Microsoft 365 insights from the field

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

HP Exchange 2010 Sizing Tool

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HP has released their sizing tool for Exchange 2010. This successor to the Exchange 2007 Sizing tool does recommendations for deployment and sizing of servers and storage and includes a (HP) bill of materials. The tool supports multi-site deployments, Database Availability Groups (DAG), DAS or or SAN-based storage and high availability and client options. As with the 2007 version it uses a combination of technical and business requirements and projects best practices for high available …

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OCS Remote Connectivity Analyzer

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The OCS team has now made a Remote Connectivity Analyzer, like we know from Exchange. The tool is a great way of verifying that your remote access is configured properly. The Office Communications Server Remote Connectivity Analyzer is a great tool for performing testing, troubleshooting, and diagnostics on OCS 2007 & OCS 2007 R2 deployments. The tool will assist you in finding answers to the before mentioned scenarios.  You should use the RCA as your …

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Happy New Year 2010

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Happy New Year to everyone! MS Digest (www.msdigest.net) (Formerly known as IIS Digest (www.iis-digest.com) has now been online for 5 years by now, amazing as time flies. Looking back 2009 was an exciting year, especially with products from Microsoft, such as Exchange 2010, Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. In 2010 we can look forward to Office 2010 and OCS next gen (UC wave 14, properly 2010 as well). For myself it’s been an …

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Exchange 2010 and ISA 2006 SP1

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The Exchange Team has made a blog post about ISA 2006 SP1 configuration with Exchange 2010. While ISA 2006 SP1 includes a Client Access Web Publishing Wizard for both Exchange 2003 and Exchange 2007, the wizard does not have any knowledge of Exchange 2010. Read it here.

Microsoft Certified Master – Exchange 2007

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I just got the news, I’m now officially qualified as a MCM: Exchange 2007. This is the best Christmas present ever! Well it wasn’t actually a present, but really tough work and a final exam. 🙂 I attended the MCM: Exchange 2007 Rotation 3 in May 2009. I enjoyed the tough 3 weeks of training in Redmond, it was an incredible learning experience and also great opportunity network with fellow Exchange specialists. I can only …

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