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March 3, 2010 – Microsoft release the Release Candidate for Service Manager 2010 to customer in the TAP/RDP Program. System Center Service Manager 2010 includes the following features:

Integrated System Center CMDB
Incident Management
Change Management
Knowledge Management
Data Warehouse
Self-Service Portal

Enhancements delivered since Beta 2 include:

Upgrade and migration support for TAP customers
Improved Performance, Scale and Stability
Improved Notifications with batching email
New [...]

March 18th, 2010 @ 9am PST www.desktopvirtualizationhour.com
Want to discover the best migration path to Windows 7? What’s the best desktop management strategy for your company? Which virtualization solutions can save you time and money?
This virtual event will teach you how Microsoft can help you discover choices, preserve & extend your existing investments. Learn how [...]

If you have problems with a meeting ending after 30 minutes, 1 hour, or another specified length of time when using Office Communications Server or Microsoft LiveMeeting Service check your “Meet Now Options”
First, Start your LiveMeeting Client
Click the “Meet Now Options” from the LiveMeeting window. It located directly under the large “Meet Now” button.

This will [...]

This post on the Microsoft Office Web Apps team gives a good scenario of why and how you would use both the Microsoft Office Suite and the Microsoft Office Web Apps either through SharePoint or your Windows Live SkyDrive.
It made me think of changing my own work habits in the near future. Take a look [...]

MED-V 1.0 SP1 RC for Windows 7 is now available!

MED-V 1.0 SP1 Release Candidate is available for immediate download and evaluation at: https://connect.microsoft.com/site/sitehome.aspx?SiteID=665. This version adds support for Windows 7 (32bit and 64bit).

Accelerate your migration to Windows 7 with desktop virtualization In the migration to Windows 7 [...]

Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.6, including App-V for RDS, is now publicly available as part of MDOP 2010.

App-V 4.6 can be accessed immediately via MDOP 2010. Existing MDOP customers can download MDOP 2010 at the Microsoft Volume Licensing Site (MVLS).  For evaluation, MDOP 2010 can be downloaded from [...]

At TED 2010 Blaise Aguera y Arcas (Architect at Microsoft Live Labs, architect of Seadragon, and the co-creator of Photosynth) demonstrates augmented-reality in Bing Maps. The demo is amazing and combined typical 3-D maps, augmented with Flickr photos, in-door “street view” images and a video overly on the in-door street view images and integration with [...]

The Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Dashboard lets IT stay on top of application and operating system deployments, security updates, the health status of computers, and IT compliance with key regulations. It has an easy to use, customizable dashboard.
Dashboard Benefits:

Provides dependable, timely access to key information: the dashboard lets IT Pros easily stay on [...]

Lots of Web sites store and display date information that is personal to their users. Users often want one place to manage their calendar for example Outlook, Windows Live Calendar, Google Calendar and so on. Web sites can make their experience more useful by allowing calendar clients to subscribe or import date information in standards-based [...]

A popular way to attract first time users to a web site is to offer a free version of the software that has limited functionality. A good way to convert that non-paying customer into a paying customer is to offer more functionality and features beyond what is available in the free version and allow the [...]