The latest version of Silverlight is available for creating rich media applications with attractive user interfaces. See how Silverlight is being used in the real world and check out the Silverlight Deployment Guide v2 , which helps you plan for a corporate...

May 2 – Toronto | May 4 – Detroit | May 6 – Chicago | May 9 – Indianapolis | May 11 – Dallas | May 13 - Columbus The Springboard Series Tour hits the road again next month. This six-city tour brings the top product...

Service Pack 1 is now available for the 2010 family of products, including Office, SharePoint, Project Server, FAST, Search Server, and Groove Server. For more on deployment, see these articles: Apply Office 2010 Service Pack 1 and Deploy Service Pack...

VMM 2008 R2 with SP1 trial software evaluation--now featuring support for Dynamic Memory and RemoteFX--is now available for download in 64-bit editions for Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean...

System Center Configuration Manager 2012 helps IT empower people to use the devices and applications they need to be productive, while maintaining corporate compliance and control. Using System Center Configuration Manager 2012, organizations can...

Windows Intune, Microsoft’s new cloud-based PC management and security solution, launched yesterday at the Microsoft Management Summit (MMS) in Las Vegas. Intune is for organizations of all sizes, allowing IT to manage PCs over the Internet at a...

FOPE 11.1 adds a number of improvements including advance routing, reduced false positives via “skiplisting” and a secure channel for B2B communication. If you are an existing FOPE customer, you are automatically provided these new updates...

We are pleased to announce the global launch of the Office 365 service, offering affordable, secure, pay-as-you-go productivity services. Download the trial today . Administrators should also check out these new resources: Introduction for Office...

TechNet Flash readers are being offered a special deal on a TechNet Plus subscription . Get 12 months for just $297 (Reg. $349). Just use the promo code TNF10 to get the special price. Through TN Plus you can still get your hands on the Windows 7 Beta...

Gartner recently published its MarketScope for Enterprise Instant Messaging and Presence , evaluating the players in the market against several criteria, including innovation, sales strategy, market understanding, marketing strategy, marketing execution...

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Exchange Server 2007 SP3 is available for download . This third service pack for Exchange 2007 enables Exchange 2007 to be installed on the Windows Server 2008 R2 version of the operating system. In addition to supporting the Windows Server 2008 R2 server...

Check out the Microsoft Desktop Player , now in beta, to find contextual content for IT professionals and developers based on your adoption lifecycle. The Desktop Player filters content by topic based on your role and where you are in your adoption lifecycle...

The beta release of System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 is now ready for download. VMM 2012 is a management solution for the virtualized datacenter, enabling you to configure and manage your virtualization host, networking, and storage resources...

As noted in the Windows Blog , Microsoft today revealed two new desktop virtualization features that will be included in the upcoming Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 and an updated Remote Desktop client for Windows 7 SP1. For Windows Server...

The Windows Sysinternals team as brought out a new utility, called Disk2vhd, that creates VHD (Virtual Hard Disk - Microsoft’s Virtual Machine disk format) versions of physical disks for use in Microsoft Virtual PC or Microsoft Hyper-V virtual machines...

The SQL Server 2008 R2 Digital Tour has started. Find a host of resources on SQL Server 2008 R2, including videos, whitepapers, e-books, events, test drives and downloads . Also check out these related resources: · SQL Server 2008 R2 Books Online...

Version 8.0.6362.143 of the Office Live Meeting console and add-in brings improvements and fixes that include: · Improvements to text display on PPT slides in recordings · Users using IE browser with security setting is set to “Do not save encrypted...

Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway (TMG) 2010 Service Pack 1 (SP1) introduces new features and functionality to Forefront TMG 2010 Standard and Enterprise editions, including enhancements to URL filtering, enhanced branch office support, secure...

Announce today at TechEd 2010 in New Orleans, the public beta of Windows 7/ Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 will be available by the end of July. Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 will add a dynamic memory enhancement to Hyper-V, allowing administrators...

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...

FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint Beta provides powerful high-end search delivered through SharePoint. It includes all the search features and integration capabilities of SharePoint Server 2010, plus the use of context to provide specific search...

Support (including new security updates) ends July 13, 2010 for Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2), Windows 2000 Server and Professional. Migration to the latest OS or installation of the most current service pack is recommended. Check out your resources...

What’s all the fuss about Windows 7 “GodMode”? It probably has more to do with the moniker than anything else, but as The Deployment Guys point out in their blog, that’s not the name used internally here at Microsoft. The so-called “GodMode” is actually...

This set of virtual machines enables you to demonstrate and test Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 in a fully configured environment with sample data. In order to run this demo you will need the following: · Windows Server 2008 R2 with the Hyper-V role...