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Comment on Group Policy to Hide any Drive(letter) by Chris Willard

Chris Willard — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 14:47:40 +0000

Hello Andreas,

Thanks for the great blog. I have downloaded your zip and put it in the correct location but can not see how to use it.

Do I need to do anything else to use it?

Regards,

Chris

Comment on 2 Server Redundant Exchange 2010 configuration by admin

admin — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 21:19:46 +0000

The only way to have a fully redundant system without using hardware load balances is to install exchange on 4 servers. 2 for Client access and transport and 2 for Mailbox roles. This way you would use Microsoft NLB to load balance the traffic which is not supported to install on servers that use the cluster feature which is used by the DAG for the mailbox role.
Let me know if you need any more information.

Thanks.
Andreas

Comment on 2 Server Redundant Exchange 2010 configuration by Mark D. MacLachlan

Mark D. MacLachlan — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 19:14:26 +0000

Andreas, I am very interested in a solution that does not require a hardware load balancer. Could you please provide that guidance? I would like to be able to configure two Exchange 201 servers as a cluster. Thank you.

Comment on Customize OSD deployments in SCCM by Scott Klein

Scott Klein — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 17:55:10 +0000

Cool stuff Andreas. We are using OSDAPPChooser – really like it.
Looking at OSD++ as well to do things like set time zone and keyboard layout etc… Curious as to why you didn’t build local admin into OSD++? Got a question for you that you may remember the process I am referring too. I want to set the MIF file location. What I like about OSD++ and app chooser – they run at the begininng of the process – meaning I can start the process – answer a few questions and then walk away. But the SCCM client isn’t installed yet so I don’t know how to set the location? Right now we still use the miflocater.exe we had developed but I have to call it through a script at the end of image process. Any Ideas? Thanks! Scott

Comment on Ceton Cable Card and Cisco SDV Tuning Adapters by Theresa Gächter

Theresa Gächter — Mon, 02 May 2011 07:05:31 +0000

haha, ist mir genauso gegangen

Comment on Ceton Cable Card and Cisco SDV Tuning Adapters by Kathrin Felder

Kathrin Felder — Mon, 02 May 2011 06:53:38 +0000

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Comment on 2 Server Redundant Exchange 2010 configuration by Andreas

Andreas — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 21:08:21 +0000

Using a VM for the second machine is no problem. However please don’t clone the physical machine as this will cause several problems in your environment. You really want to build the second machine from scratch. Fully installed Exchange machines cannot be cloned (or at least Microsoft doesn’t support it). If you simply build a second machine you will be able to install it just like the first. Also I was describing a scenario where you have a hardware loadbalancer. If you don’t have one of those you will need a total of 4 servers to build a fully redundant exchange 2010 configuration. I can give you some pointers on what to look for with that as well.

Thanks,
Andreas

Comment on 2 Server Redundant Exchange 2010 configuration by Alan Collins

Alan Collins — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 14:58:47 +0000

We currently have just one Exchange 2010 server. I am interested in doing something very similar to what you describe in this blog post, only using a VM for the second server. Performance is not an issue for us, so this would be more for the redundancy than for load-balancing. I was wondering if I could use VMWare’s VMConverter software to make a virtual clone of our physical box (obviously giving it a different server name), then follow your steps to set up the load balancing.

Comment on Backup all SQL Databases in one instance by John Stiavelli

John Stiavelli — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 02:25:47 +0000

ha ha, nerd:)