TechNet Webcast: How Microsoft IT Designs Its 64-bit Exchange Server 2007 Infrastructure (Level 300)  

Broadcast Date:  11/07/06

How does a large enterprise plan and implement the migration of its existing 32-bit messaging system to the 64-bit platform? In this webcast, find out how Microsoft IT was able to take advantage of 64-bit architecture to fully deploy Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 in its production environment. Hear engineers from the Microsoft IT messaging team describe how they were able to overcome some of the toughest performance bottlenecks in the Microsoft messaging systems. Learn how the 64-bit platform was used in hardware planning for various Exchange Server 2007 roles in Microsoft IT. We also discuss 64-bit platform-specific considerations relating to mailbox server and storage design, Client Access Server and mobility scenarios, transport, and Internet mail.

Presenters: Konstantin Ryvkin, Group Manager, Microsoft IT, Microsoft Corporation, and Kyryl Perederiy, Sr. Systems Engineer, Microsoft IT, Microsoft Corporation

Konstantin Ryvkin is a group manager in the Microsoft IT Messaging and Collaboration Engineering group. When Konstantin joined the team in 2000, he specialized in the security aspects of messaging in the overall Microsoft IT organization. His team now architects and designs solutions for the company’s internal messaging and collaboration production environment. Konstantin has coauthored several books on networking and security technologies, and he holds a master degree in computer science along with several industry certifications.

Kyryl Perederiy is a senior systems engineer in the Microsoft IT Messaging Engineering group, where he specializes in hardware and storage design for production messaging systems at Microsoft. Kyryl currently architects and designs solutions for the Microsoft IT messaging production environment based on technologies in Microsoft Exchange Server 2007. Prior to joining Microsoft more than a year ago, Kyryl was a systems engineer for Genesys Telecom Labs (an Alcatel company).