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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
Upgrade Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2010 – Part II
by Jaap Wesselius | 15 January 2010 |  5 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 |  9 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 |
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 |  3 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 |  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 |  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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