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New IT Showcase Content
Jeff Alexander
writes "The Microsoft IT Showcase team has published some new content that gives you a good insight into how we at Microsoft use our own technology. I've always found this content to resonate really well with customers because its real world. And for 6 years of my life I worked in Microsoft IT so I know it first hand. Our internal IT Team plays a vital role in the release of our products because they are mandated to be completely running on software before its released. Take Windows Vista and Office 2007. The goal was to be completely deployed on these 2 major applications prior to January 30th 2007. And when I was working in IT we were running on Windows Server 2003 some 12-18 months before it was released. I updated all domain controllers in Australia in New Zealand some 12 months before the product was released."
ADMX Migration Tool for GPO templates is released
Keith Combs
writes "The ADMX Migrator is a snap-in for the Microsoft Management Console (MMC) that simplifies the process of converting your existing Group Policy ADM Templates to the new ADMX format and provides a graphical user interface for creating and editing Administrative Templates. The new XML-based format includes multilanguage support, an optional centralized datastore, and version control capabilities...."
SUS 1.0 Support End of Life is extended
Windows Server Update Services
writes "Well we dont want to leave anyone in the lurch, or ruin anyone's holidays having to plan and execute on a quick migration at the last minute so, as many of you may have seen in the MSRC blog, we have decided to extend the SUS 1.0 support end-of-life date to Tues, July 10th, 2007. Here is the official word:"
User State Migration Tool 3.0 RTW released
Windows Connected
writes "The User State Migration Tool (USMT) for those that don't know is a utility for migrating files and settings from one pc to another. Today Microsoft has released the production version of USMT 3.0. This version adds a number of new features including: 1) Support for Vista; 2) Ability to Encrypt the store; 3) Migration of EFS certificates; 4) Migration of Access Control List's....."
ROI on BDD
Spider Consulting
writes "I have been travelling around the country again with Microsoft presenting on Business Desktop Deployment.
One of the questions that regularly comes up in discussions is "How much is this going to cost?" and then following that is "How do I justify the expense/time?" I was looking for some "facts" to back up my belief that the short term pain of getting BDD implemented was offset by the benefit long term and came across a Gartner study commisioned by Intel and Microsoft that has a few case studies based around the Gartner Total Value of Opportunity."
Netware to Windows Server migration
John Howard
writes "So, apart from being a great showcase for using Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 to run online labs, this provides a great opportunity to learn about how to migrate from Novell to Windows in this brand new online lab. To sign up and for more information, click here..."
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