Nexus: News

This cmdlet was mentioned in a previous blog post but I’ve noticed that the information on it that’s out there can be a bit sketchy. So, for my own reference as much as for anyone else’s, here’s my notes on … Continue reading →

To save you reading all those previous posts, here’s a recap for you: Late in the evening of Sunday 4th March 2012, the testing phase was over. I had had feedback from our early adopters and, with all systems set … Continue reading →

  In the spirit of The Register‘s mission to snap the snappers here’s my contribution. As one of Google’s cars passed the office this morning I took the opportunity to do unto Google as they were doing unto me: EDIT: … Continue reading →

With over 48,500 mailboxes now running successfully on Exchange 2010 it’s tempting to think of the migration as ‘done’. But appearances can be deceiving: at the beginning of last week I was stuck with twelve mailboxes remaining –  none of … Continue reading →

To keep our migrations under control I’ve been relying very heavily on the use of batched migration runs.  The process I’ve followed uses the ‘suspendwhenreadytocomplete’ value which performs the normal migration, copying the entire set of users’ mailboxes, but – … Continue reading →

This is off my usual subject matter but I’m so excited by this amazing little computer that I had to write something about it. One of the project’s developers, Alan Mycroft, very kindly came over from Cambridge with a real … Continue reading →

One of the jobs that’s fallen to me is to report on the successes (or otherwise) of our mailbox migrations. The output needs to get to people who may not have access to any of the Exchange management tools. Now … Continue reading →

Way back in mid-December I wrote about how Service Pack 2 had been released. As a major update, appearing just before the Christmas holidays, it was an option that seemed a little too risky to try and squeeze in alongside … Continue reading →

To test the throughput we could expect from mailbox moves, ten members of OUCS volunteered to became migration guinea pigs. A ‘suspend when ready to complete’ move had been run and, a week later, that move was completed. This delay … Continue reading →

One of our key aims during this upgrade has been to minimise the period of coexistence between Exchange 2007 and Exchange 2010. This is because our testing phase had revealed a number of potential areas in which we could expect … Continue reading →