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10/31/2007 Minasi Forum Meet 2008Wither you are a seasoned IT Conference attendee or have never had the chance to attend a conference before; all i can say is; Mark your calendar & make sure to be in Virginia Beach between Sunday, April 20th 2008 through Wednesday, April 23rd 2008 for one of the best conferences you could attend. This conference is being hosted by non other than bestselling author Mr. Mark Minasi & organized by Eric B Rux. I attended this event last year for the first time & what an experience it was; you will have unlimited direct access to some of today’s industry leaders who are all there donating their time free of charge.
There is a minimal cost in place that is there just to cover the cost of the meeting space & of course you will have to pay for your hotel stay; but this cost vs. what you would be paying to attend a large industry conference is next to nothing. You will also have the opportunity to make a lot of new friends in the industry who travel to this event from all corners of the world (mainly Europe) and spend some time Drinking/eating & relaxing.
Don’t delay another minute; put your mouse to good use & register for this event now. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________
MR&D Forum Meeting 2008
Please join us for the third annual Mark Minasi Technical Forum Meeting. We will once again be meeting in beautiful Virginia Beach, VA to learn new technologies, share ideas, and meet the people that have become our online friends. Hosted by Mark Minasi and organized by Eric B. Rux , this meeting will have in depth talks on Windows Server 2008, Exchange 2007, Windows Home Server (WHS), Windows Vista as well as other hot topics. You won't want to miss this!! Dates: Sunday, April 20th 2008 through Wednesday, April 23rd. We recommend that you fly in on Saturday. Location: Virginia Beach Resort & Conference Center Costs: hotel, airfare, meals and $450 registration fee Talks Speakers Link to register (it's a "seminar registration" page but you'll see the Forum meeting as an option) Link to pay with credit card if you've already registered but didn't pay when you registered Technical Sessions (Schedule Subject to Change) Sunday, April 20, 2008 1:00 pm: Mark Minasi Keynote 2:15 pm: Break 2:30 pm: TBA Industry Keynote 3:45 pm: Break 4:00 pm: Eric B. Rux Fun with Windows Home Server; trust me, you’ll want one…don’t let the word “Home” fool you 5:00 pm: 'No Host' dinner at local restaurant (share your war stories and learn from the experts!) Monday, April 21, 2008 9:00 am: James Summerlin Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Integration Services 10:15 am: Break 10:30 am: Greg Shields Documentation & Change Control: Hating it to Loving it in 75 minutes 11:45 am: Lunch 1:00 pm: Mark Minasi Windows Server 2008 2:15 pm: Break 2:30 pm: Jeremy Moskowitz Group Policy 2.0: It’s freekin’ sweet! (with Vista & Windows Server 2008) 3:45 pm: Break 4:00 pm: Nathan Winters Exchange 2007 from the command line – what makes a good Exchange 2007 deployment 5:00 pm: Hosted Dinner at Pungo Grill. Mmmmmm! (we ate there last year, it was very good) Tuesday, April 22, 2008 9:00 am: Greg Shields Tips & Tricks for Preventing an Active Directory Failure 10:15 am: Break 10:30 am: Don Jones Dr. PowerShell: How I Learned to Stop Clicking and Love the Command-Line 11:45 am: Lunch 1:00 pm: Rhonda Layfield TBA 2:15 pm: Break 2:30 pm: Curt Spanburgh Journey to Planet Sharepoint 3:45 pm: Break 4:00 pm: Nathan Winters OCS 2007 – An Introduction to the new VOIP world of Office Communication Server 2007 5:00 pm: 'No Host' dinner at local restaurant (one last chance to rub elbows with people in the know) Wednesday, April 23, 2008 9:00 am: Don Jones Windows PowerShell: The Future of Server Administration 10:15 am: Break 10:30 am: Mark Minasi Windows Vista 11:45 am: Lunch 1:00 pm: All Attendees Roundtable discussion for as long as you want! End of Forum Meeting. See you again next year! 10/21/2007 Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 and Windows Server 2008The release to manufacturing (RTM) version of Exchange 2007 cannot be installed on Windows Server 2008. However, Exchange 2007 Service Pack 1 will be supported for installation on Windows Server 2008. While you cannot install Exchange 2007 RTM on Windows Server 2008, Exchange 2007 RTM will be supported with Windows Server 2008 RTM domain controllers. Exchange 2003 Service Pack 2 will be similarly supported: Exchange 2003 cannot be installed on Windows Server 2008, but will be supported with Windows Server 2008 domain controllers. Please see below for more details and for information about support for pre-release versions of Windows Server 2008 with Exchange.
Exchange Server and Windows Server 2008 Directory Servers The following outlines the supported configurations for Exchange 2007 and earlier versions with the RTM version of Windows Server 2008. For customers running pre-release versions of Microsoft Exchange or Windows Server as authorized participants in the a Technology Adoption Program for Microsoft Exchange or Windows Server, current builds of Windows Server 2008 and Service Pack 1 (SP1) for Exchange 2007 are also supported as described below.
Upgrading Exchange 2007 from Windows Server 2003 to Windows Server 2008 When upgrading standalone servers, it is not supported to upgrade your operating system to Windows Server 2008 and then upgrade Exchange 2007 to SP1. It is also not supported to upgrade Exchange 2007 to SP1 and then upgrade your operating system to Windows Server 2008. To deploy Exchange 2007 SP1 on Windows Server 2008, you must install Windows Server 2008 on a computer that does not have Exchange installed, and then install Exchange 2007 SP1. For clustered mailbox servers, Exchange SP1 introduces support for clustered mailbox servers running on Windows Server 2008. However, as a result of the significant changes introduced in Windows Server 2008 failover clusters (called server clusters in previous versions of Microsoft Windows), rolling upgrades of a failover cluster from Windows Server 2003 to Windows Server 2008 are not possible. Therefore, to upgrade a clustered mailbox server from Windows Server 2003 to Windows Server 2008, you must build a new failover cluster using Windows Server 2008 as the operating system for all nodes, and then migrate the data from the old cluster to the new cluster. You can use the Move Mailbox operation to move mailboxes from the old cluster to the new cluster, and you can use public folder replication to move any public folder data from the old cluster to the new cluster. Known Issues with Exchange Server and Windows Server 2008 The following are known issues when combining legacy versions of Microsoft Exchange with Windows Server 2008:
- Credit to Scott Schnoll Implementing messaging policies using Exchange 2007Exchange Server 2007 provides new tools for coping with a growing number of legal, regulatory, and internal policy and compliance requirements that relate to e-mail. Most organizations must be able to filter e-mail delivery based on several different criteria and manage e-mail retention and deletion. This funcast provides details on how to configure the Exchange Server 2007 e-mail policy and compliance features. Messaging policies in Exchange Server 2007 are a set of rules and settings that apply restrictions for message flow and message storage. You can use messaging policies to apply rules to messages in transport and to enforce retention requirements for messages stored in user mailboxes. Messaging policies can be created on Exchange Server 2007 computers running the Edge Transport server role, the Hub Transport server role, or the Mailbox server role. Curious howto implement the messaging policies? Watch this funcast presented by Ilse van Criekinge MVP Exchange Server - ProExchange System Center Data Protection has been Released To Manufacturing
On October 17th at Storage Networking World, Ted Kummert, Microsoft Corporate VP for Data and Storage Platforms announced the release to manufacturing of System Center Data Protection Manager 2007. With the RTM, we are now counting down the days until General Availability (GA) in November, where the product will be available through all of the traditional channels, including Microsoft Partners, Volume Licenses (VL/EA), as well as there will be OEM appliances running DPM 2007 which will be announced at our launch. DPM 2007 is scheduled to officially launch in November at Microsoft Tech-Ed IT Forum, in Barcelona, Spain – along with other components of the System Center family of management products. So, if you have not already done so, please visit the new DPM website for updated product information and download the evaluation software. AOL to cut more headsWell isn't this a heart felt email from Randy; Just over a year ago, AOL embarked on an incredibly complex and significant transformation as we fundamentally shifted our business model from a subscription-based ISP to an advertising-supported Web company. Today, I want to give you an update on where we are in this transition, and talk about further actions we're taking and where we’re headed as a company. When I came to AOL, I knew we had to take several steps to complete our company’s transformation. We aggressively expanded our advertising capabilities, building on the strength of Advertising.com and our premium ad sales force. We acquired three leading-edge advertising companies - ADTECH, Third Screen Media and TACODA - and formed Platform-A. AOL now has one of the largest and most sophisticated ad networks in the world, and we're well positioned to compete where the ad market is heading. We rebuilt and revitalized our key products, programming channels and platforms. And unique visitors to AOL.com, News, Food, Money & Finance, TMZ, Moviefone, MapQuest and many other sites are up. Our products are once again creating buzz in the market. And to reach the widest audience possible across the Web, we're unbundling our products and programming so users can take them along wherever they go online. Importantly, we’re taking the business global. We’re extending AOL’s reach into seven new countries this year while globalizing our product development efforts. By the end of next year, AOL will have a presence in 30 countries. That’s a remarkable achievement in a relatively short period of time. We refocused the business around three core areas - Platform-A, Publishing and Access - and are now managing these as three distinct but related components. Here’s why this is important. With Platform-A, we can offer advertisers the most advanced set of solutions across our extensive network of owned-and-operated sites and third-party sites. Publishing provides us the products, programming and platforms we need to sustain a healthy owned-and-operated network. And our Access business continues to be profitable, providing us cash flow to invest in other areas of the business, and it’s an important source of primary e-mails and page views. The last important piece in this transition is the realignment of our costs against these three businesses so we can operate as efficiently and effectively as possible. This is in many ways the most difficult step, but a necessary one. As a part of this realignment, tomorrow we begin a reduction in force that will, over the next couple of months, affect a total of about 2,000 people out of our worldwide workforce of 10,000. Everyone impacted by this reduction deserves our thanks and respect for their contributions to the company. We will aid these individuals in their transition to new opportunities as much as possible, most importantly with what we believe are generous severance packages. This realignment will allow us to increase investment in high-growth areas of the company - as an example, we added hundreds of people this year through acquisitions - while scaling back in areas with less growth potential or those that aren’t core to our business, as we did with the sale of Tegic. So where is this taking AOL? Put simply, my vision for AOL is to build the largest and most sophisticated global advertising network while we grow the size and engagement of our worldwide audience. We’re only a year and a month into our transformation, and the turnaround has been dramatic. We’re now in a position to win as an advertising-supported business. We have a bright future as a company if we can execute on this vision. Randy |
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