Disaster Recovery

A Microsoft Word Document Template For Disaster Recovery Planning

by Alexander Windel

Let’s say you want to create a disaster recovery (DR) plan for a common, shared enterprise IT service such as e-mail or document collaboration in your organization. One of the results of the plan will surely be a document outlining the DR strategy for that service. But where do you start? What should be part [...]

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What you need to check when Outlook fails to download the OAB

by PFE EMEA Messaging Engineers

Throughout the last weeks I have seen two different issues that prevented Outlook clients from downloading the OAB (Offline Address Book). One affected public-folder based OAB distribution and the other affected web-based distribution. I want to provide some hints on things that need to be checked in order to follow the OAB generation and publishing [...]

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Windows Server 2003: Restore and Reanimation of Tombstoned Group Membership Links

by Liju Varghese

The Issue Performing an authoritative restore on a Windows Server 2003 domain controller of a group results in the reanimation of tombstoned group membership links. The Impact If an Organizational Unit containing Users and Groups was deleted, the authoritative restore of the OU will result in users being re-added to groups they were removed from. [...]

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What You Need To Know About Exchange 2010 DAG Failover Behavior

by PFE EMEA Messaging Engineers

In this article, I’ll provide some insight into changes in Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Database Availability Group (DAG) failover behavior. The Exchange 2010 mailbox server which is part of the DAG uses windows clustering in a different way than previous versions and many administrators who are familiar with previous versions of Exchange may have incorrect [...]

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The IT Back Out Plan: How NOT to get caught with your pants down

by Mark Farrugia

You have all seen it a million times on the silver screen, our hero is caught, trapped and/or facing impossible odds, and all of a sudden they make a miraculous escape.  It seems the whole entire time while I would have been saying my prayers, our hero had a back out plan to get them [...]

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Planning MS Exchange Disaster Recovery using the Microsoft Operations Framework (MOF)

by Dan Erelis

As a Premier Field Engineer for Microsoft, I find myself in many different customer environments in just about every major industry sector in Canada. Although every customer is different, the same recurring challenge to implementing Microsoft Exchange disaster recovery exists and that is they don’t know what they are really asking for. As business relies [...]

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How Ready Are You For When Disaster Strikes Your IT Systems?

by Manny Sandhu

Outages are something that we never want to have happen, but they do, and when they occur how ready are you to deal with the repercussions? In most cases, it isn’t the technical skill of personnel which determines the success (or duration) of the outage. How confident are you that you or your staff can [...]

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