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This section of the resource library has several White Papers that contain a wealth of knowledge. Some of the documents are more in depth then others, therefore we have listed them by suggested reading order to allow for the best overall experience.
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Protecting (You and) Your Data with Exchange Server 2007
Exchange Server 2007 is as self-healing as Exchange has ever been, but without a healthy hardware platform, drivers, Active Directory, DNS, network, and regular policy management, it can go belly-up faster than you can say cardiac arrest. To make matters even worse, many Exchange administrators are not current with the latest CPR techniques nor have they been practicing preventive maintenance on their Exchange databases in order to minimize unplanned downtime. In this white paper, I will show you the bare and necessary facts you should know to proactively maintain your Exchange Server 2007 environment. ( read more )
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DigiScope Reviewed by Redmond Magazine
E-mail is one of the most widespread and widely used, potentially controversial and contentious applications in the enterprise. Virtually everyone uses email for some facet of their jobs. In some cases, it can represent up to 90 percent of what a knowledge worker does during a typical business day. Read this review by Peter Varhol of Redmond Magazine on Lucid8’s DigiScope and how it can help you recover lost, deleted and archived mailbox items. ( read more )
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A Guide to Deploying Exchange Server 2007
Deploying Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 requires careful planning. If you’re bringing Exchange 2007 into an organization with Exchange Server 2003 or Exchange 2000 Server, you can’t just insert the installation disk into one of your existing Exchange servers and run the Exchange Server 2007 Setup wizard. Here’s what you’ll need to do to make sure your legacy organization is ready to receive the upgrade. ( read more )
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The Essential Guide to - E-discovery and Recovery for Microsoft Exchange
With more than 75 percent of business-critical information residing in e-mail today, you are more likely to find evidence sitting in someone’s inbox than in their filing cabinet or on a file share. The growing importance of e-mail has not been lost on the lawyers, courts, or government regulators. No Microsoft application has the ability to take multiple restored file types, mount them into a single application, and conduct a search across them. And even though you can restore and mount a single Exchange database into the Recovery Storage Group you still can’t recover individual items or search through one or more Exchange database in an effective manner. Choosing an e-discovery and recovery application that allows such functionality has several benefits for the business and for IT. ( read more )
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GOexchange Awarded MVP Status
If you’re an Exchange administrator, then you know that Microsoft Exchange Server databases degrade over time. Like all complex database systems, slow and steady degradation is inevitable. Ignoring regular maintenance can lead to errors, warnings, database fragmentation and even system crashes. IT research firm Gartner Inc. claims that nearly 20 percent of unplanned Exchange downtime is due to database or Active Directory corruption. If Exchange administration is part of your responsibility then you should read this review by Redmond Magazine and see why they say that not giving this product at least a serious review consideration is borderline incompetence.
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A Guide to Implementing Exchange Server 2007
Any time a major new version of an application is released, you might be tempted to deploy it immediately. With Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, though, a quick deployment isn't always an option. Exchange 2007's architecture is vastly different from Exchange Server 2003's. As such, it's critically important that you verify that your organization meets the Exchange 2007 infrastructure requirements before deploying the software. Here are the basics you'll need to have in place to ensure a smooth migration.
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Required Reading - Securing Microsoft Exchange Server 2007
Exchange Server 2007 is designed to be much more secure than its predecessors, but it would take a thick book to tell you all you need to know about Exchange 2007 security. After all, securing Exchange 2007 includes everything from creating a high-level architectural design to tweaking dozens of obscure settings deep within the product. My personal philosophy has always been that security must be applied in layers.
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Required Reading - Designing Active Directory for Exchange Server 2007
Follow these guidelines for best Exchange performance Every version of Microsoft Exchange Server since Exchange 2000 Server has been dependent on Active Directory (AD). What many new Exchange administrators might not realize is that even though AD acts primarily as a repository for user and topology information, your AD design can make or break an Exchange organization’s performance. It does little good to have highperformance Exchange servers if your domain controllers (DCs) can’t keep pace with Exchange-related LDAP queries.
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Required Reading - Upgrading to Exchange Server 2007
Deploying Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 requires careful planning. If you’re bringing Exchange 2007 into an organization with Exchange Server 2003 or Exchange 2000 Server, you can’t just insert the installation disk into one of your existing Exchange servers and run the Exchange Server 2007 Setup wizard. Here’s what you’ll need to do to make sure your legacy organization is ready to receive the upgrade.
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Required Reading - Upgrading to Exchange Server 2007 Part 2
As you learned in part 1 of this series, "Upgrading to Exchange Server 2007," August 2007, Instant-Doc ID 96240, preparing your existing Exchange Server 2003 organization for an upgrade to Exchange Server 2007 is a multistep process, which includes installing Exchange 2007 onto a new server, then migrating the data from the legacy servers that your Exchange 2007 server will replace. Here, I’ll continue explaining the Exchange 2007 migration steps by showing you how using a new wizard can streamline the migration process. But before you start moving mailboxes, I recommend that you back up your data, choose an email client for your users, and let your users know that they could experience delays in accessing a Web email client to get their Exchange email during the migration process.
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Required Reading - Configuring Exchange Server 2007
After you install Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, you still have a lot of configuration to do before the server is completely functional. Configuration tasks vary considerably depending on the existing Exchange Server organization (e.g., how many servers you have, what jobs those servers are performing) and on the roles installed on the server. Rather than discussing every potential configuration setting, I’ll instead focus on general configuration tasks and the initial configuration of the Mailbox, Client Access, and Hub Transport server roles because they’re the most commonly used.
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Required Reading - Designing Exchange 2007 Infrastructure
Any time a major new version of an application is released, you might be tempted to deploy it immediately. With Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, though, a quick deployment isn’t always an option. Exchange 2007’s architecture is vastly different from Exchange Server 2003’s. As such, it’s critically important that you verify that your organization meets the Exchange 2007 infrastructure requirements before deploying the software. Here are the basics you’ll need to have in place to ensure a smooth migration.
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Required Reading - Backing Up Exchange Server 2007
As I’m sure you know, Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 is very different from its predecessors. Because of the changes to Exchange 2007’s architecture, the methods that you use to back up and restore Exchange data might vary from what you’re used to. In Exchange Server 2003, creating a backup basically meant using an Exchange-aware backup application to back up the server’s system state, file system, and any existing information stores. But with Exchange 2007’s roles-based architecture, the backup techniques that you use will depend largely on the roles that the server is hosting.
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Required Reading - Exchange Storage Ins and Outs
If you want to start an argument with a Microsoft Exchange Server administrator, try giving unsolicited advice about storage design and configuration. Exchange 2000 Server and Exchange Server 2003 offer so many storage options that determining an optimal configuration is often difficult. In addition, some common and enduring Exchange misconceptions further complicate the decision-making process. In this article, Paul Robichaux discusses some lesser-known Exchange storage design principles that will help you clarify what works so you can make the best design decisions for your environment.
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Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, E-mail Discovery and You
For most organizations, e-mail is the single most important repository of business records and other content that users need on a daily basis. E-mail is now the de facto communications medium for most users and is the primary file transport mechanism for content of all types. The growing importance of e-mail has not been lost on the courts and government regulators. E-mail is increasingly used in a variety of legal and regulatory proceedings, from e-discovery for civil lawsuits to providing the grounds for prosecuting criminal cases. For example, the ePolicy Institute found that 21% of companies have been required to produce employee e-mail in legal cases. As a result, the ability to extract content from message stores quickly and efficiently is becoming much more important. This white paper discusses the key issues involved in proper data retention and retrieval, and discusses Lucid8’s DigiScope offering that can satisfy these requirements easily and inexpensively.
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Top 7 Exchange Disaster Recovery Tips
You know that someday disaster could strike at your Exchange environment — probably at the worst possible time. Regardless of whether your Exchange organization is large or small, losing mail services has a big impact on your business. These seven tips will help you in designing, planning, testing, and implementing an Exchange-specific disaster recovery plan....
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Required Reading - The Keys to a Robust Exchange Implementation
Anyone can run Exchange Setup on a server and install Exchange Server. However, there’s a big difference between simply installing Exchange and creating an Exchange deployment that can hold up to the rigors of everyday use. Deploying Exchange in a production environment requires intensive planning. You need to consider everything from the hardware that you use to the demands of ongoing maintenance and server monitoring once the deployment is complete...
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SURVEY: Best Practices and Trends in Exchange Data Archiving and Protection
I.T. organizations are constantly under pressure to lower costs and improve availability and reliability of email systems such as Microsoft Exchange, a need driven by the growing number of business records created and distributed via e-mail internally and externally. Lucid8 commissioned this survey in 2006 to provide an up-to-date overview of the IT community’s opinions on these issues. More than 360 IT managers, messaging and Exchange specialists participated in the study, providing a highly representative base of respondents. The survey results revealed the following facts about the current state of e-mail...
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Essential Trends in E-Mail Archiving
E-mail has become the communications “hub” for organizations; it is the means of transportation by which sales proposals, marketing plans, competitor profiles, contracts, and corporate intellectually property (IP) are now shared, distributed, stored, and accessed. The user-friendliness and omnipresence of the e-mail client means that it is all too easy for users to utilize the e-mail system as their personal filing system. It is functional, easy-to-use, and generally simple for the user to find items, although over time, this becomes increasingly challenging and time consuming...
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The Essential Guide to - Continuous Data Protection for Exchange
By Steve Bryant Exchange MVP/Outlook Exchange columnist and Jason Sherry Active Directory / Exchange Specialist.
Traditional backup and recovery methods that require hours of downtime, as well as unacceptable levels of data loss, no longer meet the needs of modern organizations. For email administrators hamstrung by outmoded technology, this poses several challenges. In this Essential Guide, you will learn how to implement software-based CDP in your Exchange environment and discover some of the best practices to provide the highest level of protection for your Exchange environment. ( read more )
The Essential Guide - Exchange Preventative Maintenance
by Windows IT Pro Senior Contributing Editor David Chernicoff and Steve Bryant Exchange MVP
If you think your Exchange servers and the data they hold are safe, you could be living in a fools paradise. Even when you have solid reactive solutions (e.g., clustering, replication, backup, archiving, detailed disaster recovery plans) in place, database corruption and manual errors can send your best laid plans into a tailspin. ( read more )
A Visual XPLANATiON of GOexchange and How Reactive and Proactive Measures Work Together to Ensure Exchange Server Uptime.
by XPLANE
Our resource library contains some great white papers, however, you know that old saying that picture can convey a thousand words? The folks at XPLANE distilled information from several papers into and incredibly well thought out and inspiring graphical XPLANATiON. ( read more )
The Real Cost Of Unplanned E-Mail Server Downtime
Featuring Gartner Senior Vice President
Matt Cain
The majority of organizations know innately that the e-mail
system is business-critical. In a content-driven business ecosystem, e-mail is a primary means of employee and business communications. Yet, few organizations can quantify the cost of lost business and productivity caused by unplanned Exchange Server downtime. ( read more )
Basic Care and Feeding of Your Exchange Server 2003 Environment
by Steve Bryant Exchange MVP
Consider this: every day, most of us climb behind the wheel of a car or inside a bus, train, or airplane to propel our bodies at incredible speeds. We put a lot of faith in the reliability of this technology. However, we can imagine the disastrous results that would occur if the monitoring and maintenance needs of these devices were ignored. In Short we would end up paying a much high price for this neglect. ( read more )
The Four Most Common Problems with Microsoft Exchange Server
by Lucid8 President and CEO Troy Werelius
For millions of companies like yours, Microsoft Exchange is a mission-critical application. In fact, a 2003 study by the Meta Group revealed that approximately 80% of business people say their e-mail
is more valuable to them than the phone. In today's digital economy, e-mail
servers are crucial, and failure is not an option. ( read more )
GOexchange Preventative Maintenance for Microsoft Exchange
by Lucid8 President and CEO Troy Werelius
E-mail is the lifeblood of your company. Time-sensitive business decisions are made, across cubicles and continents, using e-mail
. Customers place orders. Suppliers confirm deliveries. Employees collaborate to get their jobs done. Your business productivity is dependent on the availability and efficiency of your e-mail
system. ( read more )
Storage & Compliance Survival Kit - What IT Pros Must Know About SOX (Sarbanes-Oxley)
SOX is intended to mitigate the growing problem of public companies failing to accurately and truthfully report their finances. SOX also addresses the need for companies to effectively manage risk in all forms -- including ensuring that data residing on corporate computers is adequately archived and protected from damage or tampering. Understand your role in ensuring corporate compliance: Your Job depends on it. ( read more )
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