Day: December 15, 2009

Forefront Protection 2010 for #Exchange Deployment and Performance

by ucinfo, posted in BlogCast, Exchange, Flaphead, MsExchange

This is a good use of 20 mins .. I quite like the format too.  Not 100% sure that this is exchange version specific.  Dunno if you need to have FPE installed on an Exchange 2010 server.

http://edge.technet.com/Media/Forefront-Protection-2010-for-Exchange-Deployment-and-Performance/

Alexander Nikolayev joins us again to dive deep into the deployment and some performance for Forefront Protection 2010 for Exchange

http://files.flaphead.com/v/FPEDeploymentPerformance_edge.zip

http://files.flaphead.com/v/FPEDeploymentPerformance_edge.mp4

Disk2vhd v1.4

by ucinfo, posted in Flaphead, Virtualisation

How funky is this

Source: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-nz/sysinternals/ee656415%28en-us%29.aspx

Disk2vhd is a utility that creates VHD (Virtual Hard Disk – Microsoft’s Virtual Machine disk format) versions of physical disks for use in Microsoft Virtual PC or Microsoft Hyper-V virtual machines (VMs). The difference between Disk2vhd and other physical-to-virtual tools is that you can run Disk2vhd on a system that’s online. Disk2vhd uses Windows’ Volume Snapshot capability, introduced in Windows XP, to create consistent point-in-time snapshots of the volumes you want to include in a conversion. You can even have Disk2vhd create the VHDs on local volumes, even ones being converted (though performance is better when the VHD is on a disk different than ones being converted).