After 5 years at Microsoft I have decided to leave. An opportunity came by that allows me to get back into operations and (hopefully) drive some positive change. The hardest part of this decision has been discussion account transition with my clients...

Updated to reflect the “3 concurrent programs” for “Starter Edition” Key Features Windows 7 Starter Windows 7 Home Basic (EM only) Windows 7 Home Premium Windows 7 Professional Windows 7 Enterprise/ Windows...

Today, the System Center team is excited to share with you our plan to release System Center Configuration Manager 2007 R3 . This new release of the ConfigMgr is packed with some extremely cool features, which over the coming months we plan to share with...

Just giving you a heads up that Exchange 2007 Sp2 was released yesterday (version 08.02.0176.002). Below is some information regarding this release. Exchange 2007 SP2 Download Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 2 (SP2) has been designed...

Overview Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) is the recommended process and toolset to automate desktop and server deployment. MDT provides you with the following benefits: Unified tools and processes required for desktop and server deployment in...

TechEd DVD’s: There aren’t any being published this year. They’ve moved to putting all the content online and having subscribers to the online content for those that didn’t pay to go to Teched. The main site is here: http://www.msteched.com...

For those who haven’t seen this tool from Office Labs it is pretty handy. It works with Office 2010 as well. http://officelabs.com/projects/forgottenattachmentdetector/Pages/default.aspx

UPDATE: 2:20pm MST 8/18/2009 now live at: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=c6d27da1-ba2c-4570-a491-c0d7b39ede8b&displaylang=en It is now public and can be downloaded from the following URL: Ø Download Microsoft...

Because I've been asked 1 million times (no exageration) August 7, 2009 Volume License customers with an existing Software Assurance license will be able to download Windows 7 RTM in English via the Volume License Service Center. The rest of...

Key Features Windows® 7 Starter Windows® 7 Home Basic (EM only) Windows® 7 Home Premium Windows ® 7 Professional Windows® 7 Enterprise/ Windows® 7 Ultimate Windows® Taskbar & Jump Lists √ √ ...

Our Windows Team Blog has announce the availability of Windows Virtual PC and Windows XP mode Release Candidate. RC is an important milestone in our path to final delivery of Windows Virtual PC and Windows XP Mode. You can download the RC bits from...

From the App-V group... Today, we announced the immediate availability of Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V) 4.6 Beta. At TechEd EMEA we announced our commitment to ship the next version of App-V in H1 2010. In March of this year, as part...

Category RC Content Description Location Target How to Use This Document Training Exchange 2010 Overview TechNet Partner & Customer Use this training for IT Pros as a general overview ...

http://www.osnews.com/story/21887/Linus_Microsoft_Hatred_Is_a_Disease _ Great artical. rs

Yes this is all over the place but I'm posting as well. Just finished the install of RTM. When will Windows 7 RTM be available for download? For Business Customers: If you are a Volume License (VL) customer with an existing Software Assurance...

http://www.microsoft.com/protect/yourself/password/checker.mspx Password Checker does not collect, store, or transmit information beyond the computer that you use to access Password Checker. The image works on your computer desktop until you navigate...

Microsoft has a Virtualization Support Wizard on the internet that can help them determine if a virtualization configuration is supported without calling Microsoft support. · The URL of the Wizard is http://www.windowsservercatalog.com/svvp.aspx?svvppage...

971878 Steps to enable Exchange 2007 store tracing for calendar issues http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;971878 971435 Steps to enable Exchange 2000 and Exchange 2003 Calendar Store tracing http://support.microsoft.com...

Personalization We made a number of changes to Personalization for the RC. One of the most visible changes is the addition of prominent theme names to our gallery. Another prominent change is the updated Desktop Background images themselves, which...

Windows 7 Device Experience In Windows 7 we introduced several new features to improve how users discover and use devices that are connected to their PC. These new features are supported by system and platform enhancements that define how device makers...

Useful Links · What is the Azure Services Platform? · Why Use the Azure Services Platform? · Wiki - Windows Azure Platform · Windows Azure · Windows Azure- Blog · Azure for Developers Official downloads Windows Azure SDK...

Microsoft Data Platform Vision SQL Server 2008 delivers a rich set of integrated services that enable you to do more with your data such as query, search, synchronize, report, and analyze . Useful Links Ø SQL Server 2008 Overview Ø SQL...

: http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2009/06/25/service-pack-2-update.aspx Service Pack 2 Update. The public update for the Service Pack 2 expiration date issue is now available for download. The update can be applied before or after Service...

From http://communicationsserverteam.com/archive/2009/07/01/537.aspx published July 1st. "Federation is an important goal for the Office Communications Server team and we are excited to announce several changes to public IM federation between Office...

Exchange CXP team has released Update Rollup 8 for Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1 (KB 968012) to the download center. The release of t he rollup via Microsoft Update will happen on May 26. As in the previous rollups, we have done a mix of product...