http://blogs.msdn.com/ntdebugging/archive/2010/04/22/etw-storport.aspx A fantastic new way in Windows 2008 and Windows 2008 R2 to gather information on how your server is performing with your storage…

Greg Smith recently released this very detailed breakdown of Exchange performance when hosted on Server 2008R2 when compaired to Server 2008SP2. The findings are quite simply incredible. Please read on and let me know what you think; We recently compared the performance of the Exchange 2010 Client...

Great news… the product is now RTM, refer the DPM Blog for details The RTM Evaluation Software for DPM 2010 is available at: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/bb727240.aspx A single DPM server can protect – 100 production servers 1,000 Windows clients 2,000 SQL databases...

Microsoft have release a new support statement regarding OCS2007R2 and Server 2008R2. Follow the link for details.

Happy New Year to all, lets hope its a great one. To start the year off, here's a really cool hidden "feature" that works in both Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008r2 that im using more and more; What is God Mode? This is a secret Windows 7 Feature (If you can call so!!), which provides you an extended...

A series Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 issues have been reported to Microsoft customer support. From these issues, we figured out several hot issues and authored Knowledge base articles to explain the solutions. To identify and troubleshoot these issues, you can find more information from...

A few weeks ago we launched “The New Efficiency” campaign and we backed it up with a Virtual Launch Experience. This experience is essentially a website that offers a wealth of information regarding Windows 7 , Windows Server 2008 R2 and Exchange 2010 . So what is this “The New Efficiency”? to simplify...

Great news on the Exchange 2007 support front as posted here at EHLO We are listening and this sort of U turn really shows how powerful your feedback really is! " We always talk about listening to customers and sometimes this is written off by many as 'marketing speak'. In fact, we do take feedback...

A number of customers have been enquiring about the current situation of our Scalable Networking Pack in relation to Windows 2008 and thanks to Jane Lewis of the UK PFE team for running the ground work on this. So, Info and recommendations are as follows; With Windows 2003 SP2 this setting was enabled...

Introducing Windows Server 2008 R2 eBook Introducing Windows Server 2008 R2 is a deep-dive work, that'll get you up to speed on how R2's new features and capabilities work fast, including Hyper-V and RDS virtualization, management, IIS and the new Web application platform and, of course, all the synergistic...

Server administrators be warned; if you’re looking at Windows Server 2008 R2 you need to be aware we (Microsoft) are not currently supporting Microsoft Exchange 2007 on this platform. Instead, you must upgrade to Exchange 2010. This news was made public via the Microsoft Exchange Team blog when discussing...

Windows Server 2008 R2 introduces a new command-line utility, DISM, the Deployment Image Servicing and Management tool. One of DISM’s many useful features is the ability to use its edition-servicing commands to upgrade an R2 installation without requiring install media. This is functionally equivalent...

Though this is not a direct Exchange post, I hope many of you will find this video I was pointed to, Hypervisor is not running error: How to fix ( http://www.microsoft.com/video/en/us/details/25d07f2e-b2e0-4c0c-b456-79b08bfe58be ), interesting. Since Im guessing most of us do our testing in a virtual...

I have had a large number of customer requests asking for help to clarify our support stance - so here goes; The news was initially made public via the Microsoft Exchange Team blog when discussing rollup 9 for Exchange Server 2007 service pack 1 Specifically, the Exchange Team note that one of...