Microsoft TechNet helps IT pros get the most out of Microsoft technologies by allowing them to explore and evaluate products and services that can help reduce costs and bring value to their organization. Here's a sampling of important technologies that IT pros need to know to keep their skills up to date and their company on the road to profitability.
Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2010 can maximize existing investments and help people accomplish more by bringing server capabilities to everyone through familiar and intuitive applications. Office Professional Plus 2010 provides smart, simple, time-saving tools to help everyone do more with less.
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In this webcast, Kevin Remde and his guests discuss the productivity tools that business users expect in a connected world and explain why IT professionals need to provide solutions across the computer, phone, and browser to facilitate work in more places. Office 2010 is a tool designed to fit user demands while providing an easy, powerful productivity experience. ( Or you can listen to the podcast.)
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Windows Phone is an important tool for personal productivity and collaboration. Windows Phone 7 will be taking this to the next level. In this session, learn what's new in Office Mobile, how it integrates with SharePoint Server and how to create the highest impact for users. This session also presents the new functionality that is available with Exchange Server 2010 in combination with Windows Phone and offers deployment guidance.
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Terry Myerson, Corporate Vice President of Windows Phone Engineering, shows how Windows Phone will excite business end-users and enable rich applications that run on PC, Web, and phone. He covers all aspects of Windows Phone 7, highlights the use of Windows Phone in key work scenarios, discusses IT capabilities to support these, and illustrates the rich development platform for applications run across PC, Web, and phone.
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SharePoint 2010 enables robust business collaboration for the enterprise and the Web by offering a fuller breadth of capabilities and new enterprise-class management tools.
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Enterprise 2.0 is big, getting bigger, and is no place for laggards; not in today's global business arena where knowledge is power and the water cooler might be 1,000 miles away. Microsoft SharePoint provides companies with rich features for social computing and a solid foundation for Enterprise 2.0.
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A growing number of employees are using their smartphones for business purposes. This makes planning secure access to email, documents, and applications a mission critical job for IT. Learn how Forefront Unified Access Gateway makes accessing email and documents from Windows Phones secure. This session presents the top things you can do to improve the security of your Windows Phone deployment, including deploying ActiveSync with Microsoft Exchange Server, providing secure remote access to Microsoft SharePoint, planning and publishing line-of-business applications, to take advantage of this evolution. Take full advantage of your IT investment in Exchange Server and SharePoint. This session covers architecture, deployment best practices, application publishing and traffic filtering for better protection of information.
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Get the low-down on what's in Office 2010 for IT Pros, along with demos of some new features,and explore the business justifications to upgrade to Office 2010.
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Microsoft Business Productivity Online Standard Suite is a set of messaging and collaboration solutions hosted by Microsoft, and consists of Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, Office Live Meeting, and Office Communications Online. Register for a free 30-day trial.
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It's time to bring up the big concerns: trust, risk, losing control, legalities, compliance. and Sarbanes Oxley. Also learn what is in-place for Windows Azure in terms of physical security, information security, management and standard security audits.
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Attend this webcast to learn how Windows Azure can help your business adjust to changing conditions, innovate, and stay competitive in the market. By taking advantage of a combination of on-premises resources and cloud services, you can deliver services and solutions to customers quicker and throttle resources on demand.
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Doug Cavit, Chief Security Strategist at Microsoft, provides great, high-level insights into what you should be thinking about when evaluating the trust of various cloud providers.
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The current focus on education and accountability from district to state and to the national level calls for new solutions that allow collaboration, deep reporting capabilities, and secure access. The cloud is the ideal platform for building such solutions. Join Patrick McDermott, IT Director of the San Juan School District in Utah, which is using Windows Azure to help education become more accountable and provide better services to students, parents, teachers, administrators, and the state and federal governments.
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Learn to manage Azure deployments, delve into using the Azure Diagnostics assemblies, and manage SQL Azure firewall rules in this helpful online videos.
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In this video, Matt Hester demonstrates Internet Explorer 8's Web Slices -- a technology that allow users to subscribe to snippets of any page and view them by using the Favorites toolbar. The video will show how to create and use Web Slices.
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Internet Explorer 8 is more productive thanks to improved performance and reliability; it features better security; offers granular management; is easy to deploy; and easy to migrate.
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This demonstration shows how to capture a custom Windows system image using the System Preparation Tool (sysprep) to generalize the installed image and ImageX to capture the contents of the generalized system image for re-deployment to other computers - including different hardware types.
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This demonstration shows the Deployment Image Servicing and Management (DISM) command line tool and how it can be used to audit and manage offline Windows System Images.
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This demonstration shows how the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit is used to create deployment media to install Windows 7. The process includes migration of user files and settings, automated installation of the Windows 7 operating system, automated installation custom applications and performing additional configurations needed when migrating from Windows XP or Windows Vista to Windows 7.
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This demonstration shows the migration experience from Windows XP to Windows 7 using the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit. We will show how user files and settings are migrated quickly using hard-links, applications can be installed and customized according to user roles, and Windows 7 is installed and configured with minimal up-front initiation from the IT administrator.
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Windows Server 2008 R2 builds on the award-winning foundation of Windows Server 2008, helping you achieve new levels of reliability and performance with new virtualization tools, Web resources, management enhancements, and Windows 7 integration. These features help save time, reduce costs, and provide a platform for a dynamic and efficiently managed datacenter.
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Windows Server 2008 R2 isn't a completely new release, but rather adds additional features and refinements to the existing release. This eBook focuses on the new features and refinements in R2. It assumes you have at least a general knowledge of Windows Server, and that you have some familiarity with Windows Server 2008, although it doesn't assume you're actively running Windows Server 2008.
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Watch Joey Snow chat with Scott Rosenbloom , a Senior Product Manager in the Windows Server team, as they discuss how Windows Server 2008 R2 can support the very same, critical workloads for which mainframes have typically have been "go to" platforms. Scott shares some really cool customer stories and scenarios in addition to his experience in this space. Check it out!
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This poster provides a visual reference for understanding key technologies in Windows Server 2008 R2. It focuses on Active Directory Domain Services, Hyper-V, Internet Information Services, Remote Desktop Services (including Virtual Desktop Infrastructure [VDI]), BranchCache, and DirectAccess technologies.
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Windows Server 2008 R2 includes a new feature called Active Directory Recycle Bin, which will give you an additional 180 days before the object is thumstoned through the regular relations process. If you delete a user by accident, you can recover it.
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This screencast walks you through two ways that a Live Migration can be initiated against Hyper-V-based virtual machines running on high availability clustered Hyper-V hosts.
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One focus of MED-V V1 SP1 is to expand support platforms to include Windows 7 (x86 and x64) as a host. This screencast demonstrates running a MED-V workspace using a V1 SP1 client in the Windows 7 environment.
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The concept of VDI is to store and run desktop workloads including a Windows client operating system, applications, and data in a server-based virtual machine (VM) in a data center and allow a user to interact with the desktop presented onto a user device via Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP). VDI is part of an enterprises cohesive, holistic virtualization strategy across the IT infrastructure.
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Desktop Virtualization is the process of separating, or more precisely isolating, out the individual components of a PC and managing each one separately. By isolating these components, you can then abstract and virtualize the computing resources.
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This article looks at a toolset that can help you with your virtualization projects the Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit (MAP), which is a member of the Microsoft Solution Accelerators family. MAP 3.1 is a network-wide infrastructure assessment tool designed to help you quickly gain a baseline understanding of your servers and desktops, including whether they are ready for upgrade or migration to technologies such as Hyper-V, Microsoft Application Virtualization, Windows Server 2008, Windows Vista, Office 2007, and SQL Server.
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Virtualization raises certain unique security requirements and provides some interesting security capabilities as well. Watch this video as Steve Riley, Senior Security Strategist with Microsoft's Trustworthy Computing Initiative, explores the interesting aspects of virtualization and security.
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The consolidation of servers onto fewer physical machines has huge advantages in resource and cost savings, but two key factors need to be considered during the planning process. Users have increasing expectations regarding the availability of their software, including both line-of-business applications and tools such as messaging and collaboration platforms. Furthermore, problems or failure on servers can have a significantly greater impact on operations.
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You may have already heard about the Secure Messaging, Secure Endpoint, Secure Collaboration, Identity and Access Management, and Information Protection solutions which are a part of Microsoft Forefront's Business Ready Security. Now, you can dive deep into the new Forefront products which are a part of those solutions. Hear from the product team and watch amazing technical demos on FEP, FSSMC + Script Kit, FIM, TMG, UAG, FPSP, FPE, FOPE, and ADRMS + Exchange.
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The regulatory environment is increasingly complex. Compliance is often not a simple process, and regulations vary in the specificity of their requirements. An organization must, therefore, conduct a full assessment of risks and impacts. This article describes some of the processes and technologies that you can use to help standardize and streamline regulatory compliance efforts in the area of e-mail confidentiality.
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Part 10 of this virtual even discusses Forefront Identity Manager 2010 by giving a brief overview of the product then dives into User and Group Management, Password Reset, and Policy Management workflow.
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Part 6 of this virtual even discusses Forefront Protection 2010 for Exchange by giving a brief overview of the product then dives into AntiSpam, Monitoring, Filtering, Administration, Anti-malware.
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After the very long Patch Management article last month, this month's article is much shorter and to the point. Let's just say you did not install the patches like we discussed last month. Now you got hacked. What to do?
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This report provides an in-depth perspective on malicious and potentially unwanted software, software exploits, security breaches and software vulnerabilities--both in Microsoft software and in third-party software. (PDF)
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Exchange Server 2010
Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 helps organizations communicate effectively with a simplified, unified framework that helps them lower their costs and enhance business productivity. This Learning Snack explains how mailbox availability is achieved in Exchange server 2010 and how the new and improved d age features help organizations manage their Exchange environment better.
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Many organizations are now adopting Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 to take advantage of the enhanced unified messaging feature. Unified messaging provides users with flexible and powerful new ways of accessing information and increasing productivity. This Learning Snack explains how unified messaging works and also describes its architecture. In addition, it describes the voice mail integration feature of Exchange Server 2010.
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Discuss SQL Server and data management with Andrew Fryer, an IT Evangelist at Microsoft, specializing in Data Management.
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Consider SQL Server 2008 Enterprise to efficiently manage your business-critical applications. Do the math on SQL Server value and you'll see the efficiencies add up.
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In this video, Jacques Victor explains how to Design High Performance Cubes in SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services. The benefit of building a cube to house data is that business rules can be centralized for calculations that can't easily be stored in a relational data mart.
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This paper provides an overview of the Microsoft SQL Server StreamInsight platform for complex event processing. StreamInsight allows software developers to create complex and innovative CEP solutions along two scenarios: (1) building packaged event-driven applications for low latency processing and (2) developing custom event-driven applications for businesses with high throughput, low latency needs.
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In this video, Ty Anderson shows how to use T-SQL to convert a table that is self-referencing table for hierarchy purposes into a table that utilized the new Hierarchical data type.
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WinClient
Deploying Windows Phone 7 with Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 and Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010
