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Presented by: Peter O’Dowd, Exchange Server MVP - DATACOM
Where: Level 9, South Tower, 68-86 Jervois Quay, Wellington
4:30 – 5:10pm Exchange Server 2010 Cram Session
Exchange Server 2010 was released last month and comes with a lot of new options. E.g. Database Availability Groups, Roles-based Access Control. MailTips, IRM Integration with Transport rules.
Using material Peter recently presented at Exchange Connections in Las Vegas, he will cover:
• Automate mailbox database replication and failover with as few as two servers or across geographically dispersed datacenters
• Maintain availability and fast recovery with up to 16 Exchange-managed replicas of each mailbox database
• Guard against lost e-mail due to Transport Server upgrades or failures, through new built-in redundancy capabilities designed to intelligently redirect mail flow through another available route
• The new Exchange Roles-based Access Control model to empower specialist users to perform specific tasks – like giving compliance officers the ability to conduct multi-mailbox searches – without requiring administrative control
• Share free/busy information with external business partners for fast and efficient scheduling, choosing the level of detail you wish to share
• MailTips that inform your users, before they click send, about message details that could lead to undeliverable or mis-sent e-mails, like accidentally sending confidential information to external recipients, reducing inbox clutter, extra steps, and help desk calls
• Simplify the classification of e-mail with new centrally definable Retention Policies that can be applied to individual e-mail messages or folders
• Enable partners and customers to read and reply to IRM-protected mail–even if they do not have Active Directory Rights Management Services (ADRMS) on premise
• Enable managers to review mail and either approve or block transmission
5:10-5:30pm E-mail in the cloud
Where is email going? Gartner predicts the end of traditional email as cloud-based communication rises. It claims that the market will grow to 20 per cent by 2012. Click here for more So will 20% of mail be in ‘the cloud’ in 3 years? How will that affect us Exchange admins? What options do we and our customers have?
• Install an on-premises deployment with Exchange Server 2010, a Microsoft hosted service with Exchange Online, or a seamless mix of both.
With R2 just out, there are some new AD features thrown into the mix. Tony will introduce and demo these features and, with time permitting, open a discussion about how best to approach the upgrade. The new features covered are:
* PowerShell Cmdlets
* Active Directory Administrative Centre
* Best Practice Analyser
* Recycle Bin for AD
* Managed Service accounts
* Offline Domain Join
Presentation covered System Centre Operations manager including new and updated features in R2 such as Operations Manager Overview, Management Packs, Distributed Applications monitoring, Service Level Dashboard, Cross Level Platform (Linux) management
As part of the inaugural Infrastructure User Group, Terry Chapman from Fujitsu New Zealand will present on deploying Microsoft Enterprise Voice using Office Communications Server 2007 and Exchange 2007 Unified Messaging. Microsoft’s Unified Communications strategy has been steadily gaining momentum over the last 12 months and many organisations are now looking at technologies such as OCS to help deliver some of the cost savings being asked of IT by the business.
With the imminent release of Server 2008 R2, and the licensing benefits it can offer, Hyper-V is becoming an increasingly popular option for a virtualisation platform. As a result, the question system implementers are being asked is “Hyper-V or VMWare?”
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