MS Exam designing & deploying E2K10 is out
It seems that Microsoft published the second Exchange 2010 exam today: Exam 70-663: Pro: Designing and Deploying Messaging Solutions with Microsoft Exchange Server 2010
The contents at a glance:
Planning the Exchange Server 2010 Infrastructure
* Design the Exchange Server 2010 installation.
* Design message routing.
* Design the mailbox server role.
* Design client access.
* Plan for transition and coexistence.Deploying the Exchange Server 2010 Infrastructure
* Prepare the infrastructure for Exchange Server 2010 deployment.
* Deploy Edge transport server role.
* Deploy client access server role.
* Deploy hub transport server role.
* Deploy mailbox server role.
* Deploy server roles for coexistence and migration.Designing and Deploying Security for the Exchange Organization
* Design and deploy messaging security.
* Design and deploy Exchange permissions model.
* Design and deploy message hygiene.
* Design and deploy client access security.
* Design and deploy Exchange object permissions.Designing and Deploying Exchange Server 2010 Availability and Recovery
* Design and deploy high availability and disaster recovery for Exchange dependencies.
* Design and deploy high availability and disaster recovery for CAS role.
* Design and deploy high availability and disaster recovery for mailbox server role.
* Design and deploy high availability and disaster recovery for hub transport role.
* Design and deploy high availability and disaster recovery for Edge transport server role.Designing and Deploying Messaging Compliance, System Monitoring, and Reporting
* Design and deploy auditing and discovery.
* Design and deploy message archival.
* Design and deploy transport rules for message compliance.
* Design and deploy for monitoring and reporting.
The first exam Exam 70-662: TS: Microsoft Exchange Server 2010, Configuring is already available for a month or 2. For some reason it seems to have slipped through my RSS feeds without me noticing it. Guess I’ll need to add another one.
Time to start preparing.
Shared mailbox vs. Sent items
I wanted to quickly reblog (as opposed to retweet) a recent blog post from Ilse Van Criekinge as I did have a little “Aha!”-moment upon reading it:
One of the first warmly welcomed new features included with the next release of Microsoft Office Outlook, being 2010, is the ability to open up multiple mailboxes (up to 3 by default, and up to 15 using a registry entry) and the fact that when you send a message using one of the accounts the mail will be saved in the Sent Items folder of the sender’s mailbox. When opening a shared mailbox in Microsoft Office Outlook 2007, it required you to create at least a rule to have the message moved from the primary mailbox its Sent Items folder, to the shared mailbox its Sent Items…
But…it seems that ever since June 2009, 30, this isn’t necessary anymore!
Virtual Center Perf Chart service encountered an internal error
On a Virtual Center 4 update 1 installation I noticed an Perf Charts service error on the performance overview tab. The advanced performance tab is functioning as normal.
There are 3 VMware KBs related to this type of error:
Unfortunately none of these solved my problem.
In virtual center U1 the configuration of the performance charts database has changed location. It’s now located in C:\Program Files\VMware\Infrastructure\tomcat\conf\Catalina\localhost\statsreport.xml.
VMware updated the KB article (KB1013877) in the mean time to reflect the changes in Update 1.
More Exchange RSS Feeds…
A colleague noticed my impressive list of exchange related blogs/sites in Google Reader and asked me to share them with him on occasion. Luckily you can export all feeds from a specific folder via some workaround.
Exchange RSS Feeds
You can get the resulting file by downloading it from RapidShare (I’ve activated TrafficShare for this file, so no nag-screen there). You can then import all of these feeds to the RSS-reader of your choice in just one shot.
The hard part is keeping up ;-)
Note: If you are more into mailinglists than you should have a look at this blogpost from Joeware. (ref. ADFind)
RSS feed for Exchange 2010 KB articles
Those of you that are eagerly looking for some bed time reading material (and aren’t satisfied with the “Exchange News Ticker”-widget in the lower right corner of this blog) can check out the Exchange 2010 KB-article news feed as explained by Paul Robichaux.
See RSS feed for Exchange 2010 KB articles – Paul’s Down-Home Page: Exchange, security, and more.
Exchange 2010 : A Closer Look
Henrik Walther wrote a nice article on Exchange 2010 for the December edition of TechNet Magazine:
The recently released Microsoft Exchange 2010 Release to Manufacturing (RTM) version, like its predecessors, includes a wealth of new features and improvements over existing ones. As a matter of fact, with this release, Exchange now consists of approximately 21 million lines of code.Exchange developers had five main goals in mind for Exchange 2010: to help organizations achieve new levels of reliability, better performance, simplified administration, improved protection of communications and greater business mobility for users. In short, and with the global economic crisis in mind, they aimed to create a more flexible and optimized product that would lower the costs of running an Exchange 2010 infrastructure.
Since April 2008, I have spent a good deal of time testing Exchange 2010 beta and release candidate builds in my labs, as well as in two enterprise customer environments. In this article, I will take you on a tour through the most exciting changes and improvements in this latest and—without doubt—greatest Exchange version we have seen so far.
How To back up WordPress.com posts to Evernote
When WordPress.com announced the e-mail subscription feature end of last year I immediately started thinking about using it in combination with Evernote to create automatic backups of my blog posts.
Here’s a little how to:
Add the e-mail subscriptions widget to your blog 
Log out of WordPress to make sure it doesn’t recognize your existing WordPress account.
Log in to Evernote and copy you Evernote e-mail address from the settings page 
Surf to your own blog and subscribe with your Evernote mail address.
As usual when signing up for something on the internet you’ll need to confirm that the e-mail address you provided is really yours by clicking on an activation link. In this case the mail is sent to Evernote. It will be automatically converted to a new note by their services.
Choose daily or weekly schedule. Corrections made after publishing your post might not be included in the copy sent to Evernote when selecting the “immediate” schedule. 
More details under “settings”:
All posts will be automatically forwarded to Evernote and converted to notes.
I’m keeping them in a separate notebook as you can see. As far as I know there’s are no “inbox rules” that you can create to do that automatically for you, so you need to do some drag & drop now and then.
WordPress.com & Evernote; Better Together?
Note: WordPress (both *.com & *.org) offer you the ability to export.backup your entire blog to an XML file
While you can use it to restore your entire blog, it’s not a human readable format. So it’s not a solution for quick access to some of your old content.
Diepsneeuw Biken
Na het ruimen van de oprit en partijtje American Football-bal gooien met de buren, het kind in mezelf niet langer kunnen bedwingen. Tussen het inhalen van achterstallig klassement door toch even de bike uit de garage gehaald.
Af en toe eens stoppen voor een fotootje is het ideale excuus om weer op adem te komen. Fotograferen tijdens het rijden was er vandaag niet bij ;-)
…En toen was het battery-pack leeg. Het middag maal was ten andere ook snel verteerd op deze manier :-)
Google Wave Invite to spare
I’ve got some Google Wave invites left. Put a reply in the comments if you’re in desperate need for one…
De Wolfkens VTT
Dikkebandenfietske nog eens van stal gehaald dit weekend en onderstaand fotoverslag gemaakt (“MouseOver” voor een beetje commentaar):
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Exchange News Ticker
- Active Directory (and ADAM/ADLDS) Tombstone Lifetime
- Issues with E-mail Stuck in the Drafts Folder on Exchange 2007/2010
- Prepare Mailboxes for Cross-Forest Moves Using the PrepareMoveRequest.ps1 script in the Shell
- Using ExDeploy
- How to view whitespace in Exchange 2010
- Exchange and RODC/ROGC support
- Triaging Exchange Performance issues related to Active Directory (AD) Performance (including Networking and DNS performance)
- some autodiscover fun
- Event : IT-Pro Chalk Talk Session
- Exchange 2010 Online Archive on different storage tier
- New 5-day 2010 course on the way!
- Speeding Reboot When Exchange is on a DC/GC
- Binary Tree coexistence and migration tools now support Exchange 2010
- Opening other users Inboxes/Mailboxes using OWA 2010
- %r gebruiken in een e-mailaddress policy
- Backup software voor exchange 2010
- Exchange 2007 Standby Continuous Replication - Configuration & Testing
- Disclaimers in Exchange 2010
- Windows 2008 – Exchange 2007 SP1 – Alternate Cluster Setup
- Windows 2003 / Exchange 2007 SP1 – Alternate Cluster Setup
