The Microsoft Server Virtualization Calculator compares the cost of virtualizing applications on Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V to VMware vSphere 5.1. The calculator follows a simple methodology by considering the software acquisition and support...

The Microsoft Online Services Diagnostics and Logging (MOSDAL) Support Toolkit performs network diagnostics and collects system configuration, network configuration, and logging information for applications that are used to connect to Microsoft Business...

Microsoft released a spreadsheet for calculating a user’s hardware requirements based on information that the admin supplies about number of users, types of communication, and expected traffic. Includes a Microsoft Word document explaining the...

Use Jetstress to verify the performance and stability of a disk subsystem prior to putting an Exchange server into production. Jetstress helps verify disk performance by simulating Exchange disk Input/Output (I/O) load. Specifically, Jetstress simulates...

Overview Use these scripts to migrate public folders from Exchange 2010 or 2007 to Exchange 2013. In order to migrate Exchange 2010 or 2007 Public Folders to Exchange 2013 on O365, we need to analyze the existing Public Folder hierarchy for size to figure...

Microsoft announced the release of their new Message Analyzer , a brand new addition to the Remove Connectivity Analyzer. Message Analyzer makes reading email headers less painful. Features of the Message Analyzer View the most important properties...

With the Lync Server 2010 Bandwidth Calculator, you can enter information about your users and the Lync Server features that you want to deploy, and the calculator will determine bandwidth requirements for the WAN that connects sites in your deployment...

Microsoft Exchange Team finally released the first version (numbered version 5.1) of the Exchange 2013 Server Role Requirements Calculator. Download Calc from Source Readme from Source More Info are Here .

Microsoft released a document that is intended for system architects and IT professionals who want to understand the architecture and deployment options for extending the on-premises Active Directory infrastructure with Windows Azure Virtual Machines...

Microsoft Lync Server 2010 Capacity Calculator A spreadsheet for calculating a user’s hardware requirements based on information that the admin supplies about number of users, types of communication, and expected traffic. Includes a Microsoft...

Microsoft released the Lync Server 2010 Edge Server Reference Architecture Diagrams: Reference Architecture 1: Single Consolidated Edge Reference Architecture 2: Scaled Consolidated Edge (DNS Load Balanced) Reference Architecture 3: Scaled...

Use the information in this spreadsheet to determine the number of federation servers recommended for your Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) 2.0 deployment. Download from here .

A Microsoft Excel spreadsheet that calculates WAN bandwidth requirements for a Lync Server deployment based on administrator-specified user profiles and network information. With the Lync Server 2010 Bandwidth Calculator, you can enter information...

As in Source In terms of what’s next for Exchange, Kevin briefly talked about features that will appear in Exchange 2010 SP2 later this year. Three major updates were discussed: Address Book Policies (ABPs), also known as “GAL segmentation”...

Today IT professionals have to spend a great deal of time and effort dealing with problems related to servers that were configured incorrectly. They are often not aware of these issues until they cause performance and availability issues due the time...

Microsoft Productivity, Email, & Collaboration in the Cloud Microsoft Office 365 brings together cloud versions of our most trusted email, communication and collaboration software – Exchange Online, SharePoint Online and Lync Online –...

Microsoft released a Whitepaper detailing the"Best Practices for Virtualizing Exchange Server 2010 with Windows Server® 2008 R2 Hyper V™" The purpose of this paper is to provide guidance and best practices for deploying Microsoft® Exchange...

System Center Updates Publisher is an application that enables independent software vendors or line-of-business application developers and IT administrators to import software update catalogs, create and modify software update definitions, export update...

The Microsoft Active Directory Topology Diagrammer reads an Active Directory configuration using LDAP, and then automatically generates a Visio diagram of your Active Directory and /or your Exchange Server topology. The diagramms may include domains,...

Are you looking for a way to implement virtual server high availability that does not require the costs and complexity of separate external shared storage devices? Well here is a simple way to get that: HP StorageWorks P4000 Virtual SAN Appliance...

DNS Load Balancing Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 requires a Hardware Load Balancer (HLB) to provide resilience for the Enterprise pool. This configuration is both expensive and difficult to configure for SIP load balancing. Lync 2010...

This poster shows each workload in Lync Server 2010, describing relationships, dependencies, the servers that initiate connections, and certificate requirements. Relationships between Microsoft Lync 2010 communications software, Microsoft Lync 2010 Phone...

DPM 2010 administrators can use these .xlsx storage calculators to aid in sizing the DPM storage pool - per workload being protected. there is a specific calculators for Hyper-V, SharePoint and Exchange environments. Download from Source .

After deploying Exchange 2010, Microsoft recommends to test the Storage sub-system before moving to Production. The below two links take you to guides (Thanks to the Authors!) on how to do it. Jetstress Field Guide Automating Jetstress

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