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Neil Hobson
Neil is a UK-based consultant responsible for the design, implementation and support of Microsoft infrastructure systems, most notably Microsoft Exchange systems. He has been in the IT industry since 1987 and has worked with Exchange since 1996. He was an Exchange MVP from 2003 to 2010 and still spends some of his spare time helping others in various Exchange online forums.

Exchange 2010 DAG Creation and Configuration, Part 2

by Neil Hobson | 20 October 2010 |

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Now that you've created your first DAG in Exchange 2010, you'll need to be sure it's correctly configured for failovers and switchovers, and you know how to troubleshoot. Fear not, for Neil Hobson tells you what you need to know. Read more...

Exchange 2010 DAG Creation and Configuration Part 1

by Neil Hobson | 07 June 2010 |

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If you’re using Exchange 2010, then you’re probably interested in using the new Database Availability Group feature for your High Availability needs. The DAG is superbly powerful technology, but you’d better make sure yours is 100% correctly configured. Neil Hobson... Read more...

Exchange 2010 High Availability

by Neil Hobson | 18 September 2009 |

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In April 2009 Microsoft released a public beta of Exchange 2010, the latest and greatest version of a part of its unified communications family of products. Recently in August 2009, a feature complete Release Candidate version was released for public download. In... Read more...

Cluster Continuous Replication Network Design

by Neil Hobson | 18 June 2009 |

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Cluster continuous replication (CCR) is a means of providing a more resilient email system with faster recovery. It was introduced in Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 and uses log shipping and failover. The host-name feature of Exchange 2007 Service Pack 1 and the... Read more...

Message Classifications in Exchange 2007

by Neil Hobson | 18 September 2008 |

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In Exchange 2007, you can now classify your messages in any way you wish, so that, for example, you can flag messages as being sensitive information that should not be sent outside the company. You can also create transport rules for all messages of a particular... Read more...

High Availability in Exchange 2007

by Neil Hobson | 10 June 2008 |

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Neil Hobson writes about the ways that MS Exchange 2007 can ensure that your organisations messaging remains available. He looks at the way that the Mailbox Server role can be made more available using features as Single Copy Clusters, Local Continuous Replication,... Read more...

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