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Looking back on 2012, looking forward to 2013.
First of all, I’d like to start off by thanking YOU, my readers and followers. I hope you’ve had a wonderful 2012 and I wish you the very best for 2013. I sincerely hope that 2013 not only will be an enjoyable year, but foremost one that’s loaded with purpose and...
Upcoming speaking engagements
Hi all, 2012 has been an interesting and very rewarding year for me. It’s also been a year in which I’ve had numerous opportunities to speak at various events and do multiple webcasts. Now, it seems that 2013 will be equally interesting, if not even better! If you’re...
IMPORTANT: Issues reported with Windows Updates & Exchange 2007/2010
Hi, Microsoft recently pushed updates out to the world which install the Windows Management Framework 3.0 on 'older' operating systems like Windows Server 2008 and 2008 R2. The updates are available through http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2506143 and...
Microsoft Released Exchange 2010 SP2 Update-Rollup 5 v2
After the latest debacle from Microsoft where Exchange 2010 SP2 UR5 got pulled due to a bug, Microsoft re-released the UR as version 2. For more information on the UR, have a look at the following KB-article: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=2785908 However, I would...
Load Balancing Exchange 2013 – part 2
Introduction In the first part of this article, we talked about Load Balancing in general and took a closer look at what the advantages and disadvantages of simple layer 4 load balancing for Exchange 2013 were. Today we’ll dive a bit deeper into the remaining two ways...
Exchange Server 2013 reaches General Availability!
Only a few moments ago, Microsoft’s Exchange Product team announced that Exchange Server 2013 reached General Availability. In short, this means that the product is now available for everyone to download and evaluate. Unfortunately, you still can only deploy Exchange...
Load Balancing Exchange 2013 – part 1
Introduction In one of my earlier posts, I already briefly explained what load balancing in Exchange 2013 looked like and how you could setup basic load balancing using a KEMP LoadMaster based on a blog post that Jaap Wesselius wrote. Today I will elaborate a bit more...
KEMP to announce “Edge Security Gateway” security features soon!
Following the recent talks about KEMP that is going to be delivering security-related features to it’s Load Masters, I got in touch with one of KEMP’s employees who confirmed firmly that KEMP indeed intends to deliver the complete set of new security feature that were...
KEMP to fill the gap that TMG leaves?
Yesterday, I came across an interesting article from Tony Redmond in which he talks about the future plans of KEMP. Apparently he was able to get hold of some internal communication in which KEMP declares that they’ll be adding some of the functionalities that TMG...