Every IT organization needs to perform backups to ensure data integrity and recovery in the event of data loss caused by a system failure, accidental deletion by a user, or corruption. One item that is regularly overlooked when architecting and implementing a backup solution is the use of a dedicated backup network that's separate from [...]

Today we are going to see how we can user Procdump to generate dump in differente scenarios. With the help of Procdump we have the ability to generate dumps based on performance counter values.  Advantages over adplus: 1.       No need to install Debugging tools for Windows 2.       Light (approx. 300kb) instead of large Debugging tools [...]

After migrating the user from Exchange 2007 to Exchange 2010 we were receving following error while accessing the mailbox using Outlook or MFCMAPI We basically found this to happen because of following two reasons 1. User mailbox that had the same legacyExchangeDN as of another contact 2. User Mailbox that hadt the same legacyExchangeDN as [...]

Microsoft has announced Exchange Client Bandwidth Calculator Beta is available for download!!! This new calculator is based on all new prediction data and is designed to work with both Exchange on-premises and Office 365 deployments! What does it do? The brief was concise and simple for this calculator; we wanted to be able to predict [...]

Microsoft has released the Outlook Configuration Analyzer Tool (OCAT). OCAT was developed by two Microsoft support engineers with over 30 years of combined experience in Outlook, Exchange and Office support. Based on their support experience, they compiled a set of detection rules that look for Outlook configurations that have historically been potential sources of problems [...]

Most of you are aware of the BETest utility in Exchange 2007 used by us to test the VSS writers for troubleshooting Exchange backup related problems. With the advancement of the product Microsoft has come up with 1 more utility called “Disk Shadow” to check the Exchange writer state using the “Disk Shadow” utility in Exchange 2010. [...]