Technical RollUp : September

September 2009 – Technical Rollup Mail – Security

conuktrm — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 02:01:00 GMT

News

TechNet Edge Video: Windows 7 Security Overview http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=12348082&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474

19 minutes

Paul Cooke discusses the core security features of Windows 7 and explores their usage scenarios. Businesses will benefit from enhancements that help protect sensitive information, that provide stronger protections against malware and that help secure anywhere access to corporate resources and data.

Security & Privacy Blogs: Latest Updates and Thoughts from Our Security Experts http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=12348083&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474

Tap into the pool of security experience and knowledge from experts and peers throughout Microsoft and check out the latest information from our bloggers. Sort by keyword, follow by RSS, translate into a dozen languages, and share our findings and insights with your organization’s security team.

Protecting Your Data with Windows 7 BitLocker and BitLocker To Go (Level 300) http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=12348084&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474

In this webcast, we examine BitLocker enhancements and capabilities. We set up and configure Trusted Module Management personal identification numbers (PINs) using Windows Platform Trusted Module Management, and we configure startup key storage.

How Windows Server 2008 R2 Affects Your IT Infrastructure (Level 300) http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=12348085&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474

We will be covering many new features included in Windows Server 2008 R2 that improve the cost of ownership. We will be taking a closer look at specific technologies that will improve administration, data center, and branch office deployments.

Now Available! System Center Configuration Manager Extensions for SCAP http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=12355498&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474

With the System Center Configuration Manager Extensions for SCAP, Configuration Manager can consume Security Content Automation Protocol (SCAP) data streams, assess systems for compliance, and generate report results in SCAP format.

Introducing the Trustworthy Computing Security and Privacy Blog Aggregator http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=12355499&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474

Stay up to date with Microsoft Trustworthy Computing’s top bloggers. Read posts in different languages, search entries by keyword, and much more.

A Safer Internet Through Information Sharing http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=12355500&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474

In this report, the Microsoft Security Response Center summarizes the progress on three security-related programs—the Microsoft Active Protections Program, the Microsoft Exploitability Index, and Microsoft Vulnerability Research—that have increased your access to more effective countermeasures and additional information to help you better evaluate risks.

Securing the Microsoft Cloud Infrastructure http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=12355501&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474

Gain an understanding of what cloud computing at Microsoft means today and how the company delivers a trustworthy cloud-computing infrastructure with this white paper from the Online Services Security and Compliance team, a part of the Global Foundation Services division that manages security for the Microsoft cloud infrastructure.

Learning Path: Improving Database Security with SQL Server 2008 http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=12355513&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474

Use this learning path to find out about new tools and security features in SQL Server 2008 to help keep your databases more secure. For example, learn how to create a policy that defines the desired surface area settings, enforce the Windows password policy on your SQL Server accounts, and activate Web Service endpoint authentication.

Learning Path: Providing Security for an Evolving IT Infrastructure http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=12355514&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474

Use the resources in this learning path to better understand how to approach security issues like dissolving network perimeters, disrupted security models from new technologies like virtualization, and the evolving Web platform.

Microsoft Security Development Lifecycle Template: What It Means for Developers http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=12355515&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474

Find out more about the new process template for Microsoft Visual Studio Team System, which is intended to ease adoption of the Microsoft Security Development Lifecycle (SDL), in this Channel 9 interview with Microsoft SDL Program Manager Jeremy Dallman.

Microsoft Security Bulletin Summary for August, 2009

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms09-aug.mspx

Microsoft Product Lifecycle Information

Find information about your particular products on the Microsoft Product Lifecycle http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=12355452&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474 Web site.

See a list of supported service packs http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=12355453&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474: Microsoft provides free software updates for security and nonsecurity issues for all supported service packs

Forefront Edge Security

Forefront Threat Management Gateway Beta 3

Get the latest beta of the new secure Web gateway, including new URL filtering capabilities.

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

http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=141234&clcid=0x409

Evaluate Microsoft Forefront Unified Access Gateway Beta 2 today

Forefront Unified Access Gateway Beta 2 provides an easy and secure remote access solution with a focus on application intelligence and granular access control. Forefront UAG is the one solution to fit all of your remote access needs, as it provides centralized management and policy control across all users, devices, and network resources. When you download the latest beta software, you're automatically registered to access valuable beta resources assembled in one convenient location.

http://technet.microsoft.com/evalcenter/dd183100.aspx

Forefront TMG and ISA 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

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:

A Few Words on the TMG Firewall Client

http://blogs.technet.com/isablog/archive/2009/05/29/a-few-words-on-the-tmg-firewall-client.aspx

IPSec Domain Isolation Using ISA Server Updated and Reposted

http://blogs.technet.com/isablog/archive/2009/05/31/ipsec-domain-isolation-using-isa-server-updated-and-reposted.aspx

ISA BPA 7 and Forefront TMG for Windows Essential Business Server

http://blogs.technet.com/isablog/archive/2009/06/04/isa-bpa-7-and-forefront-tmg-for-windows-essential-business-server.aspx

FWC Parser for Netmon 3.3 on CodePlex

http://blogs.technet.com/isablog/archive/2009/06/04/fwc-parser-for-netmon-3-3-on-codeplex.aspx

Forefront TMG Beta 3 is Released

http://blogs.technet.com/isablog/archive/2009/06/09/forefront-tmg-beta-3-is-released.aspx

URL Filtering is Here!

http://blogs.technet.com/isablog/archive/2009/06/10/url-filtering-is-here.aspx

Troubleshooting Authentication Issues in ISA Server Using Net Logon Logging

http://blogs.technet.com/isablog/archive/2009/06/12/troubleshooting-authentication-issues-in-isa-server-using-net-logon-logging.aspx

Introducing Forefront Network Inspection System (NIS) in TMG Beta 3 release

http://blogs.technet.com/isablog/archive/2009/06/16/introducing-forefront-network-inspection-system-nis-in-tmg-beta-3-release.aspx

How to exclude specific computers from URL Filtering?

http://blogs.technet.com/isablog/archive/2009/06/17/how-to-exclude-specific-computers-from-url-filtering.aspx

Bing Safe Search, ISA Server and Forefront TMG

http://blogs.technet.com/isablog/archive/2009/06/19/bing-safe-search-isa-server-and-forefront-tmg.aspx

ISA Integrated NLB - Multicast with IGMP… ISA “blocks” IGMP packets

http://blogs.technet.com/isablog/archive/2009/06/22/isa-integrated-nlb-multicast-with-igmp-isa-blocks-igmp-packets.aspx

Understand duplicate authentication prompts ISA 2006 publishing MOSS using FBA

http://blogs.technet.com/isablog/archive/2009/06/23/understand-duplicate-authentication-prompts-isa-2006-publishing-moss-using-fba.aspx

Configuring Network Inspection System (NIS)

http://blogs.technet.com/isablog/archive/2009/06/28/configuring-network-inspection-system-nis.aspx

TMG SCOM-Pack – Monitor TMG with System Center 2007 R2

http://blogs.technet.com/isablog/archive/2009/06/29/tmg-scom-pack-monitor-tmg-with-system-center-2007-r2.aspx

New Forefront TMG Beta Documentation on TechNet

http://blogs.technet.com/isablog/archive/2009/07/08/new-forefront-tmg-beta-documentation-on-technet.aspx

Joining Microsoft Telemetry community with Forefront Threat Management Gateway (TMG) Beta 3

http://blogs.technet.com/isablog/archive/2009/07/12/joining-microsoft-telemetry-community-with-forefront-threat-management-gateway-tmg.aspx

MS09-031: ISA Server 2006 FBA and RADIUS OTP Bulletin

http://blogs.technet.com/isablog/archive/2009/07/13/ms09-031-isa-server-2006-fba-and-radius-otp-bulletin.aspx

Office Web Components Advisory, ISA Server and Forefront TMG

http://blogs.technet.com/isablog/archive/2009/07/16/office-web-components-advisory-isa-server-and-forefront-tmg.aspx

Update on the Office Web Components Advisory

http://blogs.technet.com/isablog/archive/2009/07/22/update-on-the-office-web-components-advisory.aspx

Announcing the Availability of Forefront TMG Beta 3 Tools & SDK

http://blogs.technet.com/isablog/archive/2009/07/26/announcing-the-availability-of-forefront-tmg-beta-3-tools-sdk.aspx

Excessive Authentication Traffic accessing an IIS site when using ISA Server 2006 as Forward Proxy

http://blogs.technet.com/isablog/archive/2009/07/30/excessive-authentication-traffic-accessing-an-iis-site-when-using-isa-server-2006-as-forward-proxy.aspx

An Inside View: The Road From Beta to RTM

http://blogs.technet.com/isablog/archive/2009/08/04/an-inside-view-the-road-from-beta-to-rtm.aspx

Announcing the Availability of Forefront TMG URL Filtering Telemetry Package

http://blogs.technet.com/isablog/archive/2009/08/13/announcing-the-availability-of-forefront-tmg-url-filtering-telemetry-package.aspx

New Tales From the Edge Articles

http://blogs.technet.com/isablog/archive/2009/08/15/new-tales-from-the-edge-articles.aspx

Another Case where Users are randomly prompt for Authentication while Browsing Internet through ISA Server 2006

http://blogs.technet.com/isablog/archive/2009/08/18/another-case-where-users-are-randomly-prompt-for-authentication-while-browsing-internet-through-isa-server-2006.aspx

Redirection to OWA 2007 Directory in ISA 2004/2006

http://blogs.technet.com/isablog/archive/2009/08/24/redirection-to-owa-2007-directory-in-isa-2004-2006.aspx

Side Effects of Incorrect DNS configuration on ISA Server: 10060 Connection Timeout Scenario

http://blogs.technet.com/isablog/archive/2009/08/27/side-effects-of-incorrect-dns-configuration-on-isa-server-10060-connection-timeout-scenario.aspx

Forefront Unified Access Gateway & 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

Forefront Unified Access Gateway Product Team Blog

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

Introducing the IAG/UAG public forum

http://blogs.technet.com/edgeaccessblog/archive/2009/06/07/introducing-the-iag-uag-public-forum.aspx

Forefront UAG Beta is Coming to Town

http://blogs.technet.com/edgeaccessblog/archive/2009/06/11/forefront-uag-beta-is-coming-to-town.aspx

Introducing Forefront Unified Access Gateway

http://blogs.technet.com/edgeaccessblog/archive/2009/06/16/introducing-forefront-unified-access-gateway.aspx

Remote Access Technologies of the World – Unite!

http://blogs.technet.com/edgeaccessblog/archive/2009/06/18/remote-access-technologies-of-the-world-unite.aspx

Introducing UAG DirectAccess solution

http://blogs.technet.com/edgeaccessblog/archive/2009/06/22/introducing-uag-directaccess-solution.aspx

UAG Array and Network Load Balancing

http://blogs.technet.com/edgeaccessblog/archive/2009/06/29/array-and-network-load-balancing.aspx

Adding the SSTP Magic to the UAG Charm

http://blogs.technet.com/edgeaccessblog/archive/2009/07/05/adding-the-sstp-magic-to-the-uag-charm.aspx

Ready, Set, Download! Forefront UAG Beta is here!

http://blogs.technet.com/edgeaccessblog/archive/2009/07/13/ready-set-download-forefront-uag-beta-is-here.aspx

Forefront UAG Beta 2 Docs

http://blogs.technet.com/edgeaccessblog/archive/2009/07/14/forefront-uag-beta-2-docs.aspx

What’s in UAG for the end-users

http://blogs.technet.com/edgeaccessblog/archive/2009/07/19/what-s-in-uag-for-the-end-users.aspx

New White Paper: Implementing an ADFS Solution for Microsoft Dynamics CRM by Using Intelligent Application Gateway (IAG)

http://blogs.technet.com/edgeaccessblog/archive/2009/07/20/new-white-paper-implementing-an-adfs-solution-for-microsoft-dynamics-crm-by-using-intelligent-application-gateway-iag.aspx

Comparing UAG and TMG arrays

http://blogs.technet.com/edgeaccessblog/archive/2009/07/20/comparing-uag-and-tmg-arrays.aspx

Deep Dive Into DirectAccess - Part 1

http://blogs.technet.com/edgeaccessblog/archive/2009/07/27/deep-dive-into-directaccess-part-1.aspx

Faster, Higher, Stronger – UAG Performance

http://blogs.technet.com/edgeaccessblog/archive/2009/08/02/faster-higher-stronger-uag-performance.aspx

Considerations for Exchange Publishing

http://blogs.technet.com/edgeaccessblog/archive/2009/08/10/considerations-for-exchange-publishing.aspx

Deep Dive Into DirectAccess - Part 2

http://blogs.technet.com/edgeaccessblog/archive/2009/08/27/deep-dive-into-directaccess-part-2.aspx

Documents

Common SQL Server Security Issues and Solutions http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=12355502&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474

Have you found yourself inadvertently in charge of a SQL Server database and don’t know all the best practices for making it secure? Get a quick overview of the top 10 security areas you should worry about, common problems, and solutions.

Securing SQL Server http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=12355503&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474

Securing SQL Server can be viewed as a series of steps, involving four areas: the platform, authentication, objects (including data), and applications that access the system. Get detailed, step-by-step guidance on how to create and implement an effective security plan.

SQL Server 2008 Replication Security http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=12355504&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474

Get guidance to help you protect the replication scenarios that you deploy in SQL Server 2008 from malicious attacks and improve the security of your data.

How Do I: Defend Against Truncation-Based SQL Injection Attacks? http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=12355505&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474

This video demonstrates how this property of truncation may be used by an attacker to circumvent the above mentioned mitigation, resulting in a SQL injection attack. Various options for fixing SQL injection issues are also discussed.

Microsoft Source Code Analyzer for SQL Injection http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=12355506&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474

This static code analysis tool for finding SQL Injection vulnerabilities in ASP code will scan ASP source code and generate warnings related to first-order and second-order SQL Injection vulnerabilities. It will also provide annotation support that can be used to improve the analysis of the code.

Tuning Microsoft Forefront Client Security Database Components http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=12355507&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474

Microsoft Forefront Client Security uses SQL Server for collection and reporting databases. When you are choosing the SQL Server edition and the hardware on which it will run, take the topics discussed in this article into consideration.

Microsoft Security Update Guide http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=12355508&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474

Gain a better understanding of the Microsoft security release information, processes, communications, and tools—and how to manage organizational risk and develop a repeatable, effective deployment mechanism for security updates.

Microsoft Operations Framework 4.0 http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=12355509&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474

The Microsoft Operations Framework (MOF) is designed to help IT professionals quickly access practical, relevant information on how to connect service management principles to everyday IT tasks and activities, and to ensure alignment between IT and the business. Included in MOF 4.0 is guidance on how to use the framework to achieve the governance, risk, and compliance objectives defined in the COBIT and Val IT governance frameworks.

Firewall Client Basics: Introduction to the ISA Server Firewall Client and Forefront TMG Client

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee291341.aspx

Troubleshooting “Primary CSS down” scenario

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee388575.aspx

Understanding E-Mail Protection on Forefront TMG

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee338733.aspx

New Forefront TMG Beta Documentation on TechNet

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee207140.aspx

New Forefront UAG Beta 2 Documentation on TechNet

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd861463.aspx

White Paper: Implementing an ADFS Solution for Microsoft Dynamics CRM by Using IAG

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=47ee7f73-6059-4b20-a305-1b8b2b23f0e9

Downloads

The Microsoft Office Visualization Tool (OffVis) Fact Sheet

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=19a1a252-c3af-4474-b33c-158c6e85115e

iDefense Review of Microsoft Exploitability Index

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=73773376-f70d-46ff-8550-77dc1c76bf99

Press Release - Black Hat 2009

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=15bcec81-e0eb-42a8-9f26-f1f7705fb310

The Microsoft Security Update Guide

Microsoft Security Update Guide: Helping IT Professionals Better Understand and Maximize Microsoft Security Update Release Information, Processes, Communications, and Tools.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=c3d986d0-ecc3-4ce0-9c25-048ec5b52a4f

Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration Server 2006 Management Pack for OpsMgr 2007

This management pack monitors the performance and availability of ISA Server 2006.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=c576fcdf-42f0-4eb5-990d-e8e7c7e9c07e

Building a Safer, More Trusted Internet through Information Sharing

Building a Safer, More Trusted Internet through Information Sharing: A report from the Microsoft Security Response Center on the progress of three initiatives that share information to foster deeper industry collaboration, increase community-based defenses, and better protect customers.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=db611a07-9454-4daf-b799-0843625b7b60

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/en/results.aspx?displaylang=en&period=30&nr=50&sortCriteria=Date&sortOrder=Ascending&stype=s_adv

Microsoft Operations Framework (MOF) 4.0

MOF 4.0 is practical guidance for IT organizations. With the release of version 4.0, MOF now reflects a single, comprehensive IT service lifecycle—it helps IT professionals connect service management principles to everyday IT tasks and activities and ensures alignment between IT and the business.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=457ed61d-27b8-49d1-baca-b175e8f54c0c

Forefront Online Security for Exchange (FOSE) 9.1 Product Documents

Product documents for FOSE 9.1 include the following: New Features Guide, Administration Center User Guide, Directory Synchronization Tool Administration Guide, Customer Quick Cards and Forefront Online Security for Exchange Filtering Service Launch and Best Practices

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=9c34eba6-059b-455a-a44f-96b1b06b4b21

Microsoft Forefront Server Security Management Console Documentation

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?displaylang=en&FamilyID=ae4ce23b-9e1e-455c-87a4-36167fe43107

Microsoft Forefront Security for SharePoint with SP1 Documentation

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=125efb1e-7ff8-4cc8-934a-28fc7c7e59f0

Microsoft Antigen SP1 Documentation

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

Microsoft Forefront Security for Exchange Server with SP1 Documentation

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=5cd4e36e-2dab-44d6-990e-3b8184b1cb1b

Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration Server 2006 Management Pack for OpsMgr 2007

This management pack monitors the performance and availability of ISA Server 2006.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=c576fcdf-42f0-4eb5-990d-e8e7c7e9c07e

Update for Windows Mail Junk E-mail Filter for x64-based Systems [August 2009] (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?displaylang=en&FamilyID=749e10cd-f40c-4f94-8e38-d4221ded7652

Update for Windows Mail Junk E-mail Filter [August 2009] (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?displaylang=en&FamilyID=aa029fde-f341-44fc-8b85-0c6f3d3c2d69

August 2009 Security Release ISO Image

This DVD5 ISO image file contains the security updates for Windows released on Windows Update on August 11th, 2009.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=4c9ed44e-6a3e-45ea-9830-0c23f37d77a4

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?displaylang=en&FamilyID=585d2bde-367f-495e-94e7-6349f4effc74

Microsoft® Windows® Malicious Software Removal Tool (KB890830)

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

Update for Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 Junk Email Filter (KB972688)

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/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=44f8ad34-969a-4402-aa83-8a78941de573

Update for Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 Junk Email Filter (KB972691)

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/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=2b832213-f733-4e90-85ea-a086c671f891

Windows Firewall with Advanced Security: Step-by-Step Guide: Deploying Windows Firewall and IPsec Policies

This step-by-step guide illustrates how to deploy Active Directory® Group Policy objects (GPOs) to configure Windows Firewall with Advanced Security.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=0b937897-ce39-498e-bb37-751c00f197d9

Extended Security Update Inventory Tool

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

URL Filtering Telemetry Package for Forefront Threat Management Gateway Beta 3

Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway (TMG) is a comprehensive Secure Web Gateway solution that helps protect employees from Web-based threats. Microsoft URL filtering telemetry package can be installed on servers running Forefront TMG Beta3 to assist Microsoft with improving the quality of the URL filtering database and fine-tuning it for your specific business environment.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=f7e5907d-60ae-4f39-8660-9a959db5a6e6

Windows Server 2008 R2 Core Network Companion Guide: Deploying Computer and User Certificates

This companion guide to the Core Network Guide provides instructions on how to deploy client computer and user certificates with Active Directory Certificate Services (AD CS) and Group Policy.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=3418ee02-1a6a-4286-8eec-49cacf8f8f6f

Microsoft SCEP Implementation Whitepaper.

This whitepaper provides an overview of Microsoft implementation for SCEP in the Windows Server 2008 R2

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=e11780de-819f-40d7-8b8e-10845bc8d446

Microsoft Forefront Server Security 2010 Privacy Statement

This document describes the privacy policy for Microsoft Forefront Security 2010 for Exchange and Microsoft Forefront Security 2010 for SharePoint.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=72d99943-8558-4b31-bcf8-bbc08e3a2ffa

Forefront Security 2010 for Exchange Server Release Candidate

Microsoft Forefront Security 2010 for Exchange Server provides fast and effective protection against malware and spam by including multiple scanning engines from industry-leading security partners. It also integrates with Forefront Online Security for Exchange to provide the defense-in-depth benefits of hosted and on-premise filtering in a single solution.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=b8a7d36f-cc8d-4335-ae60-8f27c48f3a37

Forefront Threat Management Gateway Beta 3

http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=141234&clcid=0x409

URL Filtering Telemetry Package for Forefront Threat Management Gateway Beta 3

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=f7e5907d-60ae-4f39-8660-9a959db5a6e6&displaylang=en

Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway (TMG) Beta 3 Tools & Software Development Kit

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=dff77975-84bf-484f-a3bd-9d8dd800e220

ISA BPA 7 and Forefront TMG for Windows Essential Business Server

http://isabpa.com

Microsoft Forefront Unified Access Gateway Beta 2

http://technet.microsoft.com/evalcenter/dd183100.aspx

Events/WebCasts

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: Information About Microsoft September Security Bulletins (Level 200)

Wednesday, September 09, 2009 11:00 A.M.-12:30 P.M. Pacific Time

Momentum Webcast: Optimize Your Desktop Infrastructure with Windows 7 and MDOP (Level 100)

Thursday, September 24, 2009 11:00 A.M.-12:00 P.M. Pacific Time

On-Demand Security Webcasts

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

Security Awareness Materials http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=11524381&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474

Guidance, samples, and templates for creating a security-awareness program in your organization.

Learn Security On the Job http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=11524382&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474

Learning Paths for Security - Microsoft Training References and Resources http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=11524383&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474

Visit TechNet Spotlight: www.microsoft.com/technetspotlight

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

New or updated KB’s

Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration Server

FIX: A user is prompted to change the password although the account is configured as "Password never expires" when the user tries to log on to an intranet Web site published by using ISA Server 2006 FBA

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971142

Description of the ISA Server 2006 hotfix package: July 14, 2009

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971143

FIX: Outlook clients cannot access the Exchange Server that is running in a Windows server cluster and is published in ISA Server 2004 by using the Exchange RPC Server protocol

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/970452

Description of the ISA Server 2004 hotfix package: June 2, 2009

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/970454

FIX: Incoming VPN connections are rejected by an ISA Server 2004 RADIUS server that is operating on a Windows Server 2003-based computer

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/970451

FIX: The ISA Server Control service cannot start after you install the MS09-012 update on a computer that operates with more than 4 CPU cores

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/970450

FIX: After you install an update for a non-English version of ISA Server 2004 with Service Pack 3, some English shortcuts are added to the Microsoft ISA Server submenu on the Start menu

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/970903

Forefront TMG and ISA Server

An ISA server or Forefront Threat Management Gateway server requests credentials when client computers in the same domain use Internet Explorer to access Web sites that contain Java programs

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/925881

A.O.B

Microsoft SDL Pro Network Member: iSEC Partners http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=12355510&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474

iSEC Partners is a full-service security consulting firm that offers a variety of mobile, Web application, and client/server security services. Services provided by iSEC Partners include penetration testing, secure systems development, security education, and software design verification.

Community Article of the Month: Hunting SQL Injection Bugs http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=12355512&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474

In this article, Brad Hill and Geng Yang from iSEC Partners offer some tips and tricks to help you hunt down and eliminate SQL injection in your applications.

Security Help and Support for IT Professionals http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=12355518&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474

TechNet Troubleshooting and Support Page http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=12355519&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474

Microsoft Security Glossary http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=12355520&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474

TechNet Security Center http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=12355521&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474

MSDN Security Developer Center http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=12355522&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474

Sign-Up for the Microsoft Security Notification Service http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=12355523&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474

Security Bulletin Search Page http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=12355524&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474

Home Users: Protect Your PC http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=12355525&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474

MCSE/MCSA: Security Certifications http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=12355526&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474

Subscribe to TechNet http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=12355527&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474

Register for TechNet Flash IT Newsletter http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=12355528&s1=68628015-2ccc-cbc7-31b9-0e76c3415474

September 2009 – Technical Rollup Mail – Internet

conuktrm — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 02:01:00 GMT

News

Biztalk Server

Arizona Department of Health Services - Arizona Health Agency Ups Quality and Security with Interoperable Exchange Solution

http://www.microsoft.com/casestudies/Case_Study_Detail.aspx?casestudyid=4000005113

Plzen Region Government - Czech Region Citizen Portal Offers Access to 70 Public Service Online Transactions

http://www.microsoft.com/casestudies/Case_Study_Detail.aspx?casestudyid=4000005057

Microsoft Internet Information Server

8 New Free ASP.NET and PHP Open Source Apps in the Web App Gallery

It's been four months since we launched the Windows Web Application Gallery, and we've been adding apps to the Gallery steadily. Today saw the arrival of SugarCRM Community Edition (CE) , a free customer relationship management PHP open source application...

http://blogs.iis.net/mailant/archive/2009/07/30/8-new-free-asp-net-and-php-open-source-apps-in-the-web-app-gallery.aspx

URL Rewrite Module 2.0 for IIS 7 – Beta

Today IIS team has released the URL Rewrite Module 2.0 for IIS 7 – Beta. This is an incremental release that includes all the features from version 1.1, and adds support for outbound response rewriting. More specifically, it can be used to: Replace...

http://blogs.iis.net/ruslany/archive/2009/07/16/url-rewrite-module-2-0-for-iis-7-beta.aspx

Getting both FastCGI module and AppPool CPULimit to work

FastCGI module available in IIS 7.0 did not work when CPULimit for the application pool was enabled. This was because when CPULimit feature was enabled WAS uses job objects to track CPU usage of worker processes. WAS keeps a job object for each application...

http://blogs.iis.net/ksingla/archive/2009/07/02/getting-both-fastcgi-module-and-apppool-cpulimit-to-work.aspx

SharePoint Technologies

SharePoint in Plain English

This is a short video that explains in simple terms what SharePoint is, and why and how people use it.

August 19, 2009: Microsoft SharePoint Team Blog

http://www.microsoft.com/video/en/us/details/76e8d3af-c2bd-42a6-bb12-befcbd041bf1

Microsoft’s SharePoint Thrives in the Recession

While Microsoft’s Windows sales fell for the first time in history this year, its SharePoint sales have gone up. SharePoint broke the $1 billion revenue mark last year and continued to rise past that total this year, making it the hottest selling server-side product ever for the company.

August 12, 2009: New York Times

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/07/microsofts-sharepoint-thrives-in-the-recession/

Second largest Brazilian Airline Automates Web Content Management, Drives Agility, and Reduces Costs with “SharePoint For Internet Sites”

Gol migrated its Internet site infrastructure to Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Server 2007 and integrated Web content publication workflows. In addition, the company reduced by three days the time it took employees to publish marketing promotions on the Web and is currently maximizing the value of its e-commerce portal with timely content that launches more quickly, reaches more people, and enables more sales. For Gol, this is a key business advantage to help it navigate a profitable course through turbulent economic times.

August 10, 2009: Microsoft Case Studies

http://www.microsoft.com/casestudies/Case_Study_Detail.aspx?CaseStudyID=4000004966

Documents

Biztalk Server

White paper - BizTalk Adapter Pack: Connecting LOB Systems and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd442475(BTS.10).aspx

White paper - BizTalk Server and WCF Support in Visual Studio 2008

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd443655(BTS.10).aspx

Downloads

Biztalk Server

Microsoft BizTalk Adapter Pack Readme and Microsoft BizTalk Adapter Pack Installation Guide

Download the latest readme and the installation instructions for the BizTalk Adapter Pack.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=d9f588e9-fa3e-4b81-a598-ddd9f471f382

Microsoft BizTalk Adapter Pack 1.0

Documentation for the BizTalk Adapter Pack 1.0 in CHM format.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=58bd17c8-8efa-4b69-ab51-9f5b11a962dc

Installing UDDI Services 3.0

Guidance for installing and configuring UDDI Services 3.0

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=9d1831cc-8146-486b-b489-a06a1aa2fb5b

BizTalk Server Best Practices Analyzer V1.2

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=93d432fe-1370-4b6d-aaa8-a0c43c30f5ab

Microsoft Internet Information Server

Microsoft FTP Service 7.5 for IIS 7.0 (x86)

The Microsoft FTP Service 7.5 for IIS 7.0 helps you enable powerful publishing capabilities for your Web environment.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=b7f5b652-8c5c-447a-88b8-8cfc5c13f571

Microsoft FTP Service 7.5 for IIS 7.0 (x64)

The Microsoft FTP Service 7.5 for IIS 7.0 helps you enable powerful publishing capabilities for your Web environment.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=ffb7c167-279e-48d3-8169-dea85784c4d1

IIS DownloadCENTER

This is your single source for finding Microsoft Internet Information Services tools, samples, extensions, filters and modules created by Microsoft and the IIS community.

http://www.iis.net/downloads

SharePoint Technologies

Microsoft Forefront Server Security Management Console Documentation

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?displaylang=en&familyid=ae4ce23b-9e1e-455c-87a4-36167fe43107

Office SharePoint Server IT Pro content CHM

Downloadable CHM version of SharePoint Server content on TechNet.

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

Microsoft SharePoint Administration Toolkit v4.0 x86

The Microsoft® SharePoint® Administration Toolkit contains functionality to help administrate and manage Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Server 2007 and Windows® SharePoint® Services version 3.0.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=cd2d09a7-1159-4d40-be1c-8efab1345381

Microsoft SharePoint Administration Toolkit v4.0 x64

The Microsoft® SharePoint® Administration Toolkit contains functionality to help administrate and manage Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Server 2007 and Windows® SharePoint® Services version 3.0.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=665e98ea-5318-486d-aba2-2bfe46254357

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/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=c9d6c8c5-8a62-4961-8c1b-df08b667b1c4

Microsoft SharePoint Administration Toolkit v4.0 x86

The Microsoft® SharePoint® Administration Toolkit contains functionality to help administrate and manage Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Server 2007 and Windows® SharePoint® Services version 3.0.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=cd2d09a7-1159-4d40-be1c-8efab1345381

Microsoft SharePoint Administration Toolkit v4.0 x64

The Microsoft® SharePoint® Administration Toolkit contains functionality to help administrate and manage Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Server 2007 and Windows® SharePoint® Services version 3.0.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=665e98ea-5318-486d-aba2-2bfe46254357

Migration Manager for SharePoint

Migration Manager 2.0 provides a solid migration project management framework on top of Microsoft Content Migration API and the stsadm utility that automates and streamlines content migration for SharePoint 2007 (both MOSS and WSS 3.0) deployments.

http://sharepointforall.com/blogs/team/archive/2009/06/11/sneak-preview-of-migration-manager-for-sharepoint-2-0-part-i.aspx

SharePoint Diagnostics (SPDiag) Tool v1.0 for SharePoint Products and TechnologiesWhat does this tool do?

The SharePoint Diagnostics (SPDiag) tool v1.0 greatly simplifies the process of gathering and analyzing troubleshooting data, and can significantly reduce the time needed to diagnose issues. SPDiag v1.0 provides administrators with a unified interface for troubleshooting SharePoint performance issues, and saves collected data and reports to a SQL Server database.

Microsoft SharePoint Administration Toolkit v3.0 x86: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=141504

Microsoft SharePoint Administration Toolkit v3.0 x64: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=142035

SharePoint Diagnostics Tool (SPDiag) User Guide: http://www.microsoft.com/DownLoads/details.aspx?familyid=1C222804-51C7-4BB5-AE3D-89C68AD27A78&displaylang=en

SQLDiag and PSSDiag

PSSDIAG is also a diagnostics utility used to collect profiler trace, perfmon data for SQL Server. PSSDAIG was created to troubleshoot SQL Server 7.0 and 2000 issues. It evolved into SQL Server 2005 sqldiag.

http://sqlnexus.codeplex.com/Wiki/View.aspx?title=PSSDiag

Pre-upgrade scanning and reporting for future releases (Windows SharePoint Services)

The Upgrade Checker will scan your SharePoint Server 2007 deployment for many issues that could affect a future upgrade to SharePoint 2010, ships with SP2.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd793607.aspx

Best Practices Resource Center for SharePoint Server 2007

To avoid common pitfalls and keep your Office SharePoint Server 2007 environment available and performing well, follow these best practices based on real-world experience from Microsoft Consulting Services and the product team.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/office/sharepointserver/bb736746.aspx

SharePoint Disaster Recovery Advisor Tool Now Available as Freeware!

What does this tool do?

Reads your farm configuration from the database backup or from the live config database, Lists all the servers, databases and services in the farm. Verifies availability of all these components in real time, Verifies and re-creates appropriate SQL Server logins to enable SharePoint services access to the databases, In a DR situation, advises on the psconfig.exe commands needed to provision SharePoint front end, Central Administration, and application servers

http://sharepointforall.com/blogs/team/archive/2009/03/06/sharepoint-disaster-recovery-advisor-tool-now-available-as-freeware.aspx#143

Site Administrator Repository Query Tool

This tool allows you to run simple and quick queries from the Site Administrator repository, which includes information gathered about systems, as well as configuration information on Recovery Manager for SharePoint and Migration tools.

http://sharepointforall.com/media/p/8.aspx

SharePoint PowerShell PowerPack v1 Feb 2009

This download includes 4 PowerPacks.

SharePoint PowerPack - List the SharePoint Webs, folders, and List, and monitor the SharePoint usage.

SharePoint Farm PowerPack - Monitor your SharePoint farm servers, services, web services and web applications

SharePoint Remove Access PowerPack - PowerPack which connects to SharePoint over its webservices

SharePoint Navigator PowerPack - allows you to display the properties of the local farm, get a list of servers running in your farm, list SharePoint services and monitor the status and which services needs upgrade, and list the web services and web applications.

http://sharepointforall.com/media/p/38.aspx

SmartTools for SharePoint

The SmartTools for SharePoint project is a collection of SharePoint extensions to make your life as a SharePoint user, developer or administrator a little bit easier!

http://smarttools.codeplex.com/

Events/Webcasts

SharePoint Technologies

ICS Solutions presents Microsoft Office SharePoint Server Showcase 2009 - The very best of SharePoint products in a unique conference setting.

At this seminar you will hear our expert SharePoint Consultants explain the features and benefits of Microsoft SharePoint and gain an understanding of how your business can make the most of it either on Premise or in the new world of Software plus Services.

Presenters: ICS Solutions

Date: 08 September 2009 14:00 - 17:00 | Duration: Afternoon
Location: Microsoft Uk Ltd, 100 Victoria St, London SW1E 5JL, United Kingdom

Audience: Academic, Additional Information Worker, Architect, IT Decision Maker, IT Generalist and Non-Tech Influencing BD
Products: Microsoft Office SharePoint Server and Windows Server.
https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032422563&culture=en-GB

ICS Solutions presents Microsoft Office SharePoint Server Showcase 2009 - The very best of SharePoint products in a unique conference setting.

The very best of SharePoint products in a unique conference setting brings together a host of SharePoint products in the market under one roof.

The unique SharePoint conference setting makes it easy for you to find the information you need from the leading players in the UK SharePoint products market to make effective purchasing decisions direct.

Presenters: ICS Solutions

Date: 16 September 2009 09:30 - 16:30 | Duration: All Day
Location: ICS Solutions Ltd, Skippetts Lane Basingstoke Hampshire RG21 3HP, United Kingdom

Audience: Academic, Additional Information Worker, Architect, IT Decision Maker, IT Generalist and Non-Tech Influencing BD
Products: Microsoft Office SharePoint Server and Windows Server.
https://msevents.microsoft.com/cui/EventDetail.aspx?culture=en-GB&eventid=1032422582

BSG Ltd presents Microsoft SharePoint 2007 Masterclass - an introduction to SharePoint 2007

Specifically designed for organisations new to Microsoft SharePoint 2007, the aim is to help you understand and get the most from Microsoft SharePoint 2007.

Presenters: ICS Solutions

Date: 24 September 2009 09:10 - 11:45 | Duration: Morning
Location: BSG, BSG House, 226-236 City Road London EC1V 2TT, United Kingdom

Audience: Architect, IT Decision Maker, Marketing - Partners, Non-Tech Influencing BDM and Pro Dev/Programmer.
Products: Microsoft Office SharePoint Server
https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032421828&culture=en-GB

Microsoft SharePoint Conference 2009

The SharePoint Conference 2009 will be the first time Microsoft will publically share all of what SharePoint 2010 has to offer. Get to listen, talk and network with Microsoft Product experts, SharePoint MVPs, Customers, top Industry Analysts and over 140 SharePoint Partners.

http://www.mssharepointconference.com/Pages/default.aspx

All upcoming Events\Webcasts

http://www.microsoft.com/sharepoint/learning/events.mspx

New KB's

Biztalk Server

BizTalk Acc for SWIFT 3.0 EN: Describes a hotfix rollup package that is available for BizTalk Accelerator for SWIFT 3.0 Service Pack 1.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/960914/EN-US

BizTalk Acc for SWIFT 3.0 EN: FIX: BizTalk Accelerator for SWIFT 3.0 Service Pack 1 support for the MT202COV and MT205COV message types of the SWIFT 2009 Standard

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/972031/EN-US

BizTalk Adapter for mySAP 2.0 EN: BizTalk Editor cannot load schemas that are generated from Schema Generation Wizard of BizTalk Adapter 2.0 for mySAP Business Suite if the type attributes begin with numbers

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959139/EN-US

BizTalk Server Std 2006 EN: FIX: Orchestration instances continuously switch from Active to Dehydrated state and cause high CPU usage on servers that host BizTalk Server 2006 (954877.KB.EN-US.1.0)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/954877/EN-US

BizTalk Server Std 2006 EN: BizTalk Server Operators group members cannot terminate service instances successfully in the BizTalk Administration Console in BizTalk Server 2006

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958083/EN-US

BizTalk Server Std 2006 EN: Trailing white spaces are removed from a promoted property if tracking is disabled in BizTalk Server 2006

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959529/EN-US

BizTalk Server Std 2006 EN: Trailing spaces are truncated in an outgoing 278 EDI file when you use BizTalk Accelerator for HIPAA 3.3 in BizTalk Server 2006

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/967212/EN-US

BizTalk Server Std 2006 R2 EN: FIX: An error message occurs when BizTalk Server receives an MDN that does not contain the Message-ID field in the HTTP header: "System.ArgumentException: Empty parameter string not allowed"

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/956916/EN-US

BizTalk Server Std 2006 R2 EN: FIX: You cannot select two or more maps that have source schemas the belong to the same multi-root schema file on the same send or on the same receive port in BizTalk Server 2006 R2

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/957352/EN-US

BizTalk Server Std 2006 R2 EN: FIX: An HIPAA 837 document that has noncompliant NM108 and NM109 data elements is not validated as expected in BizTalk Server 2006 R2

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/957512/EN-US

BizTalk Server Std 2006 R2 EN: FIX: The HHMMSSd time format is now available for selection for the GS5 element when you configure EDI properties of BizTalk party in BizTalk Server 2006 R2

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/960237/EN-US

BizTalk Server Std 2006 R2 EN: Invalid 997 functional acknowledgements are generated in Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006 R2

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/960473/EN-US

BizTalk Server Std 2006 R2 EN: FIX: The BizTalk Adapter for TIBCO EMS does not delete messages from the JMS queue after the adapter successfully receives the messages in BizTalk Server 2006 R2

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/961346/EN-US

BizTalk Server Std 2006 R2 EN: FIX: The BizTalk RFID service stops generating management events after you uninstall a BizTalk RFID hotfix in BizTalk Server 2006 R2

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/972449/EN-US

BizTalk Server Std 2006 R2 EN: FIX: The SE Segment delimiter/terminator is missing intermittently in outgoing 997 functional acknowledgements when you send and receive EDI messages in BizTalk Server 2006 R2

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/972478/EN-US

BizTalk Server Std 2006 R2 EN: Some interchanges are suspended if you receive multiple interchanges that are included in a single EDI message by using the EDI receive pipeline in BizTalk Server 2006 R2

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/972530/EN-US

BizTalk Server Std 2006 R2 EN: FIX: Event ID 5740 is logged in the Application log when you use an FTP adapter in BizTalk Server to receive files from an empty directory on an FTP server

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=958235

Microsoft Internet Information Server

Internet Info Services 7.0 EN: Microsoft Advisory Services Engagement Scenario - Developer Tools & Platforms Performance

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974348/EN-US

SharePoint Technologies

Office SharePoint Designr 2007: Microsoft Advisory Services Engagement Scenario - SharePoint Forms Based Auth Deployment

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974622/EN-US

Office SharePoint Designr 2007: Microsoft Advisory Services Engagement Scenario - SharePoint SQL DB Migration

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974642/EN-US

Office SharePoint Server 2007 ML: You cannot edit list items on existing SharePoint sites even if you already installed build 12.0.6336.5001 of the hotfix that is described in Microsoft Knowledge Base (KB) article 961175

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971351/EN-US

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0: If you send a Rich Text Format (RTF) e-mail message that contains a Word document attachment to an e-mail enabled document library, the Word document attachment is not added to the e-mail enabled document library

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/972479/EN-US

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0: List of changes to the rule files for the Microsoft Best Practices Analyzer (BPA) for Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) 3.0 and for the 2007 Microsoft Office system

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/972894/EN-US

September 2009 – Technical Rollup Mail – Platforms

conuktrm — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 02:01:00 GMT

News

App-V 4.6 Beta and x64

The MDOP team just released the beta version of Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V) 4.6. We know that many of you are looking at application virtualization in both the context of your existing environment and also as part of your migration planning for Windows 7. Besides some enhancements to the sequencer to simplify the workflow for creating virtual applications, the team has added the ability to sequence 64-bit applications.

http://blogs.technet.com/mdop/archive/2009/07/30/app-v-4-6-public-beta-now-available-for-download.aspx

Windows 7 Has Been Released to Manufacturing

The Windows 7 team is proud to share with you that a short while ago we have started to release Windows 7 to PC OEM and manufacturing partners. This means our next major milestone will be the availability of PCs loaded with Windows 7 and store shelves stocked with Windows 7 on October 22, 2009.

http://windowsteamblog.com/blogs/windows7/archive/2009/07/22/windows-7-has-been-released-to-manufacturing.aspx

Accelerate Your Migration to the Latest Microsoft Products and Infrastructure

Download the Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit 4.0 Beta and get an integrated tool for conducting network-wide readiness assessments for migration to Microsoft technologies. The MAP toolkit provides adaptable guidance and proposals to help simplify the planning and deployment of your IT projects for Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, Hyper-V and more.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-gb/solutionaccelerators/dd537566.aspx?SA_CE=NOT-MAPBETA-NWSLR-TNETUK-20090624

Other

Windows Virtualization Team Blog

http://blogs.technet.com/virtualization

The World Simplified is a Virtual World

http://blogs.technet.com/virtualworld

The App-V Blog

http://blogs.technet.com/softgrid

The Official MDOP Blog

http://blogs.technet.com/mdop

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

Ntdebugging Blog

http://blogs.msdn.com/ntdebugging

Terminal Server Team Blog

http://blogs.msdn.com/ts

The Hot Blog

http://blogs.technet.com/hot

Downloads

Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007 File Formats

Open, edit, and save documents, workbooks, and presentations in the file formats new to Microsoft Office Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=941b3470-3ae9-4aee-8f43-c6bb74cd1466

Windows Internet Explorer 8 for Windows XP

Internet Explorer 8. Faster, Easier, More Private, and More Secure.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=341c2ad5-8c3d-4347-8c03-08cdecd8852b

Update for Windows XP (KB932823)

Install this update to resolve an issue in which a user is unable to use Windows Internet Explorer 7 to download files on a computer that is running Windows XP with IME enabled.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=28e2fdb2-1aa5-4c84-8255-b3142ca2fe85

DirectX End-User Runtime

The Microsoft DirectX® End-User Runtime provides updates to 9.0c and previous versions of DirectX — the core Windows® technology that drives high-speed multimedia and games on the PC.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=2da43d38-db71-4c1b-bc6a-9b6652cd92a3

.NET Framework Version 2.0 Redistributable Package (x86)

The Microsoft .NET Framework version 2.0 (x86) redistributable package installs the .NET Framework runtime and associated files required to run applications developed to target the .NET Framework v2.0.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=0856eacb-4362-4b0d-8edd-aab15c5e04f5

Windows Internet Explorer 7 for Windows XP

Download the latest version of the world's most popular Web browser.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=9ae91ebe-3385-447c-8a30-081805b2f90b

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?displaylang=en&familyid=435bfce7-da2b-4a6a-afa4-f7f14e605a0d

Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool

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

Windows Search 4.0 for Windows XP (KB940157)

Windows Search 4.0 is an updated component of Windows that enables instant search on your computer.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=55c18cb3-c916-4298-aba3-5b98904f7cda

.NET Framework 3.5

Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 contains many new features building incrementally upon .NET Framework 2.0 and 3.0, and includes .NET Framework 2.0 service pack 1 and .NET Framework 3.0 service pack 1.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=333325fd-ae52-4e35-b531-508d977d32a6

The 2007 Microsoft Office Suite Service Pack 2 (SP2)

Service Pack 2 provides the latest updates to the 2007 Microsoft Office suite.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=b444bf18-79ea-46c6-8a81-9db49b4ab6e5

Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor Beta

Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor scans your PC to see if it's ready for Windows 7, and tells you about any known compatibility issues.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=1b544e90-7659-4bd9-9e51-2497c146af15

.NET Framework 3.5 Service pack 1

Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 is a full cumulative update that contains many new features building incrementally upon .NET Framework 2.0, 3.0, 3.5, and includes cumulative servicing updates to the .NET Framework 2.0 and .NET Framework 3.0 subcomponents.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=ab99342f-5d1a-413d-8319-81da479ab0d7

Windows Media® Components for QuickTime

With Windows Media® Components for QuickTime, by Flip4Mac™, you can play Windows Media files (.wma and .wmv) directly in QuickTime Player and view Windows Media content on the Internet using a Web browser.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=915d874d-d747-4180-a400-5f06b1b5e559

Windows XP Service Pack 3 Network Installation Package for IT Professionals and Developers

This installation package is intended for IT professionals and developers downloading and installing on multiple computers on a network. If you're updating just one computer, please visit Windows Update at http://update.microsoft.com .

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=5b33b5a8-5e76-401f-be08-1e1555d4f3d4

Windows Installer 3.1 Redistributable

The Microsoft® Windows® Installer is an application installation and configuration service. WindowsInstaller-KB893803-x86.exe is the redistributable package for installing or upgrading Windows Installer.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=889482fc-5f56-4a38-b838-de776fd4138c

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?displaylang=en&familyid=4d951911-3e7e-4ae6-b059-a2e79ed87041

GDI + Security Update

This update addresses a security issue in JPEG processing technology.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=39847b71-fd47-41c7-9fa4-06c930c488a5

.NET Framework Version 1.1 Redistributable Package

The .NET Framework version 1.1 redistributable package includes everything you need to run applications developed using the .NET Framework.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=262d25e3-f589-4842-8157-034d1e7cf3a3

Windows Internet Explorer 8 for Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008

Internet Explorer 8. Faster, Easier, More Private, and More Secure.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=79154fb4-c610-4a1e-811d-dfe0f1dd84d1

Events/Webcasts

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

Windows 7: Build Innovative Applications Using Familiar Tools

Webcasts, Videos, and Podcasts

Test drive Windows Embedded Standard 2009 and learn how to build a next-generation user interface. Also, see how you can create custom shell and driver components as well as applications from end to end.

http://www.microsoft.com/events/series/msdnwindows7.aspx

TechNet Webcast: Using Windows PowerShell with Hyper-V and Virtual Machine Manager (Level 300)

Windows PowerShell is likely to become the automation tool of choice. In this webcast, we provide examples of Windows PowerShell being used to perform common administration tasks in Hyper-V and Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager. We compare the two automation methods in detail, and we discuss some online community-focused PowerShell resources such as http://powershellcommunity.org. Presenters: Marco Shaw, Microsoft MVP, Independent; Darin Pendergraft, PowerGUI Product Manager, Quest Software; and Peter Zerger, Consulting Partner, AKOS Technology Services, Inc. Marco Shaw has been working in the IT industry for more than 10 years. Marco runs the Virtual PowerShell User Group, and he is one of the community directors of the PowerShell Community site at http://powershellcommunity.org. Marco recently received the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award for the second year in a row for his contributions to the Windows PowerShell community. Darin Pendergraft is the product manager for PowerGUI, and he has been at Quest Software for more than 10 years. Darin is responsible for product strategy and direction, and he works closely with both development and marketing resources to make sure PowerGUI is a success. While at Quest, Darin has also worked in technical support and marketing. Pete Zerger is a consultant, speaker, and author who focuses on operations management, virtualization, and directory services. He is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for Microsoft System Center Operations Manager and founder of http://www.systemcenterforum.org, a popular community site covering the Microsoft System Center Suite. View other sessions from Windows Server 2008: Web, Virtualization, Security, and a Solid Foundation If you have questions or feedback, contact us. ...

9/10/2009 10:00 AM Pacific Time (US & Canada)- 9/10/2009 11:30 AM | Duration:90 Minutes

Primary Language: English

Primary Target Audience: IT Generalist

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http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032409528&culture=en-US

Hosted Services Overview

Want to learn more about hosted services with Microsoft? Register for this informational webinar to learn about opportunities for partners to create a recurring revenue stream. This Live Meeting session will cover the Services Provider License Agreement (SPLA), reselling a Private Label solution and Microsoft’s Online Services.Who Should Register?Partners NOT enrolled in SPLA.For Audio:Bridge: 1.866.500.6738Passcode: 9889742 ...

9/15/2009 11:00 AM Pacific Time (US & Canada)- 9/15/2009 12:00 PM | Duration:60 Minutes

Primary Language: English

Add to Calendar

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032418817&culture=en-US

TechNet Webcast: Migration Planning Tools for Windows Server 2008 R2 and Hyper-V (Level 200)

Windows Server 2008 R2 will be available soon. Are your data center servers ready for migration to this new operating system? Which of your existing servers are good candidates for Hyper-V virtualization? Attend this webcast to see how the Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit and Infrastructure Planning and Design Guides can help you accelerate your migration planning for Windows Server 2008 R2 and Hyper-V. Presenter: Baldwin Ng, Senior Product Manager, Microsoft Corporation View other sessions from Windows Server 2008: Web, Virtualization, Security, and a Solid Foundation for Your Business Workloads If you have questions or feedback, contact us. ...

9/24/2009 11:00 AM Pacific Time (US & Canada)- 9/24/2009 12:00 PM | Duration:60 Minutes

Primary Language: English

Primary Target Audience: IT Generalist

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http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032423710&culture=en-US

Momentum Webcast: Optimize Your Desktop Infrastructure with Windows 7 and MDOP (Level 100)

Organizations are focused on running lower-cost, more secure IT environments so workers can complete their work quickly and with greater flexibility. Workers want a dynamic work environment while IT departments want greater control and manageability. It's a predicament that many customers face, and it is why Microsoft created the Windows Optimized Desktop, consisting of Windows 7 and the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Package (MDOP). In this webcast, we cover the issues faced by organizations with a traditional desktop infrastructure and how virtualization can help you decouple the various layers of an IT infrastructure and let the layers to work independently as needed. Join us to learn how the Windows Optimized Desktop provides access to information from anywhere, enhancing security and PC management. Presenters: Todd Wanke, Server SSP, Microsoft Corporation and Chris Ertz, Mid-Market Solutions Advisor, Microsoft Corporation View other sessions from Momentum: Drive Your Midsize Business Forward If you have questions or feedback, contact us In addition to Momentum webcasts, Microsoft offers a complimentary e-newsletter with real-world examples of how to align IT with your business strategy. You get tips and techniques on using Microsoft technologies and straight talk about solutions that work for mid-sized businesses. If you would like to receive the Business Insights newsletter, click here. Regardless of any contact preferences you might have previously made on this Microsoft site or on other Microsoft sites or services, by registering for this webcast or virtual lab, you consent and agree to allow Microsoft or one of its third-party agents to contact you no more than three (3) instances for the purpose of soliciting feedback on the webcast or virtual lab or to supply you with special discounts and offers related to products and services presented in the webcast or virtual lab. Any other use of the personal information in your Microsoft Passport profile is subject to the Microsoft Privacy Statement. You can learn more about the privacy and security of Microsoft Passport Network at www.Passport.net ...

9/24/2009 11:00 AM Pacific Time (US & Canada)- 9/24/2009 12:00 PM | Duration:60 Minutes

Primary Language: English

Primary Target Audience: Tech Influencing BDM

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http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032423943&culture=en-US

TechNet Webcast: Thrive Live! Migrating Windows XP to Windows 7 Using Windows Easy Transfer and USMT (Level 200)

You have been tasked with upgrading your desktops from Windows XP to Windows 7, and you know there is not a direct upgrade path. So, how are you going to do it? In this webcast, we give you the answers and tools that can make your migration from Windows XP to Windows 7 rather straightforward using a WORKGROUP. We also discuss stand-alone migrations using standard methodologies and the tools that are needed. Learn how the User State Migration Tool (USMT) in the Automated Installation Toolkit (AIK) has everything you need to get the migration going and smoothly deploy Windows 7. Presenter: Blain Barton, Senior IT Professional Evangelist, Microsoft Corporation In his 17 years at Microsoft, Blain Barton has organized and delivered a wide array of educational programs. He has presented at more than 800 live events and received six top presenter awards in the last several years. Blain has also worked on worldwide original equipment manufacturer (OEM) system engineering and headed up the Microsoft Visual Basic support team. In presentations, Blain is known for getting his audiences personally involved in every demo. He plays the drums in his free time, and he taught professional-level snow skiing in Washington State before moving to Florida, where he currently resides. View other sessions from Windows 7: Increase Productivity, Improve Security, and Streamline PC Management If you have questions or feedback, contact us. ...

9/25/2009 9:00 AM Pacific Time (US & Canada)- 9/25/2009 10:00 AM | Duration:60 Minutes

Primary Language: English

Primary Target Audience: IT Generalist

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Windows FireStarter - Live Meeting

Windows 7 and Windows 2008 R2 introduce fantastic new technologies to streamline your business, enhance security and save you money. Today’s Windows Firestarter event will introduce you to these features and then dive deep into how they work. See how DirectAccess provides the remote user with virtually the same experience they would have if they were in the office. Learn how Group Policy and PowerShell can simplify the administration of your network, regardless of how large or small it is. Experience a simpler yet more rich Web surfing experience with new Internet Explorer 8 features. See new BitLocker, AppLocker and User Account Control Features that are designed to protect your data no matter where it is. We will also dive into how easy it is to deploy Windows 7 the way you want it deployed – your image, your way – even if you are migrating from Windows XP. Join us for this demo heavy session on all of this and more at Windows Firestarter! Here's the agenda: Time Session Speaker 8:00 am - 9:30 am Introducing Window 7 - What's New Stephen Rose 9:30 am -9:45 am Break 9:45 am - 11:00 am Windows 7 - Diving Deeper - Deployment and Remote Access Features Joe Davies 11:00 am - 11:15 am Break 11:15 am -12:30 pm IE8 - Browse the Web in Style! David Tesar 12:30 pm -1:30 pm Lunch 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm Migrating Windows XP to Windows 7: Get it done Jeremy Chapman 3:15 pm -3:30 pm Break 3:30 pm -5 :00 pm Windows 2008 R2 - Diving In! Chris Avis We are sorry you can’t make this event in-person, if you change your mind please register for the event here. To participate in this event via Live Meeting, here’s what you’ll need to do: When: Friday, September 18, 2009 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM Pacific Time (US & Canada) The Live Meeting Space won’t be active until 7:45 AM on September 18. Computer Audio To use computer audio, you need speakers or a headset. Questions can be asked via the Q&A panel in Live Meeting. Telephone conferencing Will be available upon request. First Time Users: To save time before the meeting, check your system to make sure it is ready to use Microsoft Office Live Meeting. Recording: This meeting is being recorded and will be made available for download after the event has ended. You will need your Live Meeting credentials to download these recordings. If you still cannot enter the meeting, contact support ...

9/18/2009 8:00 AM Pacific Time (US & Canada)- 9/18/2009 1:00 PM | Duration:300 Minutes

Primary Language: English

Primary Target Audience: IT Generalist

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http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032423124&culture=en-US

New KB's

Windows Client

Win Vista Enterprise 64bit AL: You cannot use the "runas" command to print from different user accounts in a single session from a 32-bit program on a computer that is running 64-bit version of Windows Server 2008 or Windows Vista

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/972616/EN-US

Win Vista Enterprise 64bit AL: The "Diagnostic connection Problem" program does not run correctly when you use a 32-bit version of Internet Explorer in a 64-bit version of Windows Vista, and there is no Internet connection

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974104/EN-US

Win Vista Home Prem 32bit AL: The print output shows black rectangles if you print a document that contains some images on a computer that is running Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971248/EN-US

Win Vista Home Prem 32bit AL: Error message when you hot-plug a display to the secondary display port on a computer that is running Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008: ""Stop 0x00000116"

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971572/EN-US

Win Vista Home Prem 32bit AL: The "Found New Hardware" wizard unexpectedly appears when you start a computer that is running Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/972459/EN-US

Win Vista Home Prem 32bit AL: A blank screen appears when you restart a computer that is running Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008 after you reinstall the driver for a graphics device

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/972903/EN-US

Win Vista Home Prem 32bit AL: A black screen is displayed and then the system stops responding when you log on to a computer that is running Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/972904/EN-US

Win Vista Home Prem 32bit AL: An option in the Web Restrictions settings is localized incorrectly in the Simplified Chinese version of Windows Vista

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/973020/EN-US

Win Vista Home Prem 32bit AL: An application that uses the WMV codec cannot play back content that is encoded in the MBR format

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/973442/EN-US

Win Vista Home Prem 32bit AL: Performance is significantly reduced when you copy or write small files from a computer that is running Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008 into a shared folder that is hosted on a computer that is running Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/973554/EN-US

Win Vista Home Prem 32bit AL: No sound from a multimedia device that is connected over an HDMI connection to a computer that is running Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/973590/EN-US

Win Vista Home Prem 32bit AL: An IP address-changing operation stops responding on a computer that is running Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008 until you restart the computer

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974374/EN-US

Win Vista Home Prem 64bit AL: A hotfix is available that addresses a slight delay that occurs when a 32-bit application closes a FAT or FAT32 volume on a computer that is running a 64-bit version of Windows Vista or on Windows Server 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/972839/EN-US

Win Vista Home Prem 64bit AL: You receive a "Stop 0x0000003E" error message when you try to install Windows Vista Service Pack 2 or Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2 on a computer that has certain multiple processors

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/973879/EN-US

Win Vista Ultimate 32bit AL: Internet Explorer 8 stops responding when you use the IME Pad to enter East Asian characters in an Internet Explorer 8 window in Windows Vista or in Windows Server 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/970436/EN-US

Win Vista Ultimate 32bit AL: Windows inbox games crash when you switch from one video card to another on a computer that is running Windows Vista

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/970790/EN-US

Win Vista Ultimate 32bit AL: An application that subscribes to ISensLogon interface events stops receiving logon or logoff event notifications after you log off Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/970916/EN-US

Win Vista Ultimate 32bit AL: The Folder Options preference in Group Policy Preferences is reapplied on a Windows Vista or on a Windows Server 2008-based client computer, even when you select the “Apply once and do not reapply” option

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/970974/EN-US

Win Vista Ultimate 32bit AL: An ink-enabled application hangs when you try to add input to the application by using a tablet pen on a Windows Vista Tablet PC-based computer

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971252/EN-US

Win Vista Ultimate 32bit AL: The "<Papersize> not loaded in any tray" message is displayed in the print queue when you try to print a document in Windows Vista or in Windows Server 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971319/EN-US

Win Vista Ultimate 32bit AL: You experience multiple first chance exception errors when you use the Application Verifier runtime verification tool to test a GDI+ program in Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971389/EN-US

Win Vista Ultimate 32bit AL: Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 crashes in a Citrix session on a computer that is running Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971589/EN-US

Win Vista Ultimate 32bit AL: Applications that reply on the RPC service are blocked in Windows Vista SP1 or Windows Server 2008 when you block Windows Firewall incoming connections and enable remote management

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971800/EN-US

Win Vista Ultimate 32bit AL: Windows Search does not return files or folders that are under DFS-linked folders on a Windows Vista SP2 or on a Windows Server 2008 SP2-based computer

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/972841/EN-US

Win Vista Ultimate 32bit AL: You cannot open Volume Mixer when you use a tablet pen on a Windows Vista Tablet PC

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/973021/EN-US

Win Vista Ultimate 32bit AL: Stop error after you upgrade from Windows Vista Service Pack 1 to Windows Vista Service Pack 2 or from Windows Server 2008 to Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2: "Stop 0x000000FE BUGCODE_USB_DRIVER"

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/973208/EN-US

Win Vista Ultimate 32bit AL: In an application that implements the Windows Imaging Component, some scaled reads of the cropped portion of an image may not read the correct rectangle in Windows Vista or in Windows Server 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/973473/EN-US

Win Vista Ultimate 32bit AL: Downloaded files do not inherit the permissions from the parent folder when you use the Ftp.exe program to download files in Windows Vista or in Windows Server 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/973510/EN-US

Win Vista Ultimate 32bit AL: Group Policy Preferences stops responding when you try to configure the printer item for printers that use third-party drivers on a Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008-based computer

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/973772/EN-US

Win Vista Ultimate 32bit AL: Continual reboot after attempting to upgrade from Windows Vista to Windows 7

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974078/EN-US

Win Vista Ultimate 32bit AL: Reliability Monitor Does Not Refresh

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974805/EN-US

Win Vista Ultimate 32bit AL: A local group cannot be found if it is nested inside another group on a Windows Server-based or Windows-based client

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974815/EN-US

Windows Pro 2000 EN: Some Windows Media related products or components will not be supported after Windows 2000 enters the CSA stage

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974316/EN-US

Windows XP Professional EN: You cannot install a Windows Installer package under the Local System context on a Windows XP-based computer that has update KB956572 installed

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971913/EN-US

Windows XP Professional EN: Slow performance when you try to open a redirected drive on a remote computer through a Terminal Services session

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/972435/EN-US

Windows XP Professional EN: The previous revision information is overwritten when you drag-and-drop a new version of a file to the document library on a SharePoint Portal Server in Windows XP

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/973296/EN-US

Windows XP Professional EN: After you use a smart card to log on to a computer that is running Windows XP, Digest authentication fails

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/973624/EN-US

Windows XP Professional EN: Errors Communicating with USB Printers due to USB Selective Suspend

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974330/EN-US

Windows Server

Win Svr Datacntr 2003 64 Itaniun: A .NET Framework application crashes in the CLR version 4 on a computer that is running an Itanium-based version of Windows Server 2003 SP2 or of Windows Server 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/973476/EN-US

Win Svr Std 2003 R2 EN: Roaming user profiles and FSRM File Screening

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/973835/EN-US

Windows Svr 2008 Dtcntr wo HV AL: Microsoft Security Advisory: Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Active Template Library (ATL) could allow remote code execution

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/973882/EN-US

Windows Svr 2008 Ent AL: An update is available that enables the Terminal Services license servers that are running Windows Server 2008 to be able to use the CALs for the Windows Server 2008 R2 Remote Desktop Services

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/968074/EN-US

Windows Svr 2008 Ent AL: You cannot restore mirroring for the boot partition on some GPT disks in Windows Server 2008 if you follow the instructions in Knowledge Base article 951985

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/970686/EN-US

Windows Svr 2008 Ent AL: The Windows Server 2008 system stops responding (hangs) when an application or a driver triggers an NMI to generate a memory dump file forcibly

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971877/EN-US

Windows Svr 2008 Ent AL: Backups fail and Event ID 12293 is logged on a computer that is running Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/972135/EN-US

Windows Svr 2008 Ent AL: An "Access Denied" error message is returned when you edit an access control on a network-mapped drive on a Windows Server 2008-based computer

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/972299/EN-US

Windows Svr 2008 Ent AL: Error message on a computer that is running Windows Vista or on Windows Server 2008 that has the IPMI driver installed: "Stop 0x00000019"

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/973026/EN-US

Windows Svr 2008 Ent AL: Duplicate computer names are generated when you configure an Unattend.xml file to generate random names for many computers on a network

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/973033/EN-US

Windows Svr 2008 Ent AL: The "Modified time" file attribute of a registry hive file is updated when you load and then unload the registry hive files without making any changes to the files on a computer that is running Windows Server 2008 or Windows Vista

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/973148/EN-US

Windows Svr 2008 Ent AL: A disabled Hyper-V virtual network adapter is re-enabled after you install Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/973802/EN-US

Windows Svr 2008 Ent AL: The DFSR Diagnostics Report shows "sharing violations" events in Windows Server even though the files have already been replicated

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/973836/EN-US

Windows Svr 2008 Ent AL: Some performance counters display incorrect data for storage devices larger than 2TB on a Windows Server 2008-based computer that uses MPIO and Microsoft DSM

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/973837/EN-US

Windows Svr 2008 Ent AL: Hyper-V integration components may not be installed on a Windows Vista Service Pack 2 virtual machine

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974503/EN-US

Windows Svr 2008 Ent AL: Event log message indicates that the Windows Installer reconfigured all installed applications

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974524/EN-US

Windows Svr 2008 Ent R2 AL: Some performance counters display incorrect data for storage devices larger than 2TB on a Windows Server 2008 R2-based computer that uses MPIO and Microsoft DSM

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/970733/EN-US

Windows Svr 2008 Ent R2 AL: A Hyper-V differencing disk that you create in Windows Server 2008 R2 cannot be used in Windows Server 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971677/EN-US

Windows Svr 2008 Ent R2 AL: The virtual machines on a Hyper-V server are not reported to the Connection Broker after you update a Windows Server 2008 R2 operating system that has the Hyper-V server role installed

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974437/EN-US

Windows Svr 2008 Ent R2 AL: A connection with the specified AD RMS cluster could not be established after upgrading from Windows Server 2003 x64 with IIS to Windows Server 2008 x64

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974721/EN-US

Windows Svr 2008 Ent R2 AL: Message "Subsystem needed to support the image type is not present" error when installing or running applications on Windows Server 2008 R2 Core

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974727/EN-US

Windows Svr 2008 Ent R2 AL: Files are replicated with DFSR between servers even though file contents are unchanged

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974774/EN-US

Windows Svr 2008 Ent R2 AL: Microsoft-Windows-RPC-Events Event 11 when running Server Manager

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974814/EN-US

Windows Svr 2008 Itanium AL: The validation process may fail when you add a node to an existing Windows Server 2008 IA-64 failover cluster

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/973833/EN-US

Windows Svr 2008 Std AL: A non-administrator user cannot log on to a domain from a computer that is running Windows Server 2008 if you set the locale information for the user by using a Group Policy preference setting

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/951430/EN-US

Windows Svr 2008 Std AL: A Kerberos authentication fails together with the error code 0X80090302 or 0x8009030f on a computer that is running Windows Server 2008 or Windows Vista when the AES algorithm is used

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/969083/EN-US

Windows Svr 2008 Std AL: Some settings in Group Policy Preferences for Internet Explorer 7 do not deploy correctly to computers that are running Windows Server 2008 or Windows Vista

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/970840/EN-US

Windows Svr 2008 Std AL: The "Win32_share" WMI class cannot enumerate file shares or create file shares on a node in a Windows Server 2008 failover cluster

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971403/EN-US

Windows Svr 2008 Std AL: Error message when you use Event Viewer to open an event log on a Windows Vista or a Windows Server 2008-based computer: "Event Viewer cannot open the event log or custom view"

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/972999/EN-US

Windows Svr 2008 Std AL: Remote path variables are modified incorrectly in the File Server Resource Manager if the File Server Resource Manager is used in an environment that has a Windows Server 2008 cluster

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/973279/EN-US

Windows Svr 2008 Std AL: One or several controls in the DCOM Config utility are disabled on a computer that is running a Russian edition of Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/973648/EN-US

Windows Svr 2008 Std AL: The security configuration information, such as the ACL, is not copied if a backup operator uses the Robocopy.exe utility together with the /B option to copy a file on a computer that is running Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/973776/EN-US

Windows Svr 2008 Std AL: The Reg.exe utility does not compress a registry key when the utility saves a registry key to a hive file on a computer that is running Windows Server 2008 or Windows Vista

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/973817/EN-US

Windows Svr 2008 Std AL: Description of scripts to use to simplify user account mapping between a UNIX client and a Windows-based server

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/973840/EN-US

Windows Svr 2008 Std R2 AL: Error message when you upgrade Windows Server 2008 to Windows Server 2008 R2: "These Windows features might not work properly after the upgrade"

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/962216/EN-US

Windows Svr Ent 2003 EN: A hotfix is available that addresses unresponsiveness when a file system minifilter driver is running on a computer that is running Windows Server 2003

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/973495/EN-US

Windows Svr Std 2003 EN: Windows Deployment Services fails to start in a disjoint namespace on a server that is running Windows Server 2003

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/957918/EN-US

Windows Svr Std 2003 EN: A Windows Server 2003 SP2-based DNS server does not route a name resolution request to the expected DNS server through the stub zone

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/970176/EN-US

Windows Svr Std 2003 EN: A computer that is running Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2 (SP2) crashes when a third-party filter driver returns the "STATUS_PENDING" value in response to an IRP

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/970706/EN-US

Windows Svr Std 2003 EN: Stop error code on a computer that is running Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2: "0x00000050"

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971251/EN-US

Windows Svr Std 2003 EN: Error message when an application tries to write data to a shared file if another application has read-only access to the same file on a computer that is running Windows Server 2003: "Delayed Write Failed"

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971295/EN-US

Windows Svr Std 2003 EN: Data loss occurs when the Winsock "recv" function returns 0 bytes if both the client-side and the server-side applications run on the same computer that is running Windows Server 2003

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971383/EN-US

Windows Svr Std 2003 EN: The applications that use the Java virtual machine do not start on a computer that is running Windows Server 2003 after you install security update MS09-012 (Microsoft Knowledge Base article 956572)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971812/EN-US

Windows Svr Std 2003 EN: Stop error code occurs on a computer that is running Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2: "0x00000050 PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA"

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/973092/EN-US

Windows Svr Std 2003 EN: The Ntbackup.exe program crashes when the Ntbackup.exe program exits on a computer that is running Windows Server 2003

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/973125/EN-US

Windows Svr Std 2003 EN: A multiprocessor computer that is running Windows Server 2003 SP2 stops responding under a heavy load if you change a Windows Firewall setting

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/973295/EN-US

Windows Svr Std 2003 EN: An application calling the IDirectorySearch::GetNextRow method stops responding after the application runs for a long time on a computer that is running Windows Server 2003

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/973480/EN-US

Windows Svr Std 2003 EN: Stop error when a surprise removal of a USB host controller occurs on a computer that is running Windows Server 2003: "Stop 0x00000050"

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/973618/EN-US

Windows Svr Std 2003 X64 EN: You receive a Segmentation fault error when you run commands in the tcsh shell if the shell has lots of environment variables on a computer that is running an x64-based version of Windows Server 2003 R2

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971518/EN-US

Windows Svr Std 2003 X64 EN: 32-bit applications do not use the Domain Name System (DNS) cache on a computer that is running an x64-based version of Windows Server 2003 or of Windows XP

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/973839/EN-US

September 2009 – Technical Rollup Mail – Unified Communications

conuktrm — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 02:01:00 GMT

News

Antigen & Forefront

Exchange

You Had Me At EHLO...

http://msexchangeteam.com/default.aspx

Microsoft UK UC Blog

http://blogs.technet.com/msukucc

Office Communication Server & LiveMeeting

Office Communications Server Team Blog

http://communicationsserverteam.com

Outlook

Microsoft Office Outlook Team Blog

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

Documents

Antigen & Forefront

Microsoft Forefront Server Security Management Console Documentation

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?displaylang=en&familyid=ae4ce23b-9e1e-455c-87a4-36167fe43107

Microsoft Antigen SP1 Documentation

Microsoft Antigen SP1 Documentation

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

Office Communication Server & LiveMeeting

Microsoft Office Live Meeting Service Administrator's Guide

This guide provides the information administrators need to deploy Microsoft Office Live Meeting clients, configure their conference center, and manage the Microsoft Office Live Meeting service within their organizations.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=824a55c8-809a-4224-a8cd-f37b348b7481

Microsoft Office Live Meeting Scenario User Guides

These quick reference guides provide easy to follow steps to use the Office Live Meeting Service.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=3f190af9-e73a-44b1-a98f-bd30c9bef724

Getting Started with Microsoft Office Live Meeting

This guide gets you started with the Microsoft Office Live Meeting service.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=2cbfd726-dd67-4fec-8fce-6012ea4c515f

Live Meeting Technical Considerations Whitepaper

The 2007 release of the Live Meeting service contains many new features and capabilities added since the introduction of Live Meeting 2005, this document covers these in more detail.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=e52c945a-bf33-48ac-b5d8-d8c4e93c71cc

Microsoft Web Conferencing Solutions White Paper

Compare Microsoft Web conferencing solutions

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=250c2446-14dc-4f16-8c0a-38a0aad055b2

Microsoft Office Live Meeting 2007 Testing and Troubleshooting Guide

This document explains how to install, configure, and test Microsoft® Office Live Meeting 2007 in a laboratory environment.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=d33c9dbc-e8df-4b1b-8e6c-d3f6484938c0

Outlook

Other

Downloads

Antigen & Forefront

Microsoft Forefront Security for SharePoint with SP1 Documentation

Microsoft Forefront Security for SharePoint with SP1 Documentation

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=125efb1e-7ff8-4cc8-934a-28fc7c7e59f0

Microsoft Forefront Security for Exchange Server with SP1 Documentation

Microsoft Forefront Security for Exchange Server with SP1 Documentation

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=5cd4e36e-2dab-44d6-990e-3b8184b1cb1b

Forefront Security 2010 for Exchange Server RC

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=b8a7d36f-cc8d-4335-ae60-8f27c48f3a37

Exchange

Microsoft Directory Synchronization Tool 9.1

The Microsoft Directory Synchronization Tool 9.1 enables you to securely synchronize selected data between an on-premise Active Directory and the Forefront Online Security for Exchange (FOSE) and Exchange Hosted Archive (EHA) services.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=3cda6dcc-1124-4e0b-b991-de9d85ed12e1

Collaboration Data Objects, version 1.2.1

Beginning in Exchange Server 2007 and Outlook 2007, CDO 1.2.1 will no longer be provided as a part of the install of the product. As a result, there is functionality missing that many applications depend upon. CDO 1.2.1 is a package providing access to Outlook-compatible objects through a COM-based API.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=2714320d-c997-4de1-986f-24f081725d36

Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 Connector for Lotus Notes

The Connector for Lotus Notes/Domino is a tool designed for organizations that need to coexist during a migration from Lotus Domino to Microsoft Exchange Server 2003.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=d9f3a35e-1046-47b5-b09b-bda9de60cd9d

Microsoft Exchange Server MAPI Client and Collaboration Data Objects 1.2.1

Starting with Exchange 2007, neither the Messaging API (MAPI) client libraries nor CDO 1.2.1 are provided as a part of the base product installation. As a result, there is functionality missing that many applications depend on. Microsoft Exchange MAPI and CDO 1.2.1 provide access to these APIs

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=e17e7f31-079a-43a9-bff2-0a110307611e

Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 Calendar Connector for Lotus Notes

The Calendar Connector for Lotus Notes is a tool designed for organizations that need to coexist during a migration from Lotus Domino to Microsoft Exchange Server 2003.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=c14932a1-55f4-4256-af7e-617639d46024

Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 Migration Wizard for Lotus Notes

The Migration Wizard for Lotus Notes is a tool designed for organizations that are migrating from Lotus Notes/Domino to Microsoft Exchange Server 2003.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=c105b3e4-3beb-4f1e-8f52-e345af6c3e50

Microsoft Exchange Server MAPI Client and Collaboration Data Objects 1.2.1

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=94274318-27c4-4d8d-9bc5-3e6484286b1f

Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Release Candidate

Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 helps you achieve new levels of reliability and performance by delivering features that help to simplify your administration, protect your communications, and delight your customers by meeting their demands for greater business mobility.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=c6d27da1-ba2c-4570-a491-c0d7b39ede8b

Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 SP2 Release Notes

This download contains a stand-alone version of the Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 SP2 Release Notes.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=ee7829a3-0ae8-44de-822c-908cd1034523

Exchange Server 2007 SP1 SDK December 2008

This release of the Exchange 2007 SP2 Software Development Kit (SDK) provides new and updated documentation and samples to help you build applications that use Exchange 2007 SP2.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=64e48818-2694-4e46-bac4-62d41dd974af

Exchange Management Shell Quick Reference

This download contains a quick reference sheet that can be used to access frequently used Exchange Management Shell cmdlets and syntax.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=01a441b9-4099-4c0f-b8e0-0831d4a2ca86

Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 SP2 Help

This download contains a standalone version of Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 SP2 Help.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=85c5ef71-6a1f-4eb0-9ff3-3feee6057e96

Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 2

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/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=4c4bd2a3-5e50-42b0-8bbb-2cc9afe3216a

Office Communication Server & LiveMeeting

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/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=6bef06c7-3ae6-40a7-a78e-eea670b4f605

Microsoft Office SharePoint Online

Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Online is a collection of Web-based tools and technologies built on Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 that help you store, share, and manage digital information within your company.This white paper describes the services and features that are included with the Standard offering of SharePoint Online.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=1bef6a35-9785-4a0b-b227-387c0ee85a36

Microsoft Office Communicator 2007 R2 Hotfix KB 969695

This download contains an update for Microsoft Office Communicator 2007 R2.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=515d6dba-4c6a-48bb-a06a-d99c5742676d

Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Hotfix KB 968802

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

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

Microsoft Office Communicator 2007 Hotfix KB 969694

This download contains an update for Microsoft Office Communicator 2007.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=1ad57f8f-78f7-45f6-a8c0-805936f46645

Microsoft Web Conferencing Solutions White Paper

Compare Microsoft Web conferencing solutions

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=250c2446-14dc-4f16-8c0a-38a0aad055b2

Outlook

Update for Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 Junk Email Filter (KB972688)

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/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=44f8ad34-969a-4402-aa83-8a78941de573

Update for Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 Junk Email Filter (KB972691)

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/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=2b832213-f733-4e90-85ea-a086c671f891

Events/Webcasts

Exchange

Momentum Webcast: What's New with Exchange Server 2010? (Level 100)

Thursday, September 17, 2009 11:00 AM Pacific Time (US & Canada)

Microsoft Exchange Server is the cornerstone of Microsoft unified communications. Learn how Exchange Server 2010 can help you achieve better business outcomes while controlling the costs of deployment, administration, and compliance. Attend this webcast to discover how Exchange Server 2010 delivers the widest range of deployment options, integrated information leakage protection, and advanced compliance capabilities that combine to form one of the best messaging and collaboration solutions available.

Presenter: Jennifer Kim, Senior Product Manager, Microsoft Corporation

Jennifer Kim has more than 13 years of experience working in the technology field. She has been working as a senior product manager in the Microsoft Information Worker Business and Marketing organization for the past four years. Prior to moving to Washington State, Jennifer worked as a technology specialist and solution specialist in the Microsoft New York sales office, serving the enterprise, public sector, and small and mid-market segments. Before joining Microsoft in 2000, Jennifer worked at a Microsoft Certified Technical Education Center as a technical trainer and training manager.

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New KB's

Antigen & Forefront

Antigen 9.0 for Exchange AL: The Star Engine service continues to run even when the Cloudmark anti-spam engine is used instead of the SpamCure engine

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974352/EN-US

Forefront Sec Exchange Svr EN: The Worm list is not updated as frequently as the antivirus scan engines in Antigen or Forefront Server (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/905956/EN-US

Forefront Sec Exchange Svr EN: FSCController times out while starting or gets stuck in a "Starting" state in Forefront Security for Exchange Server

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974838/EN-US

Forefront Sec Off Comm Svr EN: You cannot send an instant message that contains a clickable hyperlink when the Office Communications Server 2007 server is running Forefront Security for Office Communications Server (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971480/EN-US

Exchange

Exchange Svr 2003 SP2 EN: August 2009 cumulative daylight saving time (DST) update for Exchange 2003 SP2

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/973629/EN-US

Exchange Svr 2007 SP1 AL: The Msftefd.exe process that is used by an Exchange 2007 mailbox server consumes a large amount of memory

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/949862/EN-US

Exchange Svr 2007 SP1 AL: Error message when an Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1 user tries to delete a calendar item in OWA: "Outlook Web Access has encountered a Web browsing error" (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/969969/EN-US

Exchange Svr 2007 SP1 AL: A search operation in Outlook does not return a correct result if there is a corrupted HTML message in the target folder in an Exchange Server 2007 environment (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/970687/EN-US

Exchange Svr Ent 2003 EN: Messages autoforwarded to an invalid internet address appear to create a looping message in Exchange (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/238429/EN-US

Exchange Svr Ent 2003 EN: Exchange 2000 and Exchange 2003 mailbox size limits are not enforced in a reasonable period of time (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/327378/EN-US

Exchange Svr Ent 2003 EN: E-mail messages are blocked after you set the value of the FIPSAlgorithmPolicy registry entry to "1" on a server that is running Exchange Server 2003 (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/957047/EN-US

Exchange Svr Ent 2003 EN: The search operation is aborted in Exchange Server 2003 when an Exchange store includes a corrupted HTML message (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958179/EN-US

Exchange Svr Ent 2007 AL: Microsoft Advisory Services Engagement Scenario - Exchange Migration

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974347/EN-US

Exchange Svr Std 2003 EN: Mail delivery is slow after you configure delivery restrictions that are based on a distribution list (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/812298/EN-US

Exchange Svr Std 2007 AL: Double-coded characters in the address stamp that Exchange Server 2007 stamps on an e-mail message may appear incorrectly (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/948212/EN-US

Office Communication Server & LiveMeeting

Office Comm Svr Ent 2007 EN: You cannot create the enterprise pool for Office Communications Server 2007 on a back-end server that has SQL 2005 Service Pack 3 (SP3) installed (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/968979/EN-US

Office Comm Svr Ent 2007 EN: An Office Communications Server (OCS) 2007 user cannot answer a call from Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) after 5 minutes

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/973063/EN-US

Office Comm Svr Ent 2007 R2 AL: You hear a message that states that your PIN is locked, expired, or not set after you enter your telephone extension number in a Communications Server 2007 R2 conference

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/968952/EN-US

Office Comm Svr Ent 2007 R2 AL: A computer that is running Office Communications Server 2007 R2, Audio/Video Conferencing Edge Server crashes when it tries to process a Relay NAT message

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/968955/EN-US

Office Comm Svr Ent 2007 R2 AL: Description of the update package for Office Communications Server 2007 R2, Application Sharing Server: July 2009

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971296/EN-US

Office Comm Svr Ent 2007 R2 AL: Description of the update package for Office Communications Server 2007 R2, Web Conferencing Server: July 2009

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971297/EN-US

Office Comm Svr Ent 2007 R2 AL: Description of the update package for Office Communications Server 2007 R2, Monitoring Server: July 2009

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971298/EN-US

Office Comm Svr Ent 2007 R2 AL: Description of the update package for Office Communications Server 2007 R2, Core Components: July 2009

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971299/EN-US

Office Comm Svr Ent 2007 R2 AL: Description of the update package for Office Communications Server 2007 R2, Audio/Video Conferencing Server: July 2009

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971793/EN-US

Office Comm Svr Ent 2007 R2 AL: A Conference Attendant server has incorrect counts on the incomplete call counters in Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/972651/EN-US

Office Comm Svr Ent 2007 R2 AL: When Office Communications Server 2007 R2 routes a voice mail call to an Exchange Server 2007 Unified Messaging server, the corresponding invitation message does not indicate that the request originates from Office Communications Server

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/972700/EN-US

Office Comm Svr Ent 2007 R2 AL: A call from an application that uses the Unified Communications Managed API in Office Communications Server 2007 R2 to another Office Communications Server 2007 R2-based application fails after some time.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/972701/EN-US

Office Comm Svr Ent 2007 R2 AL: Presence information does not work for approximately 30 minutes after you log on Communicator Web Access 2007 R2

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/972702/EN-US

Office Comm Svr Ent 2007 R2 AL: An update provides several changes to the interactive voice response (IVR) system in Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/972703/EN-US

Office Comm Svr Ent 2007 R2 AL: In a conference that is hosted in Office Communications Server 2007 R2, an Office Communicator user cannot give or revoke control to a federated Communicator Web Access viewer as expected

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/972704/EN-US

Office Comm Svr Ent 2007 R2 AL: The "Dial-in Conferencing Settings" Web page in Communicator Web Access in Office Communications Server 2007 cannot display the contents in your preferred language

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/972708/EN-US

Office Comm Svr Ent 2007 R2 AL: Error message when a SIP message request is sent from a federated partner in Communications Server 2007 R2: “500: Server Internal Error”

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/972709/EN-US

Office Comm Svr Ent 2007 R2 AL: Real-Time Protocol (RTP) packets from a media server are not marked after you enable Quality of Service (QoS) at the pool level in Communications Server 2007 R2

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/972710/EN-US

Office Comm Svr Ent 2007 R2 AL: Anonymous users can send instant messages under the display name of authenticated users in Office Communications Server 2007 R2 (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/972711/EN-US

Office Comm Svr Ent 2007 R2 AL: Communicator Web Access 2007 R2 does not honor the ordering of the normalization rules in the location profile in Office Communications Server 2007 R2

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/972712/EN-US

Office Comm Svr Ent 2007 R2 AL: A Transport Layer Security (TLS) connection stops unexpectedly during the TLS negotiation stage in Communications Server 2007 R2

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/972713/EN-US

Office Comm Svr Ent 2007 R2 AL: Two users unexpectedly join the same conference when they try to join separate conferences in Office Communications Server 2007 R2

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/972714/EN-US

Office Comm Svr Ent 2007 R2 AL: You hear an error message when you dial your work telephone extension or your full telephone number to enter an Office Communications Server 2007 R2 conference: "The phone number and PIN you have entered do not match"

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/972715/EN-US

Office Comm Svr Ent 2007 R2 AL: The data in the QoEMetrics database is deleted if the retention days for the QoE records are set to 0 in the Communications Server 2007 R2 Monitoring Server

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/972716/EN-US

Office Comm Svr Ent 2007 R2 AL: An Office Communications Server 2007 R2 update server does not return the information for the updates that are installed on the update server

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/972717/EN-US

Office Comm Svr Ent 2007 R2 AL: The content folders for a new conference are not created when the new conference is initialized in Office Communications Server 2007 R2

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/972718/EN-US

Office Comm Svr Ent 2007 R2 AL: The Active Directory Users and Computers MMC snap-in in Office Communications Server 2007 R2 may crash when you select the Communications tab in the Properties dialog box of a user

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/972719/EN-US

Office Comm Svr Ent 2007 R2 AL: The Mediation Server role of Communications Server 2007 R2, does not forward the Display Name information that is associated with the calling party for an initial invitation

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/972721/EN-US

Office Comm Svr Ent 2007 R2 AL: The dial-in conferencing page for a conference that is hosted on Office Communications Server 2007 R2 does not provide enough information in error situations

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/972724/EN-US

Office Comm Svr Ent 2007 R2 AL: Error message when you try to join a “My Meeting” conference in Communications Server 2007 R2: "sorry; unable to transfer you into the conference"

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/972725/EN-US

Office Comm Svr Ent 2007 R2 AL: An update package enables Office Communications Server 2007 R2, Mediation Server to include a diversion header in the re-invite after the server processes a 302 redirection

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/972770/EN-US

Office Comm Svr Ent 2007 R2 AL: The comfort noise packets are not added for the PSTN users when you call the users through Audio Video Multipoint Conferencing Unit (AVMCU) in a Communications Server 2007 R2 conference (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/972771/EN-US

Office Comm Svr Ent 2007 R2 AL: Video is not displayed after you enable Quality of Service (QoS) at the pool level in Communications Server 2007 R2 and you enable QoS on a client computer

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/972772/EN-US

Office Comm Svr Ent 2007 R2 AL: The diagnostics information for an audio or video conference call that failed is not available in the log of an Office Communications Server 2007 R2-based application

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/972773/EN-US

Office Comm Svr Std 2007 R2 AL: List of available updates for Communications Server 2007 R2 (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/968802/EN-US

Office Comm Svr Std 2007 R2 AL: When a user uses Communicator Web Access (CWA) to send an IM message to a federated or Public IM Connectivity user, CWA may give an incorrect notification of the IM delivery status (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/968945/EN-US

Office Comm Svr Std 2007 R2 AL: Description of the update for Communicator 2007 R2: July 2009 (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/969695/EN-US

Office Comm Svr Std 2007 R2 AL: Description of the update package for Office Communications Server 2007 R2: July, 2009 (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/969821/EN-US

Office Comm Svr Std 2007 R2 AL: Description of the update package for Office Communications Server 2007 R2, Conferencing Attendant: July 2009

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/969822/EN-US

Office Comm Svr Std 2007 R2 AL: Description of the update package for Office Communications Server 2007 R2, Communicator Web Access: July 2009

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/969824/EN-US

Office Comm Svr Std 2007 R2 AL: Description of the update package for Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Database: July, 2009

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/969834/EN-US

Office Comm Svr Std 2007 R2 AL: Description of the update package for Office Communications Server 2007 R2, Mediation Server: July 2009

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/969835/EN-US

Office Comm Svr Std 2007 R2 AL: Description of the Office Communicators Server 2007 R2 Attendant hotfix rollup package: July 2009

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/970275/EN-US

Office Comm Svr Std 2007 R2 AL: Description of the update package for Office Communications Server 2007 R2, Unified Communications Managed API 2.0 Core Redist 64-bit: July 2009

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/970679/EN-US

Office Comm Svr Std 2007 R2 AL: Description of the update package for Office Communications Server 2007 R2, Administration Tools: July 2009

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971289/EN-US

Office Comm Svr Std 2007 R2 AL: Enterprise administrators cannot both set and enforce the Personal Information Manager settings for Outlook Integration to be able to turn off Outlook Integration for Microsoft Office Communicator 2007 R2

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971843/EN-US

Office Comm Svr Std 2007 R2 AL: The delegate permissions feature in Office Communicator 2007 R2 is unavailable to non-unified communications users

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971845/EN-US

Office Comm Svr Std 2007 R2 AL: Video frames are not displayed in Office Communicator 2007 R2 on a Windows XP-based computer

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971846/EN-US

Office Comm Svr Std 2007 R2 AL: Error message when you start Microsoft Office Communicator 2007 R2: "Either there is no default mail client or the current mail client cannot fulfill the message request. Please run Microsoft Office Outlook and set it as the default mail client."

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/972085/EN-US

Office Comm Svr Std 2007 R2 AL: After you mute the microphone on certain audio devices in a Communicator 2007 R2 call, the microphone gain is changed

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/972086/EN-US

Office Comm Svr Std 2007 R2 AL: Error message in Communicator 2007 R2 when you try to join a conference call from Outlook: "Can't open the program because Office Communicator or Office Communications Server Attendant is already running on your windows user account"

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/972091/EN-US

Office Comm Svr Std 2007 R2 AL: Error message when you try to adjust the volume during a call in a Communicator 2007 R2 conversation window on a computer that is running Windows XP: "Cannot adjust the speaker volume"

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/972093/EN-US

Office Comm Svr Std 2007 R2 AL: Error message when distribution group expansion fails in Office Communicator 2007 R2: "Cannot save a local copy of your distribution groups."

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/972097/EN-US

Office Comm Svr Std 2007 R2 AL: A "Meet Now – Invite by Email" HTML e-mail message that is generated by Microsoft Office Communicator 2007 R2 has unreadable text in the message body

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/972099/EN-US

Office Comm Svr Std 2007 R2 AL: A call from an Office Communications Server 2007 R2 user to an IP-PBX user fails when header information from a 302 Redirect message is not copied by a mediation server.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/972720/EN-US

Office Comm Svr Std 2007 R2 AL: No entry tone or exit tone is played to Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) users to indicate that someone from a Live Meeting console has joined or has left a Live Meeting conference in Office Communications Server 2007 R2

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/972723/EN-US

Office Comm Svr Std 2007 R2 AL: An update package is available to improve the performance of Microsoft Office Communicator 2007 R2 for USB peripherals

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/972892/EN-US

Office Comm Svr Std 2007 R2 AL: Error message when you log on to the Communications Server 2007 R2 Group Chat Admin Tool or the Communications Server 2007 R2 Group Chat Client: "Cannot sign in because of a problem with the chat room service"

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/973893/EN-US

Office Communicator 2007 EN: Description of the Communicator 2007 update package: July 2009

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/969694/EN-US

Office Communicator 2007 EN: Error events occur when you disconnect a computer that is running Communicator 2007 from a network: "Event ID: 3" or "Event ID: 7"

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971826/EN-US

Office Live Meeting 2005: The Java-based meeting console does not start when you try to join a meeting in Live Meeting 2005 by using a Macintosh computer (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/894659/EN-US

Office Live Meeting 2007 AL: The connection for an audio/visual conference fails in the Windows-based Live Meeting 2007 when you use an authentication proxy that requires 4-byte alignment of the Base-64 string

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971614/EN-US

Office Live Meeting 2007 AL: Miscellaneous accessibility improvements for the Windows-based Live Meeting 2007 client

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971618/EN-US

Office Live Meeting 2007 AL: Error message when you schedule a Live Meeting 2007 session by using the Conferencing Add-in for Outlook: "An error occurred trying to retrieve recipient properties"

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971632/EN-US

Outlook

Outlook 2003 Win32 AL: Some address lists may be missing when you use Outlook 2003 in Cached Exchange Mode (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/836723/EN-US

Outlook 2003 Win32 AL: Description of the Outlook 2003 Junk E-mail Filter update: August 11, 2009

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/972688/EN-US

Outlook 2003 Win32 EN: You cannot disable the "No end date" option for appointments, meeting requests, tasks, or task requests in Outlook 2003 (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/952144/EN-US

Outlook 2003 Win32 EN: An e-mail message does not appear in a user's mailbox if the e-mail message was sent on behalf of the user by a delegate in Outlook 2003 (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/953804/EN-US

Outlook 2007 Win32 ML: How to obtain the latest Outlook Junk E-mail Filter update (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/872976/EN-US

Outlook 2007 Win32 ML: You are repeatedly prompted to enter your credentials when you try to connect to an Exchange mailbox by using Outlook 2007 (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927612/EN-US

Outlook 2007 Win32 ML: After you upgrade Outlook 2003 to Outlook 2007, Outlook 2007 crashes when you start the program (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929012/EN-US

Outlook 2007 Win32 ML: An Outlook 2007 e-mail message remains in the Outbox after you have moved it to a personal folder (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/948984/EN-US

Outlook 2007 Win32 ML: Additional log files are generated on the Exchange server unexpectedly when you send an e-mail message to recipients who have a corrupted e-mail address or a corrupted e-mail address type by using Cached Exchange mode in Outlook 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/970777/EN-US

Outlook 2007 Win32 ML: The start times and the end times are not displayed before the appointment subject when you print a daily calendar in Outlook 2007 (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/972362/EN-US

Outlook 2007 Win32 ML: Description of the Outlook 2007 hotfix package (Oms.msp; Outlook.msp): June 30, 2009 (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/972574/EN-US

September 2009 – Technical Rollup Mail – SQL

conuktrm — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 02:01:00 GMT

News

SQL 2008

Microsoft Releases SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 1

Microsoft has released SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 1 with enhancements meant to ease deployment but no brand new features.

SQL Server to Get Real-Time Boost

The next release of Microsoft's SQL Server database, code-named "Kilimanjaro," will offer master data management (MDM) and support real-time data feeds for business intelligence (BI), reporting and analytics, the company revealed today.

Microsoft Announces SQL Server Fast Track Data Warehouse

New reference architectures from Bull, Dell and HP make it faster, easier, and more affordable for companies to deploy enterprise-class data warehousing projects.

Enterprise Customers Choose Microsoft Platform to Run SAP Applications for High-Performance, Multiterabyte Scalability and Low TCO

Microsoft announces Microsoft SQL Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 Certification for SAP Business Suite 7, and new enterprise support and services.

Dave Campbell on SQL Server 2008, Cloud Services, and More

What he thinks about the latest SQL Server release, Kilimanjaro, Madison, and Azure.

Reduce IT Spending While Still Upgrading to SQL Server 2008

The latest features and functionality included out-of-the-box with SQL Server 2008 will allow IT managers to save a tremendous amount of money and at the same time reduce management costs, hence it is worth the investment and you should upgrade to SQL Server

2008.

Documents

Other

Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008 R2 August Community Technology Preview Feature Pack

The Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Feature Pack is a collection of stand-alone packages which provide additional value for SQL Server 2008 R2.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=adc60012-be4a-47d0-877f-ca91326939c3

Microsoft® SQL Server® StreamInsight CTP2

Microsoft® SQL Server® StreamInsight is Microsoft’s new Complex Event Processing technology to help businesses derive better insights by correlating event streams from multiple sources with near-zero latency.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=a3faa562-b6dc-4702-90c6-bf8e08df3b8b

SQL 2005

Microsoft SQL Server 2005 SP3 Release Notes

The Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 3 (SP3) Release Notes describe known issues that you should read about before you install or troubleshoot SQL Server 2005 SP3.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=91227943-12f7-4602-b86b-d50ed8ce79da

SQL Server 2008 R2 Books Online CTP August 2009

Download the a community technology preview (CTP) release version of the documentation and tutorials for Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=c18bad82-0e5f-4e82-812b-5b23e5d52b9c

Partial Database Availability

SQL Server 2005 features that enable appropriately designed solutions to achieve partial availability and remain online even after a disk subsystem hardware failure.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=11a7ae65-c792-47ea-8b4e-fb87d0ece9b6

Excel 2007 Document: Designing SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services Cubes for Excel 2007 PivotTables

This document outlines how to improve the end-user experience by optimizing the cube design for Microsoft Office Excel 2007 PivotTable dynamic views.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=2d779cd5-eeb2-43e9-bdfa-641ed89edb6c

SQL 2008

Microsoft SQL Server Protocol Documentation

The Microsoft SQL Server protocol documentation provides technical specifications for Microsoft proprietary protocols that are implemented and used in Microsoft SQL Server 2008.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=91ef5106-944a-41e1-b3a0-5bd3f2356f32

SQL Server 2008 R2 Books Online CTP August 2009

Download the a community technology preview (CTP) release version of the documentation and tutorials for Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=c18bad82-0e5f-4e82-812b-5b23e5d52b9c

Partial Database Availability

SQL Server 2005 features that enable appropriately designed solutions to achieve partial availability and remain online even after a disk subsystem hardware failure.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=11a7ae65-c792-47ea-8b4e-fb87d0ece9b6

Microsoft Assessment and Planning

The Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit makes it easy to assess your current IT infrastructure for a variety of technology migration projects. This Solution Accelerator provides a powerful inventory, assessment, and reporting tool to simplify the migration planning process.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=67240b76-3148-4e49-943d-4d9ea7f77730

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Books Online (July 2009)

Download the documentation and tutorials for Microsoft SQL Server 2008.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=765433f7-0983-4d7a-b628-0a98145bcb97

Events/Webcasts

Momentum Webcast: Emerge Stronger with Business Intelligence (Level 100)

Wednesday, September 23, 2009 11:00 AM Pacific Time (US & Canada)

Join us for this informative overview on how the Microsoft total business intelligence solution can help you to emerge stronger from the economic downturn. In this webcast, we help you understand how to take advantage of your existing technologies to identify cost cutting opportunities, streamline operations, and strengthen and grow your customer base. This is the first webcast in the four-part Emerge Stronger webcast series, which is specifically designed to address your business intelligence needs in the current marketplace.

Presenter: Dana Straw, Senior Product Manager - Server Application Platform, Microsoft Corporation

View other sessions from Momentum: Drive Your Midsize Business Forward

If you have questions or feedback, contact us.

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032423640&culture=en-US

New KB's

Other

SQL Svr Compact Edtn 3.5 AL: FIX: The application enters into an infinite loop when you run an application that uses Microsoft Synchronization Services for ADO.NET to synchronize a SQL Server Compact 3.5 database

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/972390/EN-US

SQL 2000

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2000 EN: PRB: SQL Server Full-Text Search Does Not Populate Catalogs (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/317746/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2000 EN: Diagnostics in SQL Server 2000 SP4 and in later versions help detect stalled and stuck I/O operations (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/897284/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2000 EN: FIX: You receive an “Error: 8526, Severity: 16, State: 2” error message in SQL Profiler when you use SQL Query Analyzer to start or to enlist into a distributed transaction after you have installed SQL Server 2000 SP4 (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/903742/EN-US

SQL 2005

JDBC Driver for SQL Server 2005: FIX: The getColumns method of the DatabaseMetaData object returns an incorrect column length if the column length is 24 in the SQL Server 2005 JDBC driver 1.2

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/972139/EN-US

SQL Svr 2005 Analysis Svcs EN: How to install SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services on a failover cluster (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/910230/EN-US

SQL Svr Developer Edtn 2005 EN: How to use Kerberos authentication in SQL Server (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/319723/EN-US

SQL Svr Developer Edtn 2005 EN: How to troubleshoot the "Cannot generate SSPI context" error message (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/811889/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: Changes to the readme file for SQL Server 2005 (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/907284/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: On a computer that has a 64-bit processor, you receive an error message in SQL Server Management Studio when you connect to SQL Server 2005 Integration Services or when you create or edit a maintenance plan (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/919224/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: Queries take a longer time to finish running when the size of the TokenAndPermUserStore cache grows in SQL Server 2005 (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927396/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: You cannot specify a USB-based tape drive as a backup device in SQL Server 2005 and in SQL Server 2000 (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927797/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: A gradual increase in memory consumption for the USERSTORE_TOKENPERM cache store occurs in SQL Server 2005 (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/933564/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: An Incremental Servicing Model is available from the SQL Server team to deliver hotfixes for reported problems (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/935897/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: When you install a SQL Server 2005 service pack or a SQL Server 2005 hotfix, the installation stops unexpectedly (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/936488/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: The SQL Server 2005 builds that were released after SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 2 was released (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/937137/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: How to customize the quota for the TokenAndPermUserStore cache store in SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 3 (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959823/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: The SQL Server 2005 builds that were released after SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 3 was released (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/960598/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: Error message when you try to rebuild one partition of an index on an indexed view in SQL Server 2005: "A system assertion check has failed. Check the SQL Server error log for details."

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/970726/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: Error message when you run a report in SQL Server 2005 SP2 Reporting Services by using a URL from a subscription: "Object reference not set to an instance of an object" (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971114/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: Error message when you run a "BULK INSERT" statement on a table that does not have a clustered index in SQL Server 2005: "spid1005 Error: 5243, Severity: 22, State: 1 An inconsistency was detected during an internal operation"

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/972271/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: Error message when you restore a SQL Server 2000 database by using SQL Server 2005 Management Studio or SQL Server 2008 Management Studio: "Cannot show requested dialog. Failed to retrieve data for this request (Microsoft.SqlServer.SmoEnum)" (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/972687/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services Add-in for SharePoint removes the "Microsoft.SqlServer.Smo" assembly for SQL Server 2005 from the GAC

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/972694/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: Error message when you run the Distribution Agent to synchronize the subscribers with the publisher in Microsoft SQL Server 2005:" The incoming tabular data stream (TDS) remote procedure call (RPC) protocol stream is incorrect"

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/973103/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: The execution of the "xp_readerrorlog" command in SQL Server 2005 stops responding and the usage of the CPU that is running the command increases to 100 percent

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/973524/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: An incorrect result is returned when you run a query against an XML column that contains XML data that is generated by the FOR XML clause and contains nested data sections in SQL Server 2005

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/973578/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: FIX: A performance issue occurs when you run a query by using a Fast Forward cursor in SQL Server 2005

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/973877/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard Edtn 2005 EN: Some nodes are not updated as expected when you apply Service Pack 3 or a post-Service Pack 3 update in a SQL Server 2005 cluster that is based on Windows Server 2008 R2 failover clustering (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/973993/EN-US

SQL 2008

SQL Svr Enterprise 2008 EN: You must specify the domain groups for the clustered SQL Server services when you install a SQL Server failover cluster (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/910708/EN-US

SQL Svr Enterprise 2008 EN: How do I open the firewall port for SQL Server on Windows Server 2008? (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/968872/EN-US

SQL Svr Enterprise 2008 EN: 'Microsoft SQL Server management studio' and 'SQL Server Profiler' report 'Evaluation period has expired' message even after upgrading to a licensed edition (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971268/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: Description of the "access check bucket count" and "access check cache quota" options that are available in the sp_configure stored procedure in SQL Server 2008 (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/955644/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: After you install a SQL Server 2008 failover cluster in a disk that contains a mounted volume, no dependencies are created between the mounted volume and the disk (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/956008/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: List of the bugs that are fixed in SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 1 (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/968369/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: An INSERT INTO <table name> EXEC <stored procedure name> statement generates error messages even if you set the ANSI_WARNINGS option to "OFF" in SQL Server 2005 and SQL Server 2008 (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971057/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: Error message when you create a SharePoint subscription on a SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services report that uses cascading parameters: "This report requires a default or user-defined value for the report parameter '<Parameter>'" (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971068/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: The removal of a transaction log file of the database on the principal server breaks a database mirroring session in SQL Server 2005 or in SQL Server 2008 (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/972681/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: FIX: Some columns are missing when you run a query against a table that is located on a linked server if the column names contain a period character in SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 1

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/972856/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: The Full-Text Search component is not completely rolled back to the Service Pack 1 version after you uninstall Cumulative Update 3 for SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 1 that is applied by using a slipstream installation (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/973888/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: The default setting is used instead of the setting that is specified in the "Prepare Failover Cluster" stage when you perform an advanced cluster installation of a Microsoft SQL Server 2008 failover cluster

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/973992/EN-US

SQL Svr Standard 2008 EN: Microsoft Advisory Services Engagement Scenario - SQL Server Performance

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974626/EN-US

September 2009 – Technical Rollup Mail -- Manageability

conuktrm — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 02:01:00 GMT

News

Save the Date: MMS 2010, Las Vegas, Nevada, April 19-23, 2010

The 2010 Microsoft Management Summit will be held in Las Vegas, Nevada at the Venetian Hotel. The Save the Date site has been launched at http://www.mms-2010.com/ and registrations will open in the fall. We will provide more information and links to internal sites in coming weeks.

http://www.mms-2010.com/

Steve Rachui's Manageability blog - ConfigMgr/OpsMgr

http://blogs.msdn.com/steverac/

System Center WebLog by Russ Slaten

http://blogs.msdn.com/rslaten/

Configuration Manager & SMS

Notification of revised WSUSScn2.cab released on 08/17/2009

On Monday the WU/MU team released a revised WSUSSCN2.CAB file. This new cab file addresses reported issues with last Tuesday’s release of the security bulletin MS09-037 being over-offered on x64 platform systems. No systems are left un-secure as a result of this problem but the updated CAB file corrects the reporting and offering errors. We recommend that .cab users download and run this newer version of the .cab file.

http://blogs.technet.com/configurationmgr/archive/2009/08/19/notification-of-revised-wsusscn2-cab-released-on-08-17-2009.aspx

SCCM Unleashed is Unleashed

From Steve Rachui: SCCM Unleashed has been published and it is a very complete book and an easy read. I served as tech reviewer for the book so you can guarantee there are no mistakes! Now please don't shatter my world and point out everything I missed! :)

http://blogs.msdn.com/steverac/archive/2009/08/21/sccm-unleashed-is-unleashed.aspx

Windows AIK for Windows 7 is available for download

Grab it from the download center via http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=696dd665-9f76-4177-a811-39c26d3b3b34 . (Remember that the new USMT 4.0 bits are included in Windows AIK too.)

http://blogs.technet.com/mniehaus/archive/2009/08/07/windows-aik-for-windows-7-is-available-for-download.aspx

The Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit 4.0

... is an integrated planning toolkit that makes it easier for Microsoft customers and partners to quickly identify what clients, servers, and network devices are in their IT environment. This agentless and scalable toolkit has the ability to discover all computers within Active Directory and workgroup environments. It performs key functions that include hardware, device, and software inventory, hardware compatibility analysis, virtualization readiness planning, and gen-eration of actionable, environment-specific IT proposals for migration to most major Mi-crosoft technologies

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/solutionaccelerators/dd537566.aspx?SA_CE=NOT-MAP-EMAL-MAP4RTMANNCMTMSONLY-2009-07-13

The Configuration Manager Support Team Blog

http://blogs.technet.com/configurationmgr/

The Deployment Guys

http://blogs.technet.com/deploymentguys

System Center Configuration Manager Solutions

http://blogs.technet.com/mwiles/

Carlos Santiago's Manageability Blog - SCCM/Softgrid

http://blogs.technet.com/carlossantiago/

Michael Niehaus' Windows and Office deployment ramblings

http://blogs.technet.com/mniehaus/

Paul Thomsen at myITforum.com

http://myitforum.com/cs2/blogs/pthomsen/default.aspx

Operations Manager & MOM

Visio Add-in for Operations Manager 2007 R2

Combine the strengths of two applications widely used in enterprise IT to simplify the creation of customised graphical dashboards showing the health of an environment.

http://visiotoolbox.com/downloads/addins/

Latest Partner Pack newsletters available on OpsManJam.com

A bi-weekly newsletter focused on Management Pack best practises, including articles and short video bites.

http://www.opsmanjam.com/OpsManJam%20Library/Forms/MP%20folder%20view.aspx?RootFolder=%2fOpsManJam%20Library%2fThe%20Partner%20Pack%20newsletters&FolderCTID=&View=%7b28F6035C%2d64EB%2d43DD%2dAE64%2d039B5C85A626%7d

Three new KB articles published for Operations Manager 2007

The KB articles focus on Monitoringhost.exe consuming resources, deploying management pack reports and using timed scripts. Refer to the Operations Manager Support Team Blog for links to all three KBs.

http://blogs.technet.com/operationsmgr/archive/tags/KB+Article/default.aspx

Operations Manager 2007 R2 Sizing Helper Released

An interactive document design to assist planning and sizing deployments of Operation Manager 2007 R2 and help with uncertainties in making IT hardware purchases and optimises costs.

http://blogs.technet.com/momteam/archive/2009/08/12/operations-manager-2007-r2-sizing-helper.aspx

The Operations Manager Support Team Blog

http://blogs.technet.com/operationsmgr/

Other

Offline Virtual Machine Servicing Tool

Are you concerned with keeping you offline virtualized machines safe from attack and in step with new security policies? The Offline Virtual Machine Servicing Tool has free, tested guidance and automated tools to help you get the job done quickly and reliably.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=8408ECF5-7AFE-47EC-A697-EB433027DF73&displaylang=en

Free e-book: Understanding Microsoft Virtualization Solutions

Microsoft Press offers complimentary book “Understanding Microsoft Virtualization Solutions“.

This guide will teach you about the benefits of the latest virtualization technologies and how to plan, implement, and manage virtual infrastructure solutions. The technologies covered include: Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V, System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2009, Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.5, Microsoft Enterprise Desktop Virtualization, and Microsoft Virtual Desktop Infrastructure.

http://blogs.technet.com/softgrid/archive/2009/08/24/free-e-book-understanding-microsoft-virtualization-solutions.aspx

System Center Virtual Machine Manager

http://blogs.technet.com/scvmm/

The App-V Blog

http://blogs.technet.com/Softgrid/

Documents

Configuration Manager & SMS

Microsoft Security Update Guide

Microsoft Security Update Guide: Helping IT Professionals Better Understand and Maximize Microsoft Security Update Release Information, Processes, Communications, and Tools.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=c3d986d0-ecc3-4ce0-9c25-048ec5b52a4f

Other

Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 Release Notes

This download contains the Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) 2008 R2 Release Notes.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=14a0de11-cfa3-48d1-9dda-0a57b3408aa2

Downloads

Operations Manager & MOM

Internet Security and Acceleration Server 2006 MP for OpsMgr 2007

This management pack monitors the performance and availability of ISA Server 2006.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=c576fcdf-42f0-4eb5-990d-e8e7c7e9c07e

Other

Microsoft Operations Framework

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=457ed61d-27b8-49d1-baca-b175e8f54c0c

SCVMM 2008 – Evaluation

SCVMM 2008 Evaluation Edition has been removed from this site.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=ed012990-6e86-4b43-9842-da5c02ff1c83

Events/Webcasts

Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007 On-Demand Webcasts

http://www.microsoft.com/events/series/technetmms.aspx?tab=webcasts&id=42364#42364

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

Configuration Manager & SMS

TechNet Webcast: Automating Windows 7 Deployments Using System Center Configuration Manager (Level 300)

Wednesday, September 30, 2009 10:00 AM Pacific Time (US & Canada)

We focus on automating Windows 7 operating system deployments using Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager in this webcast. First, we cover how to automate hardware and software inventory using Asset Intelligence to determine what applications and hardware are needed for deploying Windows 7. Next, we examine deploying Windows 7 packages, and we discuss how to add Windows 7 packages to System Center Configuration Manager and then the deploy packages to bare metal machines and existing Windows Vista clients across the enterprise.

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032416867&culture=en-US

TechNet Webcast: How Microsoft does IT: Delivering Internet-based Client Management (Level 300)

Tuesday, September 29, 2009 9:30 AM Pacific Time (US & Canada)

Internet-based client management (IBCM) requires a significant investment in planning and deployment. Learn from Microsoft’s extensive experience in deploying an internet-facing service based on System Center Configuration Manager 2007 (SCCM). Plan and architect your Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) for use in SCCM 2007 and other certificate-based services. Understand key PKI decisions and terminology to become knowledgeable about IBCM provisioning issues such as digital certificates, revoked certificates, Online Certificate Status Protocols, and certificate chaining. Learn how to provision, secure, and manage the certificate lifestyle for your clients and infrastructure.

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032412530&culture=en-US

Other

TechNet Webcast: Technical Overview of System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 (Level 300)

Wednesday, September 09, 2009 10:00 AM Pacific Time (US & Canada)

Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 helps you manage your virtual infrastructure by using the enhancements to Hyper-V in the Windows Server 2008 R2 operating system. In this webcast, we discuss the new features of Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2, including support for Windows Server 2008 R2 capabilities like live migration, hot addition and removal of storage, and optimized networking technologies. With Quick Storage Migration, shared volume support (both Cluster Shared Volumes and third-party), storage area network (SAN) migration into and out of clustered hosts, and expanded support for iSCSI SANs, Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 and Hyper-V provide a dynamic virtualization platform for all of your business-critical applications.

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032423216&culture=en-US

New KB's

Configuration Manager & SMS

Sys Center Config Mnger 2007 AL: The SMS_EXECUTIVE service process (Smsexec.exe) crashes on a System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Service Pack 1 site server that allows SQL server authentication (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/969620/EN-US

Sys Center Config Mnger 2007 AL: When you use System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Service Pack 1 to capture an image of Windows Vista SP2 or of Windows Server 2008 SP2, the image capture process fails during the "Prepare Windows for Capture" stage (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/970093/EN-US

Sys Center Config Mnger 2007 AL: An advertised program created in a System Center Configuration Manager 2007 site server never runs in a System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Service Pack 1 client computer

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/970634/EN-US

Sys Center Config Mnger 2007 AL: The memory allocation for the Wmiprvse.exe process grows by approx 30 to 40 MB when you run search queries in System Center Configuration Manager 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/970637/EN-US

Sys Center Config Mnger 2007 AL: Multicast OS deployments fail with a hash value error when the Windows OS WIM file size is larger than 4 GB in System Center Configuration Manager 2007 (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971413/EN-US

Sys Center Config Mnger 2007 AL: Packages on Distribution Points are not updated with the latest source version in System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Service Pack 1 systems (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971583/EN-US

Sys Center Config Mnger 2007 AL: The OU property of the DDR is rejected by DDM when the DDR is being inserted in System Center Configuration Manager 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971687/EN-US

Sys Center Config Mnger 2007 AL: The /GLOBAL flag makes the package available to all users instead of just the currently logged on user in System Center Configuration Manager 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/972417/EN-US

Operations Manager & MOM

Sys Center Operation Mgr 2007 EN: The System Center Operations Manager 2007 Prerequisite Checker indicates that ASP.Net is not installed, even though the Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 is installed (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/934759/EN-US

Sys Center Operation Mgr 2007 EN: Error message when you manually change an agent setting for System Center Operations Manager 2007 by using the Change option in Add or Remove Programs: "Microsoft ESENT Keys are required" (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/969569/EN-US

Sys Center Operation Mgr 2007 EN: Operations Manager 2007-based agents consume 100 percent of CPU resources for the Monitoringhost.exe process

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974051/EN-US

Sys Center Operation Mgr 2007 EN: Responses that are scheduled by the Operations Manager 2007 agent may not run at the specified time

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974098/EN-US

Sys Center Operation Mgr 2007 EN: Error message when you try to install System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 on Windows Server 2008: "Account Verification Error"

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974886/EN-US

Sys Center Ops Mgr 2007 SP1: Description of System Center Operations Manager 2007 Service Pack 1 support for Microsoft SQL Server 2008 (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958170/EN-US

Sys Center Ops Mgr 2007 SP1: Expected reports for installed management packs are not visible in the System Center Operations Manager 2007 Operations Console Reporting node

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/962967/EN-US

Other

Sys Center DataProtect Mgr 07 EN: Description of the hotfix rollup package for System Center Data Protection Manager 2007: June 4, 2009 (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/970867/EN-US

Sys Center DataProtect Mgr 07 EN: The Data Protection Manager 2007 console crashes when you try to perform the replica volume shrink operation (Updated)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/973677/EN-US

Sys Ctr Mobile Dvc Mgr 2008 EN: The Group Policy setting "Code word frequency" for System Center Mobile Device Manager 2008 is not correctly applied to Windows Mobile 6.1 mobile devices when the policy is "Disabled"

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974606/EN-US

Sys Ctr Mobile Dvc Mgr 2008 EN: The Group Policy setting "Code Word" for System Center Mobile Device Manager 2008 is not correctly applied to Windows Mobile 6.1 mobile devices when the policy is Disabled

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974680/EN-US

September 2008 - Technical Rollup Mail - Security

Justin Zarb — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 02:00:00 GMT

News

Inside the Windows Vista Kernel http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9239060

By Mark Russinovich, Technical Fellow, Microsoft Platform and Services Division In this article, Mark discusses Windows Vista kernel features and enhancements in the areas of reliability, recovery, and security including the Kernel Transaction Manager, enhanced crash support, Volume Shadow Copy, BitLocker, and Code Integrity verification.

Evaluate System Center Configuration Manager 2007 SP1 http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9239062

Manage the full deployment and update life cycle with streamlined, policy-based automation and enhanced insight into -- and control over -- assets and systems compliance. Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007 offers optimization for Windows--particularly Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista--and extensibility to customized administration experiences and third-party applications.

patterns & practices Improving Web Services Security: Scenarios and Implementation Guidance for WCF http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9313821

Download the beta version of the WCF Security guide from the CodePlex web site. The guide, Improving Web Services Security: Scenarios and Implementation Guidance for WCF, is our Microsoft playbook for Windows Communication Foundation (WCF /"Indigo".) and shows you how to build secure services using WCF. A compendium of proven practices, product team recommendations and insights from the field, it includes end-to-end application scenarios (web applications / Smart Clients), as well as step-by-step 'How To's'. Most importantly, it frames the web services security space and shows you how to be effective with WCF.

Hyper-V RTM Now Available http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9239063

Take advantage of the scalability, high performance, reliability, security, flexibility, and manageability that an ideal virtualization platform should provide. A key feature of Windows Server 2008, Hyper-V has a thin, micro-kernelized hypervisor architecture with minimal attack surface, and can easily plug into your IT infrastructure so you can capitalize on your existing tools and processes for patching, provisioning, management, and support.

Windows Vista Security Guide http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9239064

Get the guidance and tools you need to use new and enhanced security technologies in Windows Vista to better defend the client computers in your organization against malware and protect corporate data. Application compatibility testing recommendations are also included.

Security Compliance Management http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9260645

Solution Accelerators are authoritative resources that help IT pros plan, deliver, operate, and manage IT systems that address real-world scenarios. Solution Accelerators provide free, prescriptive guidance and automation to accelerate cross-product integration, core infrastructure development, and other enhancements.

How Do I: Export and Import Certificates? http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9239072

Learn how to export and import certificates with this short, How-Do-I video.

Security White Papers http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9215650

Security white papers that address the specific security needs of particular industries, such as the professional services and financial services industries.

Microsoft Security Bulletin Summary for July, 2008

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

Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration Server

Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server 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

New Community Contributed Content includes:

Security Considerations with Forefront Edge Virtual Deployments

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc891502.aspx

Considerations when using antivirus software on ISA Server

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc707727.aspx

"Deep Packet Inspection"; What Does it Mean, Really?

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc707728.aspx

Deploying Forefront Client Security to non domain joined servers on a perimeter network through ISA Server 2006

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc752954.aspx

Security Considerations with Forefront Edge Virtual Deployments

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc891502.aspx

ISA Server Branch Office Policies Best Practices: ISA Server co-location with a domain controller

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc891503.aspx

KCD with Cross-Forest Accounts

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc752953.aspx

Forefront Edge Security Community

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

Files larger than 512MB are not served from cache after ISA Server firewall service is restarted

http://blogs.technet.com/isablog/archive/2008/07/30/files-larger-than-512mb-are-not-served-from-cache-after-isa-server-firewall-service-is-restarted.aspx

New Article on Enhancing TS Gateway Security with ISA Server 2006

http://blogs.technet.com/isablog/archive/2008/08/03/new-article-on-enhancing-ts-gateway-security-with-isa-server-2006.aspx

Understanding how you use this blog

http://blogs.technet.com/isablog/archive/2008/08/07/understanding-how-you-use-this-blog.aspx

Tales from the Edge

http://blogs.technet.com/isablog/archive/2008/08/07/tales-from-the-edge.aspx

ISA Server 2006 SP1 – New Perfmon Counter

http://blogs.technet.com/isablog/archive/2008/08/19/isa-server-2006-sp1-new-perfmon-counter.aspx

ISA & TMG NAT behavior And MS08-037

http://blogs.technet.com/isablog/archive/2008/08/28/isa-tmg-nat-behavior-and-ms08-037.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:

Anouncement: Two AES Ciphersuites (128/256 bits) are now supported

http://blogs.technet.com/edgeaccessblog/archive/2008/08/05/anouncement-two-aes-ciphersuites-128-256-bits-are-now-supported.aspx

Documents

Understanding and Configuring User Account Control in Windows Vista http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9239065

Find out how UAC works, including deployment scenarios and ensuring that older applications will be compatible.

Windows Vista Application Development Requirements for UAC http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9239066

This article is intended to assist application developers with designing Windows Vista-capable applications that are compliant with UAC. Detailed steps about the design process are included, along with code samples, requirements, and best practices. This article also details technical updates and changes to the user experience in Windows Vista.

Step-by-Step Guide to Controlling Device Installation and Usage with Group Policy http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9239067

Controlling installation and device usage this way improves your security, and it enhances the effectiveness of your help desk by limiting the devices that users can install to those your organization approves and supports. Learn how to control the installation and usage of devices on the computers that you manage with Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008.

Step-by-Step Guide to Managing Multiple Local Group Policy http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9239068

This guide covers the fundamental concepts needed to successfully configure Multiple Local Group Policy objects on stand-alone computers running Windows Vista and offers several task-based scenarios that show you how to use each feature.

Microsoft Forefront Client Security Enterprise Manager http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9239069

The Enterprise Manager tool allows you to aggregate reporting and management of up to 10 Forefront Client Security down-level deployments. With this tool, you can manage up to 100,000 client computers from a single Forefront Client Security console.

Microsoft Forefront Integration Kit for Network Access Protection http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9239070

Together, Forefront Client Security and NAP can provide an additional defense-in-depth layer against malicious attacks and give you a significant degree of control over the security and health of networked computers. This collection of software components and guidance will help you configure a compliance health policy for computers that run Forefront Client Security and isolate noncompliant computers to a restricted network until compliance can be properly addressed.

New Microsoft Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) Center http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9239071

Find information about this industry-leading software security assurance process, and quickly access process guidance, training and resources, tools, and blogs.

Downloads

Microsoft Antigen for Exchange with Antigen Spam Manager with SP1 Trial Software

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=866b63bf-6207-4197-9c5d-511b7212e40c&DisplayLang=en

Microsoft Source Code Analyzer for SQL Injection

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=58a7c46e-a599-4fcb-9ab4-a4334146b6ba&DisplayLang=en

Forefront Security for Office Communications Server 2007 Beta

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=d128fd1a-42a2-47cb-9de8-e4ea8ba2382d&DisplayLang=en

July 2008 Security Releases ISO Image

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=b9456bd2-f6ef-4d61-9d3c-fa855118397d&DisplayLang=en

Office 2003/XP Add-in: Remove Hidden Data

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=144e54ed-d43e-42ca-bc7b-5446d34e5360&DisplayLang=en

Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server 2006 Service Pack 1

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=d2feca6d-81d7-430a-9b2d-b070a5f6ae50&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

Update for Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 Junk Email Filter (KB953463)

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=e269e6f4-afaf-4703-9238-5b84951f6324&DisplayLang=en

Update for Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 Junk Email Filter (KB953465)

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=8f008afb-f6a9-42b2-8472-279623063dfb&DisplayLang=en

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

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

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

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

Step-by-Step Guide: Demonstrate NAP IPsec Enforcement in a Test Lab

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=298ff956-1e6c-4d97-a3ed-7e7ffc4bed32&DisplayLang=en

Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration Server 2006 Management Pack for OpsMgr 2007

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=c576fcdf-42f0-4eb5-990d-e8e7c7e9c07e&DisplayLang=en

Secure Web and Remote Access Enablement Datasheet

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=3d253737-4cda-4b35-99e3-08ebbc02efc8&DisplayLang=en

Enterprise Network Protection Datasheet

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=74bb13dc-15a5-483a-a879-1882aaef3268&DisplayLang=en

Enterprise Data Security Optimization Datasheet

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

Security, Identity, and Access Management Datasheet

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

Identity and Access Optimization Datasheet

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=e6daec91-7669-47a6-a9f7-39fcce339bcc&DisplayLang=en

Application and Host Protection Datasheet

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=1c60fb1f-d23a-4d51-a6b4-15dd3c633ce3&DisplayLang=en

System Center Solution: Managing Data Server Compliance

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=f5db44ae-7017-43fc-a65b-4948173c409d&DisplayLang=en

A Guide to Group Policy Preferences for Users of PolicyMaker Standard Edition

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=8d5f2917-7b6d-460d-83c1-497b721d666c&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: Information About Microsoft August Security Bulletins (Level 200)

Wednesday, August 13, 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

Microsoft server software and supported virtualization environments

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/957006

Intelligent Application Gateway 2007

Supported browsers, applications, and AV products in IAG

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/956907

Message of the Day feature in IAG

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/956906

Microsoft server software and supported virtualization environments

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/957006

Troubleshooting e-gap appliance sync issues

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/956895

A.O.B

Microsoft Product Lifecycle Information

Find information about your particular products on the Microsoft Product Lifecycle http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9239140 Web site.

See a List of Supported Service Packs http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9239141: Microsoft provides free software updates for security and nonsecurity issues for all supported service packs.

Security Awareness Materials http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9239085

Guidance, samples, and templates for creating a security-awareness program in your organization.

Learn Security On the Job http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9239086

Learning Paths for Security - Microsoft Training References and Resources http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9239087

September 2008 - Technical Rollup Mail - Platforms

Justin Zarb — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 02:00:00 GMT

News

Windows Virtualization Team Blog

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

The World Simplified is a Virtual World

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

Windows Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008

Internet Explorer 8. Faster, Easier, More Private, and More Secure.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=6&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d6ef71415-646f-4279-8b6b-193435ab2d80%26displaylang%3den

Tech-Ed EMEA 2008
Microsoft Tech·Ed EMEA 2008 IT Professionals is the Microsoft premier technical education conference just for IT professionals. For five days, you and 5,000 of your peers will learn how to architect, plan, deploy, manage and secure a connected enterprise from Microsoft experts and industry leaders. Experience more than ever before at Tech·Ed EMEA 2008 IT Professionals.
http://www.microsoft.com/emea/teched2008/itpro/default.aspx

Documents

.NET 3.5 Enhancements Training Kit

.NET Framework 3.5 Enhancements Training Kit containing Labs, Demos and PPTs

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=37&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d355c80e9-fde0-4812-98b5-8a03f5874e96%26displaylang%3den

2007 Office Resource Kit IT Pro content CHM

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

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

Windows Home Server Developer Guidelines

This document provides guidelines for developers who are writing applications for Windows Home Server

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=fd907752-0db0-4a6f-846d-974c19cd08fe&DisplayLang=en

Windows Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 FAQ for Business

This FAQ answers common enterprise customer questions about Windows Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=74f4cdcb-dc18-494f-a113-69fdbe4605a5&DisplayLang=en

Downloads

DirectX End-User Runtime

The Microsoft DirectX® End-User Runtime provides updates to 9.0c and previous versions of DirectX — the core Windows® technology that drives high-speed multimedia and games on the PC.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=1&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d2da43d38-db71-4c1b-bc6a-9b6652cd92a3%26displaylang%3den

Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=2&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3dad724ae0-e72d-4f54-9ab3-75b8eb148356%26displaylang%3den

Windows Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 for Windows XP

Internet Explorer 8. Faster, Easier, More Private, and More Secure.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=3&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d33fb40fd-2ee2-476a-a152-ed03734691b3%26displaylang%3den

Windows Media Player 11 for Windows XP

The media player for all your digital entertainment needs.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=4&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d1d224714-e238-4e45-8668-5166114010ca%26displaylang%3den

.NET Framework 3.5 Service pack 1

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=5&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3dab99342f-5d1a-413d-8319-81da479ab0d7%26displaylang%3den

Windows Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008

Internet Explorer 8. Faster, Easier, More Private, and More Secure.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=6&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d6ef71415-646f-4279-8b6b-193435ab2d80%26displaylang%3den

Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1

This download installs Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 (SP1).

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=7&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3dfbee1648-7106-44a7-9649-6d9f6d58056e%26displaylang%3den

SyncToy v2.0

SyncToy helps you copy, move, rename, and delete files between folders and computers quickly and easily.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=8&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3dc26efa36-98e0-4ee9-a7c5-98d0592d8c52%26displaylang%3den

DirectX Redist (June2008)

This download provides the DirectX end-user redistributable that developers can include with their product.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=9&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d822640ab-0983-4c41-9c70-632f6f42c557%26displaylang%3den

Windows Messenger 5.1

Microsoft Windows Messenger allows real-time communication with other contacts using instant messaging services.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=10&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3da8d9eb73-5f8c-4b9a-940f-9157a3b3d774%26displaylang%3den

DirectX Redist (August 2008)

This download provides the DirectX end-user redistributable that developers can include with their product.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=12&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3dc1367bc3-4676-481a-bfaa-5c15d1d7199d%26displaylang%3den

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Express

SQL Server 2008 Express is a free edition of SQL Server that is ideal for learning and building desktop and small server applications, and for redistribution by ISVs.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=13&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d58ce885d-508b-45c8-9fd3-118edd8e6fff%26displaylang%3den

Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool x64

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=14&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d585d2bde-367f-495e-94e7-6349f4effc74%26displaylang%3den

Security Update for Windows XP (KB952954)

A security issue has been identified that could allow an unauthenticated 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%3dd313f42c-f43f-48ea-82ef-3bc33077c7fa%26displaylang%3den

Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer 7 for Windows XP (KB953838)

This update addresses the vulnerability discussed in Microsoft Security Bulletin MS08-045. To find out if other security updates are available for you, see the Overview section of this page.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=16&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d8e2125c7-52cb-4052-82a3-2d3c6a953752%26displaylang%3den

Security Update for Windows XP (KB950974)

A security issue has been identified in Event System on Microsoft Windows based systems that could allow an attacker to compromise your Microsoft Windows-based system and gain control over it.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=17&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d01a34aa4-a456-4efc-a93a-c3c682b0181c%26displaylang%3den

VS 2008 Service Pack Preparation Tool

The tool is intended to prepare systems that may have previously been updated with SP1 pre-releases.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=18&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3da494b0e0-eb07-4ff1-a21c-a4663e456d9d%26displaylang%3den

Windows Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 for Windows Vista 64-bit Edition and Windows Server 2008 64-bit Edition

Internet Explorer 8. Faster, Easier, More Private, and More Secure.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=19&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d87809432-919c-44c0-ab3e-94c5b0ed03d6%26displaylang%3den

Cumulative Security Update for ActiveX Killbits for Windows XP (KB953839)

Security issues have been identified in Active X controls that could allow an attacker to compromise a system running Microsoft Internet Explorer and gain control over it. You can help protect your computer by installing this update from Microsoft.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=20&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d7441fb22-590d-40c9-962b-31a3a84730ae%26displaylang%3den

Security Update for Windows XP (KB946648)

A security issue has been identified that could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to compromise a system that is running Windows Messenger and gain access to information.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=21&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d8f588f7e-c4ed-42a0-b157-54b1eda60474%26displaylang%3den

Security Update for Outlook Express for Windows XP (KB951066)

Security issues have been identified that could allow an attacker to compromise a system that is running Microsoft Outlook Express or Windows Mail and read data from another Internet Explorer domain or the local computer.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=22&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d91469f2f-461c-4a67-8738-d42520427f6b%26displaylang%3den

Silverlight Tools Beta 2

Add-on for Visual Studio 2008 for developing applications for Silverlight 2 Beta 2

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=23&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d50a9ec01-267b-4521-b7d7-c0dba8866434%26displaylang%3den

Update for Windows XP (KB951072)

Install this update to resolve an issue that is caused by revised daylight saving time laws in many countries.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=24&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d81d03da3-846c-4f7f-8791-cd9943ce0893%26displaylang%3den

DirectX SDK - (August 2008)

Download the complete DirectX SDK, which contains the DirectX Runtime and all DirectX software required to create DirectX compliant applications.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=25&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3dea4894b5-e98d-44f6-842d-e32147237638%26displaylang%3den

Update for Microsoft Works 8 (KB955428)

Security Update for Microsoft Works 8 (KB955428)

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=26&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d458985c3-9c6f-4049-81cd-0d0389c81f11%26displaylang%3den

Update for Windows XP (KB951978)

Install this update to resolve an issue in VBScript/JScript scripts from CScript\WScript hosts, certain built-ins may not function correctly when “Standards and Formats” in “Regional Settings” is changed.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=27&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d705e21de-f7dc-4d19-aafc-f22d3fca772f%26displaylang%3den

Security Update for Microsoft Office Excel 2003 (KB951548)

A security vulnerability exists in Microsoft Office Excel 2003 that could allow arbitrary code to run when a maliciously modified file is opened. This update resolves that vulnerability.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=28&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3dfc612e9a-bdf3-4952-8ada-0de5a50973f0%26displaylang%3den

Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer for Windows XP (KB953838)

This update addresses the vulnerability discussed in Microsoft Security Bulletin MS08-045. To find out if other security updates are available for you, see the Overview section of this page.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=29&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d69af2f30-138e-4b15-ab8d-4fce44cc0bc2%26displaylang%3den

Security Update for Microsoft Office Word 2003 (KB954464)

A security vulnerability exists in Microsoft Office Word 2003 that could allow arbitrary code to run when a maliciously modified file is opened. This update resolves that vulnerability.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=30&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d13a37b76-9fec-426f-8176-3c95f934efe0%26displaylang%3den

Security Update for Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003 (KB948988)

A security vulnerability exists in Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003 that could allow arbitrary code to run when a maliciously modified document is opened. This update resolves that vulnerability.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=31&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d7a7c21f0-5e0e-4dee-9710-1ce3d565913f%26displaylang%3den

Visual Studio 2008 Express Editions with SP1

The Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Express Editions with SP1 are a free set of tools that are simple, fun and easy to learn. Continuing the Microsoft tradition of enabling developers of all skill levels, this latest release enables hobbyists, students, experienced and casual developers alike to create cool, fun applications.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=32&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3df3fbb04e-92c2-4701-b4ba-92e26e408569%26displaylang%3den

Security Update for the 2007 Microsoft Office System (KB951596)

A security vulnerability exists in the Compatibility Pack for the 2007 Microsoft Office System that could allow arbitrary code to run when you open a maliciously modified file. This update resolves that vulnerability.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=33&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d7afdae9b-9c74-4af7-9844-0e54221ea3b9%26displaylang%3den

Security Update for Microsoft Office 2003 (KB921598)

A security vulnerability exists in Microsoft Office 2003 that could allow arbitrary code to run when a maliciously modified file is opened. This update resolves that vulnerability.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=34&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3de0df2f6e-1102-461d-829f-5f3e2d7eb4b3%26displaylang%3den

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Enterprise Evaluation: Trial Experience for IT Professionals

Download SQL Server 2008 180-day Trial Software. Microsoft SQL Server 2008 is a database platform for large-scale online transaction processing (OLTP), data warehousing, and e-commerce applications; it is also a business intelligence platform for data analysis and reporting solutions.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=36&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d265f08bc-1874-4c81-83d8-0d48dbce6297%26displaylang%3den

Security Update for Access Snapshot Viewer 2003 (KB955439)

A security vulnerability exists in the Snapshot Viewer that could allow arbitrary code to run when you open a maliciously modified web page or document. This update resolves that vulnerability.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=38&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3dfd698517-a504-427d-9e5f-fde8f102142c%26displaylang%3den

Security Update for Microsoft Office Excel 2007 (KB951546)

A security vulnerability exists in Microsoft Office Excel 2007 that could allow arbitrary code to run when a maliciously modified file is opened. This update resolves that vulnerability.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=39&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d2753e8d6-e156-49ef-af2d-4c521c808ffd%26displaylang%3den

IE App Compat VHD

VPC Hard Disk Image for testing websites with different IE versions on Windows XP SP2, Windows XP SP3 and Windows Vista

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=40&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d21eabb90-958f-4b64-b5f1-73d0a413c8ef%26displaylang%3den

Security Update for Internet Explorer 7 for Windows XP (KB938127)

A security issue has been identified in the way Vector Markup Language (VML) is handled that could allow an attacker to compromise a computer running Microsoft Windows and gain control over it. You can help protect your computer by installing this update from Microsoft.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=41&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d9f5da816-194c-478e-8a96-9421a0c52c9f%26displaylang%3den

Update for Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 Junk Email Filter (KB955434)

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=42&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3dfcbdcfaf-cde6-4e05-b5b3-dfebb51a64db%26displaylang%3den

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Enterprise Evaluation: Trial Experience for Developers

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=43&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d6b10c7c1-4f97-42c4-9362-58d4d088cd38%26displaylang%3den

Security Update for Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007 (KB951338)

A security vulnerability exists in Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007 that could allow arbitrary code to run when a maliciously modified document is opened. This update resolves that vulnerability.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=44&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d55fd618a-e9c5-4f1e-b9a5-b2e47ec98ef1%26displaylang%3den

Update for Windows XP (KB951618)

Install this update to resolve a known application compatibility issue with the Saming OneKey recovery software driver Safnt.sys.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=45&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3dbdd33251-3e0b-4d14-bf02-ddcdefb7eded%26displaylang%3den

Security Update for Microsoft Office PowerPoint Viewer 2003 (KB949041)

A security vulnerability exists in Microsoft Office PowerPoint Viewer 2003 that could allow arbitrary code to run when a maliciously modified document is opened. This update resolves that vulnerability.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=46&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d911c8872-dec8-4b8e-9708-93dcabd3e036%26displaylang%3den

Microsoft Exchange Server MAPI Client and Collaboration Data Objects 1.2.1

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=47&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3de17e7f31-079a-43a9-bff2-0a110307611e%26displaylang%3den

Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac 12.1.2 Update

This update contains several improvements to enhance stability and performance. In addition, this update includes fixes for vulnerabilities that an attacker can use to overwrite the contents of your computer's memory with malicious code.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=48&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d9515c70d-be80-4ade-856a-ea542f7d84e1%26displaylang%3den

Office Live Update 1.2

The Office Live Update 1.2 for Microsoft Office Live Workspace beta makes working with Microsoft Office programs faster and lets you access workspaces from Microsoft Office Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=49&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3ddb65641d-b71d-4602-a425-11fb187450e0%26displaylang%3den

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Express with Tools

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Express with Tools is a free, easy-to use version of SQL Server Express that includes more features and makes it easier than ever to start developing powerful data-driven applications for the web or local desktop.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=50&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d7522a683-4cb2-454e-b908-e805e9bd4e28%26displaylang%3den

Events/Webcasts

Microsoft Virtualisation and Management Technologies
This event will take you through our latest management and Virtualisation technologies. We’ll start the day with a keynote explaining how to use System Center to reduce the impact your business has on the environment. In common with other TechNet UK events we’re going to demonstrate the interesting parts of the technology as much as possible. We will build a Windows Server 2008 cluster and discuss how to manage it.
9 September 2008, Reading
http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032384720&Culture=en-GB

Microsoft 'After Hours' - The Sequel
We believe technology should be fun. We believe that no individual should have to be frustrated with their computer when doing simple tasks. Sending photos to family, sharing a holiday video, and creating DVD are things that should just be simple.
10 September 2008, London
http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032384961&Culture=en-GB

Microsoft Management and Virtualisation Technologies
This event will take you through our latest management and Virtualisation technologies. We’ll start the day with a keynote explaining how to use System Center to reduce the impact your business has on the environment. In common with other TechNet UK events we’re going to demonstrate the interesting parts of the technology as much as possible. We will build a Windows Server 2008 cluster and discuss how to manage it.

11 September 2008, Edinburgh
http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032385097&Culture=en-GB

An Introduction and Overview of Microsoft Licensing
Licensing can be confusing – but it needn’t be! Attend this course to understand Microsoft Licensing and how to best apply it in your company to fit in with your business needs. This session is aimed at IT professionals who wish to gain a better understanding of Microsoft’s Software Licensing. The briefing assumes no previous in-depth or technical Licensing experience.

2 October 2008, Reading
http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032384727&Culture=en-GB

Windows PowerShell: Around the Data Centre in 80 Scripts
PowerShell is shipping in all of the major Microsoft products. Other major vendors are adopting it as well. PowerShell is designed for administrators but how do you get started and what can you use it for? Just how powerful is it? These two sessions will show you how to get started with Powershell and how you can use it to administer Windows, IIS, SQL Server and other Microsoft technologies.

14 October 2008, Birmingham: TechNet
http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032383908&Culture=en-GB

Windows Server 2008 - What's New and Exciting
Superficially Windows Server 2008 doesn’t look that different to Windows Server 2003 , so what has changed. There are scores of changes in the product, from little tweaks to make administration easier to whole new scenarios that weren’t possible before. There are enough changes to fill a much longer session, so this will concentrate on the highlights, showing , Active directory changes, Hyper-v virtualization, Powershell, Server Core, Terminal Services and more.

16 October 2008, Edinburgh
http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032384617&Culture=en-GB

Understanding Microsoft's Server Product Licensing in a Virtual Environment
This session is aimed at providing IT professionals with a complete understanding of Microsoft’s Server Product Licensing in a virtual environment. The course is in-depth and technical, it will help you to evaluate the different licensing options to best suit your business needs.

21 October 2008, Reading
http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032384730&Culture=en-GB

Taking Care of Business Every Day with Small Business Server 2008 and Essential Business Server 2008

Small Business Server (SBS) provides a one or two server complete back office for a small business and while it is easy to manage, we picked up a lot of questions about it in our last road shows, perhaps because SBS 2008 is coming out in November. So this half day event will focus on SBS to take a look at what’s in the new release, and how to upgrade if you are a current user.
22 October 2008, Bristol
http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032384993&Culture=en-GB

Security Improvements with Windows Server 2008 and Bitlocker
Windows Server 2008 offers rich capabilities for securing your IT infrastructure and providing tools to ease with compliance mandates. This session will discuss the Windows security and compliance features such as Network Access Protection, Rights Management Services, and Active Directory Federation Service, along with core security improvements within the server itself.

22 October 2008, Bradford: TechNet
http://www.microsoft.com/uk/technet/events/new/Detail.aspx?id=373

Taking Care of Business Every Day with Small Business Server 2008 and Essential Business Server 2008
Small Business Server (SBS) provides a one or two server complete back office for a small business and while it is easy to manage we picked up a lot of questions about it in our last road shows perhaps because SBS 2008 is coming out in November. So this half day event will focus on SBS to take a look at what’s in the new release, and how to upgrade if you are a current user.

29 October 2008, London
http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032384984&Culture=en-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

September 2008 - Technical Rollup Mail - Internet

Justin Zarb — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 02:00:00 GMT

News

Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration Server and Intelligent Application Gateway 2007

The Technical Rollup Email (TRM) team has taken the decision to move the Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server and Intelligent Application Gateway 2007 section to the SECURITY TRM. This decision is based on customer requests and to ensure the product appears in the appropriate category of use.

From September 2008 the Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration Server and Intelligent Application Gateway 2007 section can be found in the Security TRM.

Microsoft Internet information Server

How To Migrate From IIS6 to IIS7

http://blogs.iis.net/bills/archive/2008/06/18/how-to-migrate-from-iis-6-to-iis-7.aspx

New IIS7 Releases

http://blogs.iis.net/bills/archive/2008/07/09/new-iis7-releases-url-rewrite-application-routing-and-load-balancing-and-powershell-cmd-lets.aspx

BizTalk Server

New Case Studies

Dubai Bank - Bank Achieves Fast Time-to-Market, Cuts Development Work by 70 Per Cent

http://www.microsoft.com/casestudies/casestudy.aspx?casestudyid=4000002490

Chesapeake Energy - Energy Company Gets Head Start on Intranet Solution at Technology Center Engagement

http://www.microsoft.com/casestudies/casestudy.aspx?casestudyid=4000002564

Microsoft IT - Microsoft Individual & Organization: Master Data Management at Microsoft

http://www.microsoft.com/casestudies/casestudy.aspx?casestudyid=4000002502

SharePoint Technologies

Fast-Growing Architectural and Engineering Firm Designs Global Collaboration Portal with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007
August 19, 2008: Microsoft PressPass
With more than 7,500 professionals in more than 160 locations worldwide, HDR relies on the new portal to deliver an efficient and easy-to-use collaboration environment with advanced security features for its people, intellectual property, and client relationships.

http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2008/aug08/08-19HDRSPServerPR.mspx

New Microsoft Licensing and Support Eases Path to Virtualization
August 19, 2008: Microsoft PressPass
Customers get increased licensing flexibility and broader technical support when virtualizing Microsoft server applications within validated virtualization environments. Read the Microsoft SharePoint Team Blog for additional details.

http://www.microsoft.com/Presspass/press/2008/aug08/08-19EasyPathPR.mspx

SharePoint Technical Conference Announced
August 18, 2008: SDTimes
The phenomenal uptake of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 is transforming organizations of all sizes, all industries, and all geographies, creating significant demand for training and education. We're delighted that BZ Media is introducing this new SharePoint technical conference.

http://www.sdtimes.com/SHAREPOINT_TECHNICAL_CONFERENCE_ANNOUNCED/About_SHAREPOINT_and_MICROSOFT/32722

Gold Metal SharePoint Applications in Beijing
August 2008: Windows IT Pro
This summer, in Beijing, we're making more use of SharePoint than ever before, and I want to share with you four of the tasks we've conquered by using SharePoint.

http://windowsitpro.com/article/articleid/99504/gold-medal-sharepoint-applications-in-beijing.html

Microsoft Business Online Services—all the details
August 6, 2008: Network World
John Betz and Mitchell Ashley discuss the details of Microsoft's online hosted Exchange and SharePoint offerings.

http://www.networkworld.com/podcasts/com/2008/080608com-betz.html

Downloads

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

BizTalk Server

BizTalk Server 2006 R2 Hyper-V Guide

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=1&SrcDisplayLang=en&SrcCategoryId=&SrcFamilyId=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3fFamilyID%3d5c5d86ad-5e17-4ff2-abc9-5a81177f4b30%26DisplayLang%3den

Microsoft BizTalk Adapter Pack

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=58bd17c8-8efa-4b69-ab51-9f5b11a962dc&DisplayLang=en

BizTalk Server 2006 R2 Help

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=4e6a9d40-dbfc-4474-826a-ddeca287e57d&DisplayLang=en

Microsoft BizTalk Adapter Pack Readme and Microsoft BizTalk Adapter Pack Installation Guide

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=d9f588e9-fa3e-4b81-a598-ddd9f471f382&DisplayLang=en

BAM Training Kit

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=401227e2-3e24-4cbf-8514-361a4cb8e116&DisplayLang=en

.NET Rocks! - Dmitri Ossipov on Enterprise Service Bus

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=3a11209d-be52-4230-8b00-77cf4ecbc6ee&DisplayLang=en

Events/WebCasts

SharePoint Technologies

Best Practices SharePoint Conference

September 15–17, 2008: Washington DC
The 2008 Best Practices Conference replaces confusion with Clarity, Direction and Confidence by establishing key principles to guide effective SharePoint decision-making in any situation.

http://www.sharepointbestpractices.com/

Microsoft Business Intelligence Conference

October 6-8, 2008: Seattle, WA
This exciting and informative conference will showcase Microsoft's market-leading business intelligence (BI) products, solution expertise and customer successes. The event is designed to educate customers and partners on every aspect of Microsoft's BI offering. You can also expect even more educational tracks and sessions by Microsoft product and industry experts, customer best practices sessions, the second-annual Microsoft BI Customer Awards presentation, hands-on labs, and much more!

http://www.microsoft.com/bi/conference

SharePoint Connections 2008

November 10–13, 2008: Las Vegas, NV
Last year this event sold out; register early to avoid missing out on the hottest event of the year. What made Connections the largest Microsoft developer event in our industry? It's the 75+ Microsoft architects and the world's top IT experts in one place at one time presenting, training and networking.

http://www.devconnections.com/shows/FALL2008SP/default.asp?s=123

New or updated KB’s

BizTalk Server

BizTalk Server 2006 may be unable to decode the S/MIME information in the header of an incoming MIME message that was generated by BizTalk Server 2002

http://support.microsoft.com/?id=954812

FIX: You may experience poor performance when you try to split large EDI interchanges in BizTalk Server 2006 R2

http://support.microsoft.com/?id=953388

FIX: The FTP adapter stops processing the file transfer in a Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006 environment after a network connection recovers

http://support.microsoft.com/?id=955651

FIX: The EDI description context property for the routing failure report has an unhelpful error description in BizTalk Server 2006 R2

http://support.microsoft.com/?id=955303

FIX: You receive an error message and the application fails when SAP Adapter 2.0 generates a proxy by using ECC 6.0 in BizTalk Server 2006

http://support.microsoft.com/?id=955976

FIX: An update that adds a fourth option to process incoming EDI messages in BizTalk Server 2006 R2 is available

http://support.microsoft.com/?id=956051

SharePoint Technologies

Windows Sharepoint Services Version 3

Error message when you add a user who was previously a site owner to a WSS 3.0 site collection: "The file exists"

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/953456

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007

MS08-043: Description of the security update for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007: August 12, 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/953397

Error message when you try to create a Shared Services Provider (SSP) in Office SharePoint Server 2007: "An error occurred while translating user name "<Domain>@<Name>\User1" to a Windows account name - (DS_NAME_ERROR_NOT_FOUND)"

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/953145

MS08-043: Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Excel could allow remote code execution

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/954066

Error message when you try to access the search settings page in SharePoint Server 2007: "The search service is currently offline"

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/953448

You may experience poor performance when you use many SetCell calls in Excel Services

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/955653

Event ID 5326 and Event ID 4958 are logged in the Application log when you run a full content deployment job in SharePoint Server 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/953443

September 2008 - Technical Rollup Mail - SQL

Justin Zarb — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 02:00:00 GMT

News

Technical RollUp

http://blogs.technet.com/trm/default.aspx

Downloads

SQL – The Next Great Gaming Platform

Presentation from GameFest 2008

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=1&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d8b2a9674-13c4-42e3-8270-76813ab2a507%26displaylang%3den

SQL Server 2008 Report Builder 2.0 RC1

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 standalone installer for Report Builder 2.0.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=2&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3dcc9acbbd-570c-4712-b74d-85f537a5a75f%26displaylang%3den

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Express with Tools

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=3&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d7522a683-4cb2-454e-b908-e805e9bd4e28%26displaylang%3den

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Express with Advanced Services

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=4&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3db5d1b8c3-fda5-4508-b0d0-1311d670e336%26displaylang%3den

Microsoft® Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition GDR August CTP

Microsoft® Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition GDR implements support for SQL Server 2008.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=5&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3dbb3ad767-5f69-4db9-b1c9-8f55759846ed%26displaylang%3den

SQL Server 2008 Release Notes

This Release Notes document contains information for Microsoft SQL Server 2008 that supplements the SQL Server 2008 Readme and Books Online documentation.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=6&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3ddaf00920-7214-418a-a4b0-727f4ce08f81%26displaylang%3den

SQL Server Management Pack for MOM 2005

The SQL Server Management Pack monitors SQL Server services and features and their availability.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=7&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d79f151c7-4d98-4c2b-bf72-ec2b4ae69191%26displaylang%3den

SQL Server Data Services (SSDS) SDK (Beta)

This is a beta version of the Software Development Kit for SSDS including tools and client side components useful to developers building applications against SSDS.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=8&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d0b1fa5c6-ec9d-440b-939e-481dd05f2627%26displaylang%3den

Microsoft SQL Server Protocol Documentation

The Microsoft SQL Server protocol documentation provides technical specifications for Microsoft proprietary protocols that are implemented and used in Microsoft SQL Server 2008.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=9&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d91ef5106-944a-41e1-b3a0-5bd3f2356f32%26displaylang%3den

SQL Server 2005 Best Practices Analyzer

This download is the August 2008 release of SQL Server 2005 Best Practices Analyzer.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=10&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3dda0531e4-e94c-4991-82fa-f0e3fbd05e63%26displaylang%3den

Visual Studio 2008 Team Foundation Server SP1

This Service Pack contains bug fixes and new features that address feedback from customers and provide support for recent operating system and database releases. This service pack applies to Team Foundation Server 2008, Team Foundation 2008 Proxy, and Team Foundation Server 2008 Build.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=11&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d9e40a5b6-da41-43a2-a06d-3cee196bfe3d%26displaylang%3den

SQL Server Compact 3.5 SP1 Books Online and Samples

SQL Server Compact 3.5 SP1 is an embedded database that allows developers to build robust applications for Windows desktops and mobile devices. The download contains the Books Online and samples for SQL Server Compact 3.5 SP1

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=12&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d07829770-73a7-41e4-880d-e74b1a353623%26displaylang%3den

SQL Server Compact 3.5 SP1 for Windows Mobile

SQL Server Compact 3.5 SP1 for devices Windows Installer (MSI) file contains the CAB files and the DLLs for installing SQL Server Compact 3.5 SP1 on the Windows mobile devices.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=13&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3dfce9abbf-f807-45d6-a457-ab5615001c8f%26displaylang%3den

SQL Server Compact 3.5 SP1 and Synchronization Services for ADO.NET v1.0 SP1 for Windows Desktop

SQL Server Compact 3.5 SP1 is an embedded database that allows developers to build robust applications for Windows desktops and mobile devices. The download contains the files for installing SQL Server Compact 3.5 SP1 and Synchronization Services for ADO.NET version 1.0 SP1 on Windows desktop.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=14&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3ddc614aee-7e1c-4881-9c32-3a6ce53384d9%26displaylang%3den

SQL Server Compact 3.5 SP1 Server Tools

SQL Server Compact 3.5 SP1 Server Tools Windows Installer (MSI) file installs replication components on the computer running the Internet Information Services (IIS) for synchronizing data with SQL Server 2005 and SQL Server 2008.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=15&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3dfa751db3-7685-471b-ac31-f1b150422462%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=16&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d1ad953e6-2ca9-4d8b-95ff-d5242c4c627a%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=17&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3dbfcc3ded-9a3d-4a32-85e2-e71fd90ee645%26displaylang%3den

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Upgrade Advisor

Download the Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Upgrade Advisor. Upgrade Advisor analyzes instances of SQL Server 2000 and SQL Server 2005 to help you prepare for upgrades to SQL Server 2008.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=18&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3df5a6c5e9-4cd9-4e42-a21c-7291e7f0f852%26displaylang%3den

SQL Server Data Mining Add-ins for Office 2007

Download SQL Server 2008 Data Mining Add-ins for Office 2007. This package includes two add-ins for Microsoft Office Excel 2007 (Table Analysis Tools and Data Mining Client) and one add-in for Microsoft Office Visio 2007 (Data Mining Templates).

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=19&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d896a493a-2502-4795-94ae-e00632ba6de7%26displaylang%3den

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Feature Pack, August 2008

Download the 2008 Feature Pack for Microsoft SQL Server 2008, a collection of stand-alone install packages that provide additional value for SQL Server 2008.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=20&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3dc6c3e9ef-ba29-4a43-8d69-a2bed18fe73c%26displaylang%3den

SQL Server Reporting Services Add-in for SharePoint Technologies

The Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services Add-in for Microsoft SharePoint Technologies is a Web download that provides features for running a report server within a larger deployment of Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 or Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=21&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d200fd7b5-db7c-4b8c-a7dc-5efee6e19005%26displaylang%3den

SQL Server 2008 Privacy Statement

Read the Privacy Statement document for Microsoft SQL Server 2008.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=22&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3de7f89bf5-d80c-46b5-a12f-fade6d41330d%26displaylang%3den

SQL Server Data Services

SQL Server Data Services

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=23&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d2539d851-1e68-42fd-bee0-d36806a732fb%26displaylang%3den

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Books Online

Download the documentation and tutorials for Microsoft SQL Server 2008.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=24&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d765433f7-0983-4d7a-b628-0a98145bcb97%26displaylang%3den

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Enterprise Evaluation: Trial Experience for IT Professionals

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=25&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d265f08bc-1874-4c81-83d8-0d48dbce6297%26displaylang%3den

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Enterprise Evaluation: Trial Experience for Developers

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=26&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d6b10c7c1-4f97-42c4-9362-58d4d088cd38%26displaylang%3den

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Express

SQL Server 2008 Express is a free edition of SQL Server that is ideal for learning and building desktop and small server applications, and for redistribution by ISVs.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=27&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d58ce885d-508b-45c8-9fd3-118edd8e6fff%26displaylang%3den

SQL Server 2008 Pricing and Licensing

SQL Server 2008 Pricing and Licensing

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=28&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d7b133660-36b9-4a02-b0d8-dd7f7f19aa4f%26displaylang%3den

Install_cc_triggers

Install_cc_triggers

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=29&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d0f30eb82-0ca2-40cd-b6dc-1ce637dd7838%26displaylang%3den

SQL Server 2000 Service Pack 4 and MSDE 2000 (KB948110)

Security Update for SQL Server 2000 Service Pack 4 and MSDE 2000 (KB948110)

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=30&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d4fd1f86a-94a2-43d8-9b0a-774c81426d9e%26displaylang%3den

Documents

SQL Server 2008 Licensing Overview

This document explains key licensing considerations for SQL Server 2008 customers.

http://download.microsoft.com/download/1/e/6/1e68f92c-f334-4517-b610-e4dee946ef91/2008%

XML Best Practices for Microsoft SQL Server 2005

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-gb/library/ms345115.aspx

SQL Server 2005 Full-Text Queries on Large Catalogs: Lessons Learned

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/sql/bestpractice/ftslesld.mspx

Events/Webcasts

TechNet Webcast: SQL Server 2008 (Part 3 of 3): Integrate Growing Data Volumes (Level 300)

Attend this session to learn how to integrate growing volumes of data with the new enhancements in Microsoft SQL Server 2008. We cover new technologies, like Change Data Capture and MERGE SQL statement, in addition to scalability improvements in SQL Server Integration Services, like lookup enhancements and data profiling.

https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032365552&EventCategory=5&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US

TechNet Webcast: Mastering Time Series Prediction with SQL Server 2008 Data Mining (Level 300)

Time series data is one of the most useful sources for data mining. Whether it be estimating future gasoline prices or understanding the relationship between the weather and sales, there is a role for time series analysis. In the new release of Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Data Mining, Microsoft has introduced some important enhancements to our support in this area, making powerful analysis both more effective and easier to use. In this webcast, we not only introduce these new features, but we also cover many of the business scenarios for which time series prediction is invaluable.

https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032359362&EventCategory=5&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US

MSDN Webcast: Introducing SQL Server Compact 3.5 (Level 200)

With Microsoft SQL Server Compact 3.5 and Microsoft Visual Studio 2008, developers have an easy-to-deploy solution for local data. Ranging from caching reference data to full offline scenarios, developers can use a single engine for their Windows Mobile-powered devices, or their full desktop clients–benefiting from the power of SQL Server in a compact footprint. Using Visual Studio 2008, we show how SQL Server Compact can be transparently deployed with unique features including updatable result sets and a custom document format, and how to manage the creation and maintenance of your local data. This session is packed with demonstrations that can get you started today.

https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032364883&EventCategory=5&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US

September 2008 - Technical Rollup Mail - Unified Communications

Justin Zarb — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 02:00:00 GMT

News

You Had Me At EHLO...

http://msexchangeteam.com/default.aspx

Microsoft Office Outlook Team Blog

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

Office Communications Server Team Blog

http://communicationsserverteam.com/

Downloads

Microsoft Exchange Server MAPI Client and Collaboration Data Objects 1.2.1

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=1&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3de17e7f31-079a-43a9-bff2-0a110307611e%26displaylang%3den

Collaboration Data Objects, version 1.2.1

Beginning in Exchange 2007 Beta 2 and Outlook 2007 Beta 2, CDO 1.2.1 will no longer be provided as a part of the install of the product. As a result, there is functionality missing that many applications depend upon. CDO 1.2.1 is a package providing access to Outlook-compatible objects through a COM-based API.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=2&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d2714320d-c997-4de1-986f-24f081725d36%26displaylang%3den

EMEA case study resources

EMEA case study resources

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=3&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d76cb47e0-546a-4212-9b4a-c58959427b0d%26displaylang%3den

Microsoft Forefront Security for Exchange Server with SP1 Documentation

Microsoft Forefront Security for Exchange Server with SP1 Documentation

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=4&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d5cd4e36e-2dab-44d6-990e-3b8184b1cb1b%26displaylang%3den

Microsoft Antigen SP1 Documentation

Microsoft Antigen SP1 Documentation

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=5&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d7d00160e-4d15-4459-98a3-89f393ac008e%26displaylang%3den

Microsoft Forefront Server Security Management Console Documentation

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/info.aspx?na=22&p=6&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3dae4ce23b-9e1e-455c-87a4-36167fe43107%26displaylang%3den

Microsoft Forefront Security for SharePoint with SP1 Documentation

Microsoft Forefront Security for SharePoint with SP1 Documentation

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=7&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d125efb1e-7ff8-4cc8-934a-28fc7c7e59f0%26displaylang%3den

HMC 4.5

Hosted Messaging and Collaboration 4.5 offers Office Communicator Server and enhanced messaging services and

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=8&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3dc9cbbc69-4ae4-450d-af5e-f49e7c701cf4%26displaylang%3den

Exchange Server 2007 SP1 SDK August 2008

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=9&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3db6dd3f66-0c0c-41b1-b74a-a6eccb30767c%26displaylang%3den

Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 Migration Wizard for Lotus Notes

The Migration Wizard for Lotus Notes is a tool designed for organizations that are migrating from Lotus Notes/Domino to Microsoft Exchange Server 2003.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=11&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3dc105b3e4-3beb-4f1e-8f52-e345af6c3e50%26displaylang%3den

Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 Calendar Connector for Lotus Notes

The Calendar Connector for Lotus Notes is a tool designed for organizations that need to coexist during a migration from Lotus Domino to Microsoft Exchange Server 2003.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=12&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3dc14932a1-55f4-4256-af7e-617639d46024%26displaylang%3den

Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 Connector for Lotus Notes

The Connector for Lotus Notes/Domino is a tool designed for organizations that need to coexist during a migration from Lotus Domino to Microsoft Exchange Server 2003.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=13&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3dd9f3a35e-1046-47b5-b09b-bda9de60cd9d%26displaylang%3den

Sample migration planning materials

Sample e-mail migration planning materials

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=14&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3db4d668f4-26b0-4b3c-8b13-5e0275948257%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=15&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d5eb0f9a0-2c49-4f2a-8a09-b981ed667821%26displaylang%3den

ESM for Windows Vista

Exchange System Manager for Exchange Server 2003 running on the Windows Vista operating system

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=16&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d3403d74e-8942-421b-8738-b3664559e46f%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=17&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3da9aae935-ad23-4117-a3d9-9ed6093d6d7f%26displaylang%3den

Office Communications Server 2007 Document: Archiving and CDR Server Deployment Guide

This document guides you through the process of deploying Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007, Archiving and CDR Server.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=1&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d52627734-b354-4f74-a6ed-e298259cda19%26displaylang%3den

Office Communications Server 2007 Best Practices Analyzer

The Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 Best Practices Analyzer is designed for administrators who want to determine the overall health of their Office Communications Server 2007 servers and topology.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=2&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d1b90993c-072a-4c84-b385-b76d23b2f27c%26displaylang%3den

SharePoint Products and Technologies Protocol Documentation

The Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies protocol documentation provides technical specifications for Microsoft proprietary protocols that are implemented and used in SharePoint Products and Technologies.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=3&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d5e94ad07-902c-422f-aadd-ff2bba9e540a%26displaylang%3den

Multilingual User Interface Package for Windows Messenger 5.1

For Microsoft Windows XP Multilingual User Interface users. Download the Multilingual UI Pack for Windows Messenger version 5.1.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=5&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3da4816899-e092-4305-bdd4-290e65f734a4%26displaylang%3den

Microsoft Office Communicator 2007 Phone Edition

Microsoft Office Communicator 2007 Phone Edition is the first generation Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) phone which is directly compatible with Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=6&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3deeb1b339-df7e-486f-a47a-23d7ed8be6fd%26displaylang%3den

Office Protocol Documentation

The Office protocol documentation provides technical specifications for Microsoft proprietary protocols that are implemented and used in the Microsoft Office system.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=1&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3de7a23d42-0835-440f-9400-badfe9672b21%26displaylang%3den

2007 Office System Sample: Isolating Microsoft Office Extensions with the COM Shim Wizard Version 2.3.1

This code sample accompanies the MSDN article "Isolating Microsoft Office Extensions with the COM Shim Wizard Version 2.3..1" To view this article, click the link of the same name in the Related Resources box.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=1&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d3e43bf08-5008-4bb6-aa85-93c1d902470e%26displaylang%3den

Outlook 2007: Auxiliary Reference

The Outlook 2007 Auxiliary Reference contains conceptual, reference, and code sample topics to guide you in developing solutions using MAPI and Outlook APIs that are exposed outside the Outlook object model.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=3&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3da2abf783-0d4d-454c-bb9e-6f83be3c193c%26displaylang%3den

Microsoft Office Outlook Tool: Time Zone Data Update Tool for Microsoft Office Outlook

This tool adjusts Microsoft Office Outlook calendar items when there has been a change in time zone definitions (saved in Microsoft Windows) or if the user is making a permanent move to another time zone.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=4&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3de343a233-b9c8-4652-9dd8-ae0f1af62568%26displaylang%3den

Outlook 2007: Auxiliary Reference Code Samples and Redistributable Installer

This download accompanies the Outlook 2007 Auxiliary Reference documentation. It contains four 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 (DST).

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=5&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3dee0af8fd-bbb7-44de-be4d-f33cb1b59563%26displaylang%3den

Update for Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 Junk Email Filter (KB955433)

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=6&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d4eee5ec9-20ac-4403-9261-166aa9319ac0%26displaylang%3den

Update for Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 Junk Email Filter (KB955434)

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=7&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3dfcbdcfaf-cde6-4e05-b5b3-dfebb51a64db%26displaylang%3den

Security Update for Microsoft Outlook 2002 (KB946985)

A security vulnerability exists in Microsoft Outlook 2002 that could allow arbitrary code to run when you click on a maliciously modified hyperlink. This update resolves that vulnerability.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=8&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d59853687-d885-4059-9460-ee403855dbd8%26displaylang%3den

Microsoft Office Live Meeting Service Administrator's Guide

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

Live Meeting 2007 Document: Live Meeting 2007 API Reference Guide

This API Reference Guide is intended for engineers, developers, and programmers who will design, implement, and test software that uses the Live Meeting 2007 API.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=3&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d429e61d6-a172-4bcc-9184-d5f34e9d5e30%26displaylang%3den

Events/Webcasts

19/09/08 TechNet Webcast: Technical Overview of the Business Productivity Online Suite from Microsoft Online Services (Level 200)

The Business Productivity Online (BPO) Suite from Microsoft Online Services includes Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, Office Live Meeting, and Exchange Hosted Filtering, enterprise-class software delivered as a subscription service, hosted by Microsoft, and sold with partners. In this webcast, we introduce you to the BPO Suite and its components, and we demonstrate the ease with which IT professionals can set up the service for their organizations and users.

http://www.microsoft.com/events/EventDetails.aspx?CMTYSvcSource=MSCOMMedia&Params=%7eCMTYDataSvcParams%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22ID%22+Value%3d%221032386683%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

23/09/08 TechNet Webcast: Microsoft Online Services Setup, On-boarding, and Administration (Level 200)

The Business Productivity Online (BPO) Suite from Microsoft Online Services includes Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, Office Live Meeting, and Exchange Hosted Filtering, enterprise-class software delivered as a subscription service, hosted by Microsoft, and sold with partners. In this webcast, we introduce the Microsoft Online Administration Center (MOAC) and the process for setting up and on-boarding an organization to the BPO Suite.

http://www.microsoft.com/events/EventDetails.aspx?CMTYSvcSource=MSCOMMedia&Params=%7eCMTYDataSvcParams%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22ID%22+Value%3d%221032386685%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

25/09/08 TechNet Webcast: Exchange Online Application Capabilities (Level 200)

Microsoft Exchange Online is the messaging component of the Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS) from Microsoft Online Services. In this webcast, we explore the application capabilities of Exchange Online, including steps for configuring and managing the service, such as adding custom domains, configuring for external relay, provisioning mailboxes, creating distribution lists, and adding contacts.

http://www.microsoft.com/events/EventDetails.aspx?CMTYSvcSource=MSCOMMedia&Params=%7eCMTYDataSvcParams%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22ID%22+Value%3d%221032386689%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

26/09/08 TechNet Webcast: Migration and Coexistence for the Business Productivity Online Suite from Microsoft Online Services (Level 300)

In this webcast, we demonstrate coexistence and migration tools and strategies for Microsoft Online Services. These tools help organizations synchronize their on-premise Active Directory forest with the Microsoft Online Service directory structure in the cloud, migrate mailboxes from on-premise mail servers to Microsoft Exchange Online, and operate their on-premise Active Directory forest and Exchange Servers in coexistence with their Microsoft Online Services deployment.

http://www.microsoft.com/events/EventDetails.aspx?CMTYSvcSource=MSCOMMedia&Params=%7eCMTYDataSvcParams%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22ID%22+Value%3d%221032386691%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

September 2008 - Technical Rollup Mail - Manageability

Justin Zarb — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 02:00:00 GMT

News

SMS&MOM

http://blogs.technet.com/smsandmom/default.aspx

The Deployment Guys

http://blogs.technet.com/deploymentguys/default.aspx

Ops Mgr 2007 Cross Platform Extensions Beta Refresh Now Available
https://connect.microsoft.com/programdetails.aspx?ProgramDetailsID=2249

Downloads

SC Config Mgr 2007 SP1 Asset Intelligence Catalog Update

This package will update the Asset Intelligence Configuration Manager SP1 catalog to fix the MPC issue, correcting the LU_MSProd table.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=1&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d6d7edf02-8a2a-4856-82c1-adde11529ac7%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

ENERGY STAR Power Management Assessment CP for SCCM 2007

This configuration pack uses ENERGY STAR program criteria to assess display and hibernation settings on Windows XP or Windows Vista operating systems.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=3&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3dc8324323-2159-4e49-988c-3505653eaa26%26displaylang%3den

Preload Package Tool for ConfigMgr 2007

The SMS 2003 Toolkit tool Package Loader Tool has been updated to support Configuration Manager 2007

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=4&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3dc36fcda8-9336-4d44-9568-5530ff7635dd%26displaylang%3den

SC Configuration Manager 2007 SP1 ICPs

International Client Packs (ICPs) contain international-language clients to use with System Center Configuration Manager (SC Config Mgr) 2007 SP1. ICP downloads contain only the Config Mgr client files, not the English-language SC Config Mgr 2007 SP1, which is required.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=5&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d76739d39-50a9-436f-9c3b-32a1aafb9154%26displaylang%3den

Service Level Dashboard Management Pack for System Center Operations Manager 2007

This Solution Accelerator enables you to accurately measure and report on end-to-end system availability and performance of business critical applications in your organization.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=1&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d67ef9823-631b-49b7-9d7f-9f125bdf27ae%26displaylang%3den

Windows Print Server MP for OpsMgr 2007

This management pack monitors the performance and availability of the Print Server role running on various Windows Server operating systems.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=2&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d7cb26de3-7658-4c47-aefa-2136c48f4603%26displaylang%3den

Windows 2008 Fax Server MP for OpsMgr 2007

This management pack monitors the performance and availability of the Fax Server role running on the Windows Server 2008 operating system.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=3&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d34284a50-df38-492a-8137-bede68fe8b94%26displaylang%3den

Cross Platform Extensions Quick Start Guide

This Quick Start Guide contains the release notes, system requirements, and installation and configuration information for the System Center Operations Manager 2007 Cross Platform Extensions beta. Guidelines on how to use the solution are also included.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=4&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d273ec947-f8f3-4467-ad56-8e90fdb45d61%26displaylang%3den

Exchange Server 2003 MP for OpsMgr 2007

The Exchange Server 2003 Management Pack monitors Exchange 2003 deployments and monitors Exchange Server Back-end and Exchange Server Front-End systems.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=5&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d9ff454f4-6d34-4fb9-9e0b-f5b68c6edc4f%26displaylang%3den

SQL Server Management Pack for MOM 2005

The SQL Server Management Pack monitors SQL Server services and features and their availability.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=6&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d79f151c7-4d98-4c2b-bf72-ec2b4ae69191%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=7&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d2694e87c-76e0-417b-ad0f-5897e46fff88%26displaylang%3den

DNS Server 2000/2003/2008 MP for OpsMgr 2007

This management Pack monitors DNS 2000/2003/2008 infrastructure health, availability and performance.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=8&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d633b718f-5fe8-47d5-a395-8203f8ec354f%26displaylang%3den

Windows Server 2008 Operating System MP for MOM2005

The Windows Server 2008 Operating System Management Pack provides the fundamental monitoring basics for computers running the Windows Server 2008 Operating System.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=9&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3dc2c4f129-eeb6-41e1-b630-ef5a3e357226%26displaylang%3den

Server 2008 Application Model MP for MOM 2005

The Application Server Management Pack monitors the components which are part of the Application Server role, including COM, COM+, DCOM, RPC and MSDTC.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=10&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d48e0c6ad-9352-4baf-86d6-818c0b457d50%26displaylang%3den

Deployment Service MP for OpsMgr 2007

Monitors Windows Deployment Services infrastructure health, availability and performance.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=11&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d5883d85e-3b50-4c4f-bef4-355fcea4b035%26displaylang%3den

Windows 2008 Network Policy Server MP

The Network Policy Server Management Pack monitors the NPS services and their availability.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=12&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d71e02704-5cb5-49e5-b88b-b4dccf31aec5%26displaylang%3den

Windows Server 2008 Active Directory MP for MOM 2005

The Microsoft Windows Active Directory Management Pack provides monitoring of your Active Directory service and its required subsystems across a single forest or multiple forests.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=13&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3db516e614-814a-4277-abf9-8d5315d2ba06%26displaylang%3den

Streaming Media Services MP for OpsMgr 2005

The Streaming Media Services Management Pack monitors the performance and health of Windows Media servers running on Microsoft Windows Server 2008.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=14&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3de812e726-ba96-4cfb-b901-287f1381bcaa%26displaylang%3den

Active Directory Rights Management Services for MOM 2005

The Active Directory Rights Management Services (ADRMS) Management Pack monitors the performance and health of ADRMS 2.0.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=15&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d91056dd5-e3f9-4d2e-8f88-2dae36f9e837%26displaylang%3den

Windows 2008 DHCP Service MP for MOM 2005

This Management Pack monitors the health, availability, and performance of the Windows DHCP service, including scopes and superscopes.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=16&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3def5eaf57-71b3-4e84-a012-dc876e11ff40%26displaylang%3den

Win 2008 Fax Server MP for MOM 2005

The Fax Server Management Pack monitors fax servers and their availability.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=17&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d3425ec8f-cac4-408b-81b8-e68264408775%26displaylang%3den

Win 2008 Failover Clustering MP for MOM 2005

The Failover Clustering Management Pack monitors Failover Clusters and their availability.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=18&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3dbf72a741-373b-45ee-876d-b23a0b457dea%26displaylang%3den

Active Directory Federation Services MP for MOM 2005

The Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) Management Pack monitors the health of the Windows Server 2008 version of AD FS.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=19&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d10aea769-04de-4a38-baf8-9f500e697328%26displaylang%3den

Server 2008 AD CS MP for MOM 2005

The ADCS Management Pack monitors the Windows Server 2008 ADCS role services availability and health.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=20&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d15edbfeb-0b7d-4baf-a7bd-6bb84a6b822d%26displaylang%3den

Win 2008 Network Load Balancing for MOM 2005

The Network Load Balancing Management Pack monitors Network Load Balancing (NLB) clusters and their availability.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=21&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d18e356e0-dfbb-47d8-b397-e11dc6b82f0d%26displaylang%3den

Internet Information Services Management Pack for MOM 2005

The Internet Information Services (IIS) Management Pack monitors the performance and health of IIS 7.0.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=22&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3de70b26b6-adc6-42d2-ad52-d186415519f2%26displaylang%3den

SharePoint Monitoring Toolkit

This Solution Accelerator provides a set of System Center Ops Manager 2007 Management Packs for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (including SP1). The Toolkit also includes user documentation for each of the Management Packs.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=23&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3de4600fd9-f53d-4ded-88bf-6bb1932794f9%26displaylang%3den

Windows 2003 Group Policy MP for OpsMgr 2007

Provides Group Policy health monitoring and knowledge base of useful information to help administrators resolve an issue when Group Policy fails to process. Requires OpsMgr 2007 MOM 2005 Backward Compatibility MP Update 6.0.5000.1 (or higher).

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=24&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d52459150-85bd-4acb-90be-2ee5df18e1a8%26displaylang%3den

Windows 2008 Group Policy MP for OpsMgr 2007

Windows Server 2008 Group Policy Management Pack for Operations Manager 2007 monitors the health, availability, and performance of the Microsoft group policy client component of Microsoft Windows Server 2008.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=25&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d12a29de3-7147-4488-8b1d-5825892f2b05%26displaylang%3den

SC DPM 2007 Hotfix Rollup Package (KB954641) (x64)
This package addresses issues with the DPMRA Service, a missing Calculate link option when creating a protection group, and an error message when configuring secondary protection. It also enables protection of data local to the DPM server.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=1&SrcDisplayLang=en&SrcCategoryId=&SrcFamilyId=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3fFamilyID%3d8eefde76-1a94-4096-ba3a-829eb954e422%26DisplayLang%3den

SC DPM 2007 Hotfix Rollup Package (KB954641) (x86)
This package addresses issues with the DPMRA Service, a missing Calculate link option when creating a protection group, and an error message when configuring secondary protection. It also enables protection of data local to the DPM server.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=2&SrcDisplayLang=en&SrcCategoryId=&SrcFamilyId=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3fFamilyID%3df80129c7-1754-4ea0-9cf3-425f87b9ebd1%26DisplayLang%3den

Events/Webcasts

Windows HPC Server 2008 with Operations Manager 2007: A Dynamic Integration
http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032383500&EventCategory=2&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US

Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007 On-Demand Webcasts
http://www.microsoft.com/events/series/technetmms.aspx?tab=webcasts&id=42364#42364

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

New KB's

System Center Configuration Manager 2007

List of fixes that are included in System Center Configuration Manager Service Pack 1
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;953649

How to manually determine the license and sale origin channel information for a software product when the Asset Intelligence reports in SMS 2003 with Service Pack 3 do not report the correct channel information
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;941461

System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Service Pack 1 is unable to remove AMT user ACLs during the provisioning process for AMT 2.x computers
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;956337

Error message when you use the Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007 SP1-based Configuration Manager Configuration Manager console to check software distribution point settings
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;955388

You cannot use the Out of Band Management console in Configuration Manager 2007 to connect to computers that use versions of Intel AMT that are earlier than version 3.2.1
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;954718

The SMS_Executive service process (Smsexec.exe) in System Center Configuration Manager 2007 may crash if you have Intel AMT-related software installed
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;955126

A distinguished name that contains more than 100 characters and that is discovered from Active Directory for an AMT host causes the SMS_EXECUTIVE service to crash in System Center Configuration Manager 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;955355

Systems Management Server 2003

The "PREINST /SYNCPARENT" command replicates discovery and inventory data and triggers a software inventory resynchronization in SMS 2003
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;954245

Information for network administrators about how to obtain the latest Windows Update Agent
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;946928

Windows Vista SP1, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2003 SP2, and Windows XP SP3 are not listed as supported platforms for software distribution, update management, or desired configuration management in Systems Management Server 2003
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;953027

SMS 2003 with Service Pack 3 cannot deploy a package to client computers that are running Windows Vista with Service Pack 1
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;939332

System Center Operations Manager 2007

Information for network administrators about how to obtain the latest Windows Update Agent
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;946928

The Root Management Server (RMS) of System Center Operations Manager 2007 Service Pack 1 or Essentials 2007 Service Pack 1 becomes unstable or unusable if a management pack is imported
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;951526

Support for running System Center Operations Manager 2007 Service Pack 1 and System Center Essentials 2007 Service Pack 1 on a Windows Server 2008-based computer
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;953141

Description of the hotfix rollup package for System Center Operations Manager 2007 Service Pack 1 and for System Center Essentials 2007 Service Pack 1: July 25, 2008
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;954049

The Monitoringhost.exe process may consume all the CPU resources when a large amount of performance data is created by using a managed data source module in System Center Operations Manager 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;954903

Operations Manager 2005

Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 Service Pack 1 support for Windows Server 2008
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;953140

System Center Data Protection Manager 2007

Description of the hotfix rollup package for System Center Data Protection Manager 2007: July 31, 2008
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;954641

September 2007 - Technical Rollup Mail - Manageability

Justin Zarb — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 01:46:36 GMT

News

System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Now Available

The next release of Systems Management Server (SMS), entitled System Center Configuration Manager 2007, is now available for download. With major investments in simplicity, configuration, deployment and security, Configuration Manager 2007 dramatically simplifies system deployment, task automation, compliance management, and policy based security management allowing for increased business agility.

Download a trial version here

Downloads

System Center Trial Software

With the new release of System Center Configuration Manager 2007 adding to the System Center family, why not evaluate the capabilities of some of the other Microsoft System Center family of products with these downloadable trial and Beta software versions.

http://www.microsoft.com/systemcenter/evaluation/trial/default.mspx

Events/WebCasts

TechNet Webcast: Client Monitoring with System Center Operations Manager 2007 (Level 300)

Monday, September 10, 2007

11:30 A.M.–1:00 P.M. Pacific Time

TechNet Webcast: Reporting with System Center Operations Manager 2007 (Level 200)

Monday, September 17, 2007

9:30 A.M.–11:00 A.M. Pacific Time

TechNet Webcast: Security and Enterprise Features of System Center Operations Manager 2007 (Level 200)

Wednesday, September 26, 2007

9:30 A.M.–11:00 A.M. Pacific Time

New KB’s

KB940182: The Windows Update Agent version is not inventoried after the hardware inventory runs on Systems Management Server (SMS) 2003 Service Pack 2 or on SMS 2003 Service Pack 3-based clients

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/940182/en-us

KB940181: Event ID 5102 is logged when you end a Remote Assistance session from a Systems Management Server 2003 Administrator console on a computer that has Internet Explorer 7 installed

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/940181/en-us

KB939305: Error result when you run the Systems Management Server 2003 Service Pack 3 Deployment Readiness Wizard: "Site Database SQL version less than 7.0 SP3"

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/939305/en-us

KB936465: In a three-tier SMS 2003 hierarchy, packages may not be decompressed or copied to the distribution point of the secondary site

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/936465/en-us

KB941440: The scan process fails when the SMS 2003 Inventory Tool for Microsoft Updates tries to scan Microsoft Windows 2000-based SMS 2003 client computers for compliance

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/941440/en-us

KB936200: The software inventory process may stop responding when the Delete Aged System Center Reporting task is enabled on a site server that is running SMS 2003 with SP2

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/936200/en-us

September 2007 - Technical Rollup Mail - Unified Communications

Justin Zarb — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 01:44:00 GMT

News

Microsoft Unveils Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1 in Technology Preview

New software builds on Exchange Server 2007’s anywhere access* to information, operational efficiency and built-in protection.

http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2007/aug07/08-13Exchange2007NewPR.mspx

Exchange Team Blog

http://msexchangeteam.com/default.aspx

Outlook Team Blog

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

Office Communicator Team Blog

http://communicatorteam.com/rss.aspx

Office Communications Server Team Blog

http://communicationsserverteam.com/rss.aspx

Downloads

Update Rollup 4 for Exchange Server 2007 (KB940006)

Update Rollup 4 for Exchange Server 2007 (KB940006)

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=1&SrcDisplayLang=en&SrcCategoryId=&SrcFamilyId=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3fFamilyID%3de56fc52a-216e-4225-bf2f-f082c20b7b21%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=2&SrcDisplayLang=en&SrcCategoryId=&SrcFamilyId=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3fFamilyID%3d5770bd59-376e-42ec-b940-be6225cd97ff%26DisplayLang%3den

Exchange Server 2007 SP1 Beta 2 VHD

This download comes as a pre-configured VHD. This download enables you evaluate how Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 SP1 Beta 2.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=3&SrcDisplayLang=en&SrcCategoryId=&SrcFamilyId=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3fFamilyID%3dbc381af4-9bd0-49dd-be1a-0c6ee49cd2bc%26DisplayLang%3den

Intermass Fischer Asia

This is a case study of this company who migrated to Small Business Server from Windows NT

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=4&SrcDisplayLang=en&SrcCategoryId=&SrcFamilyId=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3fFamilyID%3d66436c0a-0291-4cf7-9b93-cd283e9696ef%26DisplayLang%3den

Microsoft Forefront Security for Exchange Server with Service Pack 1 Beta 2

Help protect your Exchange server from viruses and other malware.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=5&SrcDisplayLang=en&SrcCategoryId=&SrcFamilyId=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3fFamilyID%3dd181c088-2529-4021-b2e5-4dae6f46de44%26DisplayLang%3den

Microsoft Forefront Security for Exchange Server with Service Pack 1 Beta 2 Readme

Help protect your Exchange server from viruses and other malware.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=6&SrcDisplayLang=en&SrcCategoryId=&SrcFamilyId=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3fFamilyID%3dfb88f891-dd6d-42f8-8cb9-ac8ca734c478%26DisplayLang%3den

APAC Notes Compete Toray Saehan Case Study

APAC Notes Compete Toray Saehan Case Study

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=7&SrcDisplayLang=en&SrcCategoryId=&SrcFamilyId=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3fFamilyID%3d132c909a-8a2c-413f-8155-74692545f306%26DisplayLang%3den

Using Exchange Server 2007 for Unified Messaging and Fax

This content will detail the technical implementation and deployment strategy for deploying Exchange 2007 Unified Messaging features in the Microsoft enterprise messaging environment.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=8&SrcDisplayLang=en&SrcCategoryId=&SrcFamilyId=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3fFamilyID%3dc40185a3-513f-4403-9d15-40b2e46e8cc5%26DisplayLang%3den

Microsoft Exchange Server Jetstress Tool (64 bit)

Simulate disk I/O load on a test server running Exchange to verify the performance and stability of your disk subsystem before putting your server into a production environment.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=9&SrcDisplayLang=en&SrcCategoryId=&SrcFamilyId=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3fFamilyID%3d73dfe056-0900-4dbb-b14a-0932338cecac%26DisplayLang%3den

Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 Migration Wizard for Lotus Notes

The Migration Wizard for Lotus Notes is a tool designed for organizations that are migrating from Lotus Notes/Domino to Microsoft Exchange Server 2003.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=10&SrcDisplayLang=en&SrcCategoryId=&SrcFamilyId=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3fFamilyID%3dc105b3e4-3beb-4f1e-8f52-e345af6c3e50%26DisplayLang%3den

Microsoft Exchange Server ActiveSync Certificate-Based Authentication Tool

The Microsoft Exchange Server ActiveSync Certificate-Based authentication tool provides several utilities to assist an Exchange administrator in configuring and validating client certificate authentication for Exchange Server ActiveSync.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=11&SrcDisplayLang=en&SrcCategoryId=&SrcFamilyId=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3fFamilyID%3d82510e18-7965-4883-a8c3-f73f1f4733ac%26DisplayLang%3den

Microsoft Exchange Server Jetstress Tool (32 bit)

Simulate disk I/O load on a test server running Exchange to verify the performance and stability of your disk subsystem before putting your server into a production environment.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=12&SrcDisplayLang=en&SrcCategoryId=&SrcFamilyId=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3fFamilyID%3d94b9810b-670e-433a-b5ef-b47054595e9c%26DisplayLang%3den

Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 Calendar Connector for Lotus Notes

The Calendar Connector for Lotus Notes is a tool designed for organizations that need to coexist during a migration from Lotus Domino to Microsoft Exchange Server 2003.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=13&SrcDisplayLang=en&SrcCategoryId=&SrcFamilyId=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3fFamilyID%3dc14932a1-55f4-4256-af7e-617639d46024%26DisplayLang%3den

Microsoft Exchange Server MAPI Client and Collaboration Data Objects 1.2.1

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=14&SrcDisplayLang=en&SrcCategoryId=&SrcFamilyId=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3fFamilyID%3de17e7f31-079a-43a9-bff2-0a110307611e%26DisplayLang%3den

Collaboration Data Objects, version 1.2.1

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=15&SrcDisplayLang=en&SrcCategoryId=&SrcFamilyId=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3fFamilyID%3d2714320d-c997-4de1-986f-24f081725d36%26DisplayLang%3den

Exchange Load Generator (32 bit)

Exchange Load Generator is a simulation tool to measure the impact of MAPI clients on Exchange servers.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=16&SrcDisplayLang=en&SrcCategoryId=&SrcFamilyId=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3fFamilyID%3dddec1642-f6e3-4d66-a82f-8d3062c6fa98%26DisplayLang%3den

Exchange Load Generator (64 bit)

Exchange Load Generator is a simulation tool to measure the impact of MAPI clients on Exchange servers.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=17&SrcDisplayLang=en&SrcCategoryId=&SrcFamilyId=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3fFamilyID%3d0fdb6f14-1e42-4165-bb17-96c83916c3ec%26DisplayLang%3den

Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 Connector for Lotus Notes

The Connector for Lotus Notes/Domino is a tool designed for organizations that need to coexist during a migration from Lotus Domino to Microsoft Exchange Server 2003.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=18&SrcDisplayLang=en&SrcCategoryId=&SrcFamilyId=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3fFamilyID%3dd9f3a35e-1046-47b5-b09b-bda9de60cd9d%26DisplayLang%3den

Deploying a Simple Exchange Server 2007 Organization

This document provides descriptions and overviews of features, guidelines for planning, and steps for deploying a simple Exchange 2007 organization.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=19&SrcDisplayLang=en&SrcCategoryId=&SrcFamilyId=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3fFamilyID%3db7bad09f-6952-4e54-b482-9fcd30d6c245%26DisplayLang%3den

Operations Management and Monitoring of an Exchange Server 2007 Organization

This document provides information, including checklists for daily, weekly, and monthly tasks, related to operations management of an Exchange Server 2007 organization. In addition, guidance is provided for using Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 Service Pack 1 to monitor an Exchange organization.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=20&SrcDisplayLang=en&SrcCategoryId=&SrcFamilyId=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3fFamilyID%3de96604b1-5332-4c4e-a0a6-2c85216147a0%26DisplayLang%3den

Exchange Load Generator

Exchange Load Generator is a benchmarking, pre-deployment validation, and stress testing tool that introduces various types of workloads into a test (non-production) Exchange messaging system.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=21&SrcDisplayLang=en&SrcCategoryId=&SrcFamilyId=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3fFamilyID%3dc7534cb2-4234-41f1-b0b2-ed9f376b4cb2%26DisplayLang%3den

Microsoft Exchange Server Stress and Performance

This document describes how to use the Exchange Server Stress and Performance tool for both Exchange Server 2003 and Exchange 2007.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=22&SrcDisplayLang=en&SrcCategoryId=&SrcFamilyId=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3fFamilyID%3d435bfcfb-68d3-4e5c-b2d2-4bdf49538510%26DisplayLang%3den

Deploying a Large Exchange Server 2007 Organization

This document provides descriptions and overviews of features, guidelines for planning, and steps for deploying a large Exchange 2007 organization.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=23&SrcDisplayLang=en&SrcCategoryId=&SrcFamilyId=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3fFamilyID%3d8ece7461-1d43-49a9-bacb-dedc0ad3ac9f%26DisplayLang%3den

Deploying a Standard Exchange Server 2007 Organization

This document provides descriptions and overviews of features, guidelines for planning, and steps for deploying a standard Exchange 2007 organization.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=24&SrcDisplayLang=en&SrcCategoryId=&SrcFamilyId=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3fFamilyID%3d6bd13b0c-88b4-4deb-b55d-7d70916c660c%26DisplayLang%3den

Deploying a Complex Exchange Server 2007 Organization

This document provides descriptions and overviews of features, guidelines for planning, and steps for deploying a complex Exchange Server 2007 organization.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=25&SrcDisplayLang=en&SrcCategoryId=&SrcFamilyId=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3fFamilyID%3d32ba768d-9727-464a-b7e2-3e037d61a8d6%26DisplayLang%3den

Upgrading Office Communications Server 2007 Evaluation to the Full Released Version

This document describes how to upgrade from the evalation version of Office Communications Server to the full released version.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=1&SrcDisplayLang=en&SrcCategoryId=&SrcFamilyId=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3fFamilyID%3d54a5521d-a928-46f2-8bf7-125da636dd2e%26DisplayLang%3den

Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 Resource Kit Sample Chapters

Download three preview chapters from Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 Resource Kit from Microsoft Press, by Jeremy Buch, Rui Maximo, and Jochen Kunert with the Microsoft Office Communications Server Team.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=2&SrcDisplayLang=en&SrcCategoryId=&SrcFamilyId=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3fFamilyID%3d407a3e40-350a-4e3d-b60e-c9505668b231%26DisplayLang%3den

Presence Integration Between IM Applications and 2007 Microsoft Office System

This document describes how an instant messaging (IM) application is integrated with Microsoft Office 2007 to provide Presence, IM, as well as call and conferencing features.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=3&SrcDisplayLang=en&SrcCategoryId=&SrcFamilyId=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3fFamilyID%3ded4f13ae-9dd1-4041-b299-4993ee9bcacf%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 Communicator 2007 What's New Guide

This document covers the new features introduced in Office Communicator 2007 since the Office Communicator 2005 release.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=5&SrcDisplayLang=en&SrcCategoryId=&SrcFamilyId=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3fFamilyID%3d39b9a6d4-5862-4a01-a2a6-ac193e77aed7%26DisplayLang%3den

Multilingual User Interface Package for Windows Messenger 5.1

For Microsoft Windows XP Multilingual User Interface users. Download the Multilingual UI Pack for Windows Messenger version 5.1.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=6&SrcDisplayLang=en&SrcCategoryId=&SrcFamilyId=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3fFamilyID%3da4816899-e092-4305-bdd4-290e65f734a4%26DisplayLang%3den

Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 Trial Download

Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007, formerly called Live Communications Server, delivers streamlined communications to help you find and communicate with the right person, in real time, from the applications you use most.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=7&SrcDisplayLang=en&SrcCategoryId=&SrcFamilyId=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3fFamilyID%3d663e5ef7-2288-46b0-9142-b2135a8fbdb9%26DisplayLang%3den

Microsoft Office Communicator 2007 Trial Download

Microsoft Office Communicator 2007 is a unified communications client that helps people be more productive by enabling them to communicate easily with others using a range of communication options, including instant messaging (IM), voice, and video.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=8&SrcDisplayLang=en&SrcCategoryId=&SrcFamilyId=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3fFamilyID%3d7f5ab627-2d34-470d-9393-8b3ede6fe3c4%26DisplayLang%3den

Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 Speech Server Trial Download

With Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 Speech Server, you can develop and deploy interactive voice response (IVR) applications. Speech Server combines speech technologies, Voice over IP (VoIP), and telephony capabilities into a single system and a single code base.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=9&SrcDisplayLang=en&SrcCategoryId=&SrcFamilyId=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3fFamilyID%3dbb183640-4b8f-4828-80c9-e83c3b2e7a2c%26DisplayLang%3den

Events/WebCasts

8 August 2007 : Momentum Webcast: Top Ten Reasons to Upgrade Your Messaging Server (Level 100)

Is your messaging system keeping up with the requirements of your business? Dramatic shifts in business needs have revolutionized methods of communication and collaboration. As e-mail has become a preferred communication method, employees now expect to have efficient access to e-mail, calendars, and contacts, no matter where they are or what type of device they are using. For IT departments, delivering a messaging system that meets the needs of businesses is increasingly complex. Managers must contend with e-mail security threats, non-compliance issues, and rapidly growing message stores, while ensuring that the system maintains high uptime. However, time, money, and resource constraints force IT departments to do more with less. Join this unique, interactive webcast as we cover the key factors to consider when evaluating a messaging environment and explain the top ten reasons why you should consider upgrading your messaging software.

http://www.microsoft.com/events/EventDetails.aspx?CMTYSvcSource=MSCOMMedia&Params=%7eCMTYDataSvcParams%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22ID%22+Value%3d%221032345909%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

15 August 2007 : Momentum Webcast: A Sneak Peek at Microsoft Unified Communications (Level 100)

Organizations today have multiple communications systems like e-mail, telephony, and instant messaging (IM). However, these communication systems often exist in silos and are rarely integrated into business processes and applications. As a result, these communication systems are ineffective and costly to deploy and manage. Microsoft Unified Communications (UC) technologies use the power of software to help streamline communications between people and organizations, regardless of the medium, platform, device, or location. Join us for this webcast and see how the comprehensive set of Microsoft UC clients, servers, services, and devices deliver integrated capabilities like e-mail, calendaring, unified messaging, mobile messaging, presence detection, IM, voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) call management, and audio/video/Web conferencing. By empowering end users with a familiar set of tools built on an enterprise-ready, scalable, and easily managed software-powered architecture, Microsoft Unified Communications breaks down communication silos and extends existing communications investments while enabling business process innovation.

http://www.microsoft.com/events/EventDetails.aspx?CMTYSvcSource=MSCOMMedia&Params=%7eCMTYDataSvcParams%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22ID%22+Value%3d%221032345915%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

20 August 2007 : Momentum Webcast: Windows Mobile 6.0 Is Another Reason to Upgrade to Exchange Server 2007 (Level 100)

People in the current workforce need to be connected wherever their responsibilities take them to remain productive. Join this webcast to discover how mobility features in Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 empower mobile professionals to easily and more securely access corporate resources and synchronize information with their Windows Mobile powered devices. See how you can enable even more productivity for your employees by extending the capabilities of Exchange Server 2007 to unify your communications through Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 and the Microsoft Office Communicator Mobile client. With a Microsoft infrastructure, your workforce can be more secure, mobile, and productive.

http://www.microsoft.com/events/EventDetails.aspx?CMTYSvcSource=MSCOMMedia&Params=%7eCMTYDataSvcParams%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22ID%22+Value%3d%221032346008%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

24 August 2007 : TechNet Webcast: Exchange Server 2007 Client Access and Web Services (Level 200)

In this webcast, we focus on Client Access Services in Microsoft Exchange Server 2007. The overall goal of Client Access Services is to add value to the data in your inbox by enabling you to access that data from any location. We explain how to access inbox data using Microsoft Office Outlook, Microsoft Office Outlook Web Access (OWA), and mobile devices, and we describe some of the new client access features introduced in Exchange Server 2007. Join us for a look at the various underlying components of Exchange Server 2007 Client Access Services. We cover the enhanced calendar functionality, the new Unified Messaging and Exchange Server Web services, and programmatic access to messaging data. We conclude the session by examining Exchange Server ActiveSync improvements.

http://www.microsoft.com/events/EventDetails.aspx?CMTYSvcSource=MSCOMMedia&Params=%7eCMTYDataSvcParams%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22ID%22+Value%3d%221032345600%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

Premier Soundbytes and Workshops (Ask your TAM for more details)

17/09/07 : Soundbyte : Exchange 2007 Mail Flow Architecture and Troubleshooting

08/10/07 : Soundbyte : Introduction to Exchange 2007 Powershell

19/11/07 : Soundbyte : Exchange 2007 Messaging Records Management
17/12/07 : Soundbyte : Exchange 2007 Autodiscover

04/09/07 : Exchange 2003 : Best Practices

26/11/07 : Exchange 2007 Upgrade & Migration

26/11/07 : Exchange 2003 Clustering

28/11/07 : Exchange 2003 Storage Design Concepts

New KB’s

Exchange

Users cannot download offline address books in Exchange 2007 when you use Microsoft Solution for Hosted Messaging and Collaboration version 4.0

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=939560

Error message when you try to log on to Exchange 2007 by using Outlook Web Access: "440 Login Timeout"

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=941201

Non-English characters in the meeting description field are replaced by question marks when an Exchange Server 2007 user opens a meeting invitation that was sent by a Lotus Notes user

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=940058

Warning message when you start Outlook 2007 and then connect to a mailbox that is hosted on an Exchange 2007-based server: "The name of the security certificate is invalid or does not match the name of the site"

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=940726

Error message when you try to use the spelling checker in Outlook Web Access: "Your Exchange server is busy and can't check spelling at this time. Try again later"

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=940011

Event ID 31092 is logged when the Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 Connector for Lotus Notes delivers an Internet e-mail that contains recipients in only the Bcc box

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=939954

You experience problems in an Exchange 2003 and Lotus Note mixed environment after daylight saving time (DST) starts in New Zealand in 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=937655

The Setup program stops responding, and event ID 1031 is logged when you try to install or to reinstall Exchange Server 2003 in Disaster Recovery mode

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=940725

You may receive duplicate e-mail messages after a CCR cluster fails over unexpectedly in Exchange Server 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=940031

Outlook

Description of the Outlook 2003 Junk E-mail Filter update: August 14, 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=936643

Description of the Outlook 2007 Junk E-mail Filter update: August 14, 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=936644

CDOs are not updated to support a newly created Group Policy object in Outlook 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=926195

You cannot rename an attachment in an e-mail message in Outlook before you send the e-mail message

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=940792

Error message when you try to synchronize Outlook to a Windows Live Hotmail account: "Error with Send/Receive"

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=941198

A new feature is available that enables Outlook 2007 to use DNS Service Location (SRV) records to locate the Exchange Autodiscover service

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=940881

How to troubleshoot performance issues in Outlook 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=940226

Reminders for flagged e-mail messages are not displayed in Outlook 2002

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=940168

How to deploy the "Always prompt for user name and password" setting for all users in Outlook 2003

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=940171

The owner of the e-mail message thread changes when an Outlook 2003 user responds to an Information Rights Management (IRM)-protected message that was sent from an Outlook 2007 user

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=931217

Antigen

The default templates are not applied when you deploy them in Antigen 9.0 for Exchange

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=939409

September 2007 - Technical Rollup Mail - SQL

Justin Zarb — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 01:43:05 GMT

News

SQL Server 2008 Solutions – 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.

http://www.microsoft.com/sql/prodinfo/futureversion/default.mspx

http://www.microsoft.com/sql/prodinfo/futureversion/bi/default.mspx

2007 Professional Association of SQL Server (PASS) Community Summit

Why attend Summit 2007 ?

Network with other industry professionals to build your professional & personal network, select from over 125 technical sessions on SQL Server & Business Intelligence, research the newest products & services available at the large PASS Summit expo. September 18-21, 2007 Colorado Convention Center, Denver, CO

https://www.sqlpass.org/summit/Pages/default.aspx

http://www.microsoft.com/bi/

Documents

SQL Server 2008 Books Online – Overview (SQL Server 2008)

Microsoft SQL Server is a database platform for large-scale online transaction processing (OLTP), data warehousing, and e-commerce applications; it is also a business intelligence platform for data integration, analysis, and reporting solutions.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms166352(SQL.100).aspx

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb510421(SQL.100).aspx

Extending Enterprise Search Capabilities to your BI Applications

Quickly get up and running on the key concepts of delivering business intelligence search using features in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and SQL Server 2005. As an added bonus download the sample content below and walk through the process step-by-step with the whitepaper.

http://www.microsoft.com/bi/resources/whitepapers.aspx

http://download.microsoft.com/download/7/2/a/72ae11fe-564d-4756-a878-eccb2e0692d7/BI%20Search%20Technical%20White%20Paper.doc

ETL Performance: Unisys and Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Speed Up the Process

Unisys and Microsoft prove SQL Server 2005 supports 64-bit parallel processing and delivers high levels of Extraction, Transformation and Loading (ETL) performance on Unisys ES7000 servers. This white paper summarizes the results of collaborative testing between Microsoft and Unisys running ETL processes on Intel® Xeon® (32-bit) and Intel® Itanium® 2 (64-bit) based ES7000 servers.

http://www.unisys.com/eprise/main/admin/corporate/doc/ELTSQL.pdf

PREMIER Bankcard Inc: Credit Card Company Runs its Business with 10-Terabyte Mission Critical BI Solution

PREMIER Bankcard, LLC (PREMIER) one of the largest VISA and MasterCard credit providers in the United States, needed to enhance scalability and performance for its business intelligence (BI) data warehouse and online transaction processing (OLTP) databases. “BI began as an area of research for us, but has become absolutely mission critical,” says Dan Zerfas, Vice President of Software Development at PREMIER. The company enhanced its BI infrastructure by upgrading its 10-terabyte data warehouse to Microsoft® SQL Server™ 2005 Enterprise Edition (64-bit), hosted on a server computer with 16 Intel® Itanium® 2 processors. PREMIER also upgraded its OLTP database to the 64-bit version of SQL Server 2005. The upgraded deployments provide a better view of the business, enterprise-grade scalability, maintenance without scheduled downtime, and easier database management.

http://www.microsoft.com/casestudies/casestudy.aspx?casestudyid=4000000475

Online Transaction Processing in SQL Server 2008

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 provides a database platform that is optimized for today’s applications, and that can scale for any size of business. It drives cost-efficiencies by dramatically reducing downtime and enabling dynamic and proactive management that significantly reduces administrative overhead. Finally, SQL Server 2008 provides a highly secure platform that you can trust with your organization’s sensitive, business-critical data.

http://www.microsoft.com/sql/techinfo/whitepapers/sql_2008_oltp.mspx

Business Intelligence in SQL Server 2008

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 makes business intelligence available to everyone through deep integration with Microsoft Office, providing the right tool, to the right user, at the right price. The result is that employees at all levels of an organization can see and help to influence the performance of the business by working with tools that are both easy to use and powerful. Integration with the 2007 Microsoft Office System enables users to view business performance in a way that they understand and which feels comfortable; and the introduction of PerformancePoint Server 2007, helps customers to gain actionable insight into the entire organization so they can monitor, analyze, and plan their businesses, as well as drive alignment, accountability, and actionable insight across the entire organization.

http://www.microsoft.com/sql/techinfo/whitepapers/sql_2008_bi.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

Choosing Microsoft SQL Server 2008 for Data Warehousing

The warehousing of corporate data into an architecture from which it can all be accessed is no longer an option for midmarket and large companies that want to be successful. Consolidating the information so that it is readily accessible, and to give the team visibility for reporting, analytics, spot queries, and predictive capabilities is now necessary. Fortunately, pioneers established this long ago and this requirement is met in the field of data warehousing (DW) and business intelligence (BI).

http://www.microsoft.com/sql/techinfo/whitepapers/sql-for-datawarehousing_2008.mspx

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 and Microsoft Data Platform Development

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 and the Microsoft data platform provide developers with a comprehensive programming framework in which to create data centric solutions that target mobile devices, desktops, Web servers, and enterprise servers. This data programming environment improves developer productivity by integrating data access and management into the business logic of an application. It provides a comprehensive platform for data access and management from disparate data sources and a scalable solution for data storage and applications.

http://www.microsoft.com/sql/techinfo/whitepapers/sql_2008_dp.mspx

Downloads

Microsoft SQL Server Compact 3.5 for Windows Desktop Beta 2

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 Microsoft Synchronization Services for ADO.Net for Windows Desktop platform.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=4dd09a86-03eb-40a1-bd32-0fd8bcdf7be0&DisplayLang=en

Microsoft SQL Server Compact 3.5 for Windows Mobile Beta 2

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 CAB files and DLL’s that are used to install SQL Server Compact 3.5 on the Windows Mobile Devices platform.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=4cc8f083-6418-4587-9796-88436e117621&DisplayLang=en

Microsoft SQL Server Compact 3.5 Server Tools Beta 2

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. SQL Server Compact 3.5 Server Tools installs replication components on the IIS server enabling merge replication and remote data access (RDA) with SQL Server 2005 and later.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=f4f31e16-c762-4303-8135-cc271a4c17cf&DisplayLang=en

SQL Server 2005 Samples and Sample Databases

SQL Server code samples and sample databases are now hosted on CodePlex. Codeplex is the project hosting site for Microsoft SQL Server Samples and Community Projects. The portal page for SQL Server on Codeplex catalogs samples included with Product Releases, samples from the community, and independent SQL Server Community projects.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=e719ecf7-9f46-4312-af89-6ad8702e4e6e&DisplayLang=en

http://codeplex.com/SqlServerSamples

Microsoft Synchronization Services for ADO.NET Orcas Beta1 release

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=75fef59f-1b5e-49bc-a21a-9ef4f34de6fc&DisplayLang=en

Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2005 Team Edition for Database Professionals Power Tools

This release includes 5 new refactoring types, a new dependency viewer, additional data generators and editors, 2 new MSBuild tasks for Schema and Data Compare as well as the introduction of the TSQL Static Code Analysis feature
TSQL Static Code Analysis
• Static Code Analysis - A precursor to the functionality that will be in future versions of VSTS that will allow you to perform Static Code Analysis on T-SQL code.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=da3f11ad-bd54-4eda-b08c-4df84df0d641&DisplayLang=en

SQL Server Migration Assistant for Oracle V3.1

SQL Server Migration Assistant (SSMA) is a complete suite of tools that dramatically cuts the effort, cost, and risk of migrating from Oracle to SQL Server. SSMA automates almost every aspect of the migration process including assessment, schema and data migration, business logic conversion, and validation. Companies such as Motorola and Simon & Schuster have used SSMA to migrate their business-critical databases quickly, easily and accurately.
With SSMA, IT organizations now have the freedom to move to SQL Server and take advantage of SQL Server's exceptional security, scalability, developer productivity, and the industry’s lowest total cost of ownership.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=0e06a04c-d0c3-4f31-b201-fbe7c25f32fb&DisplayLang=en

SQL: Risk Assessment Program (SQLRAP) Datasheet

Used to evaluate customers’ production SQL Server implementations to ensure productive use. Includes a review, a hands-on knowledge transfer and a report that details health along with findings and recommendations.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=016c91a7-5b9f-4bdd-8897-70703a6e832f&DisplayLang=en

SQL: Desired Configuration Monitoring (DCM) Datasheet

Helps IT groups reduce the complexity of their Microsoft SQL server infrastructure and optimize their use of SQL server by providing a proactive approach to releasing new products, managing change, and creating an environment of iterative improvement.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=fcda8b1c-6634-47a5-8601-e21773fe2a7b&DisplayLang=en

SQL: Service Level Management (SLM) Datasheet

Helps IT groups evaluate and improve the availability of their SQL Server database environments by setting performance standards and establishing reporting and monitoring systems.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=e37c709d-48c3-4ba0-afa2-aab2b93cda2b&DisplayLang=en

SQL Server 2000: Performance Tuning and Optimization Datasheet

This 4-day workshop provides information on SQL 2000 index and page structures, performance troubleshooting tools, memory architecture, programming efficiency, and optimization techniques.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=0556317d-66c3-4a6d-a128-4d6f873a28b3&DisplayLang=en

SQL Server 2005: Performance Tuning and Optimization Datasheet

This 4-day delivery provides participants with in-depth technical knowledge on performance tuning and optimization techniques for SQL Server 2005. Performance tools such as SQLdiag and Performance Monitor are covered in detail.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=9b180e91-34e7-4274-9a4f-78562b926358&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

MSDN Webcast: Framework Masterclass: LINQ to SQL (Level 200) – Monday, September 10, 2007 12:00 PM Pacific Time (US & Canada)

Microsoft .NET Language Integrated Query (LINQ) provides a common way to work with data in your applications. In this session, we dive into how LINQ provides methods to work with Structured Query Language (SQL) databases, including how to query, insert, and manage data using the LINQ framework.

MSDN Webcast: Framework Masterclass: LINQ to SQL (Level 200)

MSDN Webcast: Framework Masterclass: LINQ to XML (Level 200) – Monday, September 17, 2007 12:00 PM Pacific Time (US & Canada)

In other sessions, we have already seen how Microsoft .NET Language Integrated Query (LINQ) works with relational databases. In this webcast, we explore how LINQ can help you develop XML applications. We cover the basics of the XML helper functions, and we also dive into deeper topics.

MSDN Webcast: Framework Masterclass: LINQ to XML (Level 200)

MSDN Webcast: Programming SQL Server 2008 (Level 300) – Monday, September 17, 2007 1:00 PM Pacific Time (US & Canada)

Microsoft SQL Server 2008, code name "Katmai," introduces a significant amount of new or improved functionality, including new data types, in addition to performance and security enhancements. In this webcast, we discuss how you can easily take advantage of the new functionality available in SQL Server 2008 within your application development.

MSDN Webcast: Programming SQL Server 2008 (Level 300)

TechNet Webcast: How Microsoft IT Streamlined the SAP Unicode Conversion Process to Minimize User Impact and Enhance Performance (Level 300) – Tuesday, September 18, 2007 9:30 AM Pacific Time (US & Canada)

Join this webcast to find out how Microsoft, like many large organizations, relies on SAP AG enterprise resource planning (ERP) products to manage the day-to-day operations of its business. Newer SAP releases require the use of the Unicode codepage. In an effort to cause the least impact to SAP users and interfaces, minimize downtime, and equal pre-conversion SAP system performance, Microsoft IT developed a process that streamlined the conversion process requirements from one week to 22 hours. Only 15 of those hours were required for the actual conversion process. This process included exporting data through multiple servers, minimizing export and import times, and splitting large tables into as many as 13 packages. As a result, critical import and export times improved, and Microsoft SQL Server 2005 log space requirements were minimized during data imports.

TechNet Webcast: How Microsoft IT Streamlined the SAP Unicode Conversion Process to Minimize User Impact and Enhance Performance (Level 300)

MSDN Webcast: Framework Masterclass: LINQ to Entities (Level 200) – Monday, September 24, 2007 12:00 PM Pacific Time (US & Canada)

In other sessions, we explored how Microsoft .NET Language Integrated Query (LINQ) is used for Structured Query Language (SQL) databases and working with XML. In this webcast, we connect to the data access layer, the business objects that provide the functionality of working with enterprise data. Join us to learn how you can make your LINQ applications really sing when working with entities.

MSDN Webcast: Framework Masterclass: LINQ to Entities (Level 200)

TechNet Webcast: SQL Server 2008: New Performance Monitoring and Troubleshooting Using Management Studio (Level 300) – Wednesday, September 26, 2007 8:00 AM Pacific Time (US & Canada)

The release of Microsoft SQL Server 2008 offers a new framework that ties together the collection, analysis, troubleshooting, reporting, and persistence of SQL Server diagnostics information in the central warehouse. Join this webcast as we describe the feature set for the SQL Server 2008 release and discuss how the performance collection architecture fits within Microsoft System Center Operations Manager.

TechNet Webcast: SQL Server 2008: New Performance Monitoring and Troubleshooting Using Management Studio (Level 300)

MSDN Webcast: Entity Framework for Database Administrators (Level 200) – Friday, September 28, 2007 9:00 AM Pacific Time (US & Canada)

The Entity Framework is a new data technology from Microsoft that may particularly interest database administrators (DBAs). Join this webcast to see how this technology can radically change the development of applications from a DBA perspective, and also change access patterns on servers. We discuss these changes and their impact on DBAs and data developers.

MSDN Webcast: Entity Framework for Database Administrators (Level 200)

Further on-demand webcasts are available here: http://www.microsoft.com/events/series/technetsqlserver2005.mspx

New KB’s

SQL Server 2000 Standard Edition

FIX: A Full-Text query against a Full-Text catalog that contains both the simplified Chinese word breaker and the traditional Chinese word breaker may not return some words in SQL Server 2000

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=934740

SQL Server 2005 Standard Edition

FIX: The Distribution Agent may skip some rows when you configure a transactional replication that uses the "-SkipErrors" parameter in SQL Server 2005

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=938671

FIX: Error message when you run a full-text query against a catalog in SQL Server 2005: “The execution of a full-text query failed. The content index is corrupt.”

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=938243

FIX: Error message when you run a query in SQL Server 2005: "Cannot insert duplicate key row in object <TableName> with unique index <IndexName>"

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=937533

Error message when you try to set a witness in a database mirroring session in SQL Server 2005: "The ALTER DATABASE command could not be sent to the remote server instance 'TCP://<ServerName>:<port>'"

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=940254

FIX: You receive error 8623 when you run a complex query in SQL Server 2005

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=940128

SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 2 installation fails, and a "The Transaction Manager is not available" error message is logged in the Summary.txt file

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=940971

Cumulative update package 3 for SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 2

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=939537

FIX: The population operation may be very slow when you populate a full-text index that uses a column that is the varchar data type in SQL Server 2005

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=938672

FIX: You receive a System.InvalidCastException exception when you run an application that calls the Server.JobServer.Jobs.Contains method on a computer that has SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 2 installed

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=940384

FIX: Error message when you try to insert more than 3 megabytes of data into a distributed partitioned view in SQL Server 2005: "A system assertion check has failed"

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=940210

FIX: Error message when you synchronize a merge replication in Microsoft SQL Server 2005: "MSmerge_del_<GUID>, Line 42 String or binary data would be truncated"

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=939563

The full-text crawl takes a long time to finish when you create a full-text index on a column that has the varchar data type in SQL Server 2005

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=937086

FIX: The performance of insert operations against a table that contains an identity column may be slow in SQL Server 2005

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=940545

FIX: Error message when you try to update the index key columns of a non-unique clustered index in SQL Server 2005: "Cannot insert duplicate key row in object 'ObjectName' with unique index 'IndexName'"

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=940937

FIX: Error message when you run a SQL Server 2005 Integration Services package that contains an FTP task: "An error occurred in the requested FTP operation"

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=940220

FIX: Error message when you synchronize a subscription by using Windows Synchronization Manager in SQL Server 2005: "The merge process failed to get correct information about the Interactive Resolver component from the Registry"

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=940223

How to apply a hotfix for SQL Server 2005 in a replication topology

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=941232

FIX: Error message when you try to create an Oracle publication by using the New Publication Wizard in SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 2: "OLE DB Provider 'OraOLEDB.ORACLE' for Linked server <LinkedServerName> returned message"

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=940221

FIX: Error message when you run a query that is associated with a parallel execution plan in SQL Server 2005: "SQL Server Assertion: File: <lckmgr.cpp>, line=10850 Failed Assertion = 'GetLocalLockPartition () == xactLockInfo->GetLocalLockPartition ()'"

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=940935

FIX: Error message when you run a stored procedure that references tables after you upgrade a database from SQL Server 2000 to SQL Server 2005: "A time-out occurred while waiting for buffer latch"

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=940942

FIX: Data is not replicated to a subscriber in a different partition by using parameterized row filters in SQL Server 2005

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=938363

Cumulative update package 4 for SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 2

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=941450

FIX: You receive an incorrect result when you use a SQL Native Client provider to read the data on the client computer in SQL Server 2005

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=939564

The "SQL Server:SSIS Pipeline" performance object does not appear in the "Performance object" list after you install Integration Services from a 64-bit version of SQL Server 2005

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=941154

FIX: A cursor uses the incorrect transaction isolation level after you change the transaction isolation level for the cursor in SQL Server 2005

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=940378

FIX: You cannot roll back changes in a transaction after you call the ITransactionLocal::Abort method by setting the fRetaining flag to TRUE in a SQL Server 2005-based application that uses the SQL Native Client OLE DB provider

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=940390

Error messages after SQL Server 2005 has been running for some time: "Failed to load FileName.dll" and "Attempts to load any type of dll might fail within the SQL Server process with errors pointing to LoadLibrary failure"

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=941105

The file name of Cumulative Update 3 for SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 2 is incorrectly associated with Microsoft Knowledge Base article 936252

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=936252

FIX: A SQL Server Agent job fails when you run the SQL Server Agent job in the context of a proxy account in SQL Server 2005

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=938086

FIX: Error 9003 is logged in the SQL Server error log file when you use log shipping in SQL Server 2005

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=940126

FIX: Error message when you run a query that fires an INSTEAD OF trigger in SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 2: "Internal Query Processor Error The query processor could not produce a query plan"

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=939562

FIX: Error message when you use the UNLOAD and REWIND options to back up a database to a tape device in SQL Server 2005: "Operation on device '<TapeDevice>' exceeded retry count"

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=940379

FIX: Error message when you use the Copy Database Wizard to move a database from SQL Server 2000 to SQL Server 2005

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=940375

FIX: Error message when you run a SQL Server 2005 Integration Services package that contains a Script Component transformation:”Insufficient memory to continue the execution of the program”

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=937100

FIX: Error message when the Distribution Agent tries to apply the snapshot to the subscriber in SQL Server 2005: "Must declare the scalar variable "@Variable""

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=936534

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=941105

FIX: An access violation may occur, and you may receive an error message, when you query the sys.dm_exe_sessions dynamic management view in SQL Server 2005

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=940281

FIX: Performance is very slow when the same stored procedure is executed at the same time in many connections on a multiple-processor computer that is running SQL Server 2005

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=940945

FIX: Error message when you run a stored procedure that starts a transaction that contains a Transact-SQL statement in SQL Server 2005: "New request is not allowed to start because it should come with valid transaction descriptor"

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=939285

FIX: The performance of a query that performs an insert operation or an update operation is much slower in SQL Server 2005 SP2 than in earlier versions of SQL Server 2005

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=940943

FIX: Error message when you use Database Engine Tuning Advisor to tune a database in SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 2: "An unhandled win32 exception occurred in dtaengine90.exe [4308]"

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=940948

FIX: An application that is included in SQL Server 2005 may stop responding when you specify a network protocol that is not valid in the application

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=941184

How to enable the SQL Server 2005 Integration Services process to generate a dump file when the process experiences exceptions

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=941151

FIX: Error message when you run a query that selects many columns and that joins many tables in SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 2: "The query processor could not produce a query plan"

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=940371

FIX: Error message when you use the Bcp.exe utility together with the queryout option in Microsoft SQL Server 2005: “BCP host-files must contain at least one column”

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=940376

SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services

FIX: An MDX query does not return results when you execute the query against a cube that contains an unnatural hierarchy in a dimension in SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=940129

FIX: Error message when you process the index for a partition in a cube in SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services: “Internal error: An unexpected error occurred (file 'pffilestore.cpp', line 3311, function 'PFFileStore::HandleDataPageFault')”

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=940870

FIX: Error message when you deploy a SQL Server 2005 Analysis Service project that contains many cubes, and the cubes contain linked measure groups: "Unexpected internal error"

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=940160

FIX: You receive an error message when you run an UPDATE CUBE statement to update a cube in SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=940949

FIX: When you roll back a transaction that contains a writeback operation, SQL Server does not roll back the writeback operation in SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=940939

FIX: Error message when you process cubes for one of the named instances of SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services: "Error opening file"

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=940377

The proactive caching feature does not start on some partitions or on some dimensions after you start the SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services service

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=941153

FIX: The performance of an MDX query that contains subselect queries and calculated members is much slower in SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services Service Pack 2 than in the earlier versions of SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=940372

FIX: The performance of an MDX query in SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services Service Pack 2 is much slower than the performance of the same query in earlier builds of SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=940373

FIX: Error message when you process a database in SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services: "Failed generate and process of Olap object(s): Internal error: The operation terminated unsuccessfully"

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=940962

SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services

FIX: A SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services report that uses the Right-to-Left (RTL) layout displays incorrectly in Internet Explorer 7

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=940385

FIX: You cannot install the SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services Add-in for Microsoft SharePoint Technologies on a computer that is running a beta version of Windows Server 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=940386

FIX: In SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 2, the toolbar of a Reporting Services report turns gray when you click "View Report"

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=940149

FIX: Error message when you display a report that uses SAP Business Information Warehouse 3.5 as the data source in SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 2 Reporting Services: “Can't find object <Object ID>”

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=940389