Service Pack 2 for the 2007 Microsoft Office System due to ship April 28th

Get all the juicy bits here.

Exchange 2010 beta released

A great blog post here with more information but a snippet below about whats new;

· Remove the need to deploy complex and costly clustering and third-party data replication products for full-scale Exchange redundancy

SCC is a no longer an option and the concept of CCR and SCR get merged into a single availability solution.

· Automate mailbox database replication and failover with as few as two servers or across geographically dispersed datacenters

Granular database failover will be a nice feature since you no longer have to failover entire servers.

· Maintain availability and fast recovery with up to 16 Exchange-managed replicas of each mailbox database

Customers will like multiple replicated database copies since it will more than like steer them away from the need to backup.

· Limit user disruption during mailbox moves between e-mail servers, which allows you to perform migration and maintenance activities on your schedule, even during business hours

I was migrated to Exchange 2010 with my Outlook open and I was prompted to restart Outlook.

· Guard against lost e-mail due to Transport Server upgrades or failures, through new built-in redundancy capabilities designed to redirect mail flow intelligently, through another available route

Did I missed Windows 2008 SP1?

Well the short answer is no, it’s already baked into the product RTM release but if you want to know why it was shipped with SP1, then check this out – http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1193

http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2008/02/windows-server-2008-will-ship-with-sp1-installed.ars

SP2 for Vista RC and Windows 2008 RC just released

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/dd262148.aspx

Microsoft Transporter Suite has been updated

See the following link – http://blogs.technet.com/seanearp/archive/2009/03/06/microsoft-transporter-suite-upgraded.asp Some highlights are;

- Support for Windows 2008: The Transporter Suite now supports running on and against Windows 2008 servers. 
- Support for Lotus Notes R8.x:  The Transporter Suite now supports migration from, and coexistence with, Lotus Notes R8.x.
- Removed the Application Analysis: The Application Analysis tools were removed from the migration console.

WSUS 3.0 SP2 beta available

As posted by Kleefy – you can check it out here on the Connect website.

Preview of Exchange 14

You can check it out here – http://edge.technet.com/Media/announcing-Exchange14/

Beta of standalone Windows Hyper-V Server 2008 R2

You can find out more here but here are some of the highlights;

• Failover Clustering/Live Migration
• 32 cores and 1TB of memory Support
• Improved/updated configuration utility

Download directly from here, happy vm’ing!

First post for 2009

I promise to blog a hell of a lot more this year. I don’t think I even blogged once last year

Windows Live Posting Test

Just testing via Windows Live Writer!