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One Week Done, Only Two More to Go..
08 November 09 07:57 PM | Greg Taylor | 0 Comments   

For Exchange and SharePoint that is. Directory is now only two weeks long, so they are at the halfway point, and OCS is entering their final week. Busy busy right now. It's been a great week in my room, or at least, I think it has. CAS and Transport done, Read More...

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Yup, I think these puppies will do the job......
29 October 09 09:27 PM | Greg Taylor | 3 Comments   

Just getting the labs checked over for the Exchange session which starts Monday and I recently got some new toys... I think 48 GB of ram, 16 cores and 2TB of disk per candidate server should be enough for a lab or two... don't you? I've got 16 vm's running, Read More...

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Busy Month Ahead - So Be Prepared
22 October 09 08:34 PM | Greg Taylor | 2 Comments   

We're in the third and final week of SQL now, OCS starts on Monday (Adrian flying in this weekend so fingers crossed no delays...) and a week from Monday, Exchange, SharePoint and Directory all start. It's a busy month ahead. If you are coming to one Read More...

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How was your summer?
27 August 09 11:48 PM | perfarny | 0 Comments   

Mine was real rough ;-) I took a month of parternity leave in July, catching up with the family after our daughter was born in March, came back for 4 days, before heading out for a week of vacation which is our yearly family gathering in good ole' Elkhart Read More...

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Rotation 2 OCS MCM - showing Exchange and Directory that real time comms is where it's at!
22 May 09 04:23 PM | adymac | 3 Comments   

In between all the work during rotation 2 we managed to squeeze in some group events. The usual favourite was karting at K1 Speed in Redmond. For this rotation we combined forces with Exchange and Directory which were running at same time in Redmond and Read More...

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See What Happens When You Pass a Masters Exam....
19 May 09 11:30 PM | Greg Taylor | 1 Comments   

So we're in week 3 of MCM Exchange 2007 Rotation 3 right now, which is why it has been a bit quiet... busy busy... On Monday the class took exam number 2, covering mailbox, performance, ccr, scr etc. It's a very tough exam. At 8pm Monday night the class Read More...

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Maybe I Didn't Shout Loud Enough?
21 April 09 11:46 PM | Greg Taylor | 2 Comments   

Have you seen the rather fantastic and funny video about shouting at your disks in the datacentre ? If you haven't, you should... it's interesting stuff. So much so that when we talked storage in the MCM Exchange R2 rotation we just finished, we decided Read More...

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Music, soccer, and The Great Andreas!
11 March 09 10:01 PM | perfarny | 5 Comments   

Music, soccer, and The Great Andreas...and your chance to win real, live, internet points!!! Read More...

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