News Building Windows 8 Blog detailing the developments of Windows 8 Virtualizing storage for scale, resiliency, and efficiency In this post, we are going to dive into a feature in the Windows 8 Developer Preview. Storage Spaces are going to dramatically improve how you manage large volumes of storage...

News Get your SQL Server Database ready for SQL Azure !! http://blogs.technet.com/b/dataplatforminsider/archive/2012/01/06/get-your-sql-server-database-ready-for-sql-azure.aspx Last chance to add to the #SQLSERVERFAMILY http://blogs.technet.com/b/dataplatforminsider/archive/2011/12/31/last-chance-to...

News Microsoft Office 365 Cloud-Based Productivity Service Now Helps Customers Comply with HIPAA Privacy and Security Standards With reimbursements falling and medical loss ratio minimums rising, hospitals, physicians, and health plans are under unprecedented pressure to drive down operating costs while...

News SharePoint Technologies 5 Tips on Effectively Planning for SharePoint 2010 Migration Mixed feelings about SharePoint abound in organizations today. Some say it's great and others don't want anything to do with it. That’s sooo 2007. Rest assured, with proper planning of your SharePoint 2010 migration...

News Premier OpsVault — Operate and Optimize IT http://www.opsvault.com Microsoft Premier Support UK - Site Home - TechNet Blogs http://blogs.technet.com/b/mspremuk/ Antigen & Forefront Forefront Team Blog - Site Home - TechNet Blogs http://blogs.technet.com/b/forefront Forefront Server Security...

News System Center Operations Manager 2012 Release Candidate Shipped System Center Operations Manager 2012 provides deep application diagnostics and infrastructure monitoring that can help you ensure the predictable performance and availability of vital applications and offers a comprehensive view of...

News SharePoint Technologies Announcing the Microsoft SharePoint Team Blog on SharePoint 2010 We are very excited to announce that The Microsoft SharePoint Team Blog has moved to a SharePoint 2010 hosted environment at http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/blog. The SharePoint Team Blog has become a communications...

News Microsoft has released a hotfix that you should install on your Windows Server 2003 R2 DFSR servers to address a protocol interoperability issue with up-level DFSR servers. The hotfix is described in the following KB: DFSR fails from a computer that is running Windows Server 2008 R2 to a computer...

News Security Intelligence Report Video Series, On the Spot - Paris http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/edge/security-intelligence-report-video-series-on-the-spot-paris.aspx Watch as Bernard Ourghanlian, National Technology Officer and Chief Security Officer for Microsoft France discusses the Security...

News SQL Server 2005 SP4 RTM Now Available for Download http://blogs.technet.com/b/dataplatforminsider/archive/2010/12/20/sql-server-2005-sp4-rtm-now-available-for-download.aspx The RTM version of Service Pack 4 (SP4) for Microsoft SQL Server 2005 is now available for download, and includes SQL Server...

News Forefront Endpoint Protection 2010 Forefront Endpoint Protection 2010 enables businesses to align security and management to improve endpoint protection while greatly reducing operational costs. It builds on System Center Configuration Manager 2007 R2 and R3, allowing you to use your existing client...

News Antigen & Forefront http://blogs.technet.com/forefront http://blogs.technet.com/fssnerds Exchange You Had Me At EHLO... http://msexchangeteam.com/default.aspx http://blogs.technet.com/msukucc Hosted Messaging Collaboration Office Communication Server & LiveMeeting Office Communications Server...

News Microsoft Acquires Opalis Software Microsoft Acquires Opalis Software, a Toronto-based private company that is a leader in IT process automation software. Opalis will become a wholly-owned subsidiary of Microsoft. Their products include: · Prepackaged workflows and automation expertise for the common...

News Windows Server 2008 R2 e-Book Available as Free Download Introducing Windows Server 2008 R2 is a deep-dive work, that'll get you up to speed on how R2's new features and capabilities work, including Hyper-V and RDS virtualization, management, IIS and the new web application platform and, of course...

News SQL Server 2008 Ups Pressure On Competitors; Microsoft Boosts Manageability, BI, Performance, Productivity, and Security For the majority of mission-critical applications today, SQL Server 2008 already has the strongest combination of price/performance, manageability, security, and DBA productivity...

News Exchange You Had Me At EHLO...: http://msexchangeteam.com/default.aspx Microsoft UK UC Blog: http://blogs.technet.com/msukucc Office Communication Server & LiveMeeting Office Communications Server Team Blog: http://communicationsserverteam.com Office Communicator Team Blog: http://communicatorteam...

News Biztalk Server Unia - Labor Union Tightens Accounting, Improves Member Outreach with Integrated Solution http://www.microsoft.com/casestudies/Case_Study_Detail.aspx?casestudyid=4000006252 GameStop - Video Game Retailer Improves Online Experience, Store Traffic with E-Commerce Upgrade http://www...

News Privacy in the Cloud Computing Era: A Microsoft Perspective http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=12977514&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474 Based on the past decade of experience examining and addressing privacy challenges in the evolving...

News http://msexchangeteam.com/default.aspx http://blogs.msdn.com/outlook/default.aspx http://communicationsserverteam.com Downloads Antigen & Forefront UDP Update for Forefront TMG MBE This update causes TMG MBE to use random source ports for UDP sessions...

News Monitoring Malware Through the Edge with Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=11014550&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474 By Yuri Diogenes, Security Support Engineer, Microsoft ISA and...

News Technical RollUp http://blogs.technet.com/trm/default.aspx Documents Accessing External Data Sources with Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services 2005 http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa964120(SQL.90).aspx Accessing SQL Server Databases with PHP http://msdn...

News Windows Server 2008 R2 Reviewers Guide www.microsoft.com/presspass/events/winhec/docs/WindowsServer08R2BETARG.doc Introduction to Windows Server 2008 R2 http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/en/us/r2.aspx Welcome to Windows 7 http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows...

News SMS&MOM http://blogs.technet.com/smsandmom/default.aspx The Deployment Guys http://blogs.technet.com/deploymentguys Data Protection Manager 2007 SP1 RTM DPM 2007 SP1 RTM’d on 19/12/2008. Along with the earlier update, this release enhances many of the core features...

News Microsoft Internet information Server Start-up your Web business with Microsoft BizSpark Starting up a Web business, especially in this economy, isn’t easy. Microsoft wants to make it easier. A few weeks ago we announced Microsoft BizSpark , a new program specifically for Web start...

News SMS&MOM http://blogs.technet.com/smsandmom/default.aspx Nexus SC: The System Center Team Blog http://blogs.technet.com/systemcenter/ Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007 International Client Packs released Two ICP packs for ConfigMgr have been released....