ExchangeExchange: The Podcast #2: Where Weekly Means Semi-Monthly

podcast@exchangeexchange.com (Jeffrey Rosen and Joel Stidley) — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 21:25:00 GMT

This ~~week~~ month Jeffrey Rosen and Joel Stidley talk about Exchange Server 2007 Update Rollup 3, TechEd 2008, and High Availability.

News

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Joel has been awarded an MVP Award.
HMC 4.5 has been released
Hyper-V was released.
Exchange Support for Hyper-V will be announced.
Another RIM outage a of couple weeks ago
iPhone 2.0 is now Exchange ActiveSync Enabled
ISA 2006 SP1 released
- Finally fixed SAN issue, lots of simulation, and versioning
- Joel made up a new product TPM... which is actually TMG (Threat Management Gateway) the next version of ISA. You can download the beta here.
Exchange 2007 SP1 Update Rollup 3/ RTM UR 7 (Exchange Server 2007 Rollups and Security Update Released)
- Many people had problems with non-Internet connected machines (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/944752)
DPM feature pack has been released http://support.microsoft.com/kb/949779

TechEd 2008 Recap

New VSS Backup Tool for Exchange 2007 on Win2008, released data TBD
New Version of the Storage Sizing Tool 14.x http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2007/07/05/445802.aspx
Cool sessions - Exchange deployment, lots of PowerShell sessions, cool Windows Mobile Sessions
Lots of Hands-on-Labs
MSL announced Masters program information can be found here
SQL 2008 is in RC0
Hyper-V and VMM should be released before its August deadline... and was.
Deploy Exchange with PowerShell without reading our book. Use Roberts script that can be found here.

Exchange 2003 and 2007 DR

Keep it general, talk about third party products for 2003 (DoubleTake, etc)
Support for third-party replication for Exchange: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/895847
Briefly spoke about the new options for 2007 aka LCR,CCR,SCR
Spoke about CCR and how it works with SCR

ExchangeExchange: The Podcast #1 - Encounter at Farpoint

podcast@exchangeexchange.com (Jeffrey Rosen and Joel Stidley) — Mon, 19 May 2008 11:50:00 GMT

This week Jeffrey Rosen and Joel Stidley introduce themselves and talk about this new podcast.

News

Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1 Update Rollup 2 was released you can download it here
Updated version of Exchange Server 2007 Load Generator (that Joel calls "Silverfish" instead of the actual codename of "Swordfish") download the x86 or the x64 editions.
A new version of the PowerShell 2.0 CTP was released and available here.
Installing PowerShell on Server Core is now possible and several people have done it, even if it isn't supported.

Topic 1: Jeff is UM enabled!

Topic 2: Exchange Server 2007 migrations

There are a number approaches to doing Exchange 2000/2003 migrations to Exchange 2007. Some of the basic suggestions are:

If you have suggestions for guests or topics please send us an email at podcast@exchangeexchange.com.