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UPDATE : PASSED !!

Pour ceux qui comme moi aiment passer les certifications encore en béta, vous avez l’opportunité dès à présent de vous inscrire pour une certif sur Exchange Server 2010 !

J’ai déjà booké une date en septembre alors faites de n’hésitez pas et entrainez vous !

Exchange Server 2010 RC est disponible sur  MS Download Center à cette adresse http://technet.microsoft.com/fr-fr/evalcenter/dd185495.aspx

Vous trouverez de bonnes ressources à ces adresses http://technet.microsoft.com/fr-fr/evalcenter/dd185494.aspx et http://www.msteched.com/online/channels.aspx?cname=track&channel=Unified+Communications

Suivez juste le mail suivant pour plus d’informations et pour s’inscrire

You are invited to take beta exam 71-662: TS: Microsoft Exchange Server 2010, Configuring. You were specifically chosen to participate in this beta because of the SME profile you created on the Microsoft Learning Content Development site. If you pass the beta exam, the exam credit will be added to your transcript and you will not need to take the exam in its released form. The 71-xxx identifier is used for registering for beta versions of MCP exams, when the exam is released in its final form the 70-xxx identifier is used for registration.

By participating in beta exams, you have the opportunity to provide the Microsoft Certification program with feedback about exam content, which is integral to development of exams in their released version. We depend on the contributions of experienced IT professionals and developers as we continually improve exam content and maintain the value of Microsoft certifications.

71-662: TS: Microsoft Exchange Server 2010, Configuring counts as credit towards the following certification(s).
• MCTS: Microsoft Exchange Server 2010, Configuration
________________________________________
Availability
Registration begins: August 20, 2009
Beta exam period runs: August 31, 2009– September 14, 2009

Receiving this invitation does not guarantee you a seat in the beta; we recommend that you register immediately. Beta exams have limited availability and are operated under a first-come-first-served basis. Once all beta slots are filled, no additional seats will be offered. Because of the limited nature of beta exam seats, please do not blog or otherwise post this beta code until 8/24/09 to increase the likelihood that a seat will be available.

Testing is held at Prometric testing centers worldwide, although this exam may not be available in all countries (see Regional Restrictions). All testing centers will have the capability to offer this exam in its live version.

Regional Restrictions: India, Pakistan, China
________________________________________
Registration Information
You must register at least 24 hours prior to taking the exam.
Please use the following promotional code when registering for the exam: E14J
Receiving this invitation does not guarantee you a seat in the beta; we recommend that you register immediately.

To register in North America, please call:
• Prometric: (800) 755-EXAM (800-755-3926)
Outside the U.S./Canada, please contact:
• Prometric: http://www.register.prometric.com/ClientInformation.asp

___________________________________
Test Information and Support
You are invited to take this beta exam at no charge.
You will be given four hours to complete the beta exam. Please plan accordingly.
Find exam preparation information: http://www.microsoft.com/learning/en/us/exam.aspx?ID=70-662

UPDATE : PASSED !!!

For those who like me like to take beta Microsoft exams, you have now a new opportunity with Exchange Server 2010!

I’ll take it next month, just to be sure I’m well trained.

Exchange 2010 RC is widely available on MS Download Center http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/dd185495.aspx

You have great resources there: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/dd185494.aspx and http://www.msteched.com/online/channels.aspx?cname=track&channel=Unified+Communications

Just have a look for the following mail and register (if some seats remain).

You are invited to take beta exam 71-662: TS: Microsoft Exchange Server 2010, Configuring. You were specifically chosen to participate in this beta because of the SME profile you created on the Microsoft Learning Content Development site. If you pass the beta exam, the exam credit will be added to your transcript and you will not need to take the exam in its released form. The 71-xxx identifier is used for registering for beta versions of MCP exams, when the exam is released in its final form the 70-xxx identifier is used for registration.

By participating in beta exams, you have the opportunity to provide the Microsoft Certification program with feedback about exam content, which is integral to development of exams in their released version. We depend on the contributions of experienced IT professionals and developers as we continually improve exam content and maintain the value of Microsoft certifications.

71-662: TS: Microsoft Exchange Server 2010, Configuring counts as credit towards the following certification(s).
• MCTS: Microsoft Exchange Server 2010, Configuration
________________________________________
Availability
Registration begins: August 20, 2009
Beta exam period runs: August 31, 2009– September 14, 2009

Receiving this invitation does not guarantee you a seat in the beta; we recommend that you register immediately. Beta exams have limited availability and are operated under a first-come-first-served basis. Once all beta slots are filled, no additional seats will be offered. Because of the limited nature of beta exam seats, please do not blog or otherwise post this beta code until 8/24/09 to increase the likelihood that a seat will be available.

Testing is held at Prometric testing centers worldwide, although this exam may not be available in all countries (see Regional Restrictions). All testing centers will have the capability to offer this exam in its live version.

Regional Restrictions: India, Pakistan, China
________________________________________
Registration Information
You must register at least 24 hours prior to taking the exam.
Please use the following promotional code when registering for the exam: E14J
Receiving this invitation does not guarantee you a seat in the beta; we recommend that you register immediately.

To register in North America, please call:
• Prometric: (800) 755-EXAM (800-755-3926)
Outside the U.S./Canada, please contact:
• Prometric: http://www.register.prometric.com/ClientInformation.asp

___________________________________
Test Information and Support
You are invited to take this beta exam at no charge.
You will be given four hours to complete the beta exam. Please plan accordingly.
Find exam preparation information: http://www.microsoft.com/learning/en/us/exam.aspx?ID=70-662

PowerShell utilise la puissance du Framework .Net et permet donc d’utiliser les classes de celui-ci avec une très grande facilité dans vos scripts.

Dans cet exemple, je vais vous montrer comment faire une résolution DNS à partir de la classe Net.Dns du Framework.

[System.Net.Dns]::GetHostentry("blog.paux.fr")

Le résultat sera (en fonction si votre entrée est un simple alias ou un vrai nom d’hôte) :

HostName                  Aliases            AddressList
--------                  -------            -----------
dedibox2.jeanb-net.com    {}                 {88.191.92.204}

On peut biensûr décorer un peu tout ça en pipant une liste de nom d’hôtes depuis un fichier, rediriger ça dans une grille via out-gridview (nouveauté PS2.0 !). (A noter que si vous voulez non pas avoir le nom d’hôte mais vraiment votre input, vous pouvez le rajouter via la commande Add-Member, testez avec et sans vous verrez).

gc .\hosts.txt |% { [System.Net.Dns]::GetHostentry($_) | Add-Member -Name Host -MemberType NoteProperty -Value $_ -PassThru } | Select Host,AddressList | out-gridview

On peut biensûr faire des résolutions inverses (IPv4 ou IPv6).

[System.Net.Dns]::GetHostentry("2001:4860:a005::68";)

La classe Dns du Framework reste sommaire, il n’est pas possible de résoudre autre chose que ça (impossible de récupérer les NS, MX, SOA, TXT etc.) mais on peut pour cela utiliser d’autres classes qui implémentent un autre resolver (ou utilisant de manière plus approfondie celui de Windows)

PowerShell uses the power of .Net Framework thus you can leverage .Net classes in your PowerShell scripts.

In this example I’ll show you how you can perform DNS lookups using the Net.Dns class :

[System.Net.Dns]::GetHostentry(“blog.paux.fr”)

The result will be (depending if your input is a A or CNAME) :

HostName                  Aliases            AddressList
--------                  -------            -----------
dedibox2.jeanb-net.com    {}                 {88.191.92.204}

You can obviously pipe a list of hostname to this command and if you need to keep the original name you can add it to the resulted object and display it in a grid (new to PS2.0 !):

gc .\hosts.txt |% { [System.Net.Dns]::GetHostentry($_) | Add-Member -Name Host -MemberType NoteProperty -Value $_ -PassThru } | Select Host,AddressList | out-gridview

You can of course do the same with an IP address (or an IPv6 address):

[System.Net.Dns]::GetHostentry("2001:4860:a005::68")

The class in .Net Framework stay basic so you can’t resolve NS, SOA, MX or TXT records for example but you can try to use other classes as this implementation of a resolver in C# or using this one (that use the internal DNS resolver of Windows)