Microsoft 365 insights from the field

A blog by Peter Schmidt about Security, Identity, Email Protection, Compliance, AI & Copilot, and Tenant-to-Tenant migrations

Hyper-V Component Architecture

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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.

Exchange 2010 Address List Segregation

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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” …

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Outlook Anywhere Performance

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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 …

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Exchange 2010 webcasts

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New Exchange 2010 webcasts has been made available, they are recorded during the UK TechDays event. TechDays 2010: Exchange Information Protection & Control (including RBAC) TechDays 2010: Exchange Performance/Scalability TechDays 2010: Managing Exchange 2010 TechDays 2010: Moving to Exchange 2010 TechDays 2010: Exchange 2010 Client Side: What’s new talking about Client Access? (Web Services, ECP) TechDays 2010: Exchange High Availability

OCS 2007 R2 Workload Architecture

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Microsoft has released another one of their “famous” Architecture Posters, this time it cover the Wordload Architecture of Office Comunications Server 2007 R2. These posters always gives a great overview of the technology and the components. This poster of Office Communications Server 2007 R2 describes the traffic flow of protocols and ports used in each workload. Communications Server 2007 R2 supports the following workloads: IM and Presence, Conferencing, Application Sharing, and Enterprise Voice. These filtered …

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