Welcome to Matts Admin tips. This blog is full of little fixes, tutorials and work-arounds to those anoying problems that a Systems Administrator might face. If you find something that you have found useful please leave me a comment - I appreciate knowing that I've helped! Also, feel free to leave a comment if my tips or ideas don't work in your environment... I monitor them closely and would be happy to help! Matt

Exchange 2007 RTM NOT compatible with Server 2008

Please be aware that Microsoft Exchange 2007 RTM is NOT compatible with Microsoft Windows Server 2008. This seems absolutely ridiculous to me, however when you try to install Exchange 2007 the Readiness Checks will fail with the following error: “Exchange 2007 cannot be used with the version of Windows operating system running on this computer” [...]

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Exchange 2007 and Standby Continuous Replication (SCR)

I thought I would just quickly give you my take on the main benifit of moving your Exchange 2003 servers to Exchange 2007. There are a bunch of new features within Exchange 2007 – Microsoft have really been pushing the new OWA interface – however in my opinion the greatest new feature for administrators with [...]

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Tech.Ed Australia 2008

I have to apologize for the lack of posting the past couple of weeks. I was at TechEd in Sydney last week and have spent all this week trying to catch up. I will have a bunch of really interesting posts on the cool things I discovered there – namely the advantages of Hyper-V, the [...]

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