You live and learn, my Dad always said it to me as a kid. As ever, it's true. I'd spent an annoying 2 hours last night going over and over settings of an OCS Edge server, I'd re-run the setup, and found nothing to modify/add/change, I'd checked certificates a couple of times. Reboots of clients... Continue Reading →
Virtualising storage in the Cloud
Reducing power, footprint and increasing disk usage beyond the industry standard of 42%.
LCS 2005 Standard to OCS2007R2 Standard: Part 5 Moving LCS to the Configuration container
When OCS2007R2 installs, the default container for global settings in the configuration container in AD, whereas your LCS installation was put into the System container of the root domain. Again the document highlights all the reasons for this, but essentially for co-existence and speed, you will need to move your LCS settings from their current... Continue Reading →
Why go Cloud
I attended the VMware virtualization forum 2010, which had a slight storage focus this year, so I hoped I would gain a little more knowledge. On the whole I enjoyed it, as with all these things, some talks were better than others. That’s natural, some people are better at public speaking than others. I attended... Continue Reading →
LCS 2005 Standard to OCS2007R2 Standard: Part 4 LCS Certificates
Ok, TLS is paramount in LCS to OCS communication. I'm not trying to teach you LCS, but if you were like me and once the thing talked 5060 on TCP, you dusted your hands and got on with something else, then you need to review your LCS certificate situation. Firstly then, check and if needs... Continue Reading →
Luke Darby 