1st public movie about Exchange 14

On Technet the first movie about Exchange 14 is available.
In this movie some new features are discussed and shown.

For the whole article and the movie go here:
http://edge.technet.com/Media/announcing-Exchange14/

Erwin Jansen
C2ICT

Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Enterprise Deployment - Part 2

Part 2 is available as of yesterday.

http://www.shudnow.net/

OCS R2 32bit Available through MVLS

MS made OCS R2 available through MVLS! (but no MOC R2 :-(

Updates to the Mailbox Server Role Storage Requirements Calculator (Version 16.3)

The MS Exchange Team has posted an update to the "Exchange 2007 Mailbox Server Role Storage Requirements Calculator " yesterday.

Enhancements in this version:

• We added the calculated (or user defined) read/write ratio per mailbox tier into the Storage Requirements Results User Mailbox Configuration table.
• We added the server's calculated database read I/O percentage value into the Storage Requirements Results Disk Space & Performance Requirements table.
• Since the Recovery Point Objective input question only dealt with SCR, we moved that from the Log Replication section to the Standby Continuous Replication Configuration table.
• We added a new message profile, Extra Heavy. With this additional profile, we now have 5 available messaging profiles as defined

Bug Fixes:
In prior versions, when you selected to use SCR and wanted to match the source configuration design, the following tables did not accurately reflect the correct values for the given SCR configuration (in so far as by selecting to match a source CCR configuration that means there are 2 SCR targets for every active database instance, so if you had 2 CCR clusters then you would have at least 2 SCR targets per CCR cluster):

1. Disk Space & Performance Requirements - Total for all SCR Servers column, all rows.

2. LUN Configuration (per Server) - SCR Targets column, Total Recommended Exchange LUNs row.

3. Storage Configuration - Environment column, Total Number of SCR Disks Requirement row and Total Number of Disks Required row.

Source:

http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2007/07/05/445802.aspx

PowerShell for Network Load Balancing (NLB) and Failover Clustering in Windows Server 2008 R2

In relation to general infra and high availability for both Exchange and OCS, I post the blog posts below about using PowerShell for Network Load Balancing (NLB) and Failover Clustering in Windows Server 2008 R2:

NLB
http://blogs.msdn.com/clustering/archive/2008/12/26/9253786.aspx

Failover Clustering
http://blogs.msdn.com/clustering/archive/2008/12/20/9243367.aspx

General
http://blogs.msdn.com/clustering/archive/2008/12/11/9193726.aspx

Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Enterprise Deployment - Part 1

Elan Shudnow has placed a part 1 post on its blog on how to deploy OCS 2007 R2 Enterprise. This is the first part in a 5 part series.

Have fun!

Update on the R2 Videos

First of all for everybody that is reading this blog: A HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

I wanted to post an update to an earlier article regarding the OCS R2 video's on edge.technet.com because I saw that I forgot to do this in the past, so here is the link where you can find all currently available video's on OCS R2:

http://edge.technet.com/Search/Default.aspx?Term=OCS%20R2

Wim