The organization that develops and promotes Internet standards have approved a change to the TLS protocol, to fix a dangerous security issue emerged last year
 - The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) has approved the final draft of an amendment to the Transport Layer Security (TLS), a protocol used to protect the majority of online transactions, which should solve a serious security problem. This problem came to light several months ago, but was made public only last November.

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Hy all,

there is a news from connect...

Microsoft® Enterprise Desktop Virtualization (MED-V) enables deployment and management of Microsoft Virtual PC to address key enterprise scenarios, primarily resolving application compatibility with a new version of Windows.

Microsoft Enterprise Desktop Virtualization (MED-V) removes the barriers to Windows upgrades by resolving application incompatibility with Windows Vista or Windows 7.  MED-V delivers applications in a Virtual PC that runs a previous version of the operating system (for example, Windows XP).  And it does so in a way that is completely seamless and transparent to the user. Applications appear and operate as if they were installed on the desktop, so that users can even pin them to the task bar.  For IT administrators, MED-V helps deploy, provision, control, and support the virtual environments.

Microsoft Enterprise Desktop Virtualization is an integral tool in the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack, a dynamic solution available to Software Assurance customers that helps reduce application deployment costs, enable delivery of applications as services, and better manage and control enterprise desktop environments. 

MED-V 1.0 SP1 will add host support for Windows 7 (32bit and 64bit) and will be released in the first quarter of calendar year 2010.
Similarly to MED-V 1.0, MED-V 1.0 SP1 will leverage Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 to provide an enterprise solution for Application compatibility, and enabling the deployment of Virtual PCs across the enterprise.

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Alex

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Alex

During TechEd EMEA 2009 in Berlin, Microsoft has released Exchange 2010, a major upgrade to its suite known for messaging and collaboration that makes a great step towards the model software-plus-Services.

Exchange 2010 provides business users the tools necessary not only to create solutions on premise, namely, those that run directly on the servers of the company, but for creating web services and cloud-based. The new Exchange also promises to simplify the migration from one type of solution to another, allowing companies to quickly jump to solutions "on premise" solutions "in the cloud and vice versa.

Unlike the model software-as-a-Service (SaaS) model embraced by competitors like Google and Salesforce.com, where it is expected that all services in the cloud and then they turn to the Web, the S + S Microsoft adopts a hybrid approach Here the computing environment does not lie entirely on the Web.
According to Microsoft, the S + S provides greater flexibility than is SaaS, it allows you to choose where to run applications on the server side - in the cloud or on local systems - and what technology to use for construction and service delivery.

Microsoft is rolling out the concept behind the S + S in its forthcoming cloud computing platform, Windows Azure, which will integrate closely with Exchange 2010.

The latter also introduces new features for archiving, clustering at the database level and full integration with Outlook 2010, a client that promises to further simplify the management of corporate email.

Exchange 2010 is only available in 64-bit version, a choice that Microsoft is applying to all its enterprise-class software, and runs on Windows Server 2008 SP2 or R2.

At the Microsoft TechEd in Berlin has also announced the acquisition of technology Teamprise of SourceGear, which allows developers to use the popular open source Eclipse IDE to create applications with Visual Studio Team Foundation Server.

 Read from Technet for more information

Hi all,

now is available A new KB article is available: KB976338, there are a great news about this update.... please read all article by Softgrid Blog on Microsoft blog site

http://blogs.technet.com/softgrid/archive/2009/11/10/a-new-kb-article-is-available-kb976338-description-of-microsoft-application-virtualization-4-5-service-pack-1.aspx

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Alex 

The Microsoft Enterprise Desktop Virtualization (MED-V) documentation library has recently been published to TechNet! This is the first time that MED-V documentation has been made available online and you can now see the newly published MED-V Planning, Deployment, and Operations Guide in the MED-V documentation library on TechNet here http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee348978.aspx.

Unfortunately with released of MDOP 2009 R2 there is not MED-V version tha is compatible with Windows 7, but for this wi'll wait a 1 Q of 2010.

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I have done copy and paste but I think that is not possible to lose this post for the content... read and think!

Backup, convert, flexibility and so on wow....

The Windows Sysinternals team as brought out a new utility, called Disk2vhd that creates VHD (Virtual Hard Disk - Microsoft’s Virtual Machine disk format) versions of physical disks for use in Microsoft Virtual PC or Microsoft Hyper-V virtual machines. The cool thing about Disk2vhd is that you can run Disk2vhd on a system that’s online. Disk2vhd uses Windows’ Volume Snapshot capability, introduced in Windows XP, to create consistent point-in-time snapshots of the volumes you want to include in a conversion. You can even have Disk2vhd create the VHDs on local volumes, even ones being converted (though performance is better when the VHD is on a disk different than ones being converted).

Go to http://www.sysinternals.com and try it

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Alex

It 'was released yesterday and is already available for download, the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack 2009 R2.

The version of MDOP 2009 was released the first of April 2009, and the issue in these days of R2 is linked to the updating of various instruments that make MDOP better support for deployment of Windows 7.  

App-V 4.5 SP1 to deploy virtualized applications on Windows 7 (32-bit), while version 4.6 will allow the deployment of virtualized applications also hosted a 64-bit. Currently the version 4.6 of App-V is in beta and the release of the final version is expected by the first half of 2010.

As for Med-V 1.0 SP1, the version of Med-V will support Windows 7, the beta is expected later this year and the full release in the first quarter of 2010.

You can deepen the operation of the components of MDOP also from the post of technet team at link below:

http://blogs.technet.com/mdop

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Alex 

The team of Windows 7 have announced that RTM version of Windows XP mode, which will use the new version of Windows Virtual PC and will allow users with Windows 7 to run a virtual machine with Windows XP usable to solve any problems. RTM of Windows XP Mode will be available at 22th October.

This is a great news for all users of Windows 7 that want to use legacy application on Windows XP.

Read more at Windows Blog HERE...

Dear all,

I would report a great new the you can read on left widget on my Blog...

The Microsoft Exchange Team has just announced that Exchange 2010 is now code complete and released to manufacturing. This means that Exchange 2010 is on schedule for general availability in early November. For more on this milestone announcement, see...(read more)

Hi all,

this is a great question, how can I use an .ocx file on my Windows x64 platform if this .ocx file is not compatible with Windows for 64 bit?

It seems incredible but works!

This problem can be solved with APP-V

At the first step you need to sequence with APP-V Sequencer 4.5 this .ocx (only this component because I remember that Internet Explorer is not virtualizable)

At second step you need to ran this Virtual APP from APP-V client 4.6 (RTM will be available within the end of October) and if you use Internet Explorer 8 from Windows 7 (x64) in compatibility mode, you can see that all it's operational.

This solution obviously is not supported from Microsoft but is usefull to sove little problem about 32 vs 64 bit!

cheers

Alex

Attention: In this blog post I am discussing a configuration that is possible, but not officially supported by Microsoft at this point in time.  Feel free to use this – but understand that you are in an unsupported configuration.

Thanks to Ben Armstrong for this post

his blog here...

Alex

From Technet site....

As 64-bit computing becomes more commonplace in the enterprise, the MDOP team has announced that App-V 4.6 be the first version of App-V to support both x64 and x86 Windows platforms and the primary focus of the release is to enable App-V to take advantage of 64-bit Windows platforms including Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. You will also find improvements in the App-V Sequencer such as simplifying the workflow for creating virtual applications and adding the ability to sequence true 64-bit applications. If you are running Windows XP or Windows Vista, you can also use App-V 4.6 Beta and take advantage of the support for Office 2010 and 64-bit platform support.

You can try out App-V 4.6 by registering for and downloading the beta from Microsoft Connect.

Hello everyone,

Microsoft has organized the first Virtualization Conference in Italy. It  will take  place on  next  September 22 and 23 at Microsoft Head Quarter in Segrate (Mi) Italy.

For me it’s a particular pleasure since I’ve been officially engaged by Microsoft as speaker with regard to MEDV (Microsoft Enterprise Desktop Virtualization).

This conference will have a highly technical content about Microsoft Virtualization Technology, and I believe it will provide a great increase of knowledge over these two days.

The conference will be in Italian and I would suggest everyone to attend since it will be a mean to improve your own business productivity with Microsoft technology.

If you would like to register today, you will be entitled to receive a discount on the participation fees. Please refer to the banner on the left pane.

Kind regards

Alessandro

It’s a pleasure for me read from the most important Microsoft Security blog (Italian Language) that Simone Spairani my friend that was my colleague 7 years ago will write post about Microsoft virtualization solution.

In this is the blog of Feliciano Intini PFE Manager & Chief Security Advisor at Microsoft Italy write about Notice, best practice, strategy and security innovation and now with Simone also Virtualization.

Unfortunately this blog is only in Italian language but for who understand Italian language I suggest to bookmark this blog because about Microsoft Virtualization technology Simone is very strong, and surely he will write a nice post in the future.

Thanks Simone!

All,

as I wrote in my precedent post, in the same time that Microsoft will release Windows 7 as well it will release Windows 2008 R2, but from Ward Ralston, Group Product Manager of Windows Server Marketing we notice that Windows Server 2008 R2  RTM code is on track to be available to all partners sometime in July. Windows Server 2008 R2 will also be broadly available about the same time as the Windows 7 GA date of Oct 22.

All,

how you can read on the TechNet's applet on the left in my blog,

Windows 7 will be available in time for the holiday season. The Windows team announced today on the Windows Blog that Windows 7 will be in stores beginning October 22nd.

Another important date: The Windows team anticipates RTM code for Windows 7 in the second half of July, and RTM code for Windows Server 2008 R2 available in this time frame as well.