Saturday, December 18, 2010

Windows Live Essential 2011

Today I was surfing of the internet and came across Windows Live Essential 2011. It was found to be very interesting, hence installed it.

Now It has installed couple different application which I would need to day to life. That is Live messenger with new look which is I assume based on Lynch technology. Also you now integrate different social sites and can view update at one location.

Also This other best feature using which today I am writing this blog, this sounds interesting. It been long time I have not wrote on my blog, so writing it today.

Let me write something about exchange which I learned couple of days back but used it today.

Database portability feature is introduced into Exchange 2007 and we used to use following command to change the pointer for mailbox database.

Move-Mailbox –identity mbx1 –Targetdatabase CMS1\SG1\MB1 –Configurationonly

However this command will not work in Exchange 2010, incase you want to change the database pointer for user mailbox for some reason. You can achieve the same task by running command command, which does the same task.

Set-Mailbox –identity MBX1 –Database MB1

In what scenario use would need this command.

1) Your Exchange mailbox server is crashed and you have database files on disk which you can access. You want to mount that database on other mailbox server in organization so that users can start working on it.

2) You want to move the mailboxes to another data center without moving the mailboxes.In this case, you can copy the database file from exchange one data center to another and run the above command.

….Cheers. Happy Blogging  Smile