News Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 Release Candidate Now available! (KB976932) Includes previous updates delivered over windows update as well as continuing incremental updates to the Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 platforms. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=c3202ce6-4056-4059-8a1b-3a9b77cdfdda http://blogs.technet.com/b/windowsserver/archive/2010/10/26/service-pack-1-release-candidate-now-available.aspx Windows Virtualization Team Blog http://blogs.technet.com/virtualization The World Simplified is a…
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December 2009 – Technology Rollup Mail – Manageability
News MDT 2010 Launched Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2010 (MDT 2010) provides a common console with the comprehensive tools and guidance needed to efficiently manage deployment of Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2010 is the recommended process and toolset to automate desktop and server deployment. Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2010 provides detailed…
December 2009 – Technology 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 Antigen & Forefront Microsoft Forefront Protection 2010 for Exchange Server Documentation Documentation about Microsoft Forefront Protection 2010 for Exchange Server http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=a11ec9bb-d7f8-408a-a811-66dcd1036b53 Exchange Quick…
December 2009 – Technology Rollup Mail – SQL Server
Downloads Other Sync Framework Power Pack for SQL Azure This release features the SQL Azure provider for Microsoft Sync Framework, a plug-in for Visual Studio 2008 Professional SP1 and the tool SQL Azure Data Sync Tool for SQL Server, all of which simplify using Sync Framework and SQL Azure together. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=bce4ad61-5b76-4101-8311-e928e7250b9a Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008…
December 2009 – Technology Rollup Mail – Internet
News Biztalk Server Newell Rubbermaid – Newell Rubbermaid Expects to Save $1.5 Million Managing Brand Web Sites Over Two Years http://www.microsoft.com/casestudies/Case_Study_Detail.aspx?casestudyid=4000005682 BizTalk Server 2009 R2 Announced at the Microsoft PDC Conference http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/SVR15 Windows AppFabric announced at the Microsoft PDC Conference http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/FT14 Microsoft Internet Information Server Lots of new software for IIS, ASP.NET, AJAX and PHP…
December 2009 – Technology Rollup Mail – Platforms
News Download Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2010 Beta Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2010 empowers your people to do their best work from more places – whether they’re using a PC, phone or web browser. It can maximize existing investments and help people accomplish more by bringing server capabilities to everyone through familiar and intuitive applications….
December 2009 – Technology Rollup Mail – Security
News Microsoft Report Reveals Resurgence of Worms; Rogue Security Software Still Top Threat http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=12825815&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474 On November 2, Microsoft released the seventh volume of the Microsoft Security Intelligence Report (SIRv7), which indicates that worm infections in the enterprise rose by nearly 100 percent during the first half of 2009 over the preceding six months. Rogue security…
December 2008 – Technical Rollup Mail – SQL Server
NEWS Technical RollUp http://blogs.technet.com/trm/default.aspx DOCUMENTS Running SQL Server 2008 in a Hyper-V Environment – Best Practices and Performance Recommendations http://download.microsoft.com/download/d/9/4/d948f981-926e-40fa-a026-5bfcf076d9b9/SQL2008inHyperV2008.docx SQL Server Replication: Providing High Availability using Database Mirroring http://download.microsoft.com/download/d/9/4/d948f981-926e-40fa-a026-5bfcf076d9b9/ReplicationAndDBM.docx Database Snapshot Performance Considerations under I/O-Intensive Workloads http://download.microsoft.com/download/d/9/4/d948f981-926e-40fa-a026-5bfcf076d9b9/DBSnapshotPerf.docx 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 DOWNLOADS SQL Server 2008 RDL Spec…
December 2008 – Technical Rollup Mail – Security
NEWS Security The Great Debate: Security by Obscurity http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=10859047&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474 By Jesper M. Johansson, Software Architect and Microsoft MVP in Enterprise Security, and Roger Grimes, Senior Security Consultant, Microsoft ACE Team Security by obscurity involves taking measures that do not remove an attack vector but instead conceal it. Some argue that this is a bad practice…
December 2008 – Technical Rollup Mail – Unified Communications
NEWS http://msexchangeteam.com/default.aspx http://blogs.msdn.com/outlook/default.aspx http://communicationsserverteam.com DOWNLOADS Antigen & Forefront Forefront™ codename "Stirling" Microsoft® Forefront™ codename "Stirling" is an integrated security system that delivers comprehensive, coordinated protection across endpoints, messaging and collaboration servers and the network edge that is easier to manage and control. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=1&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d65bd5f8a-d94c-457a-9f88-2046597130e1%26displaylang%3den Microsoft Antigen SP1 Documentation Microsoft Antigen SP1 Documentation http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=2&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d7d00160e-4d15-4459-98a3-89f393ac008e%26displaylang%3den IT Compliance Management…