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The Microsoft Windows Virtualization Product Group announced the launch of the new Virtualization Feed, an aggregation of 18 independent and 14 Microsoft bloggers who write about virtualization. If virtualization is your bag of nuts then you should subscribe now.

August 28, 2008

Exchange Server 2007 is now supported for hardware virtualisation

We’ve been virtualising Exchange Server 2007 since it was first released but this week Microsoft has announced their official support policies for virtualised Exchange environments.  It is a bit heavy on the Hyper-V but also references the list of support partners for non-Microsoft hardware virtualisation.  When I checked this earlier in the week VMWare was […]

August 22, 2008

Microsoft Certification – The Mark Russinovich Exam

Microsoft has released information for exam 70-660, TS: Windows Internals.  This might be an odd sounding title to anyone who has never heard of Mark Russinovich or Sysinternals.  From the MS Learning site:   This exam validates deep technical skills in the area of Windows Internals. Including troubleshooting operating systems that are not performing as […]

July 31, 2008

EMS – Exchange 2007 Public Folder item count

With a simple Exchange Management Shell command you can display a list of your public folders and the item count for each one.  All you need to do is pipe Get-PublicFolder into Get-PublicFolderStatistics like this: [PS] C:\>Get-PublicFolder -Recurse | Get-PublicFolderStatistics

July 29, 2008

Install telnet on Windows Server 2008

If you’re needing to do some SMTP testing using a Windows Server 2008 host you’re probably going to need a Telnet client.  The Telnet client is not installed by default on Windows Server 2008, so you can use this ServerManagerCmd.exe one-liner to quickly install it: C:\>servermanagercmd -i telnet-client ......... Start Installation... [Installation] Succeeded: [Telnet Client]. […]

July 26, 2008

Enable/disable Exchange Server 2007 circular logging

When planning a mailbox migration to Exchange Server 2007 you should consider the amount of transaction logging that will be generated by the move.  In low risk environments circular logging can be used to avoid disk space problems caused by the volume of transaction logs generated during bulk mailbox moves. You can query the current […]

July 25, 2008

VMWare to release VMWare ESXi for free

I saw Dan’s post on this subject and did a little Googling and lo and behold, VMWare have announced that their ESXi product will be released for free. I’m no VMWare guy like these guys , but as I understand it ESXi is the skinny little hypervisor (clocking in at 32mb) that lets you run […]

July 23, 2008

Adobe Acrobat Reader 9 Silent Install

Note: Aaron has posted that Adobe has released the customisation wizard for Acrobat Reader 9 and has updated his excellent post on deploying Acrobat Reader 9 with this new information. Instructions To perform a silent install of Adobe Acrobat Reader 9.0, follow these steps: 1. Download the install file from Adobe here . 2. Run […]

July 6, 2008