We are pleased to announce the availability of Microsoft Office 2011 for Mac today, bringing Mac users the latest versions of the company’s productivity software. The release is the latest effort from the Office for Mac team, which has been delivering Microsoft software to the Mac for 13 years. Some of the key features of Office Mac 2011 include:
Dynamic Recorder in PowerPoint: Word and PowerPoint give you the ability to create rich documents by layering text, shapes, pictures, SmartArt, animations, and charts. With Office for Mac 2011 you can now easily reorder all these elements using a simple visual interface.
Picture Editing in PowerPoint: Edit images from within Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents. Recolor photos and images, apply filters and corrections, and even remove extraneous background imagery directly from the application itself. Word Document Gallery :Easily access thousands of Word, PowerPoint, and Excel 2011 themes and templates, and use them to create professional-looking documents. The gallery also helps you quickly find recent documents, and customize and preview any theme or template before selecting it.
Word Web App: Whether you’re in the office, at home, or on the road, Microsoft Office Web Apps provide an easy way to access, view and edit documents directly from the Web browser.
Attachment Preview in Outlook: Next time someone sends you an attachment, see what's inside with a single click
To start evaluating these and many new features, download your bits now.
Improve the efficiency and availability of IT resources and applications with the new virtualization innovations provided in Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 RC. Dynamic Memory and Microsoft RemoteFXTM, to help businesses further optimize their datacenter and desktops.
Dynamic Memory lets Hyper-V administrators pool available memory on a physical host and dynamically distribute it to any virtual machine(s) running on that host.
RemoteFX lets Windows Server 2008 R2 administrators provide a rich end user desktop virtualization experience by delivering vivid content, independent of any graphics stack, to server-hosted virtual and session-based desktops.
Businesses can take advantage of these innovations to help deliver new capabilities such as private cloud and VDI. To learn more about Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 RC and the benefits it provides, read the documents, feature overview and FAQs below.
Read the Windows Server 2008 R2 Technical Whitepaper for a technical overview of Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 RC release features and benefits.
Download the Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 RC Reviewer’s Guide to evaluate the core features of Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 RC release in your environment.
Download the Release Candidate today
The Windows Phone 7 Enterprise Mobility Kit provides additional details about how Windows Phone 7 can help you move your business forward. Download this content to better understand how Windows Phone 7 provides mobile productivity without compromise, works well with your existing infrastructure and provides a platform for compelling applications.
After attending this seminar you should have a clear idea of where to start in the process of evaluating the impact of application compatibility in your Windows 7 and Office 2010 deployment project. You will develop an understanding of the tools and methodologies available to support your deployment.
You will learn about Application Lifecycle Management, Business Value Analysis, Inventory Analysis Tools, Remediation Options within Windows 7, Virtualization Options and more.
The solutions for IE6 virtualisation will be covered, including addressing support and licensing questions, and a demonstration of IE6 running in a supported virtualized environment.
During the workshop you will have an opportunity to discuss Application Compatibility with Microsoft’s deployment technical experts and network with your peers from other organisations facing the same challenges as you.
Brisbane November 19th Perth November 23rd Adelaide November 24th Sydney November 25th Melbourne November 26th Canberra December 2nd About the Workshop: You can manage application compatibility proactively by keeping an accurate list of all programs in use in your organization, creating an “application portfolio.” Whether your organization has a managed environment complete with inventoried applications, a full-time application management team, and a test lab, or if approaching the issue of application compatibility for the first time, you may find it difficult to know where to start. This session will explain the steps you should take to prepare for application compatibility testing and evaluation during a deployment project. Click here to register.
System Center Configuration Manager 2007 R3—previously Systems Management Server—represents a tremendous advance over its well-regarded predecessor, now providing the insight and control necessary to more effectively manage change in today's dynamic IT infrastructures with a broad range of management capabilities. In addition to the powerful list of product capabilities delivered in Configuration Manager R2, additional enhancements for R3 include:
Centralized Power Management Configuration Manager R3 lets IT organizations centrally manage the power settings of Windows 7, Vista and XP computers, helping reduce energy consumption and costs. You can plan and apply a power management policy for high and low PC usage periods, monitor user activity to avoid any productivity interruptions and correct non-compliance. Detailed reports of trends and settings help you make smart power management choices, and also validate Green IT projects with summaries of power, money and CO2 savings. Learn more here.
Mobile Device Management Configuration Manager R3 includes licenses for the popular System Center Mobile Device Manager, so you can run comprehensive asset inventories, deploy software, manage settings and enforce password policies for Widows phones.
Enhanced Scalability and Performance Configuration Manager R3 is more scalable than ever, increasing the number of supported clients to 300,000 per site. R3 is also more efficient in the way it communicates with Active Directory, helping you discover user or machine changes more quickly and allowing custom queries to define user, system or group attributes.
Finally, it is worth noting that, just like Configuration Manager R2, R3 will be the foundation for the upcoming Forefront Endpoint Protection 2010. By bringing endpoint security into overall endpoint management, you can reduce costs and inefficiencies, and also improve security and compliance. Download the evaluation today
As mentioned in a previous post on the release of our October Security Bulletins. Here is a link to the deployment priority image More information about the October Security Bulletins can be found here.
Check out the line up of Windows Phone 7 devices in Australia.
From The Microsoft Security Response Center blog: Hello -
As part of our predictable monthly update process, we have released our Advance Notification Service (ANS) for the October Security Bulletins, which are scheduled for release Tuesday, October 12, 2010. ANS is a service that only Microsoft provides to assist customers in planning for the upcoming security bulletin release.
This month as part of our predictable security update process we are releasing 16 comprehensive bulletins addressing 49 vulnerabilities. These vulnerabilities cover Windows, Internet Explorer, Microsoft Office, and the .NET Framework. Four of the bulletins carry a Critical rating, ten are Important and two are Moderate.
We recommend that customers review the ANS summary page for more information and prepare for the testing and deployment of these bulletins.
Next Wednesday, October 13, 2010, Jerry Bryant, group manager, Response Communications, and special guest Jonathan Ness, principle security SDE lead, from the Security Research & Defense team, will host a public webcast where they will go into details about the bulletins, and answer questions live on the air.
Register for this webcast in advance:
Date: Wednesday, October 13, 2010 Time: 11:00 a.m. PDT (UTC -7) Register: Attendee Registration
We highly recommend that customers register for our comprehensive alerts if you have not done so already. Sign up here: Microsoft Technical Security Notifications.
Thanks, Carlene Chmaj Security Response Senior Communications Manager Follow us on Twitter: @MSFTSecResponse
Microsoft Australia will be hosting a series of four Licensing Webcasts throughout November and December.
These 1 hour, online sessions, have been designed to help you better understand how Microsoft licenses our technologies.
Even though we license our products on a per device, per user, and per processor basis – it is important you understand which technologies can be licensed under specific scenarios – so you can make educated and informed decisions when purchasing our solutions. Who should attend? Anyone who has a vested interest in Microsoft technologies.
Whether you are an IT Administrator, Network Engineer, Systems Analyst, Technical Decision Maker or a Procurement Officer – these Webcasts will cover both the Product/Solution at a high level, and then a drill down into the various licensing models. These are NOT designed as in-depth technical sessions, but we will deliver a general solution overview before exploring the licensing components. How to register for these sessions? Click here to register for any/all of the sessions we will offer during November and December 2010. You can register for just one, two, three or all four sessions. Topics covered during the series include:
We will be running two TechNet Live Meetings in October focusing on Virtualisation. Register today Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2: Advanced Virtualization Management Thursday 14 October 2:00 PM Australia (East) In this session we’ll start with a review of Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 and then get into some of the more advanced techniques to effectively manage your virtual infrastructure. We’ll cover automated VM deployment, hot add and removal of storage, live migration, storage migration, Physical to virtual conversion, virtual to virtual conversion, integration with Operations Manager and the VMM self-portal. Dynamic memory and RemoteFX in Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1: How will they enhance your virtual infrastructure Thursday 28 October 2:00 PM Australia (East) Dynamic memory and RemoteFX are two exciting features that are coming in SP1 for Windows Server 2008 R2. In this session we’ll dive down into what they are and how they work and show you them working in some live demos.