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Windows Server Failover Cluster 2012 in Depth

TBittner — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 05:00:00 GMT

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.

Microsoft Exchange PST Capture

TBittner — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 06:00:00 GMT

Now it is available. Discover PST files on your network and import it automatically into users mailboxes On-Premise or Exchange Online.

Download here, and be able to stay compliant and follow your achiving and retention rules.

Exchange Display Names as email addresses on Hybrid Environments

TBittner — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 06:00:00 GMT

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, which discuss this issue and how to take care to avoid occuring this on such environments:

http://blogs.technet.com/b/hot/archive/2012/01/09/display-names-appear-as-email-addresses-in-cloud-when-sent-from-on-premise.aspx

DNS Server service refuse name resolution on Windows Server 2008 R2

TBittner — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 06:00:00 GMT

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 configured, just relying on root hints entries querying for internet domain name resolution.

The issue was, that after a while the DNS Server service can’t handle the catched entries on the DNS cache and refuse name resolution.

Now Microsoft published a hotfix to fix this issue, which was still persistent on Windows Server 2008 R2 with Service Pack 1.

Get the hotfix here:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2508835

Exchange 2010 Hybrid Deployments

TBittner — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 06:00:00 GMT

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 you many former manual steps.

Read the articles on TechNet about Hybrid Deployments here

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg577584.aspx

Exchange 2010 Service Pack 2 available

TBittner — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 06:00:00 GMT

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 updating your current installations, be aware that you need Schema- and/or Organisaiton Administrator rights, because it contains a Schema update for your Active Directory.

And this Schema update needs to be execute in the domain where the Schema Master Role exist. So run setup /prepareAD not in the domain where you operate your Exchange Servers, it will not work. You need to go to the root domain, if there is the Schema Master or you have to move the Schema Master on to a domain controller in the domain where you operate your Exchange environment.

And remember that you should wait for replication across your AD after you’ve performed the Exchange 2010 SP2 Schema update.

During you’re waiting for replication, you can use the time to install the ‘IIS 6 WMI Compatibility’ feature. It is mandatory for your following Exchange 2010 SP2 installation, because of the new ‘Outlook Mini’ feature, which requires this feature on your CAS server roles.

Schedule

5 minutes for /prepareAD
15 minutes for replication (more if you have higher replication times set on your site links)
5 minutes for feature prerequisits
30 minutes for finishing SP2 setup per system

so you should be through with it within a hour for your first system and schedule 30 minutes for every following systems …

Reboot after SP2 installation should not be necessary.

And think about to disable Anti Virus Scanning on the box you’re going to perform Exchange 2010 SP2 Setup for upgrade.

Read the prerequisits before starting your installation

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb691354.aspx

What is new in Exchange 2010 Service Pack 2

TBittner — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 06:00:00 GMT

… read the article on TechNet here

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh529924.aspx

You will find some very useful features now implemented. Read carefully about Mailbox Replication Service, as it will support you now on your way to Office365 more seamless.

Also the Hybrid Configuration Manager will support you on local and Office365 Exchange Organizations.

For those who hosting Exchange 2010, now additional features available with SP2 which have been missing for long time. Follow the link for the Exchange 2010 SP2 hosting guidance document.

http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=28192

Facilitando el descubrimiento con SEO Toolkit

haaron — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 05:00:00 GMT

Para todos aquellos que construimos soluciones para Internet es necesario contemplar como agregar metadatos a nuestras páginas para que buscadores o servicios de búsqueda permitan encontrarlas, indexarlas y potencialmente arrojarlas como resultados.

Sin embargo, no solamente llenar de metadatos los encabezados de nuestras páginas es suficiente para permitir a servicios de búsqueda encontrar y rastrear el contenido. Es necesario asegurar que nuestro sitio web cuenta con enlaces propiamente vinculados a otros sitios, contenido ligero y accesible, código HTML bien formado que cumple con los estándares, entre otros elementos y referencias importantes de revisar.

SEO Toolkit es una herramienta que nos permite optimizar nuestros sitios web para un mejor decrubrimiento por parte de servicios y motores de busqueda. SEO Toolkit analiza nuestros sitios y recomienda posibles mejoras que podemos realizar y así facilitar a los servicios de búsqueda el encontrar nuestro contenido. Podríamos pensar que SEO Toolkit es un agente analizador que identifica como optimizar nuestros sitios para facilitar su descubrimiento en internet.

Esta es una herramienta de Microsoft por lo tanto se instala sobre IIS 7.0 y hace uso de SQL Server 2008 para recopilar y almacenar el resultado de los análisis. Así mismo este componente se integra a IIS 7 y permite acceder a reportes, reglas, validaciones y sugerencias para mejorar nuestro portal.

Cuando creamos un nuevo análisis podemos configurar el sitio que queremos analizar, el número de enlaces que deseamos revisar, la autentificación que se deberá soportar y todo lo necesario para que la herramienta desempeñe una revisión de forma adecuada.

Los resultados obtenidos son muy valiosos ya que nos carga validaciones e incumplimientos que se realizaron. Por cada incumplimiento nos da un alto nivel de detalle entre ello la posible solución. Por fin ya no tendremos que recurrir a otras herramientas de análisis de sitios web.

Ya hacia falta una herramienta tan valiosa como esta, que bien que Microsoft identificó el hueco y nos proporciono una alternativa aceptable. Estoy seguro que SEO Toolkit aportará mucho valor para tus proyectos web.

Dejo el enlace del sitio para que proceda a evaluar e instalar.

Exchange for Hosters

TBittner — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 05:00:00 GMT

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 On-Premise Exchange environment.

Read

http://blogs.technet.com/b/hameroff/archive/2011/08/08/so-you-want-to-host-exchange.aspx

and

http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2011/08/30/exchange-server-2010-sp2-and-support-for-hosting-exchange.aspx

Architecting a Microsoft Private Cloud

TBittner — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 05:00:00 GMT

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 deployment models.

Microsoft Services has designed, built and implemented a Private Cloud/IaaS solution using Windows Server, Hyper-V and System Center. Their goal throughout articles over a four-part series will be to show how to integrate and deploy each of the component products as a solution while providing the essential cloud attributes such as elasticity, resource pooling and self-service.

Start here with the first article and follow next articles to come.