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Outlook 2007 Calendar Print Assistant

The Microsoft Office Team has released a Calendar Print Assistant for Outlook 2007. IT allows you to customize your calendar informaiton and layout for printing. It allows you to print different views of your calendar including customizing your schedule and printing it in the traditional hanging wall calendar complete with a photo. See the details [...]

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New Search Filters for Microsoft Products

Microsoft has published a new installation package of iFilters (allows the indexing of the contents of different files types) for its line of search products. The search products supported are: Office SharePoint Server 2007 Search Server 2008 Windows SharePoint Services v3.0 SharePoint Portal Servicer 2003 Exchange Server 2007 SQL Server 2005, SQL Server 2008 Windows Desktop Search [...]

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Diagram Active Directory Automatically

Microsoft has made available a once only Premier Support utility that will automatically diagram your Active Directory enviornment. The “Microsoft Active Directory Topology Diagrammer” reads the AD configuration and then automatically generates a Visio diagram. It diagrams both AD and Exchange (2000+) topologies. It includes domains, sites, servers, admin groups, routing groups and connectors. If you have the full version of Visio you [...]

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Zune 2 Software Problems

After installing the new Zune client software on my Vista PC, nearly all of my albums and artisit listing got messed up. I went through the entire library music twice and reset the “Artisit” and “Album Artisit” properties to match. Unfortunately when I ripped my music from my CD collection to MP3 using Windows Media [...]

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Service Pack 1 for Office 2007, MOSS 2007, WSS 3

December 11, 2007 – Microsoft released Service Pack (SP) 1 for Office 2007 Suite, Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) 3.0, and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 . There are over 600 bug fixes across the Office Suite that SP1 addresses. This SP should be tested in and applied to any Office 2007 installations as soon as possible. Specific [...]

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Visual Studio 2008 Released!

On November 19th Microsoft released Visual Studio 2008 to Manufacturing. Visual Studio contains over 250 new features and has major enhancements in every Visual Studio edition including the Express for hobbyist and Visual Studio Team System for shops with a more controlled architect/build/test/release environment. Developers of all skill levels now have a secure, reliable and consistent solution for building applications for the Web, [...]

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FREE! Microsoft Enterprise Search Server in RC phase

Microsoft is nearing release of Enterprise Search Server 2008 Express software. The Release Canidate is a FREE download that is a available now. The RTM version will be a free download as well.  Windows Server 2003 is the required platform for installation of Search Server 2008 Express. The Express edition has limited scalability – where it supports only one “search application [...]

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Office Communications Server 2007 Deployment Validation Tool

Diagnose audio issues within your Office Communications Server 2007 environment using the Office Communications Server 2007 Deployment Validation Tool. A common issue in VoIP deployments is that administrators find out about problems with audio quality only after a user reports a problem. The Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 Deployment Validation Tool simulates audio traffic so [...]

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Exchange 2007 Management Pack for SCOM 2007 Released

Microsoft has finally released the Exchange Server 2007 Management Pack for Operations Manager 2007. There has been an Exchange Server 2007 Management Pack for MOM 2005 since nearly the release of Exchange 2007. This will make the decision much easier when deciding on deploying SCOM 2007 or MOM 2005. Download the Management Pack from Microsoft [...]

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System Center Mobile Device Manager in 2Q 2008

Microsoft is preparing to release an addition to its System Center suite of managment product. The new Systems Center Mobile Device Manager 2008 (has to be one of the longest product names ever) or SCMDM, it aimed at providing IT admins more control over users mobile devices. In the past Exchange Server has been used to push policies [...]

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