 2010 and what features from Exchange Server 2007 have been deprecated? What has been done to further integrate Exchange with Active Directory? In an extract from his new book, Jaap gives a rooftop view of Exchange's new features and... Read more...
Exchange 2010 - A Practical Approach
by Jaap Wesselius | 13 October 2009 |  1 comment |
Jaap's Practical Guide to Exchange Server 2010 draws upon all that experience to deliver an easy-to-use guide to this latest platform, full of useful examples and top tips for SysAdmins, both new and experienced. Read more...
Exchange backups on Windows Server 2008
by Jaap Wesselius | 24 August 2009 |  1 comment |
NTBackup lives no more, replaced by VSS backups. Unfortunately, “Windows Server Backup” didn't work with Exchange Server 2007 until now. Exchange Server 2007 Service pack 2 contains a backup plug-in that makes it possible. Although pretty limited compared to full... Read more...
Update: Exchange Server 2010 Release Candidate
by Jaap Wesselius | 18 August 2009 |
Exchange Server 2010 Release Candidate is now available for download from Technet, so we asked Jaap to review it for us. Read more...
Installing Hyper-V and Beyond
by Jaap Wesselius | 28 July 2009 |  4 comments |
In his previous article “Hyper-V, an introduction” Jaap Wesselius explained about the Hypervisor, the parent partition, the child partition, and Integration Components. In this article Jaap discusses installing Hyper-V, all kinds of Virtual Hard Disks, Virtual... Read more...
Building an Exchange Server 2007 environment
by Jaap Wesselius | 29 June 2009 |
Of course, changing a 32,000 mailbox system, based in 40 Exchange Servers, to a centralised 25,000 mailbox solution is not a difficult task as long as you follow the Microsoft guidelines; It just takes patience, and time to understand Exchange's storage design... Read more...
Windows Server Virtualisation: Hyper-V, an Introduction
by Jaap Wesselius | 01 June 2009 |  7 comments |
For SQL Server and Exchange Server, Windows Server Virtualization is going to be increasingly important as a way for the administrator to allocate hardware resources in the most efficient way, to offer more robust services, and for deploying services. Jaap... Read more...
Exchange Server 2010 – The First Public Beta Version
by Jaap Wesselius | 15 April 2009 |  3 comments |
Jaap takes a first look at the new Beta 1 of Exchange Server 2010, which is now available for download, and likes what he sees, especially with Outlook Live, mailbox replication, and the 'self-healing' of the database. Much will change before the release, but there... Read more...
Upgrading to Exchange Server 2007: Part 2
by Jaap Wesselius | 26 March 2009 |
Jaap completes his series on the necessary steps to migrate an existing installation of Exchange to Exchange Server 2007. He deals with the problems of installing the Hub Transport server, moving policies and mailboxes and decommissioning the old servers Read more...
Upgrading to Exchange Server 2007
by Jaap Wesselius | 20 February 2009 |  1 comment |
Jaap starts a series on the necessary steps to migrate an existing installation of Exchange to Exchange Server 2007. Of course it's simple! Everybody says so, but it is in the detail where you can get caught out. Read more...
Exchange: Recovery Storage Groups
by Jaap Wesselius | 06 January 2009 |  4 comments |
It can happen at any time: You get a request, as Admin, from your company, to provide the contents of somebody's mailbox from a backup set as part of an investigation. The Recovery Storage Group is usually the easiest way to do this. It may either mean using the... Read more...
Virtual Exchange Servers
by Jaap Wesselius | 20 November 2008 |  6 comments |
Microsoft now supports running Exchange Server 2007 in server virtualization environments, not just on Hyper-V, but on any virtualizing solution that is validated in the Server Virtualization Validation Program. Before virtualizing Exchange Server, you will need to... Read more...
Online Exchange Backups
by Jaap Wesselius | 18 October 2008 |  5 comments |
In the third of Jaap's popular series on Exchange Backups he explains Online backups. These have major advantages over offline backups since the backup application does all the logic, and work, for you. Read more...
Exchange Server Log File Replay
by Jaap Wesselius | 22 September 2008 |  5 comments |
Exchange Server stores information in a database and uses log files for transactional processing. To restore, defragment or repair a database, the ESEUTIL tool is essential . It is always possible to recover data when the database is lost, if you have backed up the... Read more...
Exchange Database Technologies
by Jaap Wesselius | 22 August 2008 |  10 comments |
One of the most misunderstood technologies in Exchange Server, regardless of its version, is the database technology. Most people, even Exchange administrators know it is something to do with ESE and tools like ESEUTIL, but once it’s running they leave it that way... Read more...
Exchange 2007 Mailbox Server Clustering
by Jaap Wesselius | 12 August 2008 |  4 comments |
The original, rather complex, Exchange clustering, 'Single Copy Cluster', protects you against a server failure but not a database failure. 'Local Continuous Replication' protects you from database failure, but not server failure. The more simple 'Clustered... Read more...
Upgrade Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2007 – Part II
by Jaap Wesselius | 18 January 2008 |
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