Microsoft TechNet helps IT pros get the most out of Microsoft technologies by allowing them to explore and evaluate products and services that can help reduce costs and bring value to their organization. Here's a sampling of important technologies that IT pros need to know to keep their skills up to date and their company on the road to profitability.
With the Release Candidate of Windows 7 now available, Microsoft encourages IT pros to download a version to their lab machine and begin testing their applications and devices to get to know whats in it for you. As you begin testing, this guide to the key features and capabilities in this new desktop operating system will help you along the way.
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Building on the technologies introduced in the Windows Vista® operating system, Windows 7 streamlines desktop deployment. Technologies within Windows 7 improve application compatibility, for example, and new tools in Windows 7 allow IT professionals to reduce the evaluation and readiness cycle.
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This screencast and document covers the key new features and improvements in the Windows 7 Release Candidate. This includes areas like performance, networking, security, PC management as well as everyday tasks.
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Learn how to use the User State Migration Tool (USMT) to migrate user files and settings from Windows XP to Windows 7 using a default installation.
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Explore how Windows PowerShell 2.0 can help increase the productivity of IT professionals by providing a powerful, complete scripting language to automate repetitive tasks and conduct remote troubleshooting. It delivers a growing set of cmdlets that can be used to manage Windowsbased PCs and servers, and it can be easily extended.
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AppLocker provides the flexibility to allow users to run the applications, installation programs, and scripts they need to be productive. Learn how you can realize the security, operational, and compliance benefits of application standardization by using AppLocker.
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Microsoft has continued its investment in security by adding new technologies to Windows 7 as well as enhancing many of the technologies introduced in Windows Vista. This provides an overview of the new security features and enhancements you'll find in Windows 7.
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Many organizations learn how to respond to security incidents only after suffering attacks. By this time, incidents often become much more costly than needed. Proper incident response should be an integral part of your overall security policy and risk mitigation strategy. Learn a recommended process and procedures to use when responding to intrusions identified in a small- to medium-based (SMB) network environment.
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After the very long Patch Management article last month, this month's article is much shorter and to the point. Let's just say you did not install the patches like we discussed last month. Now you got hacked. What to do?
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The regulatory environment is increasingly complex. Compliance is often not a simple process, and regulations vary in the specificity of their requirements. An organization must, therefore, conduct a full assessment of risks and impacts. This article describes some of the processes and technologies that you can use to help standardize and streamline regulatory compliance efforts in the area of e-mail confidentiality.
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A Web site's information architecture determines how the information in that site its Web pages, documents, lists, and data is organized and presented to the site's users. Information architecture is often recorded as a hierarchical list of site content, search keywords, data types, and other concepts. This article provides some guidance on how to analyze the information requirements of your Internet or intranet site.
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Microsoft SharePoint helps users solve their most pressing information management needs. This article describes the typical characteristics and best practices for publishing portals based on Office SharePoint Server 2007.
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It's important to document your Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 capacity planning strategy as early as possible in the planning process, and then refine it as the project continues. Early planning can significantly reduce your risk of discovering that you have underestimated your hardware needs after the deployment has already started.
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If you have been running Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and have decided that you need the functionality of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, you can upgrade from Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 to Office SharePoint Server 2007. We'll show you how.
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Virtualization raises certain unique security requirements and provides some interesting security capabilities as well. Watch this video as Steve Riley, Senior Security Strategist with Microsoft's Trustworthy Computing Initiative, explores the interesting aspects of virtualization and security.
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Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) 2008 provides centralized administration and management of your virtual environment, helps to increase physical server utilization, and enables rapid provisioning of new virtual machines by the VMM administrator and authorized self-service end users.
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This article looks at a toolset that can help you with your virtualization projectsthe Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit (MAP), which is a member of the Microsoft Solution Accelerators family. MAP 3.1 is a network-wide infrastructure assessment tool designed to help you quickly gain a baseline understanding of your servers and desktops, including whether they are ready for upgrade or migration to technologies such as Hyper-V, Microsoft Application Virtualization, Windows Server 2008, Windows Vista, Office 2007, and SQL Server.
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The consolidation of servers onto fewer physical machines has huge advantages in resource and cost savings, but two key factors need to be considered during the planning process. Users have increasing expectations regarding the availability of their software, including both line-of-business applications and tools such as messaging and collaboration platforms. Furthermore, problems or failure on servers can have a significantly greater impact on operations.
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How are you positioning yourself, your team, and your organization for success during this economic downturn? Visit the Thrive site and learn how to enhance your skills, advance your career and elevate IT as the business leader!
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In today's economy, you need every edge that you can get whether it is to improve your value to your current employer or to become that winning candidate for the job or promotion. This webcast will explore the features of SQL Server Express 2008 and how learning these new features will make you more valuable. This includes a look into SQL Server Reporting Services as well as new T-SQL Programming features.
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Looking at the issues, challenges, and industry from an IT Pro perspective, Thrive provides resources and pragmatic guidance to enable IT Pros to thrive in these challenging times. Thrive focuses on three pillars: Career Care, Technical Competency, and Business and IT Alignment.
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This session will take you on a tour of the latest enhancements in this new operating system and offer you useful tips on how to best leverage these enhancement both at work and at home.
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