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March 31  Cloud computing has huge implications for both developers and business people. This is your chance to get in on the ground floor and be part of the community that helps pioneer this exciting new area. Find out more and register today.
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https://www.clicktoattend.com/invitation.aspx?code=137135 DATE/TIME:
Tuesday, April 21, 2009, 5:05 PM - 7:00 PM
Welcome Time:5:00:00 PM Pacific Time LOCATION:
Neudesic Offices
3420 Ocean Park Blvd Suite 3055
Santa Monica, CA 90405  Join Microsoft’s Client Technology Specialist and Pontis Research for a First Look Session and answer questions on compatibility and deployment. We will discuss how Windows 7 will help make users productive anywhere, enhance security and control, and streamline PC management.
Windows 7 for the Enterprise
Windows 7 is next version of the Windows client operating system and is on track to be available approximately 3 years after the release of Windows Vista. Windows 7 builds on the modern foundation of Windows Vista, and companies that deploy Windows Vista first will find that Windows 7 is highly compatible with their hardware, software, and tools. This session will showcase some of the key investments in Windows 7 to help enterprise customers address the evolving needs of their end users and IT professionals: - Make users productive anywhere
Windows 7 enables users to complete their job no matter where they are-at home, in a branch office, or on the road-without reducing productivity. - Enhance security and control
Windows 7 builds on the security foundation of Windows Vista, and delivers increased flexibility in helping secure computers and data. - Streamline PC management
Whether IT professionals manage and deploy desktops, laptops, or virtual environments, Windows 7 makes the job easier while enabling them to leverage the same tools and skills they use with Windows Vista. Location:
Microsoft – Irvine
3 Park Place
Suite 1600 Irvine California 92614 Register:
This is a corporate event only. If you are an Enterprise customer of mine, please contact me for details on how to register.  For those of you who were available to see Lynn Langit’s presentation on SQL Server 2008 for Developers, here is a link to the Powerpoint presentation.
I am trying to get the recording for those that are interested. Let me know if you want to have access to the LiveMeeting. March 26 (Once again, I find myself making an exception to my general rule of not pointing to external blogs.)  A fellow named “Paul” runs a blog called “Slick IT” which has a post on there that is just spectacular. Heck – I wish I wrote it.
He makes a ton of great points and points to a very important blog post on the IEBlog site. Yeah… I’m just going to leave it at that.  Building on years of experience and proven performance, Commerce Server 2009 is a comprehensive e-commerce foundation for business-to-consumer and business-to-business scenarios.
If you have been running earlier versions of Commerce Server, read on to learn more about the many new, exciting, out-of-the-box capabilities in Commerce Server 2009. -
Get your site up and running quickly with reduced time to market
New Default Site and easy skinning features help get you into production fast, allowing you to focus on selling merchandise. -
Benefit from centralized, cross-channel management
Whether your customers shop using a computer, a mobile phone, a gaming system, or other channels, Commerce Server 2009 introduces full, multi-channel support, allowing you to centrally manage your cross-channel strategy. -
Integration with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007
With more than 30 new Web parts and controls available, and integration with Windows Live Services, including Microsoft Virtual Earth, Commerce Server 2009 allows you to choose a range of new features and functions. The modular design allows you to quickly add or remove functionality without impacting the entire site. -
Take advantage of role-specific functionality
Commerce Server 2009 integrates with Office SharePoint Server 2007 through Commerce Services—a benefit for merchandisers and marketers. It also provides improved design templates and commerce Web parts and tools for site designers, while offering a new Commerce Foundation for developers and IT professionals. -
Engage and interact with customers using enhanced Web 2.0 community features
Use the contemporary, out-of-the-box Web site with built-in product reviews and ratings to interact with customers. Leverage the community functionality in Office SharePoint Server 2007 to further engage your customers through forums, blogs, and wikis. -
Personalize your e-commerce experience
With easy, standards-based design, extensibility, and integration capabilities, Commerce Server 2009 provides the flexibility to create e-commerce solutions that best suit your business needs. -
Enhanced analytics
Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services, the reporting engine in Commerce Server, enables the creation, management, and delivery of both traditional, paper-oriented reports and interactive, Web-based reports displayed through Office SharePoint Server 2007. -
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Support for Windows Server 2008 and 64-bit gives access to higher performance servers and helps you support large, complex catalogs. -
Easy customization
The new Commerce Foundation adds more out-of-the-box functionality and presents a new, unified working and extensibility model to allow for quicker customization and integration. -
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Microsoft BizTalk Server Adapters help solve the issues of communication with other line-of-business applications and trading partners, allowing for bidirectional synchronization and orchestration of order, catalog, inventory, and profile objects. -
Deeper ties with your legacy systems
The new Commerce Foundation unifies the calling surface so you can easily add third-party, best-of-breed features, such as payment providers, fraud detection, address verification, tax services, and other services, into the unified calling model. COMMERCE BLOG:
http://blogs.msdn.com/commerce/archive/2009/03/18/general-availability-announcement-of-microsoft-commerce-server-2009-at-mix09.aspx LINK: http://www.microsoft.com/commerceserver/en/us/overview.aspx  <taken from Technet>
There's been a lot of press about how there isn't a an upgrade path from Windows XP to Windows 7. In this video, Jeremy walked me through using the latest beta of the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit, specificallly the User State Migration Tool, to transfer the user settings and files from a Windowx XP installation to a new install of Windows 7 on the same PC. One of the really cool features in this new version is hardlink migration. In the past, if you wanted to back up all of a users files and settings, those had to be transferred to a different drive, and the new OS install would wipe the machine, complete the new install, and then you'd transfer the files back. With hardlink migration, all the files stay in place on the machine, and the Win7 install just updates file locations with hardlinks. This means the install and settings transfer happens much faster, because the files aren't transferred at all, just the paths to them are updated. It's really cool, and means you can have a fresh install of Win7, with all your XP files and settings, completed in as few as 30 minutes. WHAT’S NEW (in Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2010 beta):
The new features in MDT 2010 Beta 1 are supported only for Lite Touch Installation (LTI)–based deployments and are not supported for Zero Touch Installation (ZTI)–based deployments using Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007. The MDT 2010 Beta 1 release includes the following new features: - Support for Windows 7 Beta. Deploy Windows 7 Beta by using MDT 2010 Beta 1.
- Support for Windows Server 2008 R2 Beta. Deploy Windows Server 2008 R2 Beta by using MDT 2010 Beta 1.
- Support for Windows Automated Installation Kit (Windows AIK) version 2.0. Deployment of Windows 7 Beta and Windows Server 2008 R2 Beta by using MDT 2010 Beta 1 requires the use of Windows AIK version 2.0.
- Support for Windows User State Migration Toolkit (USMT) version 4.0. USMT 4.0 is required to support Windows 7 Beta deployments. Specifically, the following new features of USMT 4.0 are supported in LTI-based deployments:
- Support for USMT 4.0 hardlink migration. USMT 4.0 includes a new method of saving user state called hardlink migration. Hardlink migration creates a snapshot of current user data files before reinstallation, which keeps data in the same location on the disk while upgrading the system and rebuilds the links after Windows 7 Beta is installed. Hardlink migration dramatically reduces the time required to migrate user state, because the data is never moved, which is faster than copying the user data to another disk.
- Support for USMT 4.0 shadow copy. USMT 4.0 supports the ability to archive files that are in use by using the shadow copy feature in Windows 7 Beta and Windows Server 2008 R2 Beta.
- Support for the Deployment Image Servicing and Management (DISM) tool. The new DISM tool (Dism.exe) allows for servicing offline images, mounting and unmounting Windows Imaging format (WIM) files, and customizing Windows Preinstallation Environment (Windows PE) boot images. The DISM tool replaces many of the tools in previous versions of the Windows AIK, including Package Manager (Pkgmgr.exe), the International Settings Configuration Tool (Intlcfg.exe), and the Windows PE command-line tool (PEimg.exe).
- Support for Windows PE version 3.0. Windows PE 3.0 is included as a part of the Windows AIK version 2.0 and is required to deploy Windows 7 Beta and Windows Server 2008 R2 Beta by using MDT 2010 Beta 1.
- Support for the Boot Configuration Data (BCD) management tool. MDT 2010 Beta 1 uses the new BCDEdit command-line tool to manage BCD files. MDT 2008 Update 1 used the BitLocker™ Drive Preparation Tool (BdeHdCfg.exe) to manage boot configuration.
- Support for Windows 7 Beta default disk partition configuration. In MDT 2010 Beta 1, the disk partition configuration for Windows 7 Beta will be similar to the Windows BitLocker Drive Encryption disk configuration, where the operating system is installed on Disk 0, Partition 2, and the system partition is on Disk 0, Partition 1.
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Smooth Streaming, an IIS Media Services extension, now available in beta, enables adaptive streaming of media to Silverlight clients over HTTP. Smooth Streaming provides a high-quality viewing experience that scales massively on content distribution networks making true HD media experiences (720p+) a reality. Smooth Streaming is the productization of technology first used by Microsoft to deliver on-demand video of the 2008 Summer Olympics for NBCOlympics.com. Smooth Streaming dynamically detects current network and local PC conditions, and seamlessly switches the video quality of a media file that a Silverlight player receives. Consumers with high-bandwidth connections and newer hardware can experience HD quality streaming, and others with lower bandwidth speeds or older hardware receive an appropriate stream for their conditions, allowing the audience to enjoy an uninterrupted streaming experience with the highest quality possible. With a few mouse clicks in Expression Encoder 2 Service Pack 1, you can encode several quality levels of a specific piece of content; each media quality level is encoded as its own complete file. Choose one of Expression Encoder’s Silverlight 2 templates and publish all of the media content and the Silverlight player directly to a Smooth Streaming-enabled IIS 7.0 server. Once IIS receives a request for media, it will create virtual chunks from each video file and deliver the best content possible to the end user. Smooth Streaming provides media companies with a better way to make true HD (720p+) on the Web a reality. It offers code-free deployment and simplified content management for content creators and content delivery networks. For end users, the improved video viewing experience will bring the reliability and quality of television to their favorite video Web sites.  To see Smooth Streaming in action, check out SmoothHD.com, a prototype site for Akamai AdaptiveEdge Streaming for Microsoft Silverlight. Download the Smooth Streaming beta and check back soon for our upcoming Smooth Streaming white paper.
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http://www.iis.net/extensions/SmoothStreaming  Live Smooth Streaming, an IIS Media Services beta extension, enables adaptive streaming of live events to Silverlight clients. Using HTTP to deliver live events takes advantage of the scale of existing HTTP networks and keeps content close to the end user and makes true HD (720p+) a realistic option for live Web broadcasts. The additional advantage of using HTTP-based delivery for live events is that the existing HTTP infrastructure also drastically increases live event availability.
For the most popular live Web broadcasts, CDNs and content providers have to worry about how much capacity they can dedicate on their much more resource constrained streaming network. By using HTTP, they can take advantage of all the resources of their network and do not have to worry about maxing out network capacity and shutting out users from live events.
Extend Engagement Times
Live Smooth Streaming offers consumers the best possible media viewing experience. Today, content owners largely target video quality for the lowest common denominator of their audience, even though many of their viewers have high-quality, high-speed connections. For example, video bit rates of 300 Kbps will play back consistently well across a variety of last-mile connection speeds, but higher quality 1.5 Mbps rate video may not play back well on a connection constrained to receive 500 kbps. Smooth Streaming dynamically adapts stream quality based on a users momentary connection speed - so consumers with high bandwidth connections can experience near HD or true HD quality (720p+) streaming (e.g., from 1.5Mbps to 3Mbps and beyond). Others with lower bandwidth speeds receive the highest possible bit rate based on their current connection speed and CPU conditions. Live Video. Your Way.
Live Smooth Streaming enables Silverlight players to support typical PVR (personal video recorder)-style interaction. Join events in progress and quickly seek to the beginning to catch up. Rewind the highlights and enjoy the Silverlight experience in your own way. 
To see Smooth Streaming in action, check out SmoothHD.com, a prototype site for Akamai AdaptiveEdge Streaming for Microsoft Silverlight. DOWNLOAD:
http://www.iis.net/extensions/LiveSmoothStreaming The PHP on Windows Training Kit includes a comprehensive set of technical content including demos and hands-on labs to help you understand how to build PHP applications using Windows, IIS 7 and SQL Server 2008. The 38.3MB March RC1 release includes the following: - PHP & SQL Server Demos
- Integrating SQL Server Geo-Spatial with PHP
- SQL Server Reporting Services and PHP PHP & SQL Server Hands On Labs
- Introduction to Using SQL Server with PHP
- Using Full Text Search over Office Documents in PHP PHP on Windows Hands On Labs
- IIS Access Control Features for PHP
- Using IIS 7.0 Media Features in a PHP Application
- Troubleshooting PHP
- Migrating PHP Applications to IIS 7.0
Requires: - Windows Vista or Higher
- .NET Framework 3.5 SP1
- Windows Powershell
- Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Express with Advanced Services
- SQL Server 2008 AdventureWorks Sample Database
- PHP 5.2.8 for Windows (non thread safe) or higher
- SQL Server Driver for PHP v1.0
- Microsoft Filter Pack 1.0
- Adobe PDF IFilter
- Microsoft SQL Server Business Intelligence Development Studio
- Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services Samples
- Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services Report Builder 2.0
 The following are Briefs/Documentation for proper licensing of Windows Operating Systems in Virtual Environments. In other words, if you are doing either of the following:
- Virtualizing Windows Server operating systems and running them in production
- Virtualizing & hosting Windows client operating systems (2000/XP/Vista/7/etc.) and running them in virtual machines, either in VDI or in instances on a desktop
…you should probably review these documents from our Volume Licensing site. Licensing Windows when in virtual machines has some very important differences in comparison to licensing Windows on physical machines. http://www.microsoft.com/licensing/resources/volbrief.mspx DOWNLOADS:  Download a FREE full license of Project Publisher for any Microsoft Office Project Professional 2007 user or any
user that upgrades from Microsoft Office Project Standard to Microsoft Office Project Professional 2007.
Promotion ends June 31st, 2009
Discount Code: ProjPro Product Overview
EPM Live’s Project Publisher connects Microsoft Office Project Professional 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (WSS) or Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS), to make working together on projects easier. By publishing Microsoft Office Project .mpp files to SharePoint, all team members can access and update their own tasks and key project information. It’s that easy. - Collaborate more effectively with Microsoft Office Project Professional 2007
Take full advantage of Microsoft Office Project Professional 2007 and take it to the next level with EPM Live’s Project Publisher. Publish your schedules to any
Windows SharePoint Services workspace and begin sharing and collaborating with your team. - Integrate teams, stay informed and stay in control
Connect virtually anywhere in the world and keep teams up to date on all critical items affecting the
project schedule. Publish assignments and tasks to your workspace to notify your team of new tasks
and assignments. Keep your teams informed and notify them immediately of any critical schedule
changes by publishing the latest schedule changes to the Workspace. - Get more from your teams
Need to know the status of upcoming tasks? Empower team members with easy to use web based
collaboration tools to get task updates and know when to get involved. Capture % Complete from
team members to monitor progress more closely. Request progress and status on tasks, risks, and
issues from team members and approve updates prior to updating your Microsoft Office Project
schedule. - Use what you already own
Project Publisher for Microsoft Office Project 2007 works with existing Windows SharePoint Services
(WSS 3.0) or Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 deployments. LINK: http://www.projectpublisher.com (If you’re a customer of mine that’s interested, please contact me for details. You know how to reach me.)  This tool can be used by DHCP Administrators to view all the events generated by Windows DHCP Server 2008 R2. It supports newly added features - MAC Based Filtering and Activity Logs. It also supports System Events.
This tool is a MMC Snap-In and can be used to view the events from a Remote Server similar to the Remote Management Tools of DHCP Server. Multiple DHCP Servers can also be managed from a same console. The tool will be able to extract all the events and present them in a readable fashion. Administrators will also be able to do different actions on these events like for MAC Filter events machines can be directly configured into the Allow/Deny list of DHCP Server from this tool. MACFilters Logs:
Windows 2008-R2 DHCP Server creates event logs for all the users which are denied IP Address. This tool will extract this information from Event Logs and present them in a readable fashion removing duplicate entries in the Event Log. This feature will be really helpful in deploying the MACFIltering feature as Administrators can monitor what’s going on the network and can control the MACFilte configuration directly from this tool. - Filter Profile: Filter Profile column represents the current status of the machine. A machine can have following filter profiles.
- Allow: Machine is in Allow list. Generally the machine will have this profile if machine is added recently or the logs are not removed after adding it to the Allow List.
- Deny: Machine is in the Deny List
- None: Machine is neither in Deny nor in Allow List
- Deny (Wildcard): Machine is denied IP Address by a wild card entry in Deny List. Machines with this profile can’t be added to allow list.
- Server Not Available: DHCP Server is not installed or dhcp service is not running on the server.
Actions Supported - Add To Allow List: Adds the user’s MAC address to Allow List.
- Add To Deny List: Adds the user’s MAC address to Deny List.
Activity Logs:
This node will list out all the configuration changes done on the DHCP Server. Windows 2008-R2 DHCP Server creates event logs for all the configuration changes done on DHCP Server. This tool will extract that information and list it in a readable fashion. - Scope: This column represents the name of the scope on which the configuration change has happened. If the configuration change has happened on at the server level the scope name will be “Server”.
- Administrator: This column will represent the name of the administrator who has done the change.
System Logs:
This node will list out all the System Events generated by DHCP server. This will extract all the DHCP Server related events from the System Node and present them in a readable fashion. Common Actions: - Copy: Copy the selected rows to clipboard.
- Filter: Filter out the events based on the text input.
- Clear Filter: Will clear the filters.
Supported OS - Window7/Windows Server 2008 R2
Installation Steps: - Install .NET 3.5 on your PC. For Windows7/Windows Server 2008-R2 .NET 3.5 is an optional component. This Snap-In can only work with .NET 3.5.
- UnZip the tool and copy the contents to %ProgramFiles%\DHCPServerExtras
- Open a command shell with Administrator privileges
- CD to %ProgramFiles%\DHCPServerExtras
- Run setup.cmd
- Verify the message on command shell that MMC Snap-In is successfully installed.
- Open mmc.exe
- Add “DHCP Server Extras” from File>Add/Remove Snap-In
- In MMC Add the DHCP Server you want to manage. If you are running this tool on DHCP Server, the local machine will be added automatically.
- For remote management make sure you are the member of Administrators or Event Log Readers group on the target server. Also make sure that Firewall Rule "Remote Event Log Management(RPC)" is enabled.
If you are a DHCP Administrator you can also add “DHCP” Snap-In to the same console which can be used to manage DHCP Server. Save the console to a local folder or desktop. Trouble Shooting: - Make sure .NET 3.5 is installed.
- If “DHCP Server Extras” does not show up in MMC please look into log file > %ProgramFiles%\DHCPServerExtras\InstallUtil.InstallLog.
- On expanding the node if you are getting error Message please verify that server name provided is correct. Please verify that you have proper permissions on the DHCP Server to view event logs remotely. If you are remotely managing the server you should be a member of Administrators or Event Log Readers.
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http://blogs.technet.com/teamdhcp/archive/2009/03/20/tool-to-read-dhcp-server-events-for-windows-server-2008-r2.aspx  It’s time again for a new Beta version of Network Monitor. Using your feedback we’ve added some compelling new features! One in particular is the ability to launch experts from the UI. And what use would this be without something to launch? We’ll also be releasing some cool experts, like Top Users and Simple Search. In fact Simple Search is already available, just use the Experts menu from a saved trace to connect to our Experts landing page. Return every so often to see what is new.
What’s an Expert? What is Simple Search?
An expert is a tool, run separately from Network Monitor that performs expert analysis on your trace data. For instance, Simple Search will allow you to search all trace data for strings and better yet, regular expressions! Need to find an email address or phone number, but don’t know exactly which one? A regular expression, using Simple Search, lets you find this type of string. Just launch the expert from the menu and search away. But there’s so much more, so let’s list out what else is new. What’s New in NM3.3 Beta - Ability to capture on WWAN and Tunnel interfaces on Win7
- Critical fixes to NM3.3 to operate correctly with Hyper-V
 Right-click add to alias. Right-click a frame in the Frame Summary window with an IPv4, IPv6, or MAC address to add that address as a new alias. - Right click go to definition: Right-click a field in the Frame Details windows and select Go To Data Field Definition or Go To Data Type Definition to see where the field is defined in the NPL parsers.
- Auto-scroll. See the most recent traffic as it comes in. In a live capture, click the Autoscroll button on the main toolbar to have the Frame Summary window automatically scroll down to display the most recent frames as they come in. Click Autoscroll again to freeze the view in its present location.
- Experts available online: Experts are stand-alone applications that analyze Network Monitor capture data. Various experts are available online at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=133950.
 Frame Comments: Attach comments to frames in a saved capture file. Select the Frame Comments tab in the lower-right window to add, view, edit, or delete comments. - API Extensions: API methods have been added to enable access to conversation information, properties, field display strings, and comments.
- Ability to open ETL files and correlate information by Network Tracing scenario.
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme!
The Beta is available on our connect site at https://connect.microsoft.com/site/sitehome.aspx?SiteID=216. But it is only available as a download if you join Connect. By joining you’ll also get updated when we release and be able to file bugs with us if you find issues. So give NM3.3 Beta a test drive and please let us know what you think! Provide feedback at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=142458 (you will need to login with your Connect Network Monitor credentials to see the Beta survey). Our voting website, input.microsoft.com has an expired certificate that we are working to renew. For now, you can tell your browser to ignore the expired certificate as we address this problem. <stolen from the NetMon blog> March 24 
 Become an IT Showcase Fan on Facebook!
IT SHOWCASE has joined the social media movement with the launch of our new… Facebook fan page! Now you and your peers can benefit even more from the ever growing IT Showcase knowledge base! Through Facebook, join us in discussions that give a unique inside view into how Microsoft plans for, deploys, and manages its global solutions. Fans get real-time access to our content as it publishes, participate in discussions on hot IT topics, tell us what new topics they’d like Microsoft IT to cover, register for Webcasts and workshops, and so much more. Join today! I want to be an IT Showcase fan! How do I join Facebook? I already use Facebook, so how do I become an IT Showcase fan? Well, here’s something that been a long time coming! It’s a 21 page tutorial on how to create reports for SCCM2007 using the Report Builder 2.0 for SQL Reporting Services.  SQL Reporting Services – Tools and Features Part 1: Creating Configuration Manager 2007 Reports Using Report Builder 2.0
“I started off writing a post on a rather powerful functionality provided in SQL Reporting Services called Data Driven Subscriptions, but then decided to expand it to include a tutorial on how to create Configuration Manager 2007 reports using SQL Reporting Services 2008 Report Builder 2.0. The report we create in this tutorial forms the basis for creating a data driven subscription which will be described in Part 2 of this post. This post attempts to highlight some of the powerful authoring functionalities in Report Builder 2.0 and how it can be leveraged to author Configuration Manager reports. I have included the tutorial portion of this post as an attachment since it carries quite a few illustrative screenshots which would potentially make this post a bit too long. Please click the CreatingCM2007ReportsUsingReportsBuilder.docx attachments link below to read the remainder of this post and let me know your comments and queries. Also stay tuned for Part 2 of this series since it explores another neat functionality offered by SQL Reporting Services - Data driven subscriptions.”
http://blogs.technet.com/configmgrteam/archive/2009/03/17/sql-reporting-services-tools-and-features-part-1-creating-configuration-manager-2007-reports-using-report-builder-2-0.aspx DOWNLOAD:
http://blogs.technet.com/configmgrteam/attachment/3214260.ashx <taken from our Web Development Tools blog>
Silverlight 3 Tools Beta for Visual Studio 2008 SP1 is now available for download. This installer includes: - Silverlight 3 Beta SDK
- Silverlight 3 Beta Developer Runtime for debugging
- XAP Compression Improvements
- Support for Caching Transparent Platform Extensions
- New Page and Project Templates
 XAP Compression Improvements
The Silverlight 3 SDK creates XAPs compressed up to 40% better than the Silverlight 2 SDK.
Support for Cached Transparent Platform Extensions
Reduce the size of your Silverlight XAP by referencing platform extensions (like DataGrid, Calendar, ScrollView, etc) hosted on Microsoft.com instead of packaging them in your XAP. This property is set on the Silverlight tab of the project properties. New Project and File Templates
When you create a new Silverlight project, there is a new project template called “Silverlight Navigation Template” that will help you get started using the new navigation controls supported by Silverlight 3 like Frame and the new Page and ChildWindow file templates. Be sure to check out Corrina Black's UX blog for new App.xaml files to re-skin this template.  Build Data-Driven RIAs
We are simplifying the traditional n-tier application pattern by bringing together the ASP.NET and Silverlight platforms. The RIA Services provide a pattern to write application logic that runs on the mid-tier and controls access to data for queries, changes and custom operations. It also provides end-to-end support for common tasks such as validation, authentication and roles by integrating with Silverlight toolkit components on the client and ASP.NET on the mid-tier. The toolkit components provide a rich set of controls for building LoB RIA applications.
Install the RIA Services CTP after you install Silverlight Tools Note to Silverlight 2 Developers
The Silverlight 3 Tools are for creating Silverlight 3 projects only. You will not be able to release Silverlight 3 projects until Silverlight 3 RTW. To switch your development environment from Silverlight 3 back to Silverlight 2, you will need to uninstall the Silverlight 3 Runtime and Silverlight 3 Tools from Add/Remove Programs and re-install the Silverlight 2 Tools. If you're going to be frequently switching between targets, check out this blog on Switching between Silverlight 3 and Silverlight 2 Tools. DOWNLOAD:
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=143571 <reposted from the Forefront blog>
 FSOCS provides fast and effective protection against IM-based malware for OCS 2007 and OCS 2007 R2 environments by including multiple scanning engines from industry-leading security partners. FSOCS also helps reduce corporate liability by blocking instant messages containing inappropriate content. This release includes: - 64bit support
- Support for OCS 2007 R2
- Support for OCS 2007 Enterprise Edition server roles
- Integration with OCS 2007 Access Edge role to protect corporate IM from external public IM threats
- Localization in 11 languages
Like other Forefront server security products, FSOCS provides superior detection of the latest threats when compared to single engine solutions by using our multiple engine scanning technology. FSOCS has also been featured in a few of the OCS 2007 R2 virtual launch sessions that you should check out. Lastly, we are making available some new content including a new demo walk though, case studies from Sporton International and Convergent Systems, and a datasheet. Be on the lookout in the next few weeks for our Technet virtual hands on labs! Secure your OCS deployments and download FSOCS today!  There’s a unique opportunity coming up next week. On Thursday, March 26th, the IE team will host the Internet Explorer 8 FireStarter event. This is a one-day conference with IE8 talks from John Hrvatin and other team members.
“So you already downloaded Internet Explorer 8 and love the Web Slices feature. But did you know there’s lot more to IE8 than just Web Slices? Come attend the Internet Explorer 8 FireStarter event in Redmond on March 26th and learn why Internet Explorer 8 is the browser designed for the way your customers really use the web. Enhanced tools and options make it fast and easy for you to build add-ons or deploy in your organization. Learn about Accelerators, SmartScreen™ filter, deployment best practices, compatibility and migration issue, and much more… This daylong event is targeted at both IT Professionals and Developers. Take a look at the agenda below and let me know if you have any questions.” If you are local to Redmond, we invite you to attend the event in person. Other options to attend are via Live Meeting or at a live streaming session hosted by your local user group. (Check with your INETA or Culminis associated user group.) Here is the schedule for the day (times are Pacific local time): DATE/TIME:
Thursday, March 26, 2009 8:00 AM Pacific Time (US & Canada) AGENDA: REGISTRATION:
http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032408665&EventCategory=2&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US
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