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Announcing App-V 4.6 RC and integration with Office 2010 Beta!
by BassQ on Dec.28, 2009, under Exchange, Microsoft, Office, SharePoint, Windows 7, Windows Server, Windows XP, XenApp, XenDesktop
First of all, we are excited to announce the availability of App-V 4.6 RC! In August we announced the App-V 4.6 Beta. Since then we have taken in lots of customer feedback and continue to refine the App-V 4.6 release so that we can deliver a great product! We invite you to check out the RC release by registering and downloading the App-V 4.6 RC release via Microsoft Connect, where you can also submit feedback directly to the team.
We’re not done though, in addition we’d like to share some great news and also announce our integration with Office 2010 Beta:
Microsoft Office 2010 Beta, Ready to be Sequenced With the Microsoft Office 2010 Beta Deployment Kit for App-V
As you know the Office team just completed a major milestone Microsoft Office 2010 Beta, congrats to the team! Throughout the process of building Office 2010 the App-V and Office teams have been working very closely to make sequencing Office 2010 Beta possible with App-V 4.6 RC! We have taken the feedback and requests from post-Office 2007 and App-V 4.5 releases, and have been hard at work implementing a solid integration experience for Office when App-V 4.6 releases in H1 2010.
So what’s Different when using Microsoft Office 2010 Beta and App-V 4.6 RC together?
Office 2010 has introduced a new piracy protection initiative, the Software Protection Platform (SPP) service. This service uses a machine’s hardware characteristics and product key to activate the installation, which is performed during the first Office application launch.
Since the Office 2010 product activation is linked to the hardware on which Office is originally installed, customers who wish to deploy Office 2010 using App-V must physically install the SPP service on the sequencer machine before beginning the sequencing process – and on any client machines that will stream and run Office 2010.
Our engineering teams have collaborated to address the top customer issues that people were running into when virtualizing past versions of Office. As a result, Office 2010 has a much more integrated user experience. The Office 2010 integration delivers key productivity enhancements and a seamless user experience by enabling the following::
· Microsoft SharePoint Integration – You can open, edit, and save Microsoft Office documents using Microsoft SharePoint.
· Microsoft Outlook Fast Search – You can use Microsoft Windows Desktop Search to find specific messages in your inbox.
· MAPI Proxy – You can connect to your inbox using Microsoft Outlook Send To functionality.
· Microsoft Office Document Indexing – You can index your documents so that you can use Microsoft Windows Search to locate files.
· Virtual Mail Control Panel icon – You can use the Email icon in Control Panel to perform advance mail configuration.
· URL protocol handler – You can configure links in the browser and specify the appropriate associated Microsoft Office application.
· Send to Microsoft OneNote Printer driver – You can print documents to Microsoft OneNote.
To help customers facilitate this process, we have created the Microsoft Office 2010 Deployment Kit for App-V (Beta). The Deployment Kit contains both the required SPP licensing component and Office 2010 integration features.
And what’s even more exciting, you can get your hands on it now.
How Do I Sequence Microsoft Office 2010 Beta for App-V 4.6 RC?
1. Download Office 2010 Beta here
2. Download the Microsoft Office 2010 Deployment Kit for App-V (Beta)
3. Download App-V 4.6 RC on Microsoft Connect
4. Read the App-V recipe for sequencing Office 2010 Beta on Microsoft Connect.
For detailed information on whether your environment meets the requirements of Office 2010 and App-V 4.6 RC, please refer to the App-V recipe.
Please note: We are providing a recipe to support the sequencing and testing of these pre-release products on Microsoft Connect. Please provide feedback via Microsoft Connect, by choosing FEEDBACK once logged into the App-V 4.6 Program.
We look forward to hearing about your App-V 4.6 RC and Office 2010 experience!
OWA Exchange 2010 direct windows file share acces and SharePoint sites discontinued….!?!?
by BassQ on Dec.16, 2009, under Exchange
One of the options that has been taken out of Exchange 2010 is the Document Access in Outlook Web App (OWA). Though it isn’t heavily used by most of the medium to large companies, it is useful for smaller companies to access files when the staff are out of the office.
Let me explain with screenshots. Below is OWA 2007 and the last link (Documents) is what we are taking about here. This is used to access files on the internal file servers from outside the network, ofcourse depending upon the access configured by the administrator.
But, what about Outlook Web App (OWA) in 2010? There is no Document Access in the new web access interface. You can see it at the screenshot.
OWA Virtual directory still have forms for managing remote server, with allow and block list for servers.
Microsoft state that the feature introduced in Exchange 2007 where by – documents in file shares on the network local to the exchange server can be accessed (read-only) via the documents interface in OWA – is available in 2010.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb430754(EXCHG.140).aspx
However the OWA interface does not include the documents section that 2007 did so despite the EMC having the options to enable and configure this, there does not appear to be any way to access it through the interface…
Microsoft has discontinued this feature, with a view to to use SharePoint. For now…. I hope!
Office 2010 Downloads
by BassQ on Nov.19, 2009, under Exchange, Office, SharePoint
Office 2010 Pro: http://www.microsoft.com/office/2010/en/default.aspx
64-bit Client Installation of Office 2010
Describes and illustrates the 64-bit client installation of Office 2010.
Microsoft Office Web Apps (Beta)
Microsoft Office Web Apps are new web-based tools that extend the Microsoft Office 2010 experience to your browser. Office Web Apps enable you to view, do light editing, and share your Office documents from virtually anywhere. With these online companions to Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote you’ll always have the tools you need, wherever you are.
Project 2010 Reference: Software Development Kit
The Microsoft Project 2010 (Beta) SDK contains documentation, code samples, “How to” articles, and programming references to help customize and integrate the Project 2010 clients and Project Server 2010 with other applications for enterprise project management.
Download details FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint Beta
For organizations looking to help users find information and expertise quickly and easily through a search capability able to address their most challenging needs – includes all the search features and integration capabilities of SharePoint Server 2010, plus a more engaging and conversational search experience, use of context to provide specific search experiences for different needs (such as departments or geographies), advanced content processing capabilities that create metadata and add structure to unstructured content, and deep platform flexibility, scalability, and extensibility. For use with SharePoint Server 2010 Enterprise Edition.
Download details FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint Internet Sites Beta
For customers looking to offer engaging and conversational search experiences on websites using SharePoint Server 2010 for Internet Sites – this product also adds powerful content processing that enhances the meaning and structure of your information, along with deep platform flexibility and search scalability. For use with SharePoint Server 2010 for Internet Sites, Enterprise Edition.
Download details SharePoint Foundation 2010
This download contains an installable version of Windows SharePoint Services 2010 Beta, that can be used to assess and test the new functionality in this release.
Download details Access Database Engine 2010
This download will install a set of components that can be used by non-Microsoft Office applications to read data from and write data to 2010 Office system files such as Microsoft Access 2010 (mdb and accdb) files and Microsoft Excel 2010 (xls, xlsx, and xlsb) files. Connectivity to text files is also supported.
ODBC and OLEDB drivers are installed for application developers to use in developing their applications with connectivity to Office file formats.
Download details Visio 2010 (Beta) Viewer
The Visio 2010 (Beta) Viewer allows anyone to view Visio drawings and diagrams (created with Visio 5.0, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2007, or 2010) inside their Microsoft Internet Explorer version 5.0 or later Web browser.
Download details Visio 2010 (Beta) Software Development Kit
The Microsoft Office Visio 2010 (Beta) Software Development Kit (SDK) contains the latest documentation, samples, header files, libraries and tools that you need to develop custom solutions for Microsoft Office Visio 2010 (Beta).
Download details Microsoft Project Professional 2010 Beta x64
Microsoft Project Professional 2010 Beta gives you powerful, visually enhanced ways to successfully manage and deliver a wide range of projects. Easier and more intuitive, Project Professional 2010 Beta provides flexible choices to simplify planning, collaboration and resource management.
Download details Microsoft Project Professional 2010 Beta 32 bit
Download details Business Contact Manager for Outlook 2010 Beta
Business Contact Manager for Outlook 2010 provides contact management, sales, marketing and project management for the small business or small team.
Download details Office 2010 (Beta) Administrative Templates and OCT
This download includes updated Group Policy Administrative Template and Office Customization Tool OPA files; an updated Office Customization Tool; and ADMX and ADML versions of the Administrative Template files.
Office 2010 KMS Host License Pack
Volume editions of Microsoft Office 2010 client products require activation. Key Management Service (KMS) is a local volume activation method. To activate your Office 2010 client installations with KMS, you will need to set up a KMS host.
SharePoint 2010 Products Beta MP
A System Center Management Pack for Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Products Beta (the product are: SharePoint Server 2010, Project Server 2010, Search Server 2010).
SharePoint Foundation 2010 (Beta) MP
A System Center Management Pack for Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 Beta.
Business Contact Manager for Outlook 2010 Beta
Beta release of Business Contact Manager for Outlook 2010
Microsoft Office 2010 (Beta) Filter Packs
Microsoft Office 2010 (Beta) Filter Packs
Access 2010 Beta Download: Access Runtime
The Microsoft Office Access 2010 Runtime enables you to distribute Access 2010 applications to users who do not have the full version of Access 2010 installed on their computers.
This download contains the Microsoft Visio 2010 Beta release.
SharePoint Server for Internet Sites Enterprise 2010 Beta
This is a Beta version of SharePoint Server 2010 for Internet Sites, Enterprise that enables extranet and internet sites using the full power of SharePoint Server 2010, the business collaboration platform for the Enterprise and the Web.
This download contains the Microsoft Visio 2010 Beta release.
SharePoint Server for Internet Sites Enterprise 2010 Beta
This is a Beta version of SharePoint Server 2010 for Internet Sites, Enterprise that enables extranet and internet sites using the full power of SharePoint Server 2010, the business collaboration platform for the Enterprise and the Web.
This is a Beta version of SharePoint Server 2010, the business collaboration platform for the Enterprise and the Web.
This is a Beta version of SharePoint Server 2010, the business collaboration platform for the Enterprise and the Web.
Search Server 2010 Express Beta
This is a Beta version of Search Server 2010 Express.
This is a Beta version of SharePoint Designer 2010, the tool of choice for the rapid development of SharePoint applications.
This is a Beta version of SharePoint Designer 2010, the tool of choice for the rapid development of SharePoint applications.
Microsoft Project Server 2010 Beta
Project Server 2010 Beta ensures organizations select and deliver the right projects, while gaining greater visibility and control of resources leading to improved productivity and better business performance.
Beta Office 2010 & Sharepoint 2010 on MSDN & Technet Plus!
by BassQ on Nov.16, 2009, under Exchange, Microsoft, SharePoint, Weblog
Microsoft has release the beta versions of Office & Sharepoint 2010 on technet and MSDN
Microsoft Office 2010 will become available in a x86 and x64 version. Sharepoint 2010 will only be available in x64 version only.
Microsoft is planning to release the Microsoft Office 2010 products in Q1 next year (2010).
More information about the Office 2010 products on http://www.microsoft.com/office/2010/
Exchange Server 2010 is now available worldwide!
by BassQ on Nov.10, 2009, under Exchange, Microsoft, Windows Server
Source: http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2009/11/09/453096.aspx
It is my distinct pleasure to announce today the global availability of Exchange Server 2010. This has been an amazing journey from conception to launch, and the team has delivered an unprecedented line up of innovations in this release. I am incredibly proud of the team and our product.
The dedication of the Exchange community working side by side with us to deliver Exchange 2010 has been inspiring for me. I want to thank you for your commitment over the past 3 years helping us develop new ideas, make product enhancements and test pre-release bits to ensure our final product is rock solid. I believe Exchange has the most impressive IT Pro and Developer community in the world today. We could not have shipped this product without you!
In return, I hope you realize the full value of everything Exchange 2010 offers. We are all working in a very challenging economic environment today. Being cost conscious has never been more important – but also helping your organizations differentiate themselves and compete effectively is just as critical. I am delighted to see how Exchange 2010 is helping early adopters accomplish these goals. I want to share just a sampling of their stories, so you can see for yourself.
Organizations are cutting costs and simplifying administration with Exchange 2010.
“Performance with large mailboxes greatly exceeds our expectations. With the growing amount of data that needs to be retained, it is not uncommon for us to have 30-gigabyte plus mailboxes, making these performance improvements crucial to our business. I have been using Exchange 2010 and Outlook 2010 for e-mail since June and have been extremely satisfied with the performance and the user experience. It is a robust, very stable platform. And, we found RBAC to be a huge benefit. That is something I have needed for a long time-to have more granular rights for administrators and lower-level IT staff to do targeted tasks.” – Alexander Diaz, CIO, Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP
“The cost savings from switching from fiber channel to SATA disks is about 70 percent. The I/O system of Exchange Server 2010 is really optimized. If you look at Exchange Server 2007, it’s good; but Exchange Server 2010 is really great. You can significantly reduce the disk costs when you run Exchange Server 2010.” – Thomas Keck, CIO, Elabs
“We’re always moving users around. We’ve been doing that with custom scripts in Exchange Server 2003, but we will definitely be using the Online Move Mailbox feature in 2010. Now we can move them without taking the mailbox offline.” – Allan Tagg, SVP, Global Messaging Exec, Bank of America
Organizations are improving everyday productivity and meeting the expectations of a new generation of workers with Exchange 2010.
“Our salespeople need to respond quickly to dealer concerns. With Exchange Server 2010 and voice-to-text conversion, within 20 seconds after a dealer leaves a voice-mail message, our users see an e-mail preview on their cell phone. Our mobile employees might check voice mail anywhere from 5 to 10 times a day, at 5 to 10 minutes a session. By using Office Communications Server 2007 R2 and taking advantage of the voice-mail preview feature in Exchange Server 2010, they can increase their responsiveness while saving more than 15 minutes a day. From a business perspective, that’s an incredibly valuable productivity increase.” – George Hamin, Director of E-Business and Information Systems, Subaru Canada
“Having Conversation View on the new mobile client is really nice. It provides an extremely fast and efficient means of surveying my inbox and taking needed actions on the go.” – Steven Schafer, Director of Collaboration and Network Services, Global Crossing
“By taking advantage of Outlook Web App, employees can start being productive from new locations almost immediately. As soon as they get their workstation and network connectivity, administrators can quickly provide them with access to e-mail and IM at a moment’s notice without having to manage a lot of logistics. That’s tremendous. Just simplifying the process of giving our remote employees access to e-mail and IM with Exchange Server 2010 will increase the productivity of our IT administrators by at least 20 to 30 percent.” – Dan Evans, Manager of Messaging and Collaboration, Morgan Keegan & Company
Organizations of all sizes are better managing risk and the cost of compliance with Exchange 2010.
“With Exchange Server 2010, we can give the auditors permission to pull mail out of mailboxes themselves, rather than having me pull the data and ship it to them in a PST file. Now the nine hours a month I spend on compliance will be cut down to zero. Getting rid of PST files using Exchange Server 2010 solves a whole series of nightmares that I’m sure every Exchange Server administrator has had” – Andrew McNair, Wintel Infrastructure Manager, Cell C
“By using the compliance features in Microsoft Exchange Server 2010, we can save about $400,000 in hardware and software costs. That’s a big savings.” – Joseph Nguyen, Systems Architect at a large U.S. university.
“With Exchange Server 2010, we can set up transport protection rules for things like social security numbers to comply with HIPAA and for voice mails to ensure that they can’t be forwarded outside the company.” – Thomas Dechmann, Senior Principal IT Technologist, Medtronic
I’m also particularly proud of the work the team has done delivering Exchange as a server and a service. This has been an incredible engineering endeavor that no one else in the industry comes close to delivering. Today, we’ve successfully scaled Exchange 2010 to more than 15 million Outlook Live accounts around the world and, moving forward, to millions more with Exchange Online. Our promise to deliver a seamless Exchange experience on premises with the server, in the cloud as a service or a combination of the two truly gives customers choice and peace of mind.
You can see more customer results from the case studies published today, read about the launch in press coverage, hear from MBD President Stephen Elop in his TechEd Europe keynote launching Exchange 2010 and this evening at the Exchange Connections conference in Las Vegas in my keynote.
I know many of you are already underway with your Exchange 2010 deployments and many more will be starting today. The Exchange Server 2010 bits are available for download now. As always, keep the feedback coming. Listening to customers and partners is how the team has made Exchange the premier e-mail solution across the globe and that’s the way we intend to keep it.
Thank you!
- Rajesh Jha
OK you can now get RTM bits of Exchange 2010 through Technet, MSDN and I assume Volume licensing and Action Pack downloads.
Technet details:
File Name: mu_exchange_server_2010_x64_dvd_x15-82068.iso
Date Posted (UTC): 11/9/2009 6:41:51 AM
ISO/CRC: 02374C73
SHA1: BBD6224FD72283142F9A8EC13615E11391C02BAB
Available to Levels: TechNet Plus SA Media; TechNet Plus (Retail); TechNet Direct (Retail); TechNet Plus (VL); TechNet Plus Direct (VL); TechNet Cert Partner; TechNet Gold Cert Partner; TechNet Plus Consumer Service Professional Pilot
Other downloads:
Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 eval
Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 helps you achieve new levels of reliability and performance by delivering features that help to simplify your administration, protect your communications, and delight your customers by meeting their demands for greater business mobility.
Forefront Protection 2010 for Exchange Server eval
Microsoft Forefront Protection 2010 for Exchange Server (FPE) provides fast and effective protection against malware and spam by including multiple scanning engines from industry-leading security partners. It also integrates with Forefront Online Protection for Exchange to provide the defense-in-depth benefits of hosted and on-premise filtering in a single solution.
Microsoft Forefront Protection 2010 for Exchange Server Documentation
Documentation about Microsoft Forefront Protection 2010 for Exchange Server
Exchange Server 2010 Release Notes
This download contains a stand-alone version of the Exchange Server 2010 Release Notes.
Forefront Protection 2010 for Exchange Server MP for SC Ops Mgr 2007
The Management Pack for Forefront Protection 2010 for Exchange Server monitors the availability, security, configuration and performance of an FPE deployment.
Exchange Server 2010 UM Language Packs
These downloads contain pre-recorded prompts, grammar files, text to speech data, Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) files, and Voice Mail Preview capabilities for a specific language that is supported by Exchange 2010 Unified Messaging. Warning: This UM language pack must only be installed as an add-in to Exchange Server 2010 Unified Messaging.
Microsoft Forefront Server Protection 2010 Privacy Statement
This document describes the privacy policy for Microsoft Forefront Protection 2010 for Exchange and Microsoft Forefront Protection 2010 for SharePoint.
Exchange 2007 on Windows Server 2008 R2 will be supported!
by BassQ on Nov.07, 2009, under Exchange, Windows Server
We always talk about listening to customers and sometimes this is written off by many as ‘marketing speak’. In fact, we do take feedback seriously and no input is more important to our engineering processes than your voice.
Earlier this year we made a decision in one direction, and due to the feedback we have received on this blog and elsewhere, we have reconsidered. In the coming calendar year we will issue an update for Exchange 2007 enabling full support of Windows Server 2008 R2. We heard from many customers that this was important for streamlining their operations and reducing administrative challenges, so we have changed course and will add R2 support. We are still working through the specifics and will let you know once we have more to share on the timing of this update.
So, keep the feedback coming. We are listening.
Kevin Allison
GM Exchange Customer Experience
Source; http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2009/11/04/453026.aspx
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