Technical RollUp : December

This 490-page document covers the essential phases and steps to upgrade existing instances of SQL Server 2000 and 2005 to SQL Server 2008 by using best practices. These include preparation tasks, upgrade tasks, and post-upgrade tasks. It is intended to be a supplement to SQL Server 2008 Books Online.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=3&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d66d3e6f5-6902-4fdd-af75-9975aea5bea7%26displaylang%3den

SQL Server MP for OpsMgr 2007

The Microsoft SQL Server Management Pack for Operations Manager 2007 provides discovery and monitoring of SQL Server 2000, 2005 and 2008.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=4&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d8c0f970e-c653-4c15-9e51-6a6cadfca363%26displaylang%3den

SQL Server 2008 Compliance Guide

This paper provides an overview of how to approach compliance for the management of the SQL Server database. It describes the compliance-related features of SQL Server 2008 and how to apply them to IT controls. This paper includes tips and scripts to help jump-start compliance solution development.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=5&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d6e1021dd-65b9-41c2-8385-438028f5acc2%26displaylang%3den

Azure Services Training Kit

Azure Services Training Kit

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=6&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d413e88f8-5966-4a83-b309-53b7b77edf78%26displaylang%3den

EMEA Case Study Resources

Case Study Resources

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=7&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d7cbc1d01-bdfb-46af-acc1-8ce17ff50bcb%26displaylang%3den

RML Utilities for SQL Server (x64)

Tools to help database administrators manage the performance of Microsoft SQL Server.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=8&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3db60cdfa3-732e-4347-9c06-2d1f1f84c342%26displaylang%3den

RML Utilities for SQL Server (x86)

Tools to help database administrators manage the performance of Microsoft SQL Server.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=9&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d7edfa95a-a32f-440f-a3a8-5160c8dbe926%26displaylang%3den

SQL Server Data Services

SQL Server Data Services

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=10&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d2539d851-1e68-42fd-bee0-d36806a732fb%26displaylang%3den

External Collaboration Toolkit for SharePoint

This solution accelerator is a collection of software and guidance that you can use to easily deploy a SharePoint-based environment for collaboration with people outside your firewall. The accelerator allows users to create collaboration environments that use the familiar SharePoint interface. Because the solution is easy to use, end users are more likely to use it rather than revert to e mail.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=11&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3dd9af2c25-989c-45c4-8008-1f15722190ed%26displaylang%3den

SQL Server 2008 Predictive Analysis Datasheet

Microsoft® SQL Server™ 2008 empowers informed decisions with predictive analysis through intuitive data mining; seamlessly integrated within the Microsoft Business Intelligence platform and extensible into business applications.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=12&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3dbfcc3ded-9a3d-4a32-85e2-e71fd90ee645%26displaylang%3den

SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services Datasheet

Microsoft® SQL Server™ 2008 helps enable organizations to build comprehensive, enterprise-scale analytic solutions that deliver actionable insights through familiar tools.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=13&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d1ad953e6-2ca9-4d8b-95ff-d5242c4c627a%26displaylang%3den

SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services Performance Guide

This white paper describes how application developers can apply query and processing performance-tuning techniques to their SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services OLAP solutions.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=14&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d3be0488d-e7aa-4078-a050-ae39912d2e43%26displaylang%3den

Visual Studio 2005 Update for SQL Server 2008 Support

This update enables developers to use Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 with Microsoft SQL Server 2008.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=15&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3de1109aef-1aa2-408d-aa0f-9df094f993bf%26displaylang%3den

SQL Server 2008 Security DataSheet

SQL Server 2008 Security DataSheet

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=16&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d65c2a014-5cbc-424e-ad5d-8d1da0bf6f58%26displaylang%3den

SQL Server 2008 Report Builder 2.0

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Report Builder 2.0 provides an intuitive report authoring environment for business and power users. It supports the full capabilities of SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services. The download provides a stand-alone installer for Report Builder 2.0

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=17&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d9f783224-9871-4eea-b1d5-f3140a253db6%26displaylang%3den

Virtualizing SQL Server 2008 with Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V

Virtualizing SQL Server 2008 with Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=18&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d5b72bd51-df66-43a0-aca6-d23bf0d7f44d%26displaylang%3den

Creating Custom Reports by Using Configuration Manager 2007 SQL Views

This documentation provides the information to help you create custom reports, determine which Configuration Manager 2007 SQL views contain the information you need for your reports, and identify the path between the necessary SQL views and determine what columns can be used to join them.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=19&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d87bbe64e-5439-4fc8-becc-deb372a40f4a%26displaylang%3den

Intergraph

Intergraph® GeoMedia® to Support Microsoft SQL Server 2008

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=20&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3dac45a8bf-a152-431b-bb79-04afa66ddfe0%26displaylang%3den

EVENTS/WEBCASTS

A walk down memory lane - SQLBits Video

An in-depth look at SQL Server and Windows memory configuration and usage covering x86, x64, /PAE, /3GB, AWE, MemToLeave, Virtual Address Space, DBCC MemoryStatus, and Workspace/Query Memory.

http://coeo.com/sql-server-events/sql-server-conferences.html

TechNet Webcast: SQL Server 2008 for SAP Customers

http://www.microsoft.com/events/series/detail/webcastdetails.aspx?seriesid=111&webcastid=1032353311

TechNet Webcast: Protect SQL Server 2008 with Data Protection Manager 2007 (Level 300)

http://www.microsoft.com/events/series/detail/webcastdetails.aspx?seriesid=111&webcastid=5011

TechNet Webcast: 24 Hours of SQL Server 2008: Performance Troubleshooting (Level 200)

http://www.microsoft.com/events/series/detail/webcastdetails.aspx?seriesid=111&webcastid=4731

TechNet Webcast: 24 Hours of SQL Server 2008: Streamlining Data Integration (Level 200)

http://www.microsoft.com/events/series/detail/webcastdetails.aspx?seriesid=111&webcastid=4875

NEW KB's

SQL 2008

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: You may receive incorrect results when you run a query that references three or more tables in the FROM clause in SQL Server 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958611/EN-US

SQL Svr Enterprise 2008 EN: How to upgrade SQL Server 2008 Setup by running a newer version of the SQL Server 2008 Setup support files

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/955392/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: Some Dundas Chart features are missing after you convert a SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services report to SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/956027/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: Error message when you use a SQL Server 2008 Integration Services package to query a table in an Oracle database: "SSIS Error Code DTS_E_INDUCEDTRANSFORMFAILUREONERROR"

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959794/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: Error message when you rebuild indexes for a table that contains sparse columns in SQL Server 2008: "Cannot alter table '<TableName>' because the table either contains sparse columns or a column set column which are incompatible with compression"

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958792/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: Some screens in the Cumulative Update 1 for Microsoft SQL Server 2008 setup contain incorrect information

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959792/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: When an AMO object is used in the SQL Server 2008 CLR stored procedure to create or update Analysis Services objects, the stored procedure may fail

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959780/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: When you try to install a failover instance on a computer that is running a 64-bit version of Windows, the x86 option is available on the options landing page in SQL Server 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959889/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: A deadlock occurs when you implement DDL statements against the partitions that are defined in a partitioned table in SQL Server 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959783/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: Error message when an application uses ODBC to bind a TVP and a subtype as DAE in SQL Server 2008: "HY010, [Microsoft][SQL Server Native Client 10.0]Function sequence error"

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959796/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: A query that uses a DMV to query the sys.dm_os_performance_counters object seems to stop responding in SQL Server 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959798/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: The installation is not successful when you try to install BIDS in SQL Server 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959800/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: When you try to update SQL Server 2008 in attended mode, the update for SQL Support is not successful

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959801/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: Dr. Watson error information is not posted in the Problem Reports and Solutions window if SQL Server 2008 Setup fails

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959788/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: SQL Server Setup may be unsuccessful when you try to install SQL Server 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958918/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: A DMX prediction query returns incorrect results when you query a logistic regression model in SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959769/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: Visual Studio 2008 stops responding when you leave a SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services-based database project idle for some time

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959776/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: A database contains jumbled column data after you use the SSIS Fuzzy Grouping transformation in SQL Server 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959770/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: The results of a writeback operation to a measure group are not reflected in a linked measure group in SQL Server 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959768/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: Error message when you try to export a SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services report by using Report Manager: "Internet Explorer cannot download <ReportName>.xls from <URL>"

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958479/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: The output from the DBCC MEMORYSTATUS command indicates that the Schema Manager cache uses more buffer space than expected in SQL Server 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958599/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: Error message when you synchronize data for a transactional publication in SQL Server 2008: "Procedure or function 'sp_MSins_dbo<TableName>_msrepl_ccs' expects parameter '@c7', which was not supplied"

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959784/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: Error message when you try to add articles to a publication that uses an Oracle Database 11g database as the publisher in SQL Server 2008: "Constraint column '<ColumnName>' not found in table '<TableName>'"

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959785/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: When Excel 2007 tries to connect to an OLAP cube on a server that is running SQL Server 2005, the connection fails

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959771/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: Calculated members in a SQL Server 2008 database are not evaluated, and the advanced filters return unexpected results when you run the Filter function in an Excel 2007 PivotTable report

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959774/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: When you try to use a subselect query that has calculated members in Excel 2007, the query returns an unexpected error

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959773/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: A query returns incorrect results if a passthrough predicate is used with a filter in the query plan

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958214/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: The script that the Generate Scripts wizard generates does not include some source database tables

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958793/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: In SQL Server 2008, SQL Server Management Studio generates a CREATE TABLE script instead of creating a DROP TABLE script

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958790/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: You cannot use the SQL Server 2008 version of SMO to manage certificates in SQL Server 2005 and in SQL Server 2000

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958757/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: SQL Server Management Studio uses the simple recovery model to create a new database when you click "New Database" in SQL Server 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958759/EN-US

SQL Svr Enterprise 2008 EN: FIX: The database name or the database ID number does not appear in the "Most Expensive Queries" chart in the Activity Monitor when you run a query on a server running SQL Server 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958941/EN-US

SQL Svr Enterprise 2008 EN: FIX: Activity Monitor shows the high wait times when the FSAGENT wait type is enabled on a server that is running SQL Server 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958942/EN-US

SQL Svr Enterprise 2008 EN: FIX: The Database column or the Task State column may be blank for some processes in the Process chart of Activity Monitor on a server that is running SQL Server 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958943/EN-US

SQL Svr Enterprise 2008 EN: FIX: Database Engine Tuning Advisor in SQL Server 2008 does not recommend any index to analyze a query

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959790/EN-US

SQL Svr Enterprise 2008 EN: FIX: The License Terms screen of the Setup program for Cumulative Update 1 for SQL Server 2008 incorrectly states "To install Service Pack"

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959795/EN-US

SQL Svr Enterprise 2008 EN: FIX: You cannot access Books Online help from the Activity Monitor feature in SQL Server 2008 by pressing the F1

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959782/EN-US

SQL Svr Enterprise 2008 EN: FIX: Error message when you run the DBCC SHRINKFILE command or the DBCC SHRINKDATABASE command on a server that contains a SQL Server 2008 database: "5205 : DBCC SHRINKFILE: Moving Page <FileId>:<PageId> failed"

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959376/EN-US

SQL Svr Enterprise 2008 EN: FIX: Memory consumption in MEMORYCLERK_SOSNODE and in USERSTORE_SCHEMAMANAGER may cause a performance slowdown of a SQL Server 2008 database

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959767/EN-US

SQL Svr Express Edition 2008 AL: FIX: Full-text search functionality does not work in SQL Server 2008 Express Edition

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958758/EN-US

December 2008 - Technical Rollup Mail - Security

conuktrm — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 15:00:46 GMT

NEWS

Security

The Great Debate: Security by Obscurity http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=10859047&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474

By Jesper M. Johansson, Software Architect and Microsoft MVP in Enterprise Security, and Roger Grimes, Senior Security Consultant, Microsoft ACE Team Security by obscurity involves taking measures that do not remove an attack vector but instead conceal it. Some argue that this is a bad practice while others claim that as part of a larger strategy, every bit counts. The debate is quite heated, and, in this article, some of our finest security experts face off, explaining security by obscurity and presenting both sides of the debate.

New Microsoft Security Intelligence Report Released http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=10859048&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474

Volume 5 of the Security Intelligence Report (SIR) contains an all-new examination of the threat ecosystem and the use of botnets to spread threats. It also includes unique content on browser-based exploits and updated information on software vulnerability disclosures, vulnerability exploits, security and privacy breaches and trends in malicious and potentially unwanted software. With extensive guidance on mitigations and countermeasures, SIR is a valuable tool for all IT professionals who need to know what is happening in the threat ecosystem.

Download the Latest Microsoft Security Intelligence Report (SIRv5) http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=10846335&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474

Get the free report with in-depth perspectives on the changing threat landscape, including software vulnerability disclosures and exploits, malicious software, and potentially unwanted software. Also watch the latest “Bret and Vinnie Show” as they discuss the latest report.

Get Dynamic Reports with Extended Content http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=10846336&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474

Download the Microsoft Security Assessment Tool (MSAT) and access a set of dynamic reports that are generated from the assessment answers. The authoritative prescriptive guidance that is generated from your assessment answers will help you speed remediation of the security issues found.

Microsoft Code Name “Geneva” http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=10859049&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474

Microsoft code name “Geneva” is an open platform for simplified user access based on claims. This release consists of three components: Geneva Framework for .NET developers, Geneva Server for IT Pros, and Windows CardSpace Geneva for users. Read the white paper http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=10858969&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474 David Chappell for an overview of the platform, and then visit the Microsoft Connect Geneva home page http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=10858970&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474 for access to downloads and other resources.

Research Paper: Malware Development Lifecycle http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=10859050&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474

Presented at the Virus Bulletin 2008 (VB2008) Conference in October, this paper tracks the evolution of certain families of malware as they have grown and diversified, adapting and improving to effectively accomplish their required results.

Microsoft Security Bulletin Summary for November, 2008

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms08-nov.mspx

Basic Alerts

Microsoft's free monthly Security Notification Service provides links to security-related software updates and notification of re-released Microsoft Security Bulletins. The goal of this service is to provide accurate information you can use to protect your computers and systems from malicious attacks. These bulletins are written for IT professionals, contain in-depth technical information, and e-mails are digitally-signed with PGP.

E-mail: Security Notification Service https://profile.microsoft.com/RegSysProfileCenter/subscriptionwizard.aspx?wizid=5a2a311b-5189-4c9b-9f1a-d5e913a26c2e&lcid=1033

RSS: Security for IT Professionals http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/secrss.aspx

Windows Live Alert: Technical Security Update Alerts http://signup.alerts.live.com/alerts/jump.do?PINID=3274

Web Site: Bulletin Search http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin

Comprehensive Alerts

The free Comprehensive alerts serve as an incremental supplement to the Basic Alerts. It provides advance notification of upcoming security bulletins, Security advisories, and timely notification of any minor changes to previously released Microsoft Security Bulletins or Advisories. These notifications are written for IT professionals, contain in-depth technical information, and e-mails are digitally-signed with PGP.

E-mail: Security Notification Service Comprehensive Edition https://profile.microsoft.com/RegSysProfileCenter/subscriptionwizard.aspx?wizid=5a2a311b-5189-4c9b-9f1a-d5e913a26c2e&lcid=1033

RSS: Comprehensive Alerts http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/RssFeed.aspx?snscomprehensive

Web Site: Bulletin Search http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/current.aspx

Security Advisories Alerts

Microsoft Security Advisories are a way for Microsoft to communicate security information to customers about issues that may not be classified as vulnerabilities and may not require a security bulletin. Each advisory will be accompanied with a unique Microsoft Knowledge Base Article number for reference to provide additional information about the changes.

E-mail: Security Notification Service Comprehensive Edition [1] https://profile.microsoft.com/RegSysProfileCenter/subscriptionwizard.aspx?wizid=5a2a311b-5189-4c9b-9f1a-d5e913a26c2e&lcid=1033

RSS: Security Advisories http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/RssFeed.aspx?securityadvisory

Windows Live Alert: Technical Security Advisory Alerts http://signup.alerts.live.com/alerts/jump.do?PINID=3274

Web Site: Security Advisories http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory

[1] Note There is not a separate Comprehensive E-mail Notification service for Security Bulletins and Security Advisories

Microsoft Security Response Center Blog Alerts

The Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC) blog provides a real-time way for the MSRC to communicate with customers. Topics include day-to-day, "behind the scenes" information to help customers understand Microsoft security response efforts; updates during the early stages of security incidents; and regular postings for the bulletin release cycle.

RSS: MSRC Blog http://blogs.technet.com/msrc/rss.xml

Windows Live Alert: MSRC Blog http://signup.alerts.msn.com/alerts/login.do?PINID=32551266&returnurl=http://blogs.technet.com/msrc

Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration Server

Forefront Edge Security TechCenter

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-gb/forefront/edgesecurity/default.aspx

Please note that if you have feedback on documentation or wish to request new documents - email isadocs@microsoft.com

Forefront Edge Security Community

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-gb/forefront/edgesecurity/bb687298.aspx

New Community Contributed Content includes:

Overview of the Logging Improvements in Forefront Threat Management Gateway (TMG)

http://technet.microsoft.com/library/dd183731.aspx

Forefront TMG (ISA Server) Product Team Blog

The ISA Server Product Team Blog (http://blogs.technet.com/isablog/) is updated on a regular basis. Latest entries include:

ISA Policy Storage 101

http://blogs.technet.com/isablog/archive/2008/10/29/isa-policy-storage-101.aspx

Adventures in NLB Troubleshooting

http://blogs.technet.com/isablog/archive/2008/10/29/adventures-in-nlb-troubleshooting.aspx

Walk-through for RSA SecurID Delegation for ISA Server 2006

http://blogs.technet.com/isablog/archive/2008/10/29/walk-through-for-rsa-securid-delegation-for-isa-server-2006.aspx

New TMG Logging Architecture

http://blogs.technet.com/isablog/archive/2008/10/30/new-tmg-logging-architecture.aspx

Web requests from an ISA-local web application may receive unexpected authentication prompts.

http://blogs.technet.com/isablog/archive/2008/11/11/web-requests-from-an-isa-local-web-application-may-receive-unexpected-authentication-prompts.aspx

ISA UI trick: Move rule several places

http://blogs.technet.com/isablog/archive/2008/11/18/isa-ui-trick-move-rule-several-places.aspx

Did you miss it? The Launch of Windows Essential Business Server 2008

http://blogs.technet.com/isablog/archive/2008/11/19/did-you-miss-it-the-launch-of-windows-essential-business-server-2008.aspx

Error Installing SQL Server 2005 SP2 Security Update 948109 on TMG

http://blogs.technet.com/isablog/archive/2008/11/21/error-installing-sql-server-2005-sp2-security-update-948109-on-tmg.aspx

Error 10060 while browsing Internet through ISA Server 2006

http://blogs.technet.com/isablog/archive/2008/11/24/error-10060-while-browsing-internet-through-isa-server-2006.aspx

Intelligent Application Gateway 2007

Intelligent Application Gateway 2007 Technical Resources

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-gb/forefront/edgesecurity/bb687299.aspx

Forefront Edge Security Community

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-gb/forefront/edgesecurity/bb687298.aspx

Intelligent Application Gateway Product Team Blog

The IAG Product Team Blog (http://blogs.technet.com/edgeaccessblog) is updated on a regular basis. Latest entries include:

IAG SP2 – It is all about the application

http://blogs.technet.com/edgeaccessblog/archive/2008/11/02/iag-sp2-it-is-all-about-the-application.aspx

Securely Publishing Dynamics CRM 4.0 by Using IAG SP2

http://blogs.technet.com/edgeaccessblog/archive/2008/11/06/securely-publishing-dynamics-crm-4-0-by-using-iag-sp2.aspx

IAG SP2 Goes Virtual

http://blogs.technet.com/edgeaccessblog/archive/2008/11/26/iag-sp2-goes-virtual.aspx

DOCUMENTS

Microsoft Security Assessment Tool 4.0 http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=10859051&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474

The Microsoft Security Assessment Tool employs a holistic approach to measuring your security posture by covering topics across people, process, and technology. This revised version features an updated defense-in-depth assessment plus questions related to the evolving threat landscape. Findings are coupled with prescriptive guidance and recommended mitigation efforts, including links to more information for additional industry guidance.

IT Compliance Management Guide http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=10859052&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474

The IT Compliance Management Guide can help you shift your governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) efforts from people to technology. Use its configuration guidance to help efficiently address your organization's GRC objectives.

Microsoft Encrypting File System Assistant http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=10859053&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474

The Encrypting File System (EFS) Assistant is a software tool you can use to centrally control EFS settings on your mobile or desktop PCs. The EFS Assistant can help you encrypt the sensitive files on your users' laptops, regardless of where those files are located. Part of the Data Encryption Toolkit for Mobile PCs http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=10858971&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474, a community version of the tool, is also available from CodePlex at www.codeplex.com/EFSAssistant http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=10858972&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474.

Configuring Security in IIS 7.0 http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=10859054&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474

Windows Server 2008 featuring Internet Information Services 7.0 (IIS 7.0) is a powerful Web application and services platform that delivers rich Web-based experiences. Learn how to install and configure security settings for IIS 7.0, including built-in user and group accounts, URL authorization, SSL, and request filtering.

UrlScan v3.0 http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=10859055&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474

UrlScan version 3.1 is a security tool that restricts the types of HTTP requests that Internet Information Services (IIS) 6.0 will process. UrlScan screens all incoming requests to the server by filtering the requests based on rules that are set by the administrator. Filtering requests helps secure the server by ensuring that only valid requests are processed.

Checklist: Securing Web Services http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=10859056&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474

Part of the patterns and practices guide for "Improving Web Application Security," this checklist is designed to help developers build and secure Web services by outlining design, development, and administrative considerations.

A Guide to Securing ISA Server 2006 http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=10859057&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474

Get best practices for securing your servers, using the Security Configuration Wizard, and assigning administrative roles.

DOWNLOADS

IT Compliance Management Guide

The IT Compliance Management Guide is intended for IT managers and IT professionals who must plan for and address the governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) requirements of their organizations.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=bd930882-0d39-4900-9a79-b91f213ed15d&DisplayLang=en

Data Encryption Toolkit for Mobile PCs

This toolkit is intended to help you secure the data on your organization’s mobile PCs--in a cost-effective way--using Encrypting File System (EFS) and Microsoft BitLocker Drive Encryption (BitLocker) technologies.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=1a99576a-fe67-418f-88b1-81e2055fe977&DisplayLang=en

.NET Rocks! - Andrew Delin on SOX Compliance

Carl and Richard talk to Andrew Delin about why developers should care about the Sarbanes Oxley Act and why a compliance plan is in your best interest.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=13fe0c9c-b5a9-48b6-bec2-530df5bbe0ab&DisplayLang=en

Microsoft Antigen SP1 Documentation

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=7d00160e-4d15-4459-98a3-89f393ac008e&DisplayLang=en

Microsoft Security Assessment Tool 4.0

The Microsoft Security Assessment Tool (MSAT) is a risk-assessment application designed to provide information and recommendations about best practices for security within an information technology (IT) infrastructure.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=cd057d9d-86b9-4e35-9733-7acb0b2a3ca1&DisplayLang=en

Microsoft Online Services Sign In Tool V1

Client application that enables single sign-on to Microsoft Online Services

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=01f6c0e4-f897-442a-8462-425f8edddad9&DisplayLang=en

Microsoft Urlscan Filter v3.1 (x64)

This MSI package will install Urlscan v3.1 on your system.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=361e5598-c1bd-46b8-b3e7-3980e8bdf0de&DisplayLang=en

Microsoft Security Intelligence Report (January – June 2008)- Executive Summary

This is the fifth volume of the Microsoft Security Intelligence Report (SIR).

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=1eab2902-46df-4ed6-8149-a7f7a935dbe7&DisplayLang=en

Microsoft Security Intelligence Report volume 5 (January – June 2008)

This is the fifth volume of the Microsoft Security Intelligence Report (SIR).

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=b2984562-47a2-48ff-890c-edbeb8a0764c&DisplayLang=en

Identity Lifecycle Manager "2" RC Release

This download contains the Release Candidate version of Identity Lifecycle Manager "2."

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=17489612-95f4-4dd5-a050-5da4b5d06b86&DisplayLang=en

Identity Lifecycle Manager "2" RC Demo Virtual Hard Disk Image

This package contains a Hyper-V-based demo of Identity Lifecycle Manager "2" RC.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=7117b168-e71d-47cc-9739-35f1a68a5e43&DisplayLang=en

SDL Threat Modeling Tool 3.1 beta

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=a48cccb1-814b-47b6-9d17-1e273f65ae19&DisplayLang=en

Security Features in Microsoft Online

This white paper describes how the Microsoft concern for security, as defined in the Trustworthy Computing initiative, has driven key features in the design, deployment, and operation of the Microsoft Online Services environment.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=5736aaac-994c-4410-b7ce-bdea505a3413&DisplayLang=en

Enterprise Data Security Optimization Datasheet

This offering integrates multiple data-protection technologies and “always on” persistent protection to provide comprehensive coverage of the data stored on desktops and servers, as well as data in transit.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=eb91333a-c26b-4a0d-9251-80a494df9e5c&DisplayLang=en

Deployment for Microsoft Forefront Server Security Datasheet

Deployment for Forefront Server Security integrates the level of security into your environment, and Microsoft Services can turn that vision into reality in as little as six weeks

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=6892eaaa-0450-4b78-98e4-34c7a771006d&DisplayLang=en

Security, Identity, and Access Management Datasheet

This offering provides an end-to-end security solution that allows you to move toward a dynamic IT infrastructure while ensuring better security integration, manageability, and efficiency.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=b53dee69-a3f9-4800-91a8-42c1b8b365db&DisplayLang=en

Deployment for Microsoft Forefront Client Security Datasheet

Deployment for Microsoft Forefront Client Security easily deploys an advanced, centralized solution to help protect your enterprise.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=f3dce10f-b007-4188-a836-5e2cd7d94496&DisplayLang=en

Podcasts: How Microsoft IT Manages Physical Security through Strategic IT Convergence

The purpose of World Wide Security Operations is to protect Microsoft’s assets in a manner consistent with corporate culture.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=b72ea3fb-6905-48b6-a987-cc4c032de7e1&DisplayLang=en

SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services Datasheet

Microsoft® SQL Server™ 2008 helps enable organizations to build comprehensive, enterprise-scale analytic solutions that deliver actionable insights through familiar tools.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=1ad953e6-2ca9-4d8b-95ff-d5242c4c627a&DisplayLang=en

Security Update for MSXML 4.0 Service Pack 2 (KB954430)

A Security issue has been identified in Microsoft XML Core Services (MSXML) that could allow an atacker to compromise your Windows-based system and gain control over it.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=96a4413c-5261-4f69-83d0-932c430abd14&DisplayLang=en

November 2008 Security Release ISO Image

This DVD5 ISO image file contains the security updates for Windows released on Windows Update on November 11th, 2008.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=4269c703-a4cf-4071-ab4d-90070348e9b5&DisplayLang=en

Update for Windows Mail Junk E-mail Filter for x64-based Systems [November 2008] (KB905866)

Install this update for Windows Mail to revise the definition files that are used to detect e-mail messages that should be considered junk e-mail or that may contain phishing content.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=749e10cd-f40c-4f94-8e38-d4221ded7652&DisplayLang=en

Update for Windows Mail Junk E-mail Filter [November 2008] (KB905866)

Install this update for Windows Mail to revise the definition files that are used to detect e-mail messages that should be considered junk e-mail or that may contain phishing content.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=aa029fde-f341-44fc-8b85-0c6f3d3c2d69&DisplayLang=en

Extended Security Update Inventory Tool

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.

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

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

This tool checks your computer for infection by specific, prevalent malicious software (including Blaster, Sasser, and Mydoom) and helps to remove the infection if it is found. Microsoft will release an updated version of this tool on the second Tuesday of each month.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=585d2bde-367f-495e-94e7-6349f4effc74&DisplayLang=en

Microsoft® Windows® Malicious Software Removal Tool (KB890830)

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=ad724ae0-e72d-4f54-9ab3-75b8eb148356&DisplayLang=en

Security Update for Microsoft XML Core Services 6.0 and Service Pack 1 (KB954459)

A security issue has been identified in Microsoft XML Core Services (MSXML) that could allow an attacker to compromise your Windows-based system and gain control over it.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=59914795-60c7-4ebe-828d-f28cb457e6e3&DisplayLang=en

Windows Essential Business Server Security and Protection

This document provides information about the configuration of the security components in Windows® Essential Business Server.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=cf9a2c7b-3e30-4f38-9b58-d3b4fde780e0&DisplayLang=en

Identity Lifecycle Manager "2" Datasheet

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=b931926a-8fd6-4983-beeb-45976198b9ba&DisplayLang=en

SQL Server White Paper: SQL Server 2008 Compliance Guide

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=6e1021dd-65b9-41c2-8385-438028f5acc2&DisplayLang=en

Microsoft Online Services Sign In Tool V1

Client application that enables single sign-on to Microsoft Online Services

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=01f6c0e4-f897-442a-8462-425f8edddad9&DisplayLang=en

Microsoft Security Intelligence Report volume 5 (January – June 2008)

This is the fifth volume of the Microsoft Security Intelligence Report (SIR).

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=b2984562-47a2-48ff-890c-edbeb8a0764c&DisplayLang=en

Microsoft® Forefront™ codename "Stirling" Beta

An integrated security system that is easier to manage and control

Microsoft® Forefront™ codename "Stirling" is an integrated security system that delivers comprehensive, coordinated protection across endpoints, messaging and collaboration servers and the network edge that is easier to manage and control.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=65bd5f8a-d94c-457a-9f88-2046597130e1&DisplayLang=en

Update to Mitigate MS08-037 UDP Behavior Across NAT for Microsoft ISA Server 2004 Standard Edition

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=0AB83F12-653B-4BE1-BEFE-594C4EF62BAA&displaylang=en

Update to Mitigate MS08-037 UDP Behavior Across NAT for Microsoft ISA Server 2004 Enterprise Edition

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=0AB83F12-653B-4BE1-BEFE-594C4EF62BAA&displaylang=en

Update to Mitigate MS08-037 UDP Behavior Across NAT for Microsoft ISA Server 2006

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=E96A6E20-0C04-4C7D-9F3E-207B02AE29CC&displaylang=en

EVENTS/WEBCASTS

Visit TechNet Spotlight: www.microsoft.com/technetspotlight

Video on Demand, Video Downloads, PowerPoint Presentations, Audio and more

Microsoft Security Webcast Series: Upcoming and On-Demand

Security Webcast Calendar http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=37910

Find security webcasts listed in an easy-to-use calendar format.

Upcoming Security Webcasts

http://www.microsoft.com/events/security/upcoming.mspx

Register for the following Webcasts on the link above

TechNet Webcast: Microsoft Security Intelligence Report 5: Latest Trends in Vulnerabilities, Exploits, and Malicious Software (Level 200)

Wednesday, December 8, 2008 8:00 A.M.-9:30 A.M. Pacific Time

TechNet Webcast: Information About Microsoft December Security Bulletins (Level 200)

Wednesday, December 10, 2008 11:00 A.M.-12:00 P.M. Pacific Time

On-Demand Security Webcasts

http://www.microsoft.com/events/security/ondemand.mspx

NEW OR UPDATED KB’s

Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration Server

DNS queries that pass through Forefront Threat Management Gateway NAT do not use random source ports

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/957298

FIX: After you configure the rules in ISA Server 2006 to apply to all users, ISA Server may sometimes try to authenticate users

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/956924

FIX: ISA Server 2006 may be overloaded with authorization attempts after you apply hotfix 955113

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/956922

FIX: A VPN client that uses RADIUS authentication may not log on to the internal network when the User Mapping option is enabled in ISA Server 2006

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/956923

Description of the ISA Server 2006 hotfix package: August 20, 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/956925

FIX: When you use HTTP to HTTPS redirection in ISA Server 2006, port 0 is appended to the URL

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/956858

DNS queries that pass through an ISA Server 2000 NAT gateway do not use random source ports

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/956637

DNS queries that are passed through ISA Server 2004 NAT do not use random source ports

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958024

DNS queries that are passed through the ISA Server 2006 NAT do not use random source ports

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/956570

How to block traffic from an Internet-based music sharing service in Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway, Medium Business Edition

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/837447

Kerberos authentication to remote Web servers fails for Web proxy clients

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/840613

How to configure ISA Server 2004, ISA Server 2006 Windows Essential Business Server 2008 to skip name resolution in a Web proxy chaining configuration

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/891244

A.O.B

Join the Discussion on End-to-End Trust http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9480793

Microsoft believes the time is ripe for a broad public dialog about how to build a roadmap for bringing Trustworthy Computing to the Internet. To that end, we have established a public discussion forum where anyone concerned about online security and privacy can let their voice be heard.

Security Help and Support for IT Professionals http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9480842

TechNet Troubleshooting and Support Page http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9480843

Microsoft Security Glossary http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9480844

TechNet Security Center http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9480845

MSDN Security Developer Center http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9480846

Midsize Business Security Center http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9480847

Sign-Up for the Microsoft Security Notification Service http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9480848

Security Bulletin Search Page http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9480849

Home Users: Protect Your PC http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9480850

MCSE/MCSA: Security Certifications http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9480851

Subscribe to TechNet http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9480852

December 2008 - Technical Rollup Mail - Unified Communications

conuktrm — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 15:00:13 GMT

NEWS

http://msexchangeteam.com/default.aspx

http://blogs.msdn.com/outlook/default.aspx

http://communicationsserverteam.com

DOWNLOADS

Antigen & Forefront

Forefront™ codename "Stirling"

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=1&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d65bd5f8a-d94c-457a-9f88-2046597130e1%26displaylang%3den

Microsoft Antigen SP1 Documentation

Microsoft Antigen SP1 Documentation

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=2&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d7d00160e-4d15-4459-98a3-89f393ac008e%26displaylang%3den

IT Compliance Management Guide

The IT Compliance Management Guide is intended for IT managers and IT professionals who must plan for and address the governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) requirements of their organizations.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=3&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3dbd930882-0d39-4900-9a79-b91f213ed15d%26displaylang%3den

Exchange

Update Rollup 5 for Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1 (KB953467)

Update Rollup 5 for Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1 (KB953467)

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=1&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d652ed33a-11a1-459c-8ffe-90b9cbfe7903%26displaylang%3den

Infrastructure Planning and Design

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=2&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3dad3921fb-8224-4681-9064-075fdf042b0c%26displaylang%3den

Microsoft Online Services Service Client V1

Client application that enables single sign-on to Microsoft Online Services

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=3&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d01f6c0e4-f897-442a-8462-425f8edddad9%26displaylang%3den

Migrate to Microsoft Online

This document describes how to migrate your on-premise Exchange Server mailboxes and POP3 and IMAP4 mailboxes to Exchange Online.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=4&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d25350815-5c57-441a-b7fb-329ff5fe14b3%26displaylang%3den

Exchange Server 2007 Standards Documentation Set

The Exchange Server Standards Documents describe Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 support for standards and RFCs related to iCalendar, IMAP4, and POP3.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=5&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d6fa94dc9-d4b6-402b-8c22-8a52acea2284%26displaylang%3den

Exchange Server 2007 Protocol Documentation Set

The Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Protocol technical documentation set provides technical specifications for Microsoft protocols, and Microsoft extensions to industry-standard or other published protocols that are implemented and used in Microsoft Exchange Server 2007.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=4&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3da9aae935-ad23-4117-a3d9-9ed6093d6d7f%26displaylang%3den

Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 SP1 Help

This download contains a standalone version of Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 SP1 Help.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=7&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d5eb0f9a0-2c49-4f2a-8a09-b981ed667821%26displaylang%3den

Office Communication Server & LiveMeeting

Microsoft Office Live Meeting Service Administrator's Guide

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=1&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d824a55c8-809a-4224-a8cd-f37b348b7481%26displaylang%3den

Microsoft Exchange Online Standard

Microsoft® Exchange Online is a hosted enterprise messaging solution based on Microsoft Exchange Server 2007. Exchange Online services include advanced e-mail features as well as calendaring, contact, and task management capabilities. This white paper describes the services and features that are included with the Standard offering of Exchange Online.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=3&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d6bef06c7-3ae6-40a7-a78e-eea670b4f605%26displaylang%3den

Microsoft Office Live Meeting 2007 Release Notes

Refer to this file for information regarding known issues about Microsoft Office Live Meeting 2007.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=4&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d8102b4e6-62f2-4d33-b465-a6c5da1b8973%26displaylang%3den

Office Communications Server 2007 Document: Technical Overview

This document provides a technical overview of the architecture and new features of Office Communications Server 2007.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=1&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d09b218ea-6ff6-4679-a117-9767ab98990a%26displaylang%3den

Office Communicator Mobile (2007 Release)

Microsoft Office Communicator Mobile is a unified communications client for Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007. Communicator Mobile runs on Microsoft Windows Mobile 5.0 or 6.0 software for Pocket PC and smartphone devices.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=1&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d2eea3e24-f216-4887-92b0-f37d942e26e0%26displaylang%3den

Outlook

Update for Office 2003 Multilingual User Interface Pack (KB924423)

This update provides holidays for the Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 calendar when Outlook 2003 is used with a Multilingual User Interface Pack installed. This update provides holidays for the years 2007 through 2012.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=1&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3dc23ae5be-a99f-4e0a-b3b6-3325a58bc679%26displaylang%3den

Update for Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 Junk Email Filter (KB957832)

This update provides the Junk E-mail Filter in Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 with a more current definition of which e-mail messages should be considered junk e-mail.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=2&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d1ad71f79-4f2e-4e42-9300-af8e441a20e7%26displaylang%3den

Update for Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 Junk Email Filter (KB957829)

This update provides the Junk E-mail Filter in Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 with a more current definition of which e-mail messages should be considered junk e-mail.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=3&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3dc694d55c-1f8b-4db3-a10f-9be42d2c4cde%26displaylang%3den

EVENTS/WEBCASTS

Exchange

4/12/2008 TechNet Labcast: Exchange Server 2007 (Part 5 of 5): Using Local Continuous Replication and Cluster Continuous Replication (Level 200)

Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 enables new levels of operational efficiency through capabilities that optimize hardware and networking investments and features that help make administrators more productive. Join us for part five of the five-part Exchange Server 2007 series. In the labcast series, you receive practical technical information and learn proven techniques by watching demonstrations and using hands-on virtual labs that require no complex installations. In this labcast, we cover using Exchange Server 2007 local continuous replication and cluster continuous replication.

http://www.microsoft.com/events/EventDetails.aspx?CMTYSvcSource=MSCOMMedia&Params=%7eCMTYDataSvcParams%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22ID%22+Value%3d%221032391170%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22ProviderID%22+Value%3d%22A6B43178-497C-4225-BA42-DF595171F04C%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22lang%22+Value%3d%22en%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22cr%22+Value%3d%22US%22%2f%5e%7esParams%5e%7e%2fsParams%5e%7e%2fCMTYDataSvcParams%5e

5/12/2008 TechNet Labcast: Exchange Server 2007 (Part 1 of 5): Installing Service Pack 1 and Transitioning from Exchange Server 2003 to Exchange Server 2007 (Level 200)

For most businesses today, e-mail is the mission-critical communications tool that enables people to produce the best results. For IT professionals, delivering a messaging system that addresses these needs must be balanced against other requirements such as security and cost. Join us for part one of the five-part Exchange Server 2007 series. In the labcast series, you receive practical technical information and learn proven techniques by watching demonstrations and using hands-on virtual labs that require no complex installations. In this labcast, we cover installing Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1 (SP1) on Windows Server 2008 and transitioning from Exchange Server 2003 to Exchange Server 2007.

http://www.microsoft.com/events/EventDetails.aspx?CMTYSvcSource=MSCOMMedia&Params=%7eCMTYDataSvcParams%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22ID%22+Value%3d%221032390774%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22ProviderID%22+Value%3d%22A6B43178-497C-4225-BA42-DF595171F04C%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22lang%22+Value%3d%22en%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22cr%22+Value%3d%22US%22%2f%5e%7esParams%5e%7e%2fsParams%5e%7e%2fCMTYDataSvcParams%5e

11/12/2008 TechNet Labcast: Exchange Server 2007 (Part 2 of 5): Configuring an Edge Server and Compliance and Retention Using Exchange Server 2007 RTM (Level 200)

http://www.microsoft.com/events/EventDetails.aspx?CMTYSvcSource=MSCOMMedia&Params=%7eCMTYDataSvcParams%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22ID%22+Value%3d%221032391132%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22ProviderID%22+Value%3d%22A6B43178-497C-4225-BA42-DF595171F04C%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22lang%22+Value%3d%22en%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22cr%22+Value%3d%22US%22%2f%5e%7esParams%5e%7e%2fsParams%5e%7e%2fCMTYDataSvcParams%5e

12/12/2008 TechNet Labcast: Exchange Server 2007 (Part 3 of 5): Managing and Administering Exchange Server 2007 Using the Management Console and Management Shell (Level 200)

Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 enables new levels of operational efficiency through capabilities that optimize hardware and networking investments and features that help make administrators more productive. Join us for part three of the five-part Exchange Server 2007 series. In the labcast series, you receive practical technical information and learn proven techniques by watching demonstrations and using hands-on virtual labs that require no complex installations. In this labcast, we cover managing and administering Exchange Server 2007 using the Exchange Server 2007 Management Console and Management Shell.

http://www.microsoft.com/events/EventDetails.aspx?CMTYSvcSource=MSCOMMedia&Params=%7eCMTYDataSvcParams%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22ID%22+Value%3d%221032391141%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22ProviderID%22+Value%3d%22A6B43178-497C-4225-BA42-DF595171F04C%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22lang%22+Value%3d%22en%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22cr%22+Value%3d%22US%22%2f%5e%7esParams%5e%7e%2fsParams%5e%7e%2fCMTYDataSvcParams%5e

18/12/2008 TechNet Labcast: Exchange Server 2007 (Part 4 of 5): Configuring Unified Messaging and Enabling Remote Client Access (Level 200)

With Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, employees get anywhere access to their e-mail, voice mail, calendars, and contacts from a variety of clients and devices. Join us for part four of the five-part Exchange Server 2007 series. In the labcast series, you receive practical technical information and learn proven techniques by watching demonstrations and using hands-on virtual labs that require no complex installations. In this labcast, we cover configuring Exchange Server 2007 Unified Messaging and remote client access with Exchange Server 2007.

http://www.microsoft.com/events/EventDetails.aspx?CMTYSvcSource=MSCOMMedia&Params=%7eCMTYDataSvcParams%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22ID%22+Value%3d%221032391167%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22ProviderID%22+Value%3d%22A6B43178-497C-4225-BA42-DF595171F04C%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22lang%22+Value%3d%22en%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22cr%22+Value%3d%22US%22%2f%5e%7esParams%5e%7e%2fsParams%5e%7e%2fCMTYDataSvcParams%5e

19/12/2008 TechNet Labcast: Exchange Server 2007 (Part 5 of 5): Using Local Continuous Replication and Cluster Continuous Replication (Level 200)

http://www.microsoft.com/events/EventDetails.aspx?CMTYSvcSource=MSCOMMedia&Params=%7eCMTYDataSvcParams%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22ID%22+Value%3d%221032391171%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22ProviderID%22+Value%3d%22A6B43178-497C-4225-BA42-DF595171F04C%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22lang%22+Value%3d%22en%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22cr%22+Value%3d%22US%22%2f%5e%7esParams%5e%7e%2fsParams%5e%7e%2fCMTYDataSvcParams%5e

Workshops/Soundbytes

8/12/2008 Soundbyte - Exchange 2007 and DPM

NEW KB's

Exchange

Exchange Svr Ent 2003 EN: The "To" field is populated with the original recipients of the meeting request, and the "Subject" field is not prefixed when you use Outlook to forward a meeting request that was responded to by the CDO application

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/957020/EN-US

Exchange Svr 2007 SP1 AL: You receive error messages or warnings when you change an Active Directory schema so that the Company property supports more than 64 characters

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/951710/EN-US

Exchange Svr 2007 SP1 AL: Outlook 2007 crashes after you install a package that contains the .NET Framework 3.5 with SP1 and the .NET Framework 2.0 with SP2 on an Exchange 2007 Client Access server

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958934/EN-US

Exchange Svr 2007 SP1 AL: You may receive an error message when you run the Update-SafeList cmdlet in an Exchange 2003 and Exchange 2007 mixed environment

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/951505/EN-US

Exchange Svr 2007 SP1 AL: Meeting requests do not maintain the organizer information after the organizer is migrated from Lotus Domino to Exchange Server 2007 by using the Microsoft Transporter Suite

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/953411/EN-US

Exchange Svr 2007 SP1 AL: Exchange 2007 SP1 Update Rollup 5 supports the addition of new items to context menus in Outlook Web Access 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/951564/EN-US

Exchange Svr 2007 SP1 AL: The reseed process is unsuccessful on the CCR passive node after you restore one full backup and two or more differential backups to the CCR active node

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/957137/EN-US

Exchange Svr 2007 SP1 AL: A Non-Delivery Report is generated when you try to send a high priority message that is larger than 250 KB in an Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1 environment

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/957813/EN-US

Exchange Svr 2007 SP1 AL: Event ID: 7012 occurs when you search message tracking logs on an Exchange Server 2007-based server

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958856/EN-US

Exchange Svr 2007 SP1 AL: The OAB generation is unsuccessful and Event IDs 9328 and 9373 are logged in the Application log in a Windows Server 2008-based Exchange 2007 Single-Copy cluster environment

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/957978/EN-US

Exchange Svr 2007 SP1 AL: Exchange Management Shell crashes (stops responding), and Event ID 1000 is logged when you perform a cross-forest migration from Exchange Server 2003 to Exchange Server 2007 SP1

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/949895/EN-US

Exchange Svr 2007 SP1 AL: Unified Messaging does not handle the diversion header correctly in Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/949968/EN-US

Exchange Svr 2007 SP1 AL: Hidden folders or files are listed when you view a UNC file server by using OWA in an Exchange 2007 environment

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/954036/EN-US

Exchange Svr 2007 SP1 AL: Error message when you use the IMAP protocol to send a SEARCH command that has the CHARSET argument on an Exchange 2007 server: "BAD Command Argument Error"

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/955001/EN-US

Exchange Svr 2007 SP1 AL: Japanese DBCS characters are corrupted when you reply to a message or forward a message in an Exchange Server 2007 SP1 environment

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/952583/EN-US

Exchange Svr 2007 SP1 AL: Exchange Server 2007 Update Rollup 3 does not update the Outlook Web Access Logon.aspx file after you modify the file

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/956582/EN-US

Exchange Svr 2007 SP1 AL: Domino users cannot find meeting request attachments that are sent from Exchange 2007 users

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/925371/EN-US

Exchange Svr 2007 SP1 AL: A message stays in the Outbox, and the message is resent until it is deleted manually on Windows Mobile 6.1-based devices in an Exchange 2007 Service Pack 1 CAS proxying scenario

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/955741/EN-US

Exchange Svr 2007 SP1 AL: The received time and date of IMAP messages are changed to the time of migration after you migrate mailboxes to an Exchange 2007 Service Pack 1-based server

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/951273/EN-US

Exchange Svr 2007 SP1 AL: The formatting of a plain text message is incorrect when you print the plain text message by using Outlook Web Access in an Exchange Server 2007 environment

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/950272/EN-US

Exchange Svr 2007 SP1 AL: Event ID 800 does not include the user name of users who ran the Get-MessageTrackingLog command in an Exchange 2007 environment

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/949722/EN-US

Exchange Svr 2007 SP1 AL: The start time and the end time of a meeting request are incorrect when a delegate uses Exchange Web Service to send the request in an Exchange 2007 environment

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/955460/EN-US

Exchange Svr 2007 SP1 AL: Exchange 2007 users cannot send e-mail messages to a mail-enabled public folder in a mixed Exchange 2003 and Exchange 2007 environment

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/949901/EN-US

Exchange Svr 2007 SP1 AL: You receive an error message when you try to move Exchange 2000 mailboxes or Exchange 2003 mailboxes from one forest to an Exchange 2007 server that is located in another forest by using the Move-Mailbox command

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/953787/EN-US

Exchange Svr 2007 SP1 AL: By default, managed content settings apply to the root folder and all subfolders in an Exchange 2007 environment

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/939037/EN-US

Exchange Svr 2007 SP1 AL: Event ID 1032 is not logged in the Application log when users send e-mail messages while they are logged on to Outlook Web Access as another user in Exchange 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/956573/EN-US

Exchange Svr 2007 SP1 AL: The W3wp.exe process intermittently stops responding and Event ID 1000 is logged in Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/956613/EN-US

Exchange Svr 2007 SP1 AL: The last character of a user's Chinese display name is truncated in the Offline Address Book on an Exchange 2007 server

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/956199/EN-US

Exchange Svr 2007 SP1 AL: The SPN registration of a cluster fails, and Error event IDs 1119 and 1034 are logged in an Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1 environment

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/955989/EN-US

Exchange Svr 2007 SP1 AL: Log files are not copied to the target server in a standby continuous replication environment in Exchange Server 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/955196/EN-US

Exchange Svr 2007 SP1 AL: The Edgetransport.exe process may crash intermittently on a server that is running Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/957002/EN-US

Exchange Svr 2007 SP1 AL: Event ID 5000 occurs, and the IMAP4 service may crash, on a server that is running Exchange Server 2007 with Service Pack 1 when you use a third-party application to migrate POP3 and IMAP4 users

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/953840/EN-US

Exchange Svr 2007 SP1 AL: Meeting requests from external senders are displayed as Busy instead of Tentative in an Exchange 2007 environment

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/955480/EN-US

Exchange Svr 2007 SP1 AL: A sender receives an NDR from the Exchange 2007 server when the sender submits a private message by using an SMTP server

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/955946/EN-US

Exchange Svr 2007 SP1 AL: A user cannot access the mailbox by using a POP client or an IMAP client through Client Access Server in an Exchange 2007 environment

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/955619/EN-US

Exchange Svr 2007 SP1 AL: You cannot add a Mail User or a Mail Contact to the Safe Senders list in Exchange 2007 by using OWA Client

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/954887/EN-US

Exchange Svr 2007 SP1 AL: The task originator is not notified of task changes and task progress in an Exchange Server 2007 environment

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/954195/EN-US

Exchange Svr 2007 SP1 AL: A VSS backup application causes the Information Store service to crash repeatedly on an Exchange 2007 Service Pack 1-based server

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/955429/EN-US

Exchange Svr 2007 SP1 AL: A public folder conflict message cannot be delivered, and event error 1016 is logged, when the public folder name contains DBCS characters in an Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1 environment

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/953619/EN-US

Exchange Svr 2007 SP1 AL: Event ID 12800 is logged on an Exchange 2007-based server: "Message processing failed because there is not enough available memory (8007000E-82000387)"

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/952097/EN-US

Exchange Svr 2007 SP1 AL: An Exchange 2007 room mailbox stops processing requests after the resource booking assistant receives a delegated meeting request from an Exchange 2003 user

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/954810/EN-US

Exchange Svr 2007 SP1 AL: Exchange 2007 CAS cannot copy the OAB from the OAB share on Windows Server 2008-based Exchange 2007 CCR clusters

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/954197/EN-US

Exchange Svr 2007 SP1 AL: An exception occurs in Exchange Management Console when you preview AddressList in an Exchange Server 2007 environment

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/951267/EN-US

Exchange Svr 2007 SP1 AL: An appointment item cannot be opened by a CDOEX-based application if the item is saved by Exchange Web Service together with the Culture property in Exchange Server 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/954451/EN-US

Exchange Svr 2007 SP1 AL: The W3wp.exe process may crash on an Exchange 2007 CAS server after you use Entourage to send a message that is larger than 48 KB

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/956319/EN-US

Exchange Svr 2007 SP1 AL: Some recurring meetings may be missing when you view the meetings using Outlook Web Access in Exchange Server 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/956709/EN-US

Exchange Svr 2007 SP1 AL: Event ID 10 messages fill up the Application log on an Exchange 2007 CAS server if an Exchange Server 2003 mailbox owner makes an Exchange Web Service call

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/955599/EN-US

Exchange Svr 2007 SP1 AL: Message class changes during conversion when a digitally signed Message Disposition Notification is received by a server that is running Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/954270/EN-US

Exchange Svr 2007 SP1 AL: The Edge Transport service crashes repeatedly, and an event error 1000 is logged repeatedly on a server that is running Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958855/EN-US

Exchange Svr Ent 2003 EN: The worker process for Exchange ActiveSync crashes when end-users try to synchronize their third-party devices with an Exchange Server 2003 server

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/957191/EN-US

Exchange Svr Ent 2003 EN: Reminders for meeting requests reappear in Outlook after users synchronize meeting requests by using a mobile device and Exchange ActiveSync in Exchange Server 2003

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/957208/EN-US

Exchange Svr Ent 2003 EN: Exchange System Manager stops responding when you expand public folders on a server that is running Exchange Server 2003

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/957042/EN-US

Exchange Svr Ent 2003 EN: Some recurring calendar items disappear from the "Day/Week/Month" view in Outlook when a user uses Exchange ActiveSync on a mobile device to modify a recurring meeting in an Exchange 2003 environment

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958781/EN-US

Exchange Svr Std 2007 AL: You cannot use an Outlook 2007 client to display or download an attachment when you access a message that includes an inline attachment from Exchange Server 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/954684/EN-US

Hosted Messaging Collaboration

Hosted Messaging & Collab 4.5 EN: Description of Update Rollup 1 for Hosted Messaging and Collaboration 4.5

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/957583/EN-US

Hosted Messaging & Collab 4.5 EN: Description of the tool to deny Send As permissions and Receive As permissions for administrators in Microsoft Solution for Hosted Messaging and Collaboration 4.5

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/957582/EN-US

Hosted Messaging & Collab 4.0 EN: Error message when you try to add a DNS record of type by calling the CreateResourceRecord procedure in HMC 4.0: "Couldn't create instance of Microsoft.Provisioning.Providers.DnsResourceRecord_TXTtype Resource Record"

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/953034/EN-US

Hosted Messaging & Collab 4.5 EN: How to create a public folder in Hosted Messaging and Collaboration 4.0 and 4.5

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959360/EN-US

Hosted Messaging & Collab 4.5 EN: Exchange sends the internal OOF instead of the external OOF when you receive a message from an outside organization in Hosted Messaging and Collaboration 4.0 and in Hosted Messaging and Collaboration 4.5

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/953674/EN-US

Office Communication Server & LiveMeeting

Office Comm Svr Std 2007 EN: Office Communications Server 2007 or Live Communications Server 2005 does not work correctly after you upgrade a domain controller to Windows Server 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958980/EN-US

Office Communicator Mobile EN: Description of the update for Communicator Mobile 2007: November 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/954767/EN-US

Office Communicator Mobile EN: Communicator Mobile 2007 suppresses HTTPS certificate errors when it fetches the NOO icon for the federated contacts

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/954768/EN-US

Office Communicator Mobile EN: You cannot log on to Communicator Mobile 2007 in High security mode

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/954769/EN-US

Office Live Meeting 2007 AL: Problems that you may experience when you use the Live Meeting 2007 Web client together with the beta version of Internet Explorer 8

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959059/EN-US

Office Communicator 2007 EN: The operation is not successful for the "Click to Call" feature in Office Outlook 2003 when you use it together with Office Communicator 2007, and an error may occur: "An internal error occurred in the automatic phone dialer"

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959268/EN-US

Office Comm Svr Ent 2007 EN: When a Communicator 2007 user calls a Conference Auto Attendant access number, the call always uses Mediation Server instead of going to the Conference Auto Attendant directly

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958560/EN-US

Office Comm Svr Ent 2007 EN: Communications Server 2007 R2 remote users cannot make public switched telephone network (PSTN) calls when Communications Server 2007 servers or proxies are in the call path

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958561/EN-US

Office Comm Svr Ent 2007 EN: Description of the update package for Communications Server 2007: November 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/956389/EN-US

Office Comm Svr Ent 2007 EN: Error message when you try to expand a group in Office Communicator: "Cannot perform this action, and the cause is unknown"

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959388/EN-US

Office Communicator 2007 EN: The retry logic that Communicator 2007 uses to download address book files changes after you install the Communicator 2007 update package that is dated October 24, 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/954650/EN-US

Office Live Meeting 2007 AL: Single program sharing is not supported by Easy Assist on a 64-bit version of Windows that is running Office Live Meeting 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959942/EN-US

Outlook

Outlook 2003 Win32 EN: Description of the Outlook 2003 Post-Service Pack 3 hotfix package (Engmui.msp, Olkintl.msp, Outlook.msp): October 28, 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958701/EN-US

Outlook 2003 Win32 EN: Description of the Outlook 2003 post-Service Pack 3 hotfix package (Outlook.msp): October 28, 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/957220/EN-US

Outlook 2003 Win32 EN: Description of the Outlook 2003 post-Service Pack 3 hotfix package (Olkintl.msp, Engmui.msp): October 28, 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/957142/EN-US

Outlook 2007 Win32 ML: Description of the Outlook 2007 hotfix package (Outlook-en-us.msp, Outlook.msp): October 28, 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958789/EN-US

Outlook 2007 Win32 ML: Description of the Outlook 2007 hotfix package (Outlook.msp): October 28, 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/957692/EN-US

Outlook 2003 Win32 EN: Description of the Outlook 2003 Junk E-mail Filter update: November 11, 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/957832/EN-US

Outlook 2007 Win32 ML: Description of the update for Outlook 2007 Help: November 11, 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/957246/EN-US

Outlook 2007 Win32 ML: The recipient of an e-mail message sees an attachment that is called Winmail.dat when you use Outlook 2007 to send the e-mail message

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958012/EN-US

Outlook 2007 Win32 ML: A hotfix is available to enable the Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP) messages to use INTERNALDATE as the delivery date of the message in Outlook 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/957418/EN-US

Outlook 2007 Win32 ML: The character set in the HTML code differs from the character set of the content-type header when you open a read receipt in Outlook 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/957378/EN-US

Outlook 2007 Win32 ML: Description of the Outlook 2007 Junk E-mail Filter update: November 11, 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/957829/EN-US

December 2008 - Technical Rollup Mail - Platforms

conuktrm — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 15:00:08 GMT

NEWS

Windows Server 2008 R2 Reviewers Guide

www.microsoft.com/presspass/events/winhec/docs/WindowsServer08R2BETARG.doc

Introduction to Windows Server 2008 R2

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/en/us/r2.aspx

Welcome to Windows 7

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-7/

Microsoft Unveils Windows Azure at Professional Developers Conference

http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2008/oct08/10-27PDCDay1PR.mspx

Update Release of Windows Server 2008 Offers Additional Opportunities for IT Pros and Hardware Vendors

http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2008/nov08/11-06winserverr2.mspx

Windows Virtualization Team Blog

http://blogs.technet.com/virtualization/

The World Simplified is a Virtual World

http://blogs.technet.com/virtualworld/

Ask the Directory Services Team

http://blogs.technet.com/askds/

Ask the Performance Team

http://blogs.technet.com/askperf/

Microsoft Enterprise Networking Team

http://blogs.technet.com/networking/

Ask the Core Team

http://blogs.technet.com/askcore/

Microsoft Advanced Windows Debugging and Troubleshooting

http://blogs.msdn.com/ntdebugging/

Terminal Services Team Blog

http://blogs.msdn.com/ts/

The Hot Blog

http://blogs.technet.com/hot/

DOCUMENTS

All

Infrastructure Planning and Design

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=2&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3dad3921fb-8224-4681-9064-075fdf042b0c%26displaylang%3den

Windows Server

ILM 2007 Powershell Commandlets Quick Reference Guide

Provides information about the ILM 2007 Powershell Commandlets

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=4&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d38b31e06-0342-481e-b744-9899d5b601db%26displaylang%3den

Windows Client

Windows Vista User Experience Guidelines

Download a preliminary draft of the Windows Vista™ User Experience Guidelines (UX Guide).

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=11&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3de49820cb-954d-45ae-9cb3-1b9e8ea7fe8c%26displaylang%3den

Volume Activation 2.0 Technical Guidance

Technical documentation for planning, deployment, and operations of Volume Activation 2.0 for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008. Includes the Volume Activation 2.0 Overview Guide, Planning Guide, Deployment Guide, Operations Guide, Resources, FAQ and Technical Attributes.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=33&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d9893f83e-c8a5-4475-b025-66c6b38b46e3%26displaylang%3den

Other

Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Implementation Guide

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

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=7&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d1ceb5e01-de9f-48c0-8ce2-51633ebf4714%26displaylang%3den

Geneva Whitepapers

Geneva Overview Documentation

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=32&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d9ca5c685-3172-4d8f-81cb-1a59bdc9f7e3%26displaylang%3den

DOWNLOADS

Windows Client

Update for Root Certificates

This item updates the list of root certificates on your computer to the list that is accepted by Microsoft as part of the Microsoft Root Certificate Program.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=1&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3df814ec0e-ee7e-435e-99f8-20b44d4531b0%26displaylang%3den

Security Update for Windows XP (KB954459)

A security issue has been identified in Microsoft XML Core Services (MSXML) that could allow an attacker to compromise your Windows-based system and gain control over it.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=2&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d7493fa37-2cbf-4d66-8690-d50d63da4096%26displaylang%3den

Security Update for Windows XP (KB955069)

A security issue has been identified in the way Microsoft XML Core Services (MSXML) is handled that could allow an attacker to compromise a computer that is running Microsoft Windows and gain control over it.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=3&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d6ed1a087-97e2-4283-9b53-b7b046654d08%26displaylang%3den

Security Update for Windows XP (KB957097)

A security issue has been identified that could allow an authenticated remote attacker to compromise your Microsoft Windows-based system and gain control over it.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=4&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d6f8ae0aa-fd68-4156-9016-bba00149793c%26displaylang%3den

UI Automation Specification

This download contains the Community Promise Specification for UI Automation.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=5&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3da1fe1066-bf4f-44fc-834b-676b311e83a2%26displaylang%3den

SCAP Conversion Tool for DCM

The SCAP Conversion Tool for DCM converts Security Content Automation Protocol (SCAP) files into DCM Configuration Packs and indicates gaps in a log file that can result from the conversion process. Use the Configuration Packs in combination with the desired configuration management (DCM) feature in Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007 to monitor compliance with the SCAP baseline.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=6&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d22e5b9a0-fa7b-4d43-bcea-7084ae6f40f5%26displaylang%3den

Update for Windows XP (KB959252)

Install this update to resolve an issue in which you receive a 0x0000008e Stop error after you install security update KB954211 (MS08-061).

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=8&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3dec4b7d80-79b6-4035-92a3-3992a9e09718%26displaylang%3den

Data Encryption Toolkit for Mobile PCs

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=9&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d1a99576a-fe67-418f-88b1-81e2055fe977%26displaylang%3den

OEM Ready

Program Tools and Documentation

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=1&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3dff6f5ff8-5655-4244-9f75-4d9909e5aec2%26displaylang%3den

Security Update for Windows Vista (KB954459)

A security issue has been identified in Microsoft XML Core Services (MSXML) that could allow an attacker to compromise your Windows-based system and gain control over it.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=3&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3dcb6c4315-8c6d-43af-978b-b190b1a1577a%26displaylang%3den

Security Update for Windows Vista for x64-based Systems (KB954459)

A security issue has been identified in Microsoft XML Core Services (MSXML) that could allow an attacker to compromise your Windows-based system and gain control over it.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=4&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d39443046-2093-4c87-ac7b-679deab96414%26displaylang%3den

Security Update for Windows Vista for x64-based Systems (KB957097)

A security issue has been identified that could allow an authenticated remote attacker to compromise your Microsoft Windows-based system and gain control over it.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=5&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d727ce9b6-827f-4350-b4ff-c08e8ac541a6%26displaylang%3den

Security Update for Windows Vista for x64-based Systems (KB955069)

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=6&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3db01a5f31-8c57-4c5c-909e-b37caf0439b0%26displaylang%3den

Security Update for Windows Vista (KB955069)

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=7&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3daffbc957-1867-4bbe-924d-6f0696ae0895%26displaylang%3den

Security Update for Windows Vista (KB957097)

A security issue has been identified that could allow an authenticated remote attacker to compromise your Microsoft Windows-based system and gain control over it.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=8&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d5612815f-8685-45d2-af4a-164c298a0869%26displaylang%3den

Update for Windows Mail Junk E-mail Filter [November 2008] (KB905866)

Install this update for Windows Mail to revise the definition files that are used to detect e-mail messages that should be considered junk e-mail or that may contain phishing content.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=9&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3daa029fde-f341-44fc-8b85-0c6f3d3c2d69%26displaylang%3den

Update for Windows Mail Junk E-mail Filter for x64-based Systems [November 2008] (KB905866)

Install this update for Windows Mail to revise the definition files that are used to detect e-mail messages that should be considered junk e-mail or that may contain phishing content.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=10&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d749e10cd-f40c-4f94-8e38-d4221ded7652%26displaylang%3den

URL Rewrite Module for IIS 7.0 (x64)

URL rewrite module provides a rule-based rewriting mechanism for changing requested URL’s before they get processed by web server.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=12&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d6c15b777-8d9e-4d99-b359-a98e2c0880f7%26displaylang%3den

URL Rewrite Module for IIS 7.0 (x86)

URL rewrite module provides a rule-based rewriting mechanism for changing requested URL’s before they get processed by web server.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=13&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d836778ea-b2f2-4907-b2dc-a152ec0a4bc4%26displaylang%3den

Windows Vista Optimized Desktop Program Datasheets

Windows Vista Optimized Desktop Program Datasheets

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=14&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3ddfcc44c4-dc36-4f68-892c-5dce1b2bf247%26displaylang%3den

UI Automation Specification

This download contains the Community Promise Specification for UI Automation.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=15&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3da1fe1066-bf4f-44fc-834b-676b311e83a2%26displaylang%3den

Update for Windows XP x64 Edition (KB959252)

Install this update to resolve an issue in which you receive a 0x0000008e Stop error after you install security update KB954211 (MS08-061).

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=16&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d77dc587e-5817-4b12-80fe-dabd2434ab90%26displaylang%3den

SCAP Conversion Tool for DCM

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=17&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d22e5b9a0-fa7b-4d43-bcea-7084ae6f40f5%26displaylang%3den

Microsoft Assessment and Planning

The Microsoft Assessment and Planning toolkit is a tool that makes it easy for you to assess your current IT infrastructure for a variety of technology migration projects. It includes the features previously provided with the Windows Vista Hardware Assessment Solution Accelerator.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=19&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d67240b76-3148-4e49-943d-4d9ea7f77730%26displaylang%3den

Windows Home Server Technical Brief for Remote Access

This Technical Brief provides an in-depth look at the features and functionality of Windows Home Server Remote Access.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=20&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d8505e3a8-bbbc-445d-ba65-13782661dcb0%26displaylang%3den

Data Encryption Toolkit for Mobile PCs

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=21&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d1a99576a-fe67-418f-88b1-81e2055fe977%26displaylang%3den

test

Test for tier 2

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=22&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d0bcda1e1-5fef-45e7-9a04-9f9e53de79d0%26displaylang%3den

Update for Windows Vista (KB957508)

Install this update to improve features for the Request Filtering module in IIS 7.0.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=23&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3dac57a12f-0d4f-4889-a96b-e88aea960c6c%26displaylang%3den

Update for Windows Vista for x64-based Systems (KB957508)

Install this update to improve features for the Request Filtering module in IIS 7.0.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=24&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d269abbbc-5d80-45d8-9196-9684fc149841%26displaylang%3den

Update for Windows Vista for x64-based Systems (KB943790)

Install this update to extend the File Management APIs to not only enable the discovery and restoration of deleted files from volumes that are not encrypted but also enable the recovery of files from Bitlocker encrypted volumes.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=25&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d2df42c65-13db-4c37-b78c-3c6094455ea0%26displaylang%3den

Update for Windows Vista for x64-based Systems (KB955805)

Install this update to resolve latency issues with certificates where the Subject Information Access (SIA) extension is installed on a computer that is running Windows Vista.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=26&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d585ffadc-4fc3-4fe1-9dc0-cc10218b15a3%26displaylang%3den

Update for Windows Vista (KB955805)

Install this update to resolve latency issues with certificates where the Subject Information Access (SIA) extension is installed on a computer that is running Windows Vista.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=27&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d365aa4e8-c8cf-485f-a81c-2e361f271a9b%26displaylang%3den

Update for Windows Vista (KB943790)

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=28&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3de5c75586-4e42-4c4b-8e81-ce5483f738c1%26displaylang%3den

Windows Springboard Series: Tips and Tricks for optimal Windows Vista Performance

Mark Russinovich leads a roundtable discussion on Windows Vista Performance. Segment 3 is “Tips and Tricks for optimal Windows Vista Performance”.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=29&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3dd90f2227-b5e4-48ed-959f-f5b9431713e8%26displaylang%3den

Windows Springboard Series: Configuring Windows Vista for Performance - Part 2 of 2

Mark Russinovich leads a roundtable discussion on Windows Vista Performance. Segment 2 is “Configuring Windows Vista for Performance (part 2)”

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=30&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d472223b2-1db3-45e0-b0b2-79255c39c15a%26displaylang%3den

Update for Windows Vista for x64-based Systems (KB957200)

This is a reliability update. This update resolves some performance and reliability issues in Windows Vista.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=31&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d86c8349c-e98f-4779-9d23-7d7a944f77ac%26displaylang%3den

Update for Windows Vista (KB957200)

This is a reliability update. This update resolves some performance and reliability issues in Windows Vista.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=32&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3dce4f61d7-b659-4db5-95b8-9a86ca475ca4%26displaylang%3den

Windows Server

Active Directory Migration Tool v3.0

The Active Directory Migration Tool version 3 (ADMT v3) provides an integrated toolset to facilitate migration and restructuring tasks in an Active Directory infrastructure.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=1&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d6f86937b-533a-466d-a8e8-aff85ad3d212%26displaylang%3den

ILM 2 Datasheet

Datasheet for ILM 2

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=3&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3db931926a-8fd6-4983-beeb-45976198b9ba%26displaylang%3den

SharePoint Monitoring ToolKit for OpsMgr 2007

The SharePoint Monitoring Toolkit helps you manage Microsoft SharePoint environments of all sizes.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=5&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3de4600fd9-f53d-4ded-88bf-6bb1932794f9%26displaylang%3den

Windows CE101 Training Course Materials

This online training is intended for two different developer communities (Embedded and Windows) who would like to start developing Embedded Windows CE devices.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=6&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3db91fa334-96f5-4298-adf8-5c0c80a927c8%26displaylang%3den

Security Update for Windows Server 2008 x64 Edition (KB954459)

A security issue has been identified in Microsoft XML Core Services (MSXML) that could allow an attacker to compromise your Windows-based system and gain control over it.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=7&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3df16e2a5f-37fd-4ee1-aef0-597214323dc4%26displaylang%3den

Security Update for Windows Server 2008 for Itanium-based Systems (KB954459)

A security issue has been identified in Microsoft XML Core Services (MSXML) that could allow an attacker to compromise your Windows-based system and gain control over it.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=8&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3dd4ae74e2-1b09-4a99-8cf5-8a8ca8ac6f7f%26displaylang%3den

Security Update for Windows Server 2008 (KB957097)

A security issue has been identified that could allow an authenticated remote attacker to compromise your Microsoft Windows-based system and gain control over it.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=9&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3db305e894-61ec-46b4-91ee-4c9ac59bc47e%26displaylang%3den

Security Update for Windows XP x64 Edition (KB957097)

A security issue has been identified that could allow an authenticated remote attacker to compromise your Microsoft Windows-based system and gain control over it.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=10&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d9501b33b-d639-43e7-ad5a-9e76ed66effd%26displaylang%3den

Security Update for Windows Server 2008 (KB954459)

A security issue has been identified in Microsoft XML Core Services (MSXML) that could allow an attacker to compromise your Windows-based system and gain control over it.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=11&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3ddea9f227-967f-47c7-bb2a-ed68f13645d9%26displaylang%3den

Security Update for Windows XP x64 Edition (KB955069)

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=12&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d1b79f220-ebfc-49c1-963b-58bbda21b6e7%26displaylang%3den

Security Update for Windows Server 2008 x64 Edition (KB957097)

A security issue has been identified that could allow an authenticated remote attacker to compromise your Microsoft Windows-based system and gain control over it.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=13&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3de8d26dfd-b347-4f10-b5b6-27dfff5e4f47%26displaylang%3den

Security Update for Windows Server 2008 x64 Edition (KB955069)

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=14&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3db7bfe3f4-835f-402c-95b5-6d49b6935308%26displaylang%3den

Security Update for Windows Server 2008 for Itanium-based Systems (KB957097)

A security issue has been identified that could allow an authenticated remote attacker to compromise your Microsoft Windows-based system and gain control over it.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=15&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3dd565467d-e10f-4ddc-a278-3f81a3798686%26displaylang%3den

Security Update for Windows Server 2008 for Itanium-based Systems (KB955069)

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=16&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d4e0d1efe-70ac-459b-b330-c0149b74f520%26displaylang%3den

Security Update for Windows Server 2008 (KB955069)

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=17&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d90a04164-4d02-4ce9-b3d8-bddb1ec27618%26displaylang%3den

Security Update for Windows Server 2003 x64 Edition (KB957097)

A security issue has been identified that could allow an authenticated remote attacker to compromise your Microsoft Windows-based system and gain control over it.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=18&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d915e001f-9aa0-4fb0-9c2a-0f0c72b4f056%26displaylang%3den

Security Update for Windows Server 2003 x64 Edition (KB955069)

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=19&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d347c8c83-4269-4a0e-af6f-4be2e824d22b%26displaylang%3den

Security Update for Windows Server 2003 (KB955069)

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=20&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d0a0f8385-e908-4b5f-b9bf-80b7dabfcafd%26displaylang%3den

Security Update for Windows Server 2003 for Itanium-based Systems (KB957097)

A security issue has been identified that could allow an authenticated remote attacker to compromise your Microsoft Windows-based system and gain control over it.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=21&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d6abf7ba9-825f-4ee2-a2fe-6b1cd9fab622%26displaylang%3den

Security Update for Windows Server 2003 (KB957097)

A security issue has been identified that could allow an authenticated remote attacker to compromise your Microsoft Windows-based system and gain control over it.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=22&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d57a0606d-ea7a-4e5b-8b8b-7b77a444ef75%26displaylang%3den

Security Update for Windows Server 2003 for Itanium-based Systems (KB955069)

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=23&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d3a65e1cd-eb4e-44b6-8868-a5a84be2cb32%26displaylang%3den

URL Rewrite Module for IIS 7.0 (x64)

URL rewrite module provides a rule-based rewriting mechanism for changing requested URL’s before they get processed by web server.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=24&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d6c15b777-8d9e-4d99-b359-a98e2c0880f7%26displaylang%3den

URL Rewrite Module for IIS 7.0 (x86)

URL rewrite module provides a rule-based rewriting mechanism for changing requested URL’s before they get processed by web server.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=25&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d836778ea-b2f2-4907-b2dc-a152ec0a4bc4%26displaylang%3den

Windows Server 2008 Evaluation VHD Images (for Hyper-V)

Windows Server 2008 Evaluation Enterprise Edition and Server Core Virtual Hard Drive Images (for Hyper-V)

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=26&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d060f0c51-339a-4c4e-bb6e-716bb7401fd4%26displaylang%3den

How Microsoft IT Manages Physical Security through Strategic IT Convergence

The purpose of World Wide Security Operations is to protect Microsoft’s assets in a manner consistent with corporate culture.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=27&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3db72ea3fb-6905-48b6-a987-cc4c032de7e1%26displaylang%3den

Windows Server 2008 Evaluation VHD Images (for VS2005)

Windows Server 2008 Evaluation Enterprise Edition and Server Core Virtual Hard Drive Images (for VS 2005)

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=28&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d961db8ce-8473-47c2-92eb-b822ec5af0c9%26displaylang%3den

Windows Essential Business Server SDK

The Windows Essential Business Server SDK provides a set of APIs for extending the functionality of the Windows Essential Business Server Administration Console.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=29&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d5acd7537-87d2-43a8-a3e3-2709977de77f%26displaylang%3den

IIS Media Pack 1.0 64-bit

IIS Media Pack 1.0 provides media-specific extensions that make delivering media from IIS simple and cost-effective. Built on IIS 7.0, the IIS Media Pack supports all media file types, protects media assets, and increases scalability by supporting more concurrent users per server

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=30&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d93d59f79-9555-473d-a07a-e21020d1fc25%26displaylang%3den

IIS Media Pack 1.0 - 32-bit

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=31&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d2cf81f25-1692-41f7-b916-db5c7e44e6ea%26displaylang%3den

UI Automation Specification

This download contains the Community Promise Specification for UI Automation.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=33&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3da1fe1066-bf4f-44fc-834b-676b311e83a2%26displaylang%3den

Update for Windows Server 2003 (KB959252)

Install this update to resolve an issue in which you receive a 0x0000008e Stop error after you install security update KB954211 (MS08-061).

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=34&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d049241ca-4f76-4058-b4e0-ea43ee271e0c%26displaylang%3den

Update for Windows Server 2003 for Itanium-based Systems (KB959252)

Install this update to resolve an issue in which you receive a 0x0000008e Stop error after you install security update KB954211 (MS08-061).

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=35&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3dd74a1ece-8e37-4063-aef2-245e16ffd12d%26displaylang%3den

Update for Windows XP x64 Edition (KB959252)

Install this update to resolve an issue in which you receive a 0x0000008e Stop error after you install security update KB954211 (MS08-061).

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=36&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d77dc587e-5817-4b12-80fe-dabd2434ab90%26displaylang%3den

Update for Windows Server 2003 x64 Edition (KB959252)

Install this update to resolve an issue in which you receive a 0x0000008e Stop error after you install security update KB954211 (MS08-061).

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=37&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d8e237f60-d9cf-4eab-ae77-9991c6b0023c%26displaylang%3den

ILM "2" RC Demo Hyper-V VHD

This package contains a Hyper-V-based demo of Identity Lifecycle Manager "2" RC.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=38&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d7117b168-e71d-47cc-9739-35f1a68a5e43%26displaylang%3den

Identity Lifecycle Manager "2" Release Candidate

This download contains the Release Candidate version of Identity Lifecycle Manager "2."

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=39&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d17489612-95f4-4dd5-a050-5da4b5d06b86%26displaylang%3den

SCAP Conversion Tool for DCM

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=40&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d22e5b9a0-fa7b-4d43-bcea-7084ae6f40f5%26displaylang%3den

HPC Server

Windows HPC Server 2008 (HPCS) provides enterprise-class tools, performance, & scalability for a highly productive HPC environment. HPCS provides a complete & integrated cluster environment including the OS, Job Scheduler, Message Passing Interface v2 (MPI2) support, cluster management & monitoring.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=41&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d2c6db4f3-b604-461f-9170-43e9cee062c5%26displaylang%3den

Continuous Data Protection for your Microsoft Server Infrastructure

Continuous Data Protection for your Microsoft Server Infrastructure

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=43&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d166cc836-5f00-4018-8170-22098b0a9cdc%26displaylang%3den

Managing Virtualization with SCVMM and Powershell

Managing Virtualization with SCVMM and Powershell

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=44&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d0c3a871d-9e80-46dd-85bc-3f759f007416%26displaylang%3den

Managing Virtualization 360 from the Datacenter to the Desktop

Managing Virtualization 360 from the Datacenter to the Desktop

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=45&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3db3d1cbe1-c879-476e-887a-5399b5efdc1b%26displaylang%3den

Deep Dive on Windows HPC Server 2008

Deep Dive on Windows HPC Server 2008

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=46&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3da30533cc-0db9-4b72-9c18-dbd50cce2959%26displaylang%3den

Virtualizing SQL Server 2008 with Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V

Virtualizing SQL Server 2008 with Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=47&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d5b72bd51-df66-43a0-aca6-d23bf0d7f44d%26displaylang%3den

Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2 Administration Tools Pack for x86 editions

The Administration Tools Pack allows administrators to install the Windows Server 2003 SP2 management tools onto a computer running Windows XP Professional or a Windows Server 2003 family operating system to perform remote server management functions.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=48&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d86b71a4f-4122-44af-be79-3f101e533d95%26displaylang%3den

File Server Migration Toolkit

The wizards in the File Server Migration Toolkit use Distributed File System (DFS) to maintain Universal Naming Convention (UNC) paths and to simplify the consolidation and migration process

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=49&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3dd00e3eae-930a-42b0-b595-66f462f5d87b%26displaylang%3den

Update for Windows Server 2008 (KB958178)

Install this update to allow load balancing to be enabled/disabled based on server name and port.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=50&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d2728b9f0-88b7-4d63-83e5-ecdee4146ac5%26displaylang%3den

EVENTS/WEBCASTS

Windows Server

Windows Client

Other

TechNet Presents: MCS Talks Enterprise Architecture Session 10 - Application Virtualisation

Free of charge
Date: 10 December 2008, 16:00
Location:
Event Category: Live Meeting
Audience: IT Professional, Technology Decision Maker
Products: Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager, Windows Server, Windows Server 2008

https://msevents.microsoft.com/cui/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032393357&EventCategory=4&culture=en-GB&CountryCode=GB

Live Webcasts:
Full list can be found at: http://www.microsoft.com/events/default.mspx

Interactive Webcast Calendar
The interactive calendar will help you quickly find live webcasts that fit your schedule as well as on-demand webcasts to view at your convenience. You can choose your time zone and filter this list by audience, webcast series, product or topic, and presenter.
http://www.microsoft.com/events/webcasts/calendar/monthview.aspx

Monthly Archived Webcasts:
http://www.microsoft.com/events/webcasts/library/default.mspx

NEW KB's

Windows Client

Windows XP Professional EN: Rich Text Format (.rtf) files may not print correctly in Windows XP when you use an application that uses the RichEdit control

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/953024/EN-US

Windows XP Professional EN: Error message when you switch the operating system from a dual monitor setting to a single monitor setting on a Windows XP-based computer that has the security update 954211 installed: "Stop 0x0000008E"

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959252/EN-US

Win Vista Home Prem 32bit AL: On a Windows Vista-based or Windows Server 2008-based computer, you may have to wait five seconds for a USB video device to work if the USB selective suspend setting is enabled on the corresponding USB root hub

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958309/EN-US

Win Vista Home Prem 32bit AL: A hotfix rollup for the USB audio driver is available for Windows Vista-based and Windows Server 2008-based computers

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/944681/EN-US

Win Vista Home Prem 32bit AL: Error status message from the ntfs.sys driver when some applications update very large files in Windows Server 2008 or in Windows Vista systems: "0xc0000427 STATUS_FILE_SYSTEM_LIMITATION"

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/957065/EN-US

Win Vista Home Prem 32bit AL: A wmiprvse.exe process may leak memory when a WMI notification query is used heavily on a Windows Server 2008-based or Windows Vista-based computer

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958124/EN-US

Win Vista Home Prem 32bit AL: When you click the button on the taskbar for an inactive window to make that window active in Windows Vista or in Windows Server 2008, the currently active window is selected again

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/955562/EN-US

Win Vista Ultimate 32bit AL: The WSD scanner submission that runs the Windows Logo Program testing may fail on a Windows Vista-based and Windows Server 2008-based computer

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/957493/EN-US

Win Vista Ultimate 32bit AL: Windows Error Reporting does not function correctly when it is running in a "Windows on Windows 64" (WoW64) configuration on a Windows Vista SP1-based or Windows Server 2008-based computer

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/957200/EN-US

Win Vista Ultimate 32bit AL: The Unicode hyphen character (U+2010) is not drawn when you use an application that uses GDI+ API functions in Windows Server 2008, in Windows Vista, in Windows Server 2003, and in Windows XP

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/956807/EN-US

Win Vista Ultimate 32bit AL: When you establish a dial-up connection on a Windows Vista-based computer by using USB modem device, you cannot establish a new connection when after you resume the computer from standby

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/956502/EN-US

Windows XP SP3 AL: You receive error code 1206 when you run an application that uses the WLanSetProfile function on a Windows XP Service Pack 3-based computer

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958071/EN-US

Win Vista SP1 AL: Audio input/output device types compatible with Jack Detection on an HD Audio card may have a blank volume level control page in the Sound dialog box after an upgrade to Vista SP1

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959386/EN-US

Win Vista SP1 AL: Audio input/output device types not compatible with Jack Detection on HD Audio cards may have a blank volume level control page in the Sound configuration window after an upgrade to Vista SP1

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959463/EN-US

Windows XP Professional EN: Error message when you try to open a shared file in Windows Explorer on a Windows XP-based computer: "<SharePath> is not accessible. Access is denied"

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/950234/EN-US

Windows XP Professional EN: When you try to restart or shut down a remote Windows XP-based or Windows Server 2003-based computer, the restart or shutdown process may stop responding (hang) if a screen saver is enabled on the remote computer

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/910617/EN-US

Windows XP Professional EN: After you hot unplug a device that is connected through a 1394 FireWire hub on a Windows XP-based computer, the device is still present in the system

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958347/EN-US

Windows XP Professional EN: The smart card is locked after you change the smart card PIN for a Windows XP, Windows Vista, or Windows Server 2008-based computer

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958281/EN-US

Windows XP SP2 EN: The error message of the Reg command may be truncated when you redirect a standard error message to a file on a Windows XP Service Pack 2-based computer

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/894270/EN-US

Win Vista Home Prem 32bit AL: Speeding up Windows Vista Part 1: Introduction

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959231/EN-US

Win Vista Home Prem 32bit AL: Speeding up Windows Vista Part 2: Speeding up the system start-up I (ReadyBoost)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959232/EN-US

Win Vista Home Prem 32bit AL: Speeding up Windows Vista – Part 3: Speeding up the system start-up II (Starting with two processor cores)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959233/EN-US

Win Vista Home Prem 32bit AL: Speeding up Windows Vista Part 4: Deactivating Windows Aero

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959234/EN-US

Win Vista Home Prem 32bit AL: Speeding up Windows Vista Part 5: Speeding up the hard drive

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959235/EN-US

Win Vista Home Prem 32bit AL: Speeding up Windows Vista Part 6: Deactivating unused hardware

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959236/EN-US

Win Vista Home Prem 32bit AL: Performance issues may occur on a Windows Vista-based or Windows Server 2008-based computer if Active State Power Management is enabled

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/956563/EN-US

Win Vista Home Prem 32bit AL: Blank keys appear on the On-Screen Keyboard when "Chinese (Hong Kong S.A.R.) - US keyboard" is selected for the keyboard layout on a computer that runs Windows Vista Home Premium Service Pack 1

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959332/EN-US

Win Vista Home Prem 32bit AL: Message when you select the Power saver power option during a Digital Rights Management (DRM) test in Windows Vista and in Windows Server 2008: "Sony/Philips Digital Interconnect Format (S/PDIF) Support"

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958018/EN-US

Win Vista Home Prem 32bit AL: A focus switch between an edit control and a button control occurs very slowly on a computer that is running Windows Server 2008 or Windows Vista

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/950528/EN-US

Win Vista Enterprise 32bit AL: Error message when you access the shared resources in a cooperation network over a VPN connection from a Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008-based client computer: "0x80004005" or "0x80070035"

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958285/EN-US

Win Vista Enterprise 32bit AL: A new version of the File system API that provides discovery and restoration for deleted files in Windows Vista is available

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/943790/EN-US

Win Vista Enterprise 32bit AL: After the Terminal Services mirror driver is disconnected from a Windows Server 2008-based or Windows Vista-based remote computer, you receive a Stop error on the remote computer: "Stop 0x0000007E SYSTEM_THREAD_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED"

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958092/EN-US

Win Vista Ultimate 32bit AL: Screen savers don't resize on resolution change

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959525/EN-US

Win Vista Ultimate 32bit AL: A video call may fail when you try to start the video call by using Office Communicator on a computer that is running Windows Server 2008 or Windows Vista

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/946886/EN-US

Win Vista Ultimate 32bit AL: Some temp files that have a size of 0 bytes are not deleted automatically after you install or upgrade the printer driver on a Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008-based computer

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958708/EN-US

Win Vista Ultimate 32bit AL: You cannot change the settings in the font substitution table from some device fonts back to TrueType fonts on a Windows Vista-based or Windows Server 2008-based computer

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959221/EN-US

Win Vista Home Prem 64bit AL: The print options that you specify in an application may be ignored in the print output when you print a document from a client computer that runs an x64 version of Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959203/EN-US

Win Vista SP1 AL: Print jobs may have incorrect owners when you share a printer from a Windows Server 2008-based computer or from a Windows Vista Service Pack 1-based computer

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958741/EN-US

Windows XP Home Edition EN: Maintenance on a computer running Windows XP

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959060/EN-US

Windows XP Professional EN: Stop error message when an application calls the NtGdiRectInRegion function on a Windows XP-based computer: "Stop 0x00000050"

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958282/EN-US

Windows XP Professional EN: The Automatic Update window may stop responding when you use a WSUS server to deploy Windows Internet Explorer 7 and cumulative security update 944533 on a Windows XP-based client computer

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958817/EN-US

Win Vista Home Basic 32bit AL: Optimizing Microsoft Windows Vista Performance

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959062/EN-US

Win Vista Home Basic 32bit AL: What is System Restore?

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959063/EN-US

Win Vista Home Basic 32bit AL: Creating a Password Reset Disk in Microsoft Windows Vista

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959061/EN-US

Win Vista Home Prem 32bit AL: Certain user interfaces are displayed incorrectly in Windows Media Center on a wide-screen display

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958131/EN-US

Win Vista Home Prem 32bit AL: Performance decreases when you stream isochronous data on a Windows-based computer that has a Texas Instruments (TI) IEEE 1394 host controller installed

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958149/EN-US

Win Vista Enterprise 32bit AL: The Windows Image Acquisition image transfer may fail on a WSD scanner device that is installed on a Windows Vista-based or Windows Server 2008-based computer

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958237/EN-US

Win Vista Enterprise 32bit AL: Some network-related parameters for a Windows Vista-based or Windows Server 2008-based DHCP client computer are configured incorrectly when you use DHCPv6

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/953268/EN-US

Win Vista Ultimate 32bit AL: The logon screen on a portable computer may not be resized correctly when you remove an external monitor, and then you wake the Windows Vista-based or Windows Server 2008-based computer from sleep or hibernation

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958605/EN-US

Win Vista Ultimate 32bit AL: The CPU usage of a high-speed USB 2.0 audio device that is connected to a computer that is running Windows Server 2008 or Windows Vista is greater than the CPU usage of the same device when the device is connected to a Windows XP-based computer

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/953228/EN-US

Win Vista Ultimate 32bit AL: Catalogs for Protected Environment signed binaries do not persist through an operating system upgrade, and may not be reverted when rolling back a component installation upgrade

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959916/EN-US

Win Vista SP1 AL: Microsoft Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1) Frequently Asked Questions

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959064/EN-US

Windows XP Professional EN: Windows SteadyState may not automatically restart a Windows XP-based computer in certain circumstances

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/960271/EN-US

Win Vista Home Basic 32bit AL: Windows Basics icon displays incorrectly in Windows Help and Support after installing a language pack

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/960290/EN-US

Win Vista Home Prem 32bit AL: On a computer that runs Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008, a PCI Express bus may run in PCI compatibility mode instead of in PCI native mode after the PCI root bus restarts

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959453/EN-US

Win Vista Home Prem 32bit AL: A memory leak occurs when you use Windows Event Log API (Wevtapi.dll) to receive WHEA events in real time on a Windows Vista Service Pack 1-based or Windows Server 2008-based computer

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/955515/EN-US

Win Vista Home Prem 32bit AL: Windows Sidebar customizations are lost when you log on to a Windows Vista-based computer that has hotfix 943411 or Windows Vista Service Pack 1 installed

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958330/EN-US

Win Vista Ultimate 32bit AL: When you run the "Connect to the Internet" Wizard and select the "Browse the Internet now" option, Internet Explorer starts instead of the default Web browser that you set in Windows Vista or in Windows Server 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959130/EN-US

Win Vista Ultimate 32bit AL: Stop error after you install KB951376, you use the Add Bluetooth Device Wizard, you find many Bluetooth devices, and then you try to put a Windows Vista-based or Windows Server 2008-based computer to sleep: "STOP 0x0000007F"

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959523/EN-US

Win Vista Ultimate 32bit AL: On a computer that is running Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008, iSCSI Initiator may be unable to communicate with the iSCSI target for several minutes after an iSCSI Protocol Data Unit (PDU) is rejected

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959384/EN-US

Win Vista SP1 AL: On Windows Vista Korean SP1 edition, the text for "Windows Sounds" is missing under the "Volume Mixer".

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/960288/EN-US

Windows Server

Windows Svr Ent 2003 EN: When you try to start a terminal session to a Windows Server 2003-based computer, the computer may be unresponsive

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/957492/EN-US

Windows Svr Ent 2003 EN: A handle leak occurs in the Csrss.exe process after the desktop heap is exhausted on a Windows Server 2003-based computer

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/957216/EN-US

Windows Svr Ent 2003 EN: Your screen flickers when you start WPF applications in a Windows Server 2003 terminal server session

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/955692/EN-US

Windows Svr Ent 2003 EN: High CPU usage occurs for six seconds on a Windows Server 2003-based computer that has multiple network adapters

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/955860/EN-US

Windows Svr Ent 2003 EN: An SSL connection may fail when you use Internet Explorer to make the SSL connection to an HTTPS Web site on a Windows Server 2003-based computer

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/955807/EN-US

Windows Svr Ent 2003 EN: Device Manager displays an exclamation point next to the Generic Packet Classifier device on a Windows Server 2003-based computer that uses the iSCSI Initiator boot version

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/953731/EN-US

Windows Svr Std 2003 SP1 EN: Microsoft Security Advisory: Exploit code published affecting the server service

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958963/EN-US

Windows Svr Ent 2003 X64 EN: Text that is formatted in printer device fonts may not print correctly in x64 versions of Windows Server 2008, of Windows Vista, and of Windows Server 2003

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/948696/EN-US

Windows Svr 2008 Std AL: Some Citrix commands do not work correctly in Citrix XenApp 5.0 for Windows Server 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958652/EN-US

Windows Svr 2008 Ent AL: Applications or services that rely on the Named Pipe File System may encounter latency or time-out issues when many connections are made to a named pipe in Windows Server 2008 or in Windows Vista SP1

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/954442/EN-US

Windows Svr 2008 Ent AL: Servers in a Network Load Balancing (NLB) failover cluster cannot be used as print servers in Windows Server 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/954420/EN-US

Windows Svr 2008 Ent AL: Windows 2000 with Integration Services may shut down slowly while running as a guest on Server 2008 with Hyper-V

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959462/EN-US

Windows Svr Ent 2003 EN: A Windows Server 2003-based computer or a Windows XP-based computer may stop responding

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/823749/EN-US

Windows Svr Ent 2003 EN: The "Effective Permissions" tab may report incorrect permissions in Windows Server 2003

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/933071/EN-US

Windows Svr Ent 2003 EN: The logoff process may take a long time when a user makes a terminal session from a Windows Server 2003 terminal server in a trusted domain, and the terminal service roaming profiles are used

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958246/EN-US

Windows Svr Ent 2003 EN: It takes longer to log on to a Windows Server 2003-based terminal server than expected when you enable Group Policy preferences in the terminal server

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/955457/EN-US

Windows Svr Std 2003 EN: You cannot easily determine the source of a time-out error when you run a query by using the ODBC SQL Server driver or the OLE DB provider in MDAC on a computer that is running Windows Server 2003

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/957585/EN-US

Windows Svr Std 2003 X64 EN: The Internet Connection Wizard starts and requires you to set up an Outlook Express e-mail account when you click the Mail button in Internet Explorer on a computer that is running an x64-based version of Windows Server 2003

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958885/EN-US

Windows Svr 2008 Std AL: The "Stop if the computer ceases to be idle" option is not saved for tasks that are configured for Windows Server 2003, Windows XP, or Windows 2000 in Windows Server 2008 or Windows Vista when triggers are enabled for the task

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/950363/EN-US

Windows Svr 2008 Std AL: System Center Operations Manager 2007 cannot receive SNMP trap data when you use a Windows Server 2008-based computer or a Windows Vista-based computer as a proxy agent for SNMP devices

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958936/EN-US

Windows Svr 2008 Std AL: You cannot shutdown a locked Windows 2000 SP4 virtual machine in Hyper-V Manager on a server that is running Windows Server 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958668/EN-US

Windows Svr 2008 Std AL: Error 0x80070005 occurs when closing Performance Monitor inside Windows Media Service console on Windows 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959527/EN-US

Windows Svr 2008 Ent AL: The Windows Server 2008 system may stop responding when an error occurs on one of the logical units of a storage array that is connected over a single MPIO path

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/957522/EN-US

Windows Svr 2008 Ent AL: You encounter problems when you manipulate logical unit numbers on a Windows Server 2008-based or Windows Vista-based computer

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958316/EN-US

Windows Svr 2008 Ent AL: Virtual machine backup operations fail in Windows Server 2008 when Hyper-V virtual machine files are saved on a volume that is mounted on a failover cluster by using a volume GUID

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958184/EN-US

Windows Svr 2008 Ent AL: Windows 2000 with Integration Services may shut down slowly while running as a guest on Server 2008 with Hyper-V

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959781/EN-US

Windows Svr 2008 Dtctr AL: You cannot configure a Hyper-V virtual machine by using Windows Server 2008 Failover Clustering when the virtual machine uses a storage device that is managed by a third-party clustered file system or a third-party replication solution

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958065/EN-US

Windows Svr 2008 Dtcntr wo HV AL: You receive a fraudulent e-mail message that claims that an attached executable is a Microsoft security update

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959318/EN-US

Windows Svr Ent 2003 EN: A Windows Server 2003-based DNS server may crash when the DNS server hosts the forward lookup zones that have the "Use WINS forward lookup" option enabled

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/957749/EN-US

Windows Svr Ent 2003 EN: Windows Server 2003 Terminal Server may crash during the terminal session logoff process, and you may receive a Stop error message: "Stop 0x00000050"

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/955066/EN-US

Windows Svr Ent 2003 EN: Error message when you run an old scheduled task or a newly created scheduled task on a Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2-based domain controller: "0x8007000d: The data is invalid"

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958837/EN-US

Windows Svr Std 2003 EN: EFS may not be enabled expectedly after you disable a policy and this policy turn off the EFS feature

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/960050/EN-US

Windows Svr Std 2003 EN: Stop error on a Windows Server 2003-based terminal server that has hotfix 951749 installed: "0x0000008E"

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/957877/EN-US

Windows Svr Std 2003 EN: A Windows Server 2003-based terminal server that is added to the Terminal Services Computers group cannot obtain a license from a terminal licensing server that has the "License server security group" setting enabled

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/911832/EN-US

Windows Svr Ent 2003 X64 EN: If you start a system from iSCSI, the gateway specified in the iSCSI Boot solution will always be used by Windows to communicate with the iSCSI Target

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/960104/EN-US

Windows Svr Std 2003 X64 EN: List of currently available hotfixes for Distributed File System (DFS) technologies in Windows Server 2003 R2

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958802/EN-US

Win Svr Ent 2003 R2 EN: DCOM Error 10021 is logged when you run a WinRM command against a remote computer that has update 936059 applied

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959815/EN-US

Win Svr Datacntr 2003 64 R2 EN: Error message when you try to perform a metadata cleanup of an ADAM instance on a Windows Server 2003 R2-based computer: “DsRemoveDsServerW error 0x57(The parameter is incorrect.)”

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958839/EN-US

Windows Svr 2008 Std AL: Event 4106 generated by a Windows Server 2008-based Terminal licensing server may report incorrect number of issued "Per User" licenses

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/955425/EN-US

Windows Svr 2008 Std AL: A Windows Server 2008-based computer may randomly restart, and a Stop error message occurs: "0x000000BE ATTEMPTED_WRITE_TO_READONLY_MEMORY"

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959056/EN-US

Windows Svr 2008 Std AL: The text filter function may not return any results in the Group Policy Management Editor window on a computer that is running Windows Server 2008 or Windows Vista SP1

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958901/EN-US

Windows Svr 2008 Ent AL: The LocalLow folder may not be created on a Windows Vista SP1-based computer or on a Windows Server 2008-based computer when roaming profiles are used in a domain environment

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/955555/EN-US

Windows Svr 2008 Ent AL: Windows Server 2008 Failover Clustering WMI provider does not correctly handle invalid characters in the private property names causing WMI queries to fail

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958807/EN-US

Windows Svr 2008 Ent AL: Client-side rendering in Windows Server 2008 and in Windows Vista may decrease performance on Windows Server 2008-based terminal servers

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958656/EN-US

Windows Svr 2008 Ent AL: Error code 0x8004240f occurs when you use a volume that is larger than 2 TB as backup storage in Windows Server 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/960023/EN-US

Windows Svr 2008 Dtctr AL: MS08-069: Vulnerabilities in Microsoft XML Core Services could allow remote code execution

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/955218/EN-US

Windows Svr 2008 Dtctr AL: MS08-069: Description of the security update for XML Core Services 3.0: November 11, 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/955069/EN-US

Windows Svr 2008 Dtctr AL: MS08-069: Description of the security update for XML Core Services 6.0: November 11, 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/954459/EN-US

Windows Svr 2008 Dtctr AL: MS08-068: Vulnerability in SMB could allow remote code execution

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/957097/EN-US

Windows Svr 2008 Dtctr AL: Detection and deployment guidance for the November 11, 2008 security release

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959665/EN-US

Windows Svr Ent 2003 EN: Interfaces that have the TCP/IP version 6 protocol installed in Windows Server 2003 incorrectly send duplicate address detection (DAD) packets when DAD fails

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/953829/EN-US

Windows Svr Ent 2003 EN: A Windows Server 2003-based computer restarts unexpectedly and you receive a Stop error message during the terminal session logoff process: "0x0000008E KERNEL_MODE_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED"

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958820/EN-US

Windows Svr Ent 2003 EN: Stop error on a Windows Server 2003-based terminal server that has a third-party Input Method Editor (IME) installed: "Stop 0x000000AB (SESSION_HAS_VALID_POOL_ON_EXIT)"

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959466/EN-US

Windows Svr Ent 2003 EN: A system memory leak may occur when you play video media content that is encoded by the Windows Media Video 9 Advanced Profile codec in Windows Media Player 10 on a Windows Server 2003-based computer or on a Windows XP-based computer

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959260/EN-US

Windows Svr Std 2003 EN: A name resolution query fails when Windows Server 2003-based DNS servers set the AA bit for the DNS query and forward the query to conditional forwarders

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/957930/EN-US

Win Svr Ent 2003 R2 EN: Repair options that you can use to recover if you accidentally make an incorrect Distributed File System Replication (DFSR) member authoritative in a Windows Server 2003 R2 environment

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/957556/EN-US

Windows Svr 2008 Std AL: Windows Media Services Core install package should not install on a non-Core version of Windows Server 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/960407/EN-US

Windows Svr 2008 Ent AL: A hotfix is available that corrects a logic that is used to determine affinity masks on a Windows Vista-based or Windows Server 2008-based computer that has more than 32 logical processors

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958904/EN-US

Windows Svr 2008 Ent AL: Hang When Reading StdErr/StdOut Properties of WshScriptExec Object

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/960246/EN-US

Windows Svr 2008 Ent AL: Receive-side scaling is unexpectedly disabled on a Windows Server 2008-based computer

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958015/EN-US

Windows Svr 2008 Ent AL: Recommendations for thin-provisioned volumes for computers that run Windows Server 2008, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2003, or Windows XP

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959613/EN-US

Windows Svr 2008 Ent AL: Error message when you try to create a new virtual machine in Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008: "The Encountered an Error while creating a Virtual Machine"

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/960024/EN-US

Windows Svr 2008 Ent AL: Mandatory user profiles do not work as expected on Windows Vista-based and Windows Server 2008-based client computers when the %LogonServer% environment variable is set in the profile path

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/955625/EN-US

Windows Svr 2008 Ent AL: Client connections return a "STATUS_INVALID_PARAM" error code when you use a "Send NTLMv2 response only" authentication level in Windows Server 2008 or in Windows Vista

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/957441/EN-US

Windows Svr 2008 Ent AL: A Windows Server 2008 update lets you use the RPC redirection (RDR) interface to enable or disable custom load balancing based on server name and port number

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958178/EN-US

Windows Svr 2008 Ent AL: A Windows Server 2008-based computer may stop responding when you use a Device Specific Module that plugs into MPIO

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958912/EN-US

December 2008 - Technical Rollup Mail - Manageability

conuktrm — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 15:00:05 GMT

NEWS

All

SMS&MOM

http://blogs.technet.com/smsandmom/default.aspx

The Deployment Guys

http://blogs.technet.com/deploymentguys

Configuration Manager & SMS

SQL Server 2008 Now Supported on Configuration Manager 2007 R2

System Center Configuration Manager 2007 R2 now supports the use of SQL Server 2008 with SQL Reporting Service. For accurate monitoring of the SRS configuration the following hotfix is required: KB957576.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/957576/

Configuration Manager 2007 R2 Now Available

Configuration Manager R2 supports Windows Vista SP1 and Windows Server 2008, integrates support for application virtualization, and provides an update to the Operating system Deployment capability initially shipped in Configuration Manager. In addition, Client Status Reporting, SQL Reporting and Forefront Client reporting are all now available.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=7376214F-CBA3-4E0D-81FE-AD52488BE3A3&displaylang=en

Windows Embedded Standard 2009 Now Supported on Configuration Manager 2007 (RTM and SP1)

System Center Configuration Manager 2007 (RTM and SP1) now supports managing Windows Embedded Standard 2009 clients. The previous release of Windows XP Embedded SP2 had a limitation of not supporting OS Deployment. We are happy to announce that with WES, OS Deployment is now supported and the macro for Target Designer ships with WES. No hotfixes are required. Administrative consoles or site-sever roles are not supported.

Windows Embedded POSReady 2009 Now Supported on Configuration Manager 2007 (RTM and SP1)

System Center Configuration Manager 2007 (RTM and SP1) now supports managing Windows Embedded POSReady 2009 clients. No hotfixes are required. Administrative consoles or site-sever roles are not supported.

Operations Manager & MOM

Operations Manager 2007 R2 Beta Now Available

Introducing new and enhanced capabilities, including cross platform monitoring of UNIX and Linux servers and workloads, the ability to report on service levels across IT availability and performance, enhanced system and Web monitoring capabilities, and more. The Operations Manager 2007 R2 Beta is now available for download.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/opsmgr/dd239186.aspx

What’s New & Improved in Operations Manager 2007 R2 Beta

System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 will uniquely enable organizations to reduce the cost of data center management across server operating systems and hypervisors.

Download datasheet (PDF): http://download.microsoft.com/download/d/9/4/d94797e2-1fbb-4af6-af8f-de57cee5b4a2/SC_OpsMgr2007_R2-WhatsNewOverview.pdf

Learn more about service-level monitoring (PDF): http://download.microsoft.com/download/7/2/5/725E8C00-7F98-4088-8527-189FBE73B057/SC_OpsMgr2007_R2-ServiceLevelMonitoring.pdf

Other

Application Virtualization 4.5 Resource Kit Tools Now Available

The main goal of the resource toolkit is to enable IT administrators to unlock the full potential of the recently released App-V 4.5. This release consists of the following tools:

· App-V Application Listing Tool

· Application Virtualization SFT Parser Tool

· Application Virtualization Client Log Parser Utility

· Application Virtualization Cache Resizing Tool

· Application Virtualization Dynamic Suite Composition Tool

http://blogs.technet.com/softgrid/archive/2008/11/03/application-virtualization-4-5-resource-kit-tools-now-available.aspx

New Release: Virtual Machine Manager 2008

With the release of System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008, Microsoft provides a management solution for the virtualized data center that helps enable centralized management of IT infrastructure, increased server utilization, and dynamic resource optimization across multiple virtualization platforms. New features include support for VMs running on Windows Server 2008, multi-vendor virtualization platform support, performance and resource optimization (PRO), and host cluster support for “high-availability” virtual machines.

View the demo: http://www.microsoft.com/systemcenter/virtualmachinemanager/en/us/demos.aspx

DOCUMENTS

Configuration Manager & SMS

Creating Custom Reports by Using Configuration Manager 2007 SQL Views

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=4&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d87bbe64e-5439-4fc8-becc-deb372a40f4a%26displaylang%3den

The Infrastructure Planning and Design Guides for System Center Have Been Updated with Guidance for Configuration Manager

This guide enables you to quickly select which Configuration Manager features your organization needs in order to meet business requirements. Determining which site roles will be required in order to support those features is now a less daunting task as you are guided through the process. The guide leads you through Configuration Manager infrastructure-design decisions in a logical, sequential order. Accelerate the infrastructure design process by leveraging best-practice guidance from the product group and subject matter experts. With assistance from this guide, you will be able to make the best decisions for successfully optimizing your infrastructure to best meet business requirements.

Infrastructure Planning and Design streamlines the planning of a Configuration Manager Infrastructure by:

· Defining the technical decision flow through the planning process.

· Listing the 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.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=AD3921FB-8224-4681-9064-075FDF042B0C&SAMI_CAMPAIGN_NAME=IPDSCCMRTM102908_IPDDL&displaylang=en

DOWNLOADS

Configuration Manager & SMS

Offline Virtual Machine Servicing Tool

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.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=1&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d8408ecf5-7afe-47ec-a697-eb433027df73%26displaylang%3den

Systems Management Server 2003 Inventory Tool for Dell Update

SMS 2003 Inventory Tool for Dell Updates is an add-on to SMS 2003 that enables customers to use the SMS 2003 Software Update Management feature to update their Dell servers.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=2&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d92a9bb94-1806-487b-a697-92492bf8cc8e%26displaylang%3den

SCAP Conversion Tool for DCM

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=3&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d22e5b9a0-fa7b-4d43-bcea-7084ae6f40f5%26displaylang%3den

Operations Manager & MOM

VSTS 2008 TFS MP for OpsMgr 2007

The Team Foundation Server (TFS) 2008 Management Pack monitors exposed services of TFS. This management pack includes event rules and monitors. It is designed to proactively monitor quality and availability of TFS services and even automate recovery in some scenarios.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=1&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d28c745b5-28cc-474a-a5fd-944c246d7727%26displaylang%3den

SQL Server MP for OpsMgr 2007

The Microsoft SQL Server Management Pack for Operations Manager 2007 provides discovery and monitoring of SQL Server 2000, 2005 and 2008.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=2&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d8c0f970e-c653-4c15-9e51-6a6cadfca363%26displaylang%3den

SharePoint Monitoring ToolKit for OpsMgr 2007

The SharePoint Monitoring Toolkit helps you manage Microsoft SharePoint environments of all sizes.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=3&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3de4600fd9-f53d-4ded-88bf-6bb1932794f9%26displaylang%3den

Windows DHCP 2000/2003/2008 MP for OpsMgr 2007

This Management Pack Monitors DHCP infrastructure health, availability, and performance.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=4&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d2694e87c-76e0-417b-ad0f-5897e46fff88%26displaylang%3den

Active Directory MP for OpsMgr 2007

The AD Management Pack monitors Windows Server 2000, 2003 and 2008 Domain Controllers, as well as providing a Client Perspective monitoring of an AD deployment.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=5&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d008f58a6-dc67-4e59-95c6-d7c7c34a1447%26displaylang%3den

HPC Server 2008 MP for OpsMgr 2007

The Windows HPC Server 2008 Management Pack provides both proactive and reactive monitoring of Windows HPC Server 2008 for a cluster environment.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=6&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d99303c25-f3b0-4c41-a56b-f5cc57045dc6%26displaylang%3den

EVENTS/WEBCASTS

Configuration Manager & SMS

Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007 On-Demand Webcasts

http://www.microsoft.com/events/series/technetmms.aspx?tab=webcasts&id=42364#42364

TechNet Webcast: Green Enterprise: System Center Configuration Manager 2007 R2 and Intel vPro/AMT Technologies (Level 200)

Friday, December 19, 2008, 11:30 AM Pacific Time (US & Canada)

Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007 R2 includes integrated provisioning and management support for Intel vPro/Active Management Technology (AMT) hardware management technologies. This integration provides a strong solution for enterprise management of both desktop software and hardware platforms within a single unified administration console. Join this webcast to learn how to provision and use vPro to extend the capabilities of System Center Configuration Manager to incorporate secure hardware and power management for a truly green managed enterprise desktop solution. Topics include:

· System Center Configuration Manager 2007 R2

· Intel vPro hardware management and security

· Centralized Intel vPro provisioning

· Remote troubleshooting with Intel vPro hardware management

· Centralized power management

· Secure wake and update

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032392909&Culture=en-US

Operations Manager & MOM

Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) On-Demand Webcasts

http://www.microsoft.com/events/series/technetmms.aspx?tab=webcasts&id=42363

Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 On-Demand Webcasts

http://www.microsoft.com/events/series/technetmms.aspx?tab=webcasts&id=42365

Other

MSDN Webcast: Building a Backup and Recovery Appliance Using Data Protection Manager 2007 (Level 100)

Wednesday, December 10, 2008, 8:00 AM Pacific Time (US & Canada)

Attend this webcast to learn how Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM) 2007 can increase efficiency of legacy, tape-based data protection environments to provide efficient, near-continuous protection. See some of the technology benefits of DPM, and discover what it can do for your customers. We also provide information on the availability and licensing of Data Protection Manager 2007, how to sell the product, and the competition.

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032396949&EventCategory=4&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US

NEW KB's

Configuration Manager & SMS

ConfigMgr: You cannot take some actions when you take remote control of a Windows Vista-based client computer that has User Account Control enabled in System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Service Pack 1

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/956941/EN-US

ConfigMgr: The ConfigMgr Service Manager tool in Configuration Manager 2007 Service Pack 1 cannot query the SMS_SITE_SQL_BACKUP service, and you receive an "Error communicating with component" error message

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/957879/EN-US

ConfigMgr: Status message ID 7404 is reported frequently in an installation of System Center Configuration Manager 2007 R2 that uses SQL Server 2008 as the site database

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/957576/EN-US

ConfigMgr: FIX: The Out of Band Power control function does not work for clients that have the Intel AMT 4 or Intel AMT 5 chipset in System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Service Pack 1

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/957469/EN-US

ConfigMgr: Some attributes of a System Center Configuration Manager 2007 client may be missing after it is configured as a branch distribution point

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/956733/EN-US

ConfigMgr: The SMS_EXECUTIVE service of System Center Configuration Manager 2007 on a child site server may crash when it handles the .sha file and sends inventory data to its parent site

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/954716/EN-US

ConfigMgr: The System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Service Pack 1 hardware inventory may recognize an x64-based client as an x86-based client

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/955842/EN-US

ConfigMgr: User data from the USMT may be deleted unexpectedly by the task sequence engine during the operating system deployment process in System Center Configuration Manager 2007 SP1

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958808/EN-US

ConfigMgr: The Inventory Data Loader component cannot process hardware inventory data from System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Service Pack 1 clients if one or more properties contain more than 256 characters in the NOIDMIF files

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/957325/EN-US

Operations Manager & MOM

O: System Center Operations Manager 2007 runs scripts in the Rule Name field or in the Description field

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/951529/EN-US

Ops Mgr 2007 SP1: Warning alerts and warning monitor state changes do not occur as expected for a Web application that is created by using the Web application template in System Center Operations Manager 2007 Service Pack 1

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/957511/EN-US

Ops Mgr 2007 SP1: A custom event report does not display events that are generated by the generic CSV text log collection rules when Parameter 1 to Parameter 20 is included in the Report Field criteria in System Center Operations Manager 2007 Service Pack 1 (SP1)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/954823/EN-US

Ops Mgr 2007 SP1: The System Center Operations Manager 2007 Service Pack 1 operations console cannot display English product knowledge when you open the properties dialog box of an alert: "No product knowledge was available for this Alert"

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/957199/EN-US

Ops Mgr 2007 SP1: You cannot change the alert resolution state of any alert in the Active Alerts view in System Center Operations Manager 2007 Service Pack 1

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/957135/EN-US

Ops Mgr 2007 SP1: The Administrator Console exits when you try to use the "Set Resolution State" option for an alert that is generated in System Center Operations Manager 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/953817/EN-US

Ops Mgr 2007 SP1: The Custom Event Report does not list the GenericLog-type events in System Center Operations Manager 2007 Service Pack 1

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/952857/EN-US

Ops Mgr 2007 SP1: An Audit Collection Service forwarder may be unable to retrieve the distinguished name for the ObjectGUID in the collected events in System Center Operations Manager 2007 Service Pack 1

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/954329/EN-US

Ops Mgr 2007 SP1: When you try to deploy a System Center Operations Manager 2007 Service Pack 1 agent, the Health Service does not start, and event ID 7024 is logged

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/957567/EN-US

Ops Mgr 2007: You cannot reinstall the Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 management server role on a computer on which the role has been installed and removed

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/957565/EN-US

Other

Asset Inventory Service: Description of the changes in the System Center Online Client component in Asset Inventory Service 1.5

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959646/EN-US

December 2008 - Technical Rollup Mail - Internet

conuktrm — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 15:00:04 GMT

NEWS

BizTalk Server

Host Integration Server 2009 Public Beta Program now open

https://connect.microsoft.com/site/sitehome.aspx?SiteID=66

New Case Studies

KAS Bank - Top 100 SWIFT User Streamlines Operations and Reduces Operational Risk with Migration

http://www.microsoft.com/casestudies/casestudy.aspx?casestudyid=4000003002

Premier Foods - Distributor Collaborates from Supplier to Customer, Gains Competitive Advantage

http://www.microsoft.com/casestudies/casestudy.aspx?casestudyid=4000003023

Comune di Roma - City Administration Uses Virtualization Solution to Drive Agility, Boost Productivity

http://www.microsoft.com/casestudies/casestudy.aspx?casestudyid=4000003005

Hospital de Torrevieja - Healthcare Provider Increases Productivity, Saves €327 Per Patient Per Year

http://www.microsoft.com/casestudies/casestudy.aspx?casestudyid=4000002958

Microsoft Internet information Server

Microsoft Web Platform Installer Release Candidate – Now works with XP and Windows 2003!

Nov 24, 2008

I’m excited to announce the availability of the Release Candidate version of the Microsoft Web Platform Installer (Web PI). Web PI is a free tool that makes it simple to download and install the latest components of the Microsoft Web Platform, including...

http://blogs.iis.net/bills/archive/2008/11/24/microsoft-web-platform-installer-release-candidate-now-works-with-xp-and-windows-2003.aspx

ASP.NET supported on Server Core - Windows Server 2008 R2

Nov 24, 2008

In case you haven’t already heard the news, ASP.NET will now be enabled on Windows Server Core starting with Windows Server 2008 R2. If you're not familiar with Server Core, it is a low footprint Server installation option that lays down just the...

http://blogs.iis.net/bills/archive/2008/11/24/asp-net-supported-on-server-core-windows-server-2008-r2.aspx

Why IIS7? Top 12 cool features…

Nov 20, 2008

Every time I talk with customers in meetings or at conferences I’m struck by how many cool amazing new capabilities IIS7 has. I can go on for literally hours talking about the new features and benefits, and showing demos. And with each new...

http://blogs.iis.net/bills/archive/2008/11/20/why-iis7-top-12-cool-features.aspx

IIS7 Request Routing and Load Balancer Release Candidate Available for Download

Nov 13, 2008

I’m excited to announce that IIS has released a Release Candidate of the new IIS7 Application Request Routing (ARR) extension! ARR enables Web server administrators to easily scale-out Web applications and improve reliability through HTTP-level...

http://blogs.iis.net/bills/archive/2008/11/13/iis7-request-routing-and-load-balancer-release-candidate-available-for-download.aspx

Find New IIS7 Extensions at http://www.iis.net/extensions/

Nov 11, 2008

I’m happy to announce that IIS7 Extensions have found their home at http://www.iis.net/extensions Every since IIS7 shipped 9 months ago, the IIS team has been cranking away adding new features to the platform. Last time I blogged about how we do this...

http://blogs.iis.net/bills/archive/2008/11/11/find-new-iis7-extensions-at-http-www-iis-net-extensions.aspx

URL Rewrite Module - Release to Web

Nov 10, 2008

Today IIS team has made the URL Rewrite Module for IIS 7.0 Release To Web (RTW) available for download. This is a final, production-ready release that is officially supported by Microsoft. Install the URL Rewrite Module for IIS 7.0 RTW today! Microsoft...

http://blogs.iis.net/ruslany/archive/2008/11/10/url-rewrite-module-release-to-web.aspx

IIS Media Pack 1.0 Released

Nov 07, 2008

Following up on our Smooth Streaming announcement last week, today we released IIS Media Pack 1.0! This first release of the IIS Media Pack features two IIS 7.0 extensions that focus on the intelligent delivery of video and audio to end users: Bit Rate...

http://blogs.iis.net/chriskno/archive/2008/11/07/iis-media-pack-1-0-released.aspx

IIS Web Deployment Tool Beta 2 Released

Oct 30, 2008

The Web Deployment team had a big ‘coming out’ party yesterday at the PDC and announced immediate availability of a new Beta of the Microsoft Web Deployment Tool . MS Deploy - Fundamentals If you aren’t familiar with this tool yet, you’re going...

http://blogs.iis.net/bills/archive/2008/10/30/iis-web-deployment-tool-beta-2-released.aspx

SharePoint Technologies

SharePoint Online Out of Beta and Ready for Purchase
November 17, 2008: Microsoft Press Pass
Today, at a launch event in San Francisco, Stephen Elop, president of the Microsoft Business Division at Microsoft Corp., was joined by customers and partners to announce the availability of Microsoft Exchange Online and Microsoft Office SharePoint Online for businesses of all sizes in the United States.

http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2008/nov08/11-17ExchangeSharePointOnlinePR.mspx

Announcing Microsoft Certified Master for SharePoint
November 3, 2008: Microsoft Learning
The Microsoft Certified Master: Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 program provides the most in-depth and comprehensive training available today for Office SharePoint Server 2007. This three-week training program is delivered by recognized experts from Microsoft and Microsoft partner organizations.

http://www.microsoft.com/learning/mcp/master/Sharepoint/default.mspx

Can Microsoft Keep SharePoint Rolling?
November 1, 2008: Information Week
It's all-in-one approach to collaboration is winning over companies, but that can cause its own problems.

http://www.informationweek.com/news/telecom/collaboration/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=211800363

PODCAST: Creating a Competitive Edge: Extending the SharePoint Platform to meet Enterprise 2.0
October 29, 2008: PC PRO
Using rich blog, wiki, RSS, mashup & social-networking solutions combined with the enterprise content management and search capabilities of SharePoint, SharePoint customers are well positioned to create a competitive advantage in good or bad economic times by leveraging the benefits of Enterprise 2.0.

http://research.pcpro.co.uk/detail/RES/1225284892_758.html?src=pcpro

Microsoft unveils Windows Azure for SharePoint at Professional Developers Conference 2008
October 27, 2008: Microsoft PressPass
Microsoft releases comprehensive Azure Services Platform for the cloud, offering unprecedented power of choices and open connections for developers.

http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2008/oct08/10-27PDCDay1PR.mspx

MOSS Tech Center

One stop shop for all your MOSS resources including recent whitepapers, articles, discussions, blogposts, training videos, demos and much more… lookout this month for a download of the Administration Guide CHM file http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/office/sharepointserver/default.aspx

DOWNLOADS

BizTalk Server

BizTalk Server 2006 R2 Help

Newly released documentation for BizTalk Server 2006 R2 in two formats: CHM and HxS.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=1&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d4e6a9d40-dbfc-4474-826a-ddeca287e57d%26displaylang%3den

BizTalk Server 2006 Administration Tutorials

The BizTalk Server 2006 administration tutorials are designed to help you design and configure a multi-server BizTalk Server deployment.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=2&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3dd3add54f-4bb7-444d-9300-6230180dbb45%26displaylang%3den

Troubleshooting BizTalk Server SOAP Adapter

Troubleshooting techniques when using Microsoft BizTalk Server with the SOAP Adapter

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=3&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d0297745b-7636-4f4d-ab44-62d1abe2330d%26displaylang%3den

Microsoft Internet information Server

IIS DownloadCENTER

This is your single source for Microsoft Internet Information Services tools, samples, extensions, filters and modules created by Microsoft and the IIS community. Have you created an IIS script that others can use? Login, then submit it to the DownloadCENTER.

http://www.iis.net/downloads/default.aspx?tabid=3

SharePoint Technologies

SPGhostTool - Tool to fix broken setup path values in files without having to modify the database

WSS PM recently released a codeplex tool that you may find useful for fixing ghosted file issues in SharePoint. The tool uses the PRIME APIs to export and import an individual file to fix up the setup path value. Since it is relatively easy for a user to break this value and become permanently unable to re-ghost the file, hopefully this will help. http://www.codeplex.com/SPGhostTool

SharePoint Designer 2007: Non Technical Resources

SharePoint Designer 2007 Frequently Asked Questions on Trials, Pricing, Purchasing, Activation, Licensing and Support.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=1&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d0a8e1a32-6524-4567-af65-633f0dbe033c%26displaylang%3den

External Collaboration Toolkit for SharePoint

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=1&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3dd9af2c25-989c-45c4-8008-1f15722190ed%26displaylang%3den

IT Compliance Management Guide

The IT Compliance Management Guide is intended for IT managers and IT professionals who must plan for and address the governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) requirements of their organizations.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=2&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3dbd930882-0d39-4900-9a79-b91f213ed15d%26displaylang%3den

Integrating Line-of-Business Data into MOSS 2007 with the Business Data Catalog

Integrating Line-of-Business Data into MOSS 2007 with the Business Data Catalog

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=3&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d9fa34e43-1cc7-4af9-8e24-6252c8f0dde5%26displaylang%3den

Office SharePoint Server IT Pro content CHM

Downloadable CHM version of SharePoint Server content on TechNet.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=4&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3dba006584-711d-4ce7-9e1f-181aedf6434a%26displaylang%3den

SharePoint Designer 2007: Non Technical Resources

SharePoint Designer 2007 Frequently Asked Questions on Trials, Pricing, Purchasing, Activation, Licensing and Support.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=5&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d0a8e1a32-6524-4567-af65-633f0dbe033c%26displaylang%3den

SharePoint Monitoring ToolKit for OpsMgr 2007

The SharePoint Monitoring Toolkit helps you manage Microsoft SharePoint environments of all sizes.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=6&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3de4600fd9-f53d-4ded-88bf-6bb1932794f9%26displaylang%3den

External Collaboration Toolkit for SharePoint

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=1&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3dd9af2c25-989c-45c4-8008-1f15722190ed%26displaylang%3den

SharePoint Monitoring ToolKit for OpsMgr 2007

The SharePoint Monitoring Toolkit helps you manage Microsoft SharePoint environments of all sizes.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=2&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3de4600fd9-f53d-4ded-88bf-6bb1932794f9%26displaylang%3den

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Application Template: Application Template Core

The Application Template Core solution file for Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 contains all of the resources for each of the server admin templates. This solution must be installed and deployed prior to any other server admin Application Template installation.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=3&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3dc1039e13-94da-4d7d-8cae-3b96fa5a4045%26displaylang%3den

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Application Templates: All Server Admin Templates

This download package includes all twenty server admin Application Templates for Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and the Application Template Core solution.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=4&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3daae4cb5a-91d2-4f1b-9a45-3bb894e218f8%26displaylang%3den

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Application Templates: All Templates

This download package includes all forty of the Application Templates for Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 plus the Application Template Core solution, which is required to deploy server administration templates.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=5&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d5807b5ef-57a1-47cb-8666-78c1363f127d%26displaylang%3den

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 IT Pro content CHM

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

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=6&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3dc9d6c8c5-8a62-4961-8c1b-df08b667b1c4%26displaylang%3den

EVENTS/WEBCASTS

SharePoint Technologies

SharePoint Technology Conference

January 27–29, 2009: Burlingame, CA
For three exciting days in January, you'll be eating, drinking, sleeping, talking and living Microsoft Office SharePoint Server and Windows SharePoint Services. The first day at SPTechCon is filled with intense full and half-day workshops, half in the morning, half in the afternoon. The next two days are filled with more than 50 break-out classes to choose from. Build your own custom program!

http://www.sptechcon.com/

SharePoint Best Practices Conference

February 2–4, 2009: San Diego, CA
The SharePoint Best Practices Conference eliminates design, deploy, organization and administration confusion, replacing disorder with Clarity, Direction and Confidence.

http://www.sharepointbestpractices.com/

FASTforward '09

February 9–11, 2009: Las Vegas, NV
3 days of compelling discussion on the evolving business environment and how search is enabling companies to succeed. http://www.fastsearch.com/l3a.aspx?m=1134&amid=14562

All upcoming Events\Webcasts

http://www.microsoft.com/sharepoint/learning/events.mspx

NEW KB's

Microsoft Internet information Server

Internet Info Services 7.0 EN: FIX: Small memory leaks may occur when you use RSCA to query runtime statistics in IIS 7.0

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958661/EN-US

Internet Info Services 7.0 EN: FIX: The behavior of a Web site does not always correspond to the configuration that is specified in the ApplicationHost.config file in IIS 7.0

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/954267/EN-US

Internet Info Services 7.0 EN: FIX: The POST data is unavailable for custom error pages in IIS 7.0

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/956578/EN-US

Internet Info Services 7.0 EN: FIX: IIS ABO Mapper may cause an access violation for a non-privileged caller in IIS 7.0

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959414/EN-US

BizTalk Server

Microsoft BizTalk Server supportability on a virtual machine (updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/?id=842301

FIX: The Backup BizTalk Server job is incorrectly associated with the time zone of a BizTalk Server 2006 server

http://support.microsoft.com/?id=936187

BizTalk Accelerator for SWIFT 2008 Message Pack is available (updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/?id=925731

SharePoint Technologies

SharePoint Portal Svr 2003 EN: You recieve error 7619 when you run a Full Text query on a SQL Server 2005 installation that is used by SharePoint Portal Server 2003

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/957050/EN-US

SharePoint Portal Svr 2003 EN: Description of the SharePoint Portal Server 2003 post-Service Pack 3 and the Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 hotfix package (Sts.msp): October 28, 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958706/EN-US

Office SharePoint Designr 2007: Description of the SharePoint Designer 2007 hotfix package (Spd.msp, Fpac.msp, Ewd.msp): October 28, 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958692/EN-US

Office SharePoint Designr 2007: Description of the SharePoint Designer 2007 hotfix package (Spd.msp): October 28, 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958565/EN-US

Office SharePoint Server 2007 ML: Description of the SharePoint Server 2007 hotfix package (Dlc.msp): October 28, 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958569/EN-US

Office SharePoint Server 2007 ML: Description of the SharePoint Server 2007 hotfix package (Coreservermui.msp): October 28, 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958567/EN-US

Office SharePoint Server 2007 ML: Description of the SharePoint Server 2007 hotfix package (Coreserver.msp): October 28, 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/957693/EN-US

Office SharePoint Server 2007 ML: Error message when you try to create a new Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Web application: "Absolute path information is required"

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958448/EN-US

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0: Description of the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 hotfix package (Sts.msp): October 28, 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/957691/EN-US

Office SharePoint Server 2007 ML: The index is corrupted when the SharePoint Server 2007 index server experiences power failure or restarts unexpectedly

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958615/EN-US

Office SharePoint Server 2007 ML: Http 400 error when you click a folder in the pending approval report in Office SharePoint Server 2007 site to manually approve or reject it

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958346/EN-US

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0: The "Check Names" button does not work as expected after you set a "Peoplepicker-searchadcustomfilter" LDAP filter in a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 site

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958578/EN-US

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0: Security trimming is not honored when more than one List View Web Part is displayed on the same page in a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 site

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958008/EN-US

Office SharePoint Designr 2007: Description of updates for SharePoint Designer 2007 Help: November 11, 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/957250/EN-US

Office SharePoint Server 2007 ML: MS08-069: Description of the security update for the 2007 Office servers: November 11, 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/951597/EN-US

Office SharePoint Server 2007 ML: Error message when you execute common searches in an Office SharePoint Server 2007 site: "Turn on more accessible mode Skip to main content Turn off more accessible mode"

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958714/EN-US

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0: Error message when you perform a content deployment of a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 site collection that has a custom site template: "Cannot import site"

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958579/EN-US

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0: Error message when you visit a sub-folder under a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 list that contains more than 2,000 list items that have non-inheriting permissions: "#RENDER FAILED"

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958577/EN-US

December 2007 - Technical Rollup Mail - SQL

Justin Zarb — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 03:00:00 GMT

News

Try SQL Server 2008 Today – Your Data, Any Place, Any Time

SQL Server 2008, the next release of Microsoft SQL Server, will provide a comprehensive data platform that is more secure, reliable, manageable and scalable for your mission critical applications, while enabling developers to create new applications that can store and consume any type of data on any device, and enabling all your users to make informed decisions with relevant insights. Download the latest SQL Server 2008 Community Technology Preview (CTP) and try out the latest features of SQL Server 2008 for 180 days! The SQL Server development team uses your feedback to help refine and enhance product features. Download the newest CTP today and share your feedback.

http://www.microsoft.com/sql/2008/prodinfo/newfeatures.mspx

http://www.microsoft.com/sql/2008/prodinfo/download.mspx

Try Visual Studio 2008

Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 provides an industry-leading developer experience for Windows Vista, the 2007 Microsoft Office system, and the Web. In addition, it continues in the Microsoft tradition of development language innovation. To enable evaluation of Visual Studio 2008, this page provides links to trial versions of Visual Studio 2008.

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/products/aa700831.aspx

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=83C3A1EC-ED72-4A79-8961-25635DB0192B&displaylang=en

Documents

Reporting Services in SQL Server 2008

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services provides a complete server-based platform that is designed to support a wide variety of reporting needs including managed enterprise reporting, ad-hoc reporting, embedded reporting, and web based reporting to enable organizations to deliver relevant information where needed across the entire enterprise. Reporting Services 2008 provides the tools and features necessary to author a variety of richly formatted reports from a wide range of data sources and provides a comprehensive set of familiar tools used to manage and secure an enterprise reporting solution. Reports are processed and delivered quickly and effectively, enabling users to either receive reports automatically through subscriptions, to access reports from a central report repository on an ad-hoc basis, or to consume reports in context of their business processes through reports directly embedded into their business or web applications.

http://www.microsoft.com/sql/techinfo/whitepapers/sql_2008_ssrs.mspx

What's New for XML in SQL Server 2008

Microsoft introduced XML-related capabilities in Microsoft SQL Server 2000 with the FOR XML and OPENXML Transact-SQL keywords, which enabled developers to write Transact-SQL code to retrieve a query result as a stream of XML, and to shred an XML document into a rowset. SQL Server 2005 extended these XML capabilities significantly with the introduction of a native xml data type that supports XSD schema validation, XQuery-based operations, and XML indexing. SQL Server 2008 builds on the XML capabilities of previous releases and provides enhancements to meet the challenges that customers have faced when storing and manipulating XML data in the database.

http://www.microsoft.com/sql/techinfo/whitepapers/sql_2008_xml.mspx

Managing Unstructured Data with SQL Server 2008

The proliferation of digital content has significant implications for the way in which organizations store and access business data. Increasingly, databases that are at the core of business applications must be integrated with unstructured data in the form of documents, images, video content, and other multimedia formats. Organizations increasingly need to be able to store and manage digital data of all formats in order to manage the information lifecycle, meet compliance requirements, and implement content management solutions. Microsoft SQL Server™ 2008 provides a flexible solution for storing unstructured data and combining it with relational data to build comprehensive solutions that encompass the full range of data across an organization.

http://www.microsoft.com/sql/techinfo/whitepapers/sql_2008_unstructured.mspx

Delivering Location Intelligence with Spatial Data

The growing ability of businesses and consumers to quickly absorb large volumes of data, together with the increased availability of digital maps and spatially-enabled applications has created an unprecedented opportunity to incorporate geographic factors into decision making processes and analysis. The new spatial support in Microsoft SQL Server™ 2008 can help you to make better decisions through visual analysis of location data that can be stored and manipulated in a SQL Server database.

http://www.microsoft.com/sql/techinfo/whitepapers/spatialdata.mspx

SQL Server 2008 Security Overview for Database Administrators

SQL Server 2008 is secure by design, default, and deployment. Microsoft is committed to communicating information about threats, countermeasures, and security enhancements as necessary to keep your data as secure as possible. This paper covers some of the most important security features in SQL Server 2008. It tells you how, as an administrator, you can install SQL Server securely and keep it that way even as applications and users make use of the data stored within.

http://www.microsoft.com/sql/techinfo/whitepapers/SQL2008_Sec_Overview.mspx

Server Consolidation with SQL Server 2008

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 supports multiple options for server consolidation, which provides organizations with the flexibility to choose the consolidation approach that best meets their requirements to centralize data services management and reduce hardware and maintenance costs. By providing centralized management, auditing, and monitoring capabilities, SQL Server 2008 makes it easy to manage multiple databases and data services, which significantly reduces administrative overheads in large enterprises. Finally, SQL Server 2008 provides the reassurance of industry-leading performance and scalability, and unprecedented control over server resource to maximize the performance of consolidated data services.

http://www.microsoft.com/sql/techinfo/whitepapers/sql_srv_consol.mspx

SQL Server 2005 Powers Global Forensic Data Security Tool

The Information Security team at Microsoft uses an internal tool called Information Security Consolidated Event Management (ICE 3.0) to gather forensic data from more than 85 proxy servers around the world. Powered by SQL Server 2005, the 27 TB data management system collects different types of global evidence, such as inbound and outbound e-mail traffic, Login events, and Web browsing, into a single database. ICE 3.0 provides rapid security analysis and queries, robust proxy performance analysis, and extensive troubleshooting functionality. Table level partitions allow event processing and database loading, without affecting the ongoing query activities and analysis work of security forensics engineers. Storage Area Networking (SANs) manage enterprise storage for ICE 3.0, and the service maintains an uptime of 99.9%. A controller application dynamically launches multiple instances of SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS), which seamlessly respond to changes in the volume of incoming evidence. The tool was redesigned in 2006 using SQL Server 2005. The SQL upgrade enhanced the data feed process, query response time, expanded the data retention period, and reduced manual data loading and data validations.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=a7dc6419-1dce-429e-bce0-007a62d5732a&DisplayLang=en

Microsoft Synchronization Services for ADO.NET Books Online

Synchronization Services lets you synchronize data from disparate sources over two-tier, N-tier, and service-based architectures. Instead of only replicating a database and its schema, the Synchronization Services application programming interface (API) provides a set of components to synchronize data between data services and a local store. Applications are increasingly used on mobile clients, such as portable computers and devices, that do not have a consistent or reliable network connection to a central server. It is important for these applications to work against a local copy of data on the client. Equally important is the need to synchronize the local copy of the data with a central server when a network connection is available. The Synchronization Services API is modeled after the ADO.NET data access APIs and gives you an intuitive way to synchronize data. It makes building applications for occasionally connected environments a logical extension of building applications where you can depend on a consistent network connection.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=02989f70-49aa-43d7-81b8-a651120f8d65&DisplayLang=en

Microsoft SQL Server Compact 3.5 Books Online and Samples

SQL Server Compact 3.5 Books Online provides in-depth information about the features of the product. In addition to the Books Online, the sample applications helps to ramp up quickly on SQL Server Compact technology and an easy way to build applications rapidly. For information about Microsoft Synchronization Services for ADO.Net v1.0 download the Books Online

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=1ff0529a-eb1f-4044-b4b7-40b00710f7b7&DisplayLang=en

Scale-Out Querying with Analysis Services Using SAN Snapshots

This SQL Server Best Practices white paper describes the use of virtual copy SAN snapshots in a load-balanced scalable querying environment for Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services to increase the number of concurrent queries to Analysis Services servers with a rapid response time per query. Load-balanced querying distributes the load of all queries among the available servers. The use of the virtual copy SAN snapshots eliminates the need to copy data between an Analysis Services processing server and one or more dedicated Analysis Services query servers. This paper supplements the Scale-Out Querying with Analysis Services white paper.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=7AC8E03D-BF1F-4733-93E0-BC0F6E567608&displaylang=en

Downloads

Microsoft Synchronization Services for ADO.NET v2.0 CTP1

Microsoft Synchronization Services for ADO.NET provides the ability to synchronize data from disparate sources over two-tier, N-tier, and service-based architectures. Rather than simply replicating a database and its schema, the Synchronization Services application programming interface (API) provides a set of components to synchronize data between data services and a local store. Applications are increasingly used on mobile clients, such as laptops and devices, that do not have a consistent or reliable network connection to a central server. It is crucial for these applications to work against a local copy of data on the client. Equally important is the need to synchronize the local copy of the data with a central server when a network connection is available. The Synchronization Services API, which is modeled after the ADO.NET data access APIs, gives you an intuitive way to synchronize data. It makes building applications for occasionally connected environments a logical extension of building applications where you can count on a consistent network connection.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=147c41a9-69f0-496e-b095-dbc5cffd6285&DisplayLang=en

Visual Studio 2005 Support for SQL Server 2008, Community Technology Preview

This CTP resolves a problem that when you try to open a database connection to SQL Server 2008 by using Visual Studio 2005 design tools, you may receive the following error message:
“This server version is not supported. Only servers up to Microsoft SQL Server 2005 are supported.”
This CTP addresses this issue, and enables the following Visual Studio functionality for SQL Server 2008 CTP5 :

Server Explorer successfully connects to SQL Server 2008, and database objects such as stored procedures and table data can be viewed and edited. Note that table schemas still cannot be viewed or edited in this release.
SQL CLR projects that target SQL Server 2008 CTP5 can be created and deployed to the server.
T-SQL and SQL CLR debugging are now enabled for SQL Server 2008 CTP5.
Data binding features in Client and Web Projects are enabled.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=e1109aef-1aa2-408d-aa0f-9df094f993bf&DisplayLang=en

Microsoft SQL Server 2005 MSIT Comprehensive Configuration Pack for Configuration Manager 2007

The Microsoft SQL Server 2005 MSIT Comprehensive Configuration Pack is designed to be used for managing the configuration of SQL 2005 servers. This configuration pack defines recommended configurations based on an extensive number of settings affecting the configuration of SQL 2005 servers in the Microsoft IT environment. A partial list of the included configuration items and settings can be obtained by downloading the Microsoft SQL Server 2005 MSIT Basic Configuration Pack and/or the Microsoft SQL Server 2005 MSIT Intermediate Configuration Pack. It is recommended that users begin by evaluating their configuration against the Basic configuration pack, and then progress to the Intermediate and Comprehensive configuration packs as desired configurations are verified.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=daca4a14-abcf-4a25-81bd-196282bbdde0&DisplayLang=en

Microsoft SQL Server 2005 MSIT Intermediate Configuration Pack for Configuration Manager 2007

The Microsoft SQL Server 2005 MSIT Intermediate Configuration Pack is designed to be used for managing the configuration of SQL 2005 servers. This configuration pack defines recommended configurations based on a substantial number of settings affecting the configuration of SQL 2005 servers in the Microsoft IT environment. A partial list of the included configuration items and settings can be obtained by downloading the Microsoft SQL Server 2005 MSIT Basic Configuration Pack; more extensive configuration items and settings can be obtained by downloading the Microsoft SQL Server 2005 MSIT Comprehensive Configuration Pack. It is recommended that users begin by evaluating their configuration against the Basic configuration pack, and ten progress to the Intermediate and Comprehensive configuration packs as desired configurations are verified.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=daca4a14-abcf-4a25-81bd-196282bbdde0&DisplayLang=en

Microsoft SQL Server 2005 MSIT Basic Configuration Pack for Configuration Manager 2007

The Microsoft SQL Server 2005 MSIT Basic Configuration Pack is designed to be used for managing the configuration of SQL 2005 servers. This configuration pack defines recommended configurations based on a limited number of settings affecting the configuration of SQL 2005 servers in the Microsoft IT environment. More extensive configuration items and settings can be obtained by downloading the Microsoft SQL Server 2005 MSIT Intermediate and Comprehensive Configuration Packs. It is recommended that users begin by evaluating their configuration against the Basic configuration pack, and then progress to the Intermediate and Comprehensive configuration packs as desired configurations are verified. Once imported into SCCM 2007, this configuration pack and its included configuration items can be targeted to collections of systems which are then audited for compliance with the recommended configurations. When settings are detected to be out of compliance, events will be generated and sent to the Configuration Manager server where the data is available for reporting.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=3718598e-ba03-4984-b7c6-be78377ab024&DisplayLang=en

SQL Server 2008 Books Online Community Technology Preview (November 2007)

SQL Server 2008, the next release of Microsoft SQL Server, provides a comprehensive data platform. Books Online is the primary documentation for SQL Server 2008. Download a pre-release preview of Books Online for SQL Server 2008. If you were looking for the latest released version of Books Online, visit the SQL Server 2005 Books Online page on the Microsoft Download Center. Note: This pre-release version of the SQL Server 2008 Books Online may contain topics that are empty, incomplete, or not up to date. Topics for new features may be missing and not all new or updated content has been reviewed for technical accuracy.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=19db0b42-a5b2-456f-9c5c-f295cdd58d7a&DisplayLang=en

Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Assessment Configuration Pack for Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)

The Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Assessment Configuration Pack for Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act was developed in conjunction with Brabeion Software, and contains suggested system configurations that map best practices and standards to the requirements of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. This configuration pack defines recommended configurations based on a number of settings-based configuration items, and assesses your system against the desired configuration. Once imported into SCCM 2007, this configuration pack and its included configuration items can be targeted to collections of systems which are then audited for compliance with the recommended configurations. When settings are detected to be out of compliance, events will be generated and sent to the Configuration Manager server where the data is available for reporting.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=312505ac-f51c-4642-9a36-78e6974bc5ee&DisplayLang=en

Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Assessment Configuration Pack for European Union Data Protection Directive (EUDPD)

The Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Assessment Configuration Pack for European Union Data Protection Directive was developed in conjunction with Brabeion Software, and contains suggested system configurations that map best practices and standards to the requirements of the European Union Data Protection Directive. This configuration pack defines recommended configurations based on a number of settings-based configuration items, and assesses your system against the desired configuration. Once imported into SCCM 2007, this configuration pack and its included configuration items can be targeted to collections of systems which are then audited for compliance with the recommended configurations. When settings are detected to be out of compliance, events will be generated and sent to the Configuration Manager server where the data is available for reporting.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=7050d56c-7e5a-479f-b94c-419ede535608&DisplayLang=en

Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Assessment Configuration Pack for Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA)

The Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Assessment Configuration Pack for Federal Information Security Management Act was developed in conjunction with Brabeion Software, and contains suggested system configurations that map best practices and standards to the requirements of the Federal Information Security Management Act. This configuration pack defines recommended configurations based on a number of settings-based configuration items, and assesses your system against the desired configuration. Once imported into SCCM 2007, this configuration pack and its included configuration items can be targeted to collections of systems which are then audited for compliance with the recommended configurations. When settings are detected to be out of compliance, events will be generated and sent to the Configuration Manager server where the data is available for reporting.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=14862939-4bb0-4e26-b43a-a5953b484239&DisplayLang=en

Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Assessment Configuration Pack for Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX)

The Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Assessment Configuration Pack for Sarbanes-Oxley Act was developed in conjunction with Brabeion Software, and contains suggested system configurations that map best practices and standards to the requirements of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. This configuration pack defines recommended configurations based on a number of settings-based configuration items, and assesses your system against the desired configuration. Once imported into SCCM 2007, this configuration pack and its included configuration items can be targeted to collections of systems which are then audited for compliance with the recommended configurations. When settings are detected to be out of compliance, events will be generated and sent to the Configuration Manager server where the data is available for reporting.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=976df931-a3cf-40e3-802e-3281b1451835&DisplayLang=en

Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Assessment Configuration Pack for Gramm-Leach Bliley Act (GLBA)

The Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Assessment Configuration Pack for Gramm-Leach Bliley Act was developed in conjunction with Brabeion Software, and contains suggested system configurations that map best practices and standards to the requirements of the Gramm-Leach Bliley Act. This configuration pack defines recommended configurations based on a number of settings-based configuration items, and assesses your system against the desired configuration. Once imported into SCCM 2007, this configuration pack and its included configuration items can be targeted to collections of systems which are then audited for compliance with the recommended configurations. When settings are detected to be out of compliance, events will be generated and sent to the Configuration Manager server where the data is available for reporting.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=fe3a2b70-4ac7-49ee-ba18-748133feead1&DisplayLang=en

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 CTP, November 2007

Microsoft SQL Server 2008, the next release of Microsoft SQL Server, provides a comprehensive data platform that is more secure, reliable, manageable and scalable for your mission critical applications, while enabling developers to create new applications that can store and consume any type of data on any device, and enabling all your users to make informed decisions with relevant insights.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=3bf4c5ca-b905-4ebc-8901-1d4c1d1da884&DisplayLang=en

Microsoft SQL Server Compact 3.5 and Microsoft Synchronization Services for ADO.Net v1.0 for Windows Desktop

SQL Server Compact 3.5 is a small footprint in-process database engine that allows developers to build robust applications for Windows Desktops and Mobile Devices. This download contains the files for SQL Server Compact 3.5 and Synchronization Services for ADO.Net v1.0 for Windows Desktop platform.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=7849b34f-67ab-481f-a5a5-4990597b0297&DisplayLang=en

Microsoft SQL Server Compact 3.5 for Windows Mobile

SQL Server Compact 3.5 for Devices Windows Installer contains the CAB files and DLL’s for installation on the Windows Mobile platform. When compared to its previous release, SQL Server Compact 3.5 includes a host of new features including the following:

Side-by-side installation together with SQL Server 2005 Compact Edition (version 3.1)
Support for newer and more secure encryption algorithms
Additional timestamp (rowversion) data type

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=38ed2670-a70a-43b3-87f3-7ab67b56cbf2&DisplayLang=en

ReportViewer Samples for Microsoft Visual Studio 2008

Visual Studio 2008 includes ReportViewer controls that you can use to add rich data reporting to Windows forms and ASP.NET applications. This download provides two complete samples so that you can view the control and sample reports in a finished application.

The RSSNewsReader sample is a Windows form application written in Visual C#. It retrieves data from live news feeds and presents that data in a report. The report demonstrates how to use parameters to filter the dataset.
The Web Log Analyzer is a Windows form application written in Visual Basic. It analyzes log files created by Web servers, such as Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS). It includes reports that show statistics on page hits, server activity, and referrals from other sites.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=8af004bd-ee06-43fa-a5b6-955689a66c84&DisplayLang=en

Microsoft SQL Server Compact 3.5 Server Tools

SQL Server Compact 3.5 Server Tools installs replication components on the IIS server enabling merge replication and remote data access (RDA) between SQL Server Compact 3.5 database on a Windows Desktop & Mobile devices and database servers running SQL Server 2005 and later versions of SQL Server 2005. This install is not required for Synchronization Services for ADO.NET
SQL Server Compact 3.5 Server Tools cannot be installed Side-by-Side on the same IIS server with previous versions of SQL Server 2005 Compact Edition Server Tools or with SQL Server 2005 Mobile Edition Server Tools. Using SQL Server Compact 3.5 Server Tools you can synchronize between SQL Server Compact 3.5 or SQL Server 2005 Compact Edition or SQL Server 2005 Mobile Edition versions of the client database and SQL Server 2005 and later versions of SQL Server 2005.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=b18327f3-96e1-415d-b037-9e0c46d49956&DisplayLang=en

Search Server 2008 Sample: Federated Search Connector Sample

Microsoft Search Server 2008 provides you with the ability to include items from content repositories that are not indexed by the search server’s crawler through federated locations. Search Server 2008 supports federating search from the local search index, as well as sites that support the OpenSearch 1.0 or 1.1 standard and returns search results in a structured XML format (for example, RSS or Atom results). To include federated search results from other types of content repositories, you must create a federated connector. When the repository does not expose a searchable XML feed, this federated connector must include an interface to expose results from the repository. The interface must support querying via OpenSearch and return XML formatted results.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=b59ea8c3-76e8-45df-947f-32a69c56b5cd&DisplayLang=en

Events / WebCasts

SQL 2005 Webcasts and Virtual Labs

SQL Server 2005 is data management and analysis software that delivers enhanced security, availability, and scalability to mission-critical data applications—while making them easier to develop, deploy, and manage. Choose from a wide range of live and on-demand webcasts. Or take part in a virtual lab, which allows you to cut your teeth on the new platform by experimenting with its different capabilities.

SQL Server 2005 Webcasts

TechNet Webcast: Prepare Yourself for Windows Server 2008 (Part 1 of 8): Product Workload Scenarios (Level 300) – Monday, December 03, 2007 9:30 AM Pacific Time (US & Canada)

In this first session of our series, we discuss how Windows Server 2008 addresses key deployment scenarios for customers. We start with an overview of the key product workload scenarios for Windows Server 2008. We cover as many as 10 different scenarios, and we discuss how each scenario can be categorized into one of three different design pillars. While examining the scenarios, we take a closer look at the specific technologies used within the scenario, describe how they are used, and explain why they are needed. We show which technologies comprise each scenario and the value propositions they deliver. Finally, we see how the scenario adds value to Windows Server 2008 and, in some cases, we provide real-world examples of usages for the scenario.

TechNet Webcast: Prepare Yourself for Windows Server 2008 (Part 1 of 8): Product Workload Scenarios (Level 300)

MSDN Webcast: New T-SQL Programmability Features in SQL Server 2008 (Level 300) – Tuesday, December 04, 2007 1:00 PM Pacific Time (US & Canada)

Join this webcast on new T-SQL programmability features in Microsoft SQL Server 2008, an extension from last year's presentation on top Microsoft SQL Server 2005 T-SQL features. We cover exciting new features such as:

New data types (i.e. date/time, filestream, HierarchyID, large UDT, sparse columns)
Dependency management for database objects
Procedure programming (i.e. table value parameter)
Data warehousing enhancements (i.e. Merge data manipulation language (DML) statement, grouping set, filtered indexing)
Supportability (i.e. Data Definition Language (DDL) trigger)
MSDN Webcast: New T-SQL Programmability Features in SQL Server 2008 (Level 300)

Momentum Webcast: Migrating from Access to SQL Server (Level 100) – Wednesday, December 05, 2007 11:00 AM Pacific Time (US & Canada)

Technical audiences currently using Microsoft Office Access will benefit from this tutorial on how to easily migrate databases from Microsoft Office Access 97 through Microsoft Office Access 2003 to Microsoft SQL Server 2005 using Microsoft SQL Server Migration Assistant (SSMA). In this webcast, Dmitry Balin, director of SQL Server marketing, explains different methods of upsizing Access applications to SQL Server (linked tables, Access projects , rewriting to the Microsoft .NET Framework) and shows how SQL Server Migration Assistant automates, streamlines, and simplifies this process. SSMA for Access converts Access database objects to SQL Server database objects, loads those objects into SQL Server, and then migrates data from Access to SQL Server. Dmitry also shares experiences from other customers who have benefited from using SSMA and SQL Server to improve their business processes.

Momentum Webcast: Migrating from Access to SQL Server (Level 100)

TechNet Webcast: Using the New Policy-Based Management Framework in SQL Server 2008 (Level 300) – Thursday, December 06, 2007 11:30 AM Pacific Time (US & Canada)

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 introduces a new policy-based framework for database administrators, which can significantly improve administrative productivity and reliability. Database administrators declare their administrative intent through policies that are then applied by the system. This approach reduces the potential for administrative error and enables the framework to monitor or enforce the policies in an automated fashion. Not only can policies be applied to individual databases or tables on a single server, but they can also seamlessly be scaled to include large collections of objects spanning many server instances.

TechNet Webcast: Using the New Policy-Based Management Framework in SQL Server 2008 (Level 300)

Momentum Webcast: SQL Server 2008 (Part 2 of 3): Expanding Business Intelligence Capabilities (Level 100) – Thursday, December 06, 2007 1:00 PM Pacific Time (US & Canada)

Join us for this second webcast in our three-part series on Microsoft SQL Server 2008 to learn all about its new features. SQL Server 2008 builds on the strong momentum in the business intelligence (BI) market by providing a scalable infrastructure that enables IT to drive BI throughout your organization and deliver intelligence where users want it. SQL Server 2008 makes great strides in data warehousing, providing a comprehensive and scalable platform that lets organizations integrate data into the data warehouse faster and to scale and manage that data while delivering insight to all users. With the more scalable BI infrastructure provided by SQL Server 2008, you can easily manage reports and analysis of any size or complexity, and at the same time, empower users through the deeper integration with Microsoft Office programs. SQL Server 2008 also delivers improved performance in many areas, including data warehousing, reporting, and analytics. Join us to learn how you can use SQL Server 2008 to get the right information to the right people in the right format on the right device.

Momentum Webcast: SQL Server 2008 (Part 2 of 3): Expanding Business Intelligence Capabilities (Level 100)

MCP Live Meeting: SQL Server 2008 and Your Microsoft Certifications (Session 1) – Wednesday, December 12, 2007 7:30 AM Pacific Time (US & Canada)

Join the Microsoft Certification team for guidance on your certification path for SQL Server. In this meeting, we will introduce our plans for SQL Server 2008 training and certification, review the SQL Server 2005 certifications, and answer your individual questions about the path that is right for you, in Business Intelligence, Database Development, or Database Administration.

MCP Live Meeting: SQL Server 2008 and Your Microsoft Certifications (Session 1)

Momentum Webcast: SQL Server 2008 (Part 3 of 3): Reducing Hardware and Maintenance Costs with Server Consolidation (Level 100) – Wednesday, December 12, 2007 11:00 AM Pacific Time (US & Canada)

Join us for this final webcast in our three-part series on Microsoft SQL Server 2008 to learn all about its new features. SQL Server 2008 can help reduce hardware and maintenance costs by providing a flexible server consolidation solution. Organizations can centralize data services on fewer servers through server virtualization and support for multiple service instances on a single physical server, along with the tools and functionality to migrate distributed data to a consolidated data center. By providing a centralized data services management interface and declarative, policy-based configuration management, SQL Server can make it easy for organizations with multiple data stores to reduce management overhead. Finally, the enhanced performance in SQL Server 2008 and the ability to explicitly control how your server resources are used enable you to consolidate your data services while providing the scalability and performance your applications need. Join us to learn how you can use SQL Server 2008 to get the right information to the right people in the right format on the right device.

Momentum Webcast: SQL Server 2008 (Part 3 of 3): Reducing Hardware and Maintenance Costs with Server Consolidation (Level 100)

TechNet Webcast: Microsoft SQL Server and FileMaker Pro 9 Interoperability (Level 200) – Wednesday, December 12, 2007 1:00 PM Pacific Time (US & Canada)

Microsoft SQL Server works seamlessly with FileMaker Pro version 9. FileMaker is more than database software; it is a rapid-application development environment that anyone can use to quickly create solutions for collecting, managing, and reporting data. Join this webcast to understand how developers can benefit from connecting FileMaker Pro 9 and Microsoft SQL Server. We also show a technology demonstration of FileMaker Pro 9 connecting with Microsoft SQL Server.

TechNet Webcast: Microsoft SQL Server and FileMaker Pro 9 Interoperability (Level 200)

MCP Live Meeting: SQL Server 2008 and Your Microsoft Certifications (Session 2) – Wednesday, December 12, 2007 5:00 PM Pacific Time (US & Canada)

MCP Live Meeting: SQL Server 2008 and Your Microsoft Certifications (Session 2)

Further on-demand webcasts are available here: http://www.microsoft.com/events/series/technetsqlserver2005.mspx

New KB’s

SQL Server 2000 Standard Edition

Error message when you insert data in an article that has automatic identity range handling enabled in a merge replication in SQL Server 2000: "The identity range managed by replication is full and must be updated by a replication agent"

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=939318

SQL Server 2005 Compact Edition

A file and some registry entries are missing when you upgrade SQL Server Compact 3.5 Beta to SQL Server Compact 3.5

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=945317

SQL Server 2005 Standard Edition

FIX: All later commands are ignored after the SQLDescribeParam function returns an error message in a SQL Server 2005-based application that uses the SQL Native Client ODBC provider

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=942704

FIX: You cannot bring the SQL Server group online in a cluster environment after you rename the virtual server name of the default instance of SQL Server 2005

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=934812

FIX: Error message on a Windows Vista-based computer when you try to query data from a column of the XML data type or from a variable of the XML data type in a SQL Server 2005: "Unexpected end of file has occurred"

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=941720

FIX: Error message when you create a WMI event alert by using the sp_add_alert stored procedure in SQL Server 2005: "The @wmi_query could not be executed in the @wmi_namespace provided"

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=944517

Error message when you connect to a named instance of SQL Server on a client computer that is running Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008: "Specified SQL server not found" or "Error Locating Server/Instance Specified"

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=944390

You cannot start the SQL Server Agent service of a failover cluster of SQL Server 2005 if the build of SQL Server build is 3179 or a later build

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=943525

FIX: A federated database server stops responding when you run parallel queries on a multiprocessor computer that uses NUMA architecture in SQL Server 2005

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=944902

Error message when an SSIS package runs that is scheduled to run as a SQL Server Agent job: "An OLE DB error has occurred. Error code: 0x80004005"

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=933835

SQL Server 2000 Analysis Services

Error message when you use the ADOMD.NET data provider in an application to connect to an instance of SQL Server 2000 Analysis Services: "The session, '<SessionID>', does not exist"

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=915837

SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services

FIX: The operation takes a long time to be completed when you process a partition that has proactive caching enabled in SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=935831

FIX: When you run an MDX query for the second time, the query does not run faster than the first time that you ran the query in SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=936262

You obtain no result set when you run an MDX query against an instance of SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=944527

FIX: SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services stops responding when you run an MDX query that references a measure of the double data type or a calculated member of the double data type

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=943526

SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services

FIX: The document map area of a SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services report may be blank when you view the report in Windows Internet Explorer 7

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=935227

FIX: You cannot open an Excel workbook that is exported from SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services on a Macintosh computer

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=944486

SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services

After you install Cumulative Update Package 4 for SQL Server 2005 SP2, time stamp information that is related to the RSPrintClient ActiveX control is logged in the report server log file

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=943285

FIX: Message when you click the Back button in Internet Explorer 7 to return to a SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services report that contains one or more DateTime parameters: "Report is being generated"

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=942662

December 2007 - Technical Rollup Mail - Internet

Justin Zarb — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 03:00:00 GMT

News

Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration Server

Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server TechCenter

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/isa/default.mspx

Please note that if you have feedback on documentation or wish to request new documents - email isadocs@microsoft.com

ForeFront Edge Security Forums at http://forums.microsoft.com/ForeFront/default.aspx?ForumGroupID=384&SiteID=41

Discuss ISA Server at the new Microsoft Forefront™ Edge Security forums, available at TechCenter

Internet Security and Acceleration Server Blog

The ISA Server Product Team Blog (http://blogs.technet.com/isablog/) is updated on a regular basis. Latest entries include:

Account lockout not working using UPN format to logon with forms-based authentication in ISA Server 2006

http://blogs.technet.com/isablog/archive/2007/11/28/account-lockout-not-working-using-upn-format-to-logon-with-forms-bases-authentication-in-isa-server-2006.aspx

Microsoft Internet information Server

RTM of FastCGI for IIS6

The IIS team is happy to announce that the RTM version of the FastCGI for IIS is now available for download at http://www.iis.net/downloads/default.aspx?tabid=34&g=6&i=1521 . FastCGI support on IIS6, which is a free download, opens up the Windows Server 2003 platform for hosting PHP and other...

Posted to Weblog by mailant on 11-12-2007, 6:42 PM

http://www.iis.net/downloads/default.aspx?tabid=34&g=6&i=1521

Official Release of FastCGI Extension for IIS6

Today at TechEd IT Forum in Barcelona , Bob Kelly announced the official release of the FastCGI Extension for IIS 6.0 . This means customers now have reliable, high-performance hosting for PHP and other CGI-based applications on production Windows servers with full support from Microsoft. The FastCGI...

Posted to Weblog by drobbins on 11-12-2007, 2:17 PM

http://blogs.iis.net/drobbins/archive/2007/11/12/official-release-of-fastcgi-extension-for-iis6.aspx

IIS7 in the Community...11/7/2007

The IIS7 community is growing! There have been a number of really cool things going on in the community around IIS7. Here are some of my favorites: New Web Control Panels for IIS7! I was very excited to see two new control panels for IIS7 hit the market this past month. ...

Posted to Weblog by bills on 11-07-2007, 5:32 PM

http://blogs.iis.net/bills/archive/2007/11/07/iis7-in-the-community-11-7-2007.aspx

Get The Latest Information at: http://www.iis.net

BizTalk Server

Voith Turbo

http://www.microsoft.com/casestudies/casestudy.aspx?casestudyid=4000001058

Queensland Department of Child Safety

http://www.microsoft.com/casestudies/casestudy.aspx?casestudyid=4000001013

Queensland Department of Child Safety

http://www.microsoft.com/casestudies/casestudy.aspx?casestudyid=4000001012

AROPE Insurance

http://www.microsoft.com/casestudies/casestudy.aspx?casestudyid=4000000971

City of Camden, New Jersey

http://www.microsoft.com/casestudies/casestudy.aspx?casestudyid=4000000941

Microsoft Internet Information Server

Sharepoint Technologies

Microsoft enterprise search products

To drive the features and technical requirements that match the needs of your organization, identify your key end-user scenarios. Know that relevancy is key, but the user experience is also important, because an unfamiliar, complex, or inconvenient user interface will be a barrier to adoption.

Give users efficient access to unstructured data, structured information, and expertise. A successful enterprise search solution helps to keep sensitive information secure, is easy to set up, administer, and manage, leaves room for scalability, and allows you to customize and extend your search experience.

http://www.microsoft.com/enterprisesearch/products.aspx

AKS Kit Released

The Accessibility Kit for SharePoint® (AKS) solution will help get you started on the road to Web accessibility with an accessible platform and framework from which to launch your portal or intranet site.

Microsoft in collaboration with HiSoftware developed and supports the Accessibility Kit for SharePoint® (AKS) along with a partner and customer community.

http://aks.hisoftware.com/index.html

Downloads

Sharepoint Technologies

SharePoint 2007 Solution Upload Manager

You can upload Sharepoint solutions from the central administration site, no stsadm command is necessary. As you know out-of-box UI does not allow admin’s to install a solution

http://www.codeplex.com/solutionUploader

Also See the links in the News section for download links to Search Server and the Accessibility Kit

BizTalk Server

ESB Guidance

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=1&SrcDisplayLang=en&SrcCategoryId=&SrcFamilyId=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3fFamilyID%3de3957253-24ce-45aa-ac32-60abffe15bac%26DisplayLang%3den

BizTalk Server 2006 R2 Evaluation

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=2&SrcDisplayLang=en&SrcCategoryId=&SrcFamilyId=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3fFamilyID%3d54ea1e0c-937a-45db-b51e-d0c602543ec8%26DisplayLang%3den

BizTalk Server 2006 Installation and Upgrade Guides

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=3&SrcDisplayLang=en&SrcCategoryId=&SrcFamilyId=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3fFamilyID%3db273269c-97e0-411d-8849-5a8070698e4a%26DisplayLang%3den

BTS ext for WF SDK

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=5&SrcDisplayLang=en&SrcCategoryId=&SrcFamilyId=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3fFamilyID%3db701c00f-cdc1-4edb-a975-b9412263ec6e%26DisplayLang%3den

Getting Started with HL7 v3 and BizTalk Server 2006

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=6&SrcDisplayLang=en&SrcCategoryId=&SrcFamilyId=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3fFamilyID%3dce84af68-35fc-4ded-b9f8-91feff05d8d0%26DisplayLang%3den

BizTalk Accelerator for SWIFT 2007 Message Pack

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=7&SrcDisplayLang=en&SrcCategoryId=&SrcFamilyId=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3fFamilyID%3d1c49149f-4b1a-4a2f-aab4-dcc0c09f90d3%26DisplayLang%3den

Fix for HIPAA Documents in EDI/AS2

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=8&SrcDisplayLang=en&SrcCategoryId=&SrcFamilyId=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3fFamilyID%3ded9c18f8-9842-4cbb-bd34-1fcd7d196900%26DisplayLang%3den

Events/WebCasts

SharePoint Technologies

Microsoft Webcasts - Designing collaboration solutions with InfoPath2007

Explore the new proposal for electronic form construction and publishing to improve collection of business information. Build a collaboration network between work teams thanks to InfoPath 2007 and the new SharePoint technologies in 2007 Microsoft Office system.

Time 10:00 am – 11:30 am (Trinidad & Tobago) 9:00 am - 10:30 am (Jamaica) .11/30/2007 9:00 AM Bogota- 11/30/2007 10:30 AM | Duration:90 Minutes

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032360506&culture=en-US

TechNet Webcast: System Center Data Protection Manager 2007 Overview (Level 200)

In November 2007 , Microsoft introduced Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager 2007, setting a new standard in Windows data protection and delivering continuous data protection for Microsoft SQL Server, Exchange Server, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server, and Windows file services using seamlessly integrated disk and tape. Join this webcast to be among the first to see the new features in System Center Data Protection Manager 2007, including protection of virtual servers, Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies, and Windows desktops, along with disaster recovery capabilities.

12/5/2007 9:30 AM Pacific Time (US & Canada)- 12/5/2007 11:00 AM | Duration:90 Minutes

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032355427&culture=en-US

ASP.NET and Silverlight

Silverlight 1.0 is released and promises a world of opportunity for providing rich user experience in web applications. This session explores on how you can integrate Silverlight into your ASP.NET Applications and also talks about how the upcoming version of ASP.NET has built in Silverlight controls that integrate well to provide great user experience.

12/4/2007 2:00 PM India- 12/4/2007 3:30 PM | Duration:90 Minutes

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032360235&culture=en-US

Momentum Webcast: Search, Share, Collaborate with SharePoint Server 2007 and Improve Your Business Productivity. (Level 100)

Find out how you can empower your people and partner organizations to work together more effectively at a special invitation-only event designed for small groups of business executives and technology decision makers and professionals. Join this webcast to: Learn from a leading Forrester Research analyst how businesses are using company-wide collaboration and search technologies to connect users, teams, and data in a more efficient and productive manner. Discover from Microsoft experts how Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 can help your organization: Derive increased business value from existing information assets by efficiently and securely finding, sharing, and managing information across boundaries. Get the right information to the right people with a familiar search interface for finding people, information, and business data based on user security permissions. Make better-informed decisions through simplified, enterprise-wide access to one consistent version of information and by streamlining shared business processes across people and business data. Provide IT professionals with a single, integrated, extensible platform for managing intranet, extranet, and Internet applications across the organization.

12/4/2007 11:00 AM Pacific Time (US & Canada)- 12/4/2007 12:00 PM | Duration:60 Minutes

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032358557&culture=en-US

Small Business Webcast: Run Your Business from Anywhere Using Small Business Server 2003 R2 and Window Mobile Solutions (Level 100)

If you run a small business, you do not stop working just because you leave the office. Join this webcast to learn how Windows Small Business Server 2003 R2 can help you stay productive, regardless of where your business takes you. Find out how you can access the documents, internal sites (Windows SharePoint Services), and business applications you need—when you want—from just about anywhere. Save time and make sharing easier with a central, secure location for all your data. Stay connected to your company and your customers with easy access to your e-mail (Microsoft Office Outlook Web Access), schedules, and contacts.

12/5/2007 11:00 AM Pacific Time (US & Canada)- 12/5/2007 11:45 AM | Duration:45 Minutes

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032352012&culture=en-US

TechNet Webcast: SAP Enterprise Portal and SharePoint Server Interoperability (Level 200)

In this webcast, we discuss SAP and Microsoft portal interoperability. We cover how you can integrate Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and SAP Netweaver Portal from front-end integration (iView, Web Services for Remote Portlets [WSRP], and URL linking) to integrate components and services across the portal (via Web Services, SAP Portal Development Kit for the Microsoft .NET Framework, and connectors). We explore approaches for interoperability based on search and the Business Data Catalog feature in SharePoint Server 2007. We also demonstrate the various types of solutions and describe how to approach portal integration. 1/22/2008 11:30 AM Pacific Time (US & Canada)- 1/22/2008 1:00 PM | Duration:90 Minutes

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032360821&culture=en-US

TechNet Webcast: Excel Services Technical Overview (Level 200)

In this webcast, we look at the new Excel Services, which is part of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. We show how Excel Services extends the capabilities of Microsoft Office Excel 2007 by allowing broad sharing of spreadsheets, in addition to improved manageability and security. Attend this session to learn how Excel Services enables you to reuse spreadsheet models through a scalable server-based calculation service and an interactive Web-based user interface. We illustrate how Excel Services provides a Web-based user interface for browser-based access and a Web services API for programmatic access, both of which have robust options for controlling what data is available to users and applications. Excel Services also takes advantage of the other capabilities of SharePoint Server 2007, including enterprise content management features like check-in/check-out, auditing, and versioning capabilities.

12/14/2007 1:00 PM Pacific Time (US & Canada)- 12/14/2007 2:30 PM | Duration:90 Minutes

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032318455&culture=en-US

TechNet Webcast: An In-Depth Look at SharePoint Server 2007 Search Technology (Level 200)

In this session, we review the new search features available in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. We look at the challenges IT professionals face when trying to support disparate information repositories, and we explain how SharePoint Server 2007 can help you address these issues. We also explore the other new features and the enhanced architecture of SharePoint Server 2007, including a look at some specific usage scenarios.

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032359951&culture=en-US

TechNet Webcast: Prepare Yourself for Windows Server 2008 (Part 8 of 8): Rights Management Services (Level 400)

In this last session of our series, we show some of the elements of Windows Server 2008 that enable the complete protection of documents and messages. Information Rights Management (IRM) is a growing concern for all sorts of organizations, and we outline common IRM needs and scenarios in this webcast. We first look at the new features of Active Directory Rights Management Services (AD RMS), and we explore the previous version of Microsoft Rights Management Services (RMS), in addition to the two service packs issued for it. We explain how to employ RMS with RMS-enabled applications, such as Microsoft Office Word documents, Microsoft Office Outlook e-mail messages, and a Microsoft Office SharePoint Server library. Finally, we describe how to extend the reach of IRM to users outside of your own Active Directory forest.

12/19/2007 8:00 AM Pacific Time (US & Canada)- 12/19/2007 9:30 AM | Duration:90 Minutes

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032359953&culture=en-US

Trade Compliance: Trading for Profit or Trading to Comply?

Want to learn more about how you can trade for profit without risking non-compliance? Register for a free webinar sponsored by Microsoft Corporation. Hear how Microsoft tools and its ecosystem of solution providers can help you meet regulatory compliance requirements. During this session, two of our partners, 17-a-4 and Asset Control (formerly TAP) will discuss how they have used the Microsoft tools to create exceptional software building blocks for trade compliance.

12/13/2007 12:00 PM Eastern Time (US & Canada)- 12/13/2007 1:00 PM | Duration:60 Minutes

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032355758&culture=en-US

IT Manager Webcast: Enabling Innovation Process Management Using the Microsoft EPM Solution and SharePoint Server 2007 (Level 100)

In today's fast-paced global economy, innovation is the key to the next big breakthrough in products, services, and processes. However, businesses are often challenged with facilitating innovation because of cultural, strategic, or logistical pitfal .

12/18/2007 11:00 AM Pacific Time (US & Canada)- 12/18/2007 12:00 PM | Duration:60 Minutes

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032359615&culture=en-US

TechNet Webcast: Driving Business Performance with Microsoft Business Intelligence (Level 200)

Many surveys today list business intelligence (BI) at the top of software spending priorities for companies of all sizes. Yet, despite the time, money, and resources aligned against the goal of making better business decisions, companies do not yet ...

1/14/2008 9:30 AM Pacific Time (US & Canada)- 1/14/2008 11:00 AM | Duration:90 Minutes

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032357210&culture=en-US

New KB’s

Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration Server

An update enables multicast operations for ISA Server integrated NLB

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/938550

When you publish a back-end ISA Server 2006 computer on a front-end ISA Server 2006 computer that faces the Internet, you cannot enable forms-based authentication on both computers

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/943214

You cannot filter the RPC traffic based on universally unique identifiers (UUID) by using an access rule in ISA Server 2006

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/943212

In ISA Server 2006, you cannot set a session time-out for private computers in a Web listener that has the RSA SecurID authentication method configured

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/941162

Description of the ISA Server 2006 hotfix package: October 7, 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/943215

Event ID 14079 is logged every 49.7 days on a Windows Server 2003-based computer that is running ISA Server 2004

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/944762

BizTalk Server

943382 FIX: An XML declaration is not added to an outgoing message when you use the BizTalk Framework Assembler pipeline component in BizTalk Server 2006

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;943382

943355 Event ID 0 is logged in the Application log when you use Microsoft BizTalk Adapter for Oracle Database on a 64-bit server

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;943355

943165 FIX: A CPU usage spike occurs on all the BizTalk hosts after you install security bulletin MS07-040 on a server that is running Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;943165

943052 FIX: Event 2020 occurs when you process EDI documents on a computer that is running BizTalk Server 2004

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;943052

942612 FIX: You may experience problems when you use a Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) adapter in Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006 R2

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;942612

941261 FIX: Event ID 5720 is logged when you specify the BTAHL72XPipeline pipeline in a send port in BizTalk Server 2006 R2

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;941261

939080 FIX: Error message when you use Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006 R2 to receive HIPAA messages

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;939080

933647 FIX: The tables in the BizTalkMsgBoxDb database may unexpectedly become larger after you install hotfix 927456 for Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;933647

921258 FIX: You experience inconsistent behavior when you submit a zero byte file to an FTP send adapter in BizTalk Server 2004

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;921258

893369 FIX: HL7 Interrogative transactions may take 10 or more seconds to complete when MLLP synchronizes communications end-to-end in BizTalk Server 2004

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;893369

842301 BizTalk Server 2006 and BizTalk Server 2004 supportability on a virtual machine

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;842301

SharePoint Technologies

Windows Sharepoint Services Version 3

You receive an HTTP 404 error message when you browse the SharePoint site collections after a hotfix package or a public update for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 is applied

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/944154

The 2007 Office documents are not found when you try to search for the documents in the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 site collection

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/944433

How to troubleshoot common errors that occur when you run the SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard on a computer that is running Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 or SharePoint Server 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/944267

Microsoft Sharepoint Portal Server 2003

SharePoint Portal Server 2003 cannot index a 2007 Office document or file

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/944445

Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server 2007

Error message when you try to configure the SSO service on a computer that is running SharePoint Server 2007: "Failed to connect to the database server"

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/944104

December 2007 - Technical Rollup Mail - Manageability

Justin Zarb — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 03:00:00 GMT

News

SCCM07 Virtual Hard Disk Program launches!

We are pleased to announce the release to web of the System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Virtual Hard Disk. Part of the Microsoft Virtual Hard Disk program, the Microsoft VHD format is the common virtualization file format that provides a uniform product support system, and provides more seamless manageability, security, reliability and cost-efficiency for customers. Download the VHDs and evaluate them for free in your own environment without the need for dedicated servers or complex installations. This free, 500 day time bombed fully configured virtual machine is available to the field, customers and partners and can be found at

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/bb738372.aspx

System Center Configuration Manager 2007 now available for purchase

Configuration Manager 2007 (ConfigMgr) – previously Systems Management Server (SMS) – is now available for purchase. Configuration Manager is an integral part of the Core IO model helping to improve your clients’ ability to more effectively manage and secure their desktop, server and remote infrastructures while optimizing their resources with minimal user-intervention. Some of the new features are:

· Desired Configuration Management

· OS Deployment & Mobile Device Management as integrated features (previously feature packs)

· Internet Based Client Management for management over the Internet of systems that rarely connect to the network

· Branch Distribution Points

· Network Access Protection (NAP) for Configuration Manager

In addition to the stand alone client and server MLs, System Center Configuration Manager 2007 is now offered as part of the Server Management Suite. This suite, which also includes System Center Operations Manager 2007, System Center Virtual Machine Manager and System Center Data Protection Manager 2007, enables unparalleled management of physical and virtual IT environments to cater to today’s dynamic IT infrastructures.

http://www.microsoft.com/systemcenter/configmgr/default.mspx

http://www.microsoft.com/systemcenter/designedforbig/

Tech Centers now available for System Centre products

A central point for all aspects of System Center products is now available. This includes links to:

· Webcasts

· Virtual Labs

· Downloads

· Community

· Documentation

· And much more...

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/configmgr/default.aspx

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/opsmgr/default.aspx

Manageability Team Blog

http://blogs.technet.com/smsandmom/default.aspx

Documents

System Centre Configuration Manager 2007 and Systems Management Server 2003

Managing Windows XP Embedded Systems with SMS 2003 sp3

This document describes the steps necessary to manage Windows XP Embedded Systems with SMS 2003 sp3.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=35d49075-6580-4348-b541-938523a65c5f&DisplayLang=en

Datacenter Optimization with System Center

Whitepaper outlining benefits of using latest System Center products to optimize the datacenter

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=8d39f1a2-b200-4aab-8ab1-d72c49a494e0&DisplayLang=en

SC Config Mgr 2007 Software Update Management Guidance - Migration from SMS 2003 ITMU

This whitepaper provides guidance on how to migrate software update management from Systems Management Server 2003 to System Center Configuration Manager 2007.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=5f7fc67a-a71c-4642-bea8-e739719e5001&DisplayLang=en

System Centre Operations Manager 2007

Operations Manager 2007 Performance and Scalability Whitepaper

This document describes performance and scalability guidelines to consider when planning a Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 deployment.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=a1b7610d-3dbe-4e51-bcb3-446d50dadf14&DisplayLang=en

Datacenter Optimization with System Center

Whitepaper outlining benefits of using latest System Center products to optimize the datacenter

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=8d39f1a2-b200-4aab-8ab1-d72c49a494e0&DisplayLang=en

System Center Operations Manager 2007 Documentation

This download contains documentation for System Center Operations Manager 2007.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=d826b836-59e5-4628-939e-2b852ed79859&DisplayLang=en

System Center Operations Manager 2007 Active Directory Management Pack Guide

This download contains the System Center Operations Manager 2007 Management Pack Guide for Active Directory.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=4b945737-e77f-4851-a11c-c4f79c36c360&DisplayLang=en

OpsMgr 2007 Key Concepts

This guide describes the key concepts required to understand Operations Manager. It describes modelling, how modelling is implemented in Operations Manager, and key changes between Operations Manager 2005 and 2007.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=3a633532-1dde-49b6-930f-7df50b69b77b&DisplayLang=en

Microsoft® System Center Data Protection Manager 2007 Management Pack Guide for Microsoft® Operations Manager 2005

This guide helps the user deploy and use the management pack for DPM 2007 on Microsoft Operations Manager 2005.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=bfcac113-ccfd-405d-b139-ad6663e69822&DisplayLang=en

System Center Data Protection Manager 2007 Management Pack Guide for Operations Manager 2007

This guide helps the user deploy and use the management pack for DPM 2007 on System Center Operations Manager 2007.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=81a7287d-4e55-499a-b7e3-4ea8cc992fb3&DisplayLang=en

Remote Operations Manager 2007 Deployment Guide

Best practices for deploying Remote Operations Manager 2007

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=4b621eb7-01bb-45f5-9a77-52853f06eec9&DisplayLang=en

Downloads

System Centre Configuration Manager 2007 and Systems Management Server 2003

System Center Configuration Manager 2007 RTM evaluation

Download the System Center Configuration Manager 2007 RTM evaluation here.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/bb736730.aspx

System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Documentation Library (November 2007)

Download an updated version of the documentation for Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007 for a computer running the Configuration Manager console.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=81997356-7f18-48b2-a53a-d6f995a47f35&DisplayLang=en

System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Toolkit

The ConfigMgr 2007 Toolkit contains 7 downloadable tools to help you manage and troubleshoot ConfigMgr 2007.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=948e477e-fd3b-4a09-9015-141683c7ad5f&DisplayLang=en

Configuration Manager 2007 Configuration Pack

This Configuration Pack helps track configuration compliance for your Configuration Manager 2007 site server roles, such as management points, distribution points, and software update points.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=45586f82-1816-4aeb-a0dc-ade1859820b9&DisplayLang=en

Configuration Manager 2007 Vulnerability Assessment Configuration Pack

This Configuration Pack helps track common software mis-configurations which might make client computers more vulnerable to attack.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=fc6989e9-68a3-43b1-8019-72bc1b9c5ff3&DisplayLang=en

Configuration Pack Catalogs

Over 30 Configuration Packs for DCM have been posted. Desired Configuration Management (DCM) is a feature in System Center Configuration Manager. With DCM, utilize Microsoft and third party best practice configuration knowledge to improve configuration definition and maintenance. Find the software you need to define configurations for your Microsoft and third party applications with Configuration Manager 2007.

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/scp/configmgr07.aspx

MS SMS 2003 SP3 Client.msi and *.msp rollup of fixes

This release addresses a number of Microsoft SMS 2003 SP3 client side fixes. A Brief explanation of these issues is included in the Overview section.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=999e116d-34e5-40aa-a8a0-937e1bdb382b&DisplayLang=en

System Centre Operations Manager and Microsoft Operations Manager

Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007 MP for Microsoft SC Ops Mgr 2007

The Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007 (ConfigMgr) Management Pack for System Center Operations Manager 2007. This Management Pack helps administrators manage and administer Configuration Manager 2007 servers.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=e4cd1a68-b6b6-483b-9663-be3be8484328&DisplayLang=en

QoE Monitoring Server Management Pack

QoE Monitoring Server Management Pack for MOM 2005 monitors the audio and video quality for Office Communications Server 2007 Server Enterprise Voice deployment.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=5dc8a545-3360-4997-bd37-08ee4d7083ff&DisplayLang=en

Essentials 2007 Product Tour

Standalone product tour for Essentials 2007

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=767506ad-aaa0-4a44-ab5a-c9e5e056132b&DisplayLang=en

Windows Server 2000/2003 OS Management Pack

Microsoft Windows Server 2000/2003 Operating System provides the fundamental monitoring basics for computers running the Windows Server 2000 and 2003 Operating System.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=3529d233-5e3e-4b51-8f66-5d6f27005ec3&DisplayLang=en

Print Server 2000/2003 MP for SC Ops Mgr 2007

Provides Print Server performance and health monitoring on Windows® 2000 and later Operating Systems. Requires OpsMgr 2007 MOM 2005 Backward Compatibility MP Update 6.0.5000.1 (or higher).

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=35d1fece-867b-4a0c-8642-57e84e327018&DisplayLang=en

Windows Server 2000/2003 DHCP MP for SCOM 2007

Collects events generated by the Microsoft Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol Service (DHCP) in Windows 2000 and Windows Server 2003. Ensures this critical part of your Windows infrastructure is working correctly, and helps prevent costly service outages.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=2694e87c-76e0-417b-ad0f-5897e46fff88&DisplayLang=en

SC VMM 2007 MP for MOM 2005

The Virtual Machine Manager Management Pack centrally monitors virtual environments managed by multiple VMM servers, monitoring availability of VMM and the VMM agents on hosts and library servers.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=fd03b1e6-d7a8-44b4-bc2f-676565d042c2&DisplayLang=en

Server Virtualization MP for SC Ops Mgr 2007

The Server Virtualization Management Pack monitors availability and health of virtual machines, their hosts, and all components of System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2007 (VMM).

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=de65b061-49bb-4619-9b2c-31d0f165221f&DisplayLang=en

Windows Domain Name System (DNS) 2000/2003 Management Pack

The Windows Domain Name System Management Pack monitors DNS events placed in the Windows 2000 and Windows Server 2003 system event logs, highlighting events that may indicate possible service outages or configuration problems, so you can quickly take corrective or preventative actions.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=633b718f-5fe8-47d5-a395-8203f8ec354f&DisplayLang=en

Office Communications Server 2007 MP for MOM 2005

The Office Communications Server 2007 Management Pack for MOM 2005 monitors the health of computers running Office Communications Server 2007 on Windows Server 2003

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=d04a9eb0-1f67-4535-b865-843621a1b16e&DisplayLang=en

Events/WebCasts

Microsoft System Center for Server Infrastructure Optimization

Date: Nov 29, 2007,Time: 9:30 AM PST

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032355552&EventCategory=5&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US

Optimizing Your Remote and Branch Office Infrastructure with Microsoft System Center

Date: Dec 4, 2007, Time:1:00 PM PST

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032358171&EventCategory=4&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US

Optimizing Desktop Management with SCCM07 and Microsoft SoftGrid Application Virtualization

Date: Dec 11, 2007 Time: 1:00 PM PST

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032358169&EventCategory=4&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US

Deploying and Upgrading to System Center Configuration Manager (Part 1 of 2) (Level 300)

Monday, December 3, 2007, 11:30 A.M.–1:00 P.M. Pacific Time

http://msevents.microsoft.com/cui/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032359933&EventCategory=4&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US

Deploying and Upgrading to System Center Configuration Manager (Part 2 of 2) (Level 300)

Tuesday, December 4, 2007, 11:30 A.M.–1:00 P.M. Pacific Time

http://msevents.microsoft.com/cui/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032359935&EventCategory=4&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US

Software Update Management with System Center Configuration Manager (Level 300)

Thursday, December 6, 2007, 1:00 P.M.–2:00 P.M. Pacific Time

http://msevents.microsoft.com/cui/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032356629&EventCategory=4&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US

Deploying Operating Systems with System Center Configuration Manager (Part 1 of 2) (Level 300)

Monday, December 10, 2007, 11:30 A.M.–1:00 P.M. Pacific Time

http://msevents.microsoft.com/cui/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032360204&EventCategory=4&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US

Software Distribution with System Center Configuration Manager (Level 300)

Thursday, December 13, 2007. 11:30 A.M.–12:30 P.M. Pacific Time

http://msevents.microsoft.com/cui/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032355812&EventCategory=4&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US

Deploying Operating Systems with System Center Configuration Manager (Part 2 of 2) (Level 300)

Friday, December 14, 2007. 11:30 A.M.–1:00 P.M. Pacific Time

http://msevents.microsoft.com/cui/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032360206&EventCategory=4&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US

Optimizing Desktop Management with System Center Configuration Manager and Microsoft SoftGrid Application Virtualization (Level 300)

Tuesday, January 15, 2008, 1:00 P.M.–2:00 P.M. Pacific Time

http://msevents.microsoft.com/cui/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032358169&EventCategory=4&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US

Virtualization Podcast Series

More information on the continuing Virtualization podcast series can be found at

http://www.microsoft.com/virtualization

December 2007 - Technical Rollup Mail - Security

Justin Zarb — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 03:00:00 GMT

News

Anywhere Access: Enabling More Secure Business in a Public World http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=7753667

Today's business leaders are putting a premium on providing "anywhere access," where employees, partners, and customers can securely share and access critical business information from any device and any location, on or off the network. Read the Yankee Group report on the trend toward "anywhere access" and learn how solutions from Microsoft can help realize this vision through increases in agility, productivity, and end-to-end data protection.

New Study on Data Protection and Role Collaboration Within Organizations http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=7753668

This new study sponsored by Microsoft and conducted by the Ponemon Institute examines the perceptions of three different groups of information stakeholders on how privacy and data protection risks are being managed in their organizations. The study is based on survey results collected in September 2007 from a highly experienced group of information security, privacy/compliance, and marketing executives from the public and private sectors.

Microsoft Security Intelligence Report, Volume 3 http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=7753669

The Microsoft Security Intelligence Report provides an in-depth view of recent trends that Microsoft has seen in software vulnerability disclosures, in malicious software, and in potentially unwanted software like spyware, adware, and the like. In the newest version of the report, which focuses on the trends observed in the first half of 2007, a new section on software vulnerability exploits has been added. Download a key findings summary, access the full report, and participate in related webcasts today.

MSDN Magazine: The Annual Security Issue http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=7753670

A "can't miss" for developers, this year's issue starts out with Michael Howard's discussion of some practical best practices he has learned over the past five years in building secure software at Microsoft. Other topics include techniques for integrating security-related activities -- both automated and manual -- more deeply into the existing development life cycle, concrete examples of automated integration, and deep dives into the different conditions that can cause your applications to fail and how each of those conditions may additionally create security vulnerabilities.

Security Watch: Windows BitLocker Drive Encryption and the Complexities of Trust http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=7753671

Mobile workers are constantly toting all sorts of confidential information all over the place -- trains and planes, restaurants and hotels, home offices and branch offices. The cost to a company for replacing a laptop is minor compared to the cost of dealing with confidential data that's been compromised. This TechNet Magazine article explores this topic and proposes that this is the security that Windows BitLocker Drive Encryption aims to provide.

Try the New Forefront Server Security Management Console http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=7844522

The new Microsoft Forefront Server Security Management Console is a Web-based console that centralizes configuration and operation, automates the download and distribution of signature and scan engine updates, and generates comprehensive reports. Trial software is now available in 11 languages.

Try the New Forefront Security for SharePoint with Service Pack 1 Now http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=7844523

Help protect your Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 collaboration environments with Microsoft Forefront Security for SharePoint with SP1.

Microsoft Security Bulletin Summary for Nov, 2007

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms07-nov.mspx

Search for previous security bulletins http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=3992478

Security Bulletin Feed http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=3992479 RSS http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=3992480

Documents

Security Tip of the Month: Anywhere Access and Mobile Security http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=7753672

By Chip Vollers, Sr. Product Manager, Microsoft Mobile Communications IT managers are looking for flexible, end-to-end solutions for single-point access of line-of-business applications and company data on mobile devices. These solutions must be designed for efficient control of devices while offering reliable, low-cost, and consistent manageability that works well with an enterprise's existing infrastructure. The following are a few key areas that IT professionals should consider when deploying mobile solutions.

Highly Secure Access Anywhere http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=7753673

In the Windows Server 2008 operating system, Microsoft greatly enhanced the in-the-box feature set of Terminal Services. This article focuses on the network and security design aspects of an anywhere-access solution, rather than on providing details on managing the Terminal Service components. It describes the methods and best practices for creating an anywhere-access solution based on the technology included with Windows Server 2008.

System Center Mobile Device Manager 2008 Technical Paper http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=7753674

Learn more about this new comprehensive security and device management solution for Windows Mobile devices, which helps you more easily manage devices within the enterprise and delivers a mobile-optimized virtual private network (VPN) for security-enhanced access to the corporate network.

Authentication Options for Mobile Devices http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=7753675

This article describes the complexities of authenticating mobile devices in relation to designing secure applications. Topics include Windows authentication, Microsoft Passport Network authentication, forms authentication, and authentication on devices that do not accept cookies.

Data Encryption Toolkit for Mobile PCs http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=7753676

The Data Encryption Toolkit for Mobile PCs shows you how to effectively use both the Encrypting File System and Windows BitLocker Drive Encryption across your organization. The Toolkit also provides you with software tools and scripts to help you centrally configure, deploy, and manage encryption settings on all your mobile PCs.

Enhancing the Security of a Device http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=7753677

These MSDN Library articles provide an overview of how to use the security services in Windows Embedded CE to create a device that is more secure.

Deploying Windows Mobile 6 Powered Devices with Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=7753678

This guide provides best practices and procedures for implementing a mobile messaging system with Windows Mobile 6 powered devices and Microsoft Exchange Server 2007. Topics include Exchange Server 2007, creating a protected communications environment, configuring Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server 2006 or a third-party firewall, and mobile device management and configuration.

Step-by-Step Guide to Deploying Windows Mobile Powered Devices with Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 SP2 http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=7753679

This guide begins by covering the essential elements of a mobile messaging system and then moves on to guidelines and resources for the deployment of a mobile messaging system, including setting up Microsoft ActiveSync technology for mobile access, creating a protected communications environment, and procedures for setting up and managing mobile devices.

Windows Mobile SSL Certificates: Configuring Security-Enhanced Communication on Exchange Server 2003 SP2 or Exchange Server 2007 with Windows Mobile Powered Devices http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=7753680

This paper describes how trust is established on the Web through certificate authorities, how digital certificates help establish that trust, and how Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) relies on certificates to function.

Exchange Server 2007 Security Guide http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=7753681

Written for IT administrators who are responsible for securing Exchange Server 2007 deployments, this guide is designed to help IT administrators understand and manage the overall security environment where Exchange Server 2007 is installed.

Configure VPN Remote Access with ISA Server 2006 http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=7753682

A virtual private network can provide improved connectivity and increased productivity -- and it doesn't need to be difficult to implement and manage. Find out how you can use ISA Server 2006 to address two common VPN scenarios.

Implementation Tips for the Sender ID Framework: Creating Your SPF Record http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=7753683

Follow this step-by-step guide to create your own Sender of Policy Framework (SPF) record, and receive other valuable tips for implementing the Sender ID Framework. This guide also describes the benefits of authenticated e-mail and of Sender ID implementation for both senders and recipients.

Windows Mobile Device Management and Security Solutions Guide http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=7753684

Because mobile devices share many of the same characteristics of desktop systems, there is growing interest in management solutions that can provide the same degree of assurance for asset management, inventory, and protection for mobile devices. Microsoft partners offer a wide range of solutions that provide device management and security functionality for Windows Mobile powered devices. This guide describes and categorizes these solutions.

Exchange 2007 Transport Permissions Model http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=7753685

This topic provides detailed information about the Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 transport permissions model as well as details about Transport Layer Security (TLS), domain security, and externally-secured authentication in Exchange 2007.

Downloads

Microsoft Identity Lifecycle Manager 2007 Feature Pack 1 Evaluation Edition

180-Day Evaluation

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=ee7233d8-b3c9-4bf5-a232-7abc58c9940a&DisplayLang=en

Microsoft® Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server 2004 Standard Edition Service Pack 3

ISA Server 2004 Standard Edition Service Pack 3 (SP3) provides the latest updates for ISA Server 2004 Standard Edition.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=a05a074a-5033-4792-af8b-58b90d841436&DisplayLang=en

2007 Microsoft Office Security Guide

The 2007 Microsoft Office Security Guide provides prescriptive Group Policy setting and security configuration recommendations to help strengthen the security of computers running the 2007 Microsoft Office release on computers that run Windows Vista or Windows XP in domain–based environments.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=a12eca33-a20d-45e2-895c-5e021f3ae4c5&DisplayLang=en

SQL Server 2005 Powers Global Forensic Data Security Tool

Find out how SQL Server 2005 powers a 27 TB data management system called ICE 3.0 that gathers forensic data from more than 85 Microsoft corporate proxy servers into a single database.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=a7dc6419-1dce-429e-bce0-007a62d5732a&DisplayLang=en

System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Vulnerability Assessment Configuration Pack

This Configuration Pack helps track common software mis-configurations which might make client computers more vulnerable to attack.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=fc6989e9-68a3-43b1-8019-72bc1b9c5ff3&DisplayLang=en

GPOAccelerator

The GPOAccelerator is a script that creates GPOs to deploy security settings for the 2007 Microsoft Office release, Windows Vista, and Windows XP in Active Directory environments.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=a46f1dbe-760c-4807-a82f-4f02ae3c97b0&DisplayLang=en

Windows Live OneCare Family Safety

Help protect your family and computer

Manage the Web sites your children can see and the people your children interact with online.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=d72654c5-765b-417f-b547-d1ba64bd6851&DisplayLang=en

Sender ID: "Implementation Tips for the Sender ID Framework—Creating Your SPF Record"

The print-ready brochure describes the benefits of authenticated e-mail and of Sender ID implementation to both senders and recipients.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=b7ce1cac-d884-4216-82fe-379f875663ff&DisplayLang=en

Microsoft Antigen for Exchange with Antigen Spam Manager with SP1 Trial Software

The Messaging Security Suite includes Antigen for Exchange, Antigen for SMTP Gateways, and Antigen Spam Manager, and provides server-level protection against the latest e-mail threats.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=866b63bf-6207-4197-9c5d-511b7212e40c&DisplayLang=en

Executive Summary of the current Security Threats

Join MS executives as they discuss the latest Security Intelligence Report (SIR) and the recent trends Microsoft has seen: software vulnerabilities, malicious software (malware), spyware, and the like. Learn what that means for your business and what actions you should take to protect your business.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=36ec0c8b-32fd-4b59-8032-80895ad58bbb&DisplayLang=en

Microsoft Antigen for SMTP Gateways with Antigen Spam Manager with SP1

The Messaging Security Suite includes Antigen for Exchange, Antigen for SMTP Gateways, and Antigen Spam Manager, and provides server-level protection against the latest e-mail threats.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=f5c547d4-d457-43fa-9174-c1ddf4476cf3&DisplayLang=en

Microsoft Forefront Server Security Management Console Log Purge

Forefront Server Security Management Console allows administrators to easily manage Forefront Security for Exchange Server, Forefront Security for SharePoint, and Microsoft Antigen.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=e5e6d7dc-e0b0-4387-9c28-c49b1ffe34d7&DisplayLang=en

Extended Security Update Inventory Tool

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

EST 2007 08 August 14 v3 Enterprise Scan Tool (standalone)

Enterprise Update Scan Tool (standalone version) for detecting needed security updates for August 2007 as described in MS07-043, MS07-047, MS07-049, and MS-07-050.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=b74700b7-4529-4978-9abe-a0c6e18ec089&DisplayLang=en

EST 2007 10 October 9 v2 Enterprise Scan Tool (standalone)

Enterprise Update Scan Tool (standalone version) for detecting needed security updates for October 2007 as described in MS07-056.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=744d6092-a928-45a2-b9aa-f5f8a628e083&DisplayLang=en

Microsoft® Windows® Malicious Software Removal Tool (KB890830)

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=ad724ae0-e72d-4f54-9ab3-75b8eb148356&DisplayLang=en

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

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=585d2bde-367f-495e-94e7-6349f4effc74&DisplayLang=en

Microsoft Office Live Meeting Service Security Guide

This guide provides an overview of the security considerations that you should make when you use the Live Meeting service, the Live Meeting security measures available to you, and the procedures for scheduling and conducting secure meetings.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=085c12d7-4c35-4774-bde0-6c9fa1fb1554&DisplayLang=en

Windows Live OneCare Firewall Repair Tool

This support tool is intended for customers whose OneCare firewall reports that it cannot install a required upgrade or cannot turn on the firewall.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=7ee728a2-3c67-4a12-8d7e-954e86233206&DisplayLang=en

November 2007 Security Releases ISO Image

This DVD5 ISO image file contains the security updates for Windows released on Windows Update on November 13th, 2007.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=ca311d3e-f4fb-4f79-825b-d5a81bb44376&DisplayLang=en

SQL Server 2005 Powers Global Forensic Data Security Tool

Find out how SQL Server 2005 powers a 27 TB data management system called ICE 3.0 that gathers forensic data from more than 85 Microsoft corporate proxy servers into a single database.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=a7dc6419-1dce-429e-bce0-007a62d5732a&DisplayLang=en

Microsoft IT Showcase: Information Security at Microsoft Overview

Discover the best practices and processes Microsoft IT uses to secure its network. Provides a brief overview of the many aspects of network security; including some of the technologies used to protect against viruses, unapproved access attempts and malicious attacks. Describes the threat analysis and business reasons why certain practices and procedures were put into action.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=e959f26c-1f5c-4331-b1fb-6c720795704d&DisplayLang=en

Events/WebCasts

Microsoft Security Webcast Series: Upcoming and On-Demand

Security Webcast Calendar http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=37910

Find security webcasts listed in an easy-to-use calendar format.

Upcoming Security Webcasts

http://www.microsoft.com/events/security/upcoming.mspx

Register for the following Webcasts on the link above

TechNet Webcast: Internet Security and Acceleration Server 2006 Technical Overview (Level 200)

Wednesday, December 12, 2007 9:30 A.M.-11:00 A.M. Pacific Time

TechNet Webcast: Information About Microsoft December Security Bulletins (Level 200)

Wednesday, December 12, 2007 11:00 A.M.-12:00 P.M. Pacific Time

TechNet Webcast: Prepare Yourself for Windows Server 2008 (Part 6 of 8): Network Access Protection Technical Overview (Level 300)

Friday, December 14, 2007 9:30 A.M.-11:00 A.M. Pacific Time

TechNet Webcast: ISA 2006 Firewall and Proxy Services (Level 200)

Wednesday, December 19, 2007 9:30 A.M.-11:00 A.M. Pacific Time

On-Demand Security Webcasts

http://www.microsoft.com/events/security/ondemand.mspx

December 2007 - Technical Rollup Mail - Unified Communications

Justin Zarb — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 03:00:00 GMT

News

Exchange Service Pack 1 Released

Exchange 2007 Service Pack 1 Released

http://www.microsoft.com/exchange/default.mspx

Exchange Team Blog

http://msexchangeteam.com/default.aspx

Outlook Team Blog

http://blogs.msdn.com/outlook/default.aspx

Unified Communications Team Blog

http://blogs.technet.com/uc/default.aspx

Downloads

Microsoft Forefront Security for Exchange Server Readme

Help protect your Exchange server from viruses and other malware.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=1&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d8ee79d42-63a6-4927-83f0-035d6a4a23b9%26displaylang%3den

Microsoft Forefront Security for Exchange Server with Service Pack 1

Help protect your Exchange server from viruses and other malware.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=2&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d2ceb14d4-404b-4d8f-8a21-ebfc71b2e82b%26displaylang%3den

Forefront Security for Exchange Server 10.1 Management Pack for MOM 2005

The Microsoft Forefront Security for Exchange Management Pack monitors Exchange Servers for virus and worm activity.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=3&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d1b4e7d52-c550-4dd7-a11f-2c4029b93451%26displaylang%3den

Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 SP1 Unified Messaging Language Packs

This download contains pre-recorded prompts and text to speech data for languages supported by Exchange unified messaging.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=4&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d18426838-7733-4712-8b98-d6d1fd8c2310%26displaylang%3den

Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1

The new capabilities of Exchange Server 2007 deliver the advanced protection your company demands, the anywhere access your people want, and the operational efficiency you need.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=5&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d44c66ad6-f185-4a1d-a9ab-473c1188954c%26displaylang%3den

Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 SP1 Unified Messaging Language Packs

This download contains pre-recorded prompts and text to speech data for languages supported by Exchange unified messaging.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=6&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d2b3e23a5-57b6-4a11-8954-f8025ea54bad%26displaylang%3den

Exchange Server 2007 SP1 SDK November 2007

This release of the Exchange 2007 SP1 Software Development Kit (SDK) Documentation and Samples provides new and updated documentation and samples for building applications that use Exchange 2007 SP1. Use this SDK to help you develop collaborative enterprise applications for Exchange 2007 SP1.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=7&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d190f71a4-7b5f-4a4c-99ba-9bd032e16e15%26displaylang%3den

Everyday Productivity Education Zip File

Navigate through the Microsoft Everyday Productivity Education (EPE) intranet site with this self-guided demonstration and review content that includes Get Started, Learn More, Best Practices, Selection and Reference guides.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=8&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3dcf57670c-b0ba-4075-b8c9-47cccb711a08%26displaylang%3den

Notes Compete - Garudafoods case study

Notes Compete - Garudafoods case study

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=9&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d9b300cc6-26bf-4cf7-a777-a0112ba81306%26displaylang%3den

Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 SP1 Release Notes

This download contains a stand-alone version of the Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 SP1 Release Notes.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=10&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d5770bd59-376e-42ec-b940-be6225cd97ff%26displaylang%3den

Exchange Server 2007 Design and Architecture at Microsoft

Ever wondered how a large enterprise plans and implements design and architecture of its next generation of messaging system? View this content to find out how the Microsoft IT messaging team will uncover these details.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=11&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d98c522bc-814a-421a-99c0-d964ed119c0d%26displaylang%3den

Exchange Server 2007 SP1 Beta 2 VHD

This download comes as a pre-configured VHD. This download enables you to evaluate Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 SP1 Beta 2.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=12&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3dbc381af4-9bd0-49dd-be1a-0c6ee49cd2bc%26displaylang%3den

Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 SP1 Help

This download contains a standalone version of Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 SP1 Help.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=13&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d5eb0f9a0-2c49-4f2a-8a09-b981ed667821%26displaylang%3den

Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1 Shell Help

This download contains the Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1 (SP1) version of the Exchange Management Shell Help.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=14&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d0e14dd15-bb52-4b3f-9756-5146179a0809%26displaylang%3den

Microsoft Transporter Suite for Lotus Domino

Microsoft Transporter Suite for Lotus Domino is used for interoperability and migration from Lotus Domino to Active Directory, Exchange Server 2007, and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=15&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d35fc4205-792b-4306-8e4b-0de9cce72172%26displaylang%3den

Planning, Deploying, and Managing Unified Messaging

The purpose of this document is to help you plan, deploy, and manage Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Unified Messaging servers.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=16&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d17f0bb1e-f43e-452b-9ff5-f9f77c6222e9%26displaylang%3den

Exchange Component Architecture Poster

This poster highlights the architecture and feature set of Microsoft Exchange Server 2007.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=17&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3dfdcdf6e5-de47-4b58-8086-282101bcdde9%26displaylang%3den

Exchange Server 2007 Deployment Checklist

To drive excellence in server deployments, the Exchange Messaging team within the Microsoft Information Technology (Microsoft IT) group relies on checklists to ensure consistency and completeness in carrying out deployment tasks, minimize deployment risks, and save time.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=18&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3dccec5f85-a810-4a85-acc7-927d216601f2%26displaylang%3den

Managing the Calendaring and Collaboration Process By Using Exchange Server 2007 Web Services

Understand how Microsoft used Exchange Server 2007 Web Services to create an automated and integrated communication and collaboration solution.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=19&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d72dc33e8-51f9-4850-b35e-9714b656a64b%26displaylang%3den

Everyday Productivity Education Zip File

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=1&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3dcf57670c-b0ba-4075-b8c9-47cccb711a08%26displaylang%3den

Microsoft Office Outlook Connector

With Microsoft Office Outlook Connector, you can use Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 or Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 to access and manage your Microsoft Windows Live Hotmail or Microsoft Office Live Mail accounts, including e-mail messages and contacts for free!

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=2&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d7aad7e6a-931e-438a-950c-5e9ea66322d4%26displaylang%3den

Outlook 2007 Sample: Outlook 2007 Auxiliary Reference Code Samples

This download accompanies the Outlook 2007 Auxiliary Reference documentation. It contains three sample projects, a header file, and a redistributable installer that third-party calendar rebasing tools can use to programmatically update calendars displayed incorrectly due to Daylight Saving Time.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=3&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3dee0af8fd-bbb7-44de-be4d-f33cb1b59563%26displaylang%3den

Update for Outlook Junk Email Filter 2003 (KB943552)

This update provides the Junk E-mail Filter in Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 with a more current definition of which e-mail messages should be considered junk e-mail. This update was released in November 2007.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=4&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d079995ff-58a1-410a-97a1-52016ff9d5af%26displaylang%3den

Update for Outlook Junk Email Filter 2007 (KB943559)

This update provides the Junk E-mail Filter in Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 with a more current definition of which e-mail messages should be considered junk e-mail. This update was released in November 2007.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=5&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d85fce923-85d4-4630-adfd-f9d95a25b7d3%26displaylang%3den

Office Security Guide

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=6&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3da12eca33-a20d-45e2-895c-5e021f3ae4c5%26displaylang%3den

Microsoft Dynamics CRM clients for Outlook Compatibility Update (Service Provider Edition)

This update to Microsoft Dynamics CRM clients for Outlook (for the Service Provider Edition of Microsoft Dynamics CRM) provides support for Windows Vista-based and Microsoft Office 2007-based systems.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=7&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3dfdf88e7d-395f-46c3-bcd8-f3d70dc2cd30%26displaylang%3den

Office Communications Server 2007 QoE Monitoring Server Release Notes

This document contains important information that you should know before you deploy and use the Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007, QoE Monitoring Server.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=1&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3da0ab9a8a-7b58-4e8e-a2b9-c3574535f558%26displaylang%3den

Office Communications Server 2007 Document: Backup and Restoration Guide

This document provides information to help you backup and restore service in your Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 infrastructure.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=2&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d5c6e6ac7-079a-4326-b517-3c117fadb44e%26displaylang%3den

Office Communications Server 2007 Document: Administration Guide

This document provides explains how to administer Office Communications Server 2007.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=3&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3dcb7dc2de-4504-484e-9229-bd8614be0633%26displaylang%3den

Microsoft Office Communicator 2007 Presence Controls

The Microsoft Office Communicator 2007 Presence Controls use the automation interfaces of Microsoft Office Communicator 2007 to show presence information using Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=4&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d25a27453-15ff-48ab-af1b-692cd77ab510%26displaylang%3den

Live Meeting Service Portal v8.0 Release Notes

Refer to this file for information regarding known issues about the Microsoft Office Live Meeting Service Portal.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=5&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d2a94df8c-1a6d-42ec-942d-162bc5b30b31%26displaylang%3den

Unified Communications API Roadmap

Unified Communications API Roadmap describes the APIs that can be used in Unified Communications development and provides links to the SDKs or documentation for these APIs.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=6&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d3017406b-79eb-45da-9da7-3e71580ca1ea%26displaylang%3den

Log Analysis and Tuning Using Analytics and Tuning Studio

This whitepaper discusses using Analytics and Tuning Studio, which is included in Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 Speech Server. Topics covered include an overview of analysis and tuning scenarios, a summary of trace logging configurations, application development decisions that impact application tuning, and best practices for speech application tuning. This paper also describes how t

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=7&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d3c841d2e-5748-4b4d-83c1-69b33e9813ca%26displaylang%3den

Office Communications Server 2007 QoE Monitoring Server Guide

The document presents the step-by-step tasks that you need to complete in order to deploy your Office Communications Server 2007, Quality of Experience Monitoring Server, and to monitor the media quality of experience for your Office Communications Server 2007 deployment.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=8&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d9ed29d74-3391-4902-bf2c-6757410f3335%26displaylang%3den

Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 Update Service Deployment Guide

This document describes how to administer Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 Software Update Service.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=9&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d44942fc8-ec64-4729-afba-a1637cc3ae3c%26displaylang%3den

Office Communications Server 2007 QoE Monitoring Server Audio and Video Metrics Processing Guide

The Office Communications Server 2007 Quality of Experience (QoE) Monitoring Server Audio and Video Processing Guide provides you the information you need to deploy your custom solution and process the data that is collected by the QoE Monitoring Server.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=10&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3daafea9a7-ebf0-4171-b33f-4d9f0c135334%26displaylang%3den

Office Communications Server 2007 Document: Technical Reference

This document provides in-depth technical information on the components, protocol and architecture of Office Communications Server.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=11&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d959cb709-d81e-4dde-821f-0411dfcfc073%26displaylang%3den

Office Communications Server 2007 Quality of Experience Monitoring Server

Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007, Quality of Experience (QoE) Monitoring Server enables you to perform near real-time monitoring and service assessment of unified communications media.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=12&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d09115944-625f-460b-b09c-51e3c96e9f7e%26displaylang%3den

Office Communicator 2007 Get Started

Use Office Communicator 2007 to communicate securely with your Microsoft Exchange, MSN, AOL, and Yahoo! contacts.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=1&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d93cef8f5-9f72-4ebe-b1f6-b3d1872d8dcc%26displaylang%3den

Office Communicator 2007 Learn More

Conduct audio and video meetings, communicate with entire distribution groups, embed rich text in instant messages, and much more.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=2&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3dd1330875-fc5f-4047-8bc2-cbc406cb8ead%26displaylang%3den

Microsoft Office Communicator 2007 Phone Edition Readme

This release note assists you with late changes and minor issues

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=5&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d934d503f-6f3f-4253-bb6a-827f21aa61ec%26displaylang%3den

Microsoft Office Communicator 2007 Hotfix KB 944686

This download contains an update for Microsoft Office Communicator 2007.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=6&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d1ad57f8f-78f7-45f6-a8c0-805936f46645%26displaylang%3den

Unified Communications API Roadmap

Unified Communications API Roadmap describes the APIs that can be used in Unified Communications development and provides links to the SDKs or documentation for these APIs.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=7&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d3017406b-79eb-45da-9da7-3e71580ca1ea%26displaylang%3den

Office Communications Server 2007 Document: Technical Reference

This document provides in-depth technical information on the components, protocol and architecture of Office Communications Server.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=10&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d959cb709-d81e-4dde-821f-0411dfcfc073%26displaylang%3den

Office Communications Server 2007 Quality of Experience Monitoring Server

Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007, Quality of Experience (QoE) Monitoring Server enables you to perform near real-time monitoring and service assessment of unified communications media.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=11&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d09115944-625f-460b-b09c-51e3c96e9f7e%26displaylang%3den

Microsoft Office Communicator 2007 Phone Edition Readme

This release note assists you with late changes and minor issues

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=1&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d934d503f-6f3f-4253-bb6a-827f21aa61ec%26displaylang%3den

Microsoft Office Live Meeting Service Security Guide

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=2&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d085c12d7-4c35-4774-bde0-6c9fa1fb1554%26displaylang%3den

Live Meeting Service Portal v8.0 Release Notes

Refer to this file for information regarding known issues about the Microsoft Office Live Meeting Service Portal.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=3&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d2a94df8c-1a6d-42ec-942d-162bc5b30b31%26displaylang%3den

Unified Communications API Roadmap

Unified Communications API Roadmap describes the APIs that can be used in Unified Communications development and provides links to the SDKs or documentation for these APIs.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=4&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d3017406b-79eb-45da-9da7-3e71580ca1ea%26displaylang%3den

Live Meeting Service Portal API Documentation

The Microsoft Office Live Meeting Service Portal API enables automated management of Live Meeting accounts using a Web application.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=5&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d0dd2e71d-e726-4ece-afd3-f4a4b5049726%26displaylang%3den

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

This guide helps administrators deploy the Microsoft Office Live Meeting 2007 Lotus Notes Add-In.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=6&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d16b06f6d-171f-47f1-8838-b6752cb79538%26displaylang%3den

Events/Webcasts

05 December 2007 : TechNet Webcast: Disaster Recovery in Exchange Server 2007 (Level 200)

In this session, we talk about disaster recovery in Microsoft Exchange Server 2007. We discuss how you can plan for disaster recovery by understanding what can go wrong with your Exchange Server-based servers and the information they store and handle. We look at server roles, what each server role does, and what will happen to your Exchange Server organization when a server role fails. When a disaster occurs, you need to get the server up and running as quickly as possible, so during the session, we also look at the tools and recovery solutions available.

http://www.microsoft.com/events/EventDetails.aspx?CMTYSvcSource=MSCOMMedia&Params=%7eCMTYDataSvcParams%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22ID%22+Value%3d%221032359939%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22ProviderID%22+Value%3d%22A6B43178-497C-4225-BA42-DF595171F04C%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22lang%22+Value%3d%22en%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22cr%22+Value%3d%22US%22%2f%5e%7esParams%5e%7e%2fsParams%5e%7e%2fCMTYDataSvcParams%5e

06 December 2007 : Momentum Webcast: How Microsoft Can Provide E-mail Security, Compliance, and Availability (Level 100)

Electronic messaging is mission critical to all businesses. Despite best efforts to secure the e-mail gateway, critical messaging systems remain vulnerable to an ever-increasing barrage of threats. Viruses, worms, denial-of-series (DoS) attacks, and spam can zap business productivity, or worse, stop your business in its tracks. If you have already deployed an antispam/antivirus solution at your gateway, you are likely aware:

How time consuming it is to manage.

How much additional hardware investment you need to make to keep up with the ever increasing volume of threats.

If you are tired of playing catch up with gateway security, come learn how the experts can eliminate those threats in the Internet cloud so you can get back to business. In addition to gateway security, there is an ongoing need to satisfy a growing set of government regulations and legal actions that make effective message management more and more challenging. The Microsoft Exchange Hosted Services portfolio of managed services that helps organizations protect themselves from spam, viruses, and other unwanted content also helps ensure continuous access to e-mail during and after emergency situations (Exchange Hosted Continuity), meet message retention requirements for compliance (Exchange Hosted Archive), and ensure private transmission of confidential data contained in e-mail (Exchange Hosted Encryption). In this webcast, you learn:

How to protect your e-mail infrastructure while keeping your overhead costs down.

How to provide 24x7 availability to your corporate e-mail during disasters and planned outages without additional software or hardware.

What is needed to meet upcoming regulatory requirements (such as Federal Rules of Civil Procedure [FRCP], Sarbanes-Oxley [SOX] Act, Security Exchange Commission [SEC] Rule 17a-4, National Association of Securities Dealers [NASD] Rule 3010, and Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act [HIPAA]).

The value of using a managed service for archiving, indexing, and retrieval of your companyâ€™s e-mail and instant messages.

Why archiving e-mail makes good business and legal senseâ€”even if your company is not publicly traded and bound by regulations.

http://www.microsoft.com/events/EventDetails.aspx?CMTYSvcSource=MSCOMMedia&Params=%7eCMTYDataSvcParams%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22ID%22+Value%3d%221032355609%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22ProviderID%22+Value%3d%22A6B43178-497C-4225-BA42-DF595171F04C%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22lang%22+Value%3d%22en%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22cr%22+Value%3d%22US%22%2f%5e%7esParams%5e%7e%2fsParams%5e%7e%2fCMTYDataSvcParams%5e

14 December 2007 : TechNet Webcast: Microsoft Exchange Troubleshooting Assistant (Level 200)

This webcast includes a brief demonstration on the usage and capabilities of the Microsoft Exchange Troubleshooting Assistant (formerly known as the Microsoft Exchange Server Disaster Recovery Analyzer). This suite of tools is also available in the Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Management Console toolbox. We provide a walkthrough of the recovery storage group options available from within the tool. We demonstrate setting up a new recovery storage group, adding databases to this it, mounting these databases from within the tool, and merging mailbox contents. Additionally, we show the database repair functionality of the tool, and also include a question and answer session and the chance to provide feedback and suggestions.

http://www.microsoft.com/events/EventDetails.aspx?CMTYSvcSource=MSCOMMedia&Params=%7eCMTYDataSvcParams%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22ID%22+Value%3d%221032359204%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22ProviderID%22+Value%3d%22A6B43178-497C-4225-BA42-DF595171F04C%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22lang%22+Value%3d%22en%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22cr%22+Value%3d%22US%22%2f%5e%7esParams%5e%7e%2fsParams%5e%7e%2fCMTYDataSvcParams%5e

Worshops/Soundbytes

17 December 2007 : Soundbyte : Exchange 2007 Autodiscover

09 January 2007 : Workshop : Exchange 2007 Upgrade & Migration

22 January 2007 : Workshop : Exchange 2007 Upgrade & Migration

New KB's

We recommend that you change the garbage collector mode to "Server GC" when you install the .NET Framework 1.1 Service Pack 1 on a computer that is running Antigen 8.0 for IM

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=943619

File transfer operations are unsuccessful among instant messaging clients after you install Antigen 8.0 for IM

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=943622

Hotfixes that are included in Antigen 9.0 Service Pack 1 Beta

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=943623

Antigen or Microsoft Forefront server security products may detect a file as being infected with the UnwritableCompressedFile virus

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=943625

You receive a read receipt that contains incorrect time information from Exchange 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=940259

Non-English characters in the subject of an e-mail message are replaced with question marks when the message is received in Outlook 2003 in an Exchange 2007 organization

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=940710

Error message when you try to install Exchange Server 2007: "[ERROR] Access to the path '<Drive_Letter>:\Setup\ServerRoles\Common\64' is denied"

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=943507

You cannot find IMAP4 folders that you created in an Exchange Server 2007 environment when you use OWA 2007 Light to access your Inbox

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=941552

The Microsoft Exchange Information Store service stops unexpectedly for several minutes when you restart a computer that is running Exchange Server 2003

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=943193

A user has an e-mail address of <cn>@domain.com instead of <mailnickname>@domain.com when you create multiple users in Exchange 2003

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=942113

It takes a long time for Outlook Web Access clients to receive a response from a front-end server in an Exchange 2003 environment

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=940613

Hosted users can see other hosted users if they can access the HMC Active Directory by using LDAP tools in Microsoft Solution for Hosted Messaging and Collaboration version 4.0

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=943864

How to manually uninstall Antigen 9.0 for Exchange in a clustered environment

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=943618

Support information for Antigen or Forefront Security management console programs on a computer on which an Antigen server product or a Forefront Security server product is installed

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=943624

Antigen 9.0 Service Pack 1 now supports 2007 Office file formats

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=943609

Display names that contain DBCS characters in the To box and in the Cc box are corrupted when you access a mailbox on an Exchange 2003 server

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=926979

Inline attachments are converted to inline hyperlinks in an RTF e-mail message that is sent from an Exchange 2007 organization

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=940329

The MOM server reports error 20003 when monitoring Exchange Server 2003-based front-end servers that have security update MS07-040 applied

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=943511

List of fixes that are included in the Web releases of the Exchange Server 2003 Notes Tools suite, versions 2.7 through 2.14

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=939076

Description of the Outlook 2002 post-Service Pack 3 hotfix package for daylight saving time changes in 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=943879

The attachment is missing when you use Outlook to view an e-mail message in Exchange Server 2003

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=943617

The Antigen Internet Scan job times out, and the performance of the Exchange server decreases when you use Antigen 8.0 for Microsoft Exchange

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=940544

Antigen 9.0 for Exchange sends two notifications for each detection when you enable message journaling in Exchange Server

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=943629

The W3wp.exe process uses almost 100 percent of CPU resources when you synchronize large e-mail messages in Exchange 2003 Service Pack 2

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=941439

A stub object is left behind in the source database for certain users after a move mailbox operation is complete in Exchange 2003 Service Pack 2

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=940012

The Store.exe process stops responding on an Exchange 2003 Service Pack 2 server

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=944254

Description of the Outlook 2003 Junk E-mail Filter update: November 13, 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=943552

Description of the Outlook 2007 Junk E-mail Filter update: November 13, 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=943559

The default e-mail client is changed to Outlook 2007 after you install the 2007 Office system

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=944290

December 2007 - Technical Rollup Mail - Platforms

Justin Zarb — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 03:00:00 GMT

News

Microsoft outlines pricing, packaging and licensing for Windows Server 2008, Including the new Microsoft Hyper-V Server product.

http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2007/nov07/11-12HyperVPR.mspx

Microsoft announces new virtualization offerings, Windows Server 2008 details, System Center product availability at TechEd IT Forum 2007

http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2007/nov07/11-12ITForumPR.mspx

Solution Accelerators

Take the guesswork out of your deployments. Use these tested and proven automation tools and guides to assess your network and confidently roll out new services employing architectures with baked-in security and manageability.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/solutionaccelerators/default.aspx

The TechNet Team have launched Technet Edge, a new community site where IT professionals can go to get the inside scoop on the latest and greatest technologies.

http://edge.technet.com/Default.aspx

Introducing Microsoft Search Server 2008

http://www.microsoft.com/enterprisesearch/serverproducts/searchserver/default.aspx

A successful enterprise search solution gives users efficient access to unstructured data, structured information, and expertise. It helps keep sensitive information secure; is easy to set up, administer, and manage; leaves room for scalability; and allows you to customize and extend your search experience. Search doesn’t have to be complicated. You can deliver it to your organization quickly and easily with Microsoft Search Server 2008

Download the Express Edition Free: http://www.microsoft.com/enterprisesearch/serverproducts/searchserverexpress/download.aspx

Microsoft Unveils Windows HPC Server 2008

The first public beta of Microsoft Windows HPC Server 2008, a server operating system and tools designed for the fast-growing high performance computing (HPC) market has been released.

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/ccs/hpcplus.aspx

Documents

Infrastructure Planning and Design

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.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=5&SrcDisplayLang=en&SrcCategoryId=&SrcFamilyId=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3fFamilyID%3dad3921fb-8224-4681-9064-075fdf042b0c%26DisplayLang%3den

Planning a Virtual Machine Manager 2007 Deployment

This content provides an introduction to System Center Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) 2007 and practical guidance for planning a VMM deployment.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=15&SrcDisplayLang=en&SrcCategoryId=&SrcFamilyId=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3fFamilyID%3d3e674bc0-bb85-47ae-b73d-f5bc515f1006%26DisplayLang%3den

Installing and Configuring Virtual Machine Manager 2007

This content provides information about installing and configuring Virtual Machine Manager (VMM), with all VMM components installed on a single computer or with each VMM component installed on separate computers. This content also provides step-by-step instructions for uninstalling VMM and reinstalling VMM with a database retained from a previous installation.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=23&SrcDisplayLang=en&SrcCategoryId=&SrcFamilyId=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3fFamilyID%3d8b09bc46-1a34-450b-86f3-a574602b6450%26DisplayLang%3den

Windows HPC Server 2008 Technical Overview

Read about benefits and features of Windows HPC Server 2008, the successor to Windows Computer Cluster Server 2003
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=25&SrcDisplayLang=en&SrcCategoryId=&SrcFamilyId=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3fFamilyID%3d7a4544f0-81f2-4778-8a59-35c43ba49875%26DisplayLang%3den

Windows Server 2008 Developer Story

An executable containing the Windows Server 2008 Developer Story
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=31&SrcDisplayLang=en&SrcCategoryId=&SrcFamilyId=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3fFamilyID%3d056bb5f7-65ff-4c42-bdae-65754d96b021%26DisplayLang%3den

Line of Business Client Application Compatibility Testing at Microsoft

Provides an overview of the Microsoft IT Client Application Compatibility Testing Program.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=50&SrcDisplayLang=en&SrcCategoryId=&SrcFamilyId=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3fFamilyID%3da24c396c-69ec-45ca-aed6-d5ec038dfd76%26DisplayLang%3den

Downloads

System Center Trial Software

Evaluate the capabilities of the Microsoft System Center family of products with these downloadable trial and Beta software versions:

http://www.microsoft.com/systemcenter/evaluation/trial/default.mspx

Microsoft Deployment

Microsoft Deployment is the next version of Business Desktop Deployment (BDD) 2007. It is the recommended process and toolset to automate desktop and server deployment. Microsoft Deployment provides detailed guidance and job aids for every organizational role involved with large-scale deployment projects.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=1&SrcDisplayLang=en&SrcCategoryId=&SrcFamilyId=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3fFamilyID%3d3bd8561f-77ac-4400-a0c1-fe871c461a89%26DisplayLang%3den

Windows PowerShell 2.0 CTP

Windows PowerShell 2.0 CTP introduces several significant features to Windows PowerShell 1.0 that extends its use, improves its usability, and allows you to control and manage the Windows environment more easily and comprehensively.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=3&SrcDisplayLang=en&SrcCategoryId=&SrcFamilyId=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3fFamilyID%3d60deac2b-975b-41e6-9fa0-c2fd6aa6bc89%26DisplayLang%3den

FastCGI Extension

The FastCGI Extension for Internet Information Services (IIS) 6.0 enables popular application frameworks (such as PHP) to be hosted on the IIS web server in a high-performance and reliable way.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=7&SrcDisplayLang=en&SrcCategoryId=&SrcFamilyId=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3fFamilyID%3d2d481579-9a7c-4632-b6e6-dee9097f9dc5%26DisplayLang%3den

Using Visual Studio Team System 2005 to Measure Software Code Stability at Microsoft

MS IT partnered with Microsoft Research to create a Visual Studio Team System 2005 extension that counts lines of code and predicts system defects
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=13&SrcDisplayLang=en&SrcCategoryId=&SrcFamilyId=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3fFamilyID%3d5af387c5-55c7-4bb1-97cd-e3f742de99da%26DisplayLang%3den

Microsoft Identity Lifecycle Manager 2007 Feature Pack 1 Evaluation Edition

Microsoft® Identity Lifecycle Manager (ILM) 2007 Feature Pack 1 (FP1) brings together smart card, certificate management, and synchronization, metadirectory, and user provisioning into one solution that works across Windows and other enterprise systems.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=18&SrcDisplayLang=en&SrcCategoryId=&SrcFamilyId=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3fFamilyID%3dee7233d8-b3c9-4bf5-a232-7abc58c9940a%26DisplayLang%3den

UI Automation Specification

This download contains the Community Promise Specification for UI Automation.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=21&SrcDisplayLang=en&SrcCategoryId=&SrcFamilyId=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3fFamilyID%3da1fe1066-bf4f-44fc-834b-676b311e83a2%26DisplayLang%3den

Events/WebCasts

Client Monitoring with System Center Operations Manager 2007 (Level 300)

In this session, we begin with a look at some customer challenges and explain our vision for client monitoring. Next, we discuss features like Agentless Exception Monitoring, Aggregated Client Monitoring, and Critical Client Monitoring. We wrap up this session with a look at the management packs we are delivering specifically for client monitoring.
http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=7844525

Get Ready for Microsoft Virtualization Technologies with Microsoft Assessment and Planning Solution Accelerator

Start your planning cycle right with Microsoft Assessment and Planning Solution Accelerator. This automation tool provides a quick way to assess the right technologies for your virtualization and server consolidation needs through a network inventory of servers, workloads, applications, and clients and the generation of assessment reports and proposals.
http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=7844526

MCP Live Meeting: Transition to Windows Server 2008 Certifications (Session 1)

Wednesday, December 05, 2007 7:30 AM Pacific Time (US & Canada)
http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=7761997

MCP Live Meeting: Transition to Windows Server 2008 Certifications (Session 2)

Wednesday, December 05, 2007 5:00 PM Pacific Time (US & Canada)

http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=7761998

Momentum Webcast: Windows Server 2008: Built for the Web and Virtualization (Level 100)

Monday, December 10, 2007 9:00 AM Pacific Time (US & Canada)
http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=7761999

TechNet Webcast: Managing Windows Server 2008 with Server Manager (Level 200)

Tuesday, December 11, 2007 11:30 AM Pacific Time (US & Canada)
http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=7762000

IT Manager Webcast: How Microsoft does IT: Creating a Single-Sign On Payroll Experience using Active Directory Federation Services (Level 100)

Wednesday, December 12, 2007 11:00 AM Pacific Time (US & Canada)
http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=7762001

On-Demand Microsoft IT Webcasts for IT Managers

http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=7281008

On-Demand Microsoft IT Webcasts for IT Pros

http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=7281009

Live Webcasts:
Full list can be found at: http://www.microsoft.com/events/default.mspx

Interactive Webcast Calendar
The interactive calendar will help you quickly find live webcasts that fit your schedule as well as on-demand webcasts to view at your convenience. You can choose your time zone and filter this list by audience, webcast series, product or topic, and presenter.
http://www.microsoft.com/events/webcasts/calendar/monthview.aspx

Monthly Archived Webcasts:
http://www.microsoft.com/events/webcasts/library/default.mspx

New KB's

The preview function in Windows Movie Maker does not work on a Windows Vista-based computer

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=943592

How the Windows Firewall exception settings in the Group Policy administrative template work together with the Windows Firewall Control Panel program in Windows Vista

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=942965

Changes are not saved to an XPS document on a Windows Vista-based computer when you print to the XPS Document Writer, and you use the same file name as an open XPS document

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=943481

How to configure PEAPv0 to reduce potential risks against "man-in-the-middle" and password-based attacks when you use authentication servers in Windows Vista or in Windows Server 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=941123

Error message when you try to download updates from Windows Update on a computer that is running Windows Vista: "Error 0x80070003 The system cannot find the path specified"

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=942967

An item that you copy to a Windows Vista desktop does not appear on the desktop even though it appears in the Desktop folder

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=943805

Installation of Windows Vista language pack from Windows Update fails

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=942903

An exclamation mark (!) may appear next to a USB device in Device Manager after you resume a Windows Vista-based portable computer from standby (S3)

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=942732

The "Turn off display" option does not work correctly on a Tablet PC that is running Windows Vista if you set a programmable button that is associated with the "Press and hold" list

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=943397

Stop error when you try to download updates from Windows Update on a computer that is running Windows Vista: "0x80070246"

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=942968

You are prompted to provide your administrative credentials when you try to open a Systems Management Server (SMS)-based item in Control Panel on a Windows Vista-based computer

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=942493

The date displays incorrectly in the Windows Calendar Sidebar gadget on a Windows Vista-based computer

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=943544

Event ID 1801 may be logged in the System log on a computer that is running Windows Vista

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=942972

An application does not function correctly if you click Cancel during a scan operation when you use the Windows Image Acquisition scanner in an application on a Windows Vista-based computer

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=943300

Security rules for Windows Firewall and for IPsec-based connections in Windows Vista and in Windows Server 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=942957

The audio from a USB speaker is distorted after you connect an additional USB device to a Windows Vista-based computer

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=943599

The "netsh advfirewall consec" command does not preserve the order of the authentication methods that are specified in a connection security rule on a Windows Vista-based computer

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=942963

How to add a computer or a device to a wireless network by using the Add a PC Wizard in Windows Live OneCare

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=943764

After you install Windows Live OneCare, you cannot connect to the Internet

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=943767

A program or service that requires network or internet connectivity does not work as expected after you install Windows Live OneCare

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=943768

You may be unable to connect to the Internet from other computers after you use Windows Live OneCare to help secure a wireless network

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=943762

How to use Windows Live OneCare to help make a wireless network more secure

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=943763

You cannot print to a shared printer after you install Windows Live OneCare

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=943765

How to delete a Windows Live OneCare Backup file

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=943904

Release Notes for Windows XP Service Pack 3

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=936929

Batch files for which you create a hash rules do not work on a Windows XP-based client computer

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=943854

When you use HSM software to manage files on a network, you cannot open a network-shared file that was created on a Windows XP-based computer when you work offline

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=936071

Error message after you try to access a mapped network drive when you work offline on a Windows XP-based computer: "Drive_Letter:\ is not accessible"

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=937357

How to use the LPMTool.exe tool for Windows XP Home Edition for Prepaid Computers and for Windows XP Home Edition for Subscription Computers

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=943311

A hotfix that addresses changes to daylight saving time in 2007 is available for Windows Services for UNIX and for Subsystem for UNIX-based Applications

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=942878

An update that addresses the change to daylight saving time in 2007 is available for Windows Server 2003 R2-based computers and for Windows Vista-based computers that are running Subsystem for UNIX-based Applications

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=942894

Error message when you back up files to a storage device by using the Backup and Restore Center on a Windows Vista-based computer that has the Turkish Language Pack installed: "Backup could not complete successfully"

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=944268

Windows Live Photo Gallery does not recognize a redirected folder and continues to use the original Pictures folder

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=944277

You receive an error message when you try to activate Windows Vista on a computer that was obtained from an OEM

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=942962

You cannot download an album from Windows Live Spaces immediately after you install Windows Live Photo Gallery

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=944278

You do not have access to folders or to files after you upgrade the computer to Windows Vista

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=942970

The TV screen appears as solid green or as blocky pixels when you use Windows Media Center to watch HDTV content on a Windows Vista-based computer

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=943195

On a Windows Vista-based computer, the BeforeNavigate2 event is not triggered as expected when you move to a non-standard link

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=943112

Windows Media Center stops responding when you resume a Windows Vista-based computer from hibernation

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=938929

On a Windows Vista-based computer, you are prompted to enter your user credentials when you use Internet Explorer to access files on a WebDAV site

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=941890

On a Windows Vista-based client computer, you cannot obtain an IP address or options from the DHCP server

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=942971

FIX: Internet Explorer crashes if it tries to display malformed HTML content on a Windows CE .NET 4.2-based device

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=942554

FIX: Internet Explorer may crash when you point to a box on a Web page on a Windows CE .NET 4.2-based device

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=943651

You cannot back up encrypted files by using Windows Live OneCare

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=943901

How to upgrade from Windows XP to Windows Vista when Windows Live OneCare 2.0 installed the computer

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=943902

How to use Windows Live OneCare to stop programs from starting automatically when you start a computer

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=943905

On a Windows XP-based computer or on a Windows Server 2003-based computer, new settings for the Windows Error Reporting tool do not appear on the user interface

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=943308

A computer that is running Windows XP Tablet PC Edition 2005 unexpectedly enters standby or hibernation when you operate a digitizer device or a touchscreen device

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=943856

Winsock error message when you use a program that tries to bind to TCP network ports on a Windows-based computer: "WSAEADDRINUSE (10048)"

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=943710

You hear a beep sound when you change the selection in a classic style ListView when the "Select" option for the system sound is set to "None" in Windows Vista

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=944150

The connection fails on a Windows Vista-based computer when you try to communicate with another computer through an IPsec tunnel-mode connection

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=944335

The file transfer from the attached devices to the system internal hard disk cannot be completed on a Windows Vista-based computer

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=944020

The volume label of the storage media is not updated and the AutoPlay dialog box is not displayed after you insert the storage media into a removable drive on a Windows Vista-based computer

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=943632

You cannot cancel changes that you make on the Camera Control tab or on the Video Proc Amp tab of the Properties dialog box of a webcam that is connected to a computer that is running Windows Vista, Windows Server 2003, or Windows XP

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=943634

Audio may be much louder when you play an alternative audio source than when you play a DVD movie in Windows Vista

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=944732

You do not hear any sound in Windows Media Player 11 when you connect speakers or headphones to an audio jack

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=944490

FIX: The Web administration page in Windows Media Services 9 Series cannot open the Web Help file

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=940667

After you connect a Windows XP-based computer to the Routing and Remote Access Services server through a virtual private network (VPN) connection, the computer cannot establish more than 32 static routes

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=943378

After you migrate a global group to another domain, the name of the original global group is not displayed correctly when you use a Windows XP-based client computer to add that group to a group DACL

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=887601

PS/2 devices may not function when a Windows Vista-based computer that uses the hybrid sleep feature resumes power after a power loss

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=944528

When a Windows Vista-based computer is awakened from sleep by a magic packet, and the WakeOnLAN feature is enabled, the computer's desktop is displayed unexpectedly

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=944529

A Windows Vista-based computer that has an XPS printer driver installed may not print certain colors in a PowerPoint slide presentation

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=944798

You cannot access a CD or DVD disc on a shared optical drive after you replace one disc with another on a Windows Vista-based computer

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=944961

Messages may not be displayed correctly in the notification area on a computer that is running the Hebrew or Arabic version of Windows Vista

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=943826

When you try to send a fax by using Windows Fax and Scan in the Simplified Chinese version of Windows Vista, the Chinese characters on the cover page may appear as squares

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=944155

You cannot use Verizon FiOS products at their full speed on a Windows Vista-based computer

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=939006

FIX: Windows Vista appears to stop responding during the device initialization phase when you start Windows for the first time

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=939210

Detection and deployment guidance for the November 13, 2007 security release

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=945009

An update package for the Japanese postal code dictionary in Japanese Input Method Editor is now available for Windows Vista

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=944023

Error message on a Windows Vista-based computer when you try to burn a file to a writable DVD: "There was an error burning this disc. The disc might no longer be usable"

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=944500

Windows Vista does not recognize an external USB optical disc drive when you reconnect the USB optical disc drive to the computer

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=944292

An IEEE 1394 device cannot unload from Device Manager on a Windows Vista-based computer when you unplug the IEEE 1394 device from an IEEE 1394 standard-based external hub

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=944151

You cannot use the Connection Manager tool to update the phone book on a Windows Vista-based computer

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=939214

FIX: The WSAStringToAddress function returns a correct value when you pass an invalid address string to the function on a Windows CE .NET 4.2-based device

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=943515

FIX: You cannot set the height of the License Acquisition dialog box as large as you want to in Windows Media Player 11

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=942264

Windows Media Player cannot load the content from certain URLs after you enable the "Use proxy settings of the Web browser" option

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=944110

Error message when you connect a Windows XP-based computer that has security update 835732 installed to a computer that is running Internet Information Services (IIS): "403.13 Client Certificate Revoked"

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=842735

A Windows XP-based computer stops responding when you try to shut down the computer

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=884882

You may be unable to print a job after you install the .NET Framework 3.0 or the XML Paper Specification Essentials Pack on a Windows XP SP2-based computer or on a Windows Server 2003-based computer

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=944203

Error message when WMI queries against the CIM_DataFile class after you log on to a Windows XP SP2-based computer by using a non-administrative user account: "SWbemServicesEx: Access denied"

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=943828

December 2006 - Technical Rollup Mail - SQL

Justin Zarb — Mon, 11 Dec 2006 22:07:00 GMT

News

SQL Server Community Technology Preview Program

SQL Server 2005 is a quality, customer-driven product and offers a comprehensive data management and analysis platform so businesses can make better decisions, faster. Leading up to the release of SQL Server 2005, Microsoft made Community Technology Previews (CTPs) available as public downloads. This CTP process allowed us to be more open and transparent with customers as they provided valuable feedback about our pre-release versions. With this active customer feedback loop, we were able to deliver a higher quality product. Customers have told us that this model also provides greater predictability and faster results for them. As a result, we are continuing to expand this model and applying it more broadly as part of our development cycle. We call this new, enhanced process our Transparent Customer Collaboration Model. If you have a passion for technology and want to make a difference for your company and for SQL Server users around the world, try out a SQL Server CTP. The SQL Server development team uses the feedback from CTP testers to help refine and enhance product features. Any SQL Server customer can participate. SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 2 CTP is now available.

http://www.microsoft.com/sql/ctp.mspx

What’s New In SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 2

Details new or improved components released with SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 2.

http://download.microsoft.com/download/2/B/5/2B5E5D37-9B17-423D-BC8F-B11ECD4195B4/WhatsNewSQL2005SP2.htm

Documents

SQL Server 2005 Waits and Queues

SQL Server 2005 Performance Tuning using the Waits and Queues is a proven methodology that allows one to identify the best opportunities to improve performance, the so called “biggest bang for the buck”. These performance improvements are likely to have a significant return on the performance tuning time investment. The methodology helps identify the areas of slow performance by looking at the problem from two directions called Waits and Queues. An analysis of Waits indicates where SQL Server is spending lots of time waiting. In addition, the biggest waits point out the most important or relevant Queues (that is, Performance Monitor counters and other data) for this workload. The cross validation of the waits analysis enables us to eliminate all except the most significant performance counters, and provides a strong indication of pressure on specific resources.

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/sql/bestpractice/performance_tuning_waits_queues.mspx

Storage Top 10 Best Practices

Proper configuration of IO subsystems is critical to the optimal performance and operation of SQL Server systems. Below are some of the most common best practices that the SQL Server team recommends with respect to storage configuration for SQL Server.

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/sql/bestpractice/storage-top-10.mspx

Top SQL Server 2005 Performance Issues For OLTP Applications

OLTP work loads are characterized by high volumes of similar small transactions.

It is important to keep these characteristics in mind as we examine the significance of database design, resource utilization and system performance. The top performance bottlenecks or gotchas for OLTP applications are outlined here.

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/sql/bestpractice/oltp-performance-issues.mspx

Top SQL Server 2005 Performance Issues For Data Warehouse and Reporting Applications

Relational Data Warehouse or Reporting work loads are characterized by low volumes of very large transactions. These applications are often identified as having predominately read workloads (e.g. Decision Support, Analysis, and Reporting) with periodic feeds or batch loads. It is important to keep these characteristics in mind as we examine the significance of database design, resource utilization and system performance. The top performance bottlenecks or gotchas to avoid for Data Warehouse or Reporting applications are outlined here.

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/sql/bestpractice/dw_perf_top10.mspx

Monthly Theme: SQL Server 2005 Business Intelligence

This month's theme highlights the new Business Intelligence tool set to integrate, analyze, report, and mine data to enable your infrastructure

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/sql/themes/default.mspx

Downloads

Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Enterprise Edition VHD

A pre-configured virtual machine. This download comes as a pre-configured VHD. Microsoft SQL Server 2005 is a comprehensive, integrated, end-to-end data solution that empowers your people by providing a more secure, reliable, and productive platform for enterprise data and BI applications. The Microsoft VHD Test Drive Program provides customers with an enhanced server-based software evaluation experience that’s faster, better supported and more flexible. You can now access the entire catalogue of pre-configured Microsoft and partner products and solutions in the VHD format and start evaluating and testing today from www.microsoft.com/vhd.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=558F3ECE-6509-45E9-8D60-25175848A8B7&displaylang=en

SQL Server 2005 Compact Edition

Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Compact Edition offers essential relational database functionality in a compact footprint ideal for embedding in mobile and desktop applications including a new generation of occasionally connected dynamic applications. Sharing a familiar SQL syntax and common ADO.NET programming model with other SQL Server Editions, and management via SQL Server 2005 Management Studio, SQL Server 2005 Compact Edition allows developers and administrators to apply their existing skills and be immediately productive. In addition, SQL Server 2005 Compact Edition enables scale-up of an application, either via a robust synchronization with other SQL Server Editions, or by moving to a higher edition of SQL Server. SQL Server 2005 Compact Edition allows you to extend your integrated data management platform deeper into your enterprise and into your mobile workforce.

http://www.microsoft.com/sql/editions/compact/default.mspx

SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 2 CTP Download

Help refine and enhance product features by trying and sending feedback on the Community Technology Preview (CTP) releases of SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 2 (SP2) and the Books Online.

Download SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 2 CTP (November 2006)

Events/WebCasts

Introduction to SQL Server 2005 report Builder

Join us as we illustrate the architecture behind Report Builder, demonstrate its capabilities, and explain how it helps you to build business data models for users with ease.

Monday, December 11, 2006 1:00 P.M.–2:30 P.M. Pacific Time

TechNet Webcast: Introduction to SQL Server 2005 Report Builder (Level 200)

Introduction To Data Mining in SQL Server 2005

Tune in to learn how Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services is meeting the demands for self-service reporting with Report Builder, an ad hoc reporting tool that enables business users to create their own reports and explore corporate data.

Friday, December 15, 2006 11:30 A.M.–1:00 P.M. Pacific Time

TechNet Webcast: Introduction to Data Mining with SQL Server 2005 (Level 200)

Using Transact-SQL For Recursive Queries In SQL Server 2005

Join us as we explore recursive CTEs and demonstrate how to use them to answer common requests against graph structures.

Monday, December 18, 2006 11:00 A.M.–12:00 P.M. Pacific Time

MSDN Webcast: Using Transact-SQL for Recursive Queries in SQL Server 2005 (Level 200)

Overview Of Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) Application Development APIs

Tune in as we cover the ADOMD.NET object model for OLAP data access, the Analysis Management Objects (AMO) library for OLAP database management, and XMLA for SOAP based combination of the two.

Tuesday, December 19, 2006 11:00 A.M.–12:00 P.M. Pacific Time

TechNet Webcast: Introduction to Data Mining with SQL Server 2005 (Level 200)

SQL 2005 Webcasts and Virtual Labs

http://www.microsoft.com/sql/eval/webcast.mspx?wt.mc_id=sql.ad.01037

SQL Server 2005 Podcast

As a company grows, its information technology infrastructure must also grow, typically becoming more complex, more costly to maintain, and subject to continually increasing demands. Often, the IT infrastructure does not align well with strategic business needs, making it difficult for the organization to realize the full value of its technology investments. In this webcast, see how Microsoft applies the concept of infrastructure optimization to strategically and systematically move its capabilities from a reactive mode to a more mature proactive approach.

Microsoft Webcast: How Microsoft Maximizes Its IT Investment Through Infrastructure Optimization

Further on-demand webcasts are available here: http://www.microsoft.com/events/series/technetsqlserver2005.mspx

New KB’s

SQL Server 2000 Standard Edition

FIX: Error message when you configure an immediate updating transactional replication in SQL Server 2000: "Implicit conversion from datatype 'text' to 'nvarchar' is not allowed"

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=923563

Error message when you try to change the SQL Server Agent proxy account in SQL Server 2000: "The system cannot find the path specified"

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=926901

FIX: You may receive inconsistent comparison results when you compare strings by using a width sensitive collation in SQL Server 2000

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=925732

FIX: A different number of rows may be returned in the result set every time that you run a complex full-text search query in SQL Server 2000

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=926466

FIX: You may experience one or more symptoms when you run a "CREATE INDEX" statement on an instance of SQL Server 2000

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=925684

SQL Server 2005 Standard Edition

The list of product codes that depend on SQL Native Client may be lost after you upgrade to SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 1 on a computer that is running Windows Vista Release Candidate 1

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=926626

How to install service packs and hotfixes on an instance of SQL Server 2005 that is configured to use database mirroring

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=926824

Error message when you install SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 1 after you upgrade a Windows operating system or after you install a Windows service pack: "Error 29513 SQL Server Setup Failed to compile the Managed Object Format (MOF) file"

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=926623

When you use SQL Profiler to create a trace in SQL Server 2005, the Existing Connection event appears after other events that are logged for the same session ID

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=926899

Hard disk drive sector-size support boundaries in SQL Server 2005

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=926930

Ad hoc queries take a longer time to finish running when the size of the TokenAndPermUserStore cache grows in SQL Server 2005

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=927396

A list of the bugs that are fixed in SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 2 Community Technology Preview (CTP)

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=921896

Using database mirroring for cross-database transactions or distributed transactions is not supported in SQL Server 2005

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=926150

Fix: Error message when you convert a column from the varbinary(max) data type to the XML data type in SQL Server 2005: "Msg 6322, Level 16, State 1, Line 2 Too many attributes or namespace definitions"

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=926285

Error message when you start SQL Server Management Studio in SQL Server 2005: "Unable to cast object of type 'Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.UI.ConnectionDlg.Personalization' to type 'Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.UI.ConnectionDlg.Personalization'"

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=922214

FIX: Error message when you run a query that uses a fast forward-only cursor in SQL Server 2005: "Query processor could not produce a query plan because of the hints defined in this query"

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=926773

SQL Server 2005 Standard Edition x64

FIX: A memory leak may occur when you run SQL Server 2005 Integration Services packages that are stored in the SSIS Package store

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=920205

SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services

FIX: A query may crash, and you may receive an error message when an MDX query uses the Filter function at the start to slice a partition in SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services: "An unexpected exception occurred"

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=925278

FIX: Error message when you use a unary operator in a parent/child dimension in a SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services cube: "Record ID is not valid"

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=925387

Error message when you run an MDX query in SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services: "The MDX function CURRENTMEMBER failed because the coordinate for the 'AttributeName' attribute contains a set"

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=928318

Description of the rules for derivation of the FORMAT_STRING cell property in SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=927165

FIX: The sum total of a column contains incorrect data when you browse or query a cube in SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=926775

December 2006 - Technical Rollup Mail - Internet

Justin Zarb — Mon, 11 Dec 2006 22:04:00 GMT

News

SharePoint

The following hyperlinks direct you to sources of information for planning and deploying Microsoft Office SharePoint Servers (MOSS) 2007. Now that MOSS 2007 has released to market the official guidelines are starting to become available.

System Requirements
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepointserver/HA101945391033.aspx

How to Buy
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepointserver/FX101865111033.aspx

See an Intro Product Demo
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepointserver/HA101672721033.aspx

Select a Feature Demo
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepointserver/CH102066971033.aspx

Compare Features
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepointserver/HA101978031033.aspx

MOSS Capacity planning Guidelines
http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library/eb2493e8-e498-462a-ab5d-1b779529dc471033.mspx?mfr=true#

WSSv3 Capacity Planning Guidelines
http://technet2.microsoft.com/WindowsServer/en/library/0e13e879-0156-4e9f-b6d5-abddcf326d211033.mspx?mfr=true

These are just a selection of the links available on the SharePoint 2007 Products Web Site
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepointserver/FX100492001033.aspx

IIS

Microsoft is excited to announce a technical preview release of FastCGI for IIS
Microsoft is excited to announce a technical preview release of FastCGI for IIS, a new component for Microsoft's Web server platform. This release is available immediately for download to Windows Vista, Longhorn Server and previous versions of IIS including IIS 6.0 in Windows 2003 Server and IIS 5.1 in Windows XP.
http://www.iis.net/default.aspx?tabid=1000051

ISA

New Microsoft Forefront Security Products Help Protect Businesses against the Latest Threats
PressPass (November 14, 2006) New Microsoft Forefront client and server security products and new remote access features will help customers protect information and control access to IT infrastructure.
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2006/nov06/11-14forefront.mspx

ISA Server 2004 Achieves Common Criteria Level EAL 4+ for Security
Certification is extended to Enterprise Edition.
http://www.microsoft.com/isaserver/commoncriteria/default.mspx

Downloads

SharePoint

Trial RTM Download of SharePoint 2007

http://office.microsoft.com/search/redir.aspx?AssetID=XT102104951033&Origin=HH102081821033&CTT=5

ForeFront Security for SharePoint 2007

http://www.microsoft.com/forefront/serversecurity/sharepoint/download.mspx

ISA

IsaBPA Version 4 - (Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server Best Practices Analyzer Tool)
The Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server Best Practices Analyzer Tool is designed for administrators who want to determine the overall health of their ISA Server computers and to diagnose current problems. The tool scans the configuration settings of the local ISA Server computer and reports issues that do not conform to the recommended best practices.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=d22ec2b9-4cd3-4bb6-91ec-0829e5f84063&DisplayLang=en

Evaluate a Pre-configured Version of ISA Server 2006 in a Virtual Hard Disk (VHD)
Download ISA Server 2006 and other Microsoft and partner solutions in pre-configured VHDs.
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/try/vhd/default.mspx
ISA 2006 VHD
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=708e826a-9dd9-4327-bf49-5a8fa5e53ab3&DisplayLang=en

BizTalk

Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006 Documentation Update (CHM) - Updated 16th Nov 2006
Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006 Documentation in CHM format.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=3294DDAF-9F67-409F-A92D-2F6070DC0D1A&displaylang=en

BizTalk 2006 Adapters for Host Systems
Microsoft BizTalk Adapters for Host Systems offer efficient development tools and native runtime protocol engines that allow enterprise IT to connect BizTalk to existing line-of-business programs and data on IBM mainframe zSeries and midrange iSeries computers, preserving the integrity and performance of vital line-of-business systems, while extending those investments to new solutions.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=C0D4B943-1786-4B74-A9A4-FDAA582F5FA2&displaylang=en

Events/WebCasts

SharePoint

Fri, 01 Dec 2006 TechNet Webcast: An In-Depth Look at Windows SharePoint Services and Office SharePoint Server 2007 (Level 200)
Tune in to this webcast for a technical overview of Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. We look at the goals of Office SharePoint Server 2007, explore the functional architecture, and examine each of the new feature areas in detail. We also demonstrate the new portal design and features. Join us to see how the latest releases of Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services handle collaboration, communication, and business intelligence (BI).
http://www.microsoft.com/events/EventDetails.aspx?CMTYSvcSource=MSCOMMedia&Params=%7eCMTYDataSvcParams%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22ID%22+Value%3d%221032317841%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22ProviderID%22+Value%3d%22A6B43178-497C-4225-BA42-DF595171F04C%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22lang%22+Value%3d%22en%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22cr%22+Value%3d%22US%22%2f%5e%7esParams%5e%7e%2fsParams%5e%7e%2fCMTYDataSvcParams%5e

Wed, 06 Dec 2006 ISV Profitability: the 11 Key Criteria for Measuring Business Success
Running a profitable software business in today’s global marketplace isn’t always easy. Attracting new customers, keeping development costs down, and training a highly skilled team add to the challenge. If this sounds familiar or you want to better understand new ways to drive business performance, the Microsoft ISV Profitability Webcast is a must attend.
http://www.microsoft.com/events/EventDetails.aspx?CMTYSvcSource=MSCOMMedia&Params=%7eCMTYDataSvcParams%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22ID%22+Value%3d%221032317250%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22ProviderID%22+Value%3d%22A6B43178-497C-4225-BA42-DF595171F04C%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22lang%22+Value%3d%22en%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22cr%22+Value%3d%22US%22%2f%5e%7esParams%5e%7e%2fsParams%5e%7e%2fCMTYDataSvcParams%5e

Wed, 06 Dec 2006 TechNet Webcast: Planning for and Deploying Office SharePoint Server 2007 (Part 1 of 2) (Level 200)
We provide a detailed overview of the Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 architecture in this webcast, including the concepts behind the topology, server roles, network conditions, and security topics. Learn about the three-tier administration model and how each of the three components: central administration, shared services, and site settings are commonly used. Find out your SharePoint Server 2007 deployment options and the considerations for determining the correct topology to use for your installation. We include scenarios that illustrate four different topologies, progressing from deployment of a single server to various server farm options.
http://www.microsoft.com/events/EventDetails.aspx?CMTYSvcSource=MSCOMMedia&Params=%7eCMTYDataSvcParams%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22ID%22+Value%3d%221032318443%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22ProviderID%22+Value%3d%22A6B43178-497C-4225-BA42-DF595171F04C%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22lang%22+Value%3d%22en%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22cr%22+Value%3d%22US%22%2f%5e%7esParams%5e%7e%2fsParams%5e%7e%2fCMTYDataSvcParams%5e

Fri, 08 Dec 2006 TechNet Webcast: Planning for and Deploying Office SharePoint Server 2007 (Part 2 of 2) (Level 200)
Proper planning is required to determine the resources, time, and tasks needed to successfully install and maintain Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. In this second webcast in our series, we move beyond the architectural overview provided in Part One to discuss SharePoint Server 2007 advanced settings, scripting tips, and other considerations for installing the product. Web load balancing, password management, and authentications settings are a few of the specific topics that are covered. We also discuss ways to perform disaster recovery once you have your SharePoint Server 2007 solution installed. From the basic Recycle Bin to the SharePoint Server 2007 backup/restore utility to SQL backup/restore, join us to learn the options available to secure your organization’s data.
http://www.microsoft.com/events/EventDetails.aspx?CMTYSvcSource=MSCOMMedia&Params=%7eCMTYDataSvcParams%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22ID%22+Value%3d%221032318445%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22ProviderID%22+Value%3d%22A6B43178-497C-4225-BA42-DF595171F04C%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22lang%22+Value%3d%22en%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22cr%22+Value%3d%22US%22%2f%5e%7esParams%5e%7e%2fsParams%5e%7e%2fCMTYDataSvcParams%5e

Fri, 08 Dec 2006 MSDN Webcast: Office SharePoint Server 2007 Business Data Catalog (Part 2 of 2): Developing Web Services (Level 200)
Beyond giving you the ability to integrate portals with enterprise data and applications with minimal code, the Business Data Catalog (BDC) in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 also introduces several specific development opportunities. In the second half of this two-part webcast, we show you how to create Web services that are fully optimized for the BDC. We also show you how to use BDC-registered metadata to create your own automatically-generated custom user interfaces.
http://www.microsoft.com/events/EventDetails.aspx?CMTYSvcSource=MSCOMMedia&Params=%7eCMTYDataSvcParams%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22ID%22+Value%3d%221032316741%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22ProviderID%22+Value%3d%22A6B43178-497C-4225-BA42-DF595171F04C%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22lang%22+Value%3d%22en%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22cr%22+Value%3d%22US%22%2f%5e%7esParams%5e%7e%2fsParams%5e%7e%2fCMTYDataSvcParams%5e

Fri, 08 Dec 2006 TechNet Webcast: Integrating the Business Data Catalog and Business Applications Using Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (Level 200)
In this webcast, we show you how the Business Data Catalog, a new feature in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, enables you to present business data from a variety of data sources and applications throughout your organization, without the need for complex coding. We discuss some key concepts behind the Business Data Catalog, examine the business issues the Business Data Catalog helps to solve, and explain how it does so. We also walk you through designing and deploying Business Data Catalog applications.
http://www.microsoft.com/events/EventDetails.aspx?CMTYSvcSource=MSCOMMedia&Params=%7eCMTYDataSvcParams%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22ID%22+Value%3d%221032317853%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22ProviderID%22+Value%3d%22A6B43178-497C-4225-BA42-DF595171F04C%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22lang%22+Value%3d%22en%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22cr%22+Value%3d%22US%22%2f%5e%7esParams%5e%7e%2fsParams%5e%7e%2fCMTYDataSvcParams%5e

Mon, 11 Dec 2006 TechNet Webcast: Real-Time Collaboration and Office SharePoint Server 2007 (Level 200)
In this session, we explore how real-time collaboration solutions that use Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, Microsoft Office Live Meeting, and Microsoft Office Live Communications Server 2007 enable you to bring customers, coworkers, and suppliers closer together and make it possible for you to be more productive.
http://www.microsoft.com/events/EventDetails.aspx?CMTYSvcSource=MSCOMMedia&Params=%7eCMTYDataSvcParams%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22ID%22+Value%3d%221032317845%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22ProviderID%22+Value%3d%22A6B43178-497C-4225-BA42-DF595171F04C%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22lang%22+Value%3d%22en%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22cr%22+Value%3d%22US%22%2f%5e%7esParams%5e%7e%2fsParams%5e%7e%2fCMTYDataSvcParams%5e

Wed, 13 Dec 2006 TechNet Webcast: An In-Depth Look at Search Technology in Office SharePoint Server 2007 (Level 200)
Join this webcast to discover the new search features available in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. In this session, we look at the challenges IT professionals face when trying to support disparate information repositories and illustrate how SharePoint Server 2007 can help address these issues. We also explore the other new features and the enhanced architecture of SharePoint Server 2007, including a look at some specific usage scenarios.
http://www.microsoft.com/events/EventDetails.aspx?CMTYSvcSource=MSCOMMedia&Params=%7eCMTYDataSvcParams%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22ID%22+Value%3d%221032317856%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22ProviderID%22+Value%3d%22A6B43178-497C-4225-BA42-DF595171F04C%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22lang%22+Value%3d%22en%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22cr%22+Value%3d%22US%22%2f%5e%7esParams%5e%7e%2fsParams%5e%7e%2fCMTYDataSvcParams%5e

Fri, 15 Dec 2006 TechNet Webcast: Excel Services Technical Overview (Level 200)
In this webcast, we look at the new Excel Services, which is part of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. We show how Excel Services extends the capabilities of Microsoft Office Excel 2007 by allowing broad sharing of spreadsheets, in addition to improved manageability and security. Attend this session to learn how Excel Services enables you to reuse spreadsheet models through a scalable server-based calculation service and an interactive Web-based user interface. We illustrate how Excel Services provides a Web-based user interface for browser-based access and a Web services API for programmatic access, both of which have robust options for controlling what data is available to users and applications. Excel Services also takes advantage of the other capabilities of SharePoint Server 2007, including enterprise content management features like check-in/check-out, auditing, and versioning capabilities.
http://www.microsoft.com/events/EventDetails.aspx?CMTYSvcSource=MSCOMMedia&Params=%7eCMTYDataSvcParams%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22ID%22+Value%3d%221032318455%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22ProviderID%22+Value%3d%22A6B43178-497C-4225-BA42-DF595171F04C%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22lang%22+Value%3d%22en%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22cr%22+Value%3d%22US%22%2f%5e%7esParams%5e%7e%2fsParams%5e%7e%2fCMTYDataSvcParams%5e

Mon, 18 Dec 2006 TechNet Webcast: Disaster Recovery Strategies for SharePoint Server 2007 (Level 200)
In this session, learn about the tools and methods available to help protect your Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 deployments. We discuss content recovery and offer proactive strategies for disaster recovery planning. We also provide recommendations for achieving and maintaining high availability with your SharePoint Server 2007 farm.
http://www.microsoft.com/events/EventDetails.aspx?CMTYSvcSource=MSCOMMedia&Params=%7eCMTYDataSvcParams%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22ID%22+Value%3d%221032319573%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22ProviderID%22+Value%3d%22A6B43178-497C-4225-BA42-DF595171F04C%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22lang%22+Value%3d%22en%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22cr%22+Value%3d%22US%22%2f%5e%7esParams%5e%7e%2fsParams%5e%7e%2fCMTYDataSvcParams%5e

Tue, 19 Dec 2006 TechNet Webcast: How Microsoft IT Manages the World's Largest Windows SharePoint Services Deployment (Level 300)
For more than six years, Microsoft IT has been hosting different versions of Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services. Join this webcast to learn about the best practices, processes, and challenges of hosting the newest version of the product concurrently with older versions. Topics we cover in this discussion include operational process, service definitions, and lessons learned from Microsoft IT's experiences in hosting Windows SharePoint Services in a large-scale deployment scenario.
http://www.microsoft.com/events/EventDetails.aspx?CMTYSvcSource=MSCOMMedia&Params=%7eCMTYDataSvcParams%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22ID%22+Value%3d%221032316542%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22ProviderID%22+Value%3d%22A6B43178-497C-4225-BA42-DF595171F04C%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22lang%22+Value%3d%22en%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22cr%22+Value%3d%22US%22%2f%5e%7esParams%5e%7e%2fsParams%5e%7e%2fCMTYDataSvcParams%5e

Wed, 20 Dec 2006 TechNet Webcast: Best Practices for Developing, Deploying, and Maintaining Forms Solutions (Level 200)
In this webcast, we provide best practices for effectively developing a forms solution in an organization. Deploying an application is a vital part of the development process, and it is often overlooked. Join us as we look at the different strategies for deploying forms solutions and explore how deploying a forms solution requires thorough testing and refinement. We discuss how applications need maintenance once they are deployed in a production environment. We also explain how to update a forms solution application based on change management requests and how to ensure continual stability within an application through regression testing.
http://www.microsoft.com/events/EventDetails.aspx?CMTYSvcSource=MSCOMMedia&Params=%7eCMTYDataSvcParams%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22ID%22+Value%3d%221032317858%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22ProviderID%22+Value%3d%22A6B43178-497C-4225-BA42-DF595171F04C%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22lang%22+Value%3d%22en%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22cr%22+Value%3d%22US%22%2f%5e%7esParams%5e%7e%2fsParams%5e%7e%2fCMTYDataSvcParams%5e

Fri, 22 Dec 2006 TechNet Webcast: Compliance and Records Management (Level 200)
In this webcast, we consider records management and its challenges. We review the enterprise content management (ECM) features in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and examine how these features can make records management easier. Learn about collaborative spaces and records spaces, and find out how e-mail records management can be critical to any records management solution. We also discuss the hold capabilities in SharePoint Server 2007 that enable IT administrators, lawyers, and records managers to place holds on specific items to help ensure that they remain unchanged during litigation, audits, or other investigations.
http://www.microsoft.com/events/EventDetails.aspx?CMTYSvcSource=MSCOMMedia&Params=%7eCMTYDataSvcParams%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22ID%22+Value%3d%221032317860%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22ProviderID%22+Value%3d%22A6B43178-497C-4225-BA42-DF595171F04C%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22lang%22+Value%3d%22en%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22cr%22+Value%3d%22US%22%2f%5e%7esParams%5e%7e%2fsParams%5e%7e%2fCMTYDataSvcParams%5e

BizTalk

MSDN Webcast: Accelerate Your Supply Chain with a Hybrid Approach to Business-to-Business Integration (Level 200)
http://msevents.microsoft.com/cui/eventdetail.aspx?eventID=1032317731&Culture=en-US
Thursday, December 7, 2006
11:00 A.M.–12:00 P.M. Pacific Time
Join this webcast to learn how a hybrid approach to business-to-business (B2B) integration can fit easily into your IT environment, help you reduce the cost of operations, improve customer service, and increase your business results.

MSDN Webcast: Enabling a New Generation of Dynamic Applications Through Service-Oriented Architecture (Level 200)
http://msevents.microsoft.com/cui/eventdetail.aspx?eventID=1032317743&Culture=en-US
Wednesday, December 13, 2006
10:00 A.M.–11:00 A.M. Pacific Time
Tune in and learn how you can use your existing systems, line-of-business (LOB) applications, and data and expose them as services (using the .NET Framework and adapters).

New KB’s

ISA

How to Configure Client Proxy Server Settings by Using a Registry File (819961)
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/819961

Error message when you try to back up or export the configuration in ISA Server 2006 or in ISA Server 2004: "There is not enough memory to complete the operation" (926218)http://support.microsoft.com/kb/926218

The Microsoft Firewall service does not start, and event ID 11002 is logged on a member of an ISA Server 2004 array (927027)
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927027

Error message when you re-install ISA Server 2004 and CSS in replication mode on a computer that is a member of an ISA Server array (925883)
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/925883

An ISA server requests credentials when client computers in the same domain use Internet Explorer to access Web sites that contain Java programs (925881)http://support.microsoft.com/kb/925881

How to configure an ISA Server computer for a very large number of authentication requests (326040)
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/326040

Description of the ISA Server 2006 hotfix package: October 02, 2006 (925289)
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/925289

ISA Server 2006 includes the host header together with the port number of the Web server after you publish a Web site (925287)
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/925287

The installation fails and you receive error events in the Application log when you try to install ISA Server 2004 Service Pack 2 (924146)
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/924146

Cookies from a published Web site are randomly lost after you publish an application that uses forms-based authentication in ISA Server 2004 (927778)
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927778

Description of the ISA Server 2004 hotfix package: September 20, 2006 (925232)
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/925232

Error message when internal SecureNAT client computers access a Web site that is published by ISA Server 2004: "Cannot find server or DNS Error" (925230
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/925230

BizTalk

Summary of operating systems and SQL Server versions supported by different versions of BizTalk Server
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=926628

FIX: Some context properties may be unavailable in BizTalk Server when you use Microsoft BizTalk Adapter 2.0 for mySAP Business Suite to receive messages
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=925852

FIX: BizTalk Accelerator for SWIFT no longer examines the user who signs for an InfoPath form after you install BizTalk Accelerator for SWIFT 2.3 Service Pack 1
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=926614

December 2006 - Technical Rollup Mail - Platforms

Justin Zarb — Mon, 11 Dec 2006 22:01:00 GMT

News

Windows Vista Released to Manufacturing
We truly feel that Windows Vista will rock the world with excitement. Alongside the Office 2007, we are holding the launch event for business audiences on November 30th. Volume licensing customers will be receiving Windows Vista by the end of the month. General availability for consumers and businesses that are not on volume licensing is January 30th. Computer manufacturers are offering customers who purchase a new PC before January 30th an easy way to upgrade to Windows Vista
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2006/nov06/11-08VistaRTM.mspx
Windows Sysinternals
The Sysinternals web site was created in 1996 by Mark Russinovich and Bryce Cogswell to host their advanced system utilities and technical information and Microsoft acquired Sysinternals in July, 2006. Whether you’re an IT Pro or a developer, you’ll find Sysinternals utilities to help you manage, troubleshoot and diagnose your Windows systems and applications. If you have a question about a tool or how to use it, please visit the Sysinternals Forum for answers and help from other users and our moderators.
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/utilities/sysinternalssuite.mspx

Windows Powershell 1.0 Released
Windows PowerShell 1.0 is finally released. Download Windows PowerShell 1.0 for Windows XP or Windows Server 2003. Download Windows PowerShell RC2 for Windows Vista or Windows Server code-name "Longhorn." Senior VP Bob Muglia announced the release of Windows PowerShell 1.0 at TechEd: IT Forum in Barcelona, Spain. Learn about our Windows PowerShell partners that include Quest Software, PowerGadgets, FullArmor and /n Software who improve the manageability of Windows by providing Windows PowerShell cmdlets.
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/technologies/management/powershell/download.mspx
Microsoft Moving Forward on Key Server Technologies
IT Forum 2006, Microsoft continues to show progress in development of Windows Server “Longhorn” and Windows Server virtualization, and announces availability of Windows PowerShell and the release candidate for Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2.
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2006/nov06/11-14Servers.mspx
Microsoft and Zend Technologies Announce Technical Collaboration to Improve Interoperability of PHP on the Windows Server Platform
Companies seek to improve performance, reliability and stability of PHP on Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server “Longhorn.”
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2006/oct06/10-31MSZendPR.mspx

Documents

Demonstrate 802.1X NAP Enforcement in a Test Lab
Network Access Protection (NAP) is a new policy enforcement technology in the Windows Vista™ and Windows Server® Code Name "Longhorn" operating systems. NAP provides components and an application programming interface (API) set that help administrators enforce compliance with health requirements for network access and communication. This paper contains an introduction to NAP and instructions on how to set up a test lab to deploy NAP with the 802.1X enforcement method. The lab requires two server and two client computers, and an 802.1X compliant switch that supports the use of RADIUS tunnel attributes to specify the 802.1X client VLAN. With this test network, you can create and enforce client health requirements using NAP and the 802.1X features on your switch.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=8a0925ee-ee06-4dfb-bba2-07605eff0608&displaylang=en
Microsoft Windows Security Center Whitepaper, Windows Vista
Whitepaper detailing the Microsoft Windows Security Center
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=3&SrcDisplayLang=en&SrcCategoryId=&SrcFamilyId=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3fFamilyID%3d90ec8abb-08c7-4706-b730-9a1f9fcf2d9f%26DisplayLang%3den
Windows Vista Product Guide
A comprehensive feature by feature guide to Windows Vista. With contributions from people who actually worked on the product, this is the definitive resource to learn about Windows Vista. The Windows Vista Product Guide is available in the new Microsoft Word 2007 or the new XPS format.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=bbc16ebf-4823-4a12-afe1-5b40b2ad3725&DisplayLang=en
Windows Vista Step-by-Step Guides for IT Professionals
These step-by-step guides will assist IT Professionals in deploying or migrating to Windows Vista. These guides will also provide step-by-step information on how to control device installation using Device Management and Installation (DMI) and manage ADMX files. There are also step-by-step guides to help you protect data using BitLocker Drive Encryption, to administer the TPM Security Hardware in a computer using Trusted Platform Module (TPM) Services, and to help deploy better-managed desktops and mitigate the impact of malware using User Account Control (UAC).
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=311f4be8-9983-4ab0-9685-f1bfec1e7d62&DisplayLang=en

Windows Vista Application Development Requirements for User Account Control Compatibility
This document details how to design and develop User Account Control (UAC) compliant applications for Windows Vista. Detailed steps about the design process are included, along with code samples, requirements, and best practices. This paper also details the technical updates and changes to the user experience in Windows Vista.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=ba73b169-a648-49af-bc5e-a2eebb74c16b&DisplayLang=en

IPv6 Transition Technologies
This article describes IPv6 transition technologies and how these technologies are supported by the IPv6 protocol for the Windows Server 2003 family, Windows XP with Service Pack 1, and Windows XP with Service Pack 2. This article is intended for network engineers and support professionals who are already familiar with basic networking concepts, TCP/IP, and IPv6. This article contains sections on transition mechanisms, tunneling configurations, ISATAP, 6to4, Teredo, PortProxy, and migrating to IPv6.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=afe56282-2903-40f3-a5ba-a87bf92c096d&DisplayLang=en
Windows PowerShell Week Script Samples
Sample code and commands from the Windows PowerShell Week webcast series. Includes a document that shows you how to convert common VBScript commands into their Windows PowerShell equivalents.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=264ce487-1d36-4466-bd8b-23a7f1fa967e&DisplayLang=en
ADMT v3 Migration Guide
This guide explains how to use the Active Directory Migration Tool version 3 (ADMT v3) to restructure your operating environment. You can use ADMT v3 to migrate objects between Active Directory forests, between Active Directory domains in the same forest, or from Microsoft® Windows NT® 4.0 source do.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=d99ef770-3bbb-4b9e-a8bc-01e9f7ef7342&DisplayLang=en

Downloads

Microsoft ® Windows Server ™ 2003 Performance Advisor

Performance diagnostic tool for Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 (SP1).

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=09115420-8c9d-46b9-a9a5-9bffcd237da2&DisplayLang=en

Windows® Defender

Windows Defender is a free program that helps you stay productive by protecting your computer against pop-ups, slow performance and security threats caused by spyware and other potentially unwanted software. Windows Defender no longer supports Windows 2000 as mainstream support ended in June 2005.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=435bfce7-da2b-4a6a-afa4-f7f14e605a0d&DisplayLang=en

Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer v2.0.1 (for IT Professionals)

The Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer provides a streamlined method of identifying common security misconfigurations.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=4b4aba06-b5f9-4dad-be9d-7b51ec2e5ac9&DisplayLang=en

XML Notepad 2007

XML Notepad 2007 provides a simple intuitive user interface for browsing and editing XML documents.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=72d6aa49-787d-4118-ba5f-4f30fe913628&DisplayLang=en

SyncToy v1.4

SyncToy helps you copy, move, rename, and delete files between folders and computers quickly and easily.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=e0fc1154-c975-4814-9649-cce41af06eb7&DisplayLang=en

2007 Microsoft Office Add-in: Microsoft Save as PDF or XPS

This download allows you to export and save to the PDF and XPS formats in eight 2007 Microsoft Office programs. It also allows you to send as e-mail attachment in the PDF and XPS formats in a subset of these programs.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=4d951911-3e7e-4ae6-b059-a2e79ed87041&DisplayLang=en

Internet Explorer 7 Readiness Toolkit

The Internet Explorer 7 Readiness Toolkit provides an easy way for any audience that is involved in the development, test, deployment or support of Web sites, extensions, and/or applications to prepare for Internet Explorer 7.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=d13ee10d-2718-47f1-aa86-1e32d526383d&DisplayLang=en

Sysinternals Suite

The entire set of Sysinternals Utilities have been rolled up into a single Suite of tools. This file contains all the individual tools and help files.

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/utilities/sysinternalssuite.mspx
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/utilities/sysinternalssuite.mspx

Events/WebCasts

TechNet Webcast: Migrating from Windows NT Server 4.0 to Windows Server 2003 (Level 200)
In this webcast, we provide vital information about migrating from Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0 to Microsoft Windows Server 2003. Join us as we examine key aspects of the migration, such as choosing the migration path.
Friday, December 01, 2006
TechNet Webcast: Migrating from Windows NT Server 4.0 to Windows Server 2003 (Level 200)
MSDN Webcast: Custom Ribbon Development in 2007 Microsoft Office System Programs (Level 200)
In this webcast, we examine how to customize the new Ribbon user interface (UI) in Microsoft Office Word 2007, Office Excel 2007, and Office PowerPoint 2007.
Tuesday, December 05, 2006
MSDN Webcast: Custom Ribbon Development in 2007 Microsoft Office System Programs (Level 200)
Microsoft Webcast: Outsourcing Effects and Considerations for IT Managers
Outsourcing is the practice of delegating non-core operations or jobs from internal production within a business to an external entity (such as a subcontractor) that specializes in that operation.
Tuesday, December 05, 2006
Microsoft Webcast: Outsourcing Effects and Considerations for IT Managers
Momentum Webcast: Determining the Value of Software Assurance Renewal for Your Organization (Level 100)
This webcast is designed for growing and mid-sized organizations that have a Microsoft Software Assurance agreement through the Open Business, Open Value, Select, or Enterprise Agreement (EA) programs
Tuesday, December 05, 2006
Momentum Webcast: Determining the Value of Software Assurance Renewal for Your Organization (Level 100)
Microsoft Webcast: An Overview of Active Directory Features and Benefits
Active Directory directory service is a central component of the Microsoft Windows Server family that enables organizations to manage identities and broker relationships between distributed resources.
Tuesday, December 05, 2006
Microsoft Webcast: An Overview of Active Directory Features and Benefits
MCP Live Meeting: Windows Vista Certifications (Worldwide) (Session 1)
Join us on December 6 for an introduction to upcoming Windows Vista exams and certifications, pointers to current and planned training materials, and Q&A with the certification planners.
Wednesday, December 06, 2006
MCP Live Meeting: Windows Vista Certifications (Worldwide) (Session 1)
TechNet Webcast: Using Windows Vista Readiness Assessment to Determine the Capabilities of Your Organization’s Computer Hardware (Level 200)
Join this webcast to learn how the Windows Vista Readiness Assessment tool can help you centrally assess the hardware capabilities of your computers and devices from a single networked computer.
Wednesday, December 06, 2006
TechNet Webcast: Using Windows Vista Readiness Assessment to Determine the Capabilities of Your Organization’s Computer Hardware (Level 200)
Support WebCast: Exploring the nuances of remote file encryption
This session provides an overview of encryption and discusses the requirements of remote encryption. It also talks about tools for the Encrypting File System (EFS), and EFS file sharing.
Wednesday, December 06, 2006
Support WebCast: Exploring the nuances of remote file encryption
Microsoft Webcast: Planning a Successful Windows Vista Implementation
Planning is paramount when determining your strategy for rolling out the Windows Vista operating system. As part of the planning process, you
Wednesday, December 06, 2006
Microsoft Webcast: Planning a Successful Windows Vista Implementation
Small Business Webcast: An Overview of Windows Vista (Level 100)
Join this webcast to learn about the events planned for the launch of Windows Vista. We examine the hardware requirements and demonstrate the new user interface (UI).
Wednesday, December 06, 2006
Small Business Webcast: An Overview of Windows Vista (Level 100)
TechNet Webcast: Architecture and Planning Considerations for Deploying Microsoft Identity Integration Server (Level 200)
In this webcast, we present guidelines, best practices, and lessons learned from customers who have deployed Microsoft Identity Integration Server (MIIS).
Wednesday, December 06, 2006
TechNet Webcast: Architecture and Planning Considerations for Deploying Microsoft Identity Integration Server (Level 200)
devCast: Web Wednesdays-Windows Live: Intro to Gadgets
This devCast will provide a look at Windows Live and Windows Vista Gadgets. Learn today how you can develop these cool apps.
Wednesday, December 06, 2006
devCast: Web Wednesdays-Windows Live: Intro to Gadgets
MCP Live Meeting: Windows Vista Certifications (Worldwide) (Session 2)
Join us on December 6 for an introduction to upcoming Windows Vista exams and certifications, pointers to current and planned training materials, and Q&A with the certification planners.
Wednesday, December 06, 2006
MCP Live Meeting: Windows Vista Certifications (Worldwide) (Session 2)
Microsoft Office System Webcast: A First Look at the 2007 Microsoft Office System: Five Useful New E-mail and Collaboration Features (Level 100)
The 2007 Microsoft Office system helps users better manage their time and information, connect across system boundaries, and take advantage of a broad set of new capabilities for sharing information more effectively.
Thursday, December 07, 2006
Microsoft Office System Webcast: A First Look at the 2007 Microsoft Office System: Five Useful New E-mail and Collaboration Features (Level 100)
Windows Vista Support WebCast: Troubleshooting Network Issues on Windows Vista - New Network Diagnostics
In this session Tim Rains will introduce you to the Network Diagnostics Framework (NDF) and to the Network Connectivity Status Indicator (NCSI).
Thursday, December 07, 2006
Windows Vista Support WebCast: Troubleshooting Network Issues on Windows Vista - New Network Diagnostics
TechNet Webcast: Windows Server "Longhorn" and Windows Vista: Better Together (Level 200)
Join us as we explore important features that help you manage offline files, Group Policy, networking, Quality of Service (QOS), security, and deployment.
Thursday, December 07, 2006
TechNet Webcast: Windows Server "Longhorn" and Windows Vista: Better Together (Level 200)
Momentum Webcast: Discover How Using Windows Vista on HP Notebooks Provides Maximum Security, Mobility, and Performance (Level 100)
learn how pairing the Windows Vista operating system with the capabilities of HP notebook computers can provide excellent mobility and reliability to your users, while also offering a secure environment for your company-owned laptops.
Thursday, December 07, 2006
Momentum Webcast: Discover How Using Windows Vista on HP Notebooks Provides Maximum Security, Mobility, and Performance (Level 100)
TechNet Webcast: Active Directory Fundamentals (Level 200)
Learn what a directory service is and the benefits that Active Directory offers. We cover the logical concepts of domains, trees, and forests, as well as the physical concepts of domain controllers and sites.
Friday, December 08, 2006
TechNet Webcast: Active Directory Fundamentals (Level 200)
TechNet Webcast: Using Built-in Diagnostics in Windows Vista (Level 200)
Join this webcast to learn how Windows Vista detects potential issues and raises events, which you can use to monitor the behavior of desktops in your organization or to troubleshoot problems.
Monday, December 11, 2006
TechNet Webcast: Using Built-in Diagnostics in Windows Vista (Level 200)
Momentum Webcast: Enable Your Mobile Workforce by Using Mobile Solutions from Microsoft (Level 100)
Join this webcast to learn how mobile solutions from Microsoft can provide your business with a secure, adaptable, and integrated mobility platform that enables your IT department to reduce costs and complexity.
Monday, December 11, 2006
Momentum Webcast: Enable Your Mobile Workforce by Using Mobile Solutions from Microsoft (Level 100)
TechNet Webcast: Windows Vista Volume Activation 2.0 (Level 200)
In this webcast, we cover Volume Activation 2.0, the flexible solution that enables Microsoft Volume Licensing customers to activate products more securely and easily on computers that are running the Windows Vista operating system and Microsoft Windows Server code-named “Longhorn.” We provide a technical overview of the activation options, planning, reporting, and manageability, and we discuss other aspects of Volume Activation 2.0.
Tuesday, December 12, 2006
TechNet Webcast: Windows Vista Volume Activation 2.0 (Level 200)

Live Webcasts:
Full list can be found at: http://www.microsoft.com/events/default.mspx

Interactive Webcast Calendar
The interactive calendar will help you quickly find live webcasts that fit your schedule as well as on-demand webcasts to view at your convenience. You can choose your time zone and filter this list by audience, webcast series, product or topic, and presenter.
http://www.microsoft.com/events/webcasts/calendar/monthview.aspx

Monthly Archived Webcasts:
http://www.microsoft.com/events/webcasts/library/default.mspx

Tech-Ed 2006 Webcast Series
https://www.msteched.com/content/webcasts.aspx

New KB’s

A user account may be inconsistent across a DHCP cluster when you change the DNS dynamic update credentials in Windows Server 2003
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=926296
When you use the Dsrevoke command-line tool to report permissions for all the organizational units in a Windows Server 2003-based domain, the tool may not return all the access control entries
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=927068
No error is raised when the Hidusb.sys driver cannot reset a device port in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=914015
You receive a stop error message when you use a Bluetooth radio on a Windows XP-based computer
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=924941
FIX: Error message when you browse a file that uses a custom MIME type in Internet Explorer 6 on a computer that is running Windows XP Service Pack 2: "The file you are downloading cannot be opened by the default program"
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=925832
When 16 concurrent connections have been made from a single IP address to a Windows Storage Server 2003 R2-based computer that is running Server for NFS, no additional connections can be made
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=916794
You are prompted for a CD that was not provided when you try to add or remove Windows components in Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=927106
The maximum number of concurrent connections is reset to 10 after you run the Sysprep tool in Windows Server 2003 Compute Cluster Edition
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=927359
Telephony API-based applications stop responding and you cannot disconnect telephone calls on a Windows 2000 Server-based telephony server
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=925783
You cannot use Virtual Disk Service 1.1 to retrieve the MPIO path information or to set the MPIO load balance policy for LUNs in iSCSI hardware providers in Windows Server 2003 R2
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=922244
How to configure remote IPsec management and remote IPsec monitoring from Windows Server 2003-based and Windows XP Professional-based computers
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=925631
You receive an error message after you add a Samba Linux server to a Windows Server 2003 domain or to a Windows 2000 domain
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=924853
You cannot replicate files from a Windows Server 2003-based domain controller and events are logged in the File Replication Service log
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=925633
Interactive Logon and Scripting options may not work on a Windows-based computer after you install security update 911280 (MS06-025)
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=921351
A DFS namespace root is not published as expected in Windows Server 2003
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=925636
An update is available to upgrade PNRP to PNRP version 2.0 for computers that are running Microsoft Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=920342
You may experience slow printing performance on a Windows XP-based computer that uses printers that are hosted on a Samba server
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=909987
When you try to download a file from the Internet by using Internet Explorer in Windows XP, the download stops responding
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=925681
The Microsoft Compression Client Pack 1.0 for Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=927374
On a Windows XP-based computer, the icon and label for an HD DVD drive or for a Blu-ray Disc drive are not displayed correctly in My Computer and in Windows Explorer
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=926969
Network Map in Windows Vista does not display computers that are running Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=922120
The Licensing Mode screen incorrectly appears when you install Windows Storage Server 2003 R2
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=927915
The behavior of reduced functionality mode in Windows Vista
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=925582
You cannot use a consumer electronics DVD recorder to record to a DVD that was formatted with Windows Vista
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=927131
After you install a device or update a driver for a device, Windows Vista may not start
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=927525
How to force Windows Photo Gallery to display images by using GDI on a Windows Vista-based computer
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=927830
FIX: The Microsoft Distributed Transaction Coordinator may crash, and the following error message is logged in the system event log: "The MS DTC Transaction Manager is in an inconsistent state and cannot proceed"
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=923871
The size of the $vds$.log file grows quickly after you remove a RAW file system storage device from a Windows Server 2003-based computer
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=924733
The "User must change password at next logon" check box is not automatically selected after you modify the "Maximum password age" policy in a Windows Server 2003 or Windows 2000 environment
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=927054
Event ID: 27 occurs when you import a transportable snapshot on a computer that is running Windows Server 2003
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=924058
Error message when you try to access a server locally by using its FQDN or its CNAME alias after you install Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1: "Access denied" or "No network provider accepted the given network path"
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=926642
Windows Server 2003 does not start after you remove a mirror from the boot disk and then physically switch the boot disk and the mirror disk
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=925581
Microsoft Security Advisory: Exploit code has been published that affects the Workstation service in Windows 2000
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=928604
The heavy use of Winsock programs may exhaust the system's non-paged pool memory in Windows Server 2003
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=927493
A server that is running Microsoft Windows Server 2003 may not recognize the new Teredo address format
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=922483
Error message when you continuously use the Dfsrdiag.exe utility to query DFS Replication for backlog information in Windows Server 2003 R2
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=925377
When you start an Itanium-based client computer and then try to connect to a WDS server that is running Windows Server 2003, you may be unable to see the OSChooser menu
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=927167
MS06-066: Vulnerability in the Client Service could allow remote code execution
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=923980
Detection and deployment guidance for the November 2006 security release
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=928117
MS06-067: Cumulative security update for Internet Explorer
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=922760
Stop error message when you try to shut down Windows Server 2003: "STOP 0x000000CE DRIVER_UNLOADED_WITHOUT_CANCELLING_PENDING_OPERATIONS"
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=927547
Error message on a Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1-based computer that is configured to use the Network Address Translation (NAT) functionality: "STOP: 0x000000D1 (parameter1 , 0x00000002, 0x00000000, 0xf27b4e8e)"
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=926754
Event ID 215 is logged after you use the NTBackup utility to perform a system state backup on a computer that is running Windows Server 2003
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=927654
Windows Media Player 10 may close unexpectedly on a Windows XP-based computer
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=926239
MS06-069: Vulnerabilities in Macromedia Flash Player from Adobe could allow remote code execution
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=923789
MS06-070: Vulnerability in Workstation Service could allow remote code execution
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=924270
The Taiwan option is no longer available in the "Country/region" list after you install update 893756 on a computer that is running the "Traditional Chinese for Hong Kong" version of Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=927810
Error message when when you try to clear or to back up the Security log on a Windows XP-based computer: "Stop 0xC0000244 (STATUS_AUDIT_FAILED)"
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=925112