Exchange 2013 – Install and Configure

Today we install Microsoft Exchange 2013. We start direct with CU5, which includes the full installer with SP1 and the CU5 (http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2014/05/27/released-exchange-server-2013-cumulative-update-5.aspx) We install everything on my new 2012 R2 Hyper-V Whitebox. The base os of my Exchange server are as well 2012 R2 Standard. Before we install we have to fullfil all prerequirements. You … Continue reading Exchange 2013 – Install and Configure

Cheap Home ESXi, XenServer or Hyper-V Server – Part 2

Short update about my white-box. My hardware arrived a while ago, I put all together and hurray it worked, no issues, just some little cut at my hand. I had to install also three 750GB HDD's. Next step install the hypervisor from USB Stick. The first plan was to install XenServer 5.6 SP1 because better … Continue reading Cheap Home ESXi, XenServer or Hyper-V Server – Part 2

Cheap Home ESXi, XenServer or Hyper-V Server – Part 1

Today I played with my ESXi and recognized again that my server is definitely to slow to old and stops me from doing what I like to do. It is an old Dell PowerEdge SC1430 with just 2GB Ram. I started to google around what solutions other people already created and I found a nice … Continue reading Cheap Home ESXi, XenServer or Hyper-V Server – Part 1