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A new discovery of a recently-departed Microsoft employee’s blog has revealed a rough version of Microsoft’s roadmap for key software, including Windows 8 (PDF). If a reflection of Microsoft’s tentative plans, it would have Windows 8 released to manufacturing (RTM) on July 1st, 2011, or just two years after Windows 7 was finished. Windows Server 2012 [...]

Microsoft Press and TechNet Magazine have created an ebook on Windows 7 Deployment. 10 selected chapters from the Windows 7 Resource Kit on Deployment Platforms, Planning, Testing Application Compatibility and 8 Common Issues in Windows 7 Migrations.
The Windows 7 Resource Kit has been written by Mitch Tulloch,Tony Northrup, Jerry Honeycutt, Ed Wilson, and the Windows [...]

Exchange 2010 Beta is available since few weeks only and the first update Rollup is already out.
A full description is available here and you can get it here.

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 [...]

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 [...]

 Hi,
few days ago the news Exchange 2010 server has been release. So we hope will have have soon a lot of NEW installation to do for our customers.
Unfortunatly most of time the same customers already have an exchange solution. So Microsoft has release the Exchange server Deployment Assistant. For this moment it can only help [...]