Read the FAQ here.

Most interesting feature: the storage limit of Exchange 2003 Standard is increased to 75GB! The new mobility features look interesting as well.

Once in a while, it might be interesting to mount a VMWare disk image (.vmdk file) in Windows. I have used it to modify the sysprep.inf file in the image after I realized there were some errors in it. Without a mounting tool, you would have to start the virtual machine again, put the sysprep files back in their place and run sysprep again.

But with vdk.exe you can mount a vmdk file with a drive letter and access it as a normal drive. You get full R/W access to the disk.

Download the tool from http://chitchat.at.infoseek.co.jp/vmware.

The download contains two files: vdk.exe and vdk.sys. First run vdk install to install the driver. Then run vdk start to start it. With vkd open you can mount an image.

Nice tool that will come in handy a lot of times.

For a customer, I needed to run a defragmentation of an Exchange 5.5 information store on another system. I ran the defrag on a Windows 2003 computer.

You only need to copy a few files from the Exchange 5.5 box to the Windows 2003 box (besides the database files of course):

– eseutil.exe
– ese.dll
– exchmem.dll

These files can be found in the system32 directory and need to be copied to a computer running Windows NT 4 SP3 or later.

More details can be found on the Microsoft support site, article 244525.

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