For many years I’ve had to scour the interwebs to find out if hardware virtualization is supported by Mircosoft for a particular product. I’m not sure how long it has been around but I’ve finally found the Windows Server Catalog site which will simply tell you if it is supported or not: http://www.windowsservercatalog.com/svvp.aspx?svvppage=svvpwizard.htm For example [...]

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After a reasonably painless recent rollout of SEP v11 to our fleet, we’ve come across some issues running it on a Windows 2003 Active-Passive Exchange 2003 cluster. Symptoms: nodes unresponsive, sometimes together, sometimes minutes after the other one – not even blue screened but completely unresponsive, nothing on the console. Anyway the short of it [...]

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