25 novembre 2012

Now that Exchange Server 2013 is available, some of you may well be wondering how to publish it to the Internet using Microsoft Threat Management Gateway (TMG) or perhaps the Microsoft Unified Access Gateway (UAG). This post will help you configure TMG, for sure, but not UAG – as for the time being, you can’t effectively publish Exchange Server 2013 using UAG without turning off many of the security features in UAG. Why’s that? Well, as you’ll have gathered from other posts on this fine blog, we re-wrote OWA for Exchange 2013. And... [Lire la suite]

VMware has released version 1.0 of its vCenter Multi-Hypervisor Manager, an optional module which is capable of managing the Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisor from vCenter. While vCenter markets the product as a Multi-Hypervisor product this version clearly targets Microsoft because it only supports the Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 and Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 hypervisors at this time. It’s not clear if VMware is planning to support Windows Server 2012 which contains Hyper-V 3.0 or the Xen Hypervisor any time soon. Microsoft also... [Lire la suite]

Windows PowerShell Workflow est une nouvelle fonctionnalité de Windows PowerShell 3.0 qui plaira particulièrement aux administrateurs qui ont besoin d'exécuter des traitements multi-serveurs impliquant des tâches qui prennent du temps, parfois en séquence ou en parallèle, et supportant les redémarrages et les déconnexions. La fonctionnalité s'appuie sur Windows Workflow Foundation, et permet de définir des workflows en PowerShell en plus du XAML. J'ai eu l'occasion de démontrer un workflow simple lors de l'événement de lancement de... [Lire la suite]