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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

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

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

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

System Center, Cloud and Storage – Best Practise

Published Sat, May 28 2011 1:11 | Thomas K.H. Bittner

Watch the sessions from Alex Rauch and NetApp to get best out of virtualization and the Cloud: VIR201 Virtualization: State of the Union VIR327 Hyper-V Cloud Fast Track: A Reference Architecture for Private Cloud SIM335 Microsoft System Center Integration...

Filed under: General, Storage, Windows Server, Hyper-V, System Center, SCVMM, Tools, Virtualization, NetApp, SCOM, SCCM, SCMDM, Opalis, Cloud 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 iSCSI Software Target now available

Published Tue, Apr 5 2011 7:56 | Thomas K.H. Bittner

All new OS have the iSCSI Initiator client already available out of the box. The server side component was only available for Windows Storage Server. Now it is available for all other server types too. How to use it with a Hyper-V Cluster read the blog...

Filed under: General, SQL, Storage, Windows Server, Cluster, Hyper-V, Tools, Virtualization, Network Services, File Services, NetApp, High Availability, Windows Client

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

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

Configure the Forefront TMG 2010 to allow DPM 2010 communication

Published Wed, Oct 20 2010 14:55 | Thomas K.H. Bittner

The DPM agent uses various ports and protocols to connect with the DPM server. The Forefront TMG needs to be configured to allow the DPM server to communicate through those ports. The complete list of ports that are used by DPM are documented at the Microsoft...

Filed under: General, Storage, Exchange, Windows Server, Hyper-V, SharePoint, System Center, Disaster Recovery, Backup, TMG, ISA Server, Data Protection Manager, Forefront, Virtualization, File Services, Security

Windows Server 2008 R2 Domain Controller on iSCSI boot server not supported

Published Fri, Oct 8 2010 19:24 | Thomas K.H. Bittner

When you installed Windows Server 2003 Domain Controller and used iSCSI mounted drives for your SYSVOL and Active Direcotry Database, you recognized that this doesn’t work because the iSCSI LUNs are not mounted when Active Directory Services expect it...

Filed under: General, Windows Server, Hyper-V, Backup, Active Directory, Virtualization, NetApp, 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

Best Practise Deployment Exchange 2010 with NetApp Storage

Published Sat, May 29 2010 10:33 | Thomas K.H. Bittner

In the May issue of Tech OnTap an article has been published that describes some of the new features for Exchange 2010 and discusses best practices for deploying it with NetApp storage including HA, virtualization, and storage efficiency. You can check...

Filed under: General, Storage, Exchange, Windows Server, Cluster, Hyper-V, Disaster Recovery, Backup, Migration, Virtualization, NetApp, High Availability