Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Error in installing DAG on Exchange 2010 server

fastly, if you get the following error when creating the DAG:
A server-side database availability group administrative operation failed. Error: The operation failed with message: Error 0x6f7 (The stub received bad data) from cli_RpccCreateCluster

make sure to add a default gateway in the MAPI NIC on each server in the DAG cluter

Friday, September 11, 2009

What's New in the Exchange Management Console for Exchange Server 2010

part 1 http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2009/09/09/452381.aspx
part 2 http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2009/09/10/452405.aspx
part 3 http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2009/09/10/452423.aspx

Server Reliability Study

"--Server Reliability Study An Information Technology Intelligence Corp. (ITIC) study based ona survey of more than 400 C-level executives at a variety of companiesworldwide examined data about server outages on various platforms.The study identified three levels of outages: Tier 1 outages canusually be resolved quickly; Tier 2 outages result in between 30minutes and four hours of downtime; Tier 3 outages last longer thanfour hours and can result in data loss. IBM AIX UNIX running on thePower series servers garnered the highest reliability rating.http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/09/08/itic_server_availability_rankings/print.htmlhttp://itic-corp.com/blog/2009/07/itic-2009-global-server-hardware-server-os-reliability-survey-results/"

Microsoft and Cisco Fix TCP Stack Vulnerability

--Microsoft and Cisco Fix TCP Stack Vulnerability

Microsoft and Cisco have issued updates to address a vulnerability
in the transmission control protocol (TCP) that could be exploited to
cause denial-of-service conditions. The flaw was discovered in 2005
and made public last year. Microsoft's fix was part of its scheduled
monthly security update for September. Cisco's update addresses the
problem in several of the company's products. Other companies whose
products are affected by the flaw are beginning to issue advisories
as well. What is particularly concerning about this vulnerability
is that it requires a relatively small amount of malicious traffic
to exploit.
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9137774/Cisco_fixes_TCP_denial_of_service_bug?taxonomyId=17
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/09/09/microsoft_cisco_patch_tcp_vuln/
http://www.h-online.com/security/Cisco-TCP-stack-vulnerable-to-DoS-attacks--/news/114199

Thursday, September 3, 2009

I have just got a seat at the Exchange 2010 ignite @ Microsoft Egypt

So happy about it, I have just got an invitation to attend the upcoming Exchange 2010 ignite at Microsoft Egypt, the session will be next October 3/10 for 3 days, so excited about it, here is the course content:
· Agenda


· Day 01

08:30 am Registration and Check-in
09:00 am Introduction
09:30 am Exchange 2010 Overview
10:30 am Break
10:45 am Exchange 2010 Setup, Deployment and Server Role Configuration
11:45 am Lab 1 - Exchange 2010 Setup and Configuration
12:45 pm Lunch
01:45 pm Exchange 2010 Server Planning & Sizing Issues
02:45 pm Break
03:00 pm Exchange Server 2010 Client Access Server
04:00 pm Break
04:15 pm Exchange Server 2010 End User Experience
05:15 pm End of Day




· Day 02

09:00 am Exchange Server 2010 Federation
10:00 am Break
10:15 am Exchange Server 2010 Transport and Routing
11:15 am Lab 5 - Exchange 2010 Transport Routing
12:15 pm Lunch
01:15 pm Lab 6 - Exchange 2010 Compliance: Information Leakage Protection and Control
02:15 pm Break
02:30 pm Exchange Server 2010 Compliance: Archiving and Retention
03:30 pm Break
03:45 pm Exchange Server 2010 Unified Messaging
04:45 pm End of Day



· Day 03

09:00 am Exchange Server 2010 Storage
10:00 am Break
10:15 am Exchange Server 2010 High Availability
11:15 am Break
11:30 am Lab 8 - Exchange 2010 HA and Storage Scenarios
12:30 am Lunch
01:30 pm Exchange Server 2010 Management Tools & RBAC
02:30 pm Break
02:45 pm Exchange Server 2010 Architecture & Technical Wrap-up (Includes Transition/Migration Content)
03:45 pm Ask the Experts
04:45 pm End of Day



Thanks to Omar EL sherif, I am soooooooooo happy and will keep you updated about what we got in the workshop
Mahmoud