Exciting Infrastructure Announcements at TechEd

The day 2 keynote was led by Andy Lees.  I watched some cool demos by Ilya Bukshteyn and Jon Rauschenberger.  It was nice to see the caller ID for email allowing you to block spoofed email where the email to address domain does not match recorded email server IP addresses for that domain.

There were a whole lot of other announcements and demos of server products too.  They showed a branch server product which included some research technology to synchronise parts of files for update rather than whole files.  Very cool.

Anywhere Access provides file shares and terminal server sessions without requiring a VPN.  They showed a user receiving an email with a link to an internal file share while outside of the LAN.  The user clicks on the link and the file is open.  And this is securable per user and they suggested it is more secure than a VPN.  I couldn't see what the URL was, pretty amazing though.  Also shown at the same time was Identity federation and self service collaboration.