http://www.networkworld.com/community/blogs/microsoft Subnet - Microsoft bloggers en http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/47431 Prior to TechEd Europe this coming week, a number of third party vendors have made announcements. One of these is F5, who on November 3 announced its new F5 Management Pack Solution for OpsMgr 2007, allowing customers using F5 and Microsoft to dynamically manage application delivery in virtual environments, particularly when using Hyper-V and System Center Virtual Machine Manager.F5 has added Performance... http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/47431#comments Microsoft F5 FirePass Hyper-V OpsMgr PRO PRO tips Virtual Machine Manager VMM Sun, 08 Nov 2009 01:38:55 +0000 Kerrie Meyler 47431 at http://www.networkworld.com/community http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/47430 I haven't disappeared, I've had several family medical related "incidents" to deal with. These are not over, but I will resume blogging as time permits. I appreciate your patience! http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/47430#comments Microsoft Sun, 08 Nov 2009 01:31:48 +0000 Kerrie Meyler 47430 at http://www.networkworld.com/community http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/47428 New to Exchange 2010 is the Exchange Control Panel, or ECP.  This is a component of Outlook Web App 2010 where an administrator can sit in their OWA screen and not only check their emails, calendar appointments, and contacts, but can perform administrative tasks.  So instead of the administrator having to find a computer and terminal server remote into a system to add a user, delete a user, make... http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/47428#comments Microsoft Exchange;Exchange 2010;Exchange Control Panel;ECP;Morimoto Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:46:19 +0000 Rand Morimoto 47428 at http://www.networkworld.com/community http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/47356 Text message this morning from CNN: Unemployment hit 10.2% in October. Microsoft announced earlier this week another 800 employee layoffs to the 5,000 previously announced employee layoffs. If you look at Microsoft's financials you see why, a 14% revenue and 18% net income drop for the last reported quarter, on top of disappointing prior quarters. Read more http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/47356#comments Careers Data Center General discussions Google Microsoft SMB Software Wireless / Mobile Apple iPhone Apple Mac executive pay Google Google Android Google Apps Google Docs Linux Microsoft Microsoft Office Open Office open source unemployment Windows 7 windows mobile Windows Vista Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:34:27 +0000 Mitchell Ashley 47356 at http://www.networkworld.com/community http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/47349 The last day at PASS is always with mixed feelings but as they say "Don't cry because it's over, just smile because it happened". Easier said than done as President Wayne Snyder got all choked up when he acknowledged Kevin Kline's awesome 10 years contribution to the leadership of PASS. Standing ovation in Seattle. Read more http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/47349#comments Microsoft PASS PASS Summit Seattle SQL Pass SQL Server SQL Server 2008 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 05:23:53 +0000 Brian Egler 47349 at http://www.networkworld.com/community http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/47348 One of the nicest integration features in Exchange 2010 Outlook Web App is the ability to integrate Office Communications Server 2007 R2 presence and instant message right in the OWA 2010 screen. Read more http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/47348#comments Microsoft Fri, 06 Nov 2009 05:18:01 +0000 Rand Morimoto 47348 at http://www.networkworld.com/community http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/47335 We are tickled to announce the winners of our October giveaways. The grand prize winner of the October Microsoft Subnet giveaway is Wendy Newton (pictured), IT manager for Bowman and Brooke LLP. She won a free Microsoft training course from Global Knowledge. Read more http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/47335#comments Microsoft Software giveaways Global Knowledge training Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:38:02 +0000 Microsoft Subnet 47335 at http://www.networkworld.com/community http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/47328 Microsoft plans to release six patches that address 15 vulnerabilities next week for its regularly scheduled Patch Tuesday, three of which are labeled critical and three, important. These patches fix holes in XP, Vista, Windows Server 2008 (all editions except R2), most recent versions of Office for both Macs and Windows. Read more http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/47328#comments Microsoft Microsoft Patch Tuesday Microsoft security Thu, 05 Nov 2009 21:19:29 +0000 Microsoft Subnet 47328 at http://www.networkworld.com/community http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/47266 It came as a surprise to many of us on the early adopter program with Microsoft when on one of the very last builds of Exchange 2010 all of a sudden Outlook Web Access was renamed Outlook Web App.  Same OWA for web mail as we’ve used for years, but just a different name.  Why the different name?  Be Read more http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/47266#comments Microsoft Thu, 05 Nov 2009 07:02:29 +0000 Rand Morimoto 47266 at http://www.networkworld.com/community http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/47255 Another great day in Seattle at the PASS Summit 2009. The highlight for me was getting 23 SQL Server MVPs to sign a copy of the SQL Server MVP Deep Dives book just released. All royalties are to be donated to the http://www.WarChild.org charity. The book store at the conference sold all of its 150 copies. It's a great book and a great cause. Read more http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/47255#comments Microsoft PASS Summit Seattle SQL Pass SQL Server SQL Server 2008 Thu, 05 Nov 2009 02:59:35 +0000 Brian Egler 47255 at http://www.networkworld.com/community http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/47239 Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) said on Wednesday that it will cut 800 more jobs, bringing total cuts to 5,800 including the layoffs it announced in January. The company was not specific as to what kinds of jobs would be eliminated nor in what locations. Read more http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/47239#comments Microsoft Microsoft financials Microsoft layoffs Wed, 04 Nov 2009 22:06:48 +0000 Microsoft Subnet 47239 at http://www.networkworld.com/community http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/47198 Way back in August I blogged about installing Windows 7 on my Dell X1. Well the long overdue task is now complete. I have to say that the inital results are pretty impresive. Read more http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/47198#comments Microsoft Software Dell X1 Windows 7 Ultimate Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:45:03 +0000 Ron Barrett 47198 at http://www.networkworld.com/community http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/47170 The Blackberry Bold is getting good attention but the mobile SmartPhone world has become a two horse race between the Apple iPhone and the Motorola/Google Droid. Even with the new Blackberry Storm 2 model, the Storm missed its window to be a serious contender against the iPhone (despite all my ill advised  pro-Storm predictions). Read more http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/47170#comments General discussions Google Microsoft SMB Software Wireless / Mobile Apple iPhone BlackBerry Bold Blackberry Storm Droid Google Android Motorola RIM Verizon Wed, 04 Nov 2009 13:54:17 +0000 Mitchell Ashley 47170 at http://www.networkworld.com/community http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/47159 The day started out with "Bruce" Wayne Snyder providing opening remarks at the PASS Summit 2009 and finished with "Batman Returns" on the AMC channel. In between was a festival of SQL Server know-how and networking. A great day. Read more http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/47159#comments Microsoft PASS PASS Summit 2009 Seattle SQL Server SQL Server 2008 Wed, 04 Nov 2009 06:28:31 +0000 Brian Egler 47159 at http://www.networkworld.com/community http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/47143 UPDATED 11/04/09: Microsoft has revised two of the critical updates it released during its epic October Patch Tuesday to fix bugs in the patches. A reader writes to inform me that one buggy patch, which breaks Office Communication Server, has not yet been fixed has been fixed via another patch that OCS users can obtain and install manually. Read more http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/47143#comments Microsoft IE security Microsoft security OCS OCS security Patch Tuesday Windows GDI bug Tue, 03 Nov 2009 23:09:19 +0000 Microsoft Subnet 47143 at http://www.networkworld.com/community http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/47069 It's great to be back in Seattle for the SQL PASS Summit 2009. This year it has a different structure with one pre-conference day for extra seminars and one post-conference day instead of 2 pre-conference days. This is a good idea and should prevent people disapearing early on the last day of the conference. We'll see... Read more http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/47069#comments Microsoft PASS Summit 2009 Seattle SQL Pass SQL Server SQL Server 2008 Tue, 03 Nov 2009 15:30:55 +0000 Brian Egler 47069 at http://www.networkworld.com/community http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/47047 For this blog post, I'm going to jump right into a topic of most interest to organizations deploying Exchange Server 2010, which is Disaster Recovery of databases. New to Exchange 2010 is the concept of the Database Availability Group, or DAG, which effectively allows an organization to have up to 16 replicated copies of an Exchange Database (EDB). Read more http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/47047#comments Microsoft Tue, 03 Nov 2009 13:20:42 +0000 Rand Morimoto 47047 at http://www.networkworld.com/community http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/47019 As promised, the latest version of Windows Server 2008 R2 is the first Windows Server to fully support DNSSEC. DNSSEC is a security protocol that helps to verify that a Web address hasn't been hacked and redirected to a pretender. Better still, Windows 7 also supports DNSSEC, which Microsoft claims is a first among client operating systems. Read more http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/47019#comments Microsoft DNS DNS Security Extensions DNSSec Windows 7 Windows 7 security Windows Server 2008 R2 Mon, 02 Nov 2009 23:57:50 +0000 Microsoft Subnet 47019 at http://www.networkworld.com/community http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/46959 Now that Microsoft's first Apple-like store is open in Scottsdale Arizona, Microsoft has finally entered the world of direct consumer retail sales. Since I don't live in that part of the country I have to rely on the reports from others, and so far the feedback is that the store is a lot like Apple's, has a little less cool-vibe to it, and shows off some of the price differences between hardware running... http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/46959#comments General discussions Google Microsoft SMB Software Wireless / Mobile Apple Guru Apple store Microsoft Store Windows 7 Windows Vista Windows XP Mon, 02 Nov 2009 14:38:51 +0000 Mitchell Ashley 46959 at http://www.networkworld.com/community http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/46943 The last session of last year's PASS in Seattle was another standing room only session that went far beyond the advertised time. I think the phrase was "You don't have to go home, but you sure have to get out of here...". It was the great subject of Virtualization of SQL Servers with Hyper-V. I hope to get an update in Seattle next week. Read more http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/46943#comments Microsoft Hyper-V PASS SQL Server SQL Server 2008 virtualization VMware Sun, 01 Nov 2009 03:51:06 +0000 Brian Egler 46943 at http://www.networkworld.com/community