Exchange Database Recovery

Exchange Database Recovery – Using eseutil commands

The real job of an exchange administrator is to maintain high availability when it comes to a messaging environment.

Below mentioned processes are not done on a day to day basis, but understanding how the process works is mandatory for every exchange administrator.

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Issues with E-mail Stuck in the Drafts Folder on Exchange 2007/2010

This is one of the cases where you get the feeling that things got messed up, and you simply do not know why or how to even begin to fix them. Story goes like this:

In preparation for an upcoming Exchange Server 2010 course that I’m scheduled to teach next week, I sat at home with my Dell XPS laptop (running with 8 GB RAM and a 258 GB SSD), installed VMware Workstation, and prepared a few base images of Windows Server 2003 SP2 (to be installed with Exchange Server 2003 in preparation for the migration labs), and Windows Server 2008 R2 (to be installed with Exchange Server 2010). Continue reading