Digital citizenship is usually defined as the "norms of behavior with regard to technology use." It encompasses digital literacy, ethics, etiquette, online safety, norms, rights, culture and more. Microsoft recognizes that good digital citizenship...

This file contains a white paper and PowerShell scripts to provide the recommended and supported migration path from HMC 4.5 to Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 SP2. The steps in this guide may also be helpful when migrating from non-HMC environments that...

Read how small and medium sized companies are realizing financial returns from their investments in Office 365. Read how several of our Office 365 customers are seeing direct and indirect benefits to their business from their move to cloud based services...

System Center 2012 helps you manage your IT environments across traditional datacenters, private and public clouds, client computers, and devices. Using these integrated and automated management capabilities, you can become a trusted service provider...

Some of sharper readers of our documentation talking about schema changes that Exchange makes (see Exchange Server Active Directory Schema Changes Reference, November 2011 ) have noticed that in Exchange 2010 SP2, we have added several things that sound...

Microsoft Online Services provides enterprise-level hosted solutions for e-mail, collaboration, instant messaging and Web conferencing. Services are delivered from a highly reliable network of Microsoft data centers located strategically throughout the...

Nokia and Microsoft announced plans to form a broad strategic partnership that would use their complementary strengths and expertise to create a new global mobile ecosystem. Nokia and Microsoft intend to jointly create market-leading mobile products and...

As part of Microsoft's routine, monthly security update cycle, we released 12 new security updates on February 8, 2011. Get the details and download at http://www.microsoft.com/security/pc-security/bulletins/201102.aspx?WT.mc_id=soc-n-sa- loc -services...

From basic math to precalculus, Microsoft Mathematics 4.0 can help you visualize and see mathematical concepts as you’ve never seen them before. This free downloadable tool includes step-by-step instructions and explains fundamental concepts. The wide...

The Unified Messaging Troubleshooting Tool is a diagnostics cmdlet which every administrator should run whenever someone desperately (or not) comes to them and says "Help! My voicemail isn't working!". The tool executes a set of tests and outputs...

Is Exchange supported running on Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1? We wanted to let you know that we've completed testing with Windows 2008 R2 SP1 and the following versions of Exchange are supported to run on Windows 2008 R2 SP1 (the RTM version of SP1): Exchange...

A while back we published an article explaining the support constraints that surrounded deploying Exchange 2007 with multiple Outlook Web App (OWA) Virtual Directories (see here http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2008/01/07/447828.aspx ) and as this idea...

When managing an Exchange 2010 server organization in a production environment, an Exchange Administrator many times wants to keep track of things like Database Latency, Disk Space problems, search issues, user needs, and more. PowerShell was created...

Microsoft Exchange 2010 Mailbox Server Role Requirements Calculator v14.4 has been released recently. Find the bug fixes at http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2010/01/22/453859.aspx To download the latest calculator, go here

The portal is designed to help you identify the strengths and gaps in your knowledge around Windows 7 deployment and provide some targeted learning to help you reach the top of your game. About This Portal The Deployment Learning Portal is an online assessment...

Windows Phones are designed for life in motion, so you don’t miss a moment. This newsroom provides the latest product news, articles and reviews, event resources, and other press materials about Windows Phones. Read more and see the video of Steve Ballmer...

If you love Microsoft Windows 7, then there is more to love. Add features to your PC with Windows 7 by moving up to a more powerful edition. Want to personalize your desktop with photos? Safeguard your work with automatic network backups? You can move...

Exchange 2010 SP1 and Exchange Online (Office 365) incorporate federation to enable secure organization-to-organization free/busy and calendar sharing with other Exchange organizations. Also new is the ability for users to publish their calendar in iCal...

I wanted to give you a quick pointer to a very interesting blog post that discusses the subject of Exchange database fragmentation on incorrectly formatted NTFS volumes, what the ramifications of those situations can be and how to deal with them. It has...

The Microsoft Surface software platform is ideal for any scenario in which users need to interact on the same device—whether it’s on a Surface device or on a Windows 7 touch PC. Microsoft Surface features many exciting, new changes that range from a slimmer...

IT administrators will continue to play an active role in security and risk management, even when leveraging cloud services as a utility. This edition of TechNet ON collects key guidance and resources to help address the security requirements in your...

You can maintain and customize a Microsoft Office 2010 installation by using any of the methods that are described in this blog. Microsoft Office 2010 provides the following methods for customizing and maintaining Office installations: Config.xml   ...

This demo is the first in a series of three focused on how to plan, securely deploy, and manage your migration to the Windows 7 operating system. In this demo, you’ll learn how you can use the Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit 5.5 to streamline...

Learn how to use Application Virtualization to deploy applications on Office 2010 client computers without installing applications on each computer. Application Virtualization (App-V) provides a method to deploy and manage applications on client computers...

Microsoft Office Web Apps are convenient online companions to Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote that give you the freedom to work with your Office documents from virtually anywhere with a supported browser. Get started free at http://office.microsoft...