Database Assignment: ITT Virtual Database
IT260
ITT Virtual Library Assignment
Microsoft Exchange Server 2007
Kolin Bulmer
ITT Technical Institute, Las Vegas
Active Directory Requirements
Here 's what your Windows environment must look like to install Exchange Server 2007:
An available Active Directory forest running a domain functional level of at least Windows 2000 Server native. The Schema Master role must be running Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 (SP1). As already required by the presence of Active Directory you need to have Domain Name Service (DNS) installed and configured properly.
At least one global catalog server running at least Windows Server 2003 SP1 in each Active Directory site on which you plan on running Exchange 2007.
If an Exchange organization already …show more content…
However, only the 64-bit version of Exchange running on a 64-bit version of Windows Server 2003 is supported by Microsoft in production environments.
Normally, at this point in the chapter, you 'd expect to see some silly minimum requirement, like a Pentium 500 MHz with 512 MB or RAM (not even your kids are running a computer that slow!), at which point, I would write a few paragraphs on what the really real minimums are. In this case, Microsoft is taking a bold move forward and making the basic requirement to install Exchange 2007 be that you are running state-of-the-art hardware. The move to recommend 64-bit hardware for Exchange and Active Directory is to increase the performance of both in larger environments. Table 2-1 lists the processor and memory requirements recommended by Microsoft.
Backup of Exchange Server
Exchange 2007 server, there are always two copies of each change to the database: the change written to the page (or series of pages) in RAM, and the log record of those changes in the transaction logs. If the information is lost in RAM, if it has been written to a transaction log, it can be recovered and written to the database. This graph shows the types of backups and its effects on the files/transaction logs.
Type
Copies …show more content…
To restore the database, you 'll need the last full backup and the most recent differential backup. This is the fastest restore process.
Offline
Yes
N/A
N/A
Offline backups mean that the store process has been shut down prior to backing up the database. This means that all the transaction logs have been flushed to the database and that the database is in a consistent state. Therefore, offline backups are always full backups, because the database must be shut down first. No additional transaction log files are needed to complete a restore of an offline backup. Offline backups require manual selection of the database during the backup process.
Copy
Maybe
Maybe
No
Copy backs up any files that have changed since the last full backup. You must specify which files should be copied. In most scenarios, the copy backup will copy the new transaction logs and the databases, since they will have most likely changed since the last full backup. However, if there are no changes, these files will not be backed up. You can manually select which files should be included in a copy backup, and we suggest that you use the copy backup to copy the transaction logs but not the
ITT Virtual Library Assignment
Microsoft Exchange Server 2007
Kolin Bulmer
ITT Technical Institute, Las Vegas
Active Directory Requirements
Here 's what your Windows environment must look like to install Exchange Server 2007:
An available Active Directory forest running a domain functional level of at least Windows 2000 Server native. The Schema Master role must be running Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 (SP1). As already required by the presence of Active Directory you need to have Domain Name Service (DNS) installed and configured properly.
At least one global catalog server running at least Windows Server 2003 SP1 in each Active Directory site on which you plan on running Exchange 2007.
If an Exchange organization already …show more content…
However, only the 64-bit version of Exchange running on a 64-bit version of Windows Server 2003 is supported by Microsoft in production environments.
Normally, at this point in the chapter, you 'd expect to see some silly minimum requirement, like a Pentium 500 MHz with 512 MB or RAM (not even your kids are running a computer that slow!), at which point, I would write a few paragraphs on what the really real minimums are. In this case, Microsoft is taking a bold move forward and making the basic requirement to install Exchange 2007 be that you are running state-of-the-art hardware. The move to recommend 64-bit hardware for Exchange and Active Directory is to increase the performance of both in larger environments. Table 2-1 lists the processor and memory requirements recommended by Microsoft.
Backup of Exchange Server
Exchange 2007 server, there are always two copies of each change to the database: the change written to the page (or series of pages) in RAM, and the log record of those changes in the transaction logs. If the information is lost in RAM, if it has been written to a transaction log, it can be recovered and written to the database. This graph shows the types of backups and its effects on the files/transaction logs.
Type
Copies …show more content…
To restore the database, you 'll need the last full backup and the most recent differential backup. This is the fastest restore process.
Offline
Yes
N/A
N/A
Offline backups mean that the store process has been shut down prior to backing up the database. This means that all the transaction logs have been flushed to the database and that the database is in a consistent state. Therefore, offline backups are always full backups, because the database must be shut down first. No additional transaction log files are needed to complete a restore of an offline backup. Offline backups require manual selection of the database during the backup process.
Copy
Maybe
Maybe
No
Copy backs up any files that have changed since the last full backup. You must specify which files should be copied. In most scenarios, the copy backup will copy the new transaction logs and the databases, since they will have most likely changed since the last full backup. However, if there are no changes, these files will not be backed up. You can manually select which files should be included in a copy backup, and we suggest that you use the copy backup to copy the transaction logs but not the