If you are going to be utilising RODC in mixed environment (XP and 2003 ), then you need to download the Windows 2008 RODC Compatibility Pack. The Product Group and Dev Team, have been working exceedingly hard to get this released. It addresses the following issues as described by Product Group.
"To provide support for mixed mode operations (Win2003 & Win2008) in domains involving Win2008 DCs, all the features are made available for downlevel clients (XP and Win2003) also. However, since XP and Win2003 were not developed to support the additional checks and flags introduced in RODC, some of the features fail to work with downlevel clients are interacting with RODC. This is more apparent in Demilitarized (DMZ) networked branch offices . In this kind of setup, the clients are restricted access ONLY to RODCs and not other write-able DCs, outside the network."
So the download is available now from HERE - Enjoy !
Source- Jane Lewis’s weblog
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In case you’re on the MAP tool beta before for the version 3.0, you should already have received a notification to join the Private Beta for MAP 3.1 slated to release in June 2008. This MAP 3.1 beta will include the much anticipated Hyper-V modeling and assessment for server virtualization.
Due to massive demand, we are soon going to reach the capacity limit of this Private Beta.
If you have not joined yet, please follow the 5-step process here to apply.
- Visit the Connect site: http://connect.microsoft.com
- Enter Invitation Code: MP31-GT76-X98X
- Follow the rest of the on-screen instructions
- Wait for a notificiation email in the next few weeks for the Download Instructions
- Try out MAP 3.0 RTM version to take a quick test drive: http://www.microsoft.com/MAP
- The current release already support Virtual Server 2005 R2 assessments.
Source- Technet Blog
The firewall in the original release of Windows XP was adequate, but really left a lot to be desired. But over the years, the Windows Firewall has received a number of makeovers and continual refinements.
By the time Windows Vista was released, the firewall had beenredesigned and was quite impressive. Then the update that came with the recent release of Windows Vista SP1 added even more powerful features–support for Network Access Protection, reliability enhancements, new encryption-related algorithms, and so on.
In the June 2008 issue of TechNet Magazine, Jesper Johansson digs into the Windows Firewall. He discusses how it is a good solution for the enterprise and shows you how you can deploy and manage the Windows Firewall throughout your organization.
Source- Technet Magazine Blog
Sysinternals Live: We’re excited to announce the beta of Sysinternals Live, a service that enables you to execute Sysinternals tools directly from the Web without hunting for and manually downloading them. Simply enter a tool’s Sysinternals Live path into Windows Explorer or a command prompt as \\live.sysinternals.com\tools\<toolname> or view the entire Sysinternals Live tools directory in a browser at http://live.sysinternals.com.
Process Explorer v11.20: Process Explorer now shows thread permissions, adds process working set minimum and maximum columns, and fixes a bug that allows it to run from read-only locations on 64-bit Windows.
ZoomIt v2.0: This major ZoomIt update adds the drawing color pink, adds screen blanking to the undo history, extends the maximum pen size from 9 to 19 pixels, has an option to hide the tray icon and makes it easy to save zoomed and annotated screens as bitmap files.
Sigcheck v1.53: The CSV column headers have been fixed to correctly reflect the extended version and hash options.
Handle v3.4: This release fixes a bug that allows it to run from read-only locations on 64-bit Windows and adds an option to show the sizes of pagefile-backed sections.
Source- Windows Sysinternals blog
With a comprehensive demo script, sample content, and a preconfigured installation including user accounts and applications, you have everything you need to demo with Windows Vista with virtually no effort.
Installing the Demo Readiness Toolkit will completely erase all data on your hard drive and create a Windows Vista Demonstration PC. Be sure to use a machine that can be re-formatted. Do you demonstrate Windows Vista features? Or maybe you demo 3rd party applications, services, solutions and/or hardware with Windows Vista? With the Demo Readiness Toolkit, your workload just got a whole lot lighter! With a comprehensive demo script, sample content, and a preconfigured installation including user accounts and applications, you have everything you need to demo with Windows Vista with virtually no effort. No more searching for the right software, creating user accounts, tweaking settings, or writing product/feature messaging - now you can focus on your pitch, NOT on building a demo environment.
With the DRT, it’s as easy as 1, 2, 3…
1) Download and burn our ISO to a bootable DVD
2) Insert the DVD into your optical drive and boot from it
3) Relax while the demo environment is created for you
So the next time you have meetings, tradeshow booths, keynotes, or events with demos, use the DRT as your demo platform.
Download here
Microsoft Corp. today announced its Innovation Process Management (IPM) initiative to help enterprises build a flexible IT platform to speed the process of innovation for competitive advantage and a higher return on investment.
In many industries, innovation traditionally has been a compartmentalized, top-down process run by a small team of researchers, designers or engineers. The rapid spread and high availability of collaborative technologies has changed that model. It is now widely recognized that the next great breakthrough in products, services and processes can come from people anywhere inside or outside an organization. Advancements in IT also make it possible for companies to design flexible processes to support innovation.
“Innovation really is a team sport, requiring close collaboration and the alignment of people, processes and supporting infrastructure throughout an organization,” said Don Richardson, director of Worldwide Innovation Management Sales Strategy at Microsoft. “Ideation, knowledge capture, knowledge management, project management and portfolio management all must be synchronized through a formal process to ensure that innovation projects yield success.”
Source- Microsoft Press Release
Microsoft is finally opening up about when Windows 7 will ship, but the company continues to share just a few, yet tantalizing details of what the eagerly anticipated OS update will be all about.
The latest tidbit to drop is multitouch interface support. At the Wall St. Journal’s D Conference Tuesday evening in Carlsbad, Calif., company founder and chief software architect Bill Gates and chief executive Steve Ballmer are scheduled to unveil a laptop with a touchscreen that accepts multiple, simultaneous touches. The effect is quite reminiscent of what’s possible with the world’s most popular, commercially available gesture-based interface device: the iPhone .
Officially, Windows 7 is scheduled to ship three years after the general availability of Windows Vista , according to Microsoft. Vista’s business editions launched on Nov. 30, 2006, which would mean the software could ship as early as that date in 2009, with a beta release in advance. Vista’s editions for the home market launched Jan. 29, 2007.
Source- PC Magazine
Google is getting ready to welcome more than 2900 developers to the Moscone Center in San Francisco for Google I/OTM, the company’s largest developer event of the year. The event opens with a keynote speech on Wednesday, May 28, and runs through Thursday, May 29, with nearly 100 in-depth technical sessions about Google’s own developer products, and general web application development.
Google’s developer products are devoted to making it easier for developers to build for the web. In particular, Wednesday’s keynote speech will explore three areas of Google investment that — in close collaboration with the larger web community — aim to enable increasingly innovative and rich web applications:
- Making clouds of computing power more accessible to all developers
- Making the client — i.e., the browser — more capable and more powerful
- Ensuring the connectivity that enables the client and the cloud to work in harmony
"After years of competition among platforms, the web has won because it’s open, because it’s ubiquitous, and because there’s a passionate community working together to move it forward," said Vic Gundotra, vice president of engineering for developer products at Google. "Openness is great for developers and for users because it knocks down hurdles to building great applications, and because it speeds the next wave of innovation by letting good ideas be shared. The web doesn’t depend on any one API or tool or product, from Google or anyone else. What makes the real difference is the aggregate effect of us all working together, with open standards and open source."
Source- Google Press Release
Ankur Mittal | May 29, 2008
