Defrag Drives with Optimize-Volume The new cmdlet we will use is called Optimize-Volume. It is part of the Storage module which utilizes the new CIM infrastructure. You can use this cmdlet to analyze and defrag all types of volumes. We’ll focus…

Litigation Hold was first introduced in Exchange 2010 and is designed to preserve all items in a mailbox indefinitely for the purposes of e-discovery. Litigation Hold can be applied to mailboxes or distribution groups. When a user’s mailbox is put…

Are you looking at reducing hardware cost and utilizing your virtualization infrastructure to run your Exchange servers? Are you still on edge about virtualizing a mailbox role or unified messaging role? Today I’ll be sharing some tips for virtualizing Microsoft…

What is a Non-Delivery Report (NDR)? If you take a look at the NDR below, you can see a sample nondelivery report.  This nondelivery report contains all of the usual information such as the date and time that the message…

Exchange Makes It Easy for Users to Fix Deletion Mistakes Exchange has used a two-step item deletion process for nearly 20 years. When someone deletes an item from a mailbox, it moves into the Deleted Items folder. Later, when the…