Markus Klein, Author at TechGenix

Migrating from Notes Domino to Exchange 2003 using the Exchange Notes Connector

Deployment & Migration, Exchange 2003 / By Markus Klein / September 8, 2005

In the past, lots of companies used Notes Domino Server as their primary messaging platform but, with the release of Exchange Server 2003, a lot of them are thinking of migrating to Microsoft Exchange Server 2003. There are many 3rd party vendors selling migration tools for migrating Notes to Exchange but only few of them really have their own tool. A lot of these tools are add-ons relying on the Exchange Notes Connector. This means you should have a good idea of how it works and how it has to be configured. Within this article you will get a deep drill-down on the step-by-step migration process using the connector.

Restoring Exchange Server 2003 to alternate Hardware

Exchange 2003, High Availability & Recovery / By Markus Klein / July 19, 2005

There are several steps you will have to do if you have to restore your Exchange Server 2003 System to alternate hardware. This is very often a task if your old Exchange Server box crashed and you did not have a chance to get the same or very similar hardware back. The goal now will be restoring your Exchange Server 2003 System on new hardware that is not the same as the old. Within this article we will get a drill-down on how this works and what steps and tasks need to be done to make things run properly.

Optimizing your Exchange Server 2003 Deployment using Exchange Best Practice Analyzer 2.0

Exchange 2003, Tools / By Markus Klein / June 2, 2005

Due to the many different theories about the best practice of configuring a Exchange Server 2003 deployment in an organization, Microsoft tried to give each administrator and consultant an easy way to deploy Exchange using Microsoft’s recommendations on best practices. With release 2.0 of the Exchange Best Practice Analyzer, Paul Bowden, the “father” of this tool, has provided a powerful tool for easily configuring and optimizing your Exchange Server environment. In this article you will get a brief description of the features of Exchange Best Practice Analyzer 2.0 and how to use it to optimize your configuration.

Implementing NNTP using Microsoft Exchange Server 2003

Deployment & Migration, Exchange 2003 / By Markus Klein / April 5, 2005

If you decide to use Newsgroups in your Exchange Server 2003 organization, the first step is to choose between Local and/or Public Newsgroup implementations. If you want to implement Local Newsgroups it is quite easy and independent from Internet traffic. Public Newsgroups mean that your Internet traffic might increase a lot so you as an administrator should try to keep public information to a minimum only.

Implementing High Availability for Outlook Web Access using Network Load Balancing

Exchange 2003, High Availability & Recovery / By Markus Klein / February 1, 2005

Today nearly every company that is running Exchange Server 2003 publishes Outlook Web Access to provide their users with the ability to read and write emails from nearly all around the world. The only thing you need to have is a computer connected to the Internet. This means that it is now more important than ever that you provide high availability and high performance to your users. Windows Server 2003 provides a powerful solution regarding this topic: Network Load Balancing, formerly known as Windows Load Balancing. In this article we will see how to configure Network Load Balancing for Outlook Web Access Services.

Implementing the X.400 Connector – Is It Worth Using with Exchange Server 2003?

Exchange 2003, Planning & Architecture / By Markus Klein / January 6, 2005

Exchange Server 2003 Enterprise Edition still provides a X.400 connector. With Exchange Server 5.5 this was the default protocol and connectivity standard. With the release of Exchange 2000 Server Microsoft implemented SMTP as the default protocol for connectivity. Due to backward compatibility there is still a X.400 based MTA stack available. But it is only a stack and not a protocol implementation. The following article is a drill-down through the basics of X.400 and how to configure the X.400 connector. Afterwards we will then talk about in what cases we still need it.

Designing an Active Directory/Exchange 2003 environment using the Exchange Best Practices Analyzer

Exchange 2003, Tools / By Markus Klein / November 11, 2004

A lot of companies are willing to implement Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 as their primary messaging and collaboration system. And therefore these companies need an Active Directory implementation. The question then often is: What’s the best way to design an Active Directory environment for Microsoft Exchange Server 2003? Within this article we will try to delve a little bit deeper in this designing process itself and will have a look at the best practices for implementation.

Configuring Mobile Devices to connect to Exchange Server 2003

Exchange 2003, Mobility & Client Access / By Markus Klein / October 5, 2004

With Exchange Server 2003 you have the possibility to use mobile devices to connect to your Exchange Server 2003 environment. Generally there are two ways to connect: through Outlook Mobile Access and, Exchange Active Server Sync. Within this article we will have a closer look at the configuration and the implementation of Exchange Active Server Sync and especially what has to be done to configure your device properly to make it work.

Recovering Mailboxes with Exchange Server 2003 Service Pack 1

Exchange 2003, High Availability & Recovery / By Markus Klein / August 12, 2004

If someone already tried the Exchange Server 2003 Beta 2 he should have found out that at least one feature was missing in comparison to the final release. With the Beta 2 you were able to reconnect a mailbox that was mounted via the recovery storage group feature with a user from your Active Directory. So it was quite easy to configure and no Exmerge utility was needed at that time. With its final release things changed and you have had to use Exmerge to recover the mailbox. Now with Service Pack 1 this feature is back.

Using ExMerge to recover a Single Mailbox or Mailbox Item

Exchange 2003, Tools / By Markus Klein / June 17, 2004

As already described in one of my last articles about Exchange Server 2003 you do not have to install a second Exchange Server environment in an isolated forest to restore a single mailbox or a single mailbox item. You can use the recovery storage group to restore a mailbox database onto your running Exchange Server 2003. After having done this you now have to extract the mailbox you want to recover using the ExMerge utility.