IE7Pro - The Ultimate Add-On for Internet Explorer

For those of you who want to take the browser experience beyond the "normal", and for those of you who are asking for a IE 7 add-on that closes the gap between IE and other browsers...

(...)IE7Pro is a must have add-on for Internet Explorer, which includes a lot of features and tweaks to make your IE friendlier, more useful, secure and customizable. IE7Pro includes Tabbed Browsing Management, Spell Check, Inline Search, Super Drag Drop, Crash Recovery, Proxy Switcher, Mouse Gesture, Tab History Browser, Web Accelerator, User Agent Switcher, Webpage Capturer, AD Blocker, Flash Block, Greasemonkey like User Scripts platform, User Plug-ins and many more power packed features. You can customize not just Internet Explorer, but even your favorite website according to your need and taste using IE7Pro."

IE7Pro - The Ultimate Add-On for Internet Explorer

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Windows VISTA SP1 (beta)

About the same time as Windows Server 2008 RC0 gets out, the beta version for the Windows VISTA SP1 is out there too.

"(...)Windows Vista SP1 beta (build 6001-16659-070916-1443) is available now for download at connect.microsoft.com in English (~3GB), German and Japanese as Client or ClientN for x86 and x64 versions. Optional component(s): Language Packs for EN-DE-JP."

As always, there is a white paper you should read before:  Windows Vista Service Pack 1 Beta White Paper.

 

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Windows Server 2008 Docs

Now that Windows Server 2008 RC0 is out there, take a look at some of the documentation:

- Windows Server 2008 Step-by-Step Guides
- Windows Server 2008 Technical Overviews
- Windows Server Virtualization - Release Notes

- Windows Server 2008 Technical Library
- Quickstart for Get Virtual Portal

 

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Windows Server 2008 RC 0

From the Windows Server Division WebLog

"(...)Yehaw! , today I pleased to announce the availability of Windows Server 2008 Release Candidate 0, and with it...the very first public release of Windows Server virtualization (codenamed Viridian). 

You can download the bits today as part of our customer technology preview (CTP)program.

Not only does this milestone indicate that Windows Server 2008 is ready to march down the path to RTM....but it also is the first time WsV will be part of the code base and available to everyone. Now is the time for organizations to start testing with key virtuzliation scenarios...such as server consolidation....as well as getting ready for many of the other key features of Windows Server 2008.

With Windows Server virtualization CTP, customers will now be able leverage the scalability of hypervisor-based platform and features, including multi-processor guests, large memory allocation (more than 32 gigabytes per machine) and integrated virtual switch support that enables IT organizations to virtualize most workloads.

In addition to the RC0 news there are a couple of other things going on today that are of interest:

1. Microsoft and Zend have been working together on a technical collaboration with the PHP community to significantly enhance the reliability and performance of PHP on Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2008. As part of this collaboration, the IIS product group has been working on a new component for IIS6 and IIS7 called FastCGI Extension which will enable IIS to much more effectively host PHP applications. You can get the FastCGI extension ( a free download) as part of the Go Live release of Microsoft FastCGI Extension for IIS 5.1/6.0 (FastCGI Extension) from the IIS community site, www.iis.net.

2. Windows Vista SP1 - Windows Vista SP1 beta will be released to approximately 12,000+ private beta testers.

Great week here at Microsoft!

Cheers,

Ward Ralston

...

Great, lets delete all of the VM's with the June CTP release and install it again... :-)

 

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Office Communications Server 2007 Best Practices Analyzer

A few days after the RTM launch, here it is: the "Office Communications Server 2007 Best Practices Analyzer"

"The Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 Best Practices Analyzer Tool is a diagnostic tool that gathers configuration information from a Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 environment and determines whether the configuration is set according to Microsoft best practices. You can install the tool on a client computer that runs Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0, or on a server that runs Office Communications Server 2007.
Note: Although you can install the Office Communications Server 2007 Best Practices Analyzer directly on the computer that runs Office Communications Server 2007 Server, we recommend that you install and run this tool on a client computer.
The tool uses set of configuration files to gather information from the Office Communications Server 2007 environment. It compares this data against a set of pre-defined rules for Office Communications Server 2007, and reports potential issues. For every issue reported, the tool provides the current configuration in the Office Communications Server 2007 environment, and the recommended configuration.
With the proper network access, the tool can examine your Active Directory and Office Communications Server 2007 servers to do the following:

• Proactively perform health checks, verifying that the configuration is set according to recommended best practices
• Generate a list of issues, such as suboptimal configuration settings or unsupported or not recommended options
• Judge the general health of a system
• Help troubleshoot specific problems
• Prompt you to download updates if they are available
• Provide online and local documentation about reported issues, including troubleshooting tips
• Generate configuration information that can be captured for later review "

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Introducing Microsoft® Office Communications Server 2007

This collection of 2-hour clinics explains the enterprise capabilities provided by Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007. These clinics are for infrastructure specialists working within organizations that are looking to deploy Office Communications Server within their solutions.
Topics covered within the collection include:

• Enterprise Instant Messaging
• On-Premise Conferencing and Telephony
• Incorporating Office Communications Server Functionality within custom applications

Student prerequisites
Familiarity with the following:

• Active Directory concepts
• Exchange messaging concepts
• SharePoint concepts
• Microsoft Office 2003 or 2007 fundamentals
• Fundamental concepts of Windows Server 2003
• Fundamental networking knowledge and experience

This offer includes the following:

Clinic 5126: Introducing Enterprise Instant Messaging Using Microsoft® Office Communications Server 2007 (Beta)

Clinic 5127: Introducing On-Premise Conferencing Using Microsoft® Office Communications Server 2007

Clinic 5128: Introducing Enterprise Telephony Using Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007

Clinic 5129: Customizing Real-Time Communication with Microsoft® Office Communications Server 2007

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SharePoint: 7 New Features That Enhance Security in SharePoint

Descoberto na TechNet Magazine de Janeiro 2007.

SharePoint: 7 New Features That Enhance Security in SharePoint -- TechNet Magazine, January 2007

 

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The Shortcut Guide to Exchange Server 2007 Storage Systems

Always useful and written by a good blogger:

 

By Jim McBee

Sponsored by LeftHand Networks

The conventional way of planning for Exchange Server storage is to throw a lot of disk storage at the server and hope that is sufficient. Mail storage requirements continue to grow for even average users; these users place more and more capacity requirements not only on disk storage but also on disk I/O capacity. As current capacity requirements are exceeded, the storage system must provide scalability. The Shortcut Guide to Exchange Server 2007 Storage Systems, authored by Microsoft Exchange MVP Jim McBee, covers Exchange Server storage capacity requirement planning, the basics of using iSCSI SANs, and best practices for scalability and SAN operations.

Access to this expert publication is offered at no charge to readers. Available chapters may be downloaded in PDF format.

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MOSS 2007 technical docs

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source: Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Team Blog

Avneesh Kaushik is a Senior Consultant with Microsoft Consulting Services and was the SharePoint Technical Lead for the development of the HawaiianAir.com website that was previously profiled here. He has authored two very useful technical articles based his in-depth experience in building that website and a few others, and the articles were recently published at:

• How to Optimize a SharePoint Server 2007 Web Content Management Site for Performance
  Summary: Learn how to optimize an Internet-facing Web content management (WCM) site to achieve maximum performance and an effective user experience. (9 printed pages
• How to Create a SharePoint Server 2007 Custom Master Page and Page Layouts for a Web Content Management Site
  Summary: Follow step-by-step instructions with code examples to learn how to create a custom master page and related page layouts based on a minimal master page. (15 printed pages)

Windows Live Translator

Microsoft Releases "Windows Live Translator" Beta

 

 

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MOSS 2007 education contents

The SharePoint Team published recently some education contents that fits in the EPE policy (Everyday Productivity Education). Those documents will help you to know how to create, maintain and troubleshoot a intranet site in MOSS 2007 environments.

 

Collaboration Selection Guide

Collaborating with SharePoint Server 2007 Overview

SharePoint Server 2007 Sites and Workspaces Selection Guide

SharePoint Server 2007 Document Collaboration Get Started

SharePoint Server 2007 Team Sites Get Started

Customizing a SharePoint Server 2007 Site Get Started

SharePoint Server 2007 Web Parts Learn More

SharePoint Server 2007 Meeting Workspaces Get Started

SharePoint Server 2007 My Sites Get Started

SharePoint Server 2007 Site Access and Storage Learn More

SharePoint Server 2007 Surveys Get Started

Outlook 2007 and SharePoint Server 2007 Integration Overview

Outlook 2007 and SharePoint Server 2007 Integration Get Started

Using InfoPath 2007 Forms on a SharePoint Server 2007 Site Get Started

 

source: Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Team Blog

 

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Process Explorer for Windows v11.0

Já está disponivel uma nova versão desta ferramenta do Mark Russinovich e da Microsoft, essencial em qualquer servidor.

Esta actualização visa resolver os problemas detectados na versão anterior, que podiam levar ao crash da máquina onde estivesse a correr.

Process Explorer for Windows v11.0

 

What's new in Version 11.0:

•New treelist control for better UI responsiveness

•Asynchronous thread symbol resolution on threads tab of process properties

•More flags on groups in security tab and SID display

•Thread IDs on threads tab

•On-line search uses default web browser and search engine

•Vista ASLR column for processes and DLLs

•Vista Process and thread I/O and memory priorities in process and thread properties

•Vista Process and thread I/O and memory columns

•PROCESS_QUERY_LIMITED_INFORMATION support on process permissions on Vista

•Run as limited user runs with low IL on Vista

•Reports information for all object types on Vista

•Show details for all processes elevation menu item on Vista

•Supports replacement of task manager on Vista

•/e to launch elevated

•/s switch to select a process at startup

•Compiled w/ASLR, DEP

•Faster startup

•Miscellaneous bug fixes and minor improvements

 

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