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Today, Microsoft or better; the Microsoft Exchange Product Group released a new version of the Storage Calculator for Exchange. In good Microsoft fashion, this version has been renamed. It’s now called the “Exchange 2010 Mailbox Server Role Requirements Calculator”. That new name should better cover the tool’s use… But when would you be using this [...]

During Interact, I asked Scott Schnoll, former MVP and currently a Blue Badge at the Technical Writing Team on Exchange, about the DAG in Exchange 2010. Don’t get me wrong; I think it is by far the most elegant HA solution has offered so far and everyone should at least look at it! But I [...]

During the Tech Ed 2009 Keynote in Berlin, an overenthousiastic Microsoft employee showed, live and on stage, for over 7,200 people, how to create a new Virtual Machine in Hyper-V by a few mouse clicks using System Center Something. During his presentation he created a new instance of a Windows Server 2008 R2 machine, 32bits. [...]

Thinking I was smart, I took the bus to the “Messe Berlin”. My bad. After being on the bus for over half an hour, I had to take into account the possibility that I might have made a small miscalculation. So I hopped off, crossed the road and took the same bus in the opposite [...]

During TechEd 2008 Marcus Murray (http://truesecurity.se/blogs/murray/default.aspx) asked the audiance if they were aware of a ‘secret backdoor password’ in Windows. Although half of the audiance acknowledged this, the ‘demo’ following the statement had nothing to do with a ‘backdoor password’ in Windows (Vista or XP). What he showed was that, if you (1) can gain [...]

With the release of Exchange Server 2007 Microsoft introduced some exciting new high availability options. Service Pack 1 for Exchange Server 2007 introduced yet another high availibity option. Looking at the question we recieved at the Exchange Server 2007 booth at TechEd 2008 IT Pro in North America, it appears it’s not clear to everyone [...]

For all of you that are attending TechEd US in Orlando this June, you might be interested in taking one or more Microsoft certification exams during your stay. You can take the exams at any time you want during TechEd, in a specially designated area of the convention center for a discounted price of only [...]

For at least 16 hours I’ll be at some Ask The Experts booth at TechEd 2008 IT Pro in Orlando. So if you want to catch up, or want have a chat about any of my favorite products, feel free to drop by! I’m sure there will be beverages, and if you get lucky, even [...]

I’m not sure wether it refers to Peabody in Kansas or Massachusetts or the Peabody Award, but this year, during TechEd North America 2008 for IT Pro’s I’m at the Peabody Hotel. I just got my hotel confirmation. So if you’re in the neighbourhood, feel free to give me a call, and we can grab [...]