Couldn’t resist anymore, I’ve bought myself a Fujitsu Scaleo Home Server based on Windows Home Server. The server is the 2. generation WHS from Fujitsu and it was just to cheap (approx 360$) to resist anymore, apparently Fujitsu has dumped their prices this spring with like 50%.
I like the idea of having the homeserver handling backup of my PCs and the integration to my Mediacenter, especially now with Power Pack 2 for WHS.
Specs of the Fujitsu Scaleo 2105 is:
- Intel® Celeron® 420 processor2 (1.6 GHz, 512 KB, L2 Cache)
- 2 Gb memory
- 2 x 500GB harddrives
Official data sheet.
Experience so far… It’s very quiet, not a single noise from it.
A while back Microsoft released a free set of online training for Exchange 2010.
Collection 6899: Exploring Features of Exchange Server 2010
Overview:
This two-hour collection provides you with an overview of the new features in Exchange Server 2010. It also describes the enhancements made over Exchange Server 2007.
The clinics within this collection cover:
- New features in Exchange Server 2010
- Technology enhancements
- Management tools used in Exchange Server 2010
- Managing a Mailbox server
- Unified Messaging in Exchange Server 2010
- High availability features in Exchange Server 2010
Users completing this collection should have three or more years of experience working with previous versions of Exchange Server, including the implementation of Exchange Server 2007. They should be familiar with Active Directory, Exchange messaging, and SharePoint and fundamentals of Microsoft Office 2003, Microsoft Office 2007, Windows Server 2003, and Windows Server 2008. It is beneficial if they have experience with a Windows or command-line scripting.
Find the free e-learning here.
The IIS Team has released another cool product for IIS 7. A few days ago The IIS Team released the beta of IIS Search Engine Optimization Toolkit. The toolkit provides you with a number of features which can help you ensure that your site follows best practices with regards to how search engines crawl and parse your site as well as providing features for generating robots.txt files and sitemaps.
Carlos, the person behind the toolkit, has more information about the release here as well as a great video giving an overview of the Site Analysis feature of the toolkit here. ScottGu also has a walkthrough post up on his blog here.
Installing
Use Web PI (click on the image below):
Or from Microsoft download center:
