Ignite Your Career - 2009 - E1 - Industry Insights and Trends Podcast

Posted By: Rick Claus | Nov 5th @ 3:00 PM | 1,938 Views | 0 Comments
In this episode (Industry Insights and Trends) we revisit one of the most popular topics we've had on the ongoing Ignite Your Career webcast series to kick of this season and pick the best nuggets of info and soundbites. You need to be on top of what is happening in the industry in order to position yourself and your organization to benefit from these trends. This panel discussion will arm you with the information you need from experts in the ICT industry in order to stay on top of your game.[Click to read the full post ]
Tags: career, Ignite Your Career, professional development

Exchange 2010 at Lifetime Products

Posted By: Adam Bomb | Nov 4th @ 4:01 PM | 3,247 Views | 1 Comment
Road Trip!
I tagged along with the Exchange team to shoot some video of some customers who are using Exchange 2010 today.
Our first stop was Lifetime Products - manufacturer of basketball hoops, folding tables and all kinds of other cool stuff.
We talked with the CIO, President and VP of Sales and Marketing about all the new features and benefits they've gotten from Exchange 2010 - their story was even picked up by CIO magazine, you can read about it here.
More videos from our road trip to follow - keep an eye out for them!
Tags: Customer Story, Exchange, exchange 2010

Microsoft Security Intelligence Report (SIR) v7

Posted By: Trustworthy Computing | Nov 3rd @ 11:10 AM | 5,069 Views | 0 Comments
The Microsoft Security Intelligence Report (SIR) is a comprehensive and wide-ranging study of the evolving threat landscape, and addresses such topics as software vulnerability disclosures and exploits, malicious software (malware), and potentially unwanted software.

Volume 7 of the Security Intelligence Report (SIR v7) covers the first half of 2009 (January through June). It includes data derived from more than 450 million computers worldwide, each running Windows. It also draws data from some of the busiest services on the Internet, such as Windows Live Hotmail and Bing.

The research is extensive and we encourage you to download the report.
Tags: Security, Security Intelligence Report, SIR, Trustworthy Computing, TwC

Dogfooding: Deployment & Product Influence

Posted By: Jossie Tirado | Nov 3rd @ 10:33 AM | 4,420 Views | 0 Comments

Steven Michalove, from Microsoft Information Security, concludes the dogfooding series where a product is tested on the enterprise, formally known as First & Best Program. For more information on the other phases of dogfooding a product in IT see Evaluating Risk and Security Related Features.

Steven describes how his team evaluates how to the deployment of a new technology will look like on the enterprise. Not only that but his team has the ability to influence a product by looking at what risk might look like in the future so those are considered on the development of the technology.

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Tags: dogfooding, information security, infosec, Security

System Center and Windows 7

Posted By: Dave Morehouse | Nov 2nd @ 2:05 PM | 12,189 Views | 0 Comments
In this episode of Brad and Jeff's periodic chats about the management business at Microsoft, they talk about how System Center fits in the constellation of platform and server releases in the fall of 2009.

In part 2, Brad and Jeff talk about all the improvements in System Center Configuration Manager 2007 SP2 and R3 that make deployment and management of Windows 7 clients far more energy efficient and cost effective than ever before.[Click to read the full post ]
Tags: Configuration Manager, Management, System Center, Windows 7

The Power of Software-based Communication

Posted By: Alan Le Marquand | Oct 30th @ 11:49 AM | 5,729 Views | 0 Comments
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Today, the means for communicating with one another anytime, anywhere, and from a variety of devices has become limitless with the use of Instant Messaging, VoIP, webcams, text, and email. Could an Enterprise provide these communication tools to its employees and benefit from this culture change?[Click to read the full post ]
Tags: Exchange, Office Communications Server 2007, office communicator, Outlook

System Center Essentials (SCE) 2010 beta preview

Posted By: Adam Bomb | Oct 30th @ 12:01 AM | 7,968 Views | 1 Comment
I recently sat down with David Mills and Edwin Yuen, who got together for a brief discussion of Microsoft’s IT management and virtualization solution for midsize businesses. With the release of public betas for System Center Essentials 2010 and Data Protection Manager 2010, customers will have the capability to easily manage, backup and restore their physical and virtual servers in an integrated way.

After discussing the benefits of using Hyper-v, SCE 2010 and DPM 2010, Edwin gives us a quick demo of SCE 2010’s integrated virtual and physical management capabilities.

 

For more information and to download public betas, go to:

SCE 2010: http://www.microsoft.com/sce

DPM 2010: http://www.microsoft.com/dpm
Tags: data protection manager, Hyper-V, System Center, system center essentials, system center essentials 2010, virtual machine manager

Yet Another Windows XP Mode Post

Posted By: yung | Oct 29th @ 8:22 AM | 8,230 Views | 3 Comments
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Since the last month, while delivering Windows 7 Launch Events, I have realized how strong the interests on Windows XP Mode (XP Mode) is out there, how much IT Pro want to know more about it, and how many questions are being asked again and again. So I thought to put together something concise and you can get most of your questions answered in a short read.[Click to read the full post ]
Tags: Application Compatibility, Desktop Virtualization, MED-V, Virtualization, Windows 7, XP Mode

Windows 7 Early Adopter Panel at the Gartner Symposium

Posted By: Adam Bomb | Oct 29th @ 12:01 AM | 8,273 Views | 0 Comments
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Gartner Symposium/ITxpo 2009 is one of industry’s largest and most important annual gathering of CIOs and their senior IT leaders. One of the Microsoft –sponsored sessions that took place is Windows 7 Early Adopter Customer Panel.   In this highly visible discussion, featured Gartner Research VP & Distinguished Analyst Michael Silver facilitated the panel around Windows 7 planning, deployment and customer experience with Windows 7 Early Adopter Customers: ADP, BMW, Energizer and Pella.
Please visit http://varicast.variview.net/getcontent.aspx?WCID=75a786f1-e1d9-4208-b63c-3168b9e30819 for a replay of this webcast.[Click to read the full post ]
Tags: applocker, BitLocker, branch cache, directaccess, MED-V, Windows, Windows 7

Forefront Protection 2010 for Exchange (FPE) Anti-Spam

Posted By: David Tesar | Oct 27th @ 6:02 PM | 11,216 Views | 1 Comment
Alexander Nikolayev, program manager for FPE, walks us through how all of the anti-spam features work, including the new functionality with FPE over the previous version.  After a couple minutes we dive right into the whiteboard walking through the mail flow anti-spam features with connection, protocol, and content filtering.

Since this is a longer interview, here’s how it breaks down.  Markers are the round circles in the Silverlight player progress bar.[Click to read the full post ]
Tags: Exchange, exchange 2010, forefront, FPE
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