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For over 13 years, I've made a living off of Microsoft products. However, Microsoft has always been only a portion of what I've made my living off of. Throughout my career, every place I've worked has used Microsoft solutions for some areas, but chose products from other vendors in other areas. In most cases where…
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I finally had some time to install the Windows Server 8 Beta in my lab. Since doing so, I've discovered there are 4 faces to Windows Server 8. During install, you're presented with a choice between 2 of them, "Server Core" and "Server with GUI". The other 2 currently require running a few commands to…
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Update Rollup 2 for Exchange 2010 Service Pack 2 was released today. You can download it here.
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Yesterday a security advisory was announced for vulnerability in SAMBA. Read more at ZDNet. Today FreeNAS released version 8.0.4-p1, which contains a patch to fix the SAMBA vulnerability. In the release notes, FreeNAS states that all versions prior to this one may be affected by this critical SAMBA vulnerability. If you're running an earlier version…
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Yesterday the Exchange Team announced the Microsoft Exchange Conference 2012, the 1st time this conference has been held in 10 years. The Conference will take place in Orlando Florida between September 24th and 26th. Along with this announcement comes a little bit of news regarding Exchange 15. Specifically that the beta will be available…
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Here's an interesting issue you may run into when migration from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2010. E-mails passing through the Exchange 2010 Hub Transport role may bounce back with a Non-Delivery Report (NDR) with the SMTP code 550 5.7.1 that says something like "Submission has been disabled for this account." You would normally only see…
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The Windows 8 Consumer Preview was released today (02/29/2012). If you want to try it out, there's no better way to do it than with a Virtual Machine using VMWare Workstation 8. As a reminder, only version 8 will work with Windows 8, so if you're still using version 7, it's time to upgrade. If…
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Happy Leap Day! The Windows 8 Consumer preview is available for download here. It is available in 5 different languages, including English, Chinese, French, German, and Japanese. The 64-bit ISO is 3.3GB and the 32-bit ISO is 2.5GB. Product key is on the download page. System Requirements Windows 8 Consumer Preview works great on the…
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Service Pack 2 for Exchange 2010 was released today! Check out the new features here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh529924.aspx Download it here: http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=28190 Or read the announcement from the Exchange Team here: http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2011/12/05/released-exchange-server-2010-sp2.aspx
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Alex Fontana over on the VMware blogs posted a great article on choosing between virtual disks (VMDK files) and Raw-device Mappings (RDM) when virtualizing an Exchange server. Check it out here: http://blogs.vmware.com/apps/2011/11/virtualized-exchange-storage-vmdk-or-rdm-or.html I have deployed virtualized Exchange servers on VMDK files in ESXi 4.1 environments without any issues. I've also used the "In-guest iSCSI" method…