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White Paper
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Application Virtualization Security Best Practices
Administrators should carefully consider their exposure and attack surface before deciding to deploy a system without the security recommendations outlined in this document. Read this white paper to learn more.
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Application Virtualization: The Next Frontier
How Microsoft SoftGrid Application Virtualization technology can help
organizations curb IT costs, boost user productivity, improve service levels, and increase business agility.
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Asserting Control, Seizing Opportunity in High Tech: Five Critical Success Factors
Until recently, many high-tech manufacturers have been able to survive by the 80/20 rule, where they applied 80% of their operational focus to 20% or less of their critical customers and suppliers. That was then. The new mandate from channel masters is for more intense, collaborative relationships with fewer suppliers. They are driving to a new demand-driven value network.
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Boosting Interoperability and Collaboration Across Mixed-Technology Environments
Many organizations support a large number of users who seek access to a wide variety of applications and services. Microsoft and Novell have come together to solve the challenges of mixed-technology and multiple-domain environments and boost cross-organizational collaboration. The two companies are building the interoperability bridges that enable customers to reduce complexity, enhance security, and decrease costs. This paper explains the need for standards-based identity federation, and the current and forthcoming solutions that improve the interoperability of mixed-technology directory environments.
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Build a Competitive Edge for Manufacturing Plant Operations
This white paper outlines ways that technology can help manufacturers meet challenges, increase operational efficiency, and step ahead of competitors with more proactive planning, greater shared visibility, and more agile and more profitable responses to change. This white paper will also address specific ways that Microsoft Dynamics AX can help your manufacturing operations compete, grow, and succeed.
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Case Study
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Web Conferencing Solution Saves Company $400,000 in Meeting and Training Costs
Find out how Microsoft Office Live Meeting helped Cogan increase productivity and expanded business opportunities, as well as reduce their expenses by U.S. $400,000.
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Aerospace Firm a.i. solutions Speeds Analysis Time with HPC Solution
Aerospace engineering firm a.i. solutions, Inc., needed a more powerful computing platform to keep up with the increasingly complex computational needs of its customers. To meet that need, it adopted Windows® HPC Server 2008.
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Global Payment Services Company Improves Bottom Line with Interoperability Solutions
MoneyGram leveraged Novell’s Expanded Support program to migrate its Linux platform to SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, enabling immediate cost reductions and creating an environment that allows their Linux and Microsoft Windows Server 2008 technology to interoperate seamlessly.
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High-Tech Business Migrates from Red Hat Enterprise Linux to SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
VTI Technologies migrated from Red Hat Enterprise Linux to SUSE Linux Enterprise Server from Novell, creating an environment that allows their Linux and Microsoft Windows Server 2008 technology to interoperate seamlessly, enabling greater data center efficiency and workload consolidation.
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Leading Game Publisher CCP Selects Windows HPC Server to Scale to One Million Players
CCP, the publisher of the massively multiplayer game EVE Online supports 300,000 players is turning to Windows® HPC Server 2008 to improve performance, enable scaling out to more computers, and facilitate easier management of a supercomputing environment
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Podcast
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HSBC Case Study
HSBC was the first large international bank to take advantage of the Microsoft-Novell pact on operating system interoperability. Under the agreement, Microsoft will deliver to HSBC certificates for three-year priority support subscriptions to SUSE Linux Enterprise Server from Novell, as HSBC moves to standardize its Linux deployments on one distribution.
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Mastering Virtualization Interoperability in the Data Center
This podcast features Frank Rego, Novell's Product Manager, and Monty O'Kelley, Microsoft's Director of Technology, talking about how Novell and Microsoft solutions are helping companies to implement solutions across the heterogeneous data center and build a bridge between the Linux and Windows environments.
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Port 25 Novell & Microsoft Field Partnership Questions
This podcast features Microsoft's Director of Platform Technology Strategy and Novell's Director of Marketing for Linux and Open Platforms answering questions about the partnership between the two companies.
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Webcast
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Bebit Case Study
This webcast discusses the effect Microsoft and Novell's interoperability partnership had on Bebit, a full-service IT solutions provider based in Germany. They discovered that setting up a server virtualization platform between Microsoft and SUSE Enterprise was not only possible, but fully supported by their Dell hardware and suitable for use with their SAP environments.
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Best Practices for Optimal Web Conferencing Security
This webcast is for IT professionals, and presents strategies for scheduling, conducting, and managing Microsoft Office Live Meeting Web conferences in a secure manner.
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CEO Partnership Announcement
In this webcast, Microsoft and Novell announce a set of broad business and technical collaboration agreements to build, market and support a series of new solutions to make Novell and Microsoft products work better together. The two companies also announced an agreement to provide each others' customers with patent coverage for their respective products.
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Cross Platform Virtualization: Reducing Complexity
The data center of the future will have both Linux and Windows. Companies that are able to make them work together better by running bidirectional virtualization will be able to reduce complexity and costs. Companies that don’t, won’t. Download this webcast to learn more.
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Driving Data Center Agility Through Mixed Source Virtualization
With the growing number of platforms being used in a company's data center -- mainframes, Linus and UNIX running concurrently, in most cases -- the need for agility has grown tremendously. Virtualization can help bridge the divide between these seemingly disparate systems, all while providing higher utilization rates in servers and greater ability to add a new operating environment easily and seamlessly.
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Survey Results
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Hosted Email Security: Staying Ahead of New Threats
In the last two years, email has become a fierce battleground between the nefarious forces of spam and malware, and the heroes of messaging protection. The spam volumes increased alarmingly every month, bringing clever new forms of phishing and virus propagation attacks.
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The View on Vista
A Ziff Davis research study surveys it pros about their Vista plans.
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Web Conferencing Services: Companies Embrace New Uses
The overall survey results show that mid-market companies are quite comfortable with the idea of outsourcing specific IT tasks. And when it comes to Web conferencing, the use of hosted services is well entrenched for collaborative meetings and gaining traction in training, product demos, and other areas to help improve business operations.
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Product Literature
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Microsoft Office Excel 2007
Microsoft Office Excel 2007 is a powerful tool to create and format spreadsheets and analyze and share information to make more informed decisions. With the new Microsoft Office Fluent™ user interface, rich data visualization, and PivotTable views, professional-looking charts are easier to create and use.
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Microsoft Dynamics for Customer Relationship Management
Empower every employee to boost sales, satisfaction, and service with automated CRM that`s easy to use, customize, and maintain.
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Microsoft iSCSI Initiator Datasheet
The new iSCSI Software Initiator v 2.0 from Microsoft continues to lead the way on iSCSI innovation and functionality. Sophisticated multipathing policies for load balancing and failover are available, as is support for the new x64 processors, and for the Next Generation Internet Protocol, IPv6.
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Microsoft iSCSI Software Target Datasheet
The Microsoft iSCSI Software Target is a powerful software-based iSCSI Storage Area Networking (SAN) solution designed and optimized for the Windows platform.
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Microsoft Office Access 2007
Microsoft Office Access 2007 helps users quickly track and report information with ease, thanks to the new Microsoft Office Fluent user interface and interactive design capabilities that do not require deep database knowledge.
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Trial Download
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Free 30 Day Hosted Filtering Service Trial
Learn how to protect your messaging system from the growing array of e-mail-borne threats, including viruses, spam, phishing, zombies and more. Test-drive Microsoft Hosted Filtering Service today.
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Try Microsoft Office Live Meeting FREE for 30 Days
Host unlimited Web-based meetings and collaborative sessions through Microsoft Office Live Meeting.
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eWeek Podcast
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Adding up Live + Windows
In this eWEEK Podcast: Microsoft recently launched the next version of its Live suite of online services. In this podcast recorded on launch day, Brian Hall, general manager of the Windows Live business group, discusses Microsoft`s consumer services strategy in relationship to Windows.
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Ballmer: A New Software Era Begins
In this eWEEK podcast, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer talks in his Gartner Symposium/ITxpo keynote address about how Web services are changing software as we know it.
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Exchange a Worthy Upgrade
In this eWEEK podcast, Senior Analyst Jason Brooks talks with eWEEK Labs Analyst Michael Caton about Michael`s review of Exchange Server 2007 Beta 2.
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Filling the Third World IT Gap
From the United Nations Forum on ICT Best Practices in Burkina Faso, Orlando Ayala, senior vice president of Microsoft`s Emerging Segments Marketing Division, explains to eWeek`s Peter Galli how Microsoft plans help get technology into the hands of African businesses.
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Imagine All the Developers
Microsoft Watch Editor Joe Wilcox speaks with student contestants from Microsoft`s Imagine Cup, whose final event takes place next week in South Korea.
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Research Report
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Gartner Magic Quadrant for E-Mail Security Boundary
The e-mail security-boundary market is poised for consolidation. Leaders offer manageability, message transfer agent capabilities, outbound content filtering, encryption, IM and Web integration, and archiving integration.
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Gartner Magic Quadrant for Web Conferencing
Explore the future of Web conferencing—and why companies that offer new deployment models and deeper functionality are poised to dominate the market.
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Microsoft Security Intelligence Report
This report offers an in-depth perspective on recent trends in the malicious software landscape based on data gleaned from several hundred million Windows users.
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Review
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“Longhorn” does more with less
Microsoft makes strides while decreasing areas vulnerable to attack. (eWEEK Review)
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A ‘Rights-Constrained’ Vista View
Non-admins may find security-conscious Vista challenging at first. (eWEEK Review)
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Big Changes in Exchange
The next version of Exchange Server is chockablock full of new features, so companies interested in migrating to it will need to spend considerable time in evaluation mode. (eWEEK Review)
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Change is Good for SQL Server 2005
Microsoft Corp.`s SQL Server 2005 represents significant change for administrators—the database server includes several new features that add capability and improve performance, but they increase complexity as well.(eWEEK Review)
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Creature House Expression 3
If you want to create graphics and illustrations on your computer from scratch, Expression puts enormous power at your disposal. (PC Magazine Review)
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Technology Brief
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Microsoft Office Live Meeting Feature Guide
This feature guide describes Live Meeting and its capabilities to make it the most effective hosted meeting service for integrated, interactive, and easy Web conferencing.
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IDC: Microsoft and Novell: A Roadmap Where There Could Have Been None
As a follow-up to the technical and legal relationship that Microsoft and Novell entered into in 2006, the two companies today unveiled the first installment of their technology roadmap detailing product-level initiatives that will emerge this year, the end result of joint development efforts between the two companies.
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Microsoft CRM Best Practices
The purpose of this document is to assist you in a successful upgrade from Microsoft CRM 1.2 to Microsoft CRM 3.0. This document will review the key components you should prepare in your environment that are important for a successful upgrade to Microsoft CRM 3.0.
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Microsoft Office Live Meeting Deployment Guide
This guide provides the information you need to understand, plan, and perform a Microsoft Office Live Meeting deployment in your environment.
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Microsoft Office Live Meeting Quick Reference Guide
A brief reference tool outlining the functionality of Microsoft Office Live Meeting. Learn how to meet instantly, schedule meetings, and present your content.
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Tool
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Virtualization Summit Presentation Slides
With the growing trend toward virtualization in the data center, on the desktop, and within many other aspects of the enterprise infrastructure, it has become increasingly important to deliver the benefits of a virtualized system across multiple platforms.
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Product Demo
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Windows Unified Data Storage Server 2003 Demo
Windows Unified Data Storage Server gives organizations the ability to manage an integrated storage solution that supports iSCSI SANs and NAS capabilities.
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Tech Analysis
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Command Line Makes Comeback
Once upon a time, when DOS walked the Earth, the command line was the primary user interface for most of our computers.
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Labs Drills Down into Vista’s UAC Feature
Vista’s user account control will bring the OS up to snuff with rivals. (eWEEK Review)
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Microsoft On-Demand Bid Targets Salesforce
Software maker looks to low prices, partner buy-in to propel Dynamics Live and make enterprise SAAS inroads.
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Prepare for Vista Future
Tool Eases group policy migration.
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Pushing The Button on Vista
Ok, your organization has made a decision to move to Windows Vista.
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Video
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eWeek Slide Show
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Do’s and Don’ts for Vista and Office 2007
These are slides that provide the do’s and don’ts for Microsoft Office 2007 and Vista.
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eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: Longhorn Server Beta 2
See the latest MS Longhorn Server build up close.
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eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: Microsoft Office 2007 Beta 2
Check out the latest MS Office beta 2 build. You will see that collaboration reigns supreme in the next Office.
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eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: Microsoft Virtual PC 2007
eWEEK Labs takes this opportunity to provide an in-depth visual walk-through on the features and appearance of Microsoft’s Virtual PC 2007.
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eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2
Will Microsoft’s Visual Studio 2008, code-named Orcas, make a splash when it is released early next year?
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Article
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SDL Series - Article #1: Investigating the Security Development Lifecycle at Microsoft
This article is the first in the "SDL series" – a set of 8 articles investigating the Microsoft Security Development Lifecycle. In this series, through extensive interviews and research, the authors pull back the covers on Microsoft's Security Development Lifecycle
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SDL Series - Article #2: Security Education at Microsoft
This article is the second in the "SDL series" – a set of 8 articles investigating the Microsoft Security Development Lifecycle.
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SDL Series - Article #3: The Microsoft Security Org Chart
This article is the third in the "SDL series" – a set of 8 articles investigating the Microsoft Security Development Lifecycle.
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SDL Series - Article #4: Threat Modeling at Microsoft
This article is the fourth in the "SDL series" – a set of 8 articles investigating the Microsoft Security Development Lifecycle.
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