Brief Description This document describes the Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 and 2007 R2 telephony integration strategy. You can grab it from here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=8CDE0C3A-042E-445B-A514-2D12ED5B2AC2&displaylang=en
Try Office Communications Server 2007 R2
You can now download a complete pre-built test environment for trying out all these features of OCS 2007 R2. This environment contains prebuilt domain controller, exchange server and different flavours of OCS R2. They are all in a 60-day trial period. They are all VHD files and you will need Hyper-V to run them. You …
Download the Hyper-V Security Guide
The Hyper-V security guide has just been released. You can download it here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd569113.aspx About This Solution Accelerator The Hyper-V Security Guide provides IT professionals with guidance, instructions, and recommendations to address key security concerns about server virtualization. Microsoft Hyper-V technology allows consolidation of workloads that are currently spread across multiple underutilized servers onto a …
Live Mesh Updated
Live Mesh has been updated: We are pleased to announce that our next update is now available. The new build contains a number of reliability and performance improvements; we’ve highlighted the key fixes below. By default your Live Mesh software will automatically update itself within 24 hours of the new build being posted, but …
.NET Framework v3.5 SP1 (Beta Installation) on Windows Server 2008
I am looking to run Systems Center Operations Manager 2007 to have a play with and thought I’d set myself a challenge of getting it up and running on a SQL 2008/2008 Server platform. Obviously one of the pre-requites of Systems Center Operations Manager 2007 is SQL so I am using SQL 2008. This post …
Group Policy Articles
Here’s a link to some very good articles regarding Group Policy Refresh Cycle: http://trycatch.be/blogs/roggenk/archive/2008/06/19/understanding-group-policy-and-preferences-refresh-cycles-part-1.aspx http://trycatch.be/blogs/roggenk/archive/2008/06/23/understanding-group-policy-and-preferences-refresh-cycles-part-2.aspx
Implementing Windows Server 2008 Small Business Server RCO on HP Proliant servers
HP have released a document on HP Proliant hardware and software is required to run SBS 2008 RC0 on Proliant servers. You can read this document at: http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c01479108/c01479108.pdf?jumpid=reg_R1002_USEN
SQL 2008 RC0 released for Technet subscribers
SQL 2008 RC0 released for Technet subscribers: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/subscriptions/downloads/details/default.aspx?pm=p:334
MSDN and Technet are running on 2008 Hyper-V technology!!
Interesting article on virtualization.info regarding MSDN and Technet being hosted on Hyper-V virtual servers. The SQL backend however is still being hosted on physical servers. Technet received about 1 million hits per day, and MSDN about 3 million so obviously MS think that Hyper-V can handle the load 🙂 More info can be found …
Very scary program to hack vista!
Check out the following video. It shows you how to gain full system access to Vista without a username or password. Very very very scary!! http://www.offensive-security.com/movies/vistahack/vistahack.html