Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway (TMG) 2010 Service Pack 1 (SP1) introduces new features and functionality to Forefront TMG 2010 Standard and Enterprise editions, including enhancements to URL filtering, enhanced branch office support, secure publishing of SharePoint 2010, a new look and feel for all reports and a new User Activity report, which displays the sites and site categories accessed by any user.

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The Windows 7 Test Drive is designed to let you explore the great new features in Windows 7 – with no installation required. Check out our updated site with new content on Enterprise products including IE8, MDOP and Virtualization. Try out our virtual labs, watch demo videos, download whitepapers and find out everything you need to know about how Windows 7 can benefit your organization. Then tell us about your experience in a short 2-minute survey to enter the prize drawing. Winners will be drawn from the completed survey entries once per week for seven weeks.  Visit the Windows 7 Test Drive site today to enter to win.

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June 29, 2010, 9:00 AM Pacific Time

To help organizations assess the economic impact (business value) of deploying Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V), analysts Ben Gray and Jeffrey North of Forrester conducted an in-depth study of five enterprise companies worldwide.

Attend this webcast to hear how the new Forrester Total Economic Impact (TEI) model can be used to estimate tangible values of App-V in deployment scenarios. Ben and Jeffrey discuss the impact of App-V on labor, server hardware, PC/desktop hardware, application management, and helpdesk costs, and they demonstrate how you can use the TEI model to determine the financial return on your IT investments.
 

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TechNet has just launched its second “TechNet On” feature package. Get the lowdown here on planning, setting up and deploying the most recent releases of Office and SharePoint.

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Microsoft is now offering the Windows Live Essentials beta with a collection of programs including Messenger, Writer, Mail and Photo Gallery. It also enables users to sync files across multiple PCs and access those files from the cloud. With Windows Live Sync, you can access your PC over the Web with the new remote desktop feature.

Windows Live Essentials connects your Windows experience to the web services you already use. For instance, the new betas of Windows Live Photo Gallery, Movie Maker, Mail, Writer, and Messenger connect to photo and video sharing (SkyDrive, Flickr, YouTube, Facebook, SmugMug), social networking (Facebook, MySpace, Linkedin), email (Hotmail, Gmail, Yahoo! Mail), and blogging (Spaces, WordPress, Blogger), as well as Office Web Apps.

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