General Availability: Azure Service Bus & Event hubs availability zones

Availability Zones is a high availability offering that protects applications and data from datacenter failures.

Availability Zones support for Azure Service Bus Premium and Azure Event Hubs Standard has been added for these regions:

• East US 2 
• West US 2 
• West Europe 
• North Europe 
• France Central 
• Southeast Asia

Availability Zones support is now generally available for Azure Service Bus premium and Azure Event Hubs standard in every Azure region that has zone redundant datacentres. Note that this feature won’t work with existing namespaces—you will need to provision new namespaces to use this feature.

So you might wonder how you can enable Availability Zones on your Azure Service Bus Premium namespace or Azure Event Hubs Standard? Please refer the detailed blog which has the steps to move forward.

Hope this helps. 

Free Jump Start course – Core Solutions on Microsoft Exchange Server 2013

Are you planning an upgrade to Microsoft Exchange Server 2013, or do you want to know more about what it would involve? Would you like help preparing for Exam 70-341 or Exam 70-342? Take this fast-paced, demo-rich Jump Start course, and learn about planning, deploying, and managing Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 Exchange on-premises.

You’ll find out how to manage the messaging infrastructure and provide high availability and security through demos geared to your business needs. This Jump Start is appropriate for anyone upgrading from earlier versions of Exchange, and gives as well as IT Pros who have prior networking experience the Microsoft Exchange training they need. You can visit Microsoft Virtual Academy’s Core Solutions of Exchange Server 2013 Jump Start.

This Jump Start is appropriate for anyone upgrading from earlier versions of Exchange as well as IT Pros new to Exchange but with prior networking experience. If you are pursuing the MCSE: Messaging certification, it will help you prepare for Exam 70-341.

https://channel9.msdn.com/Series/Core-Solutions-Exchange-2013/01/player

Full course outline:

• Mod 01: Deploying and Managing Microsoft Exchange Server 2013
• Mod 02: Configuring Mailbox Servers and Recipients
• Mod 03: Deploying and Managing Client Access Servers and Clients
• Mod 04: Configuring the Message Transport
• Mod 05: Implementing High Availability and Disaster Recovery
• Mod 06: Configuring Administrative Security and Auditing
• Mod 07: Migrating to Microsoft Exchange Server 2013

So, make use of it

Exchange Server 2010 Architecture and its feature set

You can download the following PDF file – a poster, which highlights the architecture and feature set of Microsoft Exchange Server 2010. Apart from showing the high-level architecture, it highlights the feature set of Exchange Server 2010 and sections include:

• Management and Monitoring
• High Availability
• Mailbox Server Role
• Client Access Server Role
• Unified Messaging Server Role
• Hub Transport Server Role
• Edge Transport Server Role

What is Microsoft BPOS?

Microsoft Business Productivity Online Standard Suite is a set of messaging and collaboration solutions hosted by Microsoft, and consists of Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, Office Live Meeting, and Office Communications Online.

+ These online services are designed to give your business streamlined communication with high availability, comprehensive security, and simplified IT management.
+ Take a case, for a customer who need more than one standalone service, the Business Productivity Online Standard Suite provides the best value to customers by bundling multiple services at a discounted price.
+ Microsoft Online Services are accessible through a variety of mobile devices including Windows Mobile 6.0+, Exchange ActiveSync devices, and BlackBerry devices.

For more information, you can get more information from the following articles:
http://www.microsoft.com/online/business-productivity.mspx
http://smallbusiness.officelive.com/en-us/email