Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 2 (SP2)

by admin on December 5, 2011 in Uncategorized with Comments Off on Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 2 (SP2)

Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 SP2 helps IT Professionals achieve new levels of reliability with greater flexibility, enhanced user experiences, and increased protection for business communications.

  • Flexible and reliable – Exchange Server 2010 SP2 gives you the flexibility to tailor your deployment based on your company’s unique needs and a simplified way to keep e-mail continuously available for your users.
  • Anywhere access – Exchange Server 2010 SP2 helps your users get more done by giving them the freedom to securely access all their communications – e-mail, voice mail, instant messaging, and more – from virtually any platform, Web browser, or device.
  • Protection and compliance – Exchange Server 2010 SP2 delivers integrated information loss prevention, and compliance tools aimed at helping you simplify the process of protecting your company’s communications and meeting regulatory requirements.

Link – http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=28190&WT.mc_id=rss_alldownloads_all

SkyDrive adds app-centric sharing for Office, HTML5 upload and more

by admin on November 30, 2011 in Uncategorized with Comments Off on SkyDrive adds app-centric sharing for Office, HTML5 upload and more

In a posting on the Windows Live Blog, the team have announced a bumper update to the SkyDrive service that will start to roll out to end-users in the next couple of hours.

One of the new features is adding more options for sharing files. The new SkyDrive allows people to share items simply by putting in a person’s email address from your address book, including your lists from Facebook, LinkedIn and others. You can also create a URL link to your SkyDrive files that could be set to private viewing only, viewing and editing if you want the person to edit that item or a Public link that let’s everyone check out that file.

Microsoft launches first major Office 365 update

by admin on November 30, 2011 in Uncategorized with Comments Off on Microsoft launches first major Office 365 update

Microsoft Corp. today announced the first major service update for Microsoft Office 365, the company’s next-generation cloud productivity service for businesses of all sizes. The service will also be available to try in 22 additional markets today, including Argentina, Iceland, Indonesia, South Africa and Taiwan.

Link – http://www.microsoft.com/Presspass/press/2011/nov11/11-29ServicesUpgradePR.mspx

IE10 Platform Preview #4 released, only runs on Windows 8

by admin on November 30, 2011 in Uncategorized with Comments Off on IE10 Platform Preview #4 released, only runs on Windows 8

Microsoft has just released its fourth iteration of IE 10 which can be downloaded here. The latest platform preview brings with it even more support for HTML 5 as posted on the IE blog.

Microsoft is fully embracing HTML 5 and it is encouraging developers to start working with the new technology. Microsoft has even put together an IE 10 developers guide which you can read about here.

Microsoft® SQL Server® 2012 Release Candidate 0

by admin on November 18, 2011 in Uncategorized with Comments Off on Microsoft® SQL Server® 2012 Release Candidate 0

Microsoft SQL Server 2012 RC0 enables a cloud-ready information platform that will help organizations unlock breakthrough insights across the organization as well as quickly build solutions and extend data across on-premises and public cloud backed by capabilities for mission critical confidence.
SQL Server 2012 RC0 enables a cloud-ready information platform that will help organizations unlock breakthrough insights across the organization as well as quickly build solutions and extend data across on-premises and public cloud backed by capabilities for mission critical confidence:

Link – http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=28145&WT.mc_id=rss_alldownloads_all

Microsoft® SQL Server® 2012 Release Candidate 0

by admin on November 18, 2011 in Uncategorized with Comments Off on Microsoft® SQL Server® 2012 Release Candidate 0

Microsoft SQL Server 2012 RC0 enables a cloud-ready information platform that will help organizations unlock breakthrough insights across the organization as well as quickly build solutions and extend data across on-premises and public cloud backed by capabilities for mission critical confidence.
SQL Server 2012 RC0 enables a cloud-ready information platform that will help organizations unlock breakthrough insights across the organization as well as quickly build solutions and extend data across on-premises and public cloud backed by capabilities for mission critical confidence:

Link – http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=28145&WT.mc_id=rss_alldownloads_all

New Microsoft Security Essentials beta

by admin on November 18, 2011 in Uncategorized with Comments Off on New Microsoft Security Essentials beta

It looks like Microsoft is getting close to releasing a new version of Microsoft Security Essentials, as some Microsoft Connect participants are being invited to join a new Microsoft Security Essentials Public Beta program. Microsoft vaguely state that the newest MSE beta will have “the latest protection features”, and the beta program itself will “start soon” after you accept the invitation.

Link – http://connect.microsoft.com/

Top 5 SQL Server 2012 Features

by admin on November 4, 2011 in Uncategorized with 1 Comment

Quite simply, SQL Server 2012 is going to revolutionize the way we think about availability and recovery. Today, when we think about these concepts, we consider an individual database (log shipping, replication, mirroring) or an entire SQL Server instance (failover clustering). In SQL Server 2012, in addition to Failover Clustering enhancements, we’ll be able to treat a group of databases as an entity – a much more common requirement with today’s complex, multi-database applications. This entity is called an Availability Group.

Link – http://blogs.technet.com/b/dataplatforminsider/archive/2011/11/01/my-top-5-sql-server-2012-features-by-aaron-bertrand-guest-blogger.aspx

Using Task Manager with 64+ logical process

by admin on October 29, 2011 in Uncategorized with Comments Off on Using Task Manager with 64+ logical process

Ryan Haveson, a group program manager on the User Experience team, wanted to update folks on some progress with Task Manager since the Windows Developer Preview. In this post you’ll find the updated Task Manager tools for managing systems with a large number of logical processors. This is scalability well beyond desktop PCs, and is designed for the server and data center. A big part of Windows development is that the OS scales across a wide range of form factors and CPU architectures.

Link – http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2011/10/27/using-task-manager-with-64-logical-processors.aspx

Office 2007 Family Service Pack 3 Released

by admin on October 29, 2011 in Uncategorized with Comments Off on Office 2007 Family Service Pack 3 Released

The 2007 Microsoft Office Servers Service Pack 3 (SP3), 32-bit Edition

‎Service Pack 3 provides the latest updates to the 32-bit editions of all of the 2007 Microsoft Office System servers.

The 2007 Microsoft Office Servers Service Pack 3 (SP3), 64-Bit Edition

‎Service Pack 3 provides the latest updates to the 64-bit editions of

Service Pack 3 for Windows SharePoint Services 2007 (KB2526305), 86-Bit Edition

‎Service Pack 3 provides the latest updates to Windows SharePoint Services 2007, 86-Bit Edition.

Service Pack 3 for Windows SharePoint Services Language Pack 2007 (KB2526305), 86-Bit Edition

‎Service Pack 3 provides the latest updates to Windows SharePoint Services Language Pack 2007, 86-Bit Edition.

Service Pack for SharePoint Designer Language Pack 2007 (KB2526089)

‎Service Pack 3 provides the latest updates to SharePoint Designer Language Pack 2007.

Service Pack for Windows SharePoint Services Language Pack 2007 (KB2526305), 64-Bit Edition

‎Service Pack 3 provides the latest updates to Windows SharePoint Services Language Pack 2007, 64-Bit Edition.

Service Pack 3 for SharePoint Designer 2007 (KB2526089)

‎Service Pack 3 provides the latest updates to Microsoft SharePoint Designer 2007.

Service Pack for Visio Viewer 2007 (KB2526301)

‎Service Pack 3 provides the latest updates to the Microsoft Office Visio Viewer 2007.

Service Pack 3 for Microsoft Office Project 2007 (KB2526091)

Service Pack 3 provides the latest updates to Microsoft Office Project 2007.

Service Pack 3 for Microsoft Office Project Language Pack 2007 (KB2526091)

Service Pack 3 provides the latest updates to Microsoft Office Project Language Pack 2007.

PowerPoint Viewer 2007 Service Pack 3 (SP3)

‎Service Pack 3 provides the latest updates to PowerPoint Viewer 2007.

Service Pack 3 for Microsoft Expression Web 3 Language Pack (KB2575737)

‎Service Pack 3 provides the latest updates to Microsoft Expression Web 3 Language Pack.

Service Pack 3 for Microsoft Expression Web 3 (KB2575737)

‎Service Pack 3 provides the latest updates to Microsoft Expression Web 3.

The 2007 Microsoft Office Servers Language Pack (SP3), 86-Bit Edition

Service Pack 3 provides the latest updates to Microsoft Office Servers Language Pack.

The 2007 Microsoft Office Servers Language Pack (SP3), 64-Bit Edition

Service Pack 3 provides the latest updates to Microsoft Office Servers Language Pack.

System Center 2012 Configuration Manager and System Center 2012 Endpoint Protection Release Candidates

by admin on October 29, 2011 in Uncategorized with Comments Off on System Center 2012 Configuration Manager and System Center 2012 Endpoint Protection Release Candidates
System Center 2012 Configuration Manager provides a unified management infrastructure across physical, virtual, and mobile client environments. System Center 2012 Endpoint Protection builds on this infrastructure to provide industry-leading antimalware protection for client and server operating systems.

Link – http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=27841&WT.mc_id=rss_alldownloads_all

Update Rollup 6 for Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 1

by admin on October 29, 2011 in Uncategorized with Comments Off on Update Rollup 6 for Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 1

Update Rollup 6 for Exchange Server 2010 resolves issues that were found in Exchange Server 2010 since the software was released. This update rollup is highly recommended for all Exchange Server 2010 customers.

For a list of changes that are included in this update rollup, see KB2608646.

SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 3

by admin on October 8, 2011 in Uncategorized with Comments Off on SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 3

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 3 (SP3) is now available for download. While keeping product changes contained, we have made significant investments to ease deployment and management of Service Pack

Download  – http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=27594

Microsoft readies Office 2007 Service Pack 3

by admin on October 8, 2011 in Uncategorized with Comments Off on Microsoft readies Office 2007 Service Pack 3

Today we’re pleased to announce the 3rd (and likely final) Service Pack release for Office 2007 and SharePoint Server 2007. We are targeting a release date within Calendar Q4 2011. As we approach the date we will have more to share on exact timing.

We are offering this release in preparation for the April 2012 end of mainstream support for the 2007 client and server products. The October 2011 release provides a 6-month window to test and deploy the release prior to exiting mainstream support.

Link – http://blogs.technet.com/b/office_sustained_engineering/archive/2011/10/06/announcing-service-pack-3-for-office-2007-and-sharepoint-server-2007.aspx

Designing the Start screen

by admin on October 8, 2011 in Uncategorized with Comments Off on Designing the Start screen

As we wrote about in our post on evolving the Start menu, after studying real world usage of the Start menu through a variety of techniques, we realized that it was serving mainly as the launcher for programs you rarely use. As more and more launching takes place from the task bar, the Start menu looks like a lot of user interface for programs you don’t use very frequently. And the Start menu is not well-optimized for this purpose. It affords limited customization, provides virtually no useful information, and offers only a small space for search results. We found that people “in the know” who valued efficiency were moving away from the Start menu, and pinning their frequently used programs to the taskbar so that they could access them instantly in one click. We see this quite a bit on professional workstations where there are set of tools that all fit on the taskbar and are all used regularly—machines used by engineers, designers, developers, information workers, etc.

Link – http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2011/10/04/designing-the-start-screen.aspx

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