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TechNet Magazine Offers Twice-Daily Tips in February

mitchirs — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 23:39:00 GMT

TechNet Magazine continues to serve up daily tips to help you tweak, optimize, manage, and get more out of Windows 7. And throughout the month of February, you get twice the daily tips. Every day (M-F), TechNet Magazine is also sharing a new Exchange...(read more)

Windows 7 Release Candidate expires June 1, 2010 - Shut downs begin March 1

mitchirs — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 20:51:00 GMT

If you are still running the Windows 7 Release Candidate (RC), beginning March 1, 2010, your PC will start to shut down every two hours in preparation for Windows 7 RC expiration on June 1, 2010. To avoid interruption, you will need to reinstall an earlier...(read more)

Microsoft Security Bulletin Summary for February 2010

mitchirs — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 19:43:00 GMT

With the release of the bulletins for February 2010 , this bulletin summary replaces the bulletin advance notification originally issued February 4, 2010. For information about how to receive automatic notifications whenever Microsoft security bulletins...(read more)

Take the Short TechNet Flash Subscriber Survey

mitchirs — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 21:07:00 GMT

We’ve listened before and we’ll listen again. Many of the ideas for the recent changes to the newsletter came from subscribers. Tell us what you think of them and give us more ideas. Take the short survey . More to come, Mitch Subscribe to the TechNet...(read more)

TechNet 2.0 Revealed – Multipart blogcast series begins with Episode 1

mitchirs — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 18:26:00 GMT

Keith Combs kicks off a series describing the enhancements under development for TechNet. In Episode 1 , he explains the mission of TechNet 2.0 and features a podcast where group program manager John Martin describes the core scenarios. Keith’s main goal...(read more)

Get the new Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Workload Architecture Poster

mitchirs — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 17:34:00 GMT

This free poster gives you a visual of the different Communications Server 2007 R2 workloads, including how certificate requirements and DNS and firewall configuration come into play. It describes the traffic flow of protocols and ports used in each workload,...(read more)

Application Compatibility Toolkit Connector for SCCM 2007 now available

mitchirs — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 16:45:00 GMT

The Configuration Manager 2007 ACT Connector is now available for download to inventory installed applications and determine their compatibility with Windows. It also retrieves device driver compatibility for installed devices and reports which device...(read more)

Get the Virtual Machines for evaluating Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010

mitchirs — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 17:50:00 GMT

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

Microsoft releases research study at Data Privacy Day 2010

mitchirs — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 17:51:00 GMT

Tomorrow is Data Privacy Day 2010 and Microsoft is releasing the results of a study it commissioned in France, Germany, the U.K., and the United States to find out how people manage the information that they and others place on the Internet. The same...(read more)

Apply the critical security updates for Internet Explorer vulnerabilities

mitchirs — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 22:58:00 GMT

This cumulative security update resolves seven privately reported vulnerabilities and one publicly disclosed vulnerability in Internet Explorer. The more severe vulnerabilities could allow remote code execution if a user views a specially crafted Web...(read more)

TechNet Subscription offer extended with 28% discount

mitchirs — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 21:32:00 GMT

We are still offering the discount for the TechNet Subscriptions. Due to the continued success of the program, it is back again this year and the savings have been increased to 28%. Just sign up here for your TechNet Subscription and use promo code TNITE06...(read more)

Security Advisory: Assessing the risk of IE 0day vulnerability

mitchirs — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 23:08:00 GMT

The Microsoft security response center has released Microsoft Security Advisory 979352 , alerting customers to limited, sophisticated attacks targeting Internet Explorer 6 customers. Today, samples of that exploit were made publicly available. The Security...(read more)

Office 2010 Application Compatibility program beta resources available

mitchirs — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 17:42:00 GMT

A beta of Office Environment Assessment Tool, a beta of Office Code Compatibility Inspector, and a draft of the Assessment and Remediation Guide are now available for download on TechNet . We encourage you to send us your feedback, comments and suggestions...(read more)

Microsoft Security Bulletins for January 2010

mitchirs — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 20:36:00 GMT

Get the summary of security bulletins released for January. For information about how to receive automatic notifications whenever Microsoft security bulletins are issued, visit Microsoft Technical Security Notifications . Also, check out the webcast Information...(read more)

Download the Microsoft SQL Server Migration Assistant

mitchirs — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 17:36:00 GMT

The Microsoft SQL Server Migration Assistant (SSMA) is a toolkit that reduces the effort, cost, and risk of migrating to SQL Server. A new addition to the SSMA family is the CTP version 1.0 for MySQL that provides an assessment of migration efforts as...(read more)