Existing Office 365 SMB Customers Can Change to the New Plans

Over a year ago, Microsoft made major changes to its Office 365 plans for small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs). But now, 15 months later, existing Office 365 SMB customers can finally switch their old plans to one of the new plans.
If you’re a long time Office 365 SMB customer, as I am, this change can be confusing. When Microsoft first introduced its Office 365 SMB offerings, there were three plans:
Office 365 Small Business. At a cost of $5 per user per month ($60/year), this offering provided the core Office 365 cloud services—Exchange Online-based email and calendaring with 50 GB of storage, SharePoint Online-based cloud storage and file sharing, Lync Online- (later Skype for Business-) based online meetings, IM, and video conferencing, Office Online, and more. It was originally capped at 25 users.

Exchange 2010 Installation Requirement

To run Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Enterprise Edition Beta on x64 platforms, you need:

·        PC―x64 architecture-based computer with Intel processor that supports Intel 64 architecture (formerly known as Intel EM64T) or AMD processor that supports the AMD64 platform

·        Operating system―Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Standard x64 Edition or Enterprise x64 Edition

·        Operating system for installing management tools―The 64-bit editions of Microsoft Windows Vista SP1 or later, or Windows Server 2008. Note: Requirements only for management tools installation.

Additional requirements to run Exchange Server 2010 Beta

·        Memory―Minimum of 4 gigabytes (GB) of RAM per server plus 5 megabytes (MB) of RAM recommended for each mailbox

·        Disk space

o   At least 1.2 GB on the drive used for installation

o   An additional 500 MB of available disk space for each Unified Messaging (UM) language pack that you plan to install

o   200 MB of available disk space on the system drive

·        Drive―DVD-ROM drive, local or network-accessible

·        File format―Disk partitions formatted as NTFS file systems

·        Monitor―Screen resolution 800x600 pixels or higher

Exchange Server 2010 Beta Prerequisites

How to Recover an Exchange 2007 Mailbox

To recover a Microsoft Exchange 2007 mailbox, the recovered .edb and .log files need to be attached to the Recovery Storage Group in Exchange and you must use Exchange-supported tools, such as Exmerge.exe, to extract a .pst file.

The procedure you use depends on whether there is an existing mailbox to which you want to recover a previous version or the mailbox no longer exists and you want to recover it.