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Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit 6.0

Published on 2011-07-18 17:04:39

Microsoft Assesment and Planning (MAP) is Microsoft's free powerful inventory, assessment and reporting tool that can securely assess IT environments for various platform migrations, virtualization, cloud computing capabilities and much more.

Hyper-V now supports CentOS

Published on 2011-05-17 14:42:24

Hyper-V, Microsoft's virtualization technology now supports CentOS Linux distribution. That actually means that now you can run CentOS as guest OS under Hyper-V. CentOS is community-supported, mainly free software operating system based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). Besides that, Microsoft already supports Hyper-V environments that include Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Suse Linux Enterprise Server.

Forefront Endpoint Protection (FEP) 2012 beta

Published on 2011-05-16 17:17:07

Microsoft Forefront Endpoint Protection 2012 beta is available. Forefront Endpoint Protection 2012 is Microsoft's endpoint antivirus, antimalware and antispyware product which is rather easy to use, easy to manage and very efficient.

Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 SP1 now available

Published on 2011-04-12 15:55:56

Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 SP1 is now available and can be downloaded from Microsoft download site. Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 SP1 is a free standalone product that provides a reliable and optimized virtualization solution enabling organizations to improve server utilization and reduce costs.

Microsoft Windows 7 beats Windows XP usage share

Published on 2011-04-11 10:15:15

When Windows 7 was first released its share started growing day after day, so it was just a matter of time when it will be the most used operating system. Now in US Windows 7 has passed Windows XP usage share. According to data from an Irish Web analytics company, Windows 7's average daily share in April was 32.2%, besting XP's average of 30.7%.

System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012

Published on 2011-03-25 18:06:17

System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 beta is released with many news features such as Cloud Management and Service Management. With new SCVMM fabric management is made easy and intuitive. System Center Virtual Machine Manager can really be your first stop in yourney to the (Private) cloud.

This page contains both secure and nonsecure items warning

Published on 2011-01-20 13:40:34

Just a quick and short post about this warning and what are possible solutions to get rid of it. So the warning happens sometimes when you setup SSL for example on Windows Sharepoint Services (WSS) site. After that, anytime you [...]

Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit 5.5 RTM

Published on 2011-01-17 14:11:38

Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit (MAP) 5.5 has been released to manufacturing (RTM) and is bringing many new features such as cloud computing readiness

Internet Explorer 6 on Windows 7

Published on 2011-01-13 15:53:38

How to use Internet Explorer 6 on Windows 7. Internet Explorer 6 is widely used and needed for a lot of LOB applications.

Forefront Identity Manager 2010: Best Identity and Access Management Product

Published on 2010-12-30 05:53:08

Just a quick and short post about Forefront Identity Manager. Anyway, it’s really nice to see that Forefront Identity Manager 2010 (ex. Identity Lifecycle Manager) won the gold award by Information Security Magazine in identity and access management category. Quote: [...]