There are some interesting and exciting new features in Windows Server 2012 R2. I'd like to see the new "Work Folders" feature which essentially sounds like a corporate DropBox/SkyDrive enabling data synchronistion across devices with encryption and remote wipe facilities,…
We have a few clients on Office 365 all of which have been upgraded to the new version, which is being rolled out to everyone this year. One client asked us to remove the forwarding of email from one mailbox…
In between moving to our new larger premises I thought I'd find time to migrate some virtual machines from Citrix XenServer 5.6 to Microsoft Hyper-V 2012, lowering costs and improving performance, this turned out to be relatively painless. Step 1…
Ooooh this will be an interesting read http://blogs.technet.com/b/virtualization/archive/2013/04/01/multi-tenant-disaster-recover-solution-using-windows-server-2012.aspx This was one of the areas I was really looking forward to in Windows Server 2012 to enable low cost disaster recover for SMB clients. It will be interesting to see how…
A client migrated themselves to Office 365 from an existing on-premise Exchange at the weekend and called us as they were having problems configuring Outlook 2013. Everytime they set it up it would auto-discover the existing Exchange server and not…
Okay, I admit, most people aren't going to be interested but... http://blogs.technet.com/b/building_clouds/archive/2013/02/21/surface-pro-hijinks-video.aspx "Question: What ridiculous things can 4 server geeks do with a sub-2lb tablet that has a Core i5 processor and a couple of free hours? Answer: Install Server 2012,…
We recently migrated a client from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2010 and had to deal with over 200 PST files scattered around the network from various archives and ex-employees. Now that we aren't limited to the 75GB store size we…
Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 3 (SP3) has been released "Windows Server 2012 Support - This Service Pack enables you to deploy Exchange Server 2010 on WIndows Server 2012 platform." We love Windows 2012, but up until now we haven't…
We've played with Multipoint Server before and know it to be a great product that reduces classroom costs and improves the student experience, well WMS 2012 has been released and it has got even better http://blogs.technet.com/b/microsoft_in_education/archive/2013/02/08/windows-multipoint-server-in-the-classroom.aspx
We're expanding our IT team and we're looking for a couple of people. You are expected to install, enhance, configure and support the network infrastructures offered by Focused IT to its customers, these mainly comprise of Microsoft Windows Server based…