http://www.networkworld.com/community/blogs/microsoft Subnet - Microsoft bloggers en http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/48334 An interesting question came up in a recent class regarding testing SSIS in Visual Studio: "How can we capture the information in the Progress tab after a debug session?". My immediate reaction was to implement package logging but the answer lay elsewhere... Read more http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/48334#comments Microsoft debug integration services progress SQL Server SQL Server 2008 SSIS ssis logging Sat, 21 Nov 2009 09:55:20 +0000 Brian Egler 48334 at http://www.networkworld.com/community http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/48330 I just returned from the 13th annual KM World conference this week and listened to a really interesting keynote from Andrew McAfee (the "king of Enterprise 2.0" according to KM guru Tom Davenport).  McAfee summed up his talk with a list of basically how to get it Enterprise 2.0 wrong: Read more http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/48330#comments Microsoft Andrew McAfee enterprise 2.0 Outlook Social Connector Sat, 21 Nov 2009 05:35:42 +0000 Susan Hanley 48330 at http://www.networkworld.com/community http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/48294 News of a leak about Microsoft’s Windows 8 sure has stirred something over the Internet. Some say Windows 8 won't happen until Windows 7 is perfected and others say that Microsoft has already begun recruiting employees to help build Windows 8. Read more http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/48294#comments Microsoft 128bit OS operating systems Windows Windows 8 Windows 9 Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:56:28 +0000 Ron Barrett 48294 at http://www.networkworld.com/community http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/48240 I have written the past about portable applications that Admins can carry with them. I came across a new 'suite' of portable applications that are being touted as the Admins Swiss Army Knife, and for good reason. The CodySafe Admin pack hosts 75 portable administrative tools into a single suite that installs onto a portable device and takes up less than 63MB of space. Within this tiny package... http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/48240#comments LANs / WANs Microsoft Network Management Outsourcing Security SMB Software Wireless / Mobile Codysafe portable applications Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:10:01 +0000 Ron Barrett 48240 at http://www.networkworld.com/community http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/48189 With the release of Exchange 2007, Microsoft included voicemail as one of the core components of the product, and as a v1.0 technology, we didn’t have a lot of organizations choose to implement the Exchange 2007 voicemail.  However with the release of Exchange 2010  and the inclusion of core features in the Exchange update, we’ve been implem Read more http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/48189#comments Microsoft Exchange 2010;Rand Morimoto;Unified Messaging;Voicemail Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:32:07 +0000 Rand Morimoto 48189 at http://www.networkworld.com/community http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/48175 Microsoft today announced a plugin for Office 2010 that let's users access third-party social networks through Outlook.The tool is dubbed Outlook Social Connector. While it's a great concept to turn e-mail into a social network, it may suffer the fate of many cool ideas from Microsoft: iffy execution. Read more http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/48175#comments Microsoft Outlook Outlook 2010 Outlook plug-ins Outlook Social Connector social networking Wed, 18 Nov 2009 23:15:56 +0000 Microsoft Subnet 48175 at http://www.networkworld.com/community http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/48139 One of the things that have become a reality of our current economy is that IT needs to more with less. In some cases that means taking on more tasks within the network as well. IT departments that once were once extremely segmented are now finding that they have been contracted to minuscule sizes in some cases. Of course, some IT shops have always had that chief, cook and bottle washer scenario. In... http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/48139#comments LANs / WANs Microsoft Network Management SMB Software business intelligence DGard network management Software Compliance Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:43:06 +0000 Ron Barrett 48139 at http://www.networkworld.com/community http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/48129 Microsoft's Ray Ozzie significantly blew past the basic Exchange, SharePoint and SQL database hosting services with the Azure announcements at PDC 2009 yesterday. Read more http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/48129#comments Data Center E-commerce General discussions Google LANs / WANs Microsoft Network Management Security SMB Software Wireless / Mobile access control ADFS Amazon EC2 Android App Store AppExchange AppFabric Azure BizTalk 2009 Server BlackBerry Dallas Force.com Geneva Google iPhone OpSource OpSource Cloud PinPoint.com Ray Ozzie Salesforce.com SOA Windows Moible 7 Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:36:50 +0000 Mitchell Ashley 48129 at http://www.networkworld.com/community http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/48089 One week after Microsoft's Steven Elop took Salesforce.com's Marc Benioff to task claiming the cloud is not reliable, Microsoft officially launched the almost-final version of its own cloud, Windows Azure. It has newly outfitted its cloud so that an app can live both on Azure and on a local server. Microsoft today announced new management features to Windows Azure that support such dual-location... http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/48089#comments Microsoft Amazon EC2 Azure cloud computing Windows Azure Wed, 18 Nov 2009 04:33:50 +0000 Microsoft Subnet 48089 at http://www.networkworld.com/community http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/48015 I’ve been blogging this entire month on Exchange 2010, everything from the basics of what’s new in Exchange 2010 to Migrating from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2010 to Migrating from Exchange 2007 to Exchange 2010 to Integrating Exchange 2010 with OCS 2007 R2.  One of the questions I get asked frequently is “what’s the right size servers for Exchange 2010?”  That’s always a fun topic because... http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/48015#comments Microsoft Exchange 2010;Rand Morimoto;Server Sizing;Performance Analysis Tue, 17 Nov 2009 03:22:22 +0000 Rand Morimoto 48015 at http://www.networkworld.com/community http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/47996 Any discussion of DNS and Active Directory must come quickly to a discussion of the AD “signposts” known as the SRV (service locator) records. SRV is just another resource record type, like A and PTR and MX. It is defined in the RFC 2782 document, which states that “The SRV RR allows administrators to use several servers for a single domain, to move services from host to host with little fuss,... http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/47996#comments Microsoft DNS domain locator Server 2008 service locator records srv records Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:46:21 +0000 Glenn Weadock 47996 at http://www.networkworld.com/community http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/47949 Lokad has democratized time series forecasting for businesses of all sizes. Whether you're a small coffee shop or a division of a large enterprise, forecasting point-of-sales, scheduling staff, call center management, eCommerce, enterprise resource planning (ERP), customer relationship management (CRM), all became easier because of Lokad's forecast-on-demand service. Read more http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/47949#comments Microsoft hosted application Lokad Microsoft Excel Microsoft Startup Zone SaaS software-as-a-service startup Sun, 15 Nov 2009 04:42:58 +0000 Alpa Agarwal 47949 at http://www.networkworld.com/community http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/47946 One of the improvements made in Exchange 2010 is the redundancy built-in to the routing of messages through the Exchange environment.  Microsoft built-in a technology they call “Shadow Redundancy” which the concept behind shadow redundancy is that a message is not deleted from the queue until the next hop has confirmed delivery to the subsequent hop.&nb Read more http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/47946#comments Microsoft Exchange 2010;Rand Morimoto;Shadow Redundancy;Routing Sat, 14 Nov 2009 21:58:19 +0000 Rand Morimoto 47946 at http://www.networkworld.com/community http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/47856 One of the big benefits of combining AD and DNS on the same system using Active Directory Integrated (ADI) zones is that you can specify that dynamic updates should be “secure.” (This operation is accomplished either through the DNS administrative console or the DNSCMD command line tool. You’re given the choice in the new zone wizard but you can always change it later on.) Read more http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/47856#comments Microsoft DNS domain name service Domain Name System dynamic updates secure updates Server 2008 Fri, 13 Nov 2009 19:35:02 +0000 Glenn Weadock 47856 at http://www.networkworld.com/community http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/47854 To ensure that SQL Server continues to live up to the promised hype. Micorsoft has released the Novemebr CTP feature pack. The feature pack is a collection of packages that will help to expand and improve SQL Server 2008 R2. Some useful packages that I saw in the CTP are: Read more http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/47854#comments LANs / WANs Microsoft Software SQL Server 2008 R2 Fri, 13 Nov 2009 18:58:06 +0000 Ron Barrett 47854 at http://www.networkworld.com/community http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/47832 Microsoft is achieving impressive performance gains with "Velocity", the code name for a new Microsoft data caching technology currently in Community Technical Preview. Velocity is a distributed in-memory application cache technology that combines in-memory data caches across multiple servers, appearing as one large data cache to data hungry applications. By accessing data in Velocity data caches,... http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/47832#comments Data Center General discussions Microsoft SMB Software application performance data cache Live Framework Microsoft Microsoft research SQL Server Technology Preview velocity Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:35:06 +0000 Mitchell Ashley 47832 at http://www.networkworld.com/community http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/47784 There will be over 150 sessions at Microsoft's Professional Developer's Conference, next week at the Los Angeles convention center. Many of them will be aimed at commercial programmers building their next Windows app. So I asked a Microsoft spokesperson if she could pinpoint what Microsoft thinks will be the most important sessions for an enterprise developer. I also came up with a list of my own... http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/47784#comments Microsoft Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:44:15 +0000 Microsoft Subnet 47784 at http://www.networkworld.com/community http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/47778 In my last blog post I covered the migration process from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2010.  In this post, I’m going to outline the sequence and provide tips, tricks, and best practices to look forward to in the migration process from Exchange 2007 to Exchange 2010.  Read more http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/47778#comments Microsoft Exchange 2010;Rand Morimoto;migrating;Exchange 2007 Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:16:49 +0000 Rand Morimoto 47778 at http://www.networkworld.com/community http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/47773 In my last posting I mentioned that it’s not necessarily a good idea to always separate AD DS (Active Directory Domain Services) and DNS on different systems. Let’s now take a closer look at why that might be the case. If you run DNS on domain controllers, you have the opportunity to use something called Active Directory Integrated zones, or ADI zones. In classical DNS, the zone information... http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/47773#comments Microsoft active directory integrated zone adi DNS Server 2008 Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:03:57 +0000 Glenn Weadock 47773 at http://www.networkworld.com/community http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/47668 Using open source software in your product. Doesn't Microsoft know that bloggers, techno-dudes and everyone else is watch them like a hawk waiting for Microsoft to make a GPL license misstep? Friday blogger Rafael Rivera called Microsoft on the carpet accusing Redmond of lifting code from the ImageMaster project for use in a Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool (WUDT) for netbooks. Read more http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/47668#comments General discussions Microsoft SMB Software GPLv2 Microsoft open source Windows 7 Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:52:55 +0000 Mitchell Ashley 47668 at http://www.networkworld.com/community