Upgrade of Exchange 2010 to SP2 RU1

Rather than an article, this text is a piece of advice. If you’re going to upgrade an Exchange 2010 to SP2 RU1, first of all, read the release notes. As additional recommendation, and perhaps most importantly, pay close attention to the part where it talk about execution policies, lest you end up having to use the recovery mode.

In this link there are the release notes for this update http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh529928.aspx

The new interface of Google+

I’m not the kind of who speaks well of Google’s products, in fact, I think the only one I’ve always liked is Google+. And speaking of Google+, today I’ve been quite impressed when I came in its page and I have seen the newly interface that Mountain View’s boys have created. This time they have excelled a very simple interface, intuitive and visually attractive.

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And time is running out … for Windows XP and Office 2003, it’s about time!

If in 2005 I had been told that Windows XP would be the most widely used operating system in 2012, I had said they’re crazy, but to date I also had had to swallow my own words.

Getting to the point, Microsoft has published a website reminding us that support for Windows XP and Office 2003 has an expiration date announced, on April 8, 2012 and we have to update our systems, preferably to Windows 7, well, within a few months they will say that Windows 8, or at least I hope so.

To conclude, I leave you the link to the page they have posted to you to take a look at.

Linguistic sexism and visibility of women

I do not normally publish this kind of post in my blog, but this time I could not resist to a so exquisite text. This new trend of creating a new non-sexist grammar for our language is a controversial subject and many times, politicians should not intervene and force society to accept certain situations that go against nature.

I leave here the link to the report generated by Ignacio Bosque about it.

Webcast Windows Azure for IT professionals

Today I bring you just a note of a serie of two webcasts that will give two of this country’s leading experts in this area, who are Paulo Dias (Evangelist from Microsoft) and Ibon Landa (MVP Windows Azure). It will be the 9th and 16th February of 2012. Here are the links to sign up.

http://blogs.itpro.es/eventos/2012/01/18/windows-azure-para-itprosparte-1/
http://blogs.itpro.es/eventos/2012/02/02/windows-azure-para-itprosparte-2/

Virtualization alternatives comparative report

A co-worker has done an excellent document comparing various open source virtualization alternatives to demonstrate that there is more life after Microsoft, VMWare and Citrix.

I will not expound much because what really matters is you read the document by yourself, so I’ll just leave you a reference to the comparative work made ​​my partner and I will let you judge by yourself. As for me I am trying Xen Cloud Platform and I hope I could write my opinion about this product shortly.

Exchange 2007 SP3 Update Rollup 6

So far this year 2012 is coming loaded with updates for almost all Microsoft products. In this case it’s up to Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, is now available the Update Rollup 6 Service Pack 3. If you want to see the full list, and there aren’t few, it is available in the KB2608656.

Remember that to install this update rollup you must have previously installed Service Pack 3 of Exchange 2007 because otherwise you cannot update it.

Formación en línea nubes privadas con System Center 2012

Hoy os traigo una buena noticia, Scott Schnoll va a realizar un evento de formación en línea sobre nubes privadas con System Center 2012 con una duración de dos días totalmente gratis los días 21 y 22 de febrero de 2012. Este tipo de oportunidades hay que aprovecharlas, así que no tardéis en apuntaros y para facilitaros la tarea aquí tenéis siguiente enlace directo para inscribiros http://mctreadiness.com/MicrosoftCareerConferenceRegistration.aspx?pid=298

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