NOT spending money on a hardware load balancer when you have the requirement to do so will hurt you considerably in the long run, however most folks don’t know one from the other, and why one man’s load balancer is another man’s small fortune. Now it’s easy to find a hardware load balancer that has […]
A “lighter” version of IIS 7.5 has been made available for download and install for non server machines. Quoting from the Download page: IIS 7.5 Express is a simple and self-contained version of IIS 7.5 that is optimized for developers. IIS 7.5 Express enhances your ability to develop and test web applications on […]
In case you missed them, two nice pieces of download made themselves available last year – Exchange 2010 SP1 Visio Shapes Infrastructure Planning and Design Guides for Exchange 2010 SP1
POP3 is still around and available out of the box in Exchange 2010 but intentionally not configured as usable. Let’s have a look at understanding POP3 in Exchange 2010.
This week is a time to talk about most things virtual. Microsoft recently released it’s own P2V, i.e. Physical to Virtual Migration tool to assist with Windows 7 deployment, allowing you to P2V your old Windows XP environment into your new Windows 7 deployment, should you need to run a critical app that would only […]
This post was originally published on http://itproafrica.com CAS Array’s may be a bit confusing What are they What do you call them? Do CAS Array names need to be included in your certificate names What about load balancers What are they? A CAS array is a logical Grouping of CAS servers within an AD […]
CAS Array’s may be a bit confusing What are they What do you call them? Do CAS Array names need to be included in your certificate names What about load balancers What are they? A CAS array is a logical Grouping of CAS servers within an AD site represented by a single DNS name, […]
I’ll spare you the marketing, here are the three links you may be most interested in. The download link is here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=50b32685-4356-49cc-8b37-d9c9d4ea3f5b&displaylang=en The release notes are here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff728620(EXCHG.141).aspx MOST important – what’s new: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff459257(EXCHG.141).aspx The CAS role has improved even more, with numerous improvements, including the ability to federate with self signed certificates (that’s […]
Installing Exchange 2007 on Windows 2008 or 2008R2 is slightly different than installing on Server 2003. This includes installing Exchange 2007 SP3 on Windows 2008R2 since the pre-requisites that were taken for granted now need to be installed explicitly, especially concerning IIS. I had an annoying issue on OWA, where instead of seeing the OWA […]
Wildcard certificates used to have a stigma attached to them; however I didn’t really know where that stigma came from, except that it was considered “best practice” not to use them under certain circumstances. So I did a bit of digging – let’s start with the gold standard for Certificate Authorities (CA) – VeriSign, gold […]