Hi Everybody,

Greetings from sunny Cornwall! I'm just taking a few minutes out of my "hectic" week off, gorging myself on clotted cream teas and pasties, to upload this week's key announcements as compiled by Mr Aaron Hamilton.

Rob York

Microsoft UK

Recent Releases:

• Virtual Windows 8 Hands-on-Labs  - 24-Jul-2012
• Free download: Managing SQL Servers and Policy-Based Management–An excerpt from Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Pocket Consultant  - 25-Jul-2012
• A timing update for the Programming Windows, Sixth Edition eBook  - 23-Jul-2012
• Large collection of Free Microsoft eBooks for you, including: SharePoint, Visual Studio, Windows Phone, Windows 8, Office 365, Office 2010, SQL Server 2012, Azure, and more.  - 27-Jul-2012
• Test Lab Extension: Forefront Endpoint Protection 2010 Definition Update Automation Tool  - 26-Jul-2012
• New Test Lab Guide: Forefront Endpoint Protection 2010  - 25-Jul-2012
• Creating SilverlightShow Windows Phone App: Ebook  - 25-Jul-2012
• Announcing Web Deploy 3.0 RTW   - 26-Jul-2012
• Announcing Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Service Pack 1 (SP1) Community Technology Preview 3 (CTP3)  - 23-Jul-2012
• SQL Server 2008 R2 SP2 Is Now Available!  - 26-Jul-2012
• Announcement: Configuration Manager Documentation Library Update for July 2012  - 26-Jul-2012
• New Test Lab Guide: System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Service Pack 2 with R3  - 24-Jul-2012
• Update Rollup 2 for System Center 2012 is now available for download  - 24-Jul-2012
• Cloud and Datacenter Management System Center Update Rollup Improvements  - 25-Jul-2012
• Now available: Infrastructure Planning and Design Guide for System Center 2012 - Virtual Machine Manager  - 24-Jul-2012

Important Announcements:

• The Midweek Download: July 25th Edition–Graphics in Windows 8 & Getting Started with the New Office Preview  - 25-Jul-2012
• 24 Wildly Creative Ways Real Companies Use Microsoft Dynamics CRM  - 25-Jul-2012
• Q4 Environmental Sustainability Action Award Winner  - 25-Jul-2012
• Office 365 for education –Web Portal, Licensing and other general questions  - 27-Jul-2012
• What’s new for IT Pros in the new Office release?  - 26-Jul-2012
• Announcing the Ultimate Bing Experience Sweepstakes and More  - 24-Jul-2012
• Update on Multi-Mailbox Search Licensing  - 27-Jul-2012

Windows 8 and Server 2012:

• Windows 8 Metro: Asynchrony made easy  - 26-Jul-2012
• Windows 8 Metro: Something about application lifecycle  - 24-Jul-2012
• Windows 8 and the future of XAML Part 6: Tiles, toasts and badges  - 23-Jul-2012
• Simplifying printing in Windows 8  - 25-Jul-2012
• Hardware accelerating everything: Windows 8 graphics  - 23-Jul-2012
• Windows Server 2012 Failover Cluster Sessions at TechEd  - 23-Jul-2012
• Windows Server 2012 BranchCache Deployment Guide is live in the Microsoft Download Center  - 24-Jul-2012

How to:

• Using Click-to-Run to install the new Office  - 27-Jul-2012
• SQL Server 2012: Migrating BLOBs to FILETABLEs  - 23-Jul-2012
• DPM Certificate Troubleshooting–Part 1: General Troubleshooting  - 23-Jul-2012
• DPM Certificate Troubleshooting–Part 2: Registry  - 24-Jul-2012
• DPM Certificate Troubleshooting–Part 3: Certificates  - 25-Jul-2012
• An Introduction to PowerShell Remoting Part Five: Constrained PowerShell Endpoints  - 27-Jul-2012
• An Introduction to PowerShell Remoting Part Four: Sessions and Implicit Remoting  - 26-Jul-2012
• An Introduction to PowerShell Remoting Part Three: Interactive and Fan-Out Remoting  - 25-Jul-2012
• An Introduction to PowerShell Remoting Part Two: Configuring PowerShell Remoting  - 24-Jul-2012
• An Introduction to PowerShell Remoting: Part One  - 23-Jul-2012

Betas:

• Second Public Beta of App-V 5.0 Now Available with Office Integration  - 24-Jul-2012
• Windows Server 2012 Beta Essentials Localization Release  - 25-Jul-2012