When it comes to recovery from an Exchange Server crash, failure, or database corruption, backups play an important role. So, it is important to define a proper backup and recovery strategy to ensure ...

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In SQL Server, the database can be stored in different files and filegroups. If your database is small (100 MB or less), you do not need to worry too much about files and filegroups. But if you have a ...

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Here, we will be mentioning some strategies and best practices that can help you in Exchange Server recovery and restoring the services in minimum time, in case of disaster or any other issue.

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