There are so many articles that I need to write for myself, but with my workload it becomes difficult.  I’ve resigned myself to posting links to other people articles.  Maybe some day I’ll get back to these. 

This article discusses Mailbox cache limits in Exchange.  If you ever find yourself in a situation where someone like an executive hits their mailbox storage limit and you need to change their limit very fast you might find that it is not an instantaneous change.

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Recently, I’ve gone through an exercise to rebuild the Exchange 2007 environment at my new company. The original Exchange 2007 design was not what I would call optimal, so we decided to just rebuild instead of fix all of the problems. Luckily, most of the users were still on Exchange 2003, so this made the rebuild fairly simple. We did however run into a couple of issues during the uninstall process which resulted in orphaned Exchange servers in the environment. The servers showed up in Exchange 2003 System Manager and Exchange 2007 Management Console, but the server no longer existed. You might run into the same issue if a server was improperly uninstalled or a server was prematurely reimaged, etc.

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