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Interest for FEP has increased rather dramtically lately for us... which has been cool - as unlike its predessor - FCS, FEP is actually usable! :-) I think this is because of two reasons: 1) FEP will soon be part of the core CAL.... (August 2011) so there are many organisations that can now use…
Continue readingIm a big fan of no anti-virus on servers.... or if you must have it, only the AV component (no network rubbish) with no realtime turned on.... if you have all your endpoints protected and entry points into the network - its just not required. For example - an Exchange server or a Lync server…
Continue readingAhhh the world we live in.... if you have no useful skills in any area of life, you have the option of becoming a politician, going to work for HP or ringing people, telling them your from Microsoft and that you have detected a virus on their machine and that for a $300+ charge you…
Continue readinghttp://lync.microsoft.com/Adoption-and-Training-Kit/tools-and-apps/Pages/Overview.aspx Will hopefully have a play with these this weekend....
Continue readingSo not exactly new news here - but i had a bit of a quick play with this..... and FEP 2012 - looking good. Interface has been aligned a bit more with the SCOM/SCSM look and is definately better than the SCCM 2007 add-on... Grab the stuff and have a look for yourselves... http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=4da60258-5e61-4d16-8fae-d3c9fccf56dc http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=B64C2029-0F56-4606-BA0C-EA92E03541F5&displaylang=en…
Continue readingI have had issues before with Dell servers and RSS Scaling with hyper-V, so that setting now just gets disabled by default on all broadcom's that we run into - but i started having a problem with packet loss on some other servers a few weeks ago... first up i assumed it was not with…
Continue readingHadnt seen this article before - but an employee pointed it out http://blog.schertz.name/2011/02/wildcard-certificates-in-lync-server/ its quite a good explaination of where wildcards can fall down in a lync deployment
Continue readingSo after a month or so of using IE9, and not being able to update this blog without RDP'ing into a 2008 R2 server with IE8 - wordpress seem to have updated for IE9 - cool.... but... whenever i open the dashboard i get a large warning stating that my version of IE is out…
Continue readinghas been publsihed by MS http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=41&SrcFamilyId=6D146124-E850-4CEC-9EFA-33A5225E155D&SrcDisplayLang=en&u=http%3a%2f%2fdownload.microsoft.com%2fdownload%2f5%2f9%2fB%2f59B314A9-C064-4E88-9CBC-5819BECE4C20%2fDeploying+Remote+Desktop+Gateway+Step-by-Step+Guide.docx The most common issues with RD Gateway (that we hear of at least) seem to be around certificates, recovation checking and web SSO from XP workstations - this doc is definately seems to cover most things from having a look over it - and has a companion doc for…
Continue readinghttp://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2011/05/17/announcing-exchange-2010-service-pack-2.aspx nothing earth shattering - but some good updates Nothing mentioned about the re-authentication prompts when a CAS in an array fail's over.... i know this is "expected" behaviour..... but it still doesnt stop it from sucking.
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