Exchange 2010 Session One and Two are online!

Been super busy with work, buying and adapting to a new home, and keeping one dog from not eating the other dog. Between those, Exchange 2010 playing, testing, and research. The end result being the three part series Simpler-Webb has been putting on at Microsoft's Austin campus.

The slide decks from today are on line at the webinar site

Mark your fall calendars!

I decided to not pepper with updates this week.

October 22 - Windows 2008 R2 and Windows 7 release dates
http://community.winsupersite.com/blogs/paul/archive/2009/06/02/windows-server-2008-r2-will-follow-the-same-rtm-ga-dates-as-windows-7.aspx

Exchange 2010 - Not yet released. Still Q3/Q4. Public Beta has been REALLY well received thusfar. I have done part 1 of my 3 part series, and also agreed to speak at two New Horizons events. I have three customers talking 2010 design planning at the moment. Very exciting.

New Horizon's Learning Spectechular!

I will be doing two sessions at each of these events on Exchange 2010, if you are local, come check it out.

Austin - http://www.nhcomputerlearning.com/Spectechular/austin.html

San Antonio - http://www.nhcomputerlearning.com/Spectechular/sanantonio.html

Exchange 2010 Seminars

Sorry for the lack of posting, but between regular work, all the new stuff lately, I haven't had time for the blogging as much. However, I hope to supplant this somewhat with this post.

I have been working at work on some Exchange 2010 seminars that myself and Andy Webb, our CTO and Microsoft Exchange MVP are delivering together. We completed the first session last week, and the PDF is available

The next two sessions are upcoming in Austin, TX:

JUNE 23, 2009, Session 2 of 3, REGISTER:http://www.clicktoattend.com/?id=138292
Highlight: Transport Service
Exchange 2007 introduced a completely new transport service for SMTP allowing for management of message flow based on content, sender, recipient, and other details. We'll discuss how Exchange 2010 continues to improve in this area.
Highlight: Client Access
Client Access via OWA has improved in every version of Exchange, and 2010 is no different. In addition to OWA, we’ll discuss the additional changes with Outlook Anywhere and Activesync.

JULY 8, 2009, Session 3 of 3, REGISTER: http://www.clicktoattend.com/?id=138293
Setup & Deployment Scenarios
How many Exchange servers for your organization? What is the correct level of fault tolerance and high availability? How will your organization fit and scale with Exchange 2010? We’ll take a look at the various deployment scenarios you may be facing and potential solutions.
Migration Strategies
The degree of difficulty for migration to Exchange 2010 depends on the current state of your IT environment and your organization’s needs. We’ll go over various migration strategies to help you make the change.

On top of this, I will also be doing some shorter seminars for the upcoming New Horizons event Spectechular in the Austin, and possibly San Antonio locations.

Office 2010 Technical preview pics out

Over at Paul Thurrot's site:
http://www.winsupersite.com/office/office2010_tp_shots_01.asp

Looks pretty slick to me.

Windows 2008 Administrator tools for Windows 7

I found this to solve my own problems today, and had to look too hard for it.

Where to Install:
Microsoft Remote Server Administration Tools for Windows 7 Beta (x86): http://download.microsoft.com/download/A/D/4/AD4D3903-E06D-456D-AED4-D53895D2C1A9/Windows6.1-KB958830-x86.msu
Microsoft Remote Server Administration Tools for Windows 7 Beta (x64): http://download.microsoft.com/download/A/D/4/AD4D3903-E06D-456D-AED4-D53895D2C1A9/Windows6.1-KB958830-x64.msu

The main download page is here http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=82516c35-c7dc-4652-b2ea-2df99ea83dbb&displaylang=en

RSAT Client is available to all customers as part of the supplemental Microsoft Software License Terms to Windows 7 licenses.

What Is Included in RSAT?
This is the list of Windows Server 2008 administration tools which are included in Win7 RSAT Client:
Server Administration Tools:
Server Manager Role Administration Tools:
• Active Directory Certificate Services (AD CS) Tools
• Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) Tools
• Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services (AD LDS) Tools
• DHCP Server Tools
• DNS Server Tools
• File Services Tools
• Hyper-V Tools
• Terminal Services Tools
Feature Administration Tools:
• BitLocker Password Recovery Viewer
• Failover Clustering Tools
• Group Policy Management Tools
• Network Load Balancing Tools
• SMTP Server Tools
• Storage Explorer Tools
• Storage Manager for SANs Tools
• Windows System Resource Manager Tools