Hands-on IT

Internet Speeds and Costs Arround the World

Rui Caeiro — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 16:37:05 +0000

Internet Speeds and Costs Arround the World

Top 20 Nations in ITFT Broadband Rankings

Exchange Server 2010 Deployment Assistant

Rui Caeiro — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 10:28:46 +0000

Announcing the Release of the Exchange Server 2010 Deployment Assistant

Create Exchange 2010 on-premises deployment instructions that are customized to your environment.

Exchange 2010 MBX Calculator

Rui Caeiro — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 10:22:09 +0000

Exchange 2010 Mailbox Server Role Requirements Calculator

Exchange 2010 – Early Highlights

Rui Caeiro — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 14:31:48 +0000

Exchange 2010 Early Highlights

Exchange 2010 – Revving the Engines for Launch

Three weeks later after the announcement that Exchange 2010 was code complete, Julia White, Director of Exchange Marketing, shares some of these early highlights on the Unified Communications Blog.

See how Exchange 2010 (and you) can do the work of 4 or 5 other servers – and do it better and more cost-effectively.

Source: Microsoft Exchange Team Blog

Best Practices for Virtualizing Microsoft Exchange

Rui Caeiro — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 14:28:55 +0000

Upcoming Webcast: Best Practices for Virtualizing Microsoft Exchange

A Webcast is available today regarding recommendations for virtualizing Exchange server and the benefits of choosing Hyper-V + System Center as your virtualization solution.

TechNet Webcast: Microsoft Virtualization Best Practices for Exchange Server (Level 300)

Wednesday, Nov. 4 at 10am Pacific time

Virtualizing business critical applications will deliver significant customer benefits including cost savings, enhanced business continuity and an agile and efficient management solution. This session will focus on virtualizing Exchange using Microsoft solutions, and guidance for virtualizing Exchange for various Production scenarios. We will go into technical details with best practices.

Source: Microsoft Exchange Team Blog

Upcoming Webcast: Best Practices for Virtualizing Microsoft Exchange

Exchange 2007 – Queue Configurations

Rui Caeiro — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 11:20:59 +0000

How to Configure Message Retry, Resubmit, and Expiration Intervals

Great guide on how to change settings in order to tune your queues and message delivery.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa998043.aspx

Exchange 2007 – Disaster Recovery Decision Flowcharts

Rui Caeiro — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 11:13:13 +0000

Continuous Replication Disaster Recovery Decision Flowcharts

CCR, Site Resilience and Sample Decision Making Processes

Exchange 2007 – Allow Anonymous Relay

Rui Caeiro — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 17:52:01 +0000

How to Allow Anonymous Relay on a Receive Connector

Get-ReceiveConnector “Receive Connector Name” | Add-ADPermission -User “NT AUTHORITY\ANONYMOUS LOGON” -ExtendedRights “Ms-Exch-SMTP-Accept-Any-Recipient”

SCOM and SCCM – Visio Stencils

Rui Caeiro — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:44:33 +0000

Visio Stencils for System Center Operations Manager 2007 and System Center Configuration Manager 2007

Exchange 2007 – Configure and Force a List of Domain Controllers

Rui Caeiro — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:36:33 +0000

Configure a list of domain controllers and global catalogs to be used by the server via Directory Service Access (DSAccess)

Set-ExchangeServer -Identity “Server-Name”
-StaticDomainControllers “DC-1″, “DC-2″
-StaticGlobalCatalogs “GC-1″, “GC-2″