Infrastructure snapshots
The place where you will find posts for Microsoft infrastructure articles, info, latest news and offcourse articles that i create!
Guidance Around Bandwidth Planning for Exchange Online and Exchange Server 2010
Microsoft Online Services currently offers three online services: Microsoft Exchange Online,...
Author: Mohamed Baher [MSFT] Date: 11/01/2010
Windows Azure Monitoring Management Pack Release Candidate (RC) Now Available For Download
Copied from...
Author: Mohamed Baher [MSFT] Date: 11/01/2010
Exchange 2010 Architecture Poster
Exchange 2007 Component Architecture Poster is now available for download in all its 36" x...
Author: Mohamed Baher [MSFT] Date: 11/01/2010
Exchange 2010 SP1 Software Development Kits
Hello Exchange Developers! We've just released updated Software Development Kits for Exchange 2010...
Author: Mohamed Baher [MSFT] Date: 11/01/2010
Microsoft PDC10
Attend Microsoft PDC10 October 28-29 online or find the event closest to your home! See the map...
Author: Mohamed Baher [MSFT] Date: 10/19/2010
Update Rollup 1 for Exchange Server 2010 SP1
Exchange 2010 SP1 RU1 is released, you can download it from here...
Author: Mohamed Baher [MSFT] Date: 10/07/2010
Lync 2010 Address Book Normalization
Excellent article by Jeff about AB normalization, read the article at...
Author: Mohamed Baher [MSFT] Date: 10/01/2010
Outlook stuck on connecting while downloading OAB
Do you have Exchange 2010 and you face an issue where your Outlook clients stuck on connecting...
Author: Mohamed Baher [MSFT] Date: 09/23/2010
Please welcome the DAG Active/Active model in the Mailbox Server Role Requirements Calculator
Yes, there is a new version of the Mailbox Server Role Requirements calculator (v12.3) that supports...
Author: Mohamed Baher [MSFT] Date: 09/19/2010
The 30 interesting info about Lync
In this post I’ll list to you 30 fact and info about Lync which is totally new and different than...
Author: Mohamed Baher [MSFT] Date: 09/17/2010
Lync Server 2010 lab deployment guide (Part 4)
So now with all services started we are ready in this final part to create and enable our first Lync...
Author: Mohamed Baher [MSFT] Date: 09/16/2010
Lync Server 2010 lab deployment guide (Part 3)
In this part we need to deploy a local configuration store with the published configuration in the...
Author: Mohamed Baher [MSFT] Date: 09/16/2010
Lync Server 2010 lab deployment guide (Part 2)
In part 1 of this series we went through the deployment prerequisites, prepared the servers and...
Author: Mohamed Baher [MSFT] Date: 09/16/2010
Microsoft Lync… Of course It’s the new OCS:)
I am thrilled to share with you this announcement from our UC team about the next release of OCS...
Author: Mohamed Baher [MSFT] Date: 09/13/2010
Installing Update Rollups on Database Availability Group Members
Although it’s documented on our TechNet however I always receive a question for how to install a RU...
Author: Mohamed Baher [MSFT] Date: 09/13/2010
Microsoft IT Starts Migration of Microsoft.com to Windows Azure Platform
Microsoft IT Showcase is pleased to announce the publication of Microsoft IT Starts Migration of...
Author: Mohamed Baher [MSFT] Date: 09/12/2010
How Microsoft IT Planned, Architecture and Deployed the New System Center Service Manager to Support Over 5,000 Servers
Microsoft IT implemented System Center Service Manager to improve their IT service management which...
Author: Mohamed Baher [MSFT] Date: 09/10/2010
Managing Virtual Switches and Networks Across Hyper-V Hosts
Very interesting article about managing virtual switches and centrally configuring them across all...
Author: Mohamed Baher [MSFT] Date: 09/09/2010
IMPORTANT EMAIL VIRUS Alert: Win32/Visal.B with a subject name of “Here you have”
Take care… There is currently a new mass mailing worm that sends out thousands of messages from...
Author: Mohamed Baher [MSFT] Date: 09/09/2010
Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Response Group Service fails after applying the July 2010 cumulative updates
After applying the Office Communications Server 2007 R2 July 2010 cumulative updates to the Office...
Author: Mohamed Baher [MSFT] Date: 09/07/2010
Windows Phone 7 – Released To Manufacturing
Today is the day that the Windows Phone team has been driving towards, and we’re very excited to say...
Author: Mohamed Baher [MSFT] Date: 09/03/2010
EHLO post: Exchange 2010 SP1 FAQ and Known Issues
Exchange 2010 SP1 FAQ and Known Issues https://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2010/09/01/456094.aspx I...
Author: Mohamed Baher [MSFT] Date: 09/02/2010
Tech∙Ed Middle East 2011 dates have been announced
Tech·Ed Middle East returns to Dubai in 2011, March 8 – 10, for 3 full days of deep technical...
Author: Mohamed Baher [MSFT] Date: 09/02/2010
Exchange is on TOP: Gartner's 2010 MarketScope for E-mail Systems
I’m happy to announce Microsoft’s strong position in Gartner’s 2010 MarketScope for E-Mail Systems...
Author: Mohamed Baher [MSFT] Date: 08/31/2010
Exchange Server 2010 SP1 Is Now Available
Finally we released our long awaited Exchange 2010 SP1… You can download a copy from...
Author: Mohamed Baher [MSFT] Date: 08/26/2010
Exchange 2010 Automatic Mailbox Distribution
You're an administrator, and you've installed a few servers running Microsoft Exchange Server 2010....
Author: Mohamed Baher [MSFT] Date: 08/10/2010
Exchange Server 2010 Design and Architecture at Microsoft
Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Design and Architecture is released to web. Very interesting reading...
Author: Mohamed Baher [MSFT] Date: 07/18/2010
DNS Namespace Planning Solution Center Launched
Based on customer feedback, early this month we launched a new DNS Namespace Planning Solution...
Author: Mohamed Baher [MSFT] Date: 07/11/2010
Remote Desktop Connection Manager
This is a cool download...
Author: Mohamed Baher [MSFT] Date: 05/31/2010
Exchange 2010 DAG Single Copy Alert Script Released
Exchange team released an important monitoring script called CheckDatabaseRedundancy.ps1 to the...
Author: Mohamed Baher [MSFT] Date: 05/27/2010
Exchange 2010 Address List Segregation and Current Support Stances
Critical update from Dave regarding Exchange 2010 Address List segregation and our current support...
Author: Mohamed Baher [MSFT] Date: 05/10/2010
Outlook Anywhere runs best on Windows 2008 R2
Interesting article just released that shows how Exchange 2010 Outlook Anywhere benefits from...
Author: Mohamed Baher [MSFT] Date: 04/30/2010
Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Build Guide Templates
Exchange 2010 build guide template just released on TechNet… You can use these templates as a...
Author: Mohamed Baher [MSFT] Date: 04/12/2010
Exchange 2010 SP1 Information
Exchange team just released our Exchange 2010 SP1 information, read the details here...
Author: Mohamed Baher [MSFT] Date: 04/08/2010
Enter Island: Because IT is The Best Job in the World
You surely have seen it on TV - some people really think that sitting on a boring island and...
Author: Mohamed Baher [MSFT] Date: 04/01/2010
Forefront Threat Management Gateway 2010 Capacity Planning Tool
Finally the TMG 2010 capacity planning tool is released. The tool will allow you to calculate the...
Author: Mohamed Baher [MSFT] Date: 02/15/2010
KB978790 – Update to Windows 2008 File Share Witness failure state
The platform team released an update to the Windows 2008 FSW that affects the cluster state of the...
Author: Mohamed Baher [MSFT] Date: 02/15/2010
TechEd Middle East 2010
Hay, the first Tech-Ed event in the middle east will happen from 1st of March and till 3rd of March....
Author: Mohamed Baher [MSFT] Date: 02/11/2010
Forefront Protection 2010 for Exchange Server (FPE) Capacity Planning Guidance
Finally it’s here,...
Author: Mohamed Baher [MSFT] Date: 02/02/2010
How to enable “Appear Offline” presence status in office communicator?
Very nice info, i needed it badly:)...
Author: Mohamed Baher [MSFT] Date: 01/14/2010
Events 9320 and 9359 on new installation of Exchange 2010
DGoldman blogged a very important info about generation of warning (9359) on Exchange 2010 servers...
Author: Mohamed Baher [MSFT] Date: 01/04/2010
Providing High Availability for combined CAS, Hub & DAG servers…
One of the great changes in Exchange 2010 over Exchange 2007 is the ability to combine both CAS...
Author: Mohamed Baher [MSFT] Date: 12/22/2009
Exchange 2010: Proxy or Redirect?
In Exchange 2007 we introduced the concept of proxying and redirection to manage the multi sites...
Author: Mohamed Baher [MSFT] Date: 12/17/2009
Windows 7 breaks Amazon UK pre-order volume record, ousts Harry Potter
From...
Author: Mohamed Baher [MSFT] Date: 10/22/2009
Demystifying Exchange 2010 database availability group (DAG)
What is a DAG? A database availability group (DAG) is the base component of the high availability...
Author: Mohamed Baher [MSFT] Date: 07/27/2009
Facts about Exchange 2007 SP2…
Exchange 2007 SP2 is coming very soon and I thought of highlighting some important facts about it:...
Author: Mohamed Baher [MSFT] Date: 07/26/2009