As part of the Windows 2008 Launch Experience program, Microsoft Ireland is running a series of free day-long training sessions with our training partners. This training session will take you on an in-depth, hands-on tour of Windows Server 2008. As part...

New customer/partner-ready content from Microsoft IT Microsoft IT Showcase is pleased to announce the republication of Deploying Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007, which discusses all phases of the deployment.  Deploying Microsoft Office...

As is now the standard for any Windows Server release, a bunch of new GPO features have been included. The "Group policy settings Reference for Windows Server 2008" is a publicly available spreadsheet which lists the policy settings for computer...

If you have a Windows Live ID with an Irish address, you can now register at www.officelive.com/workspace and start using the service. You can use the service to store, edit and share Office documents and other information “in the cloud” and...

The External Collaboration Toolkit for SharePoint provides authoritative guidance and tools to deploy a customisable solution built on Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 that teams can use to collaborate with partners outside the firewall.  Once it...

If you're rolling out Office 2007, a useful component to include are the free add-ins for new users. These help users get up to speed with the new UI by adding extra menu items to provide interactive guides, video demos, and fast-start assisted help....

When: 12 March 2008 at 19:30 Where: The Westin Hotel, Westmoreland Street The Windows Server 2008 User Group (Ireland) is having its first event. The speaker is David Lowe, the keynote speaker at the official Microsoft launch of Windows Server 2008. It...

In a previous post I promised to delve a little deeper into our Identity Lifecycle strategy and roadmap, so this post is the first of three to do exactly that. We'll start with Microsoft's philosophy on Identity Lifecycle Management. Future posts in the...

Microsoft IT Showcase is pleased to announce the publication of Physical Security at Microsoft: Taking Advantage of Strategic IT Convergence , which discusses how building a strategy for physical security that relies on available technology and the existing...

Microsoft has  launched the new Windows Client TechCenter, merging the Windows XP and Windows Vista TechCenters with the Springboard Series lifecycle approach to ease the adoption path and give desktop IT pros a one-stop source for all of the Windows...

Let’s talk Windows Vista security! On Wednesday June 18 th at 9:00AM Pacific Time, Microsoft Technical Fellow and desktop guru Mark Russinovich will again be hosting a live, interactive Springboard Series virtual roundtable—this time on the...

(Should have posted this much earlier....) The final version of MOF v 4.0 has been published. MOF 4.0 is practical guidance for IT organizations contained in a set of 23 documents. With this release, MOF now reflects a single, comprehensive IT service...

One of the great new features of Windows Server 2008 Active Directory Services is the Read-Only Domain Controller (RODC). A read-only domain controller (RODC) is a new type of domain controller in the Windows Server 2008 operating system. The Read-Only...

Well here we are again, you've already decided that you are going to migrate to Vista, you now know how to address/plan for Application Compatibility, so at this moment in time it would be a good time to take a look at the hardware that you are targeting...

If you are interested in BDD we think you would be interested in the following new program: Offline Virtual Machine Servicing Tool - Beta The Solution Accelerators Communication and Collaboration group is pleased to announce the availability of the Offline...

Server 2008 terminal services infrastructure planning & design guides (IPD)

The MSDN and Technet websites have now been fully migrated to running within virtual machines on a Hyper-V platform. These are 2 of the most visited sections of microsoft.com, with 4 million hits per day - quite a lot of user activity I'm sure you'll...

Hyper-V development has been very successful in terms of stability, reliability, performance and scalability that a few of Microsoft’s largest internet properties are now running COMPLETELY VIRTUALIZED WITH HYPER-V including: · MSDN: http:...

Do you have SMS 2003 in your infrastructure? Are you patching through SMS 2003? Are you using the Inventory Tool for Microsoft Updates for Patching? Have you upgraded to ITMU Revision 3? If you have answered yes to the first 3 questions and no to the...

If you are thinking of deploying Vista and are concerned about the compatability of your curently deployed applications, Microsoft has released the Application Compatibility Toolkit (ACT 5.0), available as a free download. Basically the ACT will advise...

Colm Torris (our resident Technet manager) recently blogged about the public availability and download of Longhorn Beta 3 - his post is here . We've also got an interesting video showing how this beta is being so widely distributed globally, and the challenges...

For those of you running MIIS 2003 SP1 in your infrastructures, SP2 for MIIS 2003 is now available for download. This will bring a number of benefits to your MIIS deployment, not least of which is support for SQL Server 2005 as the database for MIIS,...

ADT magazine has recently published a short review of VMM. The review, plus a link to downloading the current beta of the product, is available here. It's interesting to note how much emphasis is on the major changes - this really is a major leap forward...

With full Vista Support, the integration of asset intelligence for license reporting, software consolidation and upgrade planning, a hotfix rollup of course and x64 architecture support. SMS Sp3 comes through with a bundle of new capabilities. Download...

SCCP 2007 Beta 1 is now available for download. SCCP 2007 builds on the great capabilities of SCCP 2006 with support for: Exchange 2007 deployments, including clustering (LCR, CCR) System Center Operations Manager 2007 64 Bit hardware These...