All posts tagged Microsoft

Beyond Beta: Microsoft Tag Takes Off

It has been 18 months since we launched Microsoft Tag, Microsoft’s mobile barcode technology. In that time, more than one billion Tags have been printed by people and businesses all over the world. In the month of April alone, more than 20 million magazines with Tags were in the hands of U.S. consumers.

Link – http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tag/archive/2010/05/27/beyond-beta-microsoft-tag-takes-off.aspx#comments

Reporting activation information using VAMT 2.0

8551.VAMT2.0MonitorandManage_5F00_thumb_5F00_2E2042F2 Microsoft’s free Volume Activation Management Tool (VAMT) 2.0 helps you monitor KMS, MAK and even retail activation information. VAMT can provide important information on license status, and whether installed software is genuine, which can help with license compliance.

Link – http://windowsteamblog.com/windows/b/genuinewindows/archive/2010/05/24/reporting-activation-information-using-vamt-2-0.aspx

Certificate Manager for Exchange 2007

Exchange 2007 enables SSL within IIS by default. Using PowerShell commands, certificate creation and management is quite confusing and often results with incorrect results due to the nature of the syntax. U-BTech Solutions is providing Certificate Manager for Exchange Server 2007 freely, to ease the process with a simple, easy to use GUI which enables you to:

1) Manage your current server certificates.
2) Enable certificates for Exchange 2007 Services (POP, IMAP, SMTP, IIS, UM).
3) Generate an Exchange 2007 Certificate Signing Request and process the Certificate Authority answer.
4) Generate an Exchange 2007 Self-Signed certificate (not for production use).
5) Easily include additional subject names in a single certificate.
6) Import & Export ability for existing certificates.

Link – http://www.u-btech.com/products/certificate-manager-for-exchange-2007.html

Visual Studio® 2010 Web Deployment Projects – RTW

Visual Studio 2010 Web Deployment Projects provide additional functionality to build and deploy Web sites and Web applications in Visual Studio 2010. This add-in provides a comprehensive UI to manage build configurations, merging, and using pre-build and post-build tasks with MSBuild.

Link – http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=89f2c4f5-5d3a-49b6-bcad-f776c6edfa63

Visual Studio® 2010 Web Deployment Projects – RTW

Visual Studio 2010 Web Deployment Projects provide additional functionality to build and deploy Web sites and Web applications in Visual Studio 2010. This add-in provides a comprehensive UI to manage build configurations, merging, and using pre-build and post-build tasks with MSBuild.

Link – http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=89f2c4f5-5d3a-49b6-bcad-f776c6edfa63

Microsoft Announces Robotics Developer Studio 2008 R3

The Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio 2008 R3 (Microsoft RDS) is a Windows-based environment for academic, hobbyist, and commercial developers to easily create robotics applications across a wide variety of hardware. All previous editions of Microsoft RDS 2008 R2 (Express, Standard and Academic) have been combined into one new version, RDS 2008 R3 and can be downloaded at no charge.

Link – http://blogs.msdn.com/msroboticsstudio/archive/2010/05/20/microsoft-announces-robotics-developer-studio-2008-r3.aspx

Microsoft Download Manager

The Microsoft Download Manager enables you to download files from the Internet in a more reliable and faster way than using a browser alone. Using the Download Manager makes it easier to download large files such as an application or multimedia files.

Link – http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=bfe3e7c9-98c0-4f3d-be1d-f0576339943f

BizTalk Server 2010 Beta

BizTalk Server 2010 Beta is an integration server that provides connectivity, Business Process Management (BPM) and SOA/ESB capabilities. It also includes Business to Business (B2B) integration capabilities, Adapters, Accelerators, and an RFID platform.

Download – http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=0f852e77-f792-4784-b2d4-95113d40db64

RAMMap v1.0

Have you ever wondered exactly how Windows is assigning physical memory, how much file data is cached in RAM, or how much RAM is used by the kernel and device drivers? RAMMap makes answering those questions easy. RAMMap is an advanced physical memory usage analysis utility for Windows Vista and higher. It presents usage information in different ways on its several different tabs:

Link – http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/ff700229.aspx

Microsoft Rolls out Hotmail Enhancements

Microsoft is set to begin rolling out the latest enhancements to its Hotmail Web mail service, with an aim to reduce clutter and make it easier to send photos and handle Office documents

Microsoft is taking a clear shot at Google’s success with its online Docs service by making a Web-based version of Office available from within Hotmail’s Web interface that allows use of widely used document formats such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote.

Link – http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/196490/microsoft_rolls_out_hotmail_enhancements.html

Microsoft Business Ready Security Trial Environment

The Microsoft Business Ready Security trial environment provides an end to end trial experience across all of the Business Ready Security solutions:

Secure Messaging – Enable more secure business communication from virtually any location or device, while preventing unauthorized use of confidential information

Secure Collaboration – Secure business collaboration from virtually anywhere and on any device, while preventing unauthorized use of confidential information

Secure Endpoint – Protect client and server operating systems from emerging threats and information loss, while enabling secure access from virtually anywhere and on any device

Information Protection – Discover, protect, and control information contained in data in motion, data at rest, and data in use for organizations

Identity and Access Management – Simplify identity and access management for secure, compliant access to applications on-premises and in the cloud from any location or device

Link – http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=726f943e-d107-4b4d-a86e-dfb605e30ce5

Free Office Mobile 2010 for Windows Phones

Today not only marks the availability of Office 2010 for organizations, but also the immediate availability of Office Mobile 2010 for all Windows Mobile 6.5 based phones with an earlier version of Office Mobile FOR FREE! via Windows Phone Marketplace. Office Mobile 2010 for Windows Mobile 6.5 includes new mobile versions of Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote and SharePoint Workspace. These new mobile versions offer a more touch-friendly layout and greater ability to work with documents on the phone – like editing PowerPoint presentations.

Link – http://windowsteamblog.com/Windows_Phone/b/windowsphone/archive/2010/05/12/free-office-mobile-2010-for-windows-phones.aspx

SharePoint Server 2010, Standard Trial

This is the trial for Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010.

For small and mid-sized organizations looking to create public Internet sites or basic extranets using the Standard features of SharePoint Server 2010. ​

Link – http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=895a1dba-0c3f-47a0-8d6d-163b50364335

Money Plus Sunset Deluxe

Money Plus Sunset Deluxe is designed to be a replacement for expired versions of Money Plus Essentials, Money Plus Deluxe, and Money Plus Premium versions. Note: The Money Plus Sunset versions come with online self-help only. See Overview section for more info.

Link – http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=60302e1e-207e-4710-ac80-d19c22e47488

Office 2010 Administrative Template files (ADM, ADMX/ADML) and Office Customization Tool

This download includes Group Policy Administrative Template (ADM, ADMX/ADML) and Office Customization Tool (OPAX/OPAL) files for Microsoft Office 2010.

Download – http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=64b837b6-0aa0-4c07-bc34-bec3990a7956