Blogging and Evangelising about Microsoft Unified Communications and Internet technologies by Peter Schmidt [MVP].
Microsoft has released the lastest rollup update for Exchange 2010, Rollup 4.
Update Rollup 4 for Exchange Server 2010 resolves issues that were found in Exchange Server 2010 since the software was released. This update rollup is highly recommended for all Exchange Server 2010 customers.
Read the list of fixes here.
Download it here.
The Exchange Team (Ross Smith) has updated the Mailbox Server Role Requirements Calculators for both Exchange 2007 and Exchange 2010.
For the Exchange 2007 calculator, the changes were minor (bug fixes essentially). As for the Exchange 2010 calculator, well as usual, there have been a number of bug fixes (mostly related to those pesky active copies after a server failure formulas); however, those fixes are not the only changes.
Head on over to the Updates Tracking page to see what is changed and/or download the revised version.
Read the blog post from Ross here.
Microsoft released this nice whitepaper some time back, that defines the supported topologies and provides best practice recommendations for running Office Communications Server 2007 R2 in a Windows Hyper-V environment or other hypervisor technologies.
Read and download it here.
Saw some news at this Microsoft blog, about what’s coming in SP1 for Exchange 2010 regarding Exchange hosting.
It is important especially to those who are running current HMC Hosted Exchange because Exchange 2010 SP1 Hosting model will replace the existing Exchange hosting in HMC.
Read the blog post.
Last week at Microsoft TechEd, SP1 for Exchange 2010 was made available to the public.
Read more at the Exchange blog.
Download it here.
Microsoft has published a new architecture poster, this time an overview of the Hyper-V Component Architecture.
This poster provides a visual reference for understanding key Hyper-V technologies in Windows Server 2008 R2. It focuses on architecture, snapshots, live migration, virtual networking, storage, and import/export. You can use this poster in conjunction with the previously published Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2 component posters (see http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=193499 and http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=179116).
Download it here.
Some news from David Goldman and the Exchange Team about Exchange 2010 Address List Segregation.
"I think you will be happy to know that I am towards the end of wrapping up the Exchange 2010 Address List Segregation white paper. I will post another update as soon as we are finished with the editing and when it will be posted.". After working with development we agreed to post this blog to state a few things”
Read this blog post here.
The Exchange team has published an interesting article about Outlook Anywhere Performance on Windows 2008 R2 servers.
We recently compared the performance of the Exchange 2010 Client Access role supporting Outlook Anywhere users on both Windows 2008 SP2 and Windows 2008 R2, and found that the improvements the Windows Team has made in R2 more than doubles the number of concurrent users a given server can support, assuming CPU is the limiting resource.
Read the article here.
