 Microsoft News Alert
Network World's Microsoft News Alert, 11/13/07 This is Network World's news alert in which we focus on the top items from Microsoft Subnet, your source for Microsoft news, blogs, discussion items, security alerts, giveaways and more. * TOP PICK OF THE WEEK:
Windows Server 2008 pricing, virtualization details, announced
Pricing for the eight versions of Windows Server 2008 (yes, eight!) was announced this week, as was Hyper-V. Hyper-V is the final marketing name for Viridian. Microsoft announced that Hyper-V will be available as a low-cost, independent product. Perhaps most significantly for enterprise IT users, Microsoft announced a program to validate the performance of non-Microsoft virtualization platforms on Windows 2008. The SaaS train leaving the station without Microsoft | Case Studies, Market Trends, Peer Discussions Network Worlds newly enhanced WAN Traffic Optimization Buyers Guide has everything you need to stay current, research new technology, compare products and implement solutions - all in one convenient location. Visit now for case studies, how-tos, best practices, buying tips, peer discussions and more. Click here to go to the Buyers Guide now. | | Justice Dept. says no reason to extend Microsoft oversight Win a free Microsoft training course worth up to $2,500 Questions abound as to why Microsoft's CIO was fired
* FROM OUR BLOGGERS: Kerrie Meyler: Managing Microsoft
Microsoft System Center explained
Microsoft announced this week that three more pieces to its comprehensive Systems Center suite were shipping. Meyler offers a guide to the most important features in Systems Center. "Microsoft is releasing System Center in 'waves,'" she explains. She then discusses the key features in seven Systems Center products. See also: The Microsoft System Center suite now available Tyson Kopczynski: Hidden Microsoft gems
Using PowerShell to take Virtual Server snapshots (Part Four)
This is my fourth and final posting in this series. In this last posting I will be wrapping the backup script that we have been working on. Most of this post will be code, so mind the formatting. To start things off, we need to first un-pause all of the VMs that we previously paused. We are doing this because we have already taken a snap-shot of all of the VMs. Mitchell Ashley: Converging on Microsoft
Oracle CRM product preview: very "Apple iPod Cover Flow-esque"
(Microsoft Subnet welcomes our newest blogger, serial entrepreneur, Mitchell Ashley, CEO of his fourth company, Converging Network, LLC.) The Oracle CRM On Demand is very Apple iPod Cover Flow-esque in presenting files and presentations like a visual Rolodex. Oracle is using Agile development teams of seven developers or less to “sprint” and create mini-releases of the product. More revolutionary, Oracle hinted at using Google-like tactics of keeping the CRM in beta for “extended periods,” releasing new updates when ready rather than on a fixed schedule. Michael Dortch: Musings on Microsoft
Microsoft and enterprise search: free is good but…
There are a lot of questions that need to be asked and answered about Microsoft's emerging, evolving enterprise search strategy. Will it offer free, advertising-supported editions of its search technologies? ... How will Microsoft balance the take-no-prisoners, my-way-or-the-highway go-to-market approach it has historically used with, say, Windows, against the more collegial, can't-we-all-just-get-along approach it's used with, say, Internet Explorer? SQL author expert Ross Mistry
New features and functionality of SQL Server 2008
Rumor has it that SQL Server 2008 is still on track to be released during the first quarter of 2008. I have had the opportunity to work with the product for over a year now and I am very pleased with the new features and functionality introduced this time around. Plus, win one of 15 copies of SQL Server 2005 Management and Administration. Chris Amaris: Network & Systems Management
Online Hotfix Order Page
One of the more annoying things I find is when I have a software bug and I find the KB article with the fix, and then the stupid article tells you to contact Microsoft for the fix. Or wait for the next service pack (yeah, right, like who has that kind of time?). Here is a link to an online order form to request hotfixes, which is a lot easier and simpler than calling them and waiting on hold. Alex Lewis: Windows into Silicon Valley
DirecTV direct to Vista?
As early as Jan. 2006 Microsoft and DirecTV announced a partnership to allow Windows MCE and Vista to act as a DVR and media portal for DirecTV. ... With all the DRM built-in to Vista it should be simple for DirecTV to stream in a Vista ultimate system running as a HTPC. Microsoft has pitched both Vista Ultimate and the Xbox360 as home media hubs. Unfortunately neither has lived up to the hype. Sue Hanley: Essential SharePoint
Organize your information like you would organize handbags
A woman has designed an organizational framework (think information architecture) for her collection of 130 handbags. The categories: the tote, the travel bag, the trendy bag, the evening clutch and what she calls the treasure bag. Since one of the things I often have to teach new SharePoint users is the concept of metadata and breaking the folder paradigm, I am thinking that the handbag system might be a useful analogy. Ron Colonna: Microsoft Certification/Training Corner
What about Microsoft's online eLearning?
These courses offer a first look at Longhorn technologies. They are pretty interesting. I haven't gotten through all of the material yet but I can see some potential. * HOTDISCUSSIONS AMONG MICROSOFT SUBNET READERS: What Google's Android means for Apple, Microsoft, open source and the enterprise Microsoft vs. the U.S. Justice Department Troubleshooting Rights Management Services (RMS) client issues Folders: can we ban them from SharePoint deployments? * FREEBIES, GIVEAWAYS AND OTHER NOTABLES: Enter today to win your free training course worth up to $2,500 from New Horizons Computer Learning Centers. The next New Horizon's Microsoft training giveaway ends November 30. Win any kind of training you want: classroom, online, mentoring and more.
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I work in an agency that had the chance to chat with the Microsoft developers behind Windows Server 2008.
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