Infrastructure snapshots

The place where you will find posts for Microsoft infrastructure articles, info, latest news and offcourse articles that i create!

How Microsoft IT Developed a Private Cloud Infrastructure

Microsoft IT created an efficient, flexible Research and Development (R&D) facility that serves...

Author: Mohamed Baher [MSFT] Date: 08/18/2011

National Bank of Kuwait Virtualizes 75 Percent of Servers for 40 Percent Cost Savings

After decades of using mainframe technology, National Bank of Kuwait wanted a scalable server...

Author: Mohamed Baher [MSFT] Date: 08/12/2011

MEA Center of expertise internship program

Microsoft MEA Center of expertise is looking for 15 Fresh graduate for 5 month Internship program...

Author: Mohamed Baher [MSFT] Date: 08/12/2011

BEWARE THE VMWARE MEMORY VTAX; PLUS--GOOD NEWS FOR HYPER-V...

Jeff Woolsey published a great article about VMware VTax and Hyper-V 8, go and read the article here...

Author: Mohamed Baher [MSFT] Date: 08/02/2011

HYPER-V NOW SUPPORTS RHEL 6.x/CENTOS 6.x

We are pleased to announce the release of the new Linux 3.1 Integration Services and support for the...

Author: Mohamed Baher [MSFT] Date: 07/27/2011

Datacenter gurus in MEA Facebook group

To all of the Datacenter gurus in MEA, feel free to join our Facebook group Datacenter gurus in MEA...

Author: Mohamed Baher [MSFT] Date: 06/08/2011

System Center 2012 CTP program

The System Center team is pleased to announce the Community Evaluation Program. The program is...

Author: Mohamed Baher [MSFT] Date: 05/18/2011

Enhanced Virtualization Support for Exchange 2010

We just released the post for the enhanced virtualization support for Exchange 2010 which include UM...

Author: Mohamed Baher [MSFT] Date: 05/16/2011

ANNOUNCEMENT: FREE MICROSOFT ISCSI TARGET & HYPER-V.

Copied from the Virtualization blog One common refrain we hear from you is that you appreciate the...

Author: Mohamed Baher [MSFT] Date: 04/05/2011

Consolidating and virtualizing SQL Server using Hyper-V

Use server virtualization to consolidate Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 database servers to reduce...

Author: Mohamed Baher [MSFT] Date: 03/30/2011

System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 Beta – Evaluation

System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 delivers industry leading fabric management, virtual...

Author: Mohamed Baher [MSFT] Date: 03/23/2011

Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V Component Architecture (with Service Pack 1)

This poster provides a visual reference for understanding key Hyper-V technologies in Windows Server...

Author: Mohamed Baher [MSFT] Date: 03/07/2011

Announcing Jump Start: Microsoft Virtualization for VMWare Professionals (March 29-31)

Just one week after Microsoft Management Summit 2011 (MMS), Microsoft Learning will be hosting an...

Author: Mohamed Baher [MSFT] Date: 03/04/2011

Windows 7 and Windows 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 is now available

Microsoft has released Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 (SP1) to manufacturing....

Author: Mohamed Baher [MSFT] Date: 02/22/2011

Study: Bing searches more accurate than Google's

Microsoft’s search engine Bing, and even Yahoo, are providing users with more accurate searches than...

Author: Mohamed Baher [MSFT] Date: 02/16/2011

Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012

Very interesting article about SCVMM 2012 on ZDNet...

Author: Mohamed Baher [MSFT] Date: 02/05/2011

The Official Stance on Address List Segregation

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Author: Mohamed Baher [MSFT] Date: 02/05/2011

System Center Configuration Manager Extensions for SCAP ver2.1 now available

the ConfigMgr extensions for SCAP have been re-reased, and are now available here The SCAP...

Author: Mohamed Baher [MSFT] Date: 02/01/2011

Smarter Virtualization event - Kuwait

Kuwait February 1, 2011 Venue: JW Marriott, Kuwait City   Agenda:...

Author: Mohamed Baher [MSFT] Date: 01/24/2011

System Center Service Manager – Exchange Connector

The System Center Service Manager – Exchange Connector connects Service Manager to Exchange for...

Author: Mohamed Baher [MSFT] Date: 01/23/2011

Lot are asking about DPM 2010 resources, here is a compilation of some links Planning a System...

Author: Mohamed Baher [MSFT] Date: 01/22/2011

January 2011 - Technical Rollup Mail–Manageability

Forefront Endpoint Protection 2010 Forefront Endpoint Protection 2010 enables businesses to align...

Author: Mohamed Baher [MSFT] Date: 01/08/2011

8 million Kinects sold in 60 days!!!!

See the details of this news and other exciting news coming out of CES; please see the CES Virtual...

Author: Mohamed Baher [MSFT] Date: 01/06/2011

NEC Express5800/R320 servers bring fault tolerance to Microsoft Hyper-V environments

https://microsoftfeed.com/2010/nec-express5800r320-servers-bring-fault-tolerance-to-microsoft-hyper-v...

Author: Mohamed Baher [MSFT] Date: 12/24/2010

Outlook 2007 support for Exchange 2010 personal Archives

Finally Outlook 2007 now supports Exchange 2010 personal archives, you need to install an update...

Author: Mohamed Baher [MSFT] Date: 12/24/2010

Considerations for deploying Windows 2008 R2 SP1 on Hyper-V servers

If you are using Hyper-V on computers on which you want to install this service pack, you should be...

Author: Mohamed Baher [MSFT] Date: 12/24/2010

SC VMM 2008 R2 SP1 Introduction

Nice article about SCVMM 2008 R2 SP1 features, read the article at...

Author: Mohamed Baher [MSFT] Date: 12/23/2010

From 2010 to 2011: Walking the Cloud Talk

Interesting article from David Greschler  “Director of virtualization and cloud strategy within...

Author: Mohamed Baher [MSFT] Date: 12/20/2010

A tool to verify that your AMT certificates are properly configured in ConfigMgr 2007

Found this on Steve Rachui blog, a tool he wrote that will verify that your provisioning and AMT...

Author: Mohamed Baher [MSFT] Date: 12/20/2010

Create Visio Diagrams and Word Docs of your Opalis Workflows

The "Opalis VSD Generator" lets you export an Opalis policy as a Visio diagram, and...

Author: Mohamed Baher [MSFT] Date: 12/15/2010

How to easily test your remote SQL connectivity

Very nice article by Steve Rachui who explains how to quickly and easily test remote SQL...

Author: Mohamed Baher [MSFT] Date: 12/15/2010

Multiple December Exchange Update Rollup Releases

Earlier today the Exchange CXP team released a number of Update Rollups for versions of Exchange...

Author: Mohamed Baher [MSFT] Date: 12/14/2010

December 2010 - Technical Rollup Mail

December 2010 - Technical Rollup Mail – Manageability...

Author: Mohamed Baher [MSFT] Date: 12/13/2010

How System Center Data Protection Manager works with EFS encrypted files

If you're protecting encrypted files using System Center Data Protection Manager  then you'll...

Author: Mohamed Baher [MSFT] Date: 12/13/2010

System Center Data Protection Manager 2010 Hyper-V protection: Configuring cluster networks for CSV redirected access

Interesting article for DPM with CSV cluster...

Author: Mohamed Baher [MSFT] Date: 12/13/2010

Exchange Server Deployment Assistant

New deployment assistant is released here...

Author: Mohamed Baher [MSFT] Date: 12/13/2010

Financial Services Provider Chooses Hyper-V over VMware for Speed, $1 Million Savings

The record number of mortgage modifications over the past few years has meant record business for...

Author: Mohamed Baher [MSFT] Date: 12/09/2010

Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 References

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Author: Mohamed Baher [MSFT] Date: 12/04/2010

Lync Server 2010 Chm File RTM

This download contains a compiled help file (chm) of all the available Lync Server 2010 IT...

Author: Mohamed Baher [MSFT] Date: 12/01/2010

How to create TMG with SP1 your source bits for installation? (slipstream)

Nice post for Mohamed Saad,...

Author: Mohamed Baher [MSFT] Date: 11/30/2010

Demo any Virtualization Scenario with this Portable Setup

Great article by David at...

Author: Mohamed Baher [MSFT] Date: 11/27/2010

Now Available – System Center Virtual Machine Manager Self-Service Portal 2.0 RTM

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Author: Mohamed Baher [MSFT] Date: 11/27/2010

Robert's Rules of Exchange: Namespace Planning

Copied from https://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2010/11/22/456992.aspx. Many thanks for Robert Gillies...

Author: Mohamed Baher [MSFT] Date: 11/27/2010

Whoa, Google, That’s A Pretty Big Security Hole

Interesting article about Google recent security hole...

Author: Mohamed Baher [MSFT] Date: 11/21/2010

Who said ‘combine VMWare HA with Exchange HA’???

Great reference post at https://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2010/11/09/456851.aspx about misleading...

Author: Mohamed Baher [MSFT] Date: 11/09/2010

Hyper-V Private Cloud

Microsoft just unveiled Hyper-V Cloud, a set of programs and offerings that makes it easier for...

Author: Mohamed Baher [MSFT] Date: 11/09/2010

Exchange 2010 Sp1 Visio Template

The Exchange 2010 SP1 Visio stencil is available for download:...

Author: Mohamed Baher [MSFT] Date: 11/07/2010

Bing “Likes” Facebook

Bing has connected with Facebook to make searching on Bing more social. Together, Bing and Facebook...

Author: Mohamed Baher [MSFT] Date: 11/01/2010

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