Windows Mobile 6.5 launched today, now being referred to in short as “Windows phone” moving forward. Some of the key benefits I see from the consumer side are listed below. I posted a detailed text post on TechNet Edge which describes the business value of Windows Mobile phones for IT Pros. Microsoft My Phone -…
Forefront Stirling Policies : Feature of the Week
Even in Beta 1 of Forefront Stirling you can check out the security policy capabilities the product has. I know what you’re thinking – “whoopee, more policies”, but what you can do with the policies in Stirling are quite impressive. What can you do with Stirling policies? For each policy, you can easily specify granular…
Windows Server 2008 R2 features
Microsoft disclosed Windows Server 2008 R2 today at PDC for the 1st time today. Here is a short summary of some of the new cool features in 2008 R2: Virtualization R2 Hyper-V – client virtualization when used with Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI), improved management via PowerShell 2.0 cmdlets, enhanced admin console, and integration with SCVMM…
Mapple, myPhonies, myPod, myCube, and Steve Mobs
I’m not an Apple hater, but I couldn’t resist posting this up. Hopefully, you’ll get a laugh out of this Simpsons episode too. "Who dares question the boss we fired 10 years ago and then brought back?" The full episode can be found here on hulu. Watch it before it gets pulled down for whatever…
Windows Server 2008 – Self-healing NTFS
Self-healing NTFS is a feature which is currently present in Vista and is also included with Windows Server 2008. There’s a good chance you haven’t heard of it until now with WS2008, so I’m assuming this is because it isn’t really a “wow” end-user feature. However, it is actually a very useful feature as an…
IE 8 on Windows 7
Wonder why you can’t independently update Internet Explorer 8 on Windows 7? We discuss this and a number of other interesting topics with Jane Maliouta, program manager at Microsoft who is responsible for setup and deployment of IE8. View the detailed breakdown of the topics covered, download the video, or comment on the original post…
Mark Russinovich : the future of Windows, security, sysinternals
I had the chance to interview Mark about the future.. One thing he answers is – do you think we should or need to just scrap the windows code base and start over? A breakdown of everything which was covered can be found on Edge. Interview with Mark Russinovich: the future of Sysinternals, Security, Windows
SQL Server 2008 (Katmai) – New features for IT Pros
SQL Katmai was recently officially branded SQL Server 2008. The June community technology preview (CTP) is the 1st publicly available release which was announced at TechEd 2007. Microsoft has publicly committed to releasing the product in 2008, but nothing more specific than that. A guess would be RTM the in the first half of 2008….
Analysis of Windows Server 2008 – AD Snapshot Viewer
This feature is currently known as the “Database Mounting Tool” (DMT), which is better than the previous name of “Data Mining Tool”. Who knows what we’ll end up calling this at RTM, but I like the previous name “Snapshot Viewer” the best so this is what I entitled the post. DMT allows you to quickly…
Internet Application Gateway (IAG) – Overview
Microsoft’s Intelligent Application Gateway 2007 just released this February. It is a secure remote access gateway that provides SSL-based application access and protection. So what are some of the cool things that IAG allows you to do? NOTE: All of the items below you can do securely from an un-trusted network (such as the internet)…