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Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V: This document is the top-level functional specification (TLFS) of the second-generation Microsoft hypervisor. It specifies the externally-visible behavior. The document assumes familiarity with the goals of the project and the high-level hypervisor architecture.

Overview

This document is the top-level functional specification (TLFS) of the second-generation Microsoft hypervisor. It specifies the externally visible behavior of the Microsoft hypervisor, a component of Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Windows Server virtualization. The document assumes familiarity with the goals of the project and the high-level hypervisor architecture.
This specification is provided under the Microsoft Open Specification Promise. For further details on the Microsoft Open Specification Promise, please refer to: http://www.microsoft.com/interop/osp/default.mspx.
The Hypervisor Functional Specifications document specifies the externally visible behavior of the Microsoft hypervisor, a component of Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Windows Server virtualization. The specifications can be used to understand the functions of the hypervisor and implement a compatible solution.
Specification Outline
The following is the outline of the information contained in the complete Hypervisor Funcational Specification:

Introduction
Basic Data Types, Concepts and Notation
Feature and Interface Discovery
Hypercall Interface
Partition Management
Physical Hardware Management
Resource Management
Guest Physical Address Spaces
Intercepts
Virtual Processor Management
Virtual Processor Execution
Virtual MMU and Caching
Virtual Interrupt Control
Inter-Partition Communication
Timers
Message Formats
Partition Save and Restore
Scheduler
Event Logging
Guest Debugging Support
Statistics
Booting
System Properties
Appendix

View the state of Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 AOS instances
View information about AOS instances such as version and configuration information
View users connected to AOS instances
View Event Log Messages for AOS instances
View batch jobs and batch task information
Start and stop AOS instances
Receive alerts when AOS instances stop running

Please refer to the Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 Management Pack user guide for more details.
Release History

6/11/2009 - Original release of the English, version 1.0.0.50

Management of critical Hyper-V services that affect virtual machines and host server functionality
Management of host server logical disks that affect virtual machine health
Full representation of virtualization in a single Hyper-V host server, including virtual networks, virtual machines, and guest computers
Monitoring of virtual machine hardware components that affect availability

Release History

6/19/2009 - Original release of the English version, version 6.0.6633.0

The Microsoft® .NET Micro Framework is a platform that enables developers to more quickly develop embedded systems that are smart, securely connected, and easier to manage. With the version 3.0 release, the .NET Micro Framework enables developers to create powerful embedded systems that are more securely connected through a variety of wired and wireless protocols. With this Porting Kit you’ll be able to create, modify, and build Micro Framework firmware images that are customized to your needs. Using the Solution Wizard, you can select the right set of features, libraries, and memory settings to provide the optimal image size for your needs. You can then write new drivers, leverage native code routines through interop, and deploy them on your device hardware. To get started, please read the introductory material in the Porting Kit documentation. The documentation contains a lot of useful information on the Micro Framework architecture, build system, driver model, libraries, and how you these are used to create a new firmware image for your hardware. In addition, we are extending our very successful newsgroups to include groups specific to porting as well as the SDK so that you can exchange information with other engaged in the same process. You can find links to these newsgroups and other useful information at http://microsoft.com/netmf. As described in the Porting Kit license agreement, you are free to use this Porting Kit to build as many firmware images as you would like for testing purposes. The Porting Kit generates “evaluation firmware” images that are limited to 30 days of use. As soon as you decide to go to production, or even before that, please contact us at netmfbiz@microsoft.com to begin the process for licensing the unrestricted version of the firmware libraries. These are identical to the libraries already in the kit, but are not limited to 30 days of use. The Micro Framework Porting Kit supports the adaptation of the platform to specific hardware for processors using the RealView, Keil and GCC toolchains for the ARM processors (including Cortex) and the xxx toolchain for the ADI Blackfin processors (others?). This package comes with sample port for the following processors:

Atmel SAM9261_EK development board (Atmel AT91SAM9261)
Atmel SAM7X_EK development board (with the latest 512KB flash processor part)
Phytec phyCORE-ARM7/LPC2294
Rapid Development Kit PCM023 for NXP LPC2294 processor
Crossbow MOTE2 platform from Crossbow (for Marvell PXA271 processor)
Freescale i.MXS development kit (Freescale MC9328MXS)board for i.MXS processor

New uploads from your health and fitness monitoring devices take much less storage in your HealthVault account, so you can take frequent readings from multiple devices and always have plenty of space.
For each device you use, direct links to Web sites that work with your data make it easier to track your health and fitness and meet your wellness goals.
A more streamlined HealthVault Weight Gadget (formerly known as HealthVault Gadget) lets you upload your weight in one click from the Sidebar on your Windows Vista desktop.
You can opt to allow the Microsoft Customer Experience Improvement Program to send information to Microsoft (anonymously and automatically) about how Connection Center performs on your computer. We aggregate data from all participating users and learn from it to improve future Connection Center releases.
Also at your option, you can send an error report about any trouble in the installation process. Doing so allows us to send you a solution, if one is available, and make improvements.

Customize your 404 error pages with the Bing API Web Page Error Toolkit
For large web sites with extensive amounts of content, 2 to 10 percent of traffic is looking for pages that either don’t exist or have been moved. Most web servers return a generic 404 error page or a sitemap when a user’s desired page cannot be found. These unhelpful pages often result in a dead end for users.
With the re-architected, easily deployed Web Page Error Toolkit, you can create dynamic 404 pages that contain customized error messages along with search results seeded with relevant keywords to help your users move past the missing page and find the information they need.
The Toolkit is a customizable ASP.net application that replaces the default error page on your IIS server. The process works as follows:

A user's browser sends a request for a page that no longer exists at the request URL.
Your server identifies a 404 and executes the Toolkit.
Toolkit extracts keywords and renders them back to the user's browser.
User's browser sends a request to Bing API.
Bing API returns appropriate results to user's browser.
User's browser renders results in the context of the page that you have customized.

The Toolkit enables you to use the Bing API to return results for the specified domain and locale, control the number of results returned on your page, choose whether to offer spelling corrections, and customize your error message.
You also have the option of choosing from several keyword extraction strategies that are included with the install, or providing your own implementation.

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Deep Zoom Composer

Brief Description

Prepare images for use with the Deep Zoom feature in Silverlight 2

Overview

We are pleased to present a technology preview of Deep Zoom Composer, a tool to allow the preparation of images for use with the Deep Zoom feature currently being previewed in Silverlight 2. The new Deep Zoom technology in Silverlight allows users to see images on the Web like they never have before. The smooth in-place zooming and panning that Deep Zoom allows is a true advancement and raises the bar on what image viewing should be. High resolution images need to be prepared for use with Deep Zoom and this tool allows the user to create Deep Zoom composition files that control the zooming experience and then export all the necessary files for deployment with Silverlight 2.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=457b17b7-52bf-4bda-87a3-fa8a4673f8bf

Security, Policy & Compliance

IT Infrastructure Threat Modeling Guide

Brief Description

This Solution Accelerator provides you with a method to develop IT infrastructure threat modeling processes for your environment and prioritize your IT infrastructure security investments. The guide describes and considers the existing Microsoft Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) threat modeling process and uses it to establish a threat modeling process for IT infrastructure.

Overview

The IT Infrastructure Threat Modeling Guide provides an easy-to-understand method that enables you to develop threat models that can help prioritize investments in IT infrastructure security.
This Solution Accelerator consists of a release notes document Release Notes.rtf and a single compressed file, IT Infrastructure Threat Modeling Guide.zip, which includes the following components:

IT Infrastructure Threat Modeling Guide.docx. This Microsoft Word document provides guidance to help IT professionals develop and implement threat modeling processes for their IT environments. It includes the following chapters:
- Overview
- Chapter 1: IT Infrastructure Components
- Chapter 2: The IT Infrastructure Threat Model Portfolio
- Chapter 3: Applied Example – The Threat Modeling Process
IT Infrastructure Threat Modeling Guide.pptx. This Microsoft PowerPoint document is designed for use in a learning or lecture environment to present the concept of IT infrastructure threat modeling.

Send questions or feedback to us directly at secwish@microsoft.com.

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Microsoft Forefront Codename "Stirling" Beta Privacy Statement

Brief Description

This document describes the privacy policy for Microsoft® Forefront Client Security.

Overview

This document describes the privacy policy for Microsoft® Forefront Client Security.

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Hotfix and Security Update List: Windows Server 2008 SP2 and Windows Vista SP2

Brief Description

Hotfixes and Security Updates in Windows Server 2008 SP2 and Windows Vista SP2

Overview

Windows Server® 2008 Service Pack 2 and Windows Vista® Service Pack 2 include all the previously released updates for Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista. This document contains the list of Hotfixes and Security Updates in Windows Server 2008 SP2 and Windows Vista SP2. Many of these updates are available to the public on the Microsoft® Download Center and Windows® Update, while others are only available to specific customers or partners. It is a standard practice to include all of these updates in a service pack, and they are included in Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2 and Windows Vista Service Pack 2.

WHDC White Papers and Documentation

Brief Description

WHDC white papers and documentation for driver and hardware developers

Overview

White papers, documentation, and other resources for driver and hardware developers from the WHDC Web site.

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Office Live Update 1.4

Brief Description

The Office Live Update 1.4 for Microsoft Office Live Workspace beta makes working with Microsoft Office programs faster and lets you access workspaces from Microsoft Office Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.

Overview

Office Live Workspace is a free Web-based service for storing and sharing documents online. The Office Live Update 1.4 installs (1) Performance updates to make using Office Live Workspace with Microsoft Office programs faster; (2) Office Live Add-in for Microsoft Office to enable you to access your workspaces directly from Word, Excel, and PowerPoint; (3) Microsoft Office Live Workspace Plug-In for Firefox to allow users of the Mozilla Firefox browser to use Office Live Workspace with Microsoft Office
The Office Live Update 1.4 auto-detects and installs these necessary updates to ensure optimum performance:

MSRC 9x0 Cumulative Security Update
Update for Office 2007 (KB951944)
Update for Windows Vista (KB 933860)
Update for Windows Vista (KB 945145)
Update for Windows Vista (KB 945435)
Update for Windows Vista (KB 948531)
Windows Live Sign-in Assistant

The Office Live Add-in installs new menu options in the 2007 Microsoft Office system and a toolbar in Microsoft Office XP and Microsoft Office 2003. You can use these menu options and toolbars to open documents located in Office Live Workspace directly from Office Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. You will also be able to save files directly from Word, Excel, and PowerPoint to Office Live Workspace.
If you use the Firefox browser, the Office Live Workspace Plug-In for Firefox lets you open, edit, and save Microsoft Office documents in Office Live Workspace directly from the browser using Office Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. Firefox is a registered trademark of the Mozilla Foundation.

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Microsoft Select License, Open License, Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) License, and Full-Packaged Product (FPP) License Downgrade Rights

Brief Description

License Downgrade Rights

Overview

Downgrade rights grant the right to use prior versions of Microsoft software. Microsoft Volume Licensing programs include specific downgrade rights. The chart below compares volume licensing downgrade rights with those acquired through OEM and FPP licenses.

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Wednesday, June 24, 2009 8:33 AM

Interesting Downloads for Week Ending – 06-12-2009….

Infrastructure Development, Operations & Maintenance

· Cumulative Update for Media Center for Windows Vista for x64-based Systems (KB967632)

· Cumulative Update for Media Center TVPack for Windows Vista (KB966315)

· Cumulative Update for Media Center for Windows Vista (KB967632)

· Cumulative Update for Media Center TVPack for Windows Vista for x64-based Systems (KB966315)

· Update for Dynamic IP Restrictions for IIS 7.0 - Beta (x86)

· Microsoft Dynamic IP Restrictions for IIS 7.0 - Beta (x64)

· Infrastructure Planning and Design

· Microsoft Dynamic IP Restrictions for IIS 7.0 - Beta (x86)

· Deploying Microsoft Office Communicator 2007 R2 for Mobile Devices

· Update for Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 (KB969907)

· Project Server 2007 with Service Pack 1 - Trial Version

· Microsoft Office Communications Online Service Level Agreement (SLA)

· Microsoft Exchange Hosted Filtering Service Level Agreement (SLA)

· Microsoft Office Live Meeting Service Level Agreement (SLA)

· Microsoft Exchange Online Service Level Agreement (SLA)

· Microsoft SharePoint Online Service Level Agreement (SLA)

· Risk and Health Assessment Program for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server – Scoping Tool v1.4

· Unified Communications Phones and Peripherals Datasheet

· Windows Media Services 2008 R2 RC Remote Server Administration Tool

· Windows Media Services 2008 for Windows Server 2008 R2 Release Candidate

· Office Project Server 2007 Technical Library in Compiled Help format

· Updates for Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 Help

· System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 Documentation

· Microsoft Office Communicator 2007 R2 Trial Download

· Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Hotfix KB 972041

· Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Trial Download

· Microsoft Office Communicator 2007 R2 Hotfix KB 972042

· What is the Deployment Image Servicing and Management Tool

· Windows 7 Desktop Deployment Overview

· What's New in the Windows User State Migration Tool

· Windows Server 2008 R2 Documentation & Resources

· Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Management Pack for System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2

· Risk and Health Assessment Program for Cluster Server – Scoping Tool v2.2

· Risk and Health Assessment Program for Microsoft SQL Server – Scoping Tool v1.1

· MOSDAL (Microsoft Online Services Diagnostics and Logging) Support Toolkit

Solutions & Solution Development

· Microsoft FRx 6.7 Service Pack 10 (R10670) - McKesson Pathways 9.x, 11.x, 14.x

· Microsoft Dynamics Partner Registration Agreement (PRA)

· TechReady 7 - BizTalk Customer Advisory Team Presentations

· TechEd 2009 (North America) - BizTalk Server Presentations

· TechReady 8 - BizTalk Customer Advisory Team Presentations

· BizTalk Adapter Pack Migration Tool

· Windows 7 RC Training Kit for Developers

· Windows CE 5.0 Platform Builder Monthly Update (May 2009)

· Windows Embedded CE 6.0 Monthly Update (May 2009)

· Microsoft Silverlight Installation Experience White Paper and Sample Code (Apr 2009)

· Open XML File Format Converter for Mac 1.0.3

· SharePoint IT Pro and Developer Training Resources Sheet

· BizTalk ESB Toolkit 2.0

· Microsoft® Windows Mobile® 6 Consumer Solution Accelerator

· System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 Software Development Documentation

· Microsoft XNA Framework Redistributable 3.1

· Microsoft XNA Game Studio 3.1

· Competitor's Pack for the 2009 Summer Scripting Games

· Microsoft Exchange Server MAPI Editor

· Bing: New Features Relevant to Webmasters white paper

· Extensible Application Markup Language (XAML)

· Microsoft Visual Studio International Feature Pack 2.0 Beta

· Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Technical Library in Compiled Help format

· Microsoft Office Groove Server 2007 Technical Library in Compiled Help format

· Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 Technical Library in Compiled Help format

· Office SharePoint Server 2007 Technical Library in Compiled Help format

· Microsoft Search Server 2008 Technical Library in Compiled Help format

· 2007 Office Resource Kit Technical Library in Compiled Help format

· Visual Studio 2010 SDK Beta 1

Security, Policy & Compliance

· Update for Windows Mail Junk E-mail Filter [June 2009] (KB905866)

· Update for Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 Junk Email Filter (KB970011)

· Security Features in Microsoft Online Services

· Update for Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 Junk Email Filter (KB970012)

· June 2009 Security Release ISO Image

· Microsoft® Windows® Malicious Software Removal Tool (KB890830) x64

· Microsoft® Windows® Malicious Software Removal Tool (KB890830)

· System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 SCW Roles and Security Hardening Guide for Windows Server 2008

· SQL Server 2008 Security DataSheet

· Extended Security Update Inventory Tool

· Forefront Threat Management Gateway Beta 3

Other

· Microsoft Canada Documents

· Microsoft Works 4 File Converter

· Windows Media® Components for QuickTime

The Dynamic IP Restrictions Extension for IIS provides IT Professionals and Hosters a configurable module that helps mitigate or block Denial of Service Attacks or cracking of passwords through brute-force by temporarily blocking Internet Protocol (IP) addresses of HTTP clients who follow a pattern that could be conducive to one of such attacks. This module can be configured such that the analysis and blocking could be done at the Web Server or the Web Site level. The module includes the following features:

Seamless integration into IIS 7.0 Manager.
Dynamically blocking of requests from IP address based on either of the following criteria:
- The number of concurrent requests.
- The number of requests over a period of time.
Support for static list of IPs that are permanently denied or allowed access to the Web Site.
Support for static list of Domain Names that are permanently denied or allowed access to the Web Site.
Blocking of requests can be configurable at the Web Site or Web Server level.
Configurable deny actions allows IT Administrators to specify what response would be returned to the client. The module support return status codes 403, 404 or blocking the requests entirely.
Logging of denied requests in W3C format.
Real-time display of currently blocked IP Addresses by using IIS Manager.
Support for IPv6 addresses.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=937fba06-2338-4394-8c20-228806c498ed

Infrastructure Planning and Design

Brief Description

The Infrastructure Planning and Design (IPD) guides are the next version of Windows Server System Reference Architecture. The guides in this series help clarify and streamline design processes for Microsoft infrastructure technologies, with each guide addressing a unique infrastructure technology or scenario.

Overview

Infrastructure Planning and Design guides share a common structure, including:

Definition of the technical decision flow through the planning process.
Listing of decisions to be made and the commonly available options and considerations.
Relating the decisions and options to the business in terms of cost, complexity, and other characteristics.
Framing decisions in terms of additional questions to the business to ensure a comprehensive alignment with the appropriate business landscape.

These guides complement product documentation by focusing on infrastructure design options.
Each guide leads the reader through critical infrastructure design decisions, in the appropriate order, evaluating the available options for each decision against its impact on critical characteristics of the infrastructure. The IPD Series highlights when service and infrastructure goals should be validated with the organization and provides additional questions that should be asked of service stakeholders and decision makers.
IPD consists of the following downloadable packages:

New! SharePoint Online—Evaluating Software-plus-Services
Exchange Online—Evaluating Software-plus-Services
Internet Information Services 7.0
IPD Series Introduction
Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.5
Microsoft Enterprise Desktop Virtualization
Microsoft SQL Server 2008
Selecting the Right NAP Architecture
Selecting the Right Virtualization Technology
System Center Configuration Manager 2007 SP1 with R2
System Center Data Protection Manager 2007 with SP1
System Center Operations Manager 2007
System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008
Windows Deployment Services
Windows Optimized Desktop Scenarios
Windows Server 2008 Active Directory Domain Services
Windows Server 2008 File Services
Windows Server 2008 Print Services
Windows Server 2008 Terminal Services
Windows Server Virtualization (for Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V and Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1)

The guides are available as individual downloads or as a single all-in-one package.
Note Windows Optimized Desktop Scenarios is available as an individual download only.
Send questions or feedback to us directly at SATfdbk@microsoft.com

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=ad3921fb-8224-4681-9064-075fdf042b0c

Microsoft Dynamic IP Restrictions for IIS 7.0 - Beta (x86)

Brief Description

The Dynamic IP Restrictions Extension for IIS provides IT Professionals and Hosters a configurable module that helps mitigate or block Denial of Service Attacks or cracking of passwords through brute-force by temporarily blocking Internet Protocol (IP) addresses of HTTP clients.

Overview

The Dynamic IP Restrictions Extension for IIS provides IT Professionals and Hosters a configurable module that helps mitigate or block Denial of Service Attacks or cracking of passwords through brute-force by temporarily blocking Internet Protocol (IP) addresses of HTTP clients who follow a pattern that could be conducive to one of such attacks. This module can be configured such that the analysis and blocking could be done at the Web Server or the Web Site level. The module includes the following features:

Seamless integration into IIS 7.0 Manager.
Dynamically blocking of requests from IP address based on either of the following criteria:
- The number of concurrent requests.
- The number of requests over a period of time.
Support for static list of IPs that are permanently denied or allowed access to the Web Site.
Support for static list of Domain Names that are permanently denied or allowed access to the Web Site.
Blocking of requests can be configurable at the Web Site or Web Server level.
Configurable deny actions allows IT Administrators to specify what response would be returned to the client. The module support return status codes 403, 404 or blocking the requests entirely.
Logging of denied requests in W3C format.
Real-time display of currently blocked IP Addresses by using IIS Manager.
Support for IPv6 addresses.

A thumbnail photo of the device
Hardware type
Name of the partner that produces the device
Product name
A brief description of the device
URL for the partner's Unified Communications landing page

If the topics in this file do not appear as you expect (you see "Page cannot be displayed" or "Action canceled," for example), see the Instructions section on this page.
This guide is a compiled Help file and opens in HTML Help.
This content is also available on the Web.

The Office Communicator 2007 R2 contains new collaboration and communication capabilities that can now be accessed from your desktop PC, a public Internet kiosk using Communicator Web Access or a Microsoft Windows Mobile® device using Office Communicator Mobile, helping users operate with more mobility and productivity than ever before.
New capabilities include:

With one click share your desktop with colleagues, and share and edit documents in real time
Invite customer and partners via the web to a sharing session hosted by you
Forward calls to your team or have a delegate answer calls on your behalf
Schedule an audio call through Outlook and manage the call through the Communicator conversation window
Have a video conversation with colleagues in high resolution

Note:

This trial software is intended for evaluation purposes only.
When the 180-day evaluation period expires, you can either remove the evaluation copy or replace it with an appropriately licensed version of the product.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=535637af-d92f-41b1-bf0c-54a526a88247

Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Hotfix KB 972041

Brief Description

This download contains an update for Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2.

Overview

This hotfix download for Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2 is described in the Knowledge Base article 972041.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=b3b02475-150c-41fa-844a-c10a517040f4

Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Trial Download

Brief Description

Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2, built on Active Directory and integrated with Exchange Server and Microsoft Office applications, delivers streamlined communications including software-powered VoIP, Presence, enterprise IM, and Web conferencing. You can implement these capabilities alongside your existing telephony infrastructure, while providing the operational control required.

Overview

Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2 delivers streamlined communications for your users so they can find and communicate with the right person, right now, from the applications they use most (like Office Outlook). You are able to deliver a variety of software-powered communications solutions, including enterprise telephony, on-premise audio, video, and web conferencing and enterprise instant messaging, while maintaining the operational control required and without expensive infrastructure and network upgrades.
This Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Trial Download includes both editions of the server: Enterprise Edition and Standard Edition.
Note:

This trial software is intended for evaluation purposes only.
When the 180-day evaluation period expires, you can either remove the evaluation copy or replace it with an appropriately licensed version of the product.
There is no product support for this trial. You are welcome to share your trial experiences with others and to ask for advice by participating in the forums.
To evaluate Microsoft Office Communicator 2007 R2 with Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2, click here.
To evaluate Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 Speech Server, click here.
Please visit the documentation download page for the latest product documentation and release notes.
Public IM Connectivity for enterprise IM is available and requires a per-user, per-month subscription license that is in addition to the Office Communications Server Client Access License (CAL). No trial or evaluation is available for the public IM connectivity service. However, customers have the option of purchasing a small number of public IM connectivity licenses so that their company can try the service, and then increase the number of licensed users once they find the service meets their needs.

A number of synthetic transactions ensure the Exchange servers are available and responding in a timely manner. The synthetic transactions are maintenance-mode aware, so that if the target of a transaction is in maintenance mode, the source will not run the transaction, and not alert unnecessarily.
This Management Pack includes a Management Pack template that provides a wizard-like interface for configuring synthetic transactions against Outlook Web Access (OWA), Exchange ActiveSync, Web Services, POP3, and IMAP.
This Management Pack includes a Management Pack template that provides a wizard-like interface for configuring mail flow synthetic transactions between agent-managed Exchange 2007 Mailbox servers.
This Management Pack provides 30+ reports specific to Exchange 2007 that track availability and performance compared to service level objectives. For the list of reports and for more information about the reports, see the Management Pack Guide.
All the synthetic transactions in this Management Pack use an Operations Manager 2007 R2 hosting feature for Windows PowerShell technology that provides a performance improvement when running synthetic transactions.
A significant number of rules and monitors that are not actionable or may be noisy are disabled. Note that many of these rules are still in the Management Pack so that you can enable them if necessary.
Support for monitoring any number of Exchange organizations using a single Operations Manager 2007 management group.
Full support for Microsoft clustered configurations. For more details, see the Management Pack Guide.
Discovery of Exchange 2007 server roles is disabled by default, and no Exchange 2007 monitoring is applied by default. This allows you to discover and monitor your servers gradually, as well as tune the Management Pack as you bring more agent-managed Exchange 2007 servers into the Operations Manager environment.

Release History

6/12/2009 - Original English Release, version 6.0.6623.0

Download Microsoft Office PowerPoint slides from BizTalk Server Customer Advisory sessions at TechReady 7.
Overview

SBP 300 - Microsoft BizTalk Server End-to-End Performance Testing Guidance; Ewan Fairweather and Paolo Salvatori In this session, the BizTalk Customer Advisory Team discuss how they run BizTalk performance assessments, demonstrate tools and techniques that used during the assessment, and introduce the BizTalk Server Performance Optimizations Guide.
SBP 301 - BizTalk Hyper-V Virtualization Guidance; Ewan Fairweather and Clint Huffman In this session, the BizTalk Customer Advisory Team share best practices for using BizTalk Server with Hyper-V. They also provide guidance on the performance characteristics of BizTalk Server on Hyper-V, and introduce the BizTalk Server Hyper-V Guide.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=d180a0d7-2853-4fd8-9890-984863a9cad7

TechEd 2009 (North America) - BizTalk Server Presentations

Brief Description

Microsoft Office PowerPoint slides from Microsoft BizTalk Server breakout sessions at TechEd 2009 (North America).

Overview

View PowerPoint slides from BizTalk Server breakout sessions at TechEd 2009 (North America). Presentations on Microsoft BizTalk RFID are also included.
Overview

SOA 205 - RFID: Affecting End Users, Online, ERP to Plant Floor
This session examines the challenges in the manufacturing, supplier logistics, and retailer industries, and offers various demonstrations on how RFID can help address those challenges.
SOA 301 - Achieving Success with Integration in the Enterprise Using Microsoft BizTalk Server 2009; Mark Beckner
This session introduces key elements and considerations of each step in the development life cycle, discusses the expanded features of BizTalk Server 2009, and introduces best practices for managing and deploying a solution.
SOA 304 - Introducing the Microsoft Integration Server: BizTalk Server 2009; Ofer Ashkenazi and Danny Garber
This session provides a quick overview of BizTalk Server 2009, demonstrates the product by using a live example, and demonstrates using BizTalk Server 2009 as a gateway to cloud services.
SOA 305 - Enhancing the SAP User Experience: Building Rich Composite Applications in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Using the BizTalk Adapter Pack; Chris Kabat and Naresh Koka
This session examines connectivity to the SAP system by using BizTalk Adapter Pack, demonstrates how to create services that communicate with SAP, and demonstrates how to consume those services from Microsoft Office SharePoint Services applications.
SOA 312 - Microsoft BizTalk: Application Lifecycle Management and Productivity Enhancements; Stephen Kaufman
This session examinees application lifecyle management (ALM) and demonstrates real-world examples for debugging, MSBuild integration, and unit testing.
SOA 317 - Dynamic Messaging with Microsoft BizTalk Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) Guidance v2; Brian Loesgen
This session presents information about ESB architecture and its place in the overall application platform. It gives a technical drill-down and demonstrates the capabilities and new features that accelerate ESB deployments.
SOA 318 - BizTalk Goes Mobile: Collecting Physical World Events From Mobile Devices; Sudhir Hasbe and Arsalan Ahmed
This session offers an overview of BizTalk Server 2009 and RFID, as well as a close look at RFID Mobile. In addition, it features a demonstration of a maintenance, repair, and overhaul application, and includes several case studies.
SOA 321 - Best Practices for Virtualization of Microsoft BizTalk Server 2009 with Hyper-V; Ewan Fairweather and Petr Kratochvil
This session quantifies performance of BizTalk Server 2009 vs. BizTalk Server 2006 R2, as well as performance of BizTalk Server 2009 on Hyper-V. The session also provides guidance on how to effectively do performance testing of BizTalk Server 2009.
ARC 306 - Connecting Enterprise Applications to Existing Data; Paul Larsen and Ricardo Mendes
This session presents an overview of enterprise connectivity, as well as information about connecting through host programs, host messages, connecting directly to host data stores, and consolidating and securing an infrastructure.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=aa4af82f-17c3-45a2-a357-2c3ed41fd6e0

TechReady 8 - BizTalk Customer Advisory Team Presentations

Brief Description

Download Microsoft Office PowerPoint slides from BizTalk Server Customer Advisory sessions at TechReady 8.

Overview

Download Microsoft Office PowerPoint slides from BizTalk Server Customer Advisory sessions at TechReady 8.
Overview

SBP 301 - BizTalk Server 2009: Performance Characteristics on Hyper-V and Physical Platforms; Ewan Fairweather and Paolo Salvatori
In this session, the BizTalk Customer Advisory Team quantifies performance of BizTalk Server 2009 vs. BizTalk Server 2006 R2, as well as performance of BizTalk Server 2009 on Hyper-V. The session also provides guidance on how to effectively do performance testing of BizTalk Server 2009.
SBPCT 301 - BizTalk Server 2009 Performance Chalk and Talk; Ewan Fairweather, Tim Wieman, and Paolo Salvatori
In this session, the BizTalk Customer Advisory Team provides examples of successful performance labs. The team also provides information about the tools, techniques, and processes that they used to run effective BizTalk Server performance labs.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=d36d4c36-7396-4302-929f-7c59ff4327f6

BizTalk Adapter Pack Migration Tool

Brief Description

The Migration Tool helps developers to migrate their projects which use the non-WCF LOB adapters for BizTalk to use the WCF based equivalents from the BizTalk Adapter Pack 2.0

Overview

The WCF-based adapters shipped with the BizTalk Adapter Pack 2.0 are the recommended solutions to integrate various LOB systems with BizTalk Server. The Adapter Pack consists of LOB adapters for SAP, Siebel, Oracle DB, Oracle EBS, and SQL Server. They are built on the WCF LOB Adapter SDK framework. However these are not the first adapters to be released by Microsoft for integration.
The BizTalk Adapters for Enterprise Applications is a suite of adapters based on the older BizTalk Adapter Framework and was released with BizTalk 2006 and BizTalk 2009. Among others, this suite has adapters for SAP, Siebel, and Oracle DB systems. BizTalk Server has a native SQL adapter.
With the release of BizTalk 2009, all these adapters are deprecated in favour of the WCF-based adapters in the Adapter Pack as the latter set has more features and support more LOB versions. The Adapter Pack is based on a different technology and is not compatible out-of-the-box with the older adapters. For example, an application which used the older SAP adapter will not work directly if you installed the SAP adapter from the Adapter Pack.
The BizTalk Adapter Pack Migration tool aims to help developers get started with the process of migrating projects using older adapters to use WCF-based projects. This tool currently supports migrating SAP, Oracle DB, and SQL adapters. After running the tool you should be able to deploy and run the new project as-is in most simple projects or fix some aspects as per the limitations outlined in the documentation. The package above has a detailed tutorial on how to use the tool.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=e68b8fd1-5c8a-499a-8237-4dc23a8342c5

Windows 7 RC Training Kit for Developers

Brief Description

The Windows 7 Training Kit for Developers includes presentations, hands-on labs, and demos designed to help you learn how to build applications that shine on Windows 7

Overview

The Windows 7 Training Kit for Developers includes presentations, hands-on labs, and demos. This content is based on Windows 7 RC and provides an early peak to our final training. This training kit is designed to help you learn how to build applications that shine on Windows 7 by utilizing key features such as:

Taskbar
Libraries
Multi Touch
Sensors and Location
Ribbon
Trigger Start Services,
Instrumentation and ETW
Application Compatability

BizTalk ESB Toolkit 2.0-x64.msi: to install BizTalk ESB Toolkit 2.0 on a 64-bit edition of the operating system
BizTalk ESB Toolkit 2.0-x86.msi: to install BizTalk ESB Toolkit 2.0 on a 32-bit (x86-based) edition of the operating system
BizTalk ESB Toolkit 2.0 Docs.msi: to install BizTalk ESB Toolkit 2.0 documentation--Microsoft Visual Studio help
BizTalkESBToolkitCHM.exe: to view BizTalk ESB Toolkit 2.0 CHM documentation

Click Download next to the download that you want.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=bc86cf1e-ef29-4b19-95f7-388f64555090

Microsoft® Windows Mobile® 6 Consumer Solution Accelerator

Brief Description

The Consumer Solution Accelerator for Windows Mobile is designed to help developers see how they can harness the power of Windows Mobile to craft compelling consumer solutions. The Consumer Solution Accelerator consists of a documented sample Visual Studio project as well as documents which detail the creation of the project and how it functions.

Overview

The Consumer Solution Accelerator (“Meeting Assistant”) showcases a mobile consumer application written in Microsoft® Visual C#® and Microsoft Visual C++® using Microsoft Visual Studio® 2008. This .NET Compact Framework 3.5 application assists a user who is travelling to a meeting. The application can:

 Display maps and other location data relevant to the user.

 Estimate how long it will take to get to the meeting.

Microsoft Visual Studio International Feature Pack 2.0 Beta
The Visual Studio International Feature Pack 2.0 Beta contains a set of controls and a set of class libraries designed to help .NET developers create world-ready applications.

Overview

The Visual Studio International Feature Pack 2.0 Beta is an extension to Version 1.0 (version 1.0 is named "Microsoft Visual Studio International Pack 1.0 SR1") and contains a set of controls as well as a set of class libraries designed to help .NET developers create world-ready applications. .

Chinese Text Alignment Class Library and TextBox Controls contains WinForm and WPF TextBox controls that support text alignment for Chinese as well as a class library, which developers can use to draw strings using the Chinese style text alignment.
Chinese Auto Complete Class Library and TextBox Controls contains WinForm and WPF TextBox controls that support IME aware autocompletion for Simplified and Traditional Chinese as well as a class library which developers can use to add the IME aware auto-completion feature to standard controls.
Korean Auto Complete Class Library and ComboBox Controls contains WinForm and WPF ComboBox controls that support IME aware auto-completion for Korean as well as a class library, which developers can use to add the IME aware auto-completion feature to standard controls
Numeric Formatting Library provides a class library for formatting numeric data into 5 languages. Arabic support was added in 2.0.
Yomigana Framework contains a class library and controls
- Class Library:
  - General purpose classes using generics to annotate an enumerated type.
  - Special purpose classes using above generics classes to annotate a string with types.
  - Special purpose StringAnnotation classes using above generics classes to annotate strings with strings. This includes parsing and formatting features.
  - A comparer to collate a list of strings with yomigana aboveannotations.
  - A data structure with IEnumerable <string> which delivers an IEnumerator <string> to divide a string into enumerated string segments.
- Controls:
  - Enhanced Ajax/WPF/WinForm textboxes to capture Yomi from user key sequences.
  - An enhanced label control for ASP.NET using Ruby tag.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=188ae407-8db0-4df2-9789-70f7ef3410b9

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Technical Library in Compiled Help format

Brief Description

Downloadable CHM version of Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 content on TechNet.

Overview

Important, before you download:

If the topics in this file do not appear as you expect (you see "Page cannot be displayed" or "Action canceled," for example), see the Instructions section on this page.
This guide is a compiled Help file and opens in HTML Help.
This content is also available on the Web.

This downloadable CHM is a copy of content in the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 technical library. The CHM is current as of the date above. For the latest information, see the technical library on the Web.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=c9d6c8c5-8a62-4961-8c1b-df08b667b1c4

Microsoft Office Groove Server 2007 Technical Library in Compiled Help format

Brief Description

Downloadable CHM version of Groove Server 2007 content on TechNet.

Overview

Important, before you download:

If the topics in this file do not appear as you expect (you see "Page cannot be displayed" or "Action canceled," for example), see the Instructions section on this page.
This guide is a compiled Help file and opens in HTML Help.
This content is also available on the Web.

This downloadable CHM is a copy of content in the Microsoft Office Groove Server 2007 technical library. The CHM is current as of the date above. For the latest information, see the technical library on the Web.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=75000595-78c4-4d12-97a6-652a6fe579cf

Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 Technical Library in Compiled Help format

Brief Description

Downloadable CHM version of PerformancePoint Server content on TechNet.

Overview

Important, before you download:

If the topics in this file do not appear as you expect (you see "Page cannot be displayed" or "Action canceled," for example), see the Instructions section on this page.
This guide is a compiled Help file and opens in HTML Help.
This content is also available on the Web.

This downloadable CHM is a copy of content in the Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 technical library. The CHM is current as of the date above. For the latest information, see the technical library on the Web.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=cd39607f-7bfb-4a07-844e-b00602ddeb38

Office SharePoint Server 2007 Technical Library in Compiled Help format

Brief Description

Downloadable CHM version of SharePoint Server content on TechNet.

Overview

Important, before you download:

If the topics in this file do not appear as you expect (you see "Page cannot be displayed" or "Action canceled," for example), see the Instructions section on this page.
This guide is a compiled Help file and opens in HTML Help.
This content is also available on the Web.

This downloadable CHM is a copy of content in the Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 technical library. The CHM is current as of the date above. For the latest information, see the technical library on the Web.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=ba006584-711d-4ce7-9e1f-181aedf6434a

Microsoft Search Server 2008 Technical Library in Compiled Help format

Brief Description

Downloadable CHM version of Search Server 2008 content on TechNet.

Overview

Important, before you download:

If the topics in this file do not appear as you expect (you see "Page cannot be displayed" or "Action canceled," for example), see the Instructions section on this page.
This guide is a compiled Help file and opens in HTML Help.
This content is also available on the Web.

This downloadable CHM is a copy of content in the Microsoft Search Server 2008 technical library. The CHM is current as of the date above. For the latest information, see the technical library on the Web.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=6cf0f7b6-c0a7-48f8-977e-9bc76b97ff98

2007 Office Resource Kit Technical Library in Compiled Help format

Brief Description

Downloadable CHM version of 2007 Office Resource Kit content on TechNet.

Overview

Important, before you download:

If the topics in this file do not appear as you expect (you see "Page cannot be displayed" or "Action canceled," for example), see the Instructions section on this page.
This guide is a compiled Help file and opens in HTML Help.
This content is also available on the Web.

This downloadable CHM is a copy of content in the 2007 Office Resource Kit technical library. The CHM is current as of the date above. For the latest information, see the technical library on the Web.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=57909f68-7f7d-42d8-a868-e518f7edf726

Visual Studio 2010 SDK Beta 1

Brief Description

The Visual Studio 2010 SDK Beta 1 provides tools and templates for building Visual Studio extensions. By using the Visual Studio SDK, you can build your own tool windows, create menu commands, and add extensions to the new Visual Studio editor and other features.

Overview

The Visual Studio 2010 SDK includes project templates that help developers create tool windows, menu commands, isolated shell projects, and editor extensions. The editor extensions include text adornments, colorizers, and margins.
The Visual Studio 2010 SDK also includes build tasks that help developers build and debug extensions. Building and debugging are managed in a second instance of Visual Studio named the experimental instance. The experimental instance provides a test bed for extensions without changing the primary installation of Visual Studio.
The SDK also puts shortcuts to online documentation, samples, and other developer resources on the Start menu.

This DVD5 ISO image file contains the security updates for Windows released on Windows Update on June 9th, 2009. The image does not contain security updates for other Microsoft products. This DVD5 ISO image is intended for administrators that need to download multiple individual language versions of each security update and that do not use an automated solution such as Windows Server Update Services (WSUS). You can use this ISO image to download multiple updates in all languages at the same time.
Important: Be sure to check the individual security bulletins at http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security prior to deployment of these updates to ensure that the files have not been updated at a later date.
This DVD5 image contains the following updates:
KB961501 / (MS09-022)

Windows 2000 - 24 languages
Windows Server 2003 - 18 languages
Windows Server 2003 x64 Edition - 11 languages
Windows Server 2003 for Itanium-based Systems - 4 languages
Windows XP - 24 languages
Windows XP x64 Edition - 2 languages
Windows Vista - 36 languages
Windows Vista for x64-based Systems - 36 languages
Windows Server 2008 - 19 languages
Windows Server 2008 x64 Edition - 19 languages
Windows Server 2008 for Itanium-based Systems - 4 languages

KB968537 / (MS09-025)

Windows 2000 - 24 languages
Windows Server 2003 - 18 languages
Windows Server 2003 x64 Edition - 11 languages
Windows Server 2003 for Itanium-based Systems - 4 languages
Windows XP - 24 languages
Windows XP x64 Edition - 2 languages
Windows Vista - 36 languages
Windows Vista for x64-based Systems - 36 languages
Windows Server 2008 - 19 languages
Windows Server 2008 x64 Edition - 19 languages
Windows Server 2008 for Itanium-based Systems - 4 languages

KB970238 / (MS09-026)

Windows 2000 - 24 languages
Windows Server 2003 - 18 languages
Windows Server 2003 x64 Edition - 11 languages
Windows Server 2003 for Itanium-based Systems - 4 languages
Windows XP - 24 languages
Windows XP x64 Edition - 2 languages
Windows Vista - 36 languages
Windows Vista for x64-based Systems - 36 languages
Windows Server 2008 - 19 languages
Windows Server 2008 x64 Edition - 19 languages
Windows Server 2008 for Itanium-based Systems - 4 languages

KB970437 / (MS09-018)

Windows Server 2003 - 18 languages
Windows Server 2003 x64 Edition - 11 languages
Windows XP - 24 languages
Windows XP x64 Edition - 2 languages

KB969805 / (MS09-018)

Windows 2000 - 24 languages
Windows Server 2003 - 18 languages
Windows Server 2003 x64 Edition - 11 languages
Windows Server 2003 for Itanium-based Systems - 4 languages

KB963093 / (MS09-023)

Windows Server 2003 - 18 languages
Windows Server 2003 x64 Edition - 11 languages
Windows XP - 24 languages
Windows XP x64 Edition - 2 languages

KB970483 / (MS09-020)

Windows 2000 - 24 languages
Windows Server 2003 - 18 languages
Windows Server 2003 x64 Edition - 11 languages
Windows Server 2003 for Itanium-based Systems - 4 languages
Windows XP - 24 languages
Windows XP x64 Edition - 2 languages

System Center Operations Manager 2007 Management Server
System Center Operations Manager 2007 Root Management Server
System Center Operations Manager 2007 Agent

It also contains additional hardening option for:

System Center Operations Manager 2007 Audit Collector
System Center Operations Manager 2007 Audit Forwarder
System Center Operations Manager 2007 SysLog Reader
System Center Operations Manager 2007 Agent Push Install And Repair
System Center Operations Manager 2007 Agentless Exception Monitoring
System Center Operations Manager 2007 CEIP
System Center Operations Manager 2007 Connector Framework

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=c22c81eb-c6dc-4190-a4c9-2edbf5b528f1

SQL Server 2008 Security DataSheet

Brief Description

SQL Server 2008 Security DataSheet

Overview

SQL Server 2008 Security DataSheet

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=65c2a014-5cbc-424e-ad5d-8d1da0bf6f58

Extended Security Update Inventory Tool

Brief Description

The Extended Security Update Inventory Tool is used to detect security bulletins not covered by MBSA including MS04-028, February 2005 bulletins, and future security bulletins that are exceptions to MBSA.

Overview

The SMS Extended Security Update Inventory tool is a scan tool built for the sole purpose of helping customers determine SMS client computers that may need security updates that are not detectable using the existing SMS Security Update Inventory Tool built on MBSA. Like the SMS Software Update Inventory tool, this tool also has the instructions for locating each applicable update, downloading it from Microsoft, and deploying it using SMS . The SMS Extended Security Update Inventory Tool is built on Enterprise Scan Tool (EST) detection technology. For more information about the exact detection capabilities of EST and how it differs from MBSA, see Microsoft Knowledge Base Article 894193. For more information on the SMS Extended Security Update Inventory Tool, please see the included user guide and release notes. The security bulletins that are currently covered by this tool are as follows:

2004
MS04-028
2005
MS05-004, MS05-006, MS05-009, MS05-022, MS05-023, MS05-029, MS05-30, MS05-031, MS05-033, MS05-034, MS05-044, MS05-050
2006
MS06-005, MS06-014, MS06-016, MS06-017, MS06-020, MS06-023, MS06-024, MS06-033, MS06-043, MS06-055, MS06-056, MS06-069, MS06-073, MS06-076, MS06-077, MS06-078
2007
MS07-004, MS07-005, MS07-009, MS07-012, MS07-028, MS07-034, MS07-040, MS07-043, MS07-047, MS07-049, MS07-050, MS07-052, MS07-053, MS07-056, MS07-064, MS07-068
2008
MS08-003, MS08-008, MS08-017, MS08-022, MS08-030, MS08-033, MS08-035, MS08-048, MS08-050, MS08-052, MS08-053, MS08-060, MS08-069, MS08-070, MS08-076
2009
MS09-013, MS09-018

Note for users of previous versions of the tool: This download can be used to upgrade previous versions of the Extended Update Inventory Tool so that additional security update detection can be added for a given month's security updates.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=2c93da1d-48a0-4e5c-991f-87e08954f61b

Forefront Threat Management Gateway Beta 3

Brief Description

Forefront Threat Management Gateway (TMG) is a comprehensive Secure Web Gateway solution that helps protect employees from Web-based threats. It also delivers simple, unified perimeter security with integrated firewall, VPN, intrusion prevention, malware inspection and URL filtering. Forefront TMG Beta3 is available for download in both Standard Edition and Enterprise Edition.

Overview

The Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway is a comprehensive Secure Web Gateway solution that helps protect employees from threats on the Web with enterprise-class anti-malware scanning and blocking, URL filtering (new in Forefront TMG Beta 3), web proxy and caching functionality. Microsoft Forefront TMG also helps to ensure that encrypted (SSL) Web sessions have the correct security policy applied and enforced according to organizational policy. In addition, it can also be used to manage unified perimeter security that protects networks from attacks with an integrated application and network-layer firewall, intrusion detection and response capabilities, VPN connectivity, and management of e-mail security. The newly added protection technologies will enable organizations to inspect e-mail traffic for spam and malware and enforce content policy compliance in your organization. Last, but not least, Microsoft Forefront TMG enables IT administrators to easily maximize existing information technology (IT) investments by improving network security and performance.
At the time of this release, the MRS database content is being populated and updated continuously as part of the initial beta service offering. As this process continues, URL filtering categorization accuracy and comprehensiveness will increase. A telemetry package designed for improving the quality of URL filtering database and collecting your feedback is planned to be released soon. Please check back for updates in August.

List of weekly closing stock prices, including unadjusted prices and prices adjusted for all stock splits.

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Thursday, June 11, 2009 8:20 AM

Interesting Downloads for Week Ending – 06-05-2009…..

Infrastructure Development, Operations & Maintenance

· Understanding Networking with Hyper-V

· Microsoft Online Services Trial Guide

· Exchange Server 2010 Beta VHD

· Exchange Server 2010 Beta CHKSGFILES Library

· Active Directory Schema Changes Reference, June 2009 - English

· Internet Explorer 8 Language Packs for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008

· Windows Server 2008 R2 & Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 - Hyper-V Live Migration Overview & Architecture

· Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 Enterprise Edition VHD

· Read-Only Domain Controller (RODC) Branch Office Guide

· Risk and Health Assessment Program for Active Directory – Scoping Tool v1.1

· Planning Tool for Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2

· Operations Manager 2007 R2 Management Pack Guide

· AppLocker Technical Documentation for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2

· Choosing a Deployment Strategy

· Deploying Virtual Desktop Pools by Using Remote Desktop Web Access Step-by-Step Guide

· Deploying Personal Virtual Desktops by Using Remote Desktop Web Access Step-by-Step Guide

· File and Printer Sharing with Microsoft Windows

· Microsoft Windows Dynamic Cache Service

· Windows Server 2008 R2 Documentation & Resources

· Microsoft Office Communicator 2007 R2 Phone Edition Deployment Guide

· Microsoft Office Communicator 2007 R2 Deployment Guide

· Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Group Chat Planning and Deployment Guide

· Deploying the Microsoft Office Live Meeting 2007 Client with Office Communications Server 2007 R2

· Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Attendant Deployment Guide

· Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Documentation

Solutions & Solution Development

· BizTalk Server RFID 2009 Whitepaper: Installing and Running BizTalk Server RFID 2009 in a Windows Server 2008 Cluster

· Microsoft Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) - Version 4.1

· Microsoft Office Protocol Documentation

· Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Protocol Documentation

· IIS Search Engine Optimization Toolkit 1.0 Beta (x64)

· Microsoft Solution Briefing - Emerge Stronger with Business Intelligence

· Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 White Paper: One Single World-Wide Instance (Eastern Europe/Russia GLS layer)

· Windows Ribbon: Introductory Tutorial

· Windows TIFF IFilter Installation and Operations Guide

· IIS Search Engine Optimization Toolkit 1.0 Beta (x86)

· HealthVault Service Specification

· DirectX Software Development Kit

· Microsoft F# PowerPack for .NET 4.0 Beta1

· Microsoft Online Services Business Value

· Microsoft Online Dedicated Service Descriptions

· Windows Mobile 6.5 Developer Tool Kit

· Microsoft Sync Framework 2.0 CTP2

· Microsoft FRx 6.7 Hot Fix 1 (R10670) - McKesson Pathways 9

· Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Software Development Kit (SDK)

· Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio May 2009 CTP

· Windows Internet Explorer 8 Compatibility View List

· WF 4 Migration Guidance

· Competitor's Pack for the 2009 Summer Scripting Games

· PerformancePoint Server 2007 Planning Business Modeler: Deleting Dimension Properties

· Microsoft Commerce Server 2009 code name "R2" - June 2009 Community Technical Preview - DVD ISO Image File

· Microsoft .NET Framework 4 Beta 1 LangPack

Security, Policy & Compliance

· Hotfixes and Security Updates in Windows Server 2008 SP2 and Windows Vista SP2

· Forefront Online Security for Exchange (FOSE) 9.1 Product Documents

· Microsoft Directory Synchronization Tool 9.1

Other

· Microsoft Government Podcasts

· Microsoft Vine Diagnostic Tool

· Microsoft Corporate Citizenship: Climate Change Policy

· Digital Literacy: Case Studies

· BingTones

· Bing Maps 3D

· 2009 E3 Xbox.com Press Kit

· ACORDCollaborationDeck

· UltracamX Technical Specifications

This download includes 64-bit unmanaged LIB and H (header) files for the CHKSGFILES DLL that ships with Exchange 2010 Beta

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=fda09c13-f3b1-4092-a591-f32ddc2432b6

Brief Description

The Planning Tool for Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2 provides recommended topology diagrams and hardware requirements for an organization based on information you provide to the tool.

Overview

The Planning Tool for Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2 is a Windows Presentation Foundation standalone client application. The Planning Tool Wizard asks interview questions about features that the system administrator is interested in enabling in the Enterprise, as well as information about the Enterprise.
The Planning Tool uses the information gathered from the administrator to dynamically draw a recommended topology for every site that the administrator identifies. Additionally, the Planning Tool calculates the types and amounts of hardware needed across the entire Enterprise, as well as for each site. The Planning Tool also provides links to documentation of the specific planning and deployment tasks that the administrator will need in order to deploy the topology.
Note:

This download is not supported by Microsoft.

The IIS Search Engine Optimization Toolkit is an IIS7 User Interface extension that identifies numerous Search Engine and User Experience optimizations for Web sites. It provides the following features:
Site Intelligence

Reporting and error identification for broken/invalid links, duplicate content, tag validation, etc.
Visibility into user routes, referring pages and other patterns
Drilldown into page resource usage and load time

Search Relevance

Best practice rules for optimizing URL structure for search engines
Extensibility model to enable integration for keyword acquisition
Automatic generation of search engine support files like sitemaps and robots.txt

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=544e0e82-40c8-4989-99ee-469453c3755b

Microsoft Solution Briefing - Emerge Stronger with Business Intelligence

Brief Description

The zipped file contains all the presentation decks that were presented during the event by the various speakers. The decks are to be shared with all the event attendees as well as those who have missed the event.

Overview

The zipped file contains all the presentation decks that were presented during the event by the various speakers. The decks are to be shared with all the event attendees as well as those who have missed the event.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=10340bc2-ba7a-4b52-8c5c-68f43a9287c4

Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 White Paper: One Single World-Wide Instance (Eastern Europe/Russia GLS layer)

Brief Description

This document provides information for partners about country/region functionality that was previously provided in a separate GLS layer, and is now provided in the consolidated Eastern European GLS layer. The Eastern European GLS layer includes features for Estonia, Czech Republic, Russia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, and Hungary.

Overview

This document provides the following information about the country/region functionality included in the Eastern European GLS layer:

Description of new features
Description of changes in features
Discontinued features
Additional areas of clarification, as needed

Reporting and error identification for broken/invalid links, duplicate content, tag validation, etc.
Visibility into user routes, referring pages and other patterns
Drilldown into page resource usage and load time

Search Relevance

Best practice rules for optimizing URL structure for search engines
Extensibility model to enable integration for keyword acquisition
Automatic generation of search engine support files like sitemaps and robots.txt

FsLex and FsYacc tools for generating F# lexers and parsers
F# LINQ bridge
F# CodeDOM implementation
F# metadata reader API
OCaml Compatibility Helpers
Simple F# Math Libraries
Simple F# Charting

Windows Mobile 6.5 Professional Square Emulator
Windows Mobile 6.5 Professional QVGA Emulator
Windows Mobile 6.5 Professional WQVGA Emulator
Windows Mobile 6.5 Professional VGA Emulator
Windows Mobile 6.5 Professional WVGA Emulator
Windows Mobile 6.5 Standard Square Emulator
Windows Mobile 6.5 Standard QVGA Emulator

Available locales:
0804 CHS Chinese Simplified
0409 USA English
0407 GER German
040c FRA French
0410 ITA Italian
0c0a ESN Spanish
A new set of APIs is being introduced that will enable application developers to take advantage of the new Windows Mobile 6.5 touch gesture framework. The gesture APIs allow an application to handle touch gesture input and provide a visually consistent experience with the rest of the device UI. Note that the gesture APIs are only available on the Windows Mobile Classic and Professional SKUs. The headers and libraries are installed in the Windows Mobile SDK\Pocket PC\ folder. Samples that make use of these APIs are installed into the Windows Mobile 6.5 Developer Tool Kit\Samples\ folder.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=20686a1d-97a8-4f80-bc6a-ae010e085a6e

Microsoft Sync Framework 2.0 CTP2

Brief Description

Microsoft Sync Framework is a comprehensive synchronization platform that enables collaboration and offline scenarios for applications, services, and devices. Using Microsoft Sync Framework, developers can build applications that synchronize data from any source using any protocol over any network.

Overview

Sync Framework Overview
Microsoft Sync Framework provides a synchronization platform that caters to the following scenarios, in which data needs to be synchronized between multiple data sources:

A number of users are collaborating and need to be able to access and update a set of data.
A user wants to access and update his or her data in multiple locations – on a desktop, on a device, using a Web browser, etc.
A user wants to download data from a server or service and take that data offline to a client store. The data can then be accessed and updated by the user even when not connected to the server or service.

Microsoft Sync Framework makes no assumptions about how data is stored or transmitted. Sync Framework places no restrictions on the type of data sources that can be synchronized, the protocol and network that are used to communicate with each data source , or the type of synchronization topology that is used. A data source can be synchronized with any other data source in any order; full peer-to-peer synchronization topologies are supported.
In order to cater to any data source, Sync Framework uses a provider model, with each sync provider being responsible for synchronizing a particular type of data source (or replica). Sync Framework is used to author providers and is used to perform the actual synchronization between the providers.
As well as enabling providers to be authored, Sync Framework includes several built-in providers:

Database synchronization providers (referred to as Sync Services for ADO.NET in previous releases) are used to synchronize databases for offline and collaborative scenarios.
File synchronization provider (referred to as Sync Services for File Systems in previous releases) is used to synchronize files and folders in an NTFS or FAT file system.
Web feed synchronization components (referred to as Sync Services for FeedSync in previous releases) are used to synchronize RSS and Atom feeds with data in a local store.

Sync Framework 2.0
Sync Framework 2.0 expands on the capabilities offered by Sync Framework 1.0:

Adds features that cater to new scenarios or scenarios that were difficult to support.
Reduces the amount of work required to develop providers.
Supports more data sources with new built-in providers.

The major new features included in this CTP (CTP2) are:

New database providers (SqlSyncProvider and SqlCeSyncProvider): Enable hub-and-spoke and peer-to-peer synchronization for SQL Server, SQL Server Express, and SQL Server Compact. Sync Framework automatically creates all of the commands that are required to communicate with each database. You do not have to write synchronization queries as you do with other providers. The providers support: flexible initialization options; batching of changes based on data size; and maintenance tasks, such as metadata cleanup and server database restore.
Custom filters: Enable a filtered replica to store item data only for items that are in the filter, such as a media storage replica that stores only songs that are rated as three stars or better. As the rating on a song changes, an item might move in or out of the filter. A filter-tracking replica is another replica in the community that can identify which items are in the filter and which have moved in or out of the filter recently. A filter-tracking replica may store item data for items that are not in the filter. Sync Framework supports efficient synchronization between filtered replicas and filter-tracking replicas, and maintains all of the necessary metadata.
Improved conflict handling: Sync Framework added several features in this release that make it easier to handle conflicts.
- Constraint conflict handling: Sync Framework now supports constraint conflicts, which are conflicts that violate constraints that are put on items or change units, such as the relationship of folders or the location of identically named data within a file system. A destination provider can report a constraint conflict to Sync Framework, and use Sync Framework components to resolve the conflict and determine how to apply the resolution to the destination replica.
- Conflict logging: Sync Framework defines a set of conflict log interfaces and provides components that help manage conflicts in the log. Sync Framework also provides an in-memory implementation of the conflict log interfaces for replicas that do not contain a conflict log. It can be useful to save conflicts in a log so that they can be processed separately from the synchronization session, such as when a user needs to review conflicts and decide how to resolve them.
- Last-writer-wins conflict resolution: An application might want to resolve concurrency conflicts (in which an item is updated by more than one replica) by keeping the most recently made change, regardless of where the change was made. Sync Framework supports this resolution option by enabling an application to retrieve the time a change was made on the source and destination replicas. The application can then compare the two times and apply the last change.
- Improved simple provider conflict handling: Simple providers include a new set of conflict handling interfaces that make it easier to specify resolution actions for concurrency and constraint conflicts.
Data conversion between providers: In some scenarios, synchronization providers synchronize the same type of data (such as sales data), but the data format that each provider requires is different. To address this scenario, Sync Framework enables you to implement interfaces that convert data to the format that each provider requires. In addition to data conversion APIs that can be used for any type of custom provider, Sync Framework also includes conversion APIs specifically for the file synchronization provider.
Change application service: Sync Framework includes a change applier implementation that most applications use to apply changes to a replica. In this CTP, Sync Framework introduces the change application service, which performs the same actions as the change applier, but in a more granular way. A destination provider that requires greater flexibility than the standard change applier can use the change application service to perform only the set of actions that are required.

The major new features included in previous CTP (CTP1) are:

Simple Providers: Reduces the amount of work required to develop providers, especially when the data source has very few synchronization-related capabilities, such as change-tracking. The goal is to enable a developer to write a provider without having to become a synchronization expert. The majority of the code that is required for a simple provider is limited to that responsible for interacting with the data source.
Change Unit Filtering: Different data sources can have different representations of the same data types, with some data sources offering a richer and more complete representation than others. This is especially true when you compare data type representations on a PC and on a device; the device will often support only a subset of the data supported by the PC. Sync Framework caters to scenarios in which a mixture of data sources is being synchronized, each with a different representation of the data type. Filtering support has been added to enable a provider to specify that the replica it serves is only able to store a subset of the data. The synchronization metadata and synchronization process have both been enhanced to handle this filtering efficiently.
Filter negotiation: When a destination data source is only storing a subset of data, then it is more efficient if the source provider uses a filter to enumerate only the data that can be stored by the destination. Filter negotiation allows a destination provider to specify it would like one or more filters to be used by the source provider; the source provider can accept or reject a filter. If a source provider does not support the requested filters then the destination provider can choose to receive all the data and do the filtering itself. Sync Framework is responsible for calling the providers appropriately to negotiate filter usage.

For more information about new features, see “What's New in Sync Framework 2.0” in the documentation that installs with the Sync Framework SDK.
Known Issues
The following issues and limitations are known to exist in CTP2 and will be addressed in future releases.
Installation:

This CTP release cannot be installed on a computer that has Sync Framework 2.0 CTP1 installed. This means that it is not possible to upgrade from Sync Framework 2.0 CTP1 to CTP2. To install Sync Framework 2.0 CTP2, first uninstall Sync Framework 2.0 CTP1. However, Sync Framework 2.0 CTP2 can be installed and will operate side-by-side with Sync Framework 1.0.
Only an English version of this CTP is available.

Custom filtering:

Serialization of a CustomFilter object in managed code is not yet supported. Objects that contain CustomFilter objects, such as a ChangeBatch object when custom filtering is used, will throw NotImplementedException if serialization is attempted.
Cleaning up tombstones on a replica that uses custom filtering is not yet fully supported and may cause unexpected results.
When a change causes an item to move into or out of a filter, and the change also causes a conflict, the filter change information may not be calculated correctly. This means the values returned by ItemChange.GetFilterChange (for managed code) or IFilterTrackingSaveChangeContext::GetFilterChange (for unmanaged code) may not be correct. To work around this issue, a provider can calculate these values manually when it applies the change to the destination replica.

Database provider:

Some properties were changed to methods in two of the new database provider classes, SqlSyncScopeProvisioning and SqlCeSyncScopeProvisioning. The documentation includes reference content for the properties instead of the methods. For example, the documented SqlSyncScopeProvisioning.CreateProceduresDefault property has been changed in the class to the SqlSyncScopeProvisioning.SetCreateProceduresDefault method.

Download Contents
The download MSI file contains the following components:

Synchronization runtime, core components, Web synchronization components, metadata storage services, simple custom providers, database synchronization providers and file synchronization provider.
Headers, libraries, symbols, and samples.
Sync Framework 2.0 Documentation

Support for Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1
Update for Visual Studio 2008
Improved integration with the Development Fabric and Storage services to improve the reliability of debug and run of Cloud Services from Visual Studio
Enhanced robustness and stability

Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio includes:

C# and VB Project Templates for building Cloud Services
Tools to change the Service Role configuration
Integrated local development via the Development Fabric and Development Storage services
Debugging Cloud Service Roles running in the Development Fabric
Building and packaging of Cloud Service Packages
Browsing to the Azure Services Developer Portal
SSL Certificate selection

The Microsoft Directory Synchronization Tool 9.1 synchronizes valid end-user proxy addresses (and their Safe Senders if available) from Active Directory to the Forefront Online Security for Exchange (FOSE) and Exchange Hosted Archive (EHA) network and populates the Administration Center with these accounts. This tool should be used if you have a subscription to the FOSE Filtering service or the post-8.1 Exchange Hosted Archive service.

Install this update to continue using Windows Live Movie Maker Beta until 12/30/2009. The current version of Windows Live Movie Maker Beta will expire on 6/30/2009, and will stop functioning.

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Wednesday, June 03, 2009 5:02 PM

Technet InterOp Roadshow coming to Seattle/Bellevue/Redmond….

Thursday, June 11, 2009 8:30 AM - 12:30 PM Pacific Time
Welcome Time: 8:00 AM

Microsoft Office Bellevue

Civica Building 205 108th Avenue NE
Suite 400 Bellevue Washington 98004

TechNet Events presents: Integrate Your IT Environment

The actual event is in Bellevue at the Microsoft “Civica” building but I mention it as Seattle because it will be well worth the drive to come see. For one, I know the guys delivering the sessions and the are top notch technical presenters that have been delivering live events for many years now. Plus, you just can’t miss sessions like these --

Windows Server 2008 Active Directory Interop with Linux and OS X

Things you will learning in this session….

· How to authenticate Active Directory users that are using a Linux workstation. Windows Server 2008 and Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop (SLED) 10 will be demonstrated.

· How to manage SLED desktops using Active Directory Group Policie Objects (GPO).

· Information on non Microsoft management tools for Linux and Apple OS X.

Running Open Source Software (OSS) on Window Server 2008

Brain candy for this session….

· How to install and configure Apache on Windows Server 2008

· How to install and configure PHP on Windows Server 2008

· How to install and configure MySQL on Windows Server 2008

· How to install and configure an application that uses PHP and MySQL

· Discuss how to run solutions using the Microsoft virtualization technologies

SQL Server 2008 and PHP Web Application Infrastructure

Think you can handle this???

· How to configure SQL Server 2008 on a Windows 2008 Server for use with PHP

· How to configure PHP to run on IIS 7 against an SQL 2008 database server

· Where to go for additional resources you may need to manage your new SQL Server 2008/IIS7/Windows2008 environment

Plus a lot more!

Register at the Technet Events Interop page now! Space is limited! I will be there and would love to meet some more of the locals!

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Wednesday, June 03, 2009 4:35 PM

Interesting Downloads for Week Ending – 05-29-2009…..

Infrastructure Development, Operations & Maintenance

• System Update Readiness Tool for Windows 7 Release Candidate for x64-based Systems (KB947821) [May 2009]

• System Update Readiness Tool for Windows Server 2008 R2 Release Candidate for Itanium-based Systems (KB947821) [May 2009]

• System Update Readiness Tool for Windows 7 Release Candidate (KB947821) [May 2009]

• System Update Readiness Tool for Windows Server 2008 R2 Release Candidate for x64 Edition (KB947821) [May 2009]

• Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2 - Five Language Standalone for ia64-based Systems (KB948465)

• Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2 and Windows Vista Service Pack 2 - Five Language Standalone (KB948465)

• Remote Access Step-by-Step Guide: Deploying Remote Access with VPN Reconnect

• Microsoft Online Dedicated Service Descriptions

• Internet Information Services (IIS) 7 Manager

• Microsoft Office SharePoint Online

• Technical Overview of DirectAccess in Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2

• Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Release Notes

• Microsoft Office Communications Online Service Level Agreement (SLA)

• Microsoft Exchange Hosted Filtering Service Level Agreement (SLA)

• Microsoft Office Live Meeting Service Level Agreement (SLA)

• Microsoft Exchange Online Service Level Agreement (SLA)

• Microsoft SharePoint Online Service Level Agreement (SLA)

• Microsoft Operations Framework (MOF) 4.0

• Office Communicator Phone Edition (2007 R2)

Solutions & Solution Development

• Works with Microsoft HealthVault Device Logo Program v1.20

• Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Internet Facing Deployment Scenarios

• Publishing PerformancePoint Server in Extranet Scenarios

• Windows Internet Explorer 8 Compatibility View List

• Update for Internet Explorer 8 Compatibility View List for Windows Server 2008 R2 Release Candidate R2 Release Candidate x64 Edition (KB971180)

• Update for Internet Explorer 8 Compatibility View List for Windows Server 2003 x64 Edition (KB971180)

• Update for Internet Explorer 8 Compatibility View List for Windows XP (KB971180)

• Update for Internet Explorer 8 Compatibility View List for Windows XP x64 Edition (KB971180)

• Update for Internet Explorer 8 Compatibility View List for Windows Server 2008 R2 Release Candidate for Itanium-based Systems (KB971180)

• Update for Internet Explorer 8 Compatibility View List for Windows 7 Release Candidate (KB971180)

• Update for Internet Explorer 8 Compatibility View List for Windows Vista x64 Edition (KB971180)

• Update for Internet Explorer 8 Compatibility View List for Windows Server 2008 x64 Edition (KB971180)

• Update for Internet Explorer 8 Compatibility View List for Windows Server 2003 (KB971180)

• Update for Internet Explorer 8 Compatibility View List for Windows 7 Release Candidate for x64-based Systems (KB971180)

• Update for Internet Explorer 8 Compatibility View List for Windows Vista (KB971180)

• Microsoft "Oslo" - May 2009 CTP

• Step-by-Step Guide to Device Driver Signing and Staging in Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008

• Device Management - Signing and Staging Device Drivers in Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2

• Windows Ribbon: Samples

• Microsoft ProClarity Desktop Professional 6.3 SP2

• Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio May 2009 CTP

• Configuring a Receive Location Using the WCF-Custom Adapter

• Using the BizTalk WCF Service Consuming Wizard

• Windows Vista Application Compatibility List for IT Professionals

• Windows Azure Software Development Kit (May2009 CTP)

• Hotfix and Security Update List: Windows Server 2008 SP2 and Windows Vista SP2

• System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 Software Development Documentation

• Using the BizTalk WCF Service Publishing Wizard to Publish Orchestrations as WCF Services

• Improving Fault Tolerance in BizTalk Server by Using a Windows Server 2008 failover cluster or Windows Server 2003 server cluster

• Installing and Configuring UDDI Services 3.0

• SQL Server 2008 Enterprise Evaluation VHD

• Microsoft Forecaster 7.0 Hot Fix 1

• WHDC White Papers and Documentation

Security, Policy & Compliance

• Update for Root Certificates [May 2009] (KB931125)

• Security Features in Microsoft Online Services

• Increasing Your Organization’s Security and Privacy with Internet Explorer 8

Other

• Windows Speech Recognition Profile Tool

• Xbox.com Game Downloads

• PlayReady PC Runtime v1.3 (x64)

• PlayReady PC Runtime v1.3 (x86)

• Case Study on how MINDS reaps benefits from better Collaboration and Virtualisation

• White Paper: Customer and Partner Experience - Increasing the Satisfaction of Microsoft Customers and Partners

• Volume Licensing Program Guides, Datasheets, and FAQs

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Wednesday, June 03, 2009 8:30 AM

Windows 7 Date now posted to Press Pass….

Following up on yesterday’s post about the Windows 7 release date. We finally have something on the official press release site.

Cheers!

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Tuesday, June 02, 2009 12:48 PM

Windows 7 general availability announced…..

According to a posting by Sarah Perez, we (Microsoft) announced the general availability of Windows 7 at a conference in Asia today. I could not find anything at our Official Press Release Site not is there anything on the Windows 7 landing page. However, I did find a Wall Street Journal Europe posting announcing the same thing.

Oh….the date?

October 22nd.

You do the math to figure out an RTM date. I will let you craft your own conclusions on that. Regardless, it is going to be a LOT sooner than most have expected!

Cheers!

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Tuesday, June 02, 2009 6:19 AM

Free Active Directory Webinar by Zubair Alexander….

Zubair is an MVP here in Seattle and runs the Seattle Windows Networking User Group. he will be delivering webinar called “5 Challenges in Active Directory Management and How to Eliminate them”.

Zubair’s Blog Post on the Webinar

More Webinar Information

Cheers!

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Tuesday, June 02, 2009 6:12 AM

Seattle WinNUG Meeting on Wednesday, Jun 3rd…..

Tomorrow the Seattle Windows Networking User Group is meeting in Bellevue at the Microsoft Lincoln Square office. We will have pizza and soft drinks for everyone that attends.

For this month’s presentation, I was called upon to fill in and have chosen to deliver my Windows 7 – Coolness session. I delivered this a month ago at another User Group and received very good feedback on it. Here is the abstract I provided for the session -

Windows 7 – Coolness

Coolness says it all. Windows 7 has some great new features that will change how you do your everyday tasks. At this week’s meeting, come see real demos – not PowerPoint slides – of Windows 7 in action. I will demo some of the new features in the GUI to organize your desktop and help find things you need. We will look at new power saving features and personalization enhancement. We will also look at some of the features in Internet Explorer v8 that you may not be aware of. We will look at some changes in security features that reduce the prompts users see for every days tasks and features designed to protect our increasingly mobile data. Finally we will demonstrate a mobile connectivity feature called Direct Access that enables end users to seamlessly connect to corporate networks and access resources as if they were in the office – all without a VPN.

Windows 7 – Coolness

If you plan on making it out to the meeting, please RSVP via the link above so I know how much pizza to order.

Cheers!

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Monday, June 01, 2009 10:49 AM

Interesting Downloads for Week Ending – 5-22-2009….

Infrastructure Development, Operations & Maintenance

· Windows Virtual PC Tips

· Windows Client Feature Comparison: Windows XP SP3 | Wndows Vista SP1 | Windows 7

· Windows 7 Walkthrough: BranchCache

· Microsoft Office Communicator 2007 R2 Hotfix KB 971083

· Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Documentation

· Update Rollup 8 for Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1 (KB968012)

· Step By Step Guide: Demonstrate DirectAccess in a Test Lab

· Windows Server 2008: Planning for Active Directory Forest Recovery

· Next Generation Remote Access with DirectAccess and VPNs

· System Center Virtual Machine Manager Privacy Statement

· Service Level Dashboard 2.0 for System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2

· Offline Virtual Machine Servicing Tool 2.0.1

· Windows Essential Business Server 2008 Click Thru Demo - Installation

· Deploying Virtual Desktop Pools by Using Remote Desktop Web Access Step-by-Step Guide

· Deploying Personal Virtual Desktops by Using Remote Desktop Web Access Step-by-Step Guide

· Deploying Remote Desktop Web Access with Remote Desktop Connection Broker Step-by-Step Guide

· Installing Remote Desktop Session Host Step-by-Step Guide

· Systems Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 Documentation

· System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 – Evaluation Edition

· Windows 7 IT Pro Guides

· Microsoft Exchange Hosted Filtering Service Level Agreement (SLA)

· Microsoft Exchange Online Service Level Agreement (SLA)

· Microsoft Office Communications Online Service Level Agreement (SLA)

· Microsoft Office Live Meeting Service Level Agreement (SLA)

· Microsoft SharePoint Online Service Level Agreement (SLA)

· Microsoft Exchange Hosted Services Directory Synchronization Tool 8.1

· Windows Virtual PC Evaluation Guide

· Unified Communications Adoption and Training Kit 2007 R2

Solutions & Solution Development

· SQL Server 2008 Developer Training Kit

· Team Foundation Installation Guide for Visual Studio Team System 2010

· Microsoft Silverlight Installation Experience White Paper and Sample Code (Apr 2009)

· TwoConnectBizTalkAcceleratorforACORD

· Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) and Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) Samples for .NET Framework 4.0 Beta 1

· Microsoft Visual Studio Lab Management 2010 Beta 1

· Visual Studio 2010 SDK Beta 1

· Microsoft Manufacturing Toolkit

· Microsoft Office Project Server 2007 Performance Testing Lab - English

· Microsoft F#, May 2009 Community Technology Preview

· Microsoft Online Services Trial Guide

· Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Books Online (May 2009)

· Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Training Kit - May Preview

· Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 end-to-end walkthrough

· USMT 4.0 XML Elements Reference

· Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 DSL SDK Beta1

· Microsoft BizTalk Server RFID 2009 Documentation Update

· Microsoft BizTalk RFID 2009 Mobile Documentation Update

· Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Implementation Guide

Security, Policy & Compliance

· Internet Explorer 8 Desktop Security Guide

· Microsoft Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) - Version 4.1

· Microsoft SDL Process Template for Visual Studio Team System

· Forefront Identity Manager 2010 RC0 Demo Virtual Hard Disk Image

· The Business Value of Extended Validation SSL Certificates

· Increasing Your Organization’s Security and Privacy with Internet Explorer 8

Other

· EMEA case study resources

· MicrosoftSmartSaverGuide

· MicrosoftSmartSaverGuide - English

· Microsoft Volume Licensing Service Center (VLSC) User Guide

Update Rollup 8 for Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1 (SP1) resolves issues that were found in Exchange Server 2007 SP1 since the software was released. This update rollup is highly recommended for all Exchange Server 2007 SP1 customers.
For a list of changes that are included in this update rollup, see KB968012.
This update rollup does not apply to Exchange Server 2007 Release To Manufacturing (RTM). For a list of update rollups applicable to Exchange Server 2007 RTM, refer to the section Update rollups for Exchange Server 2007 RTM in the Knowledge Base article KB937052.
This is a cumulative update rollup and replaces the following:

KB945684 Update Rollup 1 for Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1 (KB945684)
KB948016 Update Rollup 2 for Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1 (KB948016)
KB949870 Update Rollup 3 for Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1 (KB949870)
KB952580 Update Rollup 4 for Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1 (KB952580)
KB953467 Update Rollup 5 for Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1 (KB953467)
KB959241 Update Rollup 6 for Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1 (KB959241)
KB960384 Update Rollup 7 for Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1 (KB960384)

Spot trends in service availability and performance
Head off problems before they occur
Reduce IT costs by streamlining IT operations

Download Package Contents
The Service Level Dashboard 2.0.zip contains the following files:

SLD 2.0 Release Notes.rtf
Microsoft.EnterpriseServiceMonitoring.ServiceLevelDashboard.R2.mp
Service Level Dashboard 2.0_x86.msi
Service Level Dashboard 2.0_x64.msi
Service Level Dashboard 2.0 for Operations Manager 2007 R2 User Guide.docx
Supplemental License for Service Level Dashboard for OpsMgr 2007 R2.rtf

To read more about this Solution Accelerator online at TechNet click here.
Send questions or feedback to us directly at SATfdbk@microsoft.com

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Offline Virtual Machine Servicing Tool 2.0.1

Brief Description

This Solution Accelerator provides automated tools and guidance that IT professionals can use to update offline virtual machines efficiently and without exposing them to security risks.

Overview

The Offline Virtual Machine Servicing Tool 2.0.1 helps organizations maintain virtual machines that are stored offline in a Microsoft® System Center Virtual Machine Manager library. While stored, virtual machines do not receive operating system updates. The tool provides a way to keep offline virtual machines up-to-date so that bringing a virtual machine online does not introduce vulnerabilities into the organization’s IT infrastructure.
The Offline Virtual Machine Servicing Tool combines the Windows Workflow programming model with the Windows PowerShell™ interface to bring groups of virtual machines online just long enough for them to receive updates from either System Center Configuration Manager 2007 or Windows Server Update Services. As soon as the virtual machines are up-to-date, the tool returns them to the offline state in the Virtual Machine Manager library.
This Solution Accelerator includes the following components:

Brief Overview. Available online only on Microsoft TechNet. Summary for business and technical managers that briefly explains how this Solution Accelerator can fit into an organization’s IT infrastructure management strategy.
OfflineVMServicing_x64 and OfflineVMServicing_x86. Setup files for the tool, for 64 bit and 32 bit versions of Windows with Microsoft® System Center Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) 2007 or 2008.
Offline Virtual Machine Servicing Tool Getting Started Guide. Provides information about how the tool works, explains prerequisites for the tool, and describes how to install and configure the tool.
Offline_VM_Servicing_Tool_2.0.1_Release_Notes.rtf. Notes provide information about this release, describe known issues in the tool, and include feedback instructions.
Offline_Virtual_Machine_Servicing_Tool_Help. Help file for the tool. Provides instructions for using the tool.

End-to-End Datacenter Service Management: System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 helps improve datacenter service performance by improving resolution time through best practice driven alerting, service level monitoring, and reporting.
Best of Breed for Windows and Beyond: Extending low cost Windows management to the complete datacenter environment, Operations Manager 2007 R2 provides a single pane of glass across operating systems, hypervisors, network, storage, and Microsoft, UNIX and Linux applications.
Increased Efficiency and Control: With automation of routine and redundant tasks, Operations Manager 2007 R2 provides intelligent monitoring and the ability to automate action to help increase efficiency and enable greater control of your IT environment.

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Solutions & Solution Development

SQL Server 2008 Developer Training Kit

Brief Description

The SQL Server 2008 Developer Training Kit will help you understand how to build web applications which deeply exploit the rich data types, programming models and new development paradigms in SQL Server 2008.

Overview

SQL Server 2008 offers an impressive array of capabilities for developers that build upon key innovations introduced in SQL Server 2005. The SQL Server 2008 Developer Training Kit will help you understand how to build web applications which deeply exploit the rich data types, programming models and new development paradigms in SQL Server 2008. The training kit is brought to you by Microsoft Developer and Platform Evangelism.
Overview and Benefits
The training kit offers the following benefits:

Learn how to build web applications that exploit the unique features and capabilities of SQL Server 2008.
Provides a comprehensive set of presentations, demos and hands-on labs
Designed for web developers who are already familiar with SQL Server application development.
Easy to download and install and works on free editions of SQL Server 2008 and Visual Studio 2008.

Intended Audience
The training kit is designed for the following technical roles:

Web developers who build applications for the Microsoft platform.
Microsoft evangelists, technical specialists and consultants.

Contents
The training kit includes the following content:

Presentations (6)
- Filestream
- Spatial
- T-SQL
- Date and Time Types
- SQLCLR
- Reporting Services
Demos (12)
- AdventureWorks Racing All-Up SQL Server 2008 Demo
- SQL Server 2008 All-Up Spatial Demo
- Spatial Types Demo
- Intro to Filestream Demo
- SQL CLR Nullable Types Demo
- Programming with Filestream Demo
- Reporting Services Web Application Integration Demo
- Date and Time Support in SQL Server 2008 Demo
- T-SQL Table-Valued Parameters Demo
- T-SQL Row Constructors Demo
- T-SQL Grouping Sets Demo
- T-SQL Merge Demo
Hands-on Labs (3)
- Using Spatial Data in TSQL
- Using Spatial Data in Managed Code
- Using SQL CLR in SQL Server 2008

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Brief Description

Download the documentation and tutorials for Microsoft SQL Server 2008.

Overview

SQL Server 2008, the latest release of Microsoft SQL Server, provides a comprehensive data platform. Books Online is the primary documentation for SQL Server 2008.
Books Online includes the following types of information:

Setup and upgrade instructions.
Information about new features and backward compatibility.
Conceptual descriptions of the technologies and features in SQL Server 2008.
Procedural topics describing how to use the various features in SQL Server 2008.
Tutorials that guide you through common tasks.
Reference documentation for the graphical tools, command prompt utilities, programming languages, and application programming interfaces (APIs) that are supported by SQL Server 2008.
Descriptions of the sample databases and applications that are available with SQL Server 2008. You can download the sample databases from the SQL Server Community Projects and Samples page on CodePlex.

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Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Training Kit - May Preview

Brief Description

May Preview of the Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Training Kit

Overview

The Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Training Kit includes presentations, hands-on labs, and demos. This content is designed to help you learn how to utilize the Visual Studio 2010 features and a variety of framework technologies including:

C# 4.0
Visual Basic 10
F#
Parallel Extensions
Windows Communication Foundation
Windows Workflow
Windows Presentation Foundation
ASP.NET 4
Entity Framework
ADO.NET Data Services
Managed Extensibility Framework
Visual Studio Team System

The Visual Studio 2010 DSL SDK includes

Project templates that help developers create graphical or in Form-based (Windows.Forms and WPF) designers hosted in Visual Studio for viewing and editing models for a custom Domain Specific Language.
MSBuild tasks that help developers build and debug their designers
Reference assemblies and IntelliSense documentation for the DSL tools runtime, which ships with Visual Studio 2010
A migration tool helping DSL authors who were using the Visual Studio 2008 SDK to migrate their existing designers to work with Visual Studio 2010 Beta1

The DSL SDK is no longer included in the Visual Studio 2010 SDK, but does require it to be installed first. The DSL SDK is installed into the same folders as the VS SDK. The DSL SDK is now a separate install so that it can updated more easily and more often.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=390fbb56-4e2c-4585-8f0c-ef51cf4cc93e

Microsoft BizTalk Server RFID 2009 Documentation Update

Brief Description

Download the updated documentation for BizTalk Server RFID 2009

Overview

This documentation update contains the latest BizTalk Server RFID 2009 documentation.

To download a copy of BizTalk Server RFID 2009 Help, click the download button on this page.
To download a copy of BizTalk RFID Mobile 2009 Help, go to BizTalk RFID Mobile 2009 Documentation.
To download a copy of BizTalk RFID installation guides, go to BizTalk RFID Installation Guides.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=11c7179f-2a19-4a91-9614-9fde46e9733b

Microsoft BizTalk RFID 2009 Mobile Documentation Update

Brief Description

Download the updated documentation for BizTalk RFID Mobile 2009

Overview

This documentation update contains the latest BizTalk RFID Mobile 2009 documentation.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=3e82e3ce-86ce-4460-85e9-38f323782867

Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Implementation Guide

Brief Description

This guide contains comprehensive information about how to plan, install, and maintain Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0.

Overview

The Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Implementation Guide consists of the following documents:

Planning Guide: This guide gives you the information and tools that help you get your organization ready for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0. It includes two main aspects of planning for a customer relationship management (CRM) system:
- Technical: These topics focus on such areas as the supported topologies, system requirements, and technical considerations to address before you install.
- Implementation methodology: These topics cover the business management, CRM requirements, and project management aspects that are needed when you deploy a CRM system.
Installing Guide: This guide provides the information that you need to install Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0, such as step-by-step instructions for running Setup, command-line installation instructions for silent installations, and guidance about how to remove Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0.
Operating and Maintaining Guide: This guide gives you information about how to back up, restore, and provide data recovery for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0. Additionally, this guide provides troubleshooting steps for known issues.
Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Implementation Guide Compiled HTML Help (CHM) includes the contents of all three of the guides and provides a comprehensive index and full-text search.

The Planning Tools are 43 template, project, and worksheet Microsoft Office documents that can be used to help plan your implementation.

The SDL Process Template is a downloadable template that integrates the Microsoft Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) directly into your Visual Studio Team System 2008 software development environment. This version of the SDL Process Template is specific to the Microsoft Security Development Lifecycle version 4.
After installation, the SDL Process Template automatically integrates the core components of the SDL into your Visual Studio Team System environment making it easier to adopt the SDL into your new team project, providing auditable security requirements and status, and demonstrating security return on investment.
Features of the SDL Process Template include:

• Pre-populated requirements/recommendations

• SDL-based security check-in policies

• Final Security Review reports

• Customized security bugs and queries

• Extensive related how-to and guidance documentation

• Easy integration of third-party security tools (including the Microsoft SDL Threat Modeling Tool)

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=79866b28-b03b-4bbb-91d2-0ed3f966dede

Forefront Identity Manager 2010 RC0 Demo Virtual Hard Disk Image

Brief Description

This package contains a Hyper-V-based demo of Forefront Identity Manager 2010 RC0 (formerly code-named ILM "2").

Overview

This download consists of a Hyper-V based virtual hard disk image that contains a pre-installed demonstration version of Forefront Identity Manager 2010 (FIM 2010) RC0. The image includes all components needed to experience the full integration of FIM 2010 with Active Directory, Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 and Microsoft Outlook 2007.
The image uses evaluation software and will only continue to work as expected until September 30, 2009. A replacement image will be available before that date.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=4bb23110-94cd-4ad4-84e0-955d3e6ecb13

The Business Value of Extended Validation SSL Certificates

Brief Description

Understand the Business Value of EV Certificates
Learn about the business value of EV Certificates, and the process for obtaining the certificates for your websites.

Overview

Deceptive e-mail and malicious web sites are increasingly compromising users’ personal information, damaging their online trust and confidence, and tarnishing brand’s online reputation. Microsoft has responded to these threats with several solutions incorporated into Internet Explorer 8, focusing on the support for Extended Validation SSL Certificates (EV Certificates).
This paper is designed to help businesses understand the business value of EV Certificates, describe how their use fits into a broader Internet defense and breadth strategy, and offer a review and outline of the process for obtaining the certificates for their websites.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=9948298f-1586-4cda-bee1-47b2ade78245

Increasing Your Organization’s Security and Privacy with Internet Explorer 8

Brief Description

Guidance for Enhancing Internet Explorer Security for Desktop Users
Learn about the emerging threat types on the web today and how Internet Explorer 8’s new security features help protect against them.

Overview

The Web browser is the main interface a company’s users have to the web. As such it is constantly under attack. Internet Explorer 8 provides significant new security protections that can help companies protect their valuable information and reduce costs.
This paper provides an overview of the new threat types and how Internet Explorer 8’s new security features help protect against them.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=198d40a4-6896-49b3-b8f2-c151e9797634

Other

EMEA case study resources

Brief Description

EMEA case study resources

Overview

Word and PowerPoint for GCRP programme

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=76cb47e0-546a-4212-9b4a-c58959427b0d

MicrosoftSmartSaverGuide

Brief Description

15 great ways financial services enterprises can cut business operating costs, reduce risks, and grow in the new economy

Overview

Microsoft's Smart Savers Guide to Success: 15 great ways financial services entreprises can cut business operating costs, reduce risks, and grow in the new economy

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=a3b468c9-2d02-481e-8dfb-919ea1b85a65

MicrosoftSmartSaverGuide - English

Brief Description

Overview

Microsoft's Smart Savers Guide to Success: 15 great ways financial services entreprises can cut business operating costs, reduce risks, and grow in the new economy

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=0313be7a-fcc3-4ffd-9317-9b5c4593c4f7

Microsoft Volume Licensing Service Center (VLSC) User Guide

Brief Description

Download this user guide to see step-by-step instructions for the Microsoft Volume Licensing Service Center (VLSC).

Overview

This user guide shows step-by-step instructions for how to register, view account details, download products and more from the Microsoft Volume Licensing Service Center (VLSC). It also includes screenshots, technical support information, and a glossary.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=d75e4c02-e38c-4a22-b7f7-69f9706c5240

Microsoft Work Group Server Protocol Program License Agreement (All IP) for Development and Product Distribution

Brief Description

This is the Work Group Server Protocol Program (WSPP) License Agreement (All IP) for Development and Product Distribution

Overview

This is the license agreement for all IP for the Microsoft Work Group Server Protocol Program (WSPP) that allows for development and product distribution under the WSPP.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=32420e6c-a93a-424c-a983-22d67643eefb

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Wednesday, May 27, 2009 6:11 AM

Zune HD – It’s real….

Engadget has a great article on info they picked up on the rumored Zune HD device.

We (Microsoft) have also posted an official Zune HD information page.

Briefly -

3.3” OLED Multi-touch screen (take that iPhone!)

Integrated HD Radio receiver (take that iPod!)

HD Video Out – My father has a nice HDTV but no HD tuner. Now I can plug right in an show him what his TV can really do!

Wireless – I have always enjoyed but underused this feature. Happy to see it is still there!

IE Web Browser - (take that again iPhone!)

Onscreen QWERTY keyboard – Not a big fan of these keyboards so I hope we get this right!

Integration with XBox and XBox Live – HUGE Win!

Cheers!

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Wednesday, May 27, 2009 5:43 AM

How does an IT Pro Thrive during these tough times?

This past week at TechEd, I interviewed an attendee that has leveraged the Microsoft Thrive sight which provides resources for IT Pros. These resources focus on improving your skills through training and certification, identifying career opportunities, and identifying new cost saving business practices. Check out what this TechEd attendee has to say about Thrive and what he is doing right now in this economic climate to Thrive!

You can also view this video in other formats over at the Technet Edge site!

Cheers!

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Friday, May 22, 2009 4:37 AM

Interesting Downloads for Week Ending 05-15-2009….

Infrastructure Development, Operations & Maintenance

· Job Aids for Server Core Installations of Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2

· Migrating to Windows Small Business Server 2008 from Windows Small Business Server 2008

· Windows Essential Business Server 2008 Click Thru Demo - Features Overview

· Windows Server 2008 R2 Documentation & Resources

· Configuration Manager 2007 Help File Update Wizard

· BranchCache Early Adopter's Guide

· Windows Essential Business Server 2008 Click Thru Demo - EBS With System Center Essentials

· Windows Small Business Server 2008 Click thru Demo - Migration from SBS 2003

· Windows Small Business Server 2008 Click Thru Demo - Working With Clients

· Windows Essential Business Server 2008 Click Thru Demo - Installation

· Running Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2 in a Virtualized Topology

· Windows Small Business Server 2008 Click Thru Demo - Installation

· Windows Small Business Server 2008 Click Thru Demo - Admin Console

· Microsoft Office Live Meeting 2007 Lotus Notes Add-In Deployment Guide

· Active Directory Migration Tool (ADMT) v3.0 Migration Guide

· Desired Configuration Management for Microsoft Exchange Server Datasheet

· Windows: Core Services Desired Configuration Monitoring (DCM) Datasheet

· Enterprise Network Protection Datasheet

· Desired Configuration Management for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server Datasheet

· SQL: Desired Configuration Monitoring (DCM) Datasheet

· Next Generation Sales and Customer Care Datasheet

· Design and Implementation for Active Directory Datasheet

· Mobile Device Management Datasheet

· Mobile Enterprise Messaging Datasheet

Solutions & Solution Development

· BizTalk Adapter v2.0 for mySAP Business Suite Installation Guide and Release Notes

· Identity Developer Training Kit (May 2009)

· Microsoft Office Groove Server 2007 Technical Library in Compiled Help format

· Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 Technical Library in Compiled Help format

· Office SharePoint Server 2007 Technical Library in Compiled Help format

· 2007 Office Resource Kit Technical Library in Compiled Help format

· Microsoft Search Server 2008 Technical Library in Compiled Help format

· Office Project Server 2007 Technical Library in Compiled Help format

· Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Technical Library in Compiled Help format

· Microsoft .NET RIA Services May 2009 Preview

· Windows Vista Application Compatibility List for IT Professionals

· Microsoft FRx 6.7 Hot Fix 1 (R10670) - McKesson Pathways 9.x, 11.x, 14.x - English

· Microsoft FRx 6.7 Hot Fix 1 (R10670) - Flexi International

· Microsoft FRx 6.7 Hot Fix 1 (R10670) - Fiserv FFS Enterprise

· Managing Shims in an Enterprise

· Getting Started with Application Compatibility in a Windows Deployment

· Windows Embedded NavReady Monthly Update (April 2009)

· Windows CE 5.0 Platform Builder Monthly Update (April 2009)

· Windows Embedded CE 6.0 Monthly Update (April 2009)

· Microsoft Forecaster 7.0 Service Pack 3

· Web Platform Installer 2.0 Beta

· Visual Studio 2010 Professional Beta 1 – ISO

· Visual Studio Team System 2010 Team Foundation Server Beta 1

· Migrating to Windows Small Business Server 2008 from Windows Small Business Server 2003

· Visual Studio 2010 Professional Beta 1 – Web Installer

· Visual Studio Team System 2010 Team Suite Beta 1 – Web Installer

· Microsoft .NET Framework 4 Client Profile Beta 1 - English

· Microsoft .NET Framework 4 Beta 1 - English

· Visual Studio Team System 2010 Test Load Agent Beta 1

· Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Remote Debugger (Beta 1)

· Visual Studio 2010 Shell (Integrated) Beta 1 Redistributable Package

· Visual Studio 2010 Shell (Isolated) Beta 1 Redistributable Package

· WHDC White Papers and Documentation

· Microsoft Office Visio 2007 Professional WBS Modeler

· Visual Studio Team System 2010 Lab Agent Beta 1

· Publishing PerformancePoint Server in Extranet Scenarios

· EPM and Office SharePoint Server 2007 Coexistence — Intranet Scenario

· ALM Demo

· Windows 7 Federated Search Provider Implementer's Guide

· BizTalk Server 2009 Installation and Upgrade Guides

· Microsoft BizTalk Server RFID 2009 Documentation Update

· Microsoft BizTalk RFID 2009 Mobile Documentation Update

Security, Policy & Compliance

· Update for Windows Mail Junk E-mail Filter [May 2009] (KB905866)

· Update for Windows Mail Junk E-mail Filter for x64-based Systems [May 2009] (KB905866)

· Microsoft® Windows® Malicious Software Removal Tool (KB890830) x64

· Microsoft® Windows® Malicious Software Removal Tool (KB890830)

· Geneva Whitepapers and Datasheet

· Microsoft Code Name "Geneva" Beta 2

· Microsoft Code Name "Geneva" SbS Guides and VMs

· Geneva Interop Whitepapers

· Security, Identity, and Access Management Datasheet

Other

· Windows Internet Explorer 8 MUI Pack for Windows Server 2003 or Windows XP x64 Edition

· Windows Internet Explorer 8 MUI Pack for Windows Server 2003 SP2

· Windows Internet Explorer 8 MUI Pack for Windows XP

Office Communications Server 2007 R2 can be deployed onto Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V, or onto any virtualization solution that is a certified partner through the Server Virtualization Validation Program (SVVP) certified partners for the following workloads:

Presence
IM (including conferencing, remote access, federation, and Public IM Connectivity)
Group Chat

This whitepaper:

Identifies which server roles are supported in a virtualized environment
Provides guidance for scaling users and workloads in a virtualized environment

The Microsoft Mobile Enterprise Messaging Solution is an integrated service and support engagement designed to help you plan, deploy, manage, and support the next level of mobile-messaging solutions for your business in a secure environment.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=9ebf5e60-3944-405a-8a09-504442a3ddae

Solutions & Solution Development

BizTalk Adapter v2.0 for mySAP Business Suite Installation Guide and Release Notes

Brief Description

Download and view the installation instructions and release notes for Microsoft BizTalk Adapter v2.0 for mySAP Business Suite.

Overview

The Installation Guide describes how to install BizTalk Adapter v2.0 for mySAP Business Suite. The Readme provides late breaking information that might not be available within the product documentation.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=72e800a9-e9fd-4e5f-9c4a-cd340679d700

Identity Developer Training Kit (May 2009)

Brief Description

The Identity Developer Training Kit contains a set of hands-on labs, documents and references that will help you to learn how to take advantage of Microsoft's latest identity and access control developer's products and services.

Overview

The May 2009 release of the Identity Developer Training Kit contains hands-on labs and resources: subsequent releases may contain presentations, samples and demos as well. The identity and access control products and services covered in this release are:

Microsoft "Geneva" Framework Beta 2
Microsoft "Geneva" Server Beta 2
.NET Access Control Service (March CTP)
Microsoft Federation Gateway

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=c3e315fa-94e2-4028-99cb-904369f177c0

Microsoft Office Groove Server 2007 Technical Library in Compiled Help format

Brief Description

Downloadable CHM version of Groove Server 2007 content on TechNet.

Overview

Important, before you download:

If the topics in this file do not appear as you expect (you see "Page cannot be displayed" or "Action canceled," for example), see the Instructions section on this page.
This guide is a compiled Help file and opens in HTML Help.
This content is also available on the Web.

This downloadable CHM is a copy of content in the Microsoft Office Groove Server 2007 technical library. The CHM is current as of the date above. For the latest information, see the technical library on the Web.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=75000595-78c4-4d12-97a6-652a6fe579cf

Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 Technical Library in Compiled Help format

Brief Description

Downloadable CHM version of PerformancePoint Server content on TechNet.

Overview

Important, before you download:

If the topics in this file do not appear as you expect (you see "Page cannot be displayed" or "Action canceled," for example), see the Instructions section on this page.
This guide is a compiled Help file and opens in HTML Help.
This content is also available on the Web.

This downloadable CHM is a copy of content in the Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 technical library. The CHM is current as of the date above. For the latest information, see the technical library on the Web.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=cd39607f-7bfb-4a07-844e-b00602ddeb38

Office SharePoint Server 2007 Technical Library in Compiled Help format

Brief Description

Downloadable CHM version of SharePoint Server content on TechNet.

Overview

Important, before you download:

If the topics in this file do not appear as you expect (you see "Page cannot be displayed" or "Action canceled," for example), see the Instructions section on this page.
This guide is a compiled Help file and opens in HTML Help.
This content is also available on the Web.

This downloadable CHM is a copy of content in the Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 technical library. The CHM is current as of the date above. For the latest information, see the technical library on the Web.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=ba006584-711d-4ce7-9e1f-181aedf6434a

2007 Office Resource Kit Technical Library in Compiled Help format

Brief Description

Downloadable CHM version of 2007 Office Resource Kit content on TechNet.

Overview

Important, before you download:

If the topics in this file do not appear as you expect (you see "Page cannot be displayed" or "Action canceled," for example), see the Instructions section on this page.
This guide is a compiled Help file and opens in HTML Help.
This content is also available on the Web.

This downloadable CHM is a copy of content in the 2007 Office Resource Kit technical library. The CHM is current as of the date above. For the latest information, see the technical library on the Web.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=57909f68-7f7d-42d8-a868-e518f7edf726

Microsoft Search Server 2008 Technical Library in Compiled Help format

Brief Description

Downloadable CHM version of Search Server 2008 content on TechNet.

Overview

Important, before you download:

If the topics in this file do not appear as you expect (you see "Page cannot be displayed" or "Action canceled," for example), see the Instructions section on this page.
This guide is a compiled Help file and opens in HTML Help.
This content is also available on the Web.

This downloadable CHM is a copy of content in the Microsoft Search Server 2008 technical library. The CHM is current as of the date above. For the latest information, see the technical library on the Web.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=6cf0f7b6-c0a7-48f8-977e-9bc76b97ff98

Office Project Server 2007 Technical Library in Compiled Help format

Brief Description

Downloadable CHM version of Project Server content on TechNet.

Overview

Important, before you download:

If the topics in this file do not appear as you expect (you see "Page cannot be displayed" or "Action canceled," for example), see the Instructions section on this page.
This guide is a compiled Help file and opens in HTML Help.
This content is also available on the Web.

This downloadable CHM is a copy of content in the Microsoft Office Project Server 2007 technical library. The CHM is current as of the date above. For the latest information, see the technical library on the Web.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=7d243a2c-90b7-425d-b586-c48a0c3bebbb

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Technical Library in Compiled Help format

Brief Description

Downloadable CHM version of Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 content on TechNet.

Overview

Important, before you download:

If the topics in this file do not appear as you expect (you see "Page cannot be displayed" or "Action canceled," for example), see the Instructions section on this page.
This guide is a compiled Help file and opens in HTML Help.
This content is also available on the Web.

This downloadable CHM is a copy of content in the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 technical library. The CHM is current as of the date above. For the latest information, see the technical library on the Web.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=c9d6c8c5-8a62-4961-8c1b-df08b667b1c4

Microsoft .NET RIA Services May 2009 Preview

Brief Description

The .NET RIA Services is a framework that provides a pattern to write application logic that runs on the mid-tier and controls access to data for queries, changes and custom operations.

Overview

Microsoft .NET RIA Services simplifies the traditional n-tier application pattern by bringing together the ASP.NET and Silverlight platforms. RIA Services provides a pattern to write application logic that runs on the mid-tier and controls access to data for queries, changes and custom operations. It also provides end-to-end support for common tasks such as data validation, authentication and roles by integrating with Silverlight components on the client and ASP.NET on the mid-tier.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=76bb3a07-3846-4564-b0c3-27972bcaabce

Windows Vista Application Compatibility List for IT Professionals

Brief Description

The Window Vista Application Compatibility List for IT Professionals is a Microsoft Office Excel-based spreadsheet containing software applications which have support statements from the application manufacturer or which have earned the status of “Certified for Windows Vista” or “Works with Windows Vista”.

Overview

The Windows Vista Application Compatibility List for IT Professionals is a Microsoft Office Excel-based spreadsheet containing software applications which have earned the status of “Certified for Windows Vista” or “Works with Windows Vista”.
Additionally, this list contains applications with a status of “Compatible”, “Free Update Required”, and “Paid Update Required”. Any of these compatibility statuses mean that the applications have been reported by the publisher as compatible with, or supported on, Windows Vista. These applications have not gone through the Microsoft Windows Vista Logo Program. Some applications are listed as “Not Compatible” and have been reported by the publisher as not compatible or not supported on, Windows Vista.
For the latest collection of compatible applications and hardware devices, please visit the Windows Vista Compatibility Center. You can also leave feedback on compatibility and suggest new products to get added in future reports.

Brief Description

Visual Studio Team System 2010 Team Foundation Server Beta 1 is a collection of technologies that help team members collaborate efficiently and effectively to deliver a product.

Overview

This release includes the following new features:

Work item hierarchy and linking
Improved Agile template
MOSS & WSS Dashboards
Simplified reporting
Change-tracking across branches
Version Control Rollback
Build queuing and pooling
Gated check-in
Simplified Setup
Scale out of Web and data tiers
Admin console
Project move/archive/restore

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=85520793-68fc-4361-a8b6-dc2cff49c8d2

Microsoft .NET Framework 4 Client Profile Beta 1 - English

Brief Description

Overview

The Microsoft .NET Framework 4 Client Profile provides a subset of features from the .NET Framework 4. The Client Profile is designed to run just client applications and to enable the fastest possible deployment for Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) client applications and Windows Forms client applications. Application developers who require features that are not included in the Client Profile should target the full .NET Framework 4 instead of the Client Profile.

The .NET Framework 4 works side by side with the Framework version 3.5 SP1. Applications that are based on earlier versions of the Framework will continue to run on that version. Just a subset of functionality is shared by all versions of the Framework.
The ADO.NET Entity Framework, which simplifies how developers program against relational databases by raising the level of abstraction, has many new features. These includes persistence ignorance and POCO support, lazy loading, test-driven development support, functions in model, and new LINQ operators.
Improvements in WPF:
- Added support in Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) for Windows 7 multi-touch, ribbon controls, and taskbar extensibility features.
- Added support in WPF for Surface 2.0 SDK.
- New line-of-business controls including charting control, smart edit, data grid, and others that improve the experience for developers who build data centric applications.
- Improvements in performance and scalability.
- Visual improvements in text clarity, layout pixel snapping, localization, and interoperability.
Limited support for communicating using Windows Communication Foundation (WCF).
Innovative new parallel-programming features such as parallel loop support, Task Parallel Library (TPL), Parallel LINQ (PLINQ), and coordination data structures which let developers harness the power of multi-core processors.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=0952f95d-df27-4194-b442-8aa80c184710

Microsoft .NET Framework 4 Beta 1 - English

Brief Description

Overview

The Microsoft .NET Framework 4 provides the following new features and improvements:

The .NET Framework 4 works side by side with the Framework version 3.5 SP1. Applications that are based on earlier versions of the Framework will continue to run on that version. Just a subset of functionality is shared by all versions of the Framework.
Innovations in the Visual Basic and C# languages, for example statement lambdas, implicit line continuations, dynamic dispatch, and named/optional parameters.
The ADO.NET Entity Framework, which simplifies how developers program against relational databases by raising the level of abstraction, has many new features. These includes persistence ignorance and POCO support, lazy loading, test-driven development support, functions in model, and new LINQ operators.
Enhancements to ASP.NET:
- New JavaScript UI Templates and databinding capabilities for AJAX.
- New ASP.NET chart control.
Improvements in WPF:
- Added support in Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) for Windows 7 multi-touch, ribbon controls, and taskbar extensibility features.
- Added support in WPF for Surface 2.0 SDK.
- New line-of-business controls including charting control, smart edit, data grid, and others that improve the experience for developers who build data centric applications.
- Improvements in performance and scalability.
- Visual improvements in text clarity, layout pixel snapping, localization, and interoperability.
Improvements to Windows Workflow (WF) that let developers to better host and interact with workflows. These include an improved activity programming model, an improved designer experience, a new flowchart modeling style, an expanded activity palette, workflow-rules integration, and new message correlation features. The .NET Framework also offers significant performance gains for WF-based workflows.
Improvements to Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) such as support for WCF Workflow Services enabling workflow programs with messaging activities, correlation support, durable two-way communication and rich hosting capabilities. Additionally, .NET Framework 4 provides new WCF features such as service discovery, router service, simplified configuration and a number of improvements to queuing, REST support, diagnostics, and performance.
Innovative new parallel programming features such as parallel loop support, Task Parallel Library (TPL), Parallel LINQ (PLINQ), and coordination data structures which let developers harness the power of multi-core processors.

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