Citrix XenServer 5.6

Citrix has just released XenServer 5.6. The new XenServer 5.6 delivers enhanced virtualization management capabilities for both the free XenServer, as well as the more advanced Enterprise and Platinum editions. Citrix also introduced a new low-priced XenServer Advanced Edition, making it easier for enterprise and cloud customers running free XenServer to add more advanced high availability and management capabilities at a fraction of the cost of competing solutions.

Link – http://www.citrix.com/English/ps2/products/product.asp?contentID=683148

Microsoft’s social-networking lab launches new Twitter viewing tool

Microsoft’s Future Social Experiences Labs (FUSE) has launched another new project, codenamed “Project Emporia,” that is aimed at social-networking newbies to help them simplify their Twitter browsing/viewing experience.

Link – http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/microsofts-social-networking-lab-launches-new-twitter-viewing-tool/6356?tag=content;selector-blogs

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

Windows Live Photo Gallery Wave 4 demo videos

Just yesterday we told you about What’s new in Windows Live Essentials Wave 4, and one of our reader Chrilo tipped us about the new demo videos already available on the Windows Live Preview website. While the pages has now been taken down and protected, we were quick to get hold of a couple of the videos posted up there.

Link – http://www.liveside.net/main/archive/2010/05/24/windows-live-photo-gallery-wave-4-demo-videos.aspx

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

Windows Live Office – A First Look

Windows Live Hotmail Wave 4 was officially unveiled yesterday, and one of the major upgrades to Hotmail is it’s tight integration with SkyDrive and Office Web Apps. As part of the announcement, Microsoft also revealed one of their newest web services – Windows Live Office.

Link – http://www.liveside.net/main/archive/2010/05/19/wave-4-windows-live-office-a-first-look.aspx

Windows Live Office – A First Look

Windows Live Hotmail Wave 4 was officially unveiled yesterday, and one of the major upgrades to Hotmail is it’s tight integration with SkyDrive and Office Web Apps. As part of the announcement, Microsoft also revealed one of their newest web services – Windows Live Office.

Link – http://www.liveside.net/main/archive/2010/05/19/wave-4-windows-live-office-a-first-look.aspx

New ways we’re fighting spam in Hotmail

Hotmail’s fight against spam has certainly come a long way in the last five years. Over the last several years we’ve made substantial investments in the research and development of sophisticated anti-spam technologies. SmartScreen is the collective name we use for a cloud-based set of technologies and algorithms that leverage machine learning and artificial intelligence to assign a “spam probability” score to each incoming message.

Link – http://windowsteamblog.com/windows_live/b/windowslive/archive/2010/05/20/new-ways-we-re-fighting-spam-in-hotmail.aspx

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

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