February 2009 – Technical Rollup Mail – Manageability

News SMS&MOM http://blogs.technet.com/smsandmom/default.aspx The Deployment Guys http://blogs.technet.com/deploymentguys Config Mgr: New Virtual Machine Released A new version of System Center Configuration Manager R2 is now available for download and evaluation through the Microsoft VHD program. This new virtual machine evaluation edition allows you to quickly evaluate the latest version of System Center Configuration Manager on a…

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February 2009 – Technical Rollup Mail – Unified Communications

News http://msexchangeteam.com/default.aspx http://blogs.msdn.com/outlook/default.aspx http://communicationsserverteam.com Downloads Antigen & Forefront Microsoft Forefront Security for SharePoint with Service Pack 2 Forefront Security for SharePoint with Service Pack 2 helps business protect their Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 collaboration environments by eliminating documents containing malicious code, confidential information, and inappropriate content. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=1&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3de06453b8-b2dd-4177-969c-2f89aa841e11%26displaylang%3den Privacy statement…

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February 2009 – Technical Rollup Mail – SQL Server

News Technical RollUp http://blogs.technet.com/trm/default.aspx SQL Release Services Cumulative Update #3 for SQL Server 2008 RTM Documents Best Practices for Semantic Data Modeling for Performance and Scalability http://download.microsoft.com/download/d/9/4/d948f981-926e-40fa-a026-5bfcf076d9b9/BPSemanticDBModeling.docx Analysis Services Distinct Count Optimization http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=65df6ebf-9d1c-405f-84b1-08f492af52dd&displaylang=en Scale-Out Querying with Analysis Services http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/sql/bestpractice/scoqryas.mspx Server Connectivity How-to Topics (Database Engine) This section of SQL Server 2008 Books Online contains step-by-step…

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February 2009 – Technical Rollup Mail – Internet

News Microsoft Internet information Server Improvements to FastCGI in IIS 7.5 Following improvements have been made to FastCGI module in Win7 (and Win2K8 R2). 1. Monitor changes to a file We have added ability to monitor changes to a file for each FastCGI process pool. Module will recycle FastCGI processes for the process pool… http://blogs.iis.net/ksingla/archive/2009/01/22/improvements-to-fastcgi-in-iis-7-5.aspx…

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February 2009 – Technical Rollup Mail – Platforms

  News Download the Windows Server 2008 R2 Beta http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/en/us/R2-Beta.aspx Download Windows 7 Beta http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-7/beta-download.aspx Download Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 Beta http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=e464e255-cdd5-44b2-84e6-3233eae3f356&displaylang=en Fix it for me blog Automate the steps in Microsofts KB articles and Windows Error Reporting solutions so you can click a button and have the issue resolved. http://blogs.technet.com/fixit4me/ Windows Virtualization Team…

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February 2009 – Technical Rollup Mail – Security

  News Monitoring Malware Through the Edge with Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=11014550&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474 By Yuri Diogenes, Security Support Engineer, Microsoft ISA and IAG Team Learn how to monitor your traffic with either real-time logging or on-demand reporting. Explore how to use new fields on the dashboard and real-time logging to instantly see if the…

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January 2009 – Technical Rollup Mail – Unified Communications

News     http://msexchangeteam.com/default.aspx       http://blogs.msdn.com/outlook/default.aspx       http://communicationsserverteam.com       Downloads   Antigen & Forefront UDP Update for Forefront TMG MBE This update causes TMG MBE to use random source ports for UDP sessions created by access rules which serve hosts in networks for which Forefront TMG MBE defines a…

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January 2009 – Technical Rollup Mail – SQL Server

News   Technical RollUp http://blogs.technet.com/trm/default.aspx       Documents   Accessing External Data Sources with Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services 2005 http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa964120(SQL.90).aspx   Accessing SQL Server Databases with PHP http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc793139(SQL.90).aspx   Geo-Replication Performance Gains with Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Running on Windows Server 2008 Microsoft.com Engineering Operations (MSCOM Ops), the team responsible for architecting and…

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January 2009 – Technical Rollup Mail – Security

News   Monitoring Malware Through the Edge with Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=11014550&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474 By Yuri Diogenes, Security Support Engineer, Microsoft ISA and IAG Team Learn how to monitor your traffic with either real-time logging or on-demand reporting. Explore how to use new fields on the dashboard and real-time logging to instantly see if the…

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January 2009 – Technical Rollup Mail – Platforms

News Windows Server 2008 R2 Reviewers Guide www.microsoft.com/presspass/events/winhec/docs/WindowsServer08R2BETARG.doc   Introduction to Windows Server 2008 R2 http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/en/us/r2.aspx   Welcome to Windows 7 http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-7/   Engineering Windows 7 http://blogs.msdn.com/e7     Windows Virtualization Team Blog http://blogs.technet.com/virtualization     The World Simplified is a Virtual World http://blogs.technet.com/virtualworld     Ask the Directory Services Team http://blogs.technet.com/askds     Ask…

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