For as long as I can remember I have been going to TechEd every year, some years to both Tech US and TechEd Europe. The sad par of all these visits have been a trend where the sessions about Exchange has decreased by the years. To my great joy I see that this trend has been broken! A look at TechEd Europe Content Catalog reveals not fewer than seventeen session about Exchange! Okay some of them may be more focused on Office 365 that my primary interest Exchange 2013 on premises but still a great lineup!

Among the speakers we find really great Exchange presenters like Scott Schnoll, Nathan Winters, Jeff Mealiffe, Ben Appleby and my fellow MVP’s Paul Robichaux ,Jaap Wesselius and Sigi Jagott.

I’m “super exited” about many of the sessions but the one I wouldn’t miss for the world is of course Jeff’s session about Exchange 2013 Sizing.

Below is a list of all the breakout sessions I found doing a simple search for Exchange.

Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 Managed Availability

Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 Client Access Server Role

Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 High Availability and Site Resilience

Developing Mobile Apps with Microsoft Exchange Web Services

Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 Sizing

Microsoft Exchange Archiving Policy: Move, Delete, or Hold

Virtualization in Microsoft Exchange Server 2013

Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 On-Premises Upgrade and Coexistence

Team Collaboration with Site Mailboxes

Microsoft Exchange Hybrid Deployment and Migration On Your Terms

Get Moving with Your Mailbox!

Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 Tips & Tricks

Data Loss Prevention in Microsoft Exchange and Microsoft Outlook 2013

Modern Public Folders Overview, Migration and Office 365

Internals of Deploying the In-Place Archive: Online, On-Premises, or a Hybrid

Microsoft Exchange in the Cloud: Scared of Losing Your Job?

Exchange Online Protection

I hope I see you in Madrid!

Inspired by a disk failure in my current lab server and my fellow MVP Jeff I decided to put together a new lab server.

My current server is a i7, 24 GB RAM machine with one WD VELOCIRAPTOR as OS disk and 4 * 1 TB WD (I don’t remember the model) in RAID 10. It has served me well for a couple of years but as one of the disks failed I realized that more will fail soon and I want more RAM for my VMs so I went shopping!

The parts I decided on are shown below, I won’t shop from Amazon but rather a local Swedish dealer but for you, non Swedish readers, I thought you might have a hard time translating so the links are all to Amazon.

Parts used:

In my office I have a modular Cooler Master 500 W power supply that has been around as a spare and I will try to use that for power, not sure it will be enough but I think it will.

I hope for great speed when all parts arrive and I will make sure I get back with result and maybe some pictures as well.

Please feel free to comment on what mistakes I did in this setup or what you would have gone for!

(In Swedish)

Exchange 2013 har i och med att Microsoft släppt CU1 blivit en komplett plattform och det självklara valet när tidigare versioner av Exchange skall uppgraderas. Skillnaderna ser möjligen inte revolutionerande ut men ”under huven” finns massor av nyheter. Dessa och mycket mer vill man självklart veta och bästa sättet att på kort tid sätta sig in i produkten är att gå en kurs.

Tillsammans med Expero erbjuder mailmaster samtliga kurser från Microsoft samt några egenutvecklade utbildningar som erbjuder dig som redan är specialist att bli ännu bättre.

Vårt koncept kring utbildningar är enkelt, vi har tagit det bästa från de utbildningar vi själv gått och paketerat detta! Det betyder att vi alltid kör kurserna i centralt belägna, nya fräscha lokaler, med de bästa instruktörerna och på nya snabba datorer. Precis som vi själv vill ha det när vi går kurs…

Så ska du gå utbildningar på Exchange, kolla med Expero först!

Earlier this year I attended the first ever Nordic Infrastructure Conference in Oslo. As a “conference addict”, I have been to more TechEd’s and other events than I can count, I was really surprised how professional this conference was! It’s hosted in a great arena, Spektrum, had excellent speakers and a great party.

So I’m proud to say that I will be speaking about Exchange 2013 in the upcoming NIC2013! My sessions will cover the news in Exchange 2013 and a deep dive into the architecture of the latest and greatest Exchange version yet!

Make sure you follow @nicconf on Twitter and read more about it over at www.nicconf.com!

See you in Oslo!

Attend my session on Exchange Native Protection at TechDays tomorrow, Wednesday and I will show you how!

And yes, there is a really special (Exchange) giveaway to one of you heroes!

Right now I’m between some of my “dry runs” of my presentation for TechDays.  I’m really looking forward to this event, it’s a great chance to network with skilled people and learn more about other products.

I would like to recommend you to attend sessions of my fellow Microsoft Extended Expert Team, MEET, speakers, not only do the have great knowledge within their products but they are also great speakers.

• Alan Smith (Azure)
• Andreas Stenhall (Windows)
• Anders Olsson (Säkerhet)
• Björn Axell (System Center)
• Cecilia Wiren (.NET)
• Chris Klug (.NET)
• Daniel Bugday (Sharepoint)
• Hasain Alshakarti (Säkerhet)
• Henrik Nilsson (FIM)
• Joachim Nässlander (Kluster)
• Johan Arwidmark (System Center)
• Johan Åhlén (SQL Server)
• Jörgen Nilsson (System Center)
• Magnus Mårtensson (Azure)
• Martin Lidholm (Lync)
• Ola Skoog (Microsoft IT Pro Evangelist)
• Patrik Löwendahl (.NET)
• Mathias Olausson (ALM)

See you at TechDays!

I don’t know about you but I love to learn! I recently found Microsoft Virtual Academy and I’m almost addicted… I just achieved my Gold medal and I will most likely keep on..

The fun part of it is that I find a lot of new stuff that I don’t focus on in my every day job, things like Hyper-V, System Center, Windows 8 and so on.

I recommend you to have a look!