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In a blog entry posted Wednesday, Microsoft offered a glimpse of what will be in the first major update of Exchange Server 2010, due later this year.
Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 1 (SP1) will bring a range of new features and capabilities to the back office mail server software, including improvements to the software’s archiving functionality [...]

I’ve read a lot of things on the newsgroups and the web on the versions and editions of Windows that SharePoint 2010 can support. Seems some point must be clarify and MS Sharepoint Team has done a post regarding this.
So in a first time we must remember SharePoint 2010 will support only 64-bit (x64) versions [...]

Microsoft has released the first CTP of a SQL Server Migration Assistant (SSMA) for MySQL v1.0, which automates aspects of the migration process to Microsoft SQL Server 2005 & 2008 (including SQL Azure DB).
SQL Server Migration Assistant for MySQL is the newest migration toolkit. The toolkits were designed to simplify the complex manual process to [...]

Windows 2008 R2 is coming with nice managments tools. But sometimes it is not enought. So at Code403 we are using a free opensource software to manage many things (Drivers, DCPromo, share,…)
This tool is Core Configurator and the version 2.0 is now available.
“It is built and designed for Windows Server 2008 R2 Core edition!
It is [...]

Well, even if nothing has been annonce about Windows 8 server at PDC 2009, it seems some annonces have been done to partners… well, An interesting Microsoft product roadmap has turned up. The information is consistent with all previsous roadmaps: the year 2012 could be a tentative timeframe for a “major release” code named Windows 8.
This would put [...]

If you will be installing the SharePoint Server 2010 Public Beta on Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 or Microsoft Windows 7, then you will need to download and install an update from connect.microsoft to resolve an issue that occurs in Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 when provisioning Service Applications or when accessing pages that make service calls.  Without [...]

The office suite is out in Beta for everyone. Available in five languages.

There is four version of Office2010:

Office 2010 Starter : free and pay by ads
Office 2010 Family et smal enterprise : Word, Excel, PowerPoint, One Note, Outlook and Office Web Apps
Office 2010 Professionnal : Excel, Access, Publisher, PowerPoint, One Note, Outlook and Office Web Apps
Office 2010 Professionnel Plus : Access, Communicator, Excel, [...]

Today a customer ask me if we have a good documentation to discover Windows 2008 R2. More than a quick start, a real technical documentation, a good overview of all features with enought details to understand the real value for his IT department.
Well, after some research I found this FREE document in PDF on the Microsoft web [...]