March 2009 – Technical Rollup Mail – Security

News Security An Introduction to Hyper-V in Windows Server 2008 http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=11343487&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474 By Rajiv Arunkundram, Senior Product Manager, Windows Server The introduction of Hyper-V makes virtualization an even more compelling solution for IT environments. Get an overview of today’s virtualization market and see how Hyper-V improves the manageability, reliability, and security of virtualization. CIO Article: Can…

0

March 2009 – Technical Rollup Mail – Manageability

News Dell Announces Release of Dell Deployment Pack (DDP) for Configuration Manager http://blogs.technet.com/configurationmgr/archive/2009/02/26/the-dell-deployment-pack-for-configmgr-2007-is-now-available.aspx The Dell Deployment Pack (DDP) is an easy-to-use graphical user interface (GUI)-based tool that integrates directly into the Microsoft® System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) 2007 (ConfigMgr) console. It eliminates the need for command-line tools and scripts normally used in the Dell™ OpenManage™…

0

March 2009 – Technical Rollup Mail – Unified Communications

News You Had Me At EHLO… http://msexchangeteam.com/default.aspx Microsoft Office Outlook Team Blog http://blogs.msdn.com/outlook/default.aspx Office Communications Server Team Blog http://communicationsserverteam.com Documents/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…

1

March 2009 – Technical Rollup Mail – SQL Server

News Technical RollUp http://blogs.technet.com/trm/default.aspx   Documents Database Encryption in SQL Server 2008 Enterprise Edition http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc278098.aspx Protecting SQL Server with System Center Data Protection Manager 2007 http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=123896 Predictive Analysis with SQL Server 2008 http://download.microsoft.com/download/6/9/D/69D1FEA7-5B42-437A-B3BA-A4AD13E34EF6/SQL2008PredictAnalysis.docx Managing Unstructured Data with SQL Server 2008 http://download.microsoft.com/download/a/c/d/acd8e043-d69b-4f09-bc9e-4168b65aaa71/SQL2008UnstructuredData.doc SQL Server 2008 Compared to Oracle Database 11g http://download.microsoft.com/download/6/9/d/69d1fea7-5b42-437a-b3ba-a4ad13e34ef6/SQL2008_vs_Oracle11g.docx Downloads Improving Microsoft Dynamics CRM…

0

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…

0

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…

1

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…

0

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…

0

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…

1

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…

0