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The second tip is distribution lists, which are also kind of an important thing to get set up. To do this you need to craft an CreateDistributionList XML request, this is just an XML file which looks like:

For a consistent environment you need naming standards, but the idea of a standard is a universal adherence and in IT there is no such thing. The first thing I started to look at is a naming standard for the servers themselves.

The last of the hurdles to overcome for the deployment was the running of the DNS server. This is because we run on a private IP range internally and use ISA to match external IP's and ports to the services we want to publish (i.e. NAT).

So before I get into core, let me first state that Win2k8 is the best server OS Microsoft has ever released.

As I approach the end of this series I want to highlight some of the technology that the hosting machine is built on and some of the experiences I learnt with that. These last few posts are much shorter than the earlier ones but hopefully provide some quick bite size info.

So if you have looked at standard HMC then add all the technology we have added to it, you would assume there is a building full of servers. The reality is the server room has got lots of space and isn’t that big. How did we achieve this?