Four Microsoft Lync systems engineers are Live on reddit answering questions. Ask them anything about Microsoft Lync. Give them your feedback on Lync Server 2010. See what others are asking. Join the conversation More to come, Mitch ...

The new edition of TechNet ON is designed to help you keep your Windows servers in top condition and make your job of managing and maintaining Windows servers, well… less of a job. And the first thing that job shouldn’t is a reactive manual...

Microsoft has released the latest Security Bulletin for December 2010 . For more information about the bulletin advance notification service, see Microsoft Security Bulletin Advance Notification . For information about how to receive automatic...

You can now register to download the 120-day trial or the virtual hard drive 180-day trial of Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 1. You can also review the Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 system requirements or Microsoft Exchange Server...

Two limited Community Technology Previews will be available before the end of 2010: The SQL Azure Reporting CTP and the SQL Azure Data Sync CTP 2 . SQL Azure Reporting enables developers to enhance their applications by embedding cloud based reports...

Microsoft yesterday announced Silverlight 5 . With beta availability scheduled for the first half of 2011, the next release of Silverlight sports more than 40 new features, including support for running Silverlight applications with desktop features in...

For the month of December, Microsoft is offering a free four-day online training program to help you make the transition to the cloud. The program is four hours per day for each of the four days. Find the dates and times for your region and register here...

December 1, 2010, 9:00 AM Pacific Time -- In this webcast you will see several demos of the new features introduced in the Windows Azure November 2010 Release (DPE110CAL), including Virtual Machine Role and Elevated Privileges which can make it easier...

Microsoft yesterday released an update for Windows Internet Explorer 9 Beta. This update improves the reliability of Internet Explorer 9 Beta in various scenarios. For more on what’s in the update and to download the update package, view this...

Microsoft yesterday released the latest preview of Internet Explorer 9, featuring dramatic performance gains in its Chakra JavaScript engine. Since first demonstrated at PDC in 2009, Chakra in Internet Explorer has increased JavaScript performance...

Download the Microsoft Lync Server 2010 trial and see how Lync delivers a connected experience that transforms communication into more collaborative, engaging and accessible interaction from virtually anywhere your users may be. With Lync Server...

Be sure to check out the new design on the TechNet home page . Last week, we described the upcoming changes and they are now live on TechNet. The new page enables us to update more content, more often. And speaking of new content, the new edition of TechNet...

A new study ( download PDF ) by Microsoft, Accenture and WSP Environment & Energy, shows that, for large deployments, Microsoft’s cloud solutions can reduce energy use and carbon emissions by more than 30 percent when compared to their corresponding...

Microsoft has delivered the community technology previews of new and enhanced services for Windows Azure AppFabric , our cloud middleware platform for developing, deploying and managing business applications. In addition, we also announced the SQL Azure...

While Windows 7 last month celebrated its first year with more than 240 million licenses, another big milestone looms: It was 25 years ago this month that Microsoft unveiled its first operating system with a graphical user interface, called Windows. And...

The newly launched SharePoint Online Planning and Administration resource center provides key resources for planning, administration and operation of SharePoint Online, a cloud-based service that helps businesses provide collaboration, business intelligence...

New to TechNet, the Updates for Project Server 2010 page provides resources for IT professionals who are responsible for installing software updates on Project Server 2010. Software updates are a subset of an upgrade, so the software update deployment...

The new TechNet ON package , featuring resources and new articles for SQL Server 2008 R2 migration and management, is now live on TechNet. If you are still deciding whether an upgrade to SQL Server 2008 R2 is the right move for your organization, we’ve...

Created by the group that developed the Windows 7 certification exam, the Windows 7 Deployment Learning Portal offers a free online assessment that covers key areas of the deployment process such as p reparing for deployment, configuring a Windows 7 image...

Microsoft today unveiled Office 365 , a new service that brings your familiar Office software together with SharePoint, Exchange and Lync in the cloud. Available worldwide next year, Office 365 will replace the Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS...

Windows 7 Deployment Firestarter November 2 – New York November 4 – Iselin NJ Each Session is 9:00 AM-5:00 PM (Welcome 8:30 AM) Windows 7 gives IT professionals more tools to streamline deployment and reduce or eliminate impact...

For those of you still running the beta version of Microsoft Office 2010, you have until Halloween, October 21, 2010 until the beta expires. If you want to install the released version of Office 2010, you will have to uninstall the beta software...

TechNet Flash subscribers received an incorrect subject line for the current newsletter, dated October 6, 2010. The subject line should have read SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 2 released . More to come, Mitch Subscribe to the TechNet Flash...

Microsoft announced that Microsoft Dynamics SL 2011 , its enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution designed for midsize project-driven organizations, will be generally available in the second quarter of 2011 in English in the United States, Canada...

Both the Service Pack and Feature Pack updates are now ready for download on the Microsoft Download Center. Service Pack 2 for SQL Server 2008 includes new compatibility features with SQL Server 2008 R2, product improvements based on requests from the...