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October 2008 Question of the Month

  • October 22, 2008
With Exchange 2003/2007 & Windows 2003 Server, database I/O performance improvements for partition alignment was handled by diskpar. With Windows 2008 Server, what command/tool is used?
ANSWER: This was a trick question:”You do not need to use Diskpart when running Exchange 2007 Service Pack 1 (SP1) on Windows Server 2008.” Technet article on partition alignment: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb738145(EXCHG.80).aspx

September 2008 Question of the Month

  • September 22, 2008
Does Microsoft Professional Support Services (PSS) support Exchange in a virtualized environment?
ANSWER:
Yes. See my blog post for more information on the KB article and more.

August 2008 Question of the Month

  • August 22, 2008
Do you know what changed in Single Instance Store for Exchange 2007?
ANSWER: Exchange 2007’s SIS feature works for attachments only. Exchange 2003’s SIS was for entire email messages.