• TechNet Webcast: Network Considerations for Deploying Communications Server 2007 R2 (Level 300)

    With Desmond Lee, Swiss MVP

    Event ID: 1032439126

    Tuesday, February 02, 2010

    11:00 - 12:30 (GMT-08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada)

    20:00 - 21:30 (CET+1) Central European Time


    Deploying and scaling Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2 in your enterprise network requires thoughtful consideration to ensure the quality of experience for end users. In this webcast, we discuss the features of Office Communications Server (OCS) 2007 R2 that are relevant to the network administrator, including codecs, quality monitoring, quality of service (QoS), and virtual local area network (VLAN) support. Discover how large enterprises have used these features, along with network right-provisioning and bandwidth planning, for their own successful OCS deployments, and learn how to apply these techniques to your enterprise network.

    http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032439126

  • Microsoft Virtualization Channel on YouTube

    Want to understand the basics of Server or Client Virtualization, see how you Configure Hyper-V, App-V or Med-V, or need an idea how to manage VMware and Hyper-V from one tool?

    Easy, visit the Microsoft Virtualization Channel on YouTube to watch the videos on how it is done.

    http://www.youtube.com/user/MicroVirtualization

  • Behind the scenes: Hotmail

    Interesting blog post on what scale Hotmail is running at.

    Some highlights:

    • Storage is being added at 2’000 Terabytes per month
    • Currently 155’000 Terabytes of storage is being used
    • 350 million people actively use Hotmail on a monthly basis
    • 3’000 million mail messages per day, of which 1’000 million are SPAM.
    • Largest SQL Server 2008 deployment worldwide

    Read more about it on the Inside Windows Live Blog