Building Resilient Systems: A Comprehensive Guide to Microsoft Workloads

Learn how to build resiliency into your Microsoft Workloads such as Exchange, Lync, RDS & SharePoint. As Microsoft Workloads become more critical to the productivity of your organisation, it becomes even more important to deploy them in highly available architectures. Server and site Load balancing are essential technologies for ensuring your organisation is secure and can survive critical failures of servers or even an entire site. The seminar will also cover the new features of Windows 8 via demonstration with Surface Pro. Morning-afternoon tea & lunch will be supplied Microsoft Sydney When: May 14, Tuesday Time: 9:30 AM - 4:30 PM Where: Microsoft Sydney headquarters @ 1 Epping, Road, North Ryde NSW 2113 Register : http://mvpevent.eventbrite.com.au Microsoft Melbourne When: May 15, Wednesday Time: 9:30 AM - 4:30 PM Where: Microsoft Melbourne @ Level 5, 4 Freshwater Pl Southbank VIC 3006 Register: http://mvpmel.eventbrite.com.au Microsoft Singapore When: Ma... [More]

Complete guide on configuring KEMP VLM load balancer for Exchange 2013

Jonas Andersson – wrote a very useful article which i would like to share   here in my blog. Jonas is taking you step by step through the configurations based on Exchange 2013 RTM I decided to write a post that included both the KEMP configuration together with the Exchange 2013 configuration. I’ve also seen that Jaap Wesselius have posted an article regarding this topic already, it’s my hope that I can fill the gap regarding the complete configuration of both Exchange and the load balancer. For illustrating my lab environment, see the picture below. On the left side is the “client” which tries to connect, in the middle is the load balancers and to the right are my two Exchange 2013 servers. I did decide to have one namespace per service for having a better flexibility, however this is NOT required. But the advantage for having it like this is that the load balancer can check the health of each component. If one component is not working, it’s jus t disabling tha... [More]

Checklist of ISO 27001 Mandatory Documentation

Here is a very good Post from the Pen Test Magazine, which i would like to share with you It is our pleasure to announce we are offering another document for free download - a white paper called Checklist of ISO 27001 Mandatory Documentation. Why this white paper is useful: It lists all mandatory documents and records required by ISO 27001. It briefly outlines how to structure each mandatory document. It lists all the documents that are commonly used, but which are not mandatory. For each document, an ISO 27001 clause is provided. With this white paper we wanted to help all professionals who begin their ISMS implementation, so that they get a better feeling about which documents they will have to produce. But also, this document can be useful for companies that have already implemented ISO 27001, and that want to check whether they have everything in place. Click here to download this free white paper. Or click here: ISO 27001 Free White paper http://www.iso27001s... [More]

Load Balancing in Exchange 2013

Load Balancing in Exchange 2013 is an article written by Jaap Wesselius who is Microsoft MVP on Exchange server. And this article will show you how you can Load Balance Exchange 2013 … I wrote about load balancing in Exchange 2013 earlier, but that blog was based on the beta of Exchange 2013. Time have passed and there’s some more insight so I decided to update this blog… In an earlier article I explained about load balancing in Exchange 2010. The important topics are the setup of the load balancer (one arm vs two arm), but also routing, persistence, distribution and SSL offloading of the client traffic is important. One thing to note is that in Exchange 2010 the connection between the client and the Exchange 2010 CAS server is very important. The CAS server is where all the rendering takes place, so the connection between the client and the CAS server is a state-full connection, one that you want to maintain during the lifetime of the connection. Therefore persistence is important ... [More]

My Timeline v3

    1st Step in Microsoft Certifications - MCP Tech Ed Australia 2007 Demos Happen Here 2008 , Microsoft Sydney Heroes Happen Here 2008 Sydney Tech Ed North America 2008, Orlando Tech Ed Australia 2008 Hyper-V 2008 Canberra (November) Firestarter /STEP events 2009-10 ( Melbourne, Perth, Adelaide, Hobart…)   Office DevCon Tech Ed Europe 2008 Barcelona STEP 2009 Microsoft Sydney MVP Award 2009 Tech Ed North America 2009 , Los Angeles Tech Ed Australia 2009 Microsoft Tech Ed BEST SPEAKER   Tech Ed Noth America 2010 New Orleans   Tech Ed Australia 2010 Tech Ed EMEA Berlin 2010 Office Dev Con 2010 Sydney AISA 2010 Sydney MMS 2011 Las Vegas Tech Ed North America 2011 Atlanta MCT Summit Europe 2011, Stockholm, Sweden Tech Ed Australia 2011 Tech Ed New Zealand 2011 MCT Summit North America 2011, San Francisco Hacker Halted Miami 2011 2012 MCT Summit Australia 2012 AISIA Sydney 2012 MMS 2012 :Las Vegas AusC... [More]

Microsoft Security Intelligence Report v14

Microsoft has released the latest volume of the Microsoft Security Intelligence Report today that provides a large body of new data and analysis on the threat landscape.  Volume 14 focuses on what the threat landscape looked like in the second half of 2012, including trend data from previous periods.  This volume of the report contains: Industry-wide vulnerability disclosure trends and analysis An examination of global vulnerability exploit activity Trends and analysis on global malware and potentially unwanted software The latest analysis of threats in more than 100 countries/regions around the world Data and insights on how attackers are using spam and other email threats The latest global and regional data on malicious websites including phishing sites, malware hosting sites and drive-by download sites   To download SIR click  : SIRv14 download For more info : www.microsoft.com/sir.

Speaking @ Microsoft Tech Ed North America & Europe 2013

  This year I am going to speak Microsoft Tech Ed’s again but this time with another dear friend our “Nextpert” Raymond Comvalius. (His blog :http://nextxpert.com/) So what are we going to cover in this major event ? As wee all know there was a debut in Windows Vista, but after Windows Vista, User Account Control (UAC) has had major improvements. But because of the “bad experience which “we” had in Windows Vista , even today lots of people tend to turn UAC off. (not a good idea) In Windows 8 User Account Control is here to stay. Raymond and I will highlight why some applications still requesting elevation? Can we still turn off User Account Control in Windows 8 and/or should we? Our session will demonstrate how User Account Control is a part of Windows 8 and how Modern UI Apps are affected. Demos will show how security-related compatibility issues caused by legacy applications can be analysed and what solutions are available to fix them by yourself. Our session has an overview... [More]

Start scripting with Windows PowerShell

PowerShell is a versatile scripting language for administering Windows. Mark Newton demonstrates what it can do for you. If you’ve ever felt constrained by the decades-old, DOS-style command prompt, the answer is Windows PowerShell – an updated and much more sophisticated command-line interface for the modern Windows environment. PowerShell isn’t exactly a new technology. Its first incarnation was almost ten years ago, under the name Monad. Since then, it’s developed to such an extent that it’s now the recommended (or even only) way to perform some administrative tasks. Microsoft’s Bill Boswell, writing on the TechNet website, has declared that “the single most important skill a Windows administrator will need in the coming years is proficiency with Windows PowerShell.” Almost all major Microsoft products already have PowerShell interfaces, so you can use scripts to automate tasks within Windows Server, SQL Server, Exchange and more. Indeed, in recent versions of Exchange Server, th... [More]

Interview: Becoming a Windows Intune IT Administrator: A Real-World Perspective

Erdal Ozkaya (Kemp Technologies) & Craig Morris (Sr. Program Manager), talk about what the real world perspective is for integrating Windows Intune and SystemCenter 2012 SP1. They stops by the Channel 9 stage to talk with Joey Snow while at MMS 2013.  In this interview they talk about: Do I have to re-architect everything in System Center to integrate Intune into my environment? What's the real world story about how well it integrates? How the concept of User Centric Management works. The Shift from devices. DEMO: Application deployment in a User Centric manner What do people trip up on for deployments for Intune and SC2012 integration. How to get started with using Intune and SC2012. To watch this interview : http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/MMS/2013/MMS223 MMS Session: Deploying and Configuring Mobile Device Management Infrastructure Check out all of the Channel9 Stage interviews at MMS Watch weekly news and technical interviews for IT Professional... [More]

Microsoft Management Summit 2013, Las Vegas

The Microsoft Management Summit (MMS) brings together the brightest IT professionals from around the world to increase their technical expertise through deep hands-on training, best-practice sharing, and interaction with innovators in desktop, device, and datacenter management, as well as cloud technologies. When we say deep, we mean it – with session content delving into the 300 and 400 level. Only hard-core geeks will feel comfortable in this exclusive setting. With keynotes, sessions, hands-on labs, certification opportunities, and face-to-face access to Microsoft and industry experts, MMS provides a “can’t-miss” opportunity to be among the first to learn about new technologies. And I am proud to be part of such a big event. This year at MMS i will speak again about “Windows Intune, this time from a Administrator perspective. I will cover all the changes in Windows Intune Inc. the integration with System Centre Service Pack 1. More details about my sess... [More]