August 2011 - Posts

Exchange for Hosters

Published Tue, Aug 30 2011 16:05 | Thomas K.H. Bittner

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...

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

Windows Anti-Virus Exclusion List

Published Wed, Aug 17 2011 10:40 | Thomas K.H. Bittner

A comprehensive all exclusion list for Windows Server Systems has been published on TechNet Wiki. http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/953.aspx  

Filed under: General, Storage, Exchange, Windows Server, Cluster, Hyper-V, SharePoint, System Center, Data Protection Manager, Active Directory, Certificate Service, Forefront, Network Services, File Services, CRM, DNS, Windows Client, DFS, BizTalk, App-V, MED-V, Cloud Computing, Group Policy, IIS, SCDPM

Active Directory .local domain design and the Cloud

Published Sun, Aug 14 2011 12:51 | Thomas K.H. Bittner

In the past many IT architects designed the Active Directory namespace with .local domain. Even Microsoft distribute their best practises to not design this way but use common domain namespace. Many administrators argued to be more save with a .local...

Filed under: General, Exchange, Windows Server, Microsoft Online Services, Office, Active Directory, Security, Cloud Computing, Dynamic Computing

Most popular configurations on SonicWall UTM Appliances

Published Tue, Aug 9 2011 16:06 | Thomas K.H. Bittner

As an alternative for Microsoft TMG 2010 we are testing SonicWall Unified Threat Management Appliances. Here https://www.fuzeqna.com/sonicwallkb/consumer/kbdetail.asp?kbid=7911 you’ll find most popular configurations on SonicWall UTM which covers nearly...

Filed under: General, TMG, UAG, Network Services, Security, SonicWall

Best Practices for Microsoft Virtualization and Netapp Storage for Hyper-V

Published Wed, Aug 3 2011 8:45 | Thomas K.H. Bittner

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...

Filed under: General, Storage, Windows Server, Hyper-V, SCVMM, Disaster Recovery, Virtualization, NetApp, High Availability, Cloud Computing, Dynamic Computing