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• Interesting Downloads for Week Ending - 11-21-2008

  Infrastructure Development, Operations & Maintenance · Active Directory Migration Tool v3.0 · Response Point White Paper: Maintaining Response Point · Update Rollup 5 for Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1 (KB953467) · Response... Posted Nov 26 2008, 04:36 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Security, Vista, Exchange, SharePoint, Office, Active Directory, Search, IE, Windows, SQL, TechNet, Group Policy, Mobility, SBS, Networking, ISA, Deployment, Downloads, Virtualization, Powershell, Tech News, ForeFront, SCVMM, IIS, Beta, Unified Messaging, Windows Server 2008, Systems Management, 64bit Computing, Developery Stuff, twitterfeed

• Interesting Download for Week Ending - 11-14-2008....

  Infrastructure Development & Operations · Microsoft Office Communicator Mobile (2007 Release) · Windows Server 2008 Evaluation Virtual Hard Drive Images (for Virtual Server 2005) · Windows Server 2008 Evaluation Virtual Hard Drive Images... Posted Nov 22 2008, 11:02 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Security, Vista, SharePoint, Active Directory, Search, IE, Windows, SQL, TechNet, Group Policy, Mobility, SBS, Networking, ISA, Downloads, Virtualization, Powershell, Tech News, ForeFront, SCVMM, IPv6, IIS, Competitive, On the Edge, Beta, Windows Server 2008, Systems Management, 64bit Computing, twitterfeed, Cloud, The Cloud

• Interesting Sownloads for Week Ending - 11-07-2008

  Infrastructure Development & Operations · Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1 Help · Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Protocol Documentation · Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Standards Documentation · DEPLOYMENT GUIDE -... Posted Nov 13 2008, 10:31 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Security, Vista, Exchange, SharePoint, Active Directory, Search, IE, Windows, Business Intelligence, SQL, TechNet, Group Policy, Mobility, SBS, Networking, ISA, Deployment, Downloads, Virtualization, Powershell, Tech News, ForeFront, SCVMM, IIS, On the Edge, Windows Server 2008, Systems Management, 64bit Computing, Developery Stuff, twitterfeed, Cloud, The Cloud

• Interesting Downloads for the Week Ending - 10-31-2008

  Infrastructure Development & Operations · Update for Windows Server 2008 (KB957200) · Update for Windows Server 2008 x64 Edition (KB957200) · Update for Windows Server 2008 for Itanium-based Systems (KB957200) · Update for Windows... Posted Nov 10 2008, 12:14 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Vista, Exchange, SharePoint, Active Directory, Search, IE, Windows, Business Intelligence, SQL, TechNet, Group Policy, Mobility, SBS, Networking, ISA, Deployment, Downloads, Virtualization, Powershell, Tech News, ForeFront, SCVMM, IPv6, IIS, Competitive, On the Edge, Windows Server 2008, Systems Management, 64bit Computing, Developery Stuff, twitterfeed, Cloud, The Cloud, Azure

• Interesting Downloads for Week Ending - 10/17/2008

  Infrastructure Development & Operations · Update for Windows Server 2008 (KB957000) · Update for Windows Vista for x64-based Systems (KB957000) · Update for Windows Server 2008 x64 Edition (KB957000) · Update for Windows Vista... Posted Oct 22 2008, 10:20 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Security, Vista, Exchange, SharePoint, Office, Active Directory, Search, Messenger, IE, Windows, Business Intelligence, SQL, TechNet, Group Policy, Mobility, SBS, Networking, ISA, Deployment, Downloads, Virtualization, Powershell, Tech News, ForeFront, IPv6, IIS, Digital Imaging, Competitive, On the Edge, Unified Messaging, Windows Server 2008, Systems Management, 64bit Computing, twitterfeed, The Cloud

• Interesting Downloads for the Week Ending - 10-03-2008

  Infrastructure Development & Operations · Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 - English · Branch Office Infrastructure Solution for Windows Server 2008 · Microsoft Windows Server 2008 UNIX Interoperability Management Pack for Microsoft OpsMgr... Posted Oct 06 2008, 08:09 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Security, Vista, Exchange, SharePoint, Active Directory, Search, IE, Windows, Webcasts, Business Intelligence, SQL, TechNet, Group Policy, Mobility, SBS, Networking, ISA, Deployment, Downloads, Virtualization, Powershell, Tech News, ForeFront, IPv6, IIS, Windows Server 2008, Systems Management, 64bit Computing, Developery Stuff, twitterfeed

• Interesting Downloads for Week Ending - 09-19-2008

  Infrastructure Development & Operations · Update for Outlook 2003 (KB924423) · Windows Home Server Technical Brief for Drive Extender · Windows Home Server Technical Brief for Home Networking · Windows Home Server Technical Brief... Posted Sep 22 2008, 09:15 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Tablet PC, Security, Vista, Exchange, SharePoint, Office, Active Directory, Search, Messenger, IE, Windows, Webcasts, SQL, TechNet, Group Policy, Mobility, SBS, ISA, Deployment, Downloads, Virtualization, Zune, Powershell, Tech News, ForeFront, Media Center, IPv6, IIS, Screencasts, Competitive, On the Edge, music, communicator, Unified Messaging, Home Theater, Windows Server 2008, Systems Management, 64bit Computing, Developery Stuff, Tech Support, twitterfeed

• Interesting Downloads for Week Ending - 09-12-2008

  Infrastructure Development & Operations · Virtualization with Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V · Update for Windows Server 2008 x64 Edition (KB956697) · Ultrasound - Monitoring and Troubleshooting Tool for File Replication Service (FRS)... Posted Sep 16 2008, 04:26 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Tablet PC, Security, Vista, Exchange, SharePoint, Office, Active Directory, Search, Messenger, IE, Windows, Webcasts, Business Intelligence, SQL, TechNet, Group Policy, Mobility, SBS, Networking, Xbox, ISA, Downloads, Virtualization, Zune, Powershell, Tech News, User Groups, ForeFront, Media Center, IPv6, IIS, Competitive, Beta, communicator, Unified Messaging, Windows Server 2008, Systems Management, 64bit Computing, Developery Stuff, Tech Support, twitterfeed

• Windows Live Search comes to BlackBerry....

  Check out this story over on Bloomberg announcing the deal we made with Research in Motion to get Live Search on BlackBerry devices . Take THAT Google.... ***UPDATE*** -- More on the deal from MSNBC . This one includes info on the RIM/TiVO/MySpace deals... Posted Sep 12 2008, 08:58 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Search, Hardware, Windows, TechNet, Mobility, Tech News, Competitive, On the Edge, Social Networking, Live!, twitterfeed

• How to Get the Most out of the Improved MSDN & TechNet Search

  We asked a dozen IT Pros and Developers to use our Live-powered MSDN and TechNet search as their default for Microsoft-related searches for 12 days. The goal was to see if technical pros think that our search is now more efficient to use than Google or... Posted Aug 14 2008, 01:06 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Search, Tips, TechNet, MSDN, How-to Articles

• New and Improved MSDN and TechNet Search Impresses Devs and IT Pros

  We've been working hard on our sites' search app. Recently we asked a group of developers and IT professionals to make it their default search for a while. Find out what they said and how to get the most out of MSDN and TechNet search on Chris... Posted Aug 12 2008, 09:26 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Search, TechNet, MSDN

• Interesting Downloads for Week Ending - 08-08-2008

  As a heads up, I am posting the interesting DL info in the long format one more time. Partly because of a time crunch to get the info posted and partly because the alternative means of posting I wanted to do has caused me to raise some questions that... Posted Aug 12 2008, 12:32 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Tablet PC, Security, Vista, Exchange, SharePoint, Active Directory, Search, IE, Windows, Webcasts, SQL, TechNet, Group Policy, SBS, Networking, ISA, Deployment, Downloads, Virtualization, Zune, Powershell, Linux, ForeFront, Media Center, IPv6, IIS, Screencasts, Competitive, Unified Messaging, Windows Server 2008, Systems Management, 64bit Computing, Developery Stuff, Tech Support, twitterfeed

• TMSAM02 gets you 15% of NEW TechNet Subscription....

  When you sign up for a NEW TechNet Subscription over at the TechNet site , at some point you will get prompted for a discount/promotional code. Use TMSAM02 and it will net you 15% off. This only applies to NEW subscriptions at the moment and it it should... Posted Jul 15 2008, 12:43 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Tablet PC, Security, Vista, SharePoint, Office, Active Directory, Search, Messenger, Windows, Business Intelligence, SQL, TechNet, Group Policy, Mobility, SBS, Networking, ISA, Deployment, Virtualization, Powershell, Linux, ForeFront, Media Center, IPv6, IIS, Competitive, communicator, Unified Messaging, Home Theater, Windows Server 2008, Systems Management, Live!, 64bit Computing

• New Channel 9 Videos on MSDN/TechNet Social Vision and Apps

  Great new videos about MSDN and TechNet's social vision, new social apps, and site redesign are now online on Channel 9! Meet the people behind the sites... MSDN/TechNet Social Platform: Social Bookmarking, User Profile, Enhanced Forums MSDN/TechNet... Posted May 28 2008, 02:43 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Search, TechNet, MSDN, forums, profile, Social Bookmarks, Social Platform

• MSDN & TechNet at TechEd North America 2008

  TechEd North America is a launch event for the MSDN and TechNet teams ( we're opening the sites up to the community ) and this year we are bringing all our good stuff together into "Zones" - the MSDN Zone for Developer Week and the TechNet... Posted May 22 2008, 05:29 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Search, TechNet, MSDN, CodePlex, Channel 9, social, TechNet EDGE

• IT Pro Momentum Program - Helping you test/pilot Microsoft Technologies...

  Need some help to test/pilot the latest Microsoft infrastructure technologies list here? Windows Server 2008 SQL Server 2008 IIS7 Forefront Edge (ISA) Forefront Client & Server Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 or Windows Server Virtualization Windows Vista... Posted May 19 2008, 11:01 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Tablet PC, Security, Vista, Exchange, SharePoint, Office, Active Directory, Search, Messenger, IE, Windows, Business Intelligence, SQL, TechNet, Group Policy, Mobility, SBS, Networking, Xbox, ISA, Live Events, Interviews, Deployment, Virtualization, Zune, Powershell, User Groups, Linux, ForeFront, Media Center, IPv6, IIS, Digital Imaging, Academia, Competitive, On the Edge, Beta, communicator, Unified Messaging, Home Theater, Windows Server 2008, Systems Management, Live!, 64bit Computing, Developery Stuff, Learn me somethin...

• Speaking of content....

  What do you want to know about in June when we switch content again? Should we continue talking about Windows 2008? IIS 7? Vista SP1? The next version of SBS? I suspect that we will have at least a brief discussion about that today and I would love to... Posted Feb 20 2008, 07:57 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Security, Vista, Exchange, SharePoint, Active Directory, Search, IE, Windows, SQL, TechNet, Group Policy, SBS, Xbox, ISA, Virtualization, Zune, Powershell, ForeFront, Media Center, IPv6, IIS, Blather, On the Edge, Unified Messaging, Windows Server 2008, Systems Management, 64bit Computing

• Windows Vista SP1 is coming and I'm digging it now

  One of the benefits of working for a software company is watching a product release develop then ship. Of course sometimes dogfooding software has pitfalls so some would debate the "benefit" statement.  It's pretty rare for our internal... Posted Jan 27 2008, 02:42 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Security, Active Directory, Search, Windows Vista, TechNet, Group Policy, Mobility, Networking, Deployment, Management, Laptop Stuff, x64 OS and Apps

• What do you want in a Webcast?

  For that matter.....Do you even like Microsoft Webcasts? My team is on a conference call right now and we are discussing webcast attendance and how to get more people to attend. All of us are raising some interesting questions but we are on the inside... Posted Jan 11 2008, 11:06 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Security, Vista, Exchange, SharePoint, Office, Active Directory, Search, IE, Windows, Webcasts, SQL, TechNet, Group Policy, Mobility, SBS, Networking, ISA, Live Events, Deployment, Virtualization, Powershell, User Groups, ForeFront, Media Center, IIS, Learning, Competitive, Unified Messaging, Home Theater, Windows Server 2008, Systems Management

• Great new Microsoft Spoof video.....

  There have been some funny spoof videos over the years, but this is one of the best. It is also the single most star studded video (that I have seen us do). And it is long! Clear the next 7 minutes.....and laugh out loud...it's good for you! Bill Gates’... Posted Jan 07 2008, 11:57 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Tablet PC, Security, Vista, Exchange, SharePoint, Office, Active Directory, Search, Messenger, Books, IE, Windows, Webcasts, Business Intelligence, SQL, TechNet, Group Policy, Mobility, SBS, Networking, Xbox, ISA, Live Events, Interviews, Deployment, Virtualization, Zune, Opinion, spam, Podcasts, Powershell, User Groups, Linux, ForeFront, Media Center, IPv6, IIS, Screencasts, Learning, Digital Imaging, Academia, Blather, Competitive, Demos, On the Edge, music, Beta, Travel, communicator, Unified Messaging, Live Event Q&A, Home Theater, Windows Server 2008, Karaoke, Zunecasts, Tech Ed, Systems Management, Live!, 64bit Computing, Books I am reading..., Developery Stuff, Tech Support

• Which is more important, WinXP SP3 or Vista SP1 ?

  Sound off at http://edge.technet.com/Forums/Perimeter/350-Which-is-more-important-to-you-WinXP-SP3-or-Vista-SP1/ . Let us know what you think!!! Share this post: Read More... Posted Dec 07 2007, 04:38 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Windows XP, Security, Active Directory, Search, Windows Vista, TechNet, Media Center 2005, Group Policy, Mobility, Networking, Deployment, Management

• Windows Vista SP1 RC1 is now available for download

  Windows Vista SP1 Release Candidate 1 is now available for download. If you are a TechNet or MSDN subscriber, the bits to get the process started are now on the subscriber download center. Those of you that are subscribers get to go to the head of the... Posted Dec 07 2007, 12:34 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Security, Search, Windows Vista, TechNet, Mobility, Networking, Deployment, Management

• http://edge.technet.com launches !!!

  As you can see at http://edge.technet.com , we are launching a new online portal for IT Pros. Expect to see lots of content in the form of podcasts, screencasts and videos. I have some interesting stuff coming. My EDGE id is KingCobra. Head on over and... Posted Nov 10 2007, 12:56 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Windows XP, Security, Office, Active Directory, Video, Search, Virtual PC, Windows Vista, Webcasts, Exchange Server, TechNet, Windows Server, Media Center 2005, Group Policy, Mobility, Storage, World Wide Web, Networking, SQL Server, Windows Group Policy, Windows Mobile, Fun Stuff, Deployment, Management, Apple, Virtualization, Powershell, Virtual Server, Windows Media Services, Linux, Screencasts, IIS7, Windows Server 2008, x64 OS and Apps

• Still on the fence? Let me save you some money

  Microsoft offers some pretty cool ways to get support, training and our products.  I know a lot of you fence sitters wait for a deal to come along before you plop down your hard earned cash.  I don't blame you one bit.  I like to pinch... Posted Oct 19 2007, 09:50 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Windows XP, Security, Office, Active Directory, Search, Virtual PC, Windows Vista, TechNet, Windows Server, Media Center 2005, Group Policy, Mobility, Storage, Networking, SQL Server, Windows Group Policy, Internet Explorer, Windows Mobile, Deployment, Management, Virtualization, Powershell, Virtual Server, Windows Media Services, IIS7, Windows Server 2008

• Register All tags

  Tag...( read more ) Share this post: Read More... Posted Oct 01 2007, 01:16 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Tablet PC, Security, Vista, Exchange, SharePoint, Office, Active Directory, Search, Messenger, Books, IE, Windows, Webcasts, Business Intelligence, SQL, TechNet, Group Policy, Mobility, SBS, Networking, Xbox, ISA, Live Events, Interviews, Deployment, Virtualization, Zune, Opinion, spam, Podcasts, Powershell, User Groups, Linux, ForeFront, Media Center, IPv6, IIS, Screencasts, Learning, Digital Imaging, Academia, Blather, Competitive, Demos, On the Edge, music, Beta, Travel, communicator, Unified Messaging, Live Event Q&A, Home Theater, Windows Server 2008, Karaoke, Zunecasts, Tech Ed, Systems Management, Live!, 64bit Computing, Books I am reading...