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Windows 7 Early Adopter Panel at the Gartner Symposium

Adam Bomb — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 07:01:00 GMT

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.

The panel includes discussions about topics of importance for enterprises considering the move to Windows 7. ADP, BMW, Energizer and Pella share their perspective on business drivers to adopt Windows 7 and the benefits they expect to achieve with deploying Windows 7. These companies also share their deployment experience and recommendations for companies new to Windows 7 deployment. This is a great chance to get valuable insider information from Microsoft Customer industry leads.

Please visit Gartner.com for a replay of this webcast.

Windows 7 Deployment Saves Money

HeidiC — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 07:00:00 GMT

Microsoft’s Blain Barton interviews PowerShell MVP and IT Pro, Max Trinidad, about his work in rolling out Windows 7. Using virtualization with Hyper-V, Max got his Windows 7 virtual machines running in just a few minutes, and his management praised the O/S’ stability.

Max cites savings in the fact that Windows 7 installs cleanly and runs on three year old hardware running XP. He reports strong productivity using PowerShell and the IT Pro Momentum program. The program provides documentation and support resources for pre-release products.

Get your hands on Windows 7 yet?

Adam Bomb — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 21:00:00 GMT

There are lots of ways to get your hands on the final bits for Windows 7:

Through a Software Assurance Volume License agreement
Through MSDN and TechNet subscriptions
Through Software Assurance agreements allowing the download of Windows 7 RTM via the Volume Licensing Download Center.

If none of these options work for you, our friends at Springboard are making a 90-day eval version available for download.
A few things to be aware of before you download the Evaluation code from the Springboard Series site on TechNet:

A limited number of licenses are available, so the download will only be available while supplies last.
Following the 90 day evaluation period, IT Pros who wish to continue to use Windows 7 Enterprise will be required to purchase and perform a clean installation of Windows 7, including drivers and applications.
Windows 7 Enterprise Edition 90-Day Trial is the final Released-to-Manufacturing (RTM) version of Windows 7 Enterprise Edition. This is the same software that is available to Volume Licensing (VL) through Software Assurance (SA) and is feature-complete.
Windows 7 Enterprise 90-Day Trial is available in English, Spanish, French, German, and Japanese in both 32 and 64 bit versions.
Activation of Windows 7 Enterprise 90-Day Trial is required within 10 days after installation, or the product will shut down every hour. Windows 7 Enterprise 90-Day Trial is valid for 90 days after installation. After expiration, your computer will shut down every hour.

If you wish to continue to use Windows 7 Enterprise please note that you will be required to purchase and perform a clean installation of Windows 7, including drivers and applications. Please keep this in mind; Windows 7 Enterprise is not available through retail channels.

For more technical guidance, tips, and tools you can keep up all the general technical information and news by following the Springboard Series blog, becoming a Springboard Insider or by following our Twitter feed @MSspringboard

What's New in Group Policy?

Adam Bomb — Fri, 08 May 2009 07:01:00 GMT

The Group Policy team hasn't been sitting idly by, they've added a bunch of new features to Group Policy and Group Policy Preferences, and I sat down with Michael and Lilia to go over some of them.
They cover PowerShell integration, new functionality in Directory Services, Auditing, new policies to cover new features like Direct Access, and UI enhancements like the ability to filter policy.
They are very keen to hear from you on what else they should cover, so please let us know for future videos!
You can keep up with the adventures of Michael and Lilia at the Group Policy Blog.

Announcing Windows 7 Release Candidate

Adam Bomb — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 14:01:00 GMT

We interrupt your regular MMS content for this breaking announcement!

We actually managed to keep this secret for a little while, but the word is out now - starting today, MSDN and TechNet subscribers can access the Windows 7 RC release, with general public availability coming next week.

Generally speaking, the Win7 Beta that came out a few months ago was pretty feature complete, so the changes in the RC are primarily bug fixes and some UI changes. There are a few new things to look out for though, like FireWire camera support, Virtual Windows XP, and Multitouch support. Functionality to add Legacy Hardware is available too.

Here at Edge, we've been putting together some new videos with the latest news and info on Windows 7, so keep an eye out for that over the coming weeks. In the meantime, there's lots of good Win7 content out already that you should take a look at, if you haven't already:

- Win7 What’s New

- Win7 Feature Walkthrough

- Inside Win7

- Engineering Windows 7 Blog

- Win7 Networking Overview

- Win7 Networking Enhancements for Enterprises

- Branch Cache Demo Video

- Direct Access Demo Video

- Migrating from XP to Win7 with MS Deployment Toolkit 2010

- Be ready for Win7: Application Compatibility

- Win7 Manageability Overview

- Win7 Questions & Answers

- Win7 Beta Installation Instructions

- Installing the Win7 Beta with Virtual PC 2007 SP1

- Installing Win7 in a USB stick

- Boot from VHD in Win7

- BitLocker To Go

- AppLocker

- Resource Monitor (resmon)

Interview: Kai Axford talking about Preventing Corporate Espionage

Matt Hester — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 08:04:00 GMT

During one of our internal conferences at TechReady I got to speak with my good friend Kai Axford. Kai is an incredible security speaker and is a part of Microsoft Trustworthy Computing (TWC) group. Kai has a ton of knowledge around security strategies and technologies, and I was very happy he agreed to a quick interview. I chatted with Kai and we talked about preventing corporate espionage, and some the obvious but overlooked ways to prevent it. Our conversation was very technology agnostic and we chatted about internal espionage as well. Imagine this quick scenario:

Bob works for you
Everyone LOVES Bob
Bob’s wife Mary comes to office and brings cookies
Mary walks around unescorted
Everyone LOVES Mary.

Does this seem pretty common scenario in your offices? If it is then you need to ask the following questions:

Does Bob LOVE the Company?
Is Bob behind on his mortgage?
What is Mary really walking around for?
Does Mary Love the company?

Kai has an excellent post talking in more detail about scenarios like the one above:

Dripping Data: Understanding and Reducing Insider Threat (Part III)

When you take a look at those questions you can really see the dangerous potential of internal corporate espionage. Just some food for thought. Check out the interview below and if you want to learn more about TWC please visit: www.microsoft.com/security

The Nerd Herd #2 - Longhorn Server Core

Michael Anderberg — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 01:42:00 GMT

2:a avsnittet av The Nerd Herd. Den här gången handlar det om Microsoft Windows "Longhorn" Server Core, vad det är och inte är, hur det kan användas och varför. Medverkar i programmet gör; Mikael Nyström och Christoffer Andersson båda från Truesec AB samt John Laerum från Cornerstone AB. Programmet leds av Michael Anderberg, IT Pro Evangelist på Microsoft i Sverige.

De två länkar som nämns i programmet är:
http://blogs.technet.com/server_core
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=20331

God Fortsättning önskar The Nerd Herd

The Nerd Herd #1 - Pilotavsnittet

Michael Anderberg — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 01:29:00 GMT

Det första avsnittet av The Nerd Herd's podradio-show. The Nerd Herd kommer att handla mestadels om Windows "Longhorn" Server men i pilotavsnittet tar vi en resa nerför memory-lane och återupplivar gamla klassiska ögonblick i Windows historia...

Programledare: Michael Anderberg, Microsoft AB

Övriga Deltagare: Mikael Nyström, Truesec AB

Windows Vista SP1 UAC improvements

Michael Kleef [MSFT] — Thu, 15 May 2008 01:03:00 GMT

UAC is often maligned as over prompting for a single task. In this short and sharp clip I show a basic difference of Windows Vista RTM and Windows Vista SP1 and the reduction in UAC prompting to create a folder in a protected system location from four to one.

Windows Server 2008 Performance and Scalability with Bill Karagounis

Adam Bomb — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 08:00:00 GMT

In some parallel universe, an alternate version of me went to work for Bill way back in 2000, when we both worked in Microsoft Consulting. I don't know if that bizarro Adam survived, but if he did, I suspect he's very, very tired.
We shot this video first thing in the morning, but you can see that Bill still has a lot of energy and passion around his job, which is basically making Windows Server go better. He told me about some of the Server 2003-2008 improvements that they've made, some things that really made me sit up and take notice. How about 40% more TS users on the same hardware? How about a 10% reduction in power consumption, under identical workloads? Faster network and disk transfers? All stuff you get just by upgrading the OS. Cool Stuff.
(Bill's team has a blog at http://blogs.technet.com/winserverperformance/)
<video was updated on 2/25/2008>