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Volume 9, Issue 25: December 12, 2007
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Note from the Editor
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Greetings New TechNet Flash Subscriber,
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Happy holidays, and it seems our gift to you this season is service packs...lots of service packs. If you are one of the people who have been waiting for Windows Vista Service Pack 1, you can now incorporate SP1 code into your testing, piloting, and deployment planning activity. The Release Candidate of Windows Vista SP1 is now available for download. We have also created a special site within TechNet, the Windows Vista Springboard, to aid you through the entire adoption process. Note that if you do take advantage of the pre-release code program, do remember that the code will likely change before its final release. In this case, we strongly recommend that you also plan to install the final version of Windows Vista SP1 when it is released in the first quarter of 2008. For the 2007 Office Servers and Office suite, we’ve rolled the updates into a single service pack for servers and another one for the suite. Download the 2007 Microsoft Office Servers Service Pack 1 and the 2007 Microsoft Office suite Service Pack 1 to get all of the updates released for the 2007 Microsoft Office System servers prior to December of 2007, plus important customer-requested stability and performance improvements and further enhancements to user security. You can get a more complete description of the 2007 Office Servers SP1 and 2007 Office suite SP1, including a list of issues that were fixed, in the Microsoft Knowledge Base articles 936984: Description of the 2007 Microsoft Office Servers Service Pack 1 and 936982: Description of the 2007 Microsoft Office suite Service Pack 1. While Windows Vista and 2007 Office Servers are getting their first service pack updates, Windows XP is getting its last. For TechNet subscribers, Windows XP Service Pack 3 Release Candidate 1 is now available for download. Windows XP SP3 will be a rollup that includes all previously released updates for Windows XP, including security updates, out-of-band releases, and hotfixes. It contains a small number of new updates, but should not significantly change the Windows XP experience. Holiday break: This is your last TechNet Flash of 2007. The next newsletter is scheduled to hit your inbox on January 9, 2008. Have a great holiday and a happy New Year. Thanks for reading, Mitch Irsfeld Editor, TechNet Flash
Your Featured Content
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The Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) solution accelerator is the next release of Windows Vista Hardware Assessment. It offers agent-less inventory and assessment and actionable recommendations for Windows Server 2008, Windows Server Virtualization, Terminal Services, SoftGrid, System Center Virtual Machine Manager, Windows Vista, and the 2007 Microsoft Office system. Join the Beta and take a test drive today.
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Windows Vista Hardware Assessment 2.1 offers you a quick way to assess your existing computers’ readiness for migration to Windows Vista and the 2007 Microsoft Office release in just a few hours. Download Windows Vista Hardware Assessment now and get hardware and device compatibility assessment results for your desktop deployment project today.
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Download this document for a compilation of the Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Unified Messaging white papers that are available in the Exchange Server Technical Articles section of the Exchange Server 2007 Library. Each white paper is a compilation of unified messaging Help topics.
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This poster highlights the architecture and feature set of Exchange Server 2007.
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Find your way across rush-hour London through a maze of clues, puzzles, brain teasers, and unsavory characters. Along the way, you’ll see some of the improved features and functions of Microsoft Office Visio 2007 and Microsoft Office Project 2007. Enter to receive a free DVD featuring more than 8 hours of Office Visio 2007 and Office Project 2007 training.
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Thursday, December 13, 9:30 AM Pacific Time
Join us to learn about the high-availability capabilities in Microsoft SQL Server 2005 and get a peek into the enhancements in the Microsoft SQL Server 2008 release. These capabilities help address planned downtime, unplanned downtime, and performance problems to help meet service-level agreements in your organization.
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In this hands-on-lab, you will be introduced to some of the new features for database administrators in SQL Server 2008. You will work with the new date data type, implement a distribution media format (DMF) policy and look at new features added to database mirroring. You will also implement and work with table valued parameters and look at database changes using change data capture.
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Data Protection Manager 2007 is the new standard for Windows backup and recovery -- delivering continuous data protection for Microsoft application and file servers using seamlessly integrated disk and tape media. Data Protection Manager 2007 enables rapid and reliable recovery through advanced technology for enterprises of all sizes.
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Microsoft IT Deployment of System Center Data Protection Manager 2007
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Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager 2007 optimizes and speeds disk-based backup and recovery, delivers consistent data protection, and increases an IT organization’s operational efficiencies.
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Thursday, December 13, 10:00 AM Pacific Time
Attend this InfoWorld webcast, sponsored by Microsoft to hear Andi Mann, Research Director at Enterprise Management Associates, talk about how to integrate virtualization into your exiting IT process and how to effectively manage a virtualized environment.
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This InfoWorld podcast sponsored by Microsoft, features Dan Kusnetzky, Principal Analyst at the Kusnetzky Group, who outlines key virtualization myths and provides insights on how to plan, design, and implement a vision for virtualization in your organization. Be sure to download the companion white paper.
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Administrators can now easily manage Microsoft Forefront Security for Exchange Server, Microsoft Forefront Security for SharePoint, and Microsoft Antigen through a Web-based console that centralizes configuration and operation, automates the download and distribution of signature and scan engine updates, and generates comprehensive reports.
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In addition to real-time event monitoring, the Forefront Client Security Management Pack provides automated and customizable response capabilities to allow you to immediately respond to critical performance, health, or capacity-related issues.
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Help protect your Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 collaboration environments with Forefront Security for SharePoint with SP1.
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CRM Mobile Express for Microsoft Dynamics lets your field sales force tap into the same sales, marketing, and customer service data they have access to in the office, making it easier to manage leads and opportunity, measure and forecast sales activity, track customer contacts, and automate the sales process.
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There's still a chance to win worldwide exposure and a trip to Paris. Microsoft is seeking entries from independent software vendors who are creating applications that help make the world better in the areas of healthcare, education and clean technology. The final phase of our contest has just kicked off and there's still time to enter. Phase One winners will be announced in mid-December. The contest ends February 28, 2008.
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Tuesday, December 18, 11:00 AM Pacific Time
In this session, we cover the best practices for fostering a culture of innovation by enabling a business's most valuable assets - its people -- to actively and easily participate in the innovation process. We provide a live demonstration to show how anyone can capture, investigate, formulate, and evaluate ideas using Microsoft Office Enterprise Project Management and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007.
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Thursday, December 13, 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Pacific Time
In this webcast, we use Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2008 Team Foundation Server to explore common key performance indicators (KPIs) and how to interpret them individually and in combination.
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Join this webcast on demand to learn about some of the new benefits and features in Internet Information Services (IIS) 7.0 on Windows Server 2008 as experienced during the deployment of IIS 7.0 as the Web and application platform for Microsoft.com.
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Join CFCS on December 13 for its monthly meeting.
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Join DANPA on December 13 for its monthly meeting.
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Join SoCalIT Pro on December 13 for its monthly meeting.
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Join BDPA-RMAC on December 14 for its monthly meeting.
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Join HTV on December 20 for its monthly meeting.
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Join ISSA-SVC on December 20 for its monthly meeting.
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Join WSTPA on December 20 for its monthly meeting.
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Join HuNTUG on January 8 for its monthly meeting.
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Evaluation Center Updates
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With the built-in capabilities of Exchange Server 2007, you get the protection your organization demands, the anywhere access your people want, and the operational efficiency you need. Download the 120-day trial software and you're automatically registered to receive valuable resources at strategic intervals throughout the software evaluation period.
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The next generation of the Windows Server operating system gives you more control, greater flexibility, and increased protection for your server infrastructure while reducing time and costs. And when you download or order the beta software, you're automatically registered to access valuable beta resources assembled in one convenient Beta Central location.
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Scripting for IT Pros
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Support and Troubleshooting
How-to Articles
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Knowledge Base Articles
See a selection of new Knowledge Base articles on the TechNet Web site. KB articles feature an Article Translations box in the right column. You can select a language from the drop-down list and read the article in the selected language.
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Download and test drive Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2007 to maximize IT resources.
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Join the Microsoft Assessment and Planning Solution Accelerator Public Beta Program to learn how this integrated tool can help you assess and determine which Microsoft technologies are best for your specific scenarios, including server migration to Windows Server 2008 and virtualization with Hyper-V, Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2, Microsoft Application Virtualization, and Terminal Services.
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Upcoming Webcasts
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Tune in for this eight-part webcast series and see how Windows Server 2008 helps you increase the flexibility of your server infrastructure with powerful new management tools.
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Learn about the newest offering from Microsoft Unified Communications by watching a webcast and you'll be automatically entered to win one Windows Mobile Smartphone per week, or the grand prize of a Microsoft RoundTable conference phone.
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Security
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Now with support for Exchange Server 2007 SP1 and Windows Server 2008, Forefront Security for Exchange Server SP1 helps provide comprehensive protection for Exchange Server 2007 environments through the integration of multiple industry-leading antivirus scan engines, content filtering, and enhanced manageability. If you are seeking to protect Exchange Server 2003 and Exchange 2000 Server environments, get started now by downloading the new Antigen 9.0 SP1 trial software. |
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The Microsoft Forefront Client Security Best Practices Analyzer Tool is designed for administrators who want to determine the overall health of their Forefront computers and to diagnose current problems. The tool scans the configuration settings of the computer and reports issues that do not conform to the recommended best practices. Need Forefront Client Security? Download the free trial software now. |
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See how Microsoft's unified communications solutions deliver streamlined communications for your users. Take advantage of these webcasts and podcasts to learn how users can experience enhanced voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) communications, Web conferencing, and enterprise instant messaging from their PCs, regardless of their location.
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Tune in and find out how to monitor, analyze, and plan your business while you drive alignment, accountability, and actionable insight across your organization.
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Virtual Labs
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Take part in this virtual lab and learn how to install and activate the archiving service, associate the archiving service with the front-end server, configure users for archiving, and view archived messaging in the database.
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Take part in this virtual lab and learn how prepare the Active Directory service for Office Communications Server 2007. Also learn how to install, configure, and validate Office Communications Server 2007.
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