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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.  

Filed under: General, SQL, Storage, Windows Server, Cluster, Hyper-V, SharePoint, System Center, SCVMM, Disaster Recovery, Hosting, Managed Services, OCS, Active Directory, NetApp, High Availability, Navision, CRM, DFS, BizTalk, SCOM, SCCM, SCMDM, Opalis, Cloud Computing, Dynamic Computing

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...

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

Published Tue, Nov 29 2011 10:32 | Thomas K.H. Bittner

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...

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

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

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...

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 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...

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

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

More Performance with SMBv2x on Windows and NetApp

Published Wed, Sep 22 2010 19:22 | Thomas K.H. Bittner

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...

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