If you do, you should definitely email the guys who are looking after the betas’.
If you are interested, drop an email to [email protected], with the name of the beta you want to go onto in the subject line:
And simply ask for the information, and they’ll send it to you as soon as its available!
In the mean time, you can read all about Small Business Server 2008 and Essentials Business Server 2008!
Exchange 2007 Server Roles – Exchange 2007 has expanded the concept in Exchange 2007 Server of server roles, which further extends the old 2 role front end back end topology, with a new 5 role model.
Breaking down the Exchange 2007 server roles has a lot of advantages, allowing your exchange topology to be more flexible, highly scalable, allowing better hardware utilization, this together with the advantages of 64bit allow more mailboxes to be hosted on a single server.
The five Exchange 2007 Server Roles are as follows and shown in figure 1 below:
· Mailbox Server Role
· Client Access Server (CAS) role
· Hub Transport Server (HTS) role
· Edge Transport role
· Unified Messaging
Full article – http://exchangeis.com/blogs/exchangeis/archive/2008/04/15/exchange-2007-roles-an-introduction-to-exchange-2007-server-roles.aspx
Exchange 2007 Server Roles – Exchange 2007 has expanded the concept in Exchange 2007 Server of server roles, which further extends the old 2 role front end back end topology, with a new 5 role model.
Breaking down the Exchange 2007 server roles has a lot of advantages, allowing your exchange topology to be more flexible, highly scalable, allowing better hardware utilization, this together with the advantages of 64bit allow more mailboxes to be hosted on a single server.
The five Exchange 2007 Server Roles are as follows and shown in figure 1 below:
· Mailbox Server Role
· Client Access Server (CAS) role
· Hub Transport Server (HTS) role
· Edge Transport role
· Unified Messaging
Full article – http://exchangeis.com/blogs/exchangeis/archive/2008/04/15/exchange-2007-roles-an-introduction-to-exchange-2007-server-roles.aspx
With some estimates predicting that as much as 60 percent of companies’ data resides outside their corporate data centers, how can solution providers go about managing such an onslaught of information across distributed environments? Companies cannot survive without some form of data protection, so backup and storage management is an essential part of every data center.
Part of putting together a solution lies in Windows Server 2008’s new data management features. By probing under the surface, the CRN Test Center found some new and exciting features, techniques and tools that can help solution providers build robust data management solutions with the new Windows Server 2008.
Full Article – http://www.crn.com/software/207001513?cid=CRNFeed
If Silverlight 2 is Microsoft’s shining new addition to the family (and deservingly so) then gadgets, both Windows Vista Sidebar and web gadgets are the all but forgotten middle children. In this article I pose the question: Has Microsoft all but given up on it’s gadget platforms?
Consider the following:
Full Article – http://www.liveside.net/blogs/developer/archive/2008/04/11/is-microsoft-serious-about-gadgets.aspx
JG here, from the identity and access team at Microsoft. As you probably remember, last year at RSA Conference USA, Microsoft announced availability of Identity Lifecycle Manager (ILM) 2007, which joined user provisioning and certificate & smartcard management in a single integrated offering. For far too long, the industry has treated two related functions – identity management & strong authentication – as fundamentally dissimilar things. This despite the fact that customers have stressed that they are not! Both functions are connected by Identity and its related workflows – the act of provisioning a user identity is deeply connected with issuing a certificate or a smartcard to that Identity. ILM 2007 sought to address this very need.
Full Article – http://blogs.msdn.com/rsa2008/archive/2008/04/10/ilm-2-coming-soon-and-it-s-all-about-tco.aspx
JG here, from the identity and access team at Microsoft. As you probably remember, last year at RSA Conference USA, Microsoft announced availability of Identity Lifecycle Manager (ILM) 2007, which joined user provisioning and certificate & smartcard management in a single integrated offering. For far too long, the industry has treated two related functions – identity management & strong authentication – as fundamentally dissimilar things. This despite the fact that customers have stressed that they are not! Both functions are connected by Identity and its related workflows – the act of provisioning a user identity is deeply connected with issuing a certificate or a smartcard to that Identity. ILM 2007 sought to address this very need.
Full Article – http://blogs.msdn.com/rsa2008/archive/2008/04/10/ilm-2-coming-soon-and-it-s-all-about-tco.aspx
Solution providers who spend a considerable amount of time on the road have a new tool in their traffic-avoidance arsenal. Microsoft announced its Clearflow technology, which uses complicated algorithms to predict shifts in traffic, went online on the company’s Live Maps Website.
Microsoft said the free service, which is currently available for 72 U.S. cities, could help drivers avoid making detours to routes overcrowded due to the original traffic jam. According to a report in The New York Times, Clearflow is the result of a five-year project by Microsoft’s artificial intelligence division at Microsoft Research laboratories.
Full Article – http://crn.com/software/207200205;jsessionid=VVRHLGC2ONRQCQSNDLPCKH0CJUNN2JVN
Solution providers who spend a considerable amount of time on the road have a new tool in their traffic-avoidance arsenal. Microsoft announced its Clearflow technology, which uses complicated algorithms to predict shifts in traffic, went online on the company’s Live Maps Website.
Microsoft said the free service, which is currently available for 72 U.S. cities, could help drivers avoid making detours to routes overcrowded due to the original traffic jam. According to a report in The New York Times, Clearflow is the result of a five-year project by Microsoft’s artificial intelligence division at Microsoft Research laboratories.
Full Article – http://crn.com/software/207200205;jsessionid=VVRHLGC2ONRQCQSNDLPCKH0CJUNN2JVN
In my in-box Saturday morning was an invite for an April 24 event in San Francisco, where Microsoft plans to offer more details on its Live Mesh service. Ray Ozzie first hinted at the project during his speech at last month’s Mix event in Las Vegas.
Live Mesh is expected to be a service that synchronizes data between a number of different devices. Microsoft has talked about a long-term vision in which you need to only store things once, in the cloud, and have them appear on various devices. For example, music could be licensed once and appear on multiple gadgets without having to go through the more cumbersome process of transferring it from the original source. Likewise, contacts and other data could more easily be sent down to PCs and other devices.
Full Article – http://www.news.com/8301-13860_3-9917378-56.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-5
In my in-box Saturday morning was an invite for an April 24 event in San Francisco, where Microsoft plans to offer more details on its Live Mesh service. Ray Ozzie first hinted at the project during his speech at last month’s Mix event in Las Vegas.
Live Mesh is expected to be a service that synchronizes data between a number of different devices. Microsoft has talked about a long-term vision in which you need to only store things once, in the cloud, and have them appear on various devices. For example, music could be licensed once and appear on multiple gadgets without having to go through the more cumbersome process of transferring it from the original source. Likewise, contacts and other data could more easily be sent down to PCs and other devices.
Full Article – http://www.news.com/8301-13860_3-9917378-56.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-5
Microsoft Forefront Security for SharePoint manages and integrates multiple scan engines from industry-leading vendors and provides content controls to help protect your Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 collaboration environments from documents that contain malicious code, confidential information, and inappropriate content. Forefront Security for SharePoint provides comprehensive protection against the latest threats to help ensure documents are safe before they are saved to or retrieved from the SharePoint document library. In addition, documents can be scanned for company sensitive information, profanity or other administrator-defined content policies. The new Forefront Security for SharePoint with SP2 provides an improved user experience around file uploads, manual scanning, keyword filtering, and program administration. Through deep integration with Office SharePoint 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, Forefront Security for SharePoint helps protect your collaboration environment while maintaining uptime and optimizing performance. Forefront Security for SharePoint also enables administrators to easily manage product configuration, operation, automated antivirus signature updates and reporting at the server and enterprise level.
Customers who purchase Forefront Security for SharePoint with Service Pack 2 to protect Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 or Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services version 3.0 will also be licensed to use Antigen for SharePoint to protect Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server 2003 and Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 environments.
Full Article – http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=e06453b8-b2dd-4177-969c-2f89aa841e11&DisplayLang=en
SQL Server Compact 3.5 SP1 Beta release for the ADO.Net Entity Framework Beta 3 enables the following scenarios:
For more information please see the ADO.NET Entity Framework Beta 3 Documentation and ADO.NET Entity Framework Samples
Post feedback and questions to SQL Server Compact 3.5 MSDN Forum and ADO.NET MSDN Forum
For tips and tricks visit SQL Server Compact blog and ADO.Net team blog
Full Article – http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=68539fae-cf03-4c3b-aeda-769cc205fe5f&DisplayLang=en
‘m so glad to finally announce that the latest version of Live Maps is online and ready for you to play with. This ended up being a much bigger release than originally planned including three full sprints of development. As always the changes visible in the user interface only scratch the surface of the dozens of improvements across the application tiers including Geocoding enhancements, browser compatibility (Safari and IE8), parsing improvements, reverse geocoding, printing improvements and tons more. We are also releasing an upgrade of our Map Control to version 6.1 for developers. Give it a try and let us know what you think by dropping a comment here or emailing me at Stevelom at microsoft d com.
Export your Collection to Your Navigation/GPS device. One of the most common complaints we hear from users is that there is no easy way to get waypoints onto their Nav system from a web map. In this release we added support to export Collections to KML, GPX and GeoRSS which you can load directly to just about any portable Navigation system. No funky network links to get in your way – when you do an export the resulting file contains the geometry your nav system needs without having to be connected to the net. You can now plan your trip on the web by creating a Collection of Waypoints, then use the Export feature to take them with you on the road.
Full Article – http://virtualearth.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!2BBC66E99FDCDB98!14129.entry
How to configure Windows SteadyState – a completely free toolkit from Microsoft that helps administrators take control of shared access computers running Windows XP.
If you missed the first part in this article series please read Protect Public Computers with Windows SteadyState, Part 1
Part 1 of this series was a short introduction to Windows SteadyState (WSS). In this part we will see how easy it is to get in the game.
The next, and final article in this series, will introduce you to version 2.5 of this wonderful toolkit – the first version to support Windows Vista.
Full Article – http://www.windowsecurity.com/articles/Protect-Public-Computers-Windows-SteadyState-Part2.html
