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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

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

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...

Filed under: General, Windows Server, Hyper-V, System Center, SCVMM, Hosting, Active Directory, Virtualization, Security, SCOM, SCCM, SCMDM, Opalis, Cloud Computing, Dynamic Computing, SCO

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

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

Configuring Remote Desktop licensing settings on Virtualization Host

Published Thu, Dec 16 2010 10:17 | Thomas K.H. Bittner

Until Windows Server 2008 R2, in a Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) deployment, the RD Virtualization Host server was not aware of licensing settings because only the RD Session Host server participated in licensing and performed license validations...

Filed under: General, Remote Desktop Services, Hosting, Virtualization, App-V, MED-V, Cloud Computing, Dynamic Computing, VDI

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