Great news for the hosting community, DotNetPanel has released their DNP software as Open Source under the name Website Panel. DotNetPanel has undoubtedly been the best .NET based Control Panel for Windows hosting, such as IIS, Exchange, SharePoint and Hyper-V. For reason they have now decided to make it available for free under the open source license. We are excited to announce that SMB SAAS Systems Inc. has revised the DotNetPanel codebase and posted …
Microsoft has released an interesting whitepaper about large mailboxes on Exchange 2010. Giving your users the ability to store more e-mail has many advantages. Large mailboxes keep e-mail on the Exchange Server instead of allowing it to be scattered in Outlook Data Files (.PST files). That helps reduce the risk of data loss, improve regulatory compliance, and increase productivity among both workers and IT staff. The main barrier to implementing large mailboxes is the perceived …
The Exchange team has released an announcement of the improvements in Exchange 2010 SP1. The headlines of a few of the improvements are the following subjects: Archiving and Discovery Enhancements Outlook Web App Mobility (Exchange ActiveSync) Management UI A full list of what’s coming in SP1 will be on TechNet soon. One of the mostly awaited improvements is properly the possibility of changing location of the Personal Archive Mailbox to another database. This is great …
Great news from Microsoft, with SP1 for Windows Server 2008. They will be releasing two great new features for Hyper-V. Dynamic Memory which allows virtual machines to automatically adjust the amount of physical memory they reserve based on the workload running in the virtual machine at runtime ‘dynamically’. RemoteFX which enables virtual machine users to received a full 3D multimedia experience remotely though enhanced remote desktop connections. Read the press release here. Source: Taylor Brown’s …
Found a great Whitepaper on Virtual Hard Disk (VHD) Performance. The following paper is focused on giving in-depth performance data on Virtual Hard Disks. Comparisons are generally made between native, Window Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2. When comparing Windows Server 2008 and Window Server 2008 R2, no virtual machines are used unless explicitly stated. The goal of this paper is to look at virtual hard disk performance and not Hyper-V performance. Download the …