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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

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

Monitoring NetApp SnapManager and SnapDrive with Microsoft SCOM

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

NetApp Reference Architect for Virtualization and Cloud Computing, Santhosh Rao, has published two very interesting articles how to monitor SnapManager and SnapDrive with Microsoft System Center Operation Manager.

You should read this

https://communities.netapp.com/community/netapp-blogs/msenviro/blog/2011/09/13/monitoring-snapmanagers-and-snapdrive-events-in-scom--part-1

https://communities.netapp.com/community/netapp-blogs/msenviro/blog/2011/12/08/monitoring-snapmanagers-and-snapdrive-events-in-scom--part-2

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

Partly Cloudy and forecast for 2012

TBittner — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 06:00:00 GMT

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 hardware selection in regards of storage.

The guys from NetApp have published a nice document for you to give you a feeling what needs to be taken into your conclusions about next infrastructure designs in regards of storage for your virtualization infrastrucuture and of course may be also for Exchange storage.

You should read this following this link

http://media.netapp.com/documents/tr-3874.pdf

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

Scott Schnoll’s - Exchange 2010 HA Misconceptions Addressed

TBittner — Tue, 31 May 2011 05:00:00 GMT

You should not miss this detailed information

http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2011/05/31/exchange-2010-high-availability-misconceptions-addressed.aspx

NetApp Storage Systems in Microsoft Systems Environment

TBittner — Tue, 03 May 2011 05:00:00 GMT

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 in many aspects, for example, it describes how NetApp storage server discovery and redirecting DC/KDC/LDAP services.

The document describes how NetApp storage systems work seamlessly in the Microsoft Windows environment and how they enable administrator to effortlessly manage data by making use of standard Microsoft services and features such as Active Directory, IntelliMirror, Volume Shadow Copy, Access-Based Enumeration, Offline File Caching, Auditing, Distributed File System (DFS), File Screening, and CIFS Virus Protection.

TR-3367 - NetApp Storage Systems in a Microsoft Windows Environment

Secure Access to your Cloud Services

TBittner — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 06:00:00 GMT

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, Senior Security Support Escalation Engineer on Microsoft Forefront Team.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/gg607680.aspx