This document outlines a series of best practice recommendations for running Lync Server 2010 in a virtualized environment. Download Here Supported Hypervisors Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V (note that Windows 2008 SP2 is not supported) VMWare ESX 4.0 Others that have been validated through the SVVP program Note: The guest OS must be Windows Server…
Microsoft just released an updated help file for Exchange 2010 SP1. This one download contains the complete technet content for Exchange 2010 in a single, searchable file. A must have resource. Download Here
NOTE: The ISO for SP1 was used. Not Microsoft Update. Yesterday Microsoft released Service Pack 1 for Windows 7/Windows Server 2008 R2. I know in previous service packs it warned that it could take an hour to install. I was wondering how long it actually takes. More about Windows 7/Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1…
Yesterday Microsoft released Service Pack 1 for Windows 7/Windows Server 2008 R2. More about Windows 7/Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 Below are the screenshots of what you can expect to see if you were to install it manually. Even though it says “Downloading” it’s not. I’m running this from an ISO on a VM with…
I had previously blogged about some great step by step guides for Remote Desktop Services. I wanted to add a couple more useful links for a load simulation tool and a capacity planning document. Remote Desktop Load Simulation Tools The Remote Desktop Load Simulation toolset is used for 32-bit and 64-bit (x86 and x64) server…
When planning the NTFS cluster size for a new volume the general consensus with the latest versions of Microsoft SQL Server is to use 64k. So if you are auditing an existing installation, the following command-line utility can be used to query the NTFS file system to return whether this best practice was followed.…
I recently had to redirect a SharePoint site from http to https after an SSL certificate was installed. Although there are some instructions available, I couldn’t quite get it to work. After doing some research and following some of the steps I saw on several blog sites, I finally had success. I thought I would…
Although developers consistently tell me that IE6 should no longer be supported, I continue to find reasons why our clients still need to support IE6. I discuss these reasons more in two previous blog posts here and here. As I mentioned earlier, I have found that testing websites for IE6 compatibility is a bit of…
I usually don’t write reviews of products, but I felt compelled to after receiving and using the new Plantronics Voyager Pro V2 optimized for Lync. This review will not go into all the features of the headset, just the things that I think set it apart from other Lync devices. First off, this Bluetooth headset…
My 5-yr old has a singularly powerful motivator: candy. So much so that my husband bought her a shirt on a recent business trip that reads “I (heart) candy.” I used to dread simple trips to the grocery store for fear of making a scene at the checkout aisle. However, I found that the key to…
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