News Forrester Research SQL Server 2008 Ups Pressure On Competitors; Microsoft Boosts Manageability, BI, Performance, Productivity, and Security For the majority of mission-critical applications today, SQL Server 2008 already has the strongest combination of price/performance, manageability, security, and DBA productivity. The latest version of SQL Server from Microsoft SQL Server 2008 offers hundreds of new…
Year: 2009
November 2009 – Technical Rollup Mail – Unified Communications
News Exchange You Had Me At EHLO… http://msexchangeteam.com/default.aspx Microsoft UK UC Blog http://blogs.technet.com/msukucc Office Communication Server & LiveMeeting Office Communications Server Team Blog http://communicationsserverteam.com Outlook Microsoft Office Outlook Team Blog http://blogs.msdn.com/outlook/default.aspx Documents Exchange Infrastructure Planning and Design The Infrastructure Planning and Design (IPD) guides are the…
October 2009 – Technology Rollup Mail – Unified Communications
News Antigen & Forefront Exchange You Had Me At EHLO… http://msexchangeteam.com/default.aspx Microsoft UK UC Blog http://blogs.technet.com/msukucc Office Communication Server & LiveMeeting Office Communications Server Team Blog http://communicationsserverteam.com Outlook Microsoft Office Outlook Team Blog http://blogs.msdn.com/outlook/default.aspx Documents Antigen & Forefront Privacy statement for Forefront Codename "Stirling" This document describes the privacy policy for Microsoft® Forefront Client Security….
October 2009 – Technology Rollup Mail – SQL Server
News The Forrester Wave: Enterprise Database Management Systems, Q2 2009. This Forrester Wave assesses more than a dozen firms based primarily on their enterprise open source and closed source database management systems. Forrester named Microsoft a ‘leader’ in the DBMS Wave and states that Microsoft is “The most aggressive DBMS vendor with a strong road…
October 2009 – Technology Rollup Mail – Security
News Introducing the Microsoft Security Update Guide http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=12486253&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474 Better understand how to use Microsoft security release information, processes, tools, and communications to help manage organizational risk and develop a repeatable, effective deployment mechanism for security updates. In this guide, you will find a convenient glossary of terms, an overview of the Microsoft Security Bulletin process,…
October 2009 – Technology Rollup Mail – Platforms
News 9 to 13 November 2009, Berlin: Tech.Ed Europe The sooner you sign up, the more you save. http://www.microsoft.com/europe/teched/ Windows Server Update Services 3.0 Service Pack 2 Windows Server Update Services 3.0 Service Pack 2 delivers updates to corporate environments from Microsoft Update. Some of the features and improvements include integration with Windows Server 2008…
October 2009 – Technology Rollup Mail – Manageability
News Steve Rachui’s Manageability blog – ConfigMgr/OpsMgr http://blogs.msdn.com/steverac/ System Center WebLog by Russ Slaten http://blogs.msdn.com/rslaten/ Configuration Manager & SMS Announcing System Center Configuration Manager 2007 R3 Today, the System Center team is excited to share with you our plan to release System Center Configuration Manager 2007 R3. This new release of the ConfigMgr is packed…
October 2009 – Technology Rollup Mail – Internet
News Biztalk Server American Apparel – Retailer Boosts Sales 14%, Cuts Inventory Management Costs 35% with RFID Solution http://www.microsoft.com/casestudies/Case_Study_Detail.aspx?casestudyid=4000005318 RBT – Council Transforms Revenues and Benefits Service Delivery with Enterprise Service Bus http://www.microsoft.com/casestudies/Case_Study_Detail.aspx?casestudyid=4000005298 Skandia – Online Banking and Insurance Provider Dramatically Enhances Web Performance http://www.microsoft.com/casestudies/Case_Study_Detail.aspx?casestudyid=4000005294 Fred IT Group – Electronic Prescription Exchange Boosts Productivity and…
September 2009 – Technical Rollup Mail — Manageability
News Save the Date: MMS 2010, Las Vegas, Nevada, April 19-23, 2010 The 2010 Microsoft Management Summit will be held in Las Vegas, Nevada at the Venetian Hotel. The Save the Date site has been launched at http://www.mms-2010.com/ and registrations will open in the fall. We will provide more information and links to internal sites…
September 2009 – Technical Rollup Mail – SQL
News SQL 2008 Microsoft Releases SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 1 Microsoft has released SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 1 with enhancements meant to ease deployment but no brand new features. SQL Server to Get Real-Time Boost The next release of Microsoft’s SQL Server database, code-named "Kilimanjaro," will offer master data management (MDM) and support…