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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.

Microsoft Visio 2010 Beta

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.

Microsoft Visio 2010 Beta

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.

SharePoint Server 2010 Beta

This is a Beta version of SharePoint Server 2010, the business collaboration platform for the Enterprise and the Web.

SharePoint Server 2010 Beta

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.

SharePoint Designer 2010 Beta

This is a Beta version of SharePoint Designer 2010, the tool of choice for the rapid development of SharePoint applications.

SharePoint Designer 2010 Beta

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.

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/

Windows Server Update Services 3.0 Service Pack 2 (WSUS 3.0 SP2) delivers updates to corporate environments from Microsoft Update. This release adds new features and fixes issues found since the release of the product.

WSUS 3.0 SP2 delivers important customer-requested management, stability, and performance improvements. Some of the features and improvements include the following:

• Integration with Windows Server 2008 R2.
• Support for the BranchCache feature in Windows Server 2008 R2.
• Support for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 clients.
• Compliance Report
• Windows Update Agent (WUA) offers a collection of performance enhancements, user experience improvements, and bug fixes software updates.

WSUS 3.0 SP2 can be installed alone, or as an upgrade of WSUS 3.0 SP1.
This package installs both the WSUS 3.0 SP2 Server, WSUS 3.0 SP2 Administration Console components and WUA client for down-level operating system. You must install the server components on a computer that is running on Windows Server 2003 SP2 or later versions. You may install the Administration Console on a remote computer that is running one of the supported operating systems, see below the Supported Operating Systems section.
WSUS 3.0 SP2 Server Installation on Windows Small Business Server 2003
If you are installing the WSUS 3.0 SP2 product on Windows Small Business Server 2003, follow the instructions in Installing Windows Server Update Services 3.0 on Windows Small Business Server 2003.

Download Here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=a206ae20-2695-436c-9578-3403a7d46e40#tm

Service Pack 2 for the 2007 Office System will be made available to Windows Server Update Services in April, classified as a service pack.
Service Pack 2 includes some significant work, including: built-in ability to save as ODF & PDF formats, improvements to Outlook’s performance and calendar reliability, significant bug fixes for charts in core Office applications, the ability for client service packs to be removed using an uninstall tool, and a host of customer-requested improvements to the Office Server products.

Of course it is also a rollup of all fixes that have previously been released for Office 2007 products.  Additional information will be posted to the Office Sustaining Engineering blog

Configuring Office settings for all users of a Terminal Server is best done with Group Policies. Download the Office 2003 Resource Kit and the latest Office 2003 SP2 Administrative templates. Be sure to read the installation instructions.

Deploying Office 2003 in a Windows Terminal Services Environment

828955 – How to install Office 2003 or Office XP on a computer that is running Windows Terminal Server

308263 – How to create a Custom Maintenance Wizard file for updating installation options after you deploy a custom installation of Office

827708 – During a Windows 2000 Terminal Services session, the Office 2003 Setup program stops responding

911682 – Windows Installer-related event IDs are logged in the Application log when you start an Office program

823586 – How to turn off the speech recognition and the handwriting recognition features in Office 2003

899117 – User settings issues are not resolved when you reinstall or repair Office programs on a computer that is running Terminal Services – Office 2003, XP and 2000

885380 – Every other time that you open a document in Word, the document opens in recovery mode or you receive an error message

891298 – When you try to open or to save a file in an Office XP program that is running in a Terminal Server session, the Office XP program may unexpectedly quit

821257 – “Not Enough Memory” Error Message When You Search for Clips in an Office Document During a Terminal Services Session – Office 2003 and XP, pre-SP5 hotfix

282599 – Frequently asked questions about Ctfmon.exe

287039 – Cannot Start a Trial Version of Office XP or Office 2003 on Terminal Server

828956 – Running Multiple Versions of Microsoft Office with Office 2003

931946 – The “From Camera or Scanner” menu option is unavailable in Office XP and Office 2003 programs during a terminal server session

Registration information Office incorrect

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Common\UserInfo Change the 11.0 to whatever version your office is 9.0 or 10.0 I forget. Delete that from the current user profile.  Then go to HKLM\software\microsoft\windows nt\currentversion\terminal server\install\software\microsoft\office\11.0\common\userinfo and see if the setting is there as well and delete that.  that portion is the shadow key and is why it’s being distributed to everyone.

Word specific issues

917056 – Text is slow to appear or to disappear when you type or delete text in a table when you are using Word 2003 on a Terminal Server client – fixed in Word 2003 post-Service Pack 2 Hotfix

Excel specific issues

916592 – Error message when you try to reactivate (switch to) a terminal services session in which Excel is running: “Not enough system resources to display completely”

313683 – XL2002: Can See Other Users’ Printers in Terminal Server Session

Misc. Office 2003 / XP / 2002 issues

922688 – Picture Manager does not start when you double-click a file on a computer that is running Terminal Services

898470 – OneNote 2003 appears pixilated when you run OneNote 2003 in a Terminal Server client

944630 – You cannot move, close, or hide the Live Meeting 2005 sharing toolbar when you connect to a Live Meeting 2005 session in a Citrix MetaFrame-based environment

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Download the Visio add in and the web server component to connect and generate datasets to connect to your existing diagrams or auto generate your diagrams for your infrastructure monitoring needs. See your data from OpsManager and ConfigManager live in Visio diagrams.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=521B3884-1EDA-4B9D-8AD7-67D00FE9CE8A&displaylang=en

Today Microsoft is shipping Service Pack1 for Office 2007.  While the site already has all the verbiage, I can’t get to the download yet. I am sure it is only a matter of time until that goes live.  Here is a white paper that contain an overview of what to expect in SP1.

Darren Strange has gone through it already and pulled out the few nuggets.  Here is the full run down of a few of the core applications from the whitepaper:

Outlook 2007

Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 benefits from a number of fixes and enhancements that make the popular messaging client more stable and easier to use.

·         Office Outlook 2007 no longer closes unexpectedly when the junk e-mail rule is set to null.

·         Body content in HTML-formatted e-mail messages now appears properly in the preview pane or when the message is opened.

·         Items moved from an offline folder file (.ost) to a personal folder file (.pst) now display properly in the preview pane.

·         In search folders, Office Outlook 2007 now shows the accurate count for unread items that are hidden.

·         When scheduling a resource such as a meeting room in meeting requests, the public free/busy information for the resource is now complete and visible in Office Outlook 2007.

·         When users forward plain-text e-mail messages with attachments, the body text is now retained.

·         If the Mailbox Cleanup wizard starts while the user is dragging a message into a folder, Office Outlook 2007 no longer closes unexpectedly.

Word 2007

By taking care of several small stability and usability details, Microsoft Office Word 2007 is a more useful and reliable tool for everyday document creation tasks.

·         With Office Word 2007, users can now open and edit embedded objects that contain other embedded objects.

·         When using smart documents in Office Word 2007, the Document Actions task pane no longer disappears when moving the pointer into the Reviewing pane. Additionally, task panes opened earlier no longer appear unexpectedly.

·         Office Word 2007 properly creates and updates a table of contents in unprotected sections of documents that also contain sections protected for forms.

·         Office Word 2007 no longer prints an extra page when users choose a printer with the duplex option enabled.

PowerPoint 2007

Fixes in Microsoft Office PowerPoint® 2007 make the presentation application even more reliable, especially when used in conjunction with Microsoft Office Outlook Web Access, Web sites that use forms authentication, or event macros.

·         Users who have started an event macro in Office PowerPoint 2007 can now advance slides by right-clicking and then choosing Next or Previous.

·         When users try to open a presentation in Office PowerPoint 2007 from a Web site using forms authentication, the presentation will now appear properly.

·         Users can now open presentations in Office PowerPoint 2007 from e-mail attachments in Office Outlook Web Access.

·         Office PowerPoint 2007 no longer crashes when the user programmatically accesses the parent property of the Hyperlinks Collection Object in the Office PowerPoint 2007 object model.

·         Text formatting now behaves similarly to previous versions of PowerPoint, where new text retains the formatting of the deleted text instead of using the formatting of the character to the left.

Groove 2007

For Microsoft Office Groove® 2007, issues surrounding the activation of new and previously retired accounts have been resolved.

·         Office Groove 2007 no longer places a 60-day limit on retired accounts that are stored in backup files.

·         When the auto-activation feature is turned on and invited users open an invitation file (.grv), they are no longer prompted for an activation key or notified of an unconfigured account.

Excel 2007

Several stability, general usability, and compatibility improvements have been incorporated into Microsoft Office Excel® 2007.

·         Office Excel 2007 no longer stops responding in some instances when opening a workbook containing calculations.

·         Office Excel 2007 workbooks that are saved in Page Break Preview mode and opened in Microsoft Office Excel 2003 no longer produce an error when switched to Normal view.

·         When inputting calculations that should result in numbers 65,534 through 65,536, Office Excel 2007 no longer returns the display error of 100,001.

·         Office Excel 2007 now retains custom colors on shapes in Excel 2003 worksheets.

·         Office Excel 2007 no longer misplaces or wraps labels in charts when the workbook is reopened.

Links in case you need them.

Download/order: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/downloads/FX101321101033.aspx?pid=CL100570421033

PressPass Q&A featuring Microsoft Product Manager Reed Shaffner: http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2007/dec07/12-11Office2007SP1.mspx

Whitepaper: http://office.microsoft.com/search/redir.aspx?AssetID=AM102512381033

The Microsoft Math Add-in for Microsoft Office Word 2007 makes it easy to create graphs, perform calculations, and solve for variables with equations created in Word.

The Microsoft Math Add-in adds computational and graphing capabilities to the Equation Tools Ribbon of Word 2007.

With the Microsoft Math Add-in for Word 2007, you can:

* Plot a function, equation, or inequality in 2-D or 3-D
* Solve an equation or inequality
* Calculate a numerical result
* Simplify an algebraic expression

To use the add-in, open Word 2007, type Alt-= to create a RichEdit math object, type an equation or expression, and right-click on the equation to see options for solving and graphing within Word.

Download here; http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/deta … layLang=en