Thought out loud

The year is coming to an end. The last working day of this year was last Friday. Now that I can leave work behind me for the rest of this year, Christmas-Presents is the main subject. I have one day to go until christmas eve. Fortunately I have a lovely girlfriend which helps me in finding appropriate presents for the family. Most of the Family is hers anyway . Luckily, she bought a car lately, this makes finding a present for her a lot easier.

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Today we look at the hardware that we will need for the new infrastructure. Let us look at the requirements:

• Mail communication with Web-Access
• Collaboration through Share Point
• Expandability for future Applications (Time-Reporting is a hot topic)
• SQL-Server supporting both Share Point and other web-applications
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We have gotten the task to set up a new communication and collaboration infrastructure for our department to work with both external partners, contractors and customers.

The old environment consists of an Exchange 2003 Server with OWA enabled, a Windows Sharepoint Services server 2.0 and a SQL 2005 server as back-end. All three Servers run on separate virtual systems hosted on two ESX 2.5 servers (1 for SQL and 1 for Exchange and Share Point).

Access control is realised through Active Directory where the Server hosting Exchange is also Domain controller.

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Currently I am working on a new Infrastructure farm for our Department. For the past two years we have used some spare space on a ESX-Farm of an other department. Mid of November we were informed that they need the space for themselves and will kick us out by the end of the year. My boss and I got the task to build up a new infrastructure consisting of one Exchange Server, one Share Point Server, one SQL server and one Web-Server for custom applications.

Oh yes, the timeline is 6 weeks from Hardware-Ordering to Production Release of at least the Exchange server.

I will try to write a series of Articles on our experiences while setting up this new environment. On one hand this should act as a help for all other guys and girls out there doing the same thing. On the other hand, this is a test-drive for my brand new Series-Plugin by Darren Ethier.

Stay tuned

Yep, thats right. Belakar reached Level 70 last Week. Unfortunately there was no one to document it, unlike when he reached Level 60.

Well, now he will be to explore the instances he missed during leveling up and to improve his gear. Maybe he will also go to Karazhan or the Temple as he is not that fond of Arena, battleground and other PvP-Stuff.