Monthly Archives: May 2011

Forefront Endpoint Protection 2012 Beta

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Forefront Endpoint Protection 2012 continues to deliver on the promise of Forefront Endpoint Protection 2010, simplifying and improving endpoint protection while also greatly reducing infrastructure costs. It builds on System Center Configuration Manager, allowing customers to implement endpoint protection as part of a unified infrastructure for securing and managing physical, virtual, and mobile client environments.  This shared infrastructure lowers ownership costs while providing improved visibility and control over endpoint management and security.  New features in the beta release include:- Support for System Center Configuration Manager 2012- Role-based administration- More efficient delivery of security updates..Click here to download.

Outlook Hotmail Connector 32-bit

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With Microsoft Outlook Hotmail Connector 32-bit, you can use Microsoft Office Outlook 2003, Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 or Microsoft Office Outlook 2010 to access and manage your Microsoft Windows Live Hotmail or Microsoft Office Live Mail accounts, including e-mail messages, contacts and calendars for free!

Outlook Hotmail Connector enables you to use your Live Hotmail accounts within Outlook:

    • Read and send your Office Live Mail/Windows Live Hotmail e-mail messages.
    • Manage your contacts in Windows Live Hotmail.
    • Use advanced options for blocking junk e-mail messages.
    • Manage multiple e-mail accounts in one place.
    • Manage, and synchronize multiple calendars, including shared calendars to Windows Live Calendar from Outlook

If you use the Outlook Hotmail Connector with Outlook 2010 you gain these additional benefits:

  • Your Safe Sender List/Blocked sender list/Safe Recipient lists are synchronized between Outlook and Hotmail.
  • Send/receive works like your other Outlook accounts.
  • Your Hotmail account status appears in the Outlook status bar.
  • Rules work with the Hotmail account in Outlook even if it’s not your primary account.

To download this from Microsoft site, click here

Best Practices for Virtualizing Exchange Server 2010 with Windows Server® 2008 R2 Hyper V™

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Many organizations today rely on some degree of virtualization. Whether it is a few virtual machines running on a single physical computer or a whole server farm across multiple root servers, virtualization optimizes investment in hardware and network infrastructure by:• Increasing the utilization of underused hardware. • Improving server availability.• Reducing IT costs. The purpose of this paper is to provide guidance and best practices for deploying Microsoft® Exchange Server 2010 in a virtualized environment with Windows Server® 2008 R2 Hyper V™ technology.  This paper has been carefully composed to be relevant to organizations of any size…Click here to download this paper from Microsoft

Enhanced Hardware Virtualization Support for Exchange 2010

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The Microsoft Exchange team is enhancing positioning by including additional supported scenarios regarding Exchange Server 2010 running under hardware virtualization software. As of today, the following support scenarios are being updated, for Exchange 2010 SP1, and later…To know more, click here

Windows Phone 7 Connector (for Mac) – Beta

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Windows Phone 7 Connector for Mac is a new software application that enables you to synchronize your favorite music*, videos*, photos* and podcasts* from iTunes and iPhoto.This software is not part of the Zune experience.  In order to enjoy the Zune experience on Mac, you will need to install a Windows OS (XP or higher).  Zune delivers music and video entertainment across Windows Phone 7, Xbox Live and Windows PC’s. *DRM Protected content will not be able to be synchronized with Windows Phone 7.

To Download this, click here or to go to Windows Phone 7 official website, click here

Mac OS X Lion developer preview 3

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Apple Releases Mac OS X Lion Preview Update

Apple is expected to discuss lion at WWDC which takes place in early June.  Apple has targeted Mac OS X Lion for a summer release.   No word yet on what’s new in this build of Lion.   The build for this latest version is 11A459e. Mac OS X Lion developer preview 3 features some new enhancements including a redesigned login screen, the previously detailed Reading List feature in Safari, some new wallpapers, and other minor tweaks. The redesigned login screen above has an iOS-like feel to it with a silver-gradient backdrop and new icons across the bottom for sleep mode, restart, and shut down. Thanks to 9to5Mac.

And here’s what else is new in Lion Developer Preview 3:

  • New options in System Preferences>Mission Control
  • There is a new animation when logging into the computer and displaying the desktop (seems buggy at this time)
  • New Reminders menu in iCal
  • New next desktop button in Dashboard space:
  • New options when right-clicking (this appears to be buggy at this time):
  • Compatibility to external displays has been improved (especially in Mission Control)
  • There is now a Mission Control app
  • Finders toolbar has been slightly updated:
  • Desktop wallpapers have been updated (and new ones have been added);
  • Reading List has been enabled in Safari:
  • New changes in Mission Control: can add desktops right from Mission Control by clicking + button, close spaces from Mission Control, Mission Control no longer displaying text Desktop 1? etc., when hovering over desktop thumbnails, magnification of thumbnails are seen
  • Scrollbars now change color depending on the background (black background=light scrollbar and vice versa):

Check out the new Lion’ s Wallpaper..Click here

From Mac Rumors, Check out the preview details. Apple Releases Lion Developer Preview 3 and Xcode 4.1 Preview 5

Enjoy!!!

Microsoft and Skype

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On May 10, 2011, Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: “MSFT”) and Skype Global S.à r.l today announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Microsoft will acquire Skype, the leading Internet communications company, for $8.5 billion in cash from the investor group led by Silver Lake. The agreement has been approved by the boards of directors of both Microsoft and Skype.

Read the press release from Microsoft News Center.

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and Skype CEO Tony Bates announce Microsoft's acquisition of Skype. San Francisco, May 10, 2011

Article from The Telegraph about this deal.

Skype will support Microsoft devices like Xbox and Kinect, Windows Phone and a wide array of Windows devices, and Microsoft will connect Skype users with Lync, Outlook, Xbox Live and other communities. Microsoft will continue to invest in and support Skype clients on non-Microsoft platforms. The acquisition will increase the accessibility of real-time video and voice communications, bringing benefits to both consumers and enterprise users and generating significant new business and revenue opportunities. The combination will extend Skype’s world-class brand and the reach of its networked platform, while enhancing Microsoft’s existing portfolio of real-time communications products and services.

Microsoft Dynamics GP “12” Web Client Architecture

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The Web Client is the full GP application delivered through the Web. The key pieces to be delivered will be the core application components, ISV dictionaries, and in-house customizations – Dexterity customizations. At the
core of the web client is the UI update which will feature new homepage tiles, ribbons and tabs. Microsoft expects that UI performance will rival that of Terminal Server or better. Web Client to be introduced with codename GP “12. To know more about Microsoft Dynamics GP webclient, Mariano Gomez had an interest article to explain it. Click here to know more. To know more about the Rendering Engine, click here.

To know more about Silver light architecture, click here

Bing Maps Control for iOS

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The Bing Maps iOS Control is an Objective-C control for embedding maps directly into native iOS apps. With a rich, gesture-based UI provided by Seadragon, the Bing Maps iOS Control provides support for adding pushpins and other overlays to the map, allows your device location to be displayed, and provides the ability to retrieve contextual information for a given map location.

Supported Operating Systems:Apple Mac OS X

Mac OS X Snow Leopard, version 10.6.4 or later on a Macintosh computer with an Intel x86 processor.
  • Xcode version 4.0 or later
  • The latest version of the iOS SDK. (This SDK is available from http://developer.apple.com. An Apple Developer account is required.)

To download this, click here

Microsoft Remote Desktop Connection Client for Mac 2.1.1

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Remote Desktop Connection Client for Mac 2.1.1 lets you connect from your Macintosh computer to a Windows-based computer or to multiple Windows-based computers at the same time. After you have connected, you can work with applications and files on the Windows-based computer.

  • Supported Operating Systems:Apple Mac OS X
  • Operating System Versions: Mac OS X version 10.5.8 or a later version of Mac OS

To download it, click here