Gartner recently published its MarketScope for Enterprise Instant Messaging and Presence , evaluating the players in the market against several criteria, including innovation, sales strategy, market understanding, marketing strategy, marketing execution...

Service Pack 1 is now available for the 2010 family of products, including Office, SharePoint, Project Server, FAST, Search Server, and Groove Server. For more on deployment, see these articles: Apply Office 2010 Service Pack 1 and Deploy Service Pack...

We are pleased to announce the global launch of the Office 365 service, offering affordable, secure, pay-as-you-go productivity services. Download the trial today . Administrators should also check out these new resources: Introduction for Office...

May 2 – Toronto | May 4 – Detroit | May 6 – Chicago | May 9 – Indianapolis | May 11 – Dallas | May 13 - Columbus The Springboard Series Tour hits the road again next month. This six-city tour brings the top product...

FOPE 11.1 adds a number of improvements including advance routing, reduced false positives via “skiplisting” and a secure channel for B2B communication. If you are an existing FOPE customer, you are automatically provided these new updates...

VMM 2008 R2 with SP1 trial software evaluation--now featuring support for Dynamic Memory and RemoteFX--is now available for download in 64-bit editions for Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean...

Windows Intune, Microsoft’s new cloud-based PC management and security solution, launched yesterday at the Microsoft Management Summit (MMS) in Las Vegas. Intune is for organizations of all sizes, allowing IT to manage PCs over the Internet at a...

System Center Configuration Manager 2012 helps IT empower people to use the devices and applications they need to be productive, while maintaining corporate compliance and control. Using System Center Configuration Manager 2012, organizations can...

The beta release of System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 is now ready for download. VMM 2012 is a management solution for the virtualized datacenter, enabling you to configure and manage your virtualization host, networking, and storage resources...

Keep up with the pace of change in the cloud. This newly-launched Microsoft Cloud Hub offers the latest cloud news, videos and community content, plus and in-depth look at Microsoft's cloud solutions. Check out the new videos featuring Microsoft Corporate...

You can now download Internet Explorer 9 . Check out the latest features for IT professionals, and get guidance to help you pilot and deploy this enterprise-ready browser in your organization with the Springboard Series for Internet Explorer 9 . ...

March 29-31, 2011 -- This three-day Jump Start class is specially tailored for VMware and Microsoft technology pros, and will cover: · Hyper-V Deep Dive · Real-world demos of SCVMM 2012 and other just-released tools ·...

Microsoft announced this week that Windows Intune, its cloud solution for PC management, will be available on March 23, 2011 for purchase or a free 30–day trial in more than 35 countries. Sign up for Windows Intune notifications to find information...

This new series from senior IT Pro evangelist Yung Chou provides primers on cloud services and Microsoft’s cloud computing model, and walks you through the various scenarios for deploying cloud technology. The series includes: Part 1: What...

Microsoft has made significant investments in providing virtualization support for Lync Server across a fully distributed topology. Lync Server can be virtualized by using Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V, or other virtualization solutions that have been...

IT administrators will continue to play an active role in security and risk management, even when leveraging cloud services in a utility fashion. You’ll spend less time on maintenance and have more time to polish policies and best practices for...

Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7 with Service Pack 1 are ready with new virtualization tools, web resources, management enhancements, and Windows 7 integration. You can also evaluate the SP1 edition with the Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 trial . Also...

The Microsoft Lync Server 2010, Best Practices Analyzer gathers configuration information from Lync Server 2010 components to determine the overall health of a Lync Server environment. the Best Practices Analyzer can examine servers running Active...

The Business Intelligence Center is now a content hub featuring six end-to-end scenarios that highlight cross-product integrations for BI solutions. This collection of BI scenarios provides guidance on how to implement these solutions in your organization...

Microsoft has announced the release to manufacturing of Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1, and said the SP1 will be generally available on February 22. Customers in the Windows Volume Licensing program can get the SP1 release on...

Going virtual can go way beyond doing more with less and reducing your carbon footprint; virtualization enables a more agile, responsive infrastructure and lays the foundation for cloud services. In the new edition of TechNet ON we look at all the reasons...

Did you know that you can use SharePoint to host your company’s websites ? With SharePoint Server 2010 for Internet Sites , you can develop composite and web applications and connect those applications to your line-of-business systems. Administration...

On February 1, 2011 Microsoft and SAP will introduce Duet Enterprise in a one-day, worldwide virtual summit. Duet Enterprise is a highly anticipated product that blends SAP applications with Microsoft SharePoint to empower information workers with unified...

The new edition of the TechNet ON feature package focuses on convergence of client and security management, and now with Forefront Endpoint Protection 2010 integrated with System Center Configuration Manager 2007 R2 and R3, you have a single, unified...

Four Microsoft Lync systems engineers are Live on reddit answering questions. Ask them anything about Microsoft Lync. Give them your feedback on Lync Server 2010. See what others are asking. Join the conversation More to come, Mitch ...