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

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb124265(EXCHG.140).aspx

cheers

Ale

 

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

cheers

Alex 

VMware finally released the second version of its free server virtualization product: Server 2.0 (build 116503).

 

Despite the enormous time needed to reach this second milestone, the product doesn’t groundbreaking new features:

 

§ New management console as web interface

 

§ New Remote Console as web browser plug-in

 

§ Virtual hardware hot-plug (SCSI virtual hard drives only)

 

§ Support for 64bit host OS (Linux only)

 

§ Support for USB 2.0 devices on guest OS

 

§ Support for 8GB virtual RAM per virtual machine

 

There’s one exception: the support for transparent virtual machines backups on Windows host OS through the Microsoft Volume Shadow Service (VSS) and the VMware snapshot feature.
This feature alone justifies the adoption of Server 2.0, granting the reliable and cheap backups that every SMB should have.

 

Download it here.

 

Hi all,

 

Finally Microsoft has released Application Virtualization (App-V) version 4.5 to manufacturing. Formerly known as SoftGrid, App-V 4.5.

 

You can find more information on Microsoft web page or Microsoft blog…

 

APP-V (Softgrid) Official web page

 

Or official Microsoft Blog at

 

Or APP-V Blog

 

Cheers

 

Alex