16 septembre 2012

Windows Server 2012 RTMbecame available a few days ago. Many of you have been busy downloading and testing this latest and greatest version of Windows Server and now you're waiting to find out when you can install Exchange on it.   If you’re testing or planning to test Exchange Server 2013 Preview, it is compatible with Windows Server 2012. For details, see Exchange 2013 System Requirements. Exchange 2010 SP2 is not supported on Windows Server 2012 (see list of supported operating systems in Exchange 2010 System Requirements).... [Lire la suite]

The Microsoft Outlook team has released updates for Outlook 2010 and 2007 that provide Office 365 users with password expiration notifications. The advance password expiry notification will be displayed in a pop-up message (near the system clock) within a certain time period before their password actually expires. That time period is configurable by the tenant admin (see links below for more info). For users whose passwords have already expired, Outlook will flash an error message when users try to connect to their mailbox. In both... [Lire la suite]

Après avoir vu dans la première partie le principe de Windows To Go et les contraintes sur les clés USB, nous allons maintenant voir dans le détail comment se passe la création d'une clé Windows To Go. Les prérequis sont les suivants : Windows 8 Entreprise installé sur la machine sur laquelle la clé va être prepare, une image ISO de Windows 8 Entreprise, ou un fichier WIM éventuellement personnalisé du même système, une clé USB 3.0 certifiée pour Windows To Go (voir l'article précédent). Pour commencer il faut que le système... [Lire la suite]

VMware met à disposition de tout un chacun 1 heure de formation sur les nouveautés de VMware vSphere 5.1 sortie aujourd’hui. Les pré-requis : disposer d’un compte sur MyLeaning VMware VMware vSphere: What’s New [V 5.1] --> merci de voir la suite sur le blog de Julien MOUSQUETON : http://www.julienmousqueton.fr/2012/09/11/whats-new-vsphere-5-1-training-course/

Some thoughts about MS Exchange recovery possibilities. I’ve done quite a few Exchange Server installations in my carreer. Both physical and virtual. The installation and migration processes are quite ok, but when it comes to possible recovery (recovery of DB, recovery of e-mail accounts or recovery individual emails) there are many solutions. I’ll try to outline some of them. There are software solutions to get the DB recovered fast, but sometimes the recovery for exchange server needs to be done by experts working deeper than the... [Lire la suite]

vSphere 5.1 Essentials or Essentials Plus Kit with VMware Go Pro Included. The first one concerns new customers. If you’re small shop and thinking to buy first Vmware Package. There are two packages for an SMB. The Essentials and Essentials Plus. The Essentials Plus package has been enhanced with new product called vSphere Data Protection , vSphere Replication and vSphere Storage Appliance. You might be interested by this offer from VMware, since they’re giving away a Go Pro. In fact they’re offering the VMware Go Pro patching... [Lire la suite]

Why Is 3-Way Synchronous Mirroring Better Than 2-Way? A new PDF released by Starwind software discuss the possibility to use 3 servers to achieve better availability than in a configuration with 2 servers. If you follow my website and you’re regular reader, you might already noticed that the Starwind has released version 6.0 of their popular iSCSI SAN Software. If you’re VCP or vExpert you can ask for an NFR license and use it for demos or home-labing. In fact, all those people can ask for a license - vExperts, VMware Certified... [Lire la suite]

VMware has become aware of an issue where: After upgrading to vCenter Server 5.1, the VMware VirtualCenter Server service fails to start The VMware VirtualCenter Server service will not successfully stop or start. The final log in the vpxd.log file shows:CoreDump: Writing minidump You see a backtrace near the very bottom of the vpxd.log file which begins with the following: 2012-09-13T11:53:46.802+02:00 [04468 info 'vmmoVm' opID=SWI-c5103928] [VmMo::SetComputeCompatibilityDirty] vm vm-5345 is marked... [Lire la suite]