It begins!

At the tail-end of last week we completed the basic operating system builds of our new servers, including all of those awkward and pernickety things like the activation process, making sure they’re fully patched and anti-virus enabled. I also presented … Continue reading

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Mobile users on Nexus

As part of our upgrade plans we needed to have a better grasp of the numbers of mobile Nexus  users and, more importantly, what they’re using to connect up to our service. I have therefore started documenting monthly statistics of … Continue reading

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Schema update

It is a prerequisite for Exchange 2010 that we upgrade the Active Directory schema. Quite simply, without a schema update we can’t install the product. But other maintenance work we’ve done in recent months, such as that taken to resolve … Continue reading

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Exchange 2010 Detailed Design

The High-Level design has now been completed and is about to be approved – in principle – and we’ll then enter the Detailed Design phase. This is expected to be completed by mid September at which point it can then … Continue reading

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Nexus upgrade to Exchange 2010

Our High Level Design has now been revised in order to incorporate additional fault tolerance features. We had some concerns with our original design that even a minor failure within a disk shelf  would lead to service failing over to … Continue reading

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