News Get Windows Identity Foundation http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=13083153&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474 Windows Identity Foundation helps simplify user access for developers by externalizing user access from applications via claims and reducing development effort with prebuilt security logic and integrated .NET tools. Users can benefit through single sign-on and seamless collaboration across organizational boundaries. Active Directory Federation Services 2.0…
Year: 2010
January 2010 – Technical Rollup Mail – Manageability
News Microsoft Acquires Opalis Software Microsoft Acquires Opalis Software, a Toronto-based private company that is a leader in IT process automation software. Opalis will become a wholly-owned subsidiary of Microsoft. Their products include: · Prepackaged workflows and automation expertise for the common tasks in managing a datacenter. Examples include Run Book Automation, virtual machine lifecycle…
January 2010 – Technical Rollup Mail – Platforms
News Windows Server 2008 R2 e-Book Available as Free Download Introducing Windows Server 2008 R2 is a deep-dive work, that’ll get you up to speed on how R2’s new features and capabilities work, including Hyper-V and RDS virtualization, management, IIS and the new web application platform and, of course, all the synergistic goodness between Windows…
January 2010 – Technical Rollup Mail – SQL
News 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 DBMS features…
January 2010 – 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 Office Communicator Team Blog: http://communicatorteam.com NextHop: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/office/ocs/ee465814.aspx OCS Masters blog: http://blogs.technet.com/themasterblog/ 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…
January 2010 – Technical Rollup Mail – Internet
News Biztalk Server Unia – Labor Union Tightens Accounting, Improves Member Outreach with Integrated Solution http://www.microsoft.com/casestudies/Case_Study_Detail.aspx?casestudyid=4000006252 GameStop – Video Game Retailer Improves Online Experience, Store Traffic with E-Commerce Upgrade http://www.microsoft.com/casestudies/Case_Study_Detail.aspx?casestudyid=4000006245 Florida State College at Jacksonville – College Eases Process Development, Creates a “Culture Shift” in Process Improvement http://www.microsoft.com/casestudies/Case_Study_Detail.aspx?casestudyid=4000006217 BizTalk Server 2009 R2 Technology Adoption Program…
January 2010 – Technical Rollup Mail – Security
News Privacy in the Cloud Computing Era: A Microsoft Perspective http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=12977514&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474 Based on the past decade of experience examining and addressing privacy challenges in the evolving online services realm, this new "Privacy in the Cloud Computing Era" paper discusses how Microsoft is approaching privacy as it relates to cloud computing and describes how the underlying…