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Sample Chapter Week 2: MCTS: Windows Server 2008 Applications Infrastructure Configuration Study Guide: Exam 70-643.

Last week I posted Chapter 1 from the 70-236 study guide . This week we have Chapter 1 of MCTS: Windows Server 2008 Applications Infrastructure Configuration Study Guide: Exam 70-643. Inside, find the full coverage you need to prepare for Exam 70-643...

Posted to Joel Stidley's Blog by Joel Stidley on Sun, Jun 28 2009

Filed under: certification, Windows 2008

Sample Chapter for MCTS: Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Configuration Study Guide Exam 70-236

MCTS: Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Configuration Study Guide Second Edition was released this week. This study guide covers all of objectives in the 70-236 exam and includes new features introduced in Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1. There are a...

Posted to Joel Stidley's Blog by Joel Stidley on Sun, Jun 21 2009

Filed under: Exchange 2007, certification

Exchange 2010 Beta 1 News

Wow, the Interwebz is all a flutter with the tax day release of Exchange 2010 beta 1! Here is a list someone else compiled of the press coverage: Reviews Microsoft Exchange 2010 Beta Looks Solid from Core to Cloud Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Includes...

Posted to Joel Stidley's Blog by Joel Stidley on Wed, Apr 15 2009

Exchange Server 2010 Beta Available

Wow, I echo a few of my fellow bloggers feelings that being able to blog about Exchange 2010 has been a long time coming. And the news comes on the day that Exchange 2003 goes into extended support . My company has been working with and running E14 for...

Posted to Joel Stidley's Blog by Joel Stidley on Wed, Apr 15 2009

Who says there are no jobs?

The company that I work for is still trying to find qualified people for some key positions within the company. To help find the right people, they are having an open house April 16, 2009 in Plano, TX. If you are in the area, a tech person and...

Posted to Joel Stidley's Blog by Joel Stidley on Thu, Apr 2 2009

Webcasts: Clustering in Windows Server 2008 R2 and Getting started with clustering

There is a flurry of information over at the Microsoft clustering blog. I'm a little late posting this as some of the sessions have been given, however all of the webcasts will be available to watch on demand. If you are new to clustering you may...

Posted to Joel Stidley's Blog by Joel Stidley on Tue, Mar 24 2009

Filed under: Clustering, webcast

40% off Microsoft Certification Exams this week

It is Microsoft Skills week March 9-13. There is special discounts on training and exams as well as some giveaways. The deets are here . To get the 40% off exams just use coupon code NAM40UP at the Prometric site when scheduling your exam.

Posted to Joel Stidley's Blog by Joel Stidley on Mon, Mar 9 2009

PowerShell 2.0, where did I leave that remoting!

With PowerShell 1.0 all cmdlets were run against the local PowerShell runspace and thus ran in the local machine context. This was great for the most part as many of the Exchange cmdlets were able to reach out and manipulate non-local information so that...

Posted to Joel Stidley's Blog by Joel Stidley on Wed, Mar 4 2009

Outlook 2007 February Update

The Outlook team has posted an update that should improve reliability and performance. Here's an excerpt: "This update contains a significant number of new performance-focused improvements for Outlook users. We especially focused on the areas...

Posted to Canned tidbits on Exchange server by Joseph Nguyen on Thu, Feb 26 2009

Filed under: Exchange

Exchange Server 2007, OWA and ISA Server 2006 - Part 2

Exchange Server 2007, OWA and ISA Server 2006 – Part 1 This is my second post outlining the configurations necessary to publish Exchange Server 2007 OWA in a DMZ with ISA Server 2006 in a workgroup configuration, in particular how this differs from...

Posted to Andy Schan's Exchange Blog by aschan on Mon, Feb 9 2009

Exchange Server 2007, OWA and ISA Server 2006 – Part 1

Yes, I'm back after another long absence. I thought I'd start up my blogging again by talking about my experiences with publishing Exchange Server 2007 OWA in a DMZ with ISA Server 2006. This has been documented to some extent on TechNet and a...

Posted to Andy Schan's Exchange Blog by aschan on Sat, Feb 7 2009

Exchange 14, didn't we just get Exchange 2007?

This week we received the brief preview of the next version of Exchange, codenamed E14. This preview was given in the form of a video of KC Lemson and Jim Lucey from Microsoft talking about so of the "big rocks" (I hate that term, but use it...

Posted to Joel Stidley's Blog by Joel Stidley on Thu, Jan 15 2009

Exchange and Notes in the Enterprise

This is about a discussion last summer but I thought it was interesting as I didn't see much of it until I ran into some posts by Ed Brill from IBM. There's always been a back and forth between IBM and Microsoft with Lotus Notes and Exchange server...

Posted to Canned tidbits on Exchange server by Joseph Nguyen on Tue, Jan 13 2009

Filed under: Exchange

How to Install Drupal on IIS 7.0 (screencast)

I took it as a challenge a few weeks ago to configure Drupal on a Windows Server 2008 machine. (Unfortunately due to some technical problems with my laptop, I missed the deadline by almost an entire day). It started off as something to do but it...

Posted to Joel Stidley's Blog by Joel Stidley on Wed, Dec 17 2008

Filed under: Windows Server 2008, iis 7, php

Online PowerShell training with Paul Robichaux

Microsoft has had a 3-day instructor lead PowerShell course available for a few months now. ( 6434: Automating Windows Server 2008 Administration with Windows PowerShell ). I can say with authority that it is an excellent course with a ton of detail....

Posted to Joel Stidley's Blog by Joel Stidley on Thu, Dec 4 2008

Filed under: PowerShell, training

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