Jaap Wesselius Jaap Wesselius
Jaap Wesselius is a senior Exchange consultant for DM Consultants (http://www.dm-consultants.nl/), a Microsoft Gold Partner with a strong focus on messaging and collaboration solutions. Prior to working for DM Consultants Jaap worked for 8 years for Microsoft Services in The Netherlands, specializing in Exchange Server. Jaap is a BSc, MCSE, MCITP, and MCT and was awarded the Microsoft MVP Award (Exchange Server) for his contributions to the Dutch messaging and collaboration community. Besides Exchange Server, Jaap is also very active in virtualization and is a founder of the Dutch Hyper-V community. You can reach Jaap at J.Wesselius@dm-consultants.nl or Jaap@hyper-v.nu
Exchange: Recovery Storage Groups
by Jaap Wesselius | 06 January 2009 |
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 |  3 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 |  2 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 |  9 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...
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