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Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 3 released
Published Wed, Feb 13 2013 7:33 | Thomas K.H. Bittner
This is a mandatory service pack to run Exchange 2013 in the same organization. And mandatory to run Exchange 2010 on Windows Server 2012. Several other enhancements have been implemented now. So also Internet Explorer 10 is supported to use for Exchange...
Windows Server Failover Cluster 2012 in Depth
Published Tue, Jul 24 2012 9:18 | Thomas K.H. Bittner
Find here all sessions from Tech-Ed which covers all details about Windows Server Failover Cluster 2012. Every session takes about one hour. But it is worth taking time watching all of the sessions.  
Exchange Display Names as email addresses on Hybrid Environments
Published Mon, Jan 9 2012 10:41 | Thomas K.H. Bittner
If you don’t take care, that the on premise and the 365 cloud Exchange of your organization is not well connected via a dedicated TLS connection, you will get into thsi issue when user display names are shown as email addresses. Read the following article...
DNS Server service refuse name resolution on Windows Server 2008 R2
Published Fri, Jan 6 2012 11:54 | Thomas K.H. Bittner
It has been already from nearly two years ago, that under certain circumstances DNS Server service on Windows Server 2008 R2 refuse to resolve internet domain name addresses. This issue occurs if Windows Server 2008 R2 DNS Server is used without forwarders...
How to install TMG 2010 Service Pack on Branch Office Server
Published Wed, Dec 21 2011 18:55 | Thomas K.H. Bittner
When you try to install a service pack for Forefront TMG 2010 on a branch office server, it will fail, because the Firewall service needs to be stopped. When Firewall service has been stopped the connection to headquarter is not longer active. This will...
Exchange 2010 Hybrid Deployments
Published Thu, Dec 8 2011 17:02 | Thomas K.H. Bittner
With Exchange 2010 SP2 you received the new Hybrid Configuration Wizard included as an enhancement of Exchange Management Console (EMC) and with additional cmdlets on Exchange Management Shell (EMS). The new wizard will guide, verify and configure for...
Exchange 2010 Service Pack 2 available
Published Mon, Dec 5 2011 10:44 | Thomas K.H. Bittner
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...
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...
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  
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...
Deploy massive DFSN Target Link Change
Published Mon, Jul 25 2011 16:19 | Thomas K.H. Bittner
When you need to make changes to your user DFS environment, a tool like dfsutil.exe is your friend. Latest when you want to replace your old Windows Server 2003 File and Distributed File Service, you will be faced to add or change the DFS target links...
Architecting a Microsoft Private Cloud
Published Thu, Jul 14 2011 16:33 | Thomas K.H. Bittner
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...
Best Practise Roaming Profiles and Folder Redirection
Published Thu, Jul 14 2011 15:06 | Thomas K.H. Bittner
Here is a very detailed article from Microsoft MVP Alan Burchill from Australia going through the configuration of Roaming Profiles and Folder Redirection. And showing the specific Group Policy Settings to achieve a user friendly feature deployment. A...
Error 0x80070035 – The network path was not found
Published Thu, Jun 30 2011 14:30 | Thomas K.H. Bittner
In an environment with Site-to-Site VPNs and Windows 7 clients on the branch offices you can be faced with the Error 0x80070035 – The network path was not found, when users try to access file services provided with DFS shares. The standard protocol used...
Kerberos Authentication for Outlook Clients
Published Thu, Jun 2 2011 14:28 | Thomas K.H. Bittner
In his article, Hendrik Walter explains how to enable Kerberos Authentication for Outlook Client connecting to Exchange Server 2010 SP1 and later. It is not so difficult as you would expect, therefore take your time and read his value article. http:/...
NetApp Storage Systems in Microsoft Systems Environment
Published Tue, May 3 2011 13:05 | Thomas K.H. Bittner
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...
Microsoft System Center Advisor
Published Tue, Mar 22 2011 22:09 | Thomas K.H. Bittner
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...
Snapshots are not supported with Windows DFSR
Published Tue, Mar 22 2011 9:36 | Thomas K.H. Bittner
If you are running virtualized Windows Server with DFSR, snapshots are not supported as with any other Windows Multi-Master Database. DFSR does not implement USN rollback quarantine protection like Active Directory Domain Services. More details here ...
New IE9 Group Policies and how to apply
Published Tue, Mar 15 2011 14:24 | Thomas K.H. Bittner
All new group policies coming with IE9 are listed on this page on TechNet with a description how to apply with group policy management console. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff986259.aspx  
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...
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