Are you interested in learning about Failover Clustering with Windows Server 2008. Well the wait is over, the Windows Server 2008 Failover Clustering team would like to announce the availability of the of the Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Failover Clustering Hands on Lab.

Title

TechNet Virtual Lab: Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Failover Clustering Lab

Link

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032345932&EventCategory=3&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US

Overview

For the exercises in this lab, you will be responsible for the configuration of Windows Server 2008 Enterprise failover clustering for your organization. This lab will teach you how to add nodes to the cluster and configure the cluster to support a variety of high-availability roles such as file, print, and DHCP server clusters.

With the release of the Scalable Networking Pack that is included with Windows 2003 SP2, we in Exchange support have been seeing some connectivity issues once the new networking features are enabled. These new features are enabled by default and are only used if your network card driver supports them. Some of the new architectural additions that were introduced with the Scalable Networking Pack are TCP Chimney Offload, Receive-side Scaling (RSS) and NetDMA. These were introduced because of the Microsoft Scalable Networking Initiative that was designed to help reduce OS bottlenecks caused by network packet processing. More information regarding the Scalable Networking initiative can be found at www.microsoft.com/snp.

Read more on the Exchange Team Blog

http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2007/07/18/446400.aspx

To read the updated calculator blog post and get the calculator, go HERE.

In this release, we have redesigned the look of the calculator, fixed some bugs, and as always, added new functionality based on customer feedback.

Another excellent article on SCR by the one and only Mr Scott Schnoll

http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2007/06/28/445538.aspx

For an administrator who manages public folders in their Exchange organization, the introduction of Exchange 2007 poses somewhat of a dilemma as to how to administer public folders that exist on Exchange 2007. There are however some easy ways to complete regular administrative tasks using the combination of previous versions of the ESM, Exchange Management Shell as well as PFDAVAdmin tool.

Read more about Exchange 2007 and Public Folders over at the Exchange Team Blog

French government officials have been ordered not to use handheld Blackberry devices amid fears that foreigners could spy on them, reports say.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/6221146.stm

As reported on the Exchange Team Blog, it would appear that the Exchange dev team have a blog that might be of interest to anyone who like writing apps to work with Exchange.

http://blogs.msdn.com/exchangedev/

Well this really has nothing to do with messaging; I am just doing a little advertising for my sister-in-laws bed and breakfast business.

My sister-in-law (Mandy) and her husband (Colin) live in Mid-Wales, Colin is a builder and he has built one of the nicest houses I have see in a long time and they offer bed and breakfast:

http://www.grandstandbandb.co.uk/

They are also very close to completing two log cabins and they are amazing.

So, if you are looking for somewhere to go for a little rest I would highly recommend Mandy & Colin place, mention my name and they might give you a discount.