Many Exchange team folks were at Microsoft TechEd North America 2011 in Atlanta last week. Thanks to all of you who attended the breakout sessions, chalk talks, Birds of a Feather (BOF) discussions and Hands-On Labs. All of you who stopped by the Exchange booths to ask us questions about Exchange 2010, Exchange Online, ForeFront Protection for Exchange 2010 and ForeFront Online Protection for Exchange (FOPE), or grabbed our “swag-you-can-wear” or a voucher for the Exchange Escape lounge, thanks for dropping by!
Yes, the Super Sparkle Happy OWA theme t-shirts were quite the rage, and so were the the Geek Out With Perry t-shirts, the LG-Nortel Lync phones we handed out during the sessions and the HD webcams.
While at TechEd, we announced enhanced hardware virtualization support for Exchange 2010, including support for virtualizing the Unified Messaging server role and the use of high availability features on supported hardware virtualization platforms along with Exchange 2010’s high availability feature – Database Availability Groups (DAGs). To help you plan and deploy Exchange 2010 in a virtualized environment, we also released the Best Practices for Virtualizing Exchange Server 2010 with Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V whitepaper. And last, but certainly not the least, we announced Exchange 2010 Service Pack 2, to be released in the second half of this year.
