in this week i’ve been attending a lots of sessions on the Microsoft Server Summit Reloaded 2010 in Stuttgart. Lots of Information about the new products like Sharepoint 2010, Forefront 2010, RMS 2010, App-V, Med-V and VDI.
So stay tuned about lots of new information about this event.
On Wednesday we had an event in one of the finest event locations in Suttgart. Great event!
Maybe some of you have already noticed it. If you do a message tracking on an Exchange 2010 Edge server you get an error message like this:
Error message: The process “ExTRA (PID=4888) has been initialized as unknown multiple instance type unexpectedly.
Reasons of this exception:
What to do avoid this exception: For any newly added exchange test executables which utilize AD perf,please add the executable name of the process into exclusion list in Microsoft.Exchange.Data.directory.globals.checkexchangetestexecutables.
To work around this issue for the moment, use the Get-MessageTrackingLog cmdlet to track the messages in Exchange Management Shell on the Exchange Server 2010 edge server.
The hotfix for this issue is scheduled to be included in Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 1 (SP1).
In a time when your organization requires its communication tools to be cost-effective and flexible, Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 enables you to achieve new levels of reliability and performance by delivering features that simplify your administration, help protect your communications, and delight your users by meeting their demands for greater business mobility.
Microsoft Exchange, the cornerstone of Microsoft’s unified communications solution, has long been the choice of organizations like yours to enable rich and productive collaboration among its users. The latest release of Exchange can help you achieve better business outcomes while controlling the costs of deployment, administration, and compliance. Exchange delivers the widest range of deployment options, integrated information leakage protection, and advanced compliance capabilities, that combine to form the best messaging and collaboration solution available.
Flexible and Reliable
The pressure to optimize your IT infrastructure for ever-changing business conditions requires you to be agile and that means investing in solutions that provide you and your organization choice. Exchange Server 2010 gives you the flexibility to tailor your deployment based on your unique needs and a simplified way to help keep e-mail continuously available for your users.
With Exchange, choose from on-premises deployment with Exchange Server 2010, a Microsoft hosted service with Exchange Online, or a seamless mix of both. Microsoft’s commitment to Software plus Services ensures you can decide on your timeline for taking advantage of the flexibility and power of both without interrupting or changing your users’ experience.
Exchange Server has always provided and continues to provide you the choice of a wider range of storage hardware options than any other solution, ranging from traditional Storage Area Networks (SAN) to low-cost, desktop-class Direct Attached Storage (DAS). In the latest release, continued innovation in the Exchange mailbox database means that you will experience up to a 50% reduction in disk IOPS (Input/Output Per Second) over Exchange Server 2007, as well as greater resiliency against data corruption.
Anywhere Access
The success of your business hinges on your ability to make your users more productive and effective through the technology solutions you deliver. Exchange Server 2010 helps your users get more done by giving them the freedom to securely access all of their communications – e-mail, voice mail, instant messaging, and more – from virtually any platform, Web-browser, or device through industry standard protocols. Your users live their business lives in their inboxes every day. For so many organizations, Exchange has been the foundation of a universal inbox.
Enhancements in the latest release of Exchange provide your users access to all of their communications from a single location while making it easier for them to collaborate with each other and their business partners. The ever-growing flow of information into and out of an individual’s inbox daily can create overload and affect productivity and profitability. Exchange 2010 adds new productivity features that can help your users more easily organize and prioritize the communications in their inboxes.
Protection and Compliance
In today’s increasingly regulated environment, it has become critical to efficiently preserve business records. This includes e-mail which has quickly become the principle source of data in legal discovery and other compliance-related investigations.
But managing e-mail for compliance has become particularly challenging for most organizations. The problem is that, as e-mail volume grows beyond inbox storage limits, users are often forced to move this mail off e-mail servers and onto PCs and laptops as PST (personal storage) files. This isolates e-mail, making it more difficult to manage and search in a way that meets compliance requirements.
To address this PST problem and ease the compliance burden, Exchange 2010 delivers new, integrated e-mail archiving and retention functionality–including granular multi-mailbox search and immediate legal hold. When you combine this with the flexibility provided by the Exchange storage architecture, you can take better control of your corporate information, while providing your users with a streamlined experience that does not disrupt the way they manage their inboxes every day.
Release
Exchange 2010 public release is scheduled for the 09.11.2009. So stay tuned.
Introduction
DirectAccess is a new feature in the Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 that gives users the experience of being seamlessly connected to their corporate network any time they have Internet access. With DirectAccess, users are able to access corporate resources (such as e-mail, shared folders, or intranet Web sites) securely without connecting to a virtual private network (VPN).
On the next lines i want to share my first experience and the steps on howto setup both services on the same server.
Deploying Forefront TMG on a DirectAccess Server
DirectAccess traffic is IPv6-based; since by default Forefront TMG does not accept any IPv6 traffic or allows it to pass through it, the following traffic will be allowed in order to support DirectAccess traffic:
In addition, Forefront TMG integrates with the IPSec Denial of Service Protection (DoSP) component of Windows DirectAccess to ensure that only IPSec traffic is allowed through it. For this reason, it is important to configure DirectAccess before installing Forefront TMG.
Configure and verify Windows DirectAccess
Install Windows Server 2008 R2 on a server and configure DirectAccess as described in the DirectAccess Early Adopter’s guide.
Since DirectAccess configuration involves multiple technologies and servers, it is highly recommended to verify that DirectAccess has been configured and is working properly before continuing to install Forefront TMG.
Install Forefront TMG
After you have successfully installed the Forefront TMG Server you have to configure the “Act as Direct Access Server Option” in the “Configure IP Preferences” section. This can be found in the navigation tree section “Intrusion Prevention System”.
After activating the checkbox the following system policies will be enabled/allowed.
Now you have to create an Access Rule to allow “IPv6 Over IPv4 Tunnel” Protocol to travel from the TMG-Server/DirectAccess Server to your internal network.
That’s it. Now you can use both services combined together on one box.
since a couple of days the UM Language Packs for the Service Pack 2 are available for download at Microsoft: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=9eb9725a-affc-4051-99c7-1936e8c21031
They can be installed with the following command: setup.com /AddUmLanguagePack:<UmLanguagePackName> /s: d:\<MyLocalDownloadFolder>.
Since a couple of days the SP2 for Microsoft Exchange is available for download on the Microsoft Website. With the release of SP2 it will be possible to migrate to Exchange Server 2010 in the future.
I already did some upgrades to SP2. There is one important thing you should know. If you are using the Unified Messaging role with language packs different to the english one you’ll have to deinstall them before the upgrade to SP2. After the upgrade you can install them again…Oh wait, you need the correct version of the language packs. At the moment there are no SP2 language packs available. So you will have to stay with SP1 or upgrade to SP2 and stay by the english builtin language pack and install your language as soon as it gets published on the Microsoft website: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/exchange/bb330845.aspx At the moment there is no release date published.
It is very likely that Microsoft will release the Exchange Server 2010 RC1 for public download this week.
New features will be:
So, get ready to download and start testing.
Since half an hour the download is available on Technet.
I’ve already started the download and should be ready to have a first look on the RTM version in round about 1 hour.
When will Windows Server 2008 R2 be available on Technet or MSDN?
On 14. of August the ISO-Files will be released on the Technet and MSDN Donwload-Sites. The server download will not only be in english like it was for Windows 7. On the publish date the Windows Server 2008 R2 Images will also be available in german.
there it is!
i made it to download Windows 7 to my worksation. Tipp: Don’t miss the alternate download link on the main mage of the MSDN or Technet Website.
Now it’s time to see what the future will bring…so stay tunded!