February 2011 - Posts

Update for Hyper-V BPA available

Published Fri, Feb 25 2011 9:03 | Thomas K.H. Bittner

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...

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

Published Tue, Feb 22 2011 17:06 | Thomas K.H. Bittner

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...

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

Install a Hyper-V Cluster

Published Sat, Feb 19 2011 15:22 | Thomas K.H. Bittner

A complex challenge is to install a Hyper-V Cluster. Chris Collins from NetApp has put together all the necessary steps to achieve such a Hyper-V Cluster. Find here the checklist from Alex Jauch from NetApp who published the necessary steps to finally...

Filed under: General, Windows Server, Cluster, Hyper-V, Disaster Recovery, Managed Services, File Services, NetApp, High Availability, Dynamic Computing

Architecting iSCSI Storage for Hyper-V

Published Fri, Feb 18 2011 15:13 | Thomas K.H. Bittner

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...

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

Exchange Versions on Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 not all supported [Update]

Published Fri, Feb 11 2011 9:07 | Thomas K.H. Bittner

In a few days we expect the Service Pack 1 for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 to be available. After new testings Exchange 2010 SP1 will be supported on this system. The Microsoft Exchange Team has launched a blog post about Exchange version support...

Filed under: General, Exchange, Windows Server, Managed Services, Migration, Active Directory, Outlook

How incorrectly formatted NTFS volumes affects Exchange

Published Thu, Feb 10 2011 20:32 | Thomas K.H. Bittner

Here is a really important article descibing how incorrectly formatted NTFS volumes affects Exchange http://blogs.technet.com/b/mikelag/archive/2011/02/09/how-fragmentation-on-incorrectly-formatted-ntfs-volumes-affects-exchange.aspx Thanks to Mike Lagase...

Filed under: General, Storage, Exchange, Windows Server, Cluster, File Services, NetApp, High Availability