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Exchange 2010 Service Pack 2 available

You can download it from here http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=28190 Exchange 2010 SP2 is a complete installation software pack, so for new Exchange installations, you can use it to start with from scratch. Also when you use it for updating your current installations, be aware that...

Posted to WSSRA by Thomas K.H. Bittner on Mon, Dec 5 2011
Filed under: Filed under: General, Storage, Exchange, Windows Server, Cluster, Hyper-V, BlackBerry, Mobile, TMG, UAG, Hosting, Microsoft Online Services, Managed Services, Microsoft Provisioning Services, UM, Migration, Active Directory, Forefront, Virtualization, Outlook, NetApp, High Availability, Security, SCOM, Conferencing, Cloud Computing
Partly Cloudy and forecast for 2012

As you may already know, there will be some essential changes with several Microsoft technologies in next version 2012 coming up. According to those changes infrastructure design will also need to be adjusted. As well dynamic computing architectures and hardware selection in regards of storage. The guys...

Posted to WSSRA by Thomas K.H. Bittner on Tue, Nov 29 2011
Filed under: Filed under: General, Storage, Exchange, Windows Server, Cluster, Hyper-V, System Center, SCVMM, Managed Services, Virtualization, File Services, NetApp, High Availability, Cloud Computing, Dynamic Computing
Veeam announces reveals Hyper-V support with v6

Want updates on Veeam, drop out and sign-up here: http://go.veeam.com/v6-backup-replication Read More...

Posted to Rod Trent MVP, myITforum'er by on Wed, Sep 7 2011
Filed under: Filed under: Virtualization, Hyper-V, Veeam
Exchange for Hosters

As you know, this feature was removed from the current version of Exchange. There are some features back with Exchange 2010 SP1 back not as we had it in the past with legacy versions. Now with Exchange 2010 SP2 we will get back functionality on a standard On-Premise Exchange environment. Read http:/...

Posted to WSSRA by Thomas K.H. Bittner on Tue, Aug 30 2011
Filed under: Filed under: General, Storage, Exchange, Windows Server, Cluster, Hyper-V, BlackBerry, Hosting, Managed Services, Microsoft Provisioning Services, Office, Migration, Active Directory, Virtualization, Outlook, High Availability, Security, Cloud Computing, Dynamic Computing
Best Practices for Microsoft Virtualization and Netapp Storage for Hyper-V

A consolidated version of the former articles about this scenario has been published by ‘NetApp for Microsoft Environments’ Team. You’ll find the detailed documentation about NetApp Storage Best Practices for Microsoft Virtualization and NetApp Snap-Manager for Hyper-V here . The NetApp best practices...

Posted to WSSRA by Thomas K.H. Bittner on Wed, Aug 3 2011
Filed under: Filed under: General, Storage, Windows Server, Hyper-V, SCVMM, Disaster Recovery, Virtualization, NetApp, High Availability, Cloud Computing, Dynamic Computing
Architecting a Microsoft Private Cloud

There are many definitions for cloud computing, but one of the more concise and widely recognized definitions comes from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). NIST defines five essential characteristics, three service models and four deployment models. Microsoft Services has designed...

Posted to WSSRA by Thomas K.H. Bittner on Thu, Jul 14 2011
Filed under: Filed under: General, Windows Server, Hyper-V, System Center, SCVMM, Hosting, Active Directory, Virtualization, Security, SCOM, SCCM, SCMDM, Opalis, Cloud Computing, Dynamic Computing, SCO
SharePoint 2010 Virtualization

Microsoft provided a complex one-stop shop with plenty of details and guidance for SharePoint 2010 virtualization on Hyper-V. http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/en-us/product/Related-Technologies/Pages/virtualize-sharepoint.aspx

Posted to WSSRA by Thomas K.H. Bittner on Thu, Jun 30 2011
Filed under: Filed under: General, Hyper-V, SharePoint, Virtualization
System Center, Cloud and Storage – Best Practise

Watch the sessions from Alex Rauch and NetApp to get best out of virtualization and the Cloud: VIR201 Virtualization: State of the Union VIR327 Hyper-V Cloud Fast Track: A Reference Architecture for Private Cloud SIM335 Microsoft System Center Integration, Automation, Process and Compliance: Orchestrator...

Posted to WSSRA by Thomas K.H. Bittner on Fri, May 27 2011
Filed under: Filed under: General, Storage, Windows Server, Hyper-V, System Center, SCVMM, Tools, Virtualization, NetApp, SCOM, SCCM, SCMDM, Opalis, Cloud Computing
NetApp Storage Systems in Microsoft Systems Environment

NetApp published a new article and guide how their storage environment and solutions work in Windows Systems architectures and infrastructures. The article gives you a lot valued information about how it works with Domain Controllers in Active Directory in many aspects, for example, it describes how...

Posted to WSSRA by Thomas K.H. Bittner on Tue, May 3 2011
Filed under: Filed under: General, Storage, Exchange, Windows Server, Cluster, Hyper-V, Disaster Recovery, Backup, Managed Services, Migration, Active Directory, Virtualization, Network Services, File Services, NetApp, High Availability, DFS, Security, Group Policy
Microsoft iSCSI Software Target now available

All new OS have the iSCSI Initiator client already available out of the box. The server side component was only available for Windows Storage Server. Now it is available for all other server types too. How to use it with a Hyper-V Cluster read the blog from Jose Barreto http://blogs.technet.com/b/josebda...

Posted to WSSRA by Thomas K.H. Bittner on Tue, Apr 5 2011
Filed under: Filed under: General, SQL, Storage, Windows Server, Cluster, Hyper-V, Tools, Virtualization, Network Services, File Services, NetApp, High Availability, Windows Client
Jump Start: Microsoft Virtualization for VMWare Professionals (March 29-31) :: FREE online classes

Here is the announcement from Microsoft Learning about Microsoft Virtualization for VMWare professionals. What is a “Jump Start” course? A “Jump Start” course is “team-taught” by two expert instructors in an engaging radio talk show style format. The...

Posted to SQLServer-QA.net - Knowledge Sharing Network (SSQA.net) by on Thu, Mar 24 2011
Filed under: Filed under: sql server, microsoft, mvp, vmware, virtualization, course, training, Hyper-V, xen, administrators, jump start
Microsoft System Center Advisor

The public available Release Candidate has new features: Windows Server, Hyper-V host, and Active Directory analysis – Analyze and see alerts for these workloads on your Windows Server 2008 and 2008 R2 installations. Multi-User support – Multiple users can access a single Advisor account. Email Notifications...

Posted to WSSRA by Thomas K.H. Bittner on Tue, Mar 22 2011
Filed under: Filed under: General, SQL, Windows Server, Cluster, Hyper-V, System Center, Microsoft Online Services, Managed Services, Tools, Active Directory, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Dynamic Computing
Update for Hyper-V BPA available

There is now an update for Hyper-V BPA available which fixes a few issues and handles the new Dynamic Memory and RemoteFX features under Service Pack 1. This update is for Windows Server 2008 R2 with and without SP1. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2485986

Posted to WSSRA by Thomas K.H. Bittner on Fri, Feb 25 2011
Filed under: Filed under: General, Windows Server, Hyper-V, SCVMM, Hosting, Managed Services, Virtualization, High Availability, BPA, Security, Cloud Computing, Dynamic Computing
Secure Access to your Cloud Services

Moving to the Cloud is going on and so we will have more and more On-Premise and Cloud environments living site by site. Securing access to Cloud Services will be more relevant for the future. A great article on this topic has been published by Yuri Diogenes, Senior Security Support Escalation Engineer...

Posted to WSSRA by Thomas K.H. Bittner on Tue, Feb 22 2011
Filed under: Filed under: General, SQL, Storage, Exchange, Windows Server, Hyper-V, SharePoint, Mobile, System Center, SCVMM, DirectAccess, TMG, ISA Server, Hosting, Microsoft Online Services, Managed Services, Microsoft Provisioning Services, Office, UM, OCS, Migration, PKI, Certificate Service, Forefront, Virtualization, Network Services, File Services, Outlook, High Availability, Business Intelligence, Dynamics, CRM, DNS, Windows Client, BizTalk, Security, SCOM, SCCM, SCMDM, Cloud Computing, Dynamic Computing, Internet Explorer
Architecting iSCSI Storage for Hyper-V

A very interesting article about this has been published here . How is Hyper-V supporting iSCSI technologies? How can iSCSI storage provided for guest systems? What is best practise configuration? How to achieve the best data throughput? This and other questions are subject of this document.

Posted to WSSRA by Thomas K.H. Bittner on Fri, Feb 18 2011
Filed under: Filed under: General, SQL, Storage, Exchange, Windows Server, Cluster, Hyper-V, SharePoint, System Center, SCVMM, Disaster Recovery, Backup, Hosting, WSUS, Data Protection Manager, Migration, Virtualization, Network Services, File Services, High Availability, DFS, SCOM, SCCM, MED-V, SCMDM, Cloud Computing, Dynamic Computing, VDI
Free tool for Monitoring of Hyper-V « System Center Spartan

Looking for a better Hyper-V monitoring solution other than Task Manager ? Free tool for Monitoring of Hyper-V « System Center Spartan Read More...

Posted to Rod Trent MVP, myITforum'er by on Thu, Jan 6 2011
Filed under: Filed under: Virtualization, Hyper-V
Configure the Forefront TMG 2010 to allow DPM 2010 communication

The DPM agent uses various ports and protocols to connect with the DPM server. The Forefront TMG needs to be configured to allow the DPM server to communicate through those ports. The complete list of ports that are used by DPM are documented at the Microsoft Web site (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink...

Posted to WSSRA by Thomas K.H. Bittner on Wed, Oct 20 2010
Filed under: Filed under: General, Storage, Exchange, Windows Server, Hyper-V, SharePoint, System Center, Disaster Recovery, Backup, TMG, ISA Server, Data Protection Manager, Forefront, Virtualization, File Services, Security
Windows Server 2008 R2 Domain Controller on iSCSI boot server not supported

When you installed Windows Server 2003 Domain Controller and used iSCSI mounted drives for your SYSVOL and Active Direcotry Database, you recognized that this doesn’t work because the iSCSI LUNs are not mounted when Active Directory Services expect it. So you decide to use iSCSI volumes for system volume...

Posted to WSSRA by Thomas K.H. Bittner on Fri, Oct 8 2010
Filed under: Filed under: General, Windows Server, Hyper-V, Backup, Active Directory, Virtualization, NetApp, Dynamic Computing
More Performance with SMBv2x on Windows and NetApp

NetApp has prepared an interesting performance test with new SMBv2.x available with Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008. The NetApp OnTap operating system has already been updated to support SMBv2. Find here the result figures about performance increase with SMBv2.x

Posted to WSSRA by Thomas K.H. Bittner on Wed, Sep 22 2010
Filed under: Filed under: General, SQL, Storage, Exchange, Windows Server, Cluster, Hyper-V, SharePoint, Disaster Recovery, Backup, ISA Server, Hosting, Managed Services, Office, OCS, Data Protection Manager, Migration, Active Directory, Forefront, Virtualization, Network Services, File Services, NetApp, High Availability, Navision, Business Intelligence, CRM, Windows Client, DFS, BizTalk, Opalis
Data Protection Manager Storage Calculators

Microsoft Data Protection Manager Team provided storage calculators for Exchange " http://download.microsoft.com/download/8/5/1/851E02E6-4CCA-4846-83C5-3C92C8114899/DPM_2010_Storage_Calculator_for_Exchange_2010.xlsx " Hyper-V " http://download.microsoft.com/download/8/5/1/851E02E6-4CCA...

Posted to WSSRA by Thomas K.H. Bittner on Thu, Sep 2 2010
Filed under: Filed under: General, Storage, Exchange, Hyper-V, SharePoint, Backup, Data Protection Manager, Virtualization

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