Vista SP1 Desktop Optimization Pack 2008 R2 RTM
Since the introduction of the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack, the Redmond company has sold in excess of 10 million units of the package of solutions, and on September 15, the R2 version of MDOP 2008 was released to manufacturing.
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16.9.2008 Vista SP1 Desktop Optimization Pack 2008 R2 RTM
Since the introduction of the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack, the Redmond company has sold in excess of 10 million units of the package of solutions, and on September 15, the R2 version of MDOP 2008 was released to manufacturing.
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16.9.2008 Windows 7 RTM Desktop Optimization Pack Available
The latest version of the Desktop Optimization Pack offered by Microsoft is tailored to the company’s most recent iteration of the Windows operating system.
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21.10.2009 Windows Vista Desktop Optimization Pack Updated
Microsoft has announced that it wrapped up its Desktop Optimization Pack for Windows Vista and that an updated and complete version of the offering will be made available for download on July 1 2007.
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5.6.2007 Microsoft: Take Advantage of the Vista SP1 Desktop Optimization Pack
The Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack is designed to help customers get the most out of their Windows Vista clients, according to Microsoft's official description of the solution.
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16.7.2008 Previewing Windows Server 2008 R2
Microsoft seems like the most unlikely company to ship products that really support Enterprise 2.0. After all, the company is the poster child for packaged software.
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13.6.2008 Windows Server 2008 R2 still lives
What do you do with a blog post that is so messed up that you can’t even go in and edit it in order to fix it? That’s my dilemma with my post from August 15 about Microsoft skipping over Windows Server 2008 R2 and proceeding direct to Windows 7 Server.
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18.8.2008 Windows Server 2008 R2 revealed
Microsoft announced the second release of its Windows Server 2008 operating system at its Professional Developer Conference in Los Angeles this week.
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31.10.2008 Windows Server 2008 R2 SCONFIG
SCONFIG is a command line tool designed to streamline the work of system administrators that work with core deployments of Windows Server 2008 R2.
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8.7.2009 Windows Server 2008 R2 planned for 2009....
Microsoft is sticking to their promise of delivering a minor release after a major Windows Release.
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16.5.2007 Windows HPC 2008 R2 CTP released
If you've got a spare supercomputer that is just sitting around waiting to test pre-released software on, then you'll be glad to hear that Microsoft has made the Community Technical Preview (CTP) of Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 available on Microsoft Connect.
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22.5.2009 Windows 7, Server 2008 R2 released to manufacturing
Windows 7 has been a tightly controlled product from its first days on the drawing board. The last milestone is proving to be no exception: On July 22, at precisely 4:40 p.m. ET, Microsoft announced it had released to manufacturing Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2.
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22.7.2009 Microsoft.com moves to Windows Server 2008 R2 beta
Microsoft's homepage is now being powered by Windows Server 2008 R2 beta, a move that the company does with every Windows Server release to show the confidence it has in the product.
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5.2.2009 Download Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 RC
The release candidate of next version of Windows server operating system - Windows Server 2008 R2 RC has been released by Microsoft. Another variant of Windows Server 2008 R2 is Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2.
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13.5.2009 Service Pack for Virtual Server 2005 R2 Available today
Today Microsoft will release to the Web the final version of Virtual Server 2005 R2 service pack 1. Available at no charge, this service pack adds support for hardware-assisted virtualization and improved backup services and compatibility.
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11.6.2007 Download Windows Server 2008 R2 RTM from MSDN and TechNet
The final bits of Windows Server 2008 R2 (RTM Build 7600.16385) are now up on MSDN and TechNet Plus.
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14.8.2009 Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Build 7268 64-Bit
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Build 7268 (64-Bit) ISO-file!!!
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5.7.2009 Could Not Find Valid System Volume Error When Installing Windows Server 2008 R2
When installing Windows Server 2008 or Windows Server 2008 R2 with or without Hyper-V, Hyper-V Server 2008 or Hyper-V Server 2008 R2, and HPC Server 2008 or HPC Server 2008 R2, the Windows Server installation failed with “The computer could not find a valid system volume” error message.
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17.8.2009 RemoveWAT or Chew-WGA Bypass Activate Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2 Forever
Despite already has perfect and reliable Windows 7 activation crack based on royalty-OEM mechanism, hackers have managed to come out with a new activation crack method as an alternative to BIOS loader and OEM BIOS mod, which effectively bypass the activation requirement of the installed Windows 7 system, by removing and disabling Windows Activation Technologies (WAT).
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16.11.2009 Microsoft 2008: From Desktop to Data Center
Year In Review. Microsoft had a pretty good year, despite the fourth quarter's global economic crisis.
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30.12.2008 Download Windows Server 2008 R2 RTM Build 7600.16385 Leaked Home Made DVD ISO
Together with Windows 7 RTM, Windows Server 2008 R2 has also been released to manufacturing.
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23.7.2009 Free Windows Server 2008 R2 Evaluation Installation ISO and VHD for Hyper-V Official Direct Download Links
Windows Server 2008 R2 is the next iteration of Windows Server operating system, which has been RTMed with build version 6.1.7600.16385 together with Windows 7. Microsoft is now officially releasing the ISO image for Windows Server 2008 R2 Trial Software, which allowing administrators and users to install Windows Server 2008 R2 to evaluate the new operating system for 180 days for free.
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17.8.2009 Windows 7 7600 Golden Build - Retail + Windows Server 2008 r2 RTM
These iso's are compiled from the leaked image files and VHD's, so it's not a real RTM iso. These will probably be available within a few days...
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20.7.2009 How can I install Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2 to a virtual hard disk (VHD) file?
Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2 add the ability for an OS to be installed onto a virtual hard disk (VHD) file to boot physical hardware. To do this, perform the following steps.
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17.2.2009 Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer 2.1.1 Vulnerability Scanner for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2
Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer (MBSA) is a free security and vulnerability assessment (VA) scan tool for IT professionals, administrators and security auditors to improve security management process and assess or determine security state in accordance with Microsoft security recommendations and offers specific remediation guidance.
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29.10.2009 Windows 7 Network Optimization, Virtualization, Devices Profile
With Windows 7, Microsoft is not only working to steer away from the mistakes made with Windows Vista, but also to move on territories where the successor of Windows XP has failed to gain a consistent level of traction.
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9.11.2008 Windows 7 Server Is Windows Server 2008 R2
Windows 7 Server and Windows Server 2008 R2 are both, much in the same sense, future iterations of the Windows Server platform.
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14.8.2008 Windows Fiji Has RTMd as Windows Media Center TV Pack 2008
Microsoft officially confirmed that Windows Fiji has been released to manufacturing.
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18.7.2008 Vista RTM and SP1 Windows Fiji – Windows Media Center TV Pack 2008
Developed under the codename Windows Fiji, and released to manufacturing under the label Windows Media Center TV Pack 2008, the first major update to the Windows Media Center component included by default in the Home Premium and Ultimate SKUs of Windows Vista RTM and SP1, is right on track to be a disappointment.
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11.8.2008 DOWNLOAD Windows XP Unofficial Pack - Formally SP3 Preview Pack
The Hotfix today announces the release of our Windows XP Unofficial TheHotfix.net Pack, a collection of hotfixes that may or may not go into the upcoming Service Pack 3 for Windows XP. This collection is of hotfixes not officially released to the public from Microsoft. The package, formally known at the Windows XP SP3 Preview Pack, contains hundreds of fixes that you would normally need to call Microsoft Support to obtain.
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Microsoft releases Windows-7-friendly version of Desktop Optimization Pack
Microsoft officials last month said they had revised their Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack (MDOP) plans so as to get a Windows-7-friendly version
of its tools out to businesses around the time of the Windows 7 launch.
On October 20, the MDOP team announced that
the newest version of MDOP isready for download.
Software Assurance licensees who’ve purchased MDOP can get the final
MDOP 2009 R2, as the revised version
of the pack is known. And those who aren’t already customers but who have MSDN/TechNet subscriptions can try it out today, as well.
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20.10.2009Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack 2008 Released
Chris Flores: Today marks the release of the
Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack (MDOP) 2008 - a set of tools for
IT Pros managing IT environments for companies who have purchased MDOP plus Windows
Software Assurance agreements with Microsoft. There are two key product updates in
this release I'd like to highlight that I think IT Pros will find very useful - Diagnostics and Recovery Toolset 6.0 (DaRT) and Desktop Error
Monitoring 3.0 SP1 (DEM).
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01.04.2008Microsoft Promises Vista Version Of Softgrid
Microsoft said Monday that the
Vista version of its
http://www.softricity.com/>Sof
tgrid application
virtualization product and
enhanced asset management and
desktop monitoring will be
available July 1.
The
updated Softgrid platform is
part of Microsoft's Desktop
Optimization Pack for its
Software Assurance customers
who buy software maintenance
contracts. The Windows Vista
client has been widely
available since early this
year.
As part of the
version 2.0 Optimization Pack,
which was released to
manufacturing this week,
Microsoft will release
enhanced asset inventory
services, including a
Vista-compatible version of
Asset Inventory Service, a
byproduct of the company's
acquisition of AssetMetrix. ..
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04.06.2007Microsoft accelerates desktop virtualization plans
Microsoft has massively accelerated delivery of the next version of its desktop enterprise virtualization software, while unveiling the next release
of its Application Virtualization, aka
App-V.
Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack (MDOP) 2009 R2 will now be released to manufacturing at the end
of October, soon after the release of Windows 7 on October 22. The initial plan had been for a MDOP beta "sometime" during the first quarter of
2010, with RTM code presumably after that.
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14.09.2009Microsoft's Desktop Optimization Pack Sets Sales Record
The Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack for Software Assurance has been the fastest selling Version 1 product in the history of Microsoft's volume
license program, with more than 3 million licenses sold over the past nine months.
The product is only available to those
customers who have a Windows Client volume license with Software Assurance, a fact that had not been an obstacle to adoption, said Brad Anderson, the
general manager for the Windows and Enterprise management division, at a press conference at the TechEd IT Forum here Nov. 12.
Anderson's comments came ahead of the conference's opening keynote address by Bob Kelly, corporate vice president of infrastructure server
marketing.
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13.11.2007CTP of Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 available today
Ryan Waite: It was almost exactly one year ago that we signed off on beta 2 of Windows HPC Server 2008 and today we made available the Community
Technical Preview (CTP) of Windows HPC Server 2008 R2. Based on Windows Server 2008 R2, the CTP is a preliminary release, allowing an early preview of
planned functionality for HPC Server 2008 R2.
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21.05.2009Windows Server 2008 R2 beta airs
Lost in the Windows 7 hype, Microsoft also released the beta of Windows Server 2008 R2, which is the companion to the client OS. The company is
aligning Windows Server 2008 R2, which briefly was referred to as Windows Server 7, and the client OS Windows 7 although Microsoft officials have not
said if they will ship together. But users who adopt both will get new security, network, and other features although some of those will require
network upgrades like implementing IPv6. The R2 beta's integration with Windows 7 is high on the server's feature list.
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09.01.2009TechEd 2007: Software Assurance Licensees to Get Error Reporting Tool
Software Assurance licensees
for Microsoft Windows clients,
including XP and Vista, will
soon be receiving a utility
called System Center Desktop
Error Monitoring as part of
the Desktop Optimization Pack
(MDOP) they receive with their
licenses. As we learned at
TechEd, the utility will
enable admins to produce
aggregate reports that track
problems throughout an entire
enterprise...
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05.06.2007Add-In: AutoExit 2008 R2 for Windows Home Server Beta
Asoft are seeking beta testers for a limited beta release of AutoExit 2008 R2 for Windows Home Server Beta.
AutoExit is a very
popular, highly rated add-in for Windows Home Server which allows remote administration (Shutdown, reboot, message or open a Remote Desktop session)
of any home computer attached to your home server from within the Windows Home Server Console, as well as Wake on LAN functionality.
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28.05.2008Windows Server 2008 R2 RTM and general Availability
You may have seen some of the recent news articles that have started to roll out around the RTM and General availability dates of Windows 7. As
Windows Server 2008 R2 is a joint development effort with Windows 7 we are aligned with the same RTM and General Availability (GA) dates.
With that “ Windows Server 2008 R2 RTM code is on track to be available to our partners sometime in the 2nd half of July. Windows Server
2008 R2 will also be broadly available about the same time as the Windows 7 GA date of Oct 22.
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03.06.2009Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 Released to Manufacturing
7600.16385
has been confirmed as the final RTM build number.
Microsoft Corp. today announced the release to manufacturing (RTM) of Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2, the next versions of its
flagship desktop and server operating systems. With the completion of this development phase, industry partners are readying products in time for the
Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 worldwide general launches. Windows 7 will be generally available to customers around the world on October 22,
and Windows Server 2008 R2 will be generally available on or before that date. As always, current customers of the Windows Volume Licensing program,
Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN) subscribers and TechNet subscribers will be among the first to get customer access to Windows 7 and Windows Server
2008 R2 in the
coming
weeks.
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23.07.2009BizTalk 2006 R2 Accelerator for SWIFT (A4SWIFT) v3.0 Service Pack 1
Microsoft® BizTalk® Accelerator for SWIFT (A4SWIFT) 3.0 Service Pack 1 (SP1) leverages the open standards-based tools and run-time facilities of
BizTalk Server 2006 R2 to support MX-based messages (ISO20022 XML-based messages) to comply with SWIFTReady Financial EAI GOLD Certification
requirements for 2007.
The added functionality with this service pack makes it easier for businesses to adopt BizTalk Server 2006
R2 as a middleware integration platform. With A4SWIFT 3.0 SP1, customers, partners, and system integrators can streamline development, deployment, and
support of integrated solutions for application infrastructure and business processes for core financial services.
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18.12.2007PDC 2008: Windows 7, WS2K8 R2 will get PowerShell v2
At the early morning session on the final day of PDC 2008, architect Jeffrey Snover officially confirmed that Windows 7 and the R2 edition of Windows
Server 2008 will both get version 2 of PowerShell as standard installation options...
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30.10.2008Windows Server 2008 R2 Release Candidate
This software is for evaluation and testing purposes. Evaluating any version of Windows Server 2008 R2 Release Candidate software does not require
product activation or entering a product key. Any edition of Windows Server 2008 R2 Release Candidate may be installed without activation and
evaluated for an initial 30 days. If you need more time to evaluate Windows Server 2008 R2 Release Candidate, the initial 30 day evaluation can be
extended to March 1, 2010 (at which time the OS will become inoperable) by entering the product key below for your selected edition.
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05.05.2009Windows Server 2008 R2 Core: Introducing SCONFIG
Jeff Woolsey: It's been very busy in the world of Windows Server. With the launch of Windows Server 2008 R2 Release Candidate, Tech Ed and the
announcement of several new
Hyper-V R2 capabilities such as 64 logical processor support and processor compatibility, it's been pretty non-stop. In fact,
it's been so busy, that we haven't even had a chance to introduce one more really cool new feature in Windows Server 2008 R2, but first, some
background...
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08.07.2009Microsoft Brings Desktop Management To The Channel
Microsoft has been building a
comprehensive set of desktop
management tools and selling
them directly to enterprises.
Now, Microsoft wants to see
what the channel can do with
these tools.
On
Monday at its worldwide
partner conference in Denver,
Microsoft unveiled Windows
Partner Solutions, which
combines Vista Enterprise
Edition with Microsoft's
Desktop Optimization Pack
(DOP), a subscription offering
for Software Assurance
maintenance contract customers
that includes technologies
from several recent Microsoft
acquisitions.
DOP
includes application
virtualization software from
Softricity, inventory services
from AssetMetrix, group policy
management software from
DesktopStandard, and recovery
software from Winternals. ..
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09.07.2007Announcing Windows Server 2008 R2
Windows Server 2008 R2 showed its pretty face at the Professional Developers Conference today, here in Los Angeles. Hi there, my names Oliver Rist and
Im a new technical product manager on the Windows Server team. Im down here in La-La Land heaving great sighs of satisfaction as we unveil the first
sneak peeks of pre-beta Windows Server 2008 R2. Though this release is right in line with our announced roadmap strategy for future Server releases,
there are several items of note with R2:
First and foremost, 32-bit is done. History. Archives. Windows Server 2008 R2 is the
first Windows OS platform to go 64-bit only, and frankly it was high time. Customers have been unable to purchase a 32-bit server CPU for over two
years now, and the advancements in CPU architectures really dictated that we squeeze as much performance out of customers hardware purchases as
possible. The move to 64-bit is a first step.
Youll also find that weve aligned R2 development around four core technology
pillars...
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29.10.2008Sun VirtualBox may be the only way to test Windows Server 2008 R2
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20.01.2009Remote Server Administration Tools for Windows 7
Remote Server Administration Tools for Windows 7 enables IT administrators to manage roles and features that are installed on remote computers that
are running Windows Server 2008 R2 (and, for some roles and features, Windows Server 2008 or Windows Server 2003) from a remote computer that is
running Windows 7.
It includes support for remote management of computers that are running either the Server Core or full
installation options of Windows Server 2008 R2, and for some roles and features, Windows Server 2008. Some roles and features on Windows Server 2003
can be managed remotely by using Remote Server Administration Tools for Windows 7, although the Server Core installation option is not available with
the Windows Server 2003 operating system.
This feature is comparable in functionality to the Windows Server 2003 Administrative
Tools Pack and Remote Server Administration Tools for Windows Vista with Service Pack 1 (SP1).
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12.08.2009Windows Server 2008 R2 RC Includes Important Improvements to Hyper-V Implementation
Cameron Sturdevant: Windows Server 2008 R2 Release Candidate code was made available on April 30 to MSDN and TechNet subscribers. There are many
changes to the operating system. Here, I've highlighted some of the most important improvements in the implementation of Hyper-V. For example,
running guest systems can be configured on the fly to add or remove virtual hard drives. I tested using the newly released Windows 7 Build 7100 along
with the RC build of Windows Server 2008 R2. Changes in User Account Controls, PowerShell and AppLocker are all significant enough that IT managers
should brush off their study skills and buckle down with the newest version of Microsoft's server operating system. Also look for changes in Group
Policy, Active Directory, remote desktop services and deployment services. Even features that didn't change much in functionality usually have a new
address; I spent a fair amount of time during my testing just poking through the user interface, looking for familiar landmarks that had been buried
in new locations.
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