Integrating Lync Server 2010 with OWA

In this document, we'll look at how to integrate instant messaging between Microsoft Lync Server 2010 and Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 SP1 allowing our users to connect from the outside without the Lync client, something that is missing when it previously existed in Office Communications Server, so that our users, once logged into OWA, will be able to use instant messaging from a browser anywhere securely and with any device,

Installing and Configuring Microsoft Lync Server 2010

It is the new product name Microsoft Office Communications Server, Lync Server will allow our users to be connected to each other at all times, being able to collaborate or participate with each other in a faster/easier way wherever they are; provides our users with the use of: voice, Instant messaging and audio conferencing, Video and web made easy. It also integrates seamlessly with Office applications & SharePoint,

Installing and Configuring vSphere Auto Deploy

vSphere Auto Deploy will allow us to massively deploy ESXi hosts 5 via PXE on our network, for this we will need to previously have a custom ESXi image to send to our hosts, que la podremos generar con Image Builder. Auto Deploy se instalará en una máquina Windows si es que no tenemos VMware vCenter Server Appliance (that is already installed); and finally we will need Host Profiles; since through them we will apply the configurations on the hosts that boot through PXE (or alternatively we can use response files), these servers would not need a hard drive as they load it into RAM. This is totally ultimate in large environments to quickly and massively deploy ESXi hosts, being able to have centralized and non-distributed configuration (manual) on each host, having our ESXi image fully customized at the driver level, update…

National Security Scheme: Microsoft How-To Guide

I present this great article by Marcos Fernandez: A must-read guide has recently been published for all those professionals involved in some way with Security Management in corporate environments, especially with regard to Public Administration. This is the National Security Scheme with Microsoft, A very useful and practical guide, with a concrete and concise approach to help understand the National Security Scheme, and to be able to implement its guidelines successfully within the company.

VMware vCenter Server Appliance

One of the new features of vSphere 5 es la disponibilidad de un nuevo virtual appliance con VMware vCenter Server 5 in it, es una máquina linux por lo que ya quitamos la necesidad de tener un Windows consumiendo licencias para gestionar un entorno virtual de VMware de forma centralizada. Este nuevo appliance virtual llamado VMware vCenter Server Appliance (vCSA) nos ahorrará dinero en gastos de implementación, mantenimiento y sobre todo licencias Windows, en este documento veremos cómo podemos desplegarlo en apenas unos minutos (la instalación y configuración),

Multipath Configuration for RHEL Servers

Today I share with you a procedure that my colleague 'Marcos Ortiz' has sent me, where we will see the configuration to be applied to RedHat machines in order to correctly configure the native multipath software when you have a Boot From SAN environment (BFS).

Upgrading VMs to vSphere 5 with Update Manager – Upgrade VMware Tools and Virtual Hardware Upgrade

Para continuar nuestra migración a vSphere 5, una vez que ya tengamos el servidor VMware vCenter en la versión 5, hayamos actualizado a VMware Update Manager 5 y todos nuestros host ESXi esten ya con el hipervisor ESXi 5, we will be able to upgrade the VMware Tools to the virtual machines as well as then upgrade the virtual hardware version of the version 4 or 7 to the version 8. Lo podremos hacer de manera manual MV por MV o automatizarlo con Update Manager y actualizarlo en nuestro entorno de forma ordenada.

Actualización de un host ESXi 4.x a ESXi 5 with Update Manager

This will be the process of upgrading our hosts to the new VMware vSphere environment 5, we will be able to migrate ESX hosts 3.5, ESX 4.0 and ESX 4.1 to ESXi 5.0 and upgrade from ESXi 3.5, ESXi 4.0 and ESXi 4.1 to ESXi 5 automatically, ordered and managed; distributing the ESXi base image 5 on any of them keeping their settings. To do this, we will have to rely on VMware Update Manager, This document shows the steps we will need to update our hosts to the latest version.