The Exchange Server Role Requirement Calculator is your one stop calculation tool for Exchange 20132016 design. The tool covers design calculations for both the Mailbox and Client Access server role. Exchange 2013 reduced the number of roles from previous versions of Exchange by making the design and implementation as simple as possible and Exchange 2016 furthers…
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Happy New Year Everyone!!! I know Azure Stack is just around the corner, but I still get lots of questions around configuring WAP and portals. So to follow-up my Windows Azure Pack (WAP) series, I am going to talk about reconfiguring server names and ports as well as assigning trusted certificates to my WAP Portals. If you missed other parts…
As always, I try to blog on questions I get from the field and recently, I helped some colleagues and customers build a DAG on Nutanix 2 times last week ;). The process is pretty straightforward, but there are some best practices that everyone should follow to ensure a healthy DAG environment. Creating a two…
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To give credit, this content was taken from my buddy Mike McGhem's blog and I added some more color to it, but his content is right on. In General, modern versions Microsoft SQL Server (MSSQL) supports several High Availability (HA) options at both the host and storage level. For the purposes of this post I will only…
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"Often, you hear about something weird and un-supported, and feel like you have to share it". I often get calls and questions regarding backups and Exchange Server, and most backup technologies are not always working as required or as you would expect, but that’s off-topic. One of the most common stories is that without a working…
In my various blog series, you need a SQL 2012 server setup for hosting databases with different Microsoft Solutions. Testing out on a SQL AlwaysOn AG will give you a feel of a real world scenario. If you want to understand SQL 2012 Always-On Availability Group, check my blog post on SQL 2012 AlwaysON Feature - What is it?…
To continue NPP training series here is my next topic: How does it work - CVM - Software Defined If you missed other parts of my series, check out links below: Part 1 - NPP Training series – Nutanix Terminology Part 2 - NPP Training series – Nutanix Terminology Cluster Architecture with Hyper-V Data Structure on Nutanix with Hyper-V…
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Deploying and configuring Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS) 2012 R2 for Office 365 can be broken down into 4 blog posts: Install and Configuring ADFS (this post) Configuring Name Resolution and additional nodes Install ADFS Proxy (Coming Soon) Leverage ADFS with Office 365 (Coming Soon) New automated methods of setting up ADFS with Office 365 (Coming Soon) Planning…
Read more: Deploying ADFS on Nutanix – Installing and Configuring – Part 2 →