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Vol. 14, #34 - Aug 17, 2009 - Issue #739 W2K8 R2 Gotcha: Forced Upgrade To Exchange 2010 This issue of WServerNews is sponsored by Editors Corner Tell Me Your Antivirus Gripes Noteworthy: Win7 on MacBook Shortens Battery Life 70% Quotes Of The Week Admin Toolbox Admin Tools We Think You Shouldn't Be Without: Webinars Sunbelt Exchange Archiver Product Demonstration - 8/18 Kiss Your Antivirus Bloatware Goodbye: A Look at VIPRE Enterprise - 8/25 What Is SMPL? New Lingua Franca for Identity & Access Management - 8/20 Tech Briefing Thinking About Using Exchange 2010 Built-In Archiving? Think Again. Microsoft: Killing IE6 'Not An Option' Network Considerations In Cloud Computing How Windows 7 Stands Up To Security Tests Hyper-V Continues To Gain Ground On VMware Debugging Windows Client Logon Delays: Narrowing The Scope Exchange Admins: Is It Time To Rethink Your Email Address Policy? Windows Server News Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Release 2 CTP Ready to Ship W2K8 R2 Gotcha: Forced Upgrade To Exchange 2010 Third Party News How to Evaluate, Compare and Implement Enterprise Antivirus WServerNews Fave Links This Week's Links We Like. Tips, Hints And Fun Stuff. WServerNews - Product of the Week Download Desktop Authority for a Chance to Win an ASUS Mini Laptop Download Desktop Authority for a Chance to Win an ASUS Mini Laptop Desktop Authority has been winning awards over the years, including a "Triple Crown" award from Redmond magazine's Readers Choice Awards this past year, demonstrating its value year after year to IT pros like you. With features such as easy software deployment, comprehensive desktop configuration, power management and software / hardware inventory it easy to see why Desktop Authority is the leading desktop management platform. Maybe it's time to take a look at Desktop Authority and see how you can have a complete desktop management platform for as little as $17 per machine. For a limited time we're having a download promotion - download a free 30-day trial and you can win a ASUS mini laptop! http://www.wservernews.com/090817-Desktop-Authority Editors Corner Tell Me Your Antivirus Gripes I'm interested to know what antivirus product you are currently running, and what the three things are that annoy you the most about that product. Next issue I will report back with the results! Leave me your email address if you want to participate in the drawing for a free 25-user VIPRE Enterprise license. This is a super quick, 1 minute survey! http://www.wservernews.com/090817-Antivirus-Survey Noteworthy: Win7 on MacBook Shortens Battery Life 70% Who's to blame for MacBook's poor battery life under Windows? Some are quick to blame Apple drivers, but there's no consensus. Running Windows 7 on a MacBook shortened battery life from 5 hours under Mac OS X to just 90 minutes, or more than two-thirds. See this CNET test: http://www.wservernews.com/090817-Win7-on-MacBook Quotes Of The Week "The law will never make men free; it is men who have got to make the law free." -- Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." -- Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826) Warm regards, and thank you for being a WServerNews subscriber. No trees were killed in the sending of this message, but a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced. Please tell your friends about us. They can subscribe here: http://www.wservernews.com/090817-Subscribe PS: Did you know this newsletter has a sister publication for XP users called WXPnews? You can subscribe here, and tell your friends: http://www.wservernews.com/090817-WXPNews PPS: And of course we also have our weekly VistaNews. It will soon be renamed to Win7News! You can subscribe here, and tell your friends: http://www.wservernews.com/090817-VistaNews Hope you enjoy this issue of WServerNews! Warm regards, Stu Sjouwerman  |   Email me: [email protected] Join The 1,000 Sites A Month That Switch To VIPRE Enterprise No more 2-day SEP Migration Classes! Sunbelt built VIPRE Enterprise; a completely new technology combining corporate antivirus plus an enterprise antispyware solution for total endpoint security designed by admins for admins. And that means EASY DEPLOYMENT. Save your IT budget and don't renew products from Symantec, McAfee and Trend Micro, Learn how VIPRE Enterprise takes much less resources than the competition! It's clearly time to kiss your antivirus bloatware goodbye! Competitive Upgrade price: $10/seat: http://www.wservernews.com/090817-VIPRE-Enterprise Admin Toolbox Admin Tools We Think You Shouldn't Be Without: Need to know everywhere "Bob" has access on your file servers and revoke his privileges? Now you can, User-Centric Security Management from ScriptLogic: http://www.wservernews.com/090817-User-Centric Tired of Doin Time? Free yourself, time, money and your staff today! Start with rDirectory Community Edition - FREE Directory - downloads in 5 minutes! http://www.wservernews.com/090817-rDirectory Automatically fix links when you move or rename files! Patented technology lets you perform data migrations without broken links: http://www.wservernews.com/090817-LinkFixerPlus The 40 Most Popular Tools For Your System Admin Bag. Fresh selection: http://www.wservernews.com/090817-Tools Webinars Sunbelt Exchange Archiver Product Demonstration - 8/18 Exchange performance is suffering. Your users complain about email storage and don't want any quotas. Your CEO requires legal compliance. Want a high-end, feature-rich, admin-friendly product that solves all these issues at a very affordable price? Then don't miss this Sunbelt Exchange Archiver demonstration. Tuesday, August 18, 2009, 2:00pm - 2:30pm EDT Can't make the live event? Register anyway to get the recorded version http://www.wservernews.com/090817-SEA-Demo Kiss Your Antivirus Bloatware Goodbye: A Look at VIPRE Enterprise - 8/25 Want total malware protection without the bloat? Join us for a look at VIPRE Enterprise and learn how Sunbelt started with a blank slate to design a new, next-generation antivirus and antispyware technology to deal with today's complex malware in the most comprehensive, highly efficient manner. Can't make the live event? Register anyway to get the recorded version Tuesday, August 25, 2009, 2:00pm - 3:00pm EDT http://www.wservernews.com/090817-Goodbye-Bloatware What Is SMPL? New Lingua Franca for Identity & Access Management - 8/20 Every system, directory and application has different terms and interfaces for managing user accounts, roles and entitlements but at the end of the day the same concepts drive identity and access management throughout a heterogeneous network. Service Provisioning Markup Language (SPML) was developed to make it easy for one system to request changes to user accounts and entitlements from any other system - both systems just need to understand SPML. SPML allows integration between self-service portals, provisioning systems and target applications much more easily. In this 'real training for free' (tm) webinar, Randy Smith will introduce you to SPML and how it can help you manage Identity and Access Management in your environment. You will learn about the interaction between: Requesting Authorities (e.g. self service portal) Provisioning Service Points (e.g. provisioning system) Provision Service Targets (e.g. target system like AD, Unix, SAP or Oracle) You'll find out how SPML abstracts the identity mechanisms of user account and entitlement objects through Provisioning Service Object Identifiers (PSO-ID) and Provisioning Service Target Data Identifiers (PSTD-ID). He'll explain where you will find support for SPML in today's Microsoft-centric network and where to look for it in the near future. You will also see an example of SPML at work with a brief but enlightening demonstration of Quest ActiveRoles Server who is sponsoring this training event. SPML is an exciting tool for anyone managing identity and access across different systems so please register now for this training event. Can't make the live event? Register anyway to get the recorded version http://www.wservernews.com/090817-SPML-Webinar Date: Thursday, August 20, 2009 11:00:00 AM EDT < Tech Briefing Thinking About Using Exchange 2010 Built-In Archiving? Think Again. Here is a very useful blog for when someone is thinking about Exchange 10 built-in archiving. It's written by Microsoftie Harold Wong since May 2005. He answers questions from users after his TechNet Webcast: 'Exchange 2010 Archiving and Retention'. A few questions and answers are revealing if you think about 2010's free archiving instead of a third party dedicated app like Sunbelt Exchange Archiver. I will indicate Harold's answers with HW and our answers with SB. Question: Is the user's archived mailbox not available when in offline mode with a laptop if you are using cached mode? HW Answer: When the user is offline (no direct access to Exchange 2010), they will not be able to access their Archive Mailbox. SB Answer: SEA gives users the ability to read archived emails offline by putting full copies of stubbed emails into the user's OST file which is what is used when accessing emails in cached mode when offline. Question: What are the changes in terms of single instance storage within Exchange 2010? HW Answer: We no longer have single instance storage in Exchange Server 2010. SB Answer: This is another reason to use SEA. When Exchange Server 2010 no longer does single instance, this means that the database can grow large very quickly and easily become unmanageable. Question: will it prevent the user from deleting or just remove the auto-delete from policies? HW Answer: The user will be able to access the Archive Mailbox in the same manner that they access their Primary Mailbox. This means they will be able to delete emails from the archive. You can use Legal Hold to prevent deletions as I stated in an earlier answer. SB Answer: SEA provides secure storage which means that emails can't be deleted as long as they are under retention. SEA provides Legal Holds to keep emails from being deleted even after retention has expired. If you allow users to delete emails, what is keeping them from deleting incriminating emails before a Legal Hold is placed with Exchange Server 2010? Question: Can you also put a Legal Hold on Public Folder emails? HW Answer: No, the Legal Hold only applies to Mailboxes. SB Answer: SEA can place a legal hold on anything that you can search for and that can include public folders. Question: Is there any compression used in archived copy of emails? Answer: No. SB Answer: SEA compresses both the archive and the mailbox store itself by up to 80%. This allows for quicker Exchange performance, quicker backups, and less storage media needing to be purchased. Question: What archiving capabilities are available in Outlook versions earlier than 2010 e.g. 2003. HW Answer: To access the Archive Mailbox in Exchange 2010, you will need Outlook 2010 or you will need to use Outlook Web Access in Exchange 2010. SB Answer: SEA works with all versions of Outlook from 2000 to 2007 currently. It also works with Entourage for Mac which is something that has not even been mentioned with Exchange 2010 archiving. Here is Harold Wong's blog post where he answers all the questions: http://www.wservernews.com/090817-Exchange2010-Archiving Microsoft: Killing IE6 'Not An Option' Microsoft responded to critics who have called for the death of Internet Explorer 6 (IE6), saying "dropping support is not an option" for the eight-year-old browser. While acknowledging that Microsoft is eager for users to upgrade to a new version of IE, Dean Hachamovitch, general manager of the browser group, said the decision is out of its hands. "The choice to upgrade software on a PC belongs to the person responsible for the PC," said Hachamovitch. More at InfoWorld: http://www.wservernews.com/090817-Killing-IE6 Network Considerations In Cloud Computing For many cloud applications, network performance will be the key to cloud computing performance. The implications are best understood by considering a kind of issue matrix: public and private cloud applications in one dimension and cloud access versus intra-cloud networking in the other. This expert tip offers insight into networking considerations in each of these dimensions: (Registration Required) http://www.wservernews.com/090817-Cloud-Computing How Windows 7 Stands Up To Security Tests Windows 7 Release Candidate is proving to be faster and more stable than its predecessor. Devoid of quirky user interface issues, overall, Windows 7 has been a much better experience compared to the trials and tribulations demonstrated with Vista. But how does Windows 7 measure up on the security scale?: http://www.wservernews.com/090817-Win7-Security-Tests Hyper-V Continues To Gain Ground On VMware VMware is at a crucial point in its 11-year history - facing its most serious challenge yet from Microsoft's much-improved Hyper-V R2 hypervisor. Is the industry leader heading for a downfall? This expert article offers insight into what the future may hold for VMware and the virtualization market: http://www.wservernews.com/090817-VMware Debugging Windows Client Logon Delays: Narrowing The Scope There are several potential causes of slow client logons. The question is, once you find the source, how do you fix it? This expert resource will help you develop an action plan to eliminate possible causes and, hopefully, find the problem: http://www.wservernews.com/090817-Client-Logon-Delays Exchange Admins: Is It Time To Rethink Your Email Address Policy? Email address policies may be the last thing on your mind, but they can have a serious affect on your Exchange environment's overall security. Learn why you may want to rethink your email address policy and how to modify it to better protect your Exchange Server: http://www.wservernews.com/090817-Email-Address-Policy Windows Server News Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Release 2 CTP Ready to Ship Microsoft is releasing the community technology preview for SQL Server 2008 R2. The latest version of the flagship database comes with enhancements around SQL Server's management and reporting capabilities. The new version of the flagship database - which MSDN and TechNet subscribers got their hands on last Monday - has been enhanced with features around business intelligence and application and multiserver management. "This CTP provides the first opportunity to explore some of the features of SQL Server 2008 R2 and see how it all comes together to enhance performance and scalability, enable self-service BI and improve IT and developer efficiency," according to the Data Platform Insider blog. "The CTP process is also a great way for (users) to give us feedback on the new technologies." More at eWEEK: http://www.wservernews.com/090817-SQL-Server-2008-Release W2K8 R2 Gotcha: Forced Upgrade To Exchange 2010 Did you know that all the new features in Windows Server 2008 R2 come come with some caveats? One such gotcha is the end of support for Exchange 2007. That means if you move to R2, you will have to upgrade to you Exchange Server to 2010 as well. Some new features in R2 that could make this forced upgrade worthwhile though, are for instance Group Policy. R2 has a bunch of PowerShell cmdlets that you can use via the Group Policy Management Console (GPMC). You will be able to automate many of the same tasks that you usually perform in the GUI. Microsoft also fixed some long term scalability problems in Distributed File System, including issues with file replication. R2's Remote Desktop Services also have new features, such as the Fair Share CPU Scheduling and PowerShell management. And don't forget the really nice Client-side rendering in R2's RDS. Third Party News How to Evaluate, Compare and Implement Enterprise Antivirus Mary Brandel wrote an excellent article for the CSO website (CSO stands for Chief Security Officer) Its title is: "How to Evaluate, Compare and Implement Enterprise Antivirus". Here some of the section titles of this 6-page article, which is a warmly recommended read, Here are a few of the points she touches on - "Enterprise Antivirus DO's and DON'Ts": DON'T accept poor performance. DO research other emerging client security tools. DO value ease-of-use. DO have a zero-day attack strategy. DON'T forget malware removal capability. DO consider costs carefully. This is a valuable overview and a great tool to use when you have to make the choice to either renew, or switch to a next generation antivirus + antispyware product. http://www.wservernews.com/090817-Enterprise-Antivirus WServerNews Fave Links This Week's Links We Like. Tips, Hints And Fun Stuff. "Awesome" doesn't begin to describe this. What happens when you point the Hubble Space Telescope to a seemingly blank patch of sky? A view that takes you to the edge of the universe - This HD video is a must-see: http://www.wservernews.com/090817-Hubble-3D Murphy's Lesser Known Dictum's....These are really funny: http://www.wservernews.com/090817-Lesser-Known-Dictums The 40 Most Popular Tools For Your System Admin Bag. Fresh selection: http://www.wservernews.com/090817-Tools Bruno Kammerl built the biggest waterslide on earth in the Bavarian Alps and the test run was more than successful. This is the full version of the video. You tell me if this is real or very good video editing: http://www.wservernews.com/090817-Waterslide This site features one video a day. Some are very cool. Warning - this can be an incredible time sink. But fun!: http://www.wservernews.com/090817-Post-it Would you get the Apple Safari logo tattooed on your arm? Well, someone did: http://www.wservernews.com/090817-Tattooed Common Sounds: This decibel (dB) table compares some common sounds and shows how they rank in potential harm to hearing. An air cooled workstation is about the level of a refrigerator: http://www.wservernews.com/090817-Sounds Now, HOW do you pronounce that word?? This site gets you the answer: http://www.wservernews.com/090817-Pronunciations How to avoid Gmail's Sponsored Links. Here is a trick & examples: http://www.wservernews.com/090817-Sponsored-Links Once the preserve of cyborgs - call it Terminator Vision - a view of the world tagged with rich, location-relevant information whilst your gaze flickers here and there. This Augmented Reality (AR), as it is known, soon in the real world: http://www.wservernews.com/090817-Cyborg-Vision The "Miniature Wonderland" model railroad in Hamburg, Germany the largest in the world, covering 16,146 square feet of space with more than 10,000 train cars running around its 6.8 miles of HO scale track. Now, the makers of this huge layout have created a video that gives you a jaw-dropping look at the vast scope of this intricate work of art: http://www.wservernews.com/090817-Wunderland A blind man goes into a bike shop to buy himself a new Harley. How does he ride it though? Check this one out! I like... http://www.wservernews.com/090817-Harley-Lotto Input this: Wild and wacky keyboards. Keep clicking on "Next Image" http://www.wservernews.com/090817-Keyboards This gallery of pictures of the Hindenburg disaster is pretty interesting: http://www.wservernews.com/090817-Hindenburg Incredible low level (under the radar) flying by French Air Force Mirage F-1 jet pilots over Chad, Africa: http://www.wservernews.com/090817-Jets Corsair claims world's fastest 128GB USB flash drive: http://www.wservernews.com/090817-128GB-Flash-Drive The world's fastest amphibious car going for a little cruise at Lake Havasu: http://www.wservernews.com/090817-Amphibious-Vehicle Criss Angel the magician makes himself disappear. Unbelievable! http://www.wservernews.com/090817-Magic WServerNews - Product of the Week Download Desktop Authority for a Chance to Win an ASUS Mini Laptop Desktop Authority has been winning awards over the years, including a "Triple Crown" award from Redmond magazine's Readers Choice Awards this past year, demonstrating its value year after year to IT pros like you. 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