| Volume 11, Issue 7: April 8, 2009 | Note from the Editor | | | Greetings, and Welcome to TechNet Flash. For tips on other products, including Windows Vista and Windows 7, check out the TechNet Magazine Tips library. Getting in Touch with Windows 7 You've no doubt heard about the improvements to the user interface in Windows 7 which optimize for touch. Here's a chance to understand the Windows team's approach with Windows Touch and what was done with Windows to make the interaction truly remarkable. The Engineering Windows 7 blog contains a very in-depth piece on what went into making Windows touchable. Getting Ready for Windows 7 The just-released Application Compatibility Toolkit (ACT) 5.5 allows you to assess Windows 7 and IE8 compatibility, control information sent to the Compatibility Exchange, and label data collection packages by role. Want the inside scoop? Check out this Springboard Series blog interview with Jeremy Chapman, Windows Senior Product Manager. Virtualization Self-Assessment Kit Want to understand virtualization's impact on your business? Download the Virtualization Self-Assessment Kit. It brings together some of our best resources to help you understand specific impacts, such as cost savings. Get the TechNet Flash Feed To find news like this before the TechNet Flash arrives, check out the TechNet Flash Feed blog for news updates as they happen, often several times a day. You can also follow the updates on Twitter. Mitch Irsfeld
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New Videos for IT Pros | | 20 Minutes 55 seconds
Join Hilton Giesenow as he demonstrates how to install the components of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS). This 2nd half of the series covers configuring the shared services on the server and creating and configuring a new Shared Services Provider as well as creating the first site collection in the new instance. | | | 18 Minutes 8 seconds
In this video, Hilton Giesenow demonstrates how to configure search indexing settings in your Shared Services Provider to index the content of your MOSS Web application. The video looks at using the Search site template and also at indexing external content, specifically a network file share. |
Featured Downloads | | Internet Explorer 8 can help reduce security risks, includes a backward compatibility mode, expanded management capabilities, and deployment support. Find features such as a cross-site scripting filter, the SmartScreen Filter, improved ActiveX technologies, 100 new group policies, and an application compatibility toolkit. | | | Discover fast and effective protection against IM-based malware by multiple scanning engines from industry-leading security partners and reduce corporate liability by blocking IM messages containing inappropriate content. |
IT Management | | April 23, 2009 11:00 A.M. Pacific Time
Get step-by-step guidance on how to select and prioritize IT projects that meet your organization's unique needs. Find ways to start reducing costs immediately, and increase time to drive business value. | Have a Game Plan to Navigate the Economy Microsoft has solutions that can help small and midsize businesses reduce IT spending and better manage business costs so you can do more with less in this tough economic climate. Specifically, this month we'd like to tell you how virtualization can save you money by reducing hardware and energy costs. See the game plan for small business and midsize business.
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Support and Troubleshooting How-tos Hotfixes Knowledge Base Articles See a selection of new Knowledge Base articles on the TechNet Web site. KB articles feature an Article Translations box in the right column. You can select a language from the drop-down list and read the article in the selected language.  Also availabile via RSS
Upcoming Webcasts | | April 9, 2009, 11:00 A.M. Pacific Time
Join a discussion with your peers to kick off the Community Talk series addressing virtualization solutions and answering your questions to demystify virtualization, simplify your understanding of the technology and its purpose, and discuss the ways in which Microsoft can help jumpstart your efforts. | | | May 5, 2009, 1:00 P.M. Pacific Time
Register for this live webcast to learn about how Microsoft Unified Communications simplifies access to information no matter where you are. See how context, relevance, and immediacy help move you from being available to being ready. |
Identity and Security Microsoft Exchange Hosted Filtering Becomes Microsoft Forefront Online Security for Exchange Take advantage of a hybrid protection strategy that uses both in-the-cloud spam- and virus-filtering services and on-premises antivirus software for protection of your messaging environments. Exchange Hosted Services Filtering will become Forefront Online Security for Exchange (FOSE). Download the new white paper, "Maximizing Messaging Security with Forefront Security for Exchange Server and Exchange Hosted Filtering." | | Try the next generation of Microsoft Internet Security & Acceleration (ISA) Server and experience key features that include Web antimalware, HTTPS inspection and the Network Inspection System. |
On Demand | | Desktop Virtualization uses Microsoft Virtual PC to deliver an entire operating system environment to a client computer, which enables them to run applications in isolation from the regular desktop environment. | | | In this podcast, we demonstrate how easily and efficiently an organization can collect, analyze, publish, and collaborate on information that drives corporate strategy. |
Virtual Labs | | After completing this lab, you will be better able to understand Network Access Protection (NAP) components, review NAP health certificates, verify connectivity between compliant NAP clients, and demonstrate network restriction of a noncompliant NAP client. | | | After completing this lab, you will be better able to add disks to DPM using the DPM Management Shell, use the DPM Console to create protection groups, use the DPM Management Shell to create protection groups, and recover SQL databases in a variety ways. |
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