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Title: CCCWNUG Exchange Update May 5, 2005


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CCC/WNUGExchange UpdateMay 5, 2005
  • Nate Wilken
  • Web and Messaging Applications
  • Information Technology
  • Arizona State University

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Exchange Environment Growth2004-2005
  • Greater email volume
  • Increased utilization
  • More SPAM
  • 25 more active mailboxes (10,000)
  • Increased adoption of Exchange
  • Users 0.2 database disk iops
  • 500 larger quota (250MB)
  • 400 larger average mailbox size (65MB)

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Infrastructure Improvementshttp//www.asu.edu/mai
lbox/experformance.htm
  • Analyze Exchange Infrastructure
  • Increase storage system performance, capacity,
    reliability
  • Increase, upgrade Exchange servers
  • Document client best practices
  • Introduce secondary storage (email archiving)
  • Migrate to Exchange 2003 Server

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Analyze Exchange Infrastructure
  • January, 2005
  • Microsoft PSS on-site Exchange Health Check
  • NetApp Engineering on-site storage performance
    analysis
  • February, 2005
  • Microsoft PSS on-site Active Directory Health
    Check
  • April, 2005
  • Microsoft PSS on-site Exchange Health Re-check
    and client workstation performance analysis

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Storage Improvements
  • June, 2004 Sync-mirroring, clustering enabled
  • July, 2004 2TB added (database capacity)
  • August 2004 1TB added (log capacity)
  • November 2004 2TB added (2 new servers)
  • February 2005 databases defragmented
  • March 2005 NetApp 880s upgraded to 980s
  • May 2005 3TB added (2003, Westex, growth)

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Database Disk Write Latency
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Server Expansion and Upgrade
  • October, 2004 - December, 2004
  • Increase from 4 to 7 mailbox servers
  • IBM x335 2 CPU, 4GB memory
  • May 2005
  • 10 back-end
  • 2 front-end

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Customer Best Practiceshttp//www.asu.edu/mailbox
/experformance.htm
  • Use Outlook 2003 SP1 on Windows XP SP2
  • Use Exchange Cached Mode
  • Check for Outlook updates frequently
  • Publish less Free/Busy data
  • Dont retrieve calendar data in Planner
  • Use (Auto-)Archiving to reduce mailbox size
  • Delegates and Owners should use same Outlook
    version (recommended OL 2003 SP1)
  • Home VPN/Outlook users should change router IP
    range as recommended by IT/CCC

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Email ArchivingLate June, 2005
  • Automated, policy-controlled archiving to online
    secondary storage
  • Old items replaced with shortcut much smaller
    than original message
  • Benefits
  • Seamless customer access to archived content and
    comprehensive search functionality
  • Dramatic Exchange server performance improvement
  • Controlled Exchange database growth
  • Reduced storage via compression and
    single-instancing

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Exchange 2003 Features
  • Greatly improved Outlook 2003 and Outlook Web
    Access performance
  • OL Cached mode, MAPI compression, buffer
    packing, etc.
  • OWA gzip compression, reduced page loads, etc.
  • RPC/HTTP reduces the need for VPN
  • Improved Outlook Web Access interface and
    features
  • Improved Public Folder replication
  • Improved Distribution List caching and security
  • Improved manageability and health monitoring

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Exchange 2003 Outlook 2003
  • Cached Mode
  • Creates and uses local copy of mailbox
  • Consistent user experience regardless of link
    speeds
  • Reduces Server and Network Load
  • Reduce roundtrips, compression
  • Intelligent Synchronization
  • Smart Connection Options
  • High and Low Bandwidth Profiles
  • Outlook over a slow, latent connection or dial-up

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