The Zen of Hosting: Part 9 - Hyper-V
The Zen of Hosting: Part 9 - Hyper-VAs I approach the end of this series I want to highlight some of the technology that the hosting machine is built on and some of the experiences I learnt with that....
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The Zen of Hosting: Part 10 - Windows 2008 CoreSince we had Windows 2008 we just had to try out Core edition, which is the version of Windows where Microsoft promised everything would be command line...
View ArticleThe Zen of Hosting: Part 11 - DNS
The Zen of Hosting: Part 11 - DNSThe last of the hurdles to overcome for the deployment was the running of the DNS server. This is because we run on a private IP range internally and use ISA to match...
View ArticleThe Zen of Hosting: Part 12 - Server Naming
The Zen of Hosting: Part 12 - Server NamingFor a consistent environment you need naming standards, but the idea of a standard is a universal adherence and in IT there is no such thing. The first thing...
View ArticleHMC tips for Exchange: Part 1 - Adding a Room
HMC tips for Exchange: Part 1 - Adding a RoomFirst of a new series, but this is more a mini series (just three parts). It is just a follow up on the last series Zen of Hosting so it focuses on a few...
View ArticleHMC tips for Exchange: Part 2 - Adding a distribution list
HMC tips for Exchange: Part 2 - Adding a distribution listThe second tip is distribution lists, which are also kind of an important thing to get set up. To do this you need to craft an...
View ArticleHMC tips for Exchange: Part 3 - Fixing GAL issues
HMC tips for Exchange: Part 3 - Fixing GAL issuesIt’s an unfortunate problem that the GAL integration isn’t rock solid with HMC and Exchange, and that it is merely controlled by the AD schema...
View ArticleTeam Foundation Server could not resolve the user or group
Team Foundation Server could not resolve the user or groupOne of my recent tasks was to setup a TFS 2008 server, and migrate our VSS system across to it. Once done setup the projects and users. Well...
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