June 2010

Boot from a VHD in Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2

by Andrew Herron 30 June 2010 Desktop

Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2 allow you to create a Virtual Hard Disk (VHD) that you can make bootable. This is particularly useful when needing to create a dual boot system and does not require having to partition your Hard Disk Drives (HDD). First of all you will need to create the VHD. The [...]

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Tagged as: Desktop, Server 2008 R2, VHD, Windows 7

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Tech Ed 2010

by Nicolas Blank 28 June 2010 Anouncements

A MESSAGE FROM MICROSOFT SOUTH AFRICA MANAGING DIRECTOR: MTETO NYATI DEAR IT PROFESSIONALS AND DEVELOPERS, It’s hard to believe that Tech·Ed is almost upon us again, and as always, we’re looking to deliver an absolute blockbuster of an event this year. Our key focus at Tech·Ed this year is going to be on the absolute [...]

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Tagged as: Conference, Teched, Teched Africa

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CDR Billing Application for OCS

by Uwin Young 23 June 2010 Anouncements

The OCS Monitoring server role stores all Call Data Records (CDR) and metrics in a MS SQL database. Microsoft have also supplied some standard reports that run in SQL Reporting Services. The level of detail of the stored data is exceptional and all tables are completely normalised. The one thing missing is a billing engine [...]

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Tagged as: Microsoft, OCS, SQL, UC

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Exchange 2007 SP3 w/support for Windows Server 2008 R2 Now Available

by Nicolas Blank 22 June 2010 Anouncements

Moving on from news about how great the rollups for Exchange 2007 post SP2 are, SP3 has hit the shelves with the biggest line item being that it adds support for Exchange 2007 running on Server 2008 R2. That’s not all though, while there are a number of changes I’m going to pick a few: [...]

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Tagged as: Exchange 2007, News, service pack, SP3

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Exchange 2007 is not dead :)

by Nicolas Blank 21 June 2010 Exchange

No Exchange 2007 is NOT dead – on the contrary, it’s getting better as is proved by the lasted blog post entitled Overview of Exchange 2007 SP2 Rollup Installation. This post and the previous post announcing the release of the rollup made it quite clear that support for Exchange 2007 is ongoing and quite healthy! [...]

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Tagged as: Exchange, Exchange 2007, Exchange 2010, patching, service pack

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ADMT 3.2 released

by Peter Johnson 21 June 2010 Active Directory

Active Directory Migration Tool 3.2 has been released: Here’s the link on the Microsoft Site: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=20c0db45-db16-4d10-99f2-539b7277ccdb   New features:   1.) Now runs on Server 2008 R2 2.) Requires SQL Server 2005 Express SP3, SQL Server 2008 Express SP1 or SQL 2005 or      later installed before installation. 3.) Managed Service account migration   Deprecated features [...]

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Tagged as: Active Directory, download, Exchange, Microsoft, Server 2003, SP3, SQL

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Released: Update Rollup 4 for Exchange Server 2010

by Nicolas Blank 21 June 2010 Anouncements

A quick mention and a quote from the original post. I’d like to encourage anyone who is in an architectural or operational capacity to subscribe to the Exchange teams blog. Quoting from the original blog post: Exchange CXP team has released Update Rollup 4 for Exchange Server 2010 RTM (KB 982639) to the download center. [...]

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Tagged as: critical bug, Exchange 2010, Forefront, Rollup

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SharePoint 2010 Guidance from Patterns and Practices

by Mahmoud Challouf 16 June 2010 Sharepoint

The Patters and Practices guide for SharePoint 2010 is still under development but can be downloaded from the url bellow. To download the guides and ressources Zip version The Current backlog status is the following You can give your feedback on CodePlex Share this post:

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Tagged as: download, itpro, Sharepoint

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Exchange 2010 SP1 Beta is out

by Martin Coetzer 13 June 2010 Anouncements

In case you missed it. Microsoft has released a beta of SP1 for Exchange Server 2010. This is the service pack with the new archiving features. Download it and play with it in your lab. Please don’t deploy it in production, because it is not supported while it is in beta. Download it here (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=193120). Share [...]

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Tagged as: download, Exchange, Exchange 2010, Microsoft, service pack, UC

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SharePoint 2010 key features overview

by Mahmoud Challouf 12 June 2010 Sharepoint

« The business collaboration platform for enterprise and the web » SharePoint 2010 is an innovative platform that can be divided into categories : Sites, Composites, Insights, Search, Content and Communities. In this post we will try to cover the different key feature improvements related to each of the categories sited above. Sites Microsoft team has enhanced [...]

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