Here is a video showing the internal launch of the MS Active Directory domain, the first ever in the world. Fascinating stuff!!
How to protect Hyper-V with DPM 2010 whitepaper
How to protect Hyper-V with DPM 2010 whitepaper A new white paper has been released which shows you how to protect Hyper-V with DPM 2010 Download it here http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=c9d141cf-c839-4728-af52-928f61bebdca Overview Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager 2010 (DPM) provides continuous data protection for virtual machines hosted on servers running Microsoft’s Hyper-V. This protection includes …
FSMO Role Holders
One thing that every support person who manages and supports active directory should know is the FSMO role holders, or operational masters as they are sometimes called, what they do and the effects of them being offline due to any kind of disaster/failure. These role holders are possibly one of the most important servers in …
Microsoft Certified Master
Have you ever heard of the Microsoft Certified Master programme? It is 3 weeks of intensive training at the Microsoft campus in Redmond which will set you back $25,000. However students that attend say it is worth every single penny. It is probably the most intensive IT training that currently exists. There are 5 tracks: …
My study resources
My study resources for the next 12 months 🙂
CCIE study schedule
One thing which always motivates me is reading other people’s success stories. I have quite a few CCIE’s on my twitter friends list because it always amazes me of the amount of time and effort that goes into achieving this certification. I will never do it my self as I have never logged onto a …
Microsoft have given me £950,000!!
I feel really lucky at the moment!!! Microsoft are awarding me £950k!! How lucky am i!! Microsoft Promotion Award Team Prof. Minerva McGonagall Stamford New Road, Altrincham Cheshire WA14 1EP London. United Kingdom. MICROSOFT WINNING NOTIFICATION. It is obvious that this notification will come to you as a surprise but please find time to read …
Performance Tuning Guidelines for Windows Server 2008 R2
Grab it here: http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/system/sysperf/Perf_tun_srv-R2.mspx This guide describes important tuning parameters and settings that you can adjust to improve the performance of the Windows Server 2008 R2 operating system. This guide describes each setting and its potential effect to help you make an informed decision about its relevance to your system, workload, and performance goals. This …
NetApp Storage Documents
Some good documents to download from netapp: NetApp Storage Best Practices For Microsoft Virtualization NetApp Implementation Guide For Microsoft Virtualization NetApp Solution Guide: Microsoft Exchange Server, SQL Server, SharePoint Server Mixed Workload on Microsoft Hyper-V and NetApp Fabric MetroCluster
Configuring a postmaster Mailbox in Exchange 2007
By default, an exchange 2007 installation does not contain a postmaster mailbox which catches all NDR’s. You have to create the mailbox manually and then configure it. This has to be done on every hub transport server in your organisation. Step 1 is to create the postmaster mailbox. This only has to be done once: …