Hot News Summary - w/e 24th August 2008
There were 169 articles from the Microsoft Team Blogs last week, here is my personal 'Hot News Summary' of interesting announcements:
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Microsoft introduces world-wide availability of Microsoft Services Premier Ultimate:
For a fixed price, Premier Ultimate combines a “road map to IT health” — leveraging Microsoft’s expertise through pre-agreed proactive services with problem resolution support. Read More. You can learn more about Microsoft Premier here.
· Microsoft announced changes to the licensing and support model for Virtualization. Read the official announcement here. BlogMS also posted some useful information here.
· Microsoft announced the release of Photosynth: This new application transforms the way you view regular digitial photos by transforming them into a three-dimensional, 360-degree experiences. Read the Official Announcement, or more detail on the Live Labs Blog.
· New Sysinternals Desktop Tool: A new tool which allows you to create up to four virtual desktops and use a tray interface or hokeys to preview or switch easily between desktops. Read More. You can learn more about the full suite of Sysinternal tools here.
· URLSCAN 3.0 for Internet Information Services (IIS): In June this year Microsoft announced a beta version of this tool to help mitigate SQL injection attacks. The final version has now been released. Read More.
· Windows Small Business Server 2008 Released to Manufacturing (RTM): Thisproduct provides many features used by larger companies, such as e-mail, internet connectivity, internal websites, remote access and support for mobile devices, file and print sharing, backup and restore – all at one affordable price. Read More.
· System Center 2007 Cross-Platform Monitoring Pack – Beta 1 Refresh Released: This management pack allows companies to manage/monitor other
non-Microsoft platforms including Solaris, HP-UX, Red Hat, SUSE, and now (with this beta refresh) AIX.
· Office Labs releases Prototype E-Mail Prioritizer: This is an unsupported add-in which you could try. This has been designed and developed to help people manage high-volumes of e-mail. Read More