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Volume 9, Issue 23: November 14, 2007
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Earlier this week at TechEd IT Forum in Barcelona, Microsoft announced pricing, packaging and licensing options for Windows Server 2008, which includes Microsoft’s server virtualization technology Hyper-V, previously code-named “Viridian.†The new packaging outlined in the announcement includes eight new versions, three of which include Hyper-V. For a rundown of the pricing, see the press release. In addition, Microsoft announced Hyper-V Server, a standalone hypervisor-based server virtualization product that complements the Hyper-V technology within Windows Server 2008, allowing customers to consolidate workloads onto a single physical server. Continuing on the server front, Microsoft hit an important milestone for SQL Server 2008 with the announcement of the upcoming November Community Technology Preview (CTP). And this CTP is packed with new features, including compatibility with Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 and new capabilities such as Resource Governor, Backup Compression and Transparent Data Encryption. This CTP also has new business intelligence enhancements including Design Alerts, block computation, and Enhanced Report Designer including new visualizations. In addition, this is the first CTP to help customers store and consume any type of data including new Filestream data types for unstructured data, and to provide support for spatial data for location intelligence. Register with the CTP program to take part in the preview. Barcelona was also the site for the unveiling of new Solution Accelerators, including the Infrastructure Planning and Design guides and the Microsoft Assessment and Planning beta tool. These Solution Accelerators offer best practices and automation for server virtualization using the Hyper-V technology and application virtualization using Microsoft Application Virtualization. To see the breadth of IT Forum 2007 announcements, click here. Get your opinions heard. The TechNet team has launched TechNet Edge, a new community site where IT professionals can go to get the inside scoop on the latest and greatest technologies. You can do stuff like watch screen casts, check out interviews with people who develop the products, connect with your peers and speak what’s on your mind.
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A successful enterprise search solution gives users efficient access to unstructured data, structured information, and expertise. It helps keep sensitive information secure; is easy to set up, administer, and manage; leaves room for scalability; and allows you to customize and extend your search experience. Search doesn’t have to be complicated. You can deliver it to your organization quickly and easily with Microsoft Search Server 2008. Get familiar with Search Server 2008 by downloading the Express edition for free. |
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Windows Server 2008 introduces several new Group Policy settings. This video showcases some of the new settings and demonstrates how to implement them.
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The three new Microsoft System Center products are available for download. Configuration Manager 2007, Virtual Machine Manager, and Data Protection Manager -- together with System Center Operations Manager 2007 -- comprise the System Center Server Management Suite - Enterprise, Microsoft's comprehensive solution for end-to-end management of physical and virtual server environments.
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The System Center Essentials 2007 Hotfix Rollup has been released. It provides streamlined support to help customers more effectively deploy and configure Essentials 2007 in their environment.
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Microsoft Asset Inventory Service 1.0, a core component of the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack, reduces application management TCO through advanced software inventory scanning and by translating inventory data into business intelligent information, on-demand. It is as an easily administered service, hosted by Microsoft.
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Windows Live Services provide free, familiar, and secure ways to connect and share. Stay in touch easily with e-mail and IM that work together seamlessly. Access many of your services anywhere, using your PC, mobile phone, or handheld device. Try out the betas for upcoming Windows Live Services. |
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Tune in to our seven-part live webcast miniseries, stream or download on-demand webcasts, listen to podcasts on the go, or test drive Windows Vista in a virtual lab.
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Windows XP and Windows Vista provide Windows Firewall as part of the base offering. Now Microsoft Forefront Client Security customers can get visibility into the status of the Windows Firewall in Windows XP and Windows Vista. The new capability is delivered through the Security State Assessment (SSA) feature that allows security administrators to not only detect common vulnerabilities in their environment, but also configuration issues that increase their exposure.
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Monday, November 19, 11:30 AM Pacific Time
Learn about the Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server 2006 Supportability Pack and the Intelligent Application Gateway (IAG) 2007 Service Pack 1. We’ll walk through features such as enhanced troubleshooting, improving logging, and improved analysis through integration with ISA Best Practices Analyzer.
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The 2007 Microsoft Office Security Guide provides best practices, automated tools, customizable, prebuilt security configurations, and tools that let you deploy Office security settings across your organization -- in minutes, instead of hours or days. And be sure to check out the suite of Windows Vista Solution Accelerators. |
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Wednesday, November 21, 10:00 AM Pacific Time
Are you currently using Microsoft Office Project but need collaboration? Register now for this webinar and learn how easy it is to get started with EPM Live and how you can make a difference in your projects by strengthening collaboration, improving accountability and boosting productivity.
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Wednesday, November 14, 10:00 AM Pacific Time
There are two ways to set up EPM Live. Both allow you to create project plans using Microsoft Office Project 2007 and publish them to an online collaboration environment. EPM Live’s affordable subscription service gives you an online workspace. With EPM Live’s Project Publisher you can bring EPM Live in-house which will give you an online workspace powered by Windows SharePoint Services.
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After completing this lab, you will be able to launch the Report Designer Preview, create a data source and a data set, design a new report using the Report Designer of Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services (in July CTP called Report Designer Preview), preview your report, enhance your report layout by working with Tablix functionality, and enrich your report using charts.
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Declarative Management Framework is a policy-based system for managing one or more instances of SQL Server 2008. When SQL Server policy administrators use Declarative Management Framework, they use SQL Server Management Studio to create policies to manage entities on the server, such as the instance of SQL Server, databases, or other SQL Server objects.
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In this webcast, we discuss how you can integrate Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and SAP Netweaver Portal from front-end integration (iView, Web Services for Remote Portlets, and URL linking) to integrate components and services across the portal (via Web Services, SAP Portal Development Kit for the Microsoft .NET Framework, and connectors).
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Formerly known as Microsoft SoftGrid Application Virtualization, Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.5 meets the need for increased desktop manageability. It supports large-scale virtualization implementations across more sites, enables multiple delivery options, lets users work with localized applications, allows administrator-controlled virtual application interaction, and complies with the Microsoft Trustworthy Computing and Secure by Default initiatives. Microsoft Application Virtualization is a core component of the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack.
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Thursday, November 29, 8:00 AM Pacific Time
HP has been actively developing hardware and highly competitive support software since the release of Microsoft Virtual Server 2005. In this session, we illustrate the core components in the HP portfolio that can help organizations prepare for, move to, and manage a virtualized environment based on Virtual Server 2005.
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November 26, 9:30 - 11:00 AM Pacific Time
Get expert guidance on how to use the Terminal Services API in your custom applications and system management tools. Learn how to use the Terminal Services API in managed and unmanaged code, how to develop your own Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) client tools, and how RDP Virtual Channels really work. This session includes sample code in C# for both the client and the server side.
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Friday, November 16, 9:30 AM - 11:00 AM Pacific Time
Learn how to tune a Web server for speed and efficiency, from the hosting environment to specific configurations settings for various high-usage scenarios.
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Join PSSBS on November 15 for its monthly meeting.
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Join WSTPA on November 15 for its monthly meeting.
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Join ISSA-SVC on November 15 for its monthly meeting.
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Join NTPCUG on November 17 for its monthly meeting.
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Join CFCS on November 18 for its monthly meeting.
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Join HuNTUG on November 19 for its monthly meeting.
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Join ITPSC on November 20 for its monthly meeting.
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Join TriSBS on November 20 for its monthly meeting.
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Join WMNTUG on November 21 for its monthly meeting.
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Join SLO STC on November 26 for its monthly meeting.
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Join BUG on November 27 for its monthly meeting.
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Second Thursday of each month, 4:00 PM. at the Microsoft San Francisco office
The San Francisco Bay Area SharePoint User Group is a community of enthusiasts, veterans, and newcomers who share ideas, best practices, and experiences to improve their competency in SharePoint technologies in order to further enhance productivity in their workplace.
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Thursday, November 15: Taunton, MA
Manage critical business systems with greater efficiency and fewer headaches. Join us at TechNet Events and see how Windows Deployment Services can simplify your IT administration. We’ll also explore the next-generation of Microsoft unified communications tools.
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Thursday, November 15: Redmond, WA
Manage critical business systems with greater efficiency and fewer headaches. Join us at TechNet Events and see how Windows Deployment Services can simplify your IT administration. We’ll also explore the next-generation of Microsoft unified communications tools.
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Tuesday, November 27: Bethlehem, PA
Manage critical business systems with greater efficiency and fewer headaches. Join us at TechNet Events and see how Windows Deployment Services can simplify your IT administration. We’ll also explore the next-generation of Microsoft unified communications tools.
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Tuesday, November 27: Mason, OH
Manage critical business systems with greater efficiency and fewer headaches. Join us at TechNet Events and see how Windows Deployment Services can simplify your IT administration. We’ll also explore the next-generation of Microsoft unified communications tools.
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Tuesday, November 27: Wauwatosa, WI
Manage critical business systems with greater efficiency and fewer headaches. Join us at TechNet Events and see how Windows Deployment Services can simplify your IT administration. We’ll also explore the next-generation of Microsoft unified communications tools.
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Tuesday, November 27: San Francisco, CA
Manage critical business systems with greater efficiency and fewer headaches. Join us at TechNet Events and see how Windows Deployment Services can simplify your IT administration. We’ll also explore the next-generation of Microsoft unified communications tools.
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Thursday, November 29: Albany, NY
Manage critical business systems with greater efficiency and fewer headaches. Join us at TechNet Events and see how Windows Deployment Services can simplify your IT administration. We’ll also explore the next-generation of Microsoft unified communications tools.
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Thursday, November 29: Lincolnshire, IL
Manage critical business systems with greater efficiency and fewer headaches. Join us at TechNet Events and see how Windows Deployment Services can simplify your IT administration. We’ll also explore the next-generation of Microsoft unified communications tools.
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Thursday, November 29: Livonia, MI
Manage critical business systems with greater efficiency and fewer headaches. Join us at TechNet Events and see how Windows Deployment Services can simplify your IT administration. We’ll also explore the next-generation of Microsoft unified communications tools.
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Thursday, November 29: Las Vegas, NV
Manage critical business systems with greater efficiency and fewer headaches. Join us at TechNet Events and see how Windows Deployment Services can simplify your IT administration. We’ll also explore the next-generation of Microsoft unified communications tools.
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Evaluation Center Updates
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See for yourself how easy it is to do a P2V conversion and watch the Intelligent Placement wizard recommend the best host for your new virtual machine. Download the 120-day trial software and automatically receive valuable information on VMM delivered at strategic intervals throughout your software evaluation period.
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See how built-in Web and virtualization technologies make Windows Server 2008 a robust, security-enhanced, and reliable foundation on which you can develop, deliver, and manage rich user applications and experiences.
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Microsoft Forefront Server Security Management Console allows administrators to easily manage Forefront Security for Exchange Server, Forefront Security for SharePoint, and Microsoft Antigen, providing a Web-based console to centralize configuration and operation, automate the download and distribution of signature and scan engine updates, and generate comprehensive reports.
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Download the 120-day trial software. Microsoft System Center 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.
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Group Policy preferences enable IT professionals to configure, deploy, and manage operating system and application settings including mapped drives, scheduled tasks, and Start menu settings. This white paper introduces this new feature, and describes how you can use Group Policy preferences to better deploy and manage computer and user preferences.
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Upcoming Webcasts
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Tuesday, November 20, 1:00 - 2:30 PM Pacific Time
With Windows Server 2008 applications can be quickly accessed from a Web page, even if they aren’t installed on the client machine. This session will do an in-depth review of Terminal Services RemoteApp and Terminal Services Web Access.
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Thursday, November 29, 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM Pacific Time
This webcast demonstrates how to design, build, and deploy predictive key performance indicators (KPIs) using Microsoft SQL Server Data Mining. Although there are useful worked examples, even nontechnical users can benefit from this webcast by finding new possibilities for KPIs.
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Security
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Microsoft Diagnostics and Recovery Toolset 6.0 helps administrators recover PCs that have become unusable with new capabilities. Standalone System Sweeper lets IT remove viruses and spyware from an offline system. The toolset also supports 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008, unlocks BitLocker volume encryption to use the Diagnostics and Recovery Toolset functionality on the drive, and lets you pull files from USB devices.
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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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On Demand
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Tune in and explore the features of Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, such as increased security, unified messaging, performance improvements, and ease of deployment.
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In this webcast, we look at deploying Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, beginning with a review of the hardware, software, infrastructure, and security requirements that you need to meet before you can deploy Exchange Server 2007. Next, we consider the five server roles, discuss what they do, and describe the options you have for implementing these roles within your organization.
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Virtual Labs
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After completing this lab, you will be better able to use the Microsoft Exchange Management Shell to balance mailboxes across multiple mailbox databases, use the Exchange Server 2007 Toolbox, and understand the AutoDiscover feature of Exchange Server 2007 with Microsoft Office Outlook 2007.
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After completing this lab, you will be able to prepare the Active Directory service for Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 and install, configure, and validate Office Communications Server 2007.
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