Peter Schmidt

TechEd 2008

TechEd 2008 North America started off officially Tuesday this week, with more than 9000 attendees. I have accumulated all my TechEd drafts into this one post. Monday was pre-conference day. I attended the pre-conference session “Unified Communication: Labfest 2007”, it was a one-day lab marathon, in which Lee Benjamin (Exchange MVP) went through seven Microsoft Office Communications Server (OCS) and Exchange Server 2007 SP1 presentations and labs. Unfortunately there weren’t much new to the labs, …

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Getting ready for Orlando

Today I’m leaving for TechEd North America IT Professionals in Orlando. Beginning on monday with the pre-conference seminar. I’m looking forward to a great week with a lot of interesting sessions. My main focus for the week will be Unified Communications, Identity and Access, Security, Virtualization, Windows Server Infrastructure and Web Infrastructure. TechEd is also about networking and a great oppotunity to meet with follow colleagues, customers, partners and friends. If you want to have …

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IIS 7.0 – How to script and automate configuration

Bill Staples has nice blog post about how to script and automate IIS 7.0 configuration, without writing code using the Configuration Editor. Here is how you can generate code for ANY IIS7 configuration change, without writing a line yourself. Read his post here. Related articles on IIS 7.0 and PowerShell: Managing IIS with the IIS 7.0 PowerShell Provider – a collection of articles on the new PowerShell Provider for IIS 7.0 Using Scripts to Automate …

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Free Virtual Labs

Did you know that Microsoft has tons of free virtual labs available, it’s a great way of testing the latest technology. The Labs are available for both IT Pros and Developers. There is already 15+ Labs available for Windows Server 2008. Come experience the newest release of Windows Server! In these Virtual Labs, you’ll have the opportunity to test-drive new and improved features and functionality in Windows Server 2008, including management, network protection and improvements …

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