Month: September 2008

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Microsoft is hosting a number of WebCasts in September that talk directly to their plans for supporting your business online.

• Technical Overview of the Business Productivity Online Suite from Microsoft
• Webcast: Microsoft Online Services Setup, On-boarding, and Administration (Level 200)
• Webcast: Microsoft Online Services: Critical Infrastructure and Operations for Delivering Secure, Enterprise-Class Software Services (Level 200)
• TechNet Webcast: Migration and Coexistence for the Business Productivity Online Suite from Microsoft Online Services (Level 300)
• TechNet Webcast: Planning for Microsoft Online Services Deployment and On-Boarding (Level 300)

The sporadic communications through blogs and such over the past week or so about ConfigMgr 2007 R2 being RTM’d, I believe, has forced Microsoft to announce R2 publicly a little earlier than they wanted to.  Originally meant for Wednesday (tomorrow), the announcements from Microsoft are now starting to roll in.

The System Center Configuration Manager team would like to announce that the following has been Released To Manufacturing (RTM).

Download an evaluation version of ConfigMgr07 R2 from Microsoft Download Center.

Regards,
The Configuration Manager Customer Team

And…here’s the blog announcement we’ve been waiting for…

http://blogs.technet.com/smsandmom/archive/2008/09/02/now-available-microsoft-system-center-configuration-manager-2007-r2.aspx

For those interested in such things, we’ve posted a page on the site that helps advertisers get a better overall picture of the audience they reach when communicating through myITforum.com:

http://www.myitforum.com/aboutus/myitforum_audience_profile.asp

http://www.myitforum.com/forums/calendar.asp?eventid=223&calDate=2008-09-02

Is the Microsoft virtualization onslaught the cause?

http://www.myitforum.com/absolutenm/templates/IndustryNews.aspx?articleid=5575&zoneid=71

From Google Chrome: Why?, Dave makes this comment:

“It's like the cereal aisle in the grocery store. Rather than trying to bring things together, they're fragmenting even more.”

This is a sensible statement that could takes on a whole other meaning when you apply it to community.