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

Viewing the Communicator Address Book

Jeff Schertz posted an article describing a way to "read" the Communicator Address Book. Check it out!

http://blogs.pointbridge.com/Blogs/schertz_jeff/Pages/Post.aspx?_ID=47

Microsoft Certified Master (MCM) Program Now Offers 30% Limited Time Discount to Get Trained and Certified

Yesterday Greg Taylor posted a message on the Microsoft Exchange Team Blog regarding a 30% discount on the Master certification program. For more info see:

http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2008/12/16/450297.aspx

Office Communicator 2007 R2 (how could I have missed it!) almost ready for release

Two weeks ago already :-( the Office Communicator team placed a blog post about the new R2 release of Communicator Mobile:

http://communicatorteam.com/archive/2008/11/26/349.aspx

Very interesting new features! Sorry I missed it.

Unified Communications online End-User tutorials

Unified Communications tutorials are now available (English only):

http://www.microsoft.com/communicationsserver/enduser/tutorials/