Introducing Lync Mobile Clients for Office 365

Posted: December 20, 2011 in Lync 2010
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Introducing Lync Mobile Clients

 

At Microsoft Lync, we’re focused on delivering the best productivity experience across devices. Today, I’m excited to introduce new Lync mobile clients for Windows Phone, iPhone, iPad, Android, and Nokia Symbian mobile devices. With Lync mobile clients we enable you to stay connected, communicate and conference on the go.

Lync mobile clients are provided at no additional costs to subscribers of Lync Online and Office 365. They are enabled by an update to Lync Server 2010, which is now available to Lync Online and Office365 subscribers.

Lync 2010 for Windows Phone is available today on the Windows Phone marketplace. Lync mobile clients for other platforms have been submitted to their respective mobile application marketplace and should be available soon.

Check out this blog for more information. And to learn how to enable mobility for vanity domains, please see this article.

Brian is the Microsoft Lync Product Manager for Mobility & Emerging Clients and Office365.

 

http://community.office365.com/en-us/b/office_365_technical_blog/archive/2011/12/12/lync-mobile-clients.aspx

Mobile Clients for Microsoft Lync

Posted: December 20, 2011 in Lync 2010
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Lync mobile clients enable you to stay connected, communicate and conference on the go. Mobile clients for Microsoft Lync 2010 take the power of unified communications mobile—including rich presence, instant messaging, audio conferencing, and calling features from a single, easy-to-use interface.

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Join conferences with a single touch; no access code or pin number required.

Stay connected, while controlling your availability; see who’s available at a glance and connect over IM, email or a call; set your own status and notification settings so you can stay in touch while protecting your “off-work” time.

Communicate with others using a single, consistent identity.Call-via-work1 allows outbound calls using your Enterprise Voice number, making it easier for others to recognize calls from the Lync mobile client.

Connect with confidence through channel encryption, transport layer security (TLS) support, and perimeter/internal network protection that help safeguard your communications.

 

http://lync.microsoft.com/en-us/Product/UserInterfaces/Pages/lync-2010-mobile.aspx

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh691004.aspx

Systems Center 2012 Virtual Labs

Posted: December 8, 2011 in System Center 2012
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System Center Operations Manager 2012: Infrastructure and Application Performance Monitoring

http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9792430

System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012: Building Your Cloud Infrastructure

http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9792431

System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012: Building a Service Template

http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9792432

Introduction to System Center Configuration Manager 2012

http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9789981

Microsoft System Center 2012 Virtual Summit

Posted: November 13, 2011 in System Center 2012
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Register

https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032497154&Culture=en-GB

 

TIMING:

SESSION:

ABSTRACT:

13:00-13:45

Windows Server Hyper-V and System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012

This 45 minute session will reconfirm Hyper-V as an enterprise class hypervisor then dive into the latest release of Microsoft’s multi-hypervisor management technology, System Center Virtual Machine Manger 2012.

‘VMM’ 2012 will allow you to optimise your existing investments by managing multi-hypervisor environments including Hyper-V, Xen and VMware! You can pool and dynamically allocate virtualised datacenter resources (compute, network and storage) enabling the self-service infrastructure experience your business demands. This is all delivered with flexible role based delegation and access control

13:45-14:30

System Center Operations Manager 2012 and System Center Advisor

It’s all about the App! In this 45 minute session we will cover how Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2012 can bring intelligent heterogeneous monitoring and management of your line of business applications, business services and the underlying infrastructure fabric including servers (physical and virtual), SANs and switches along with other datacentre resources.

Learn how business services can be measured against SLA’s and how this information can be surfaced to business and application owners.

Also learn how System Centre Advisor, one of Microsoft’s new cloud offerings, can bring proactive best practice monitoring to Windows Server and associated workloads.

14:30-14:45

14:45-15:30

System Center Configuration Manager 2012

Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2012 makes it easier for you to empower users to be productive with a unified infrastructure that delivers and manages rich user experiences across corporate and consumer devices.

During this 45 minute session we will demonstrate the capabilities of the latest version of our flagship System Center technology which dates back 17 years to SMS 1.0

Patch/Application/OS deployment, power management, asset intelligence & mobile device management will all be covered through live demonstration.

15:30-16:15

System Center Service Manager 2012 and System Center Orchestrator 2012

Microsoft System Center Service Manager 2010 is Microsoft’s ‘best of breed’ ITIL & MOF service delivery tool. By integrating with the other System Center technologies as well as Active Directory & Exchange, SCSM can handle all problem, change & incident requirements generated in today’s fast paced world of ICT.

By working in conjunction with Microsoft System Center Orchestrator (formerly Opalis), we can easily automate a lot of the day to day manual tasks an IT organisation face. This will enable you to build a cost-effective and flexible private cloud infrastructure that responds to incidents, problems and change requests on the fly with minimal if any ‘IT touch’.

16:15-16:30

16:30-17:15

System Center Data Protection Manager 2012

Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager 2012 continues to build on the legacy of providing unified data protection for Windows servers and clients as a best-of-breed backup & recovery solution from Microsoft, for Windows environments. Data Protection Manager provides the best protection and most supportable restore scenarios from disk, tape and cloud — in a scalable, manageable and cost-effective way.

Already a critical part of Microsoft private cloud infrastructures, Data Protection Manager provides the capability to protect virtual machines in your IT environment, as well as the applications running on them. With the 2012 release Data Protection Manager grows these existing capabilities with support for item level recovery, even when Data Protection Manager is running in a virtual machine

System Center Operations Manager 2012 Release Candidate

Posted: November 13, 2011 in System Center 2012
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System Center Operations Manager 2012 provides deep application diagnostics and infrastructure monitoring that can help you ensure the predictable performance and availability of vital applications and offers a comprehensive view of your datacenter, private, and public clouds.

Overview

Operations Manager 2012 provides infrastructure monitoring that’s flexible and cost-effective, helps ensure the predictable performance and availability of vital applications, and offers comprehensive monitoring for your datacenter and cloud, both private and public. Operations Manager helps you better manage your datacenters by:

  • Delivering flexible and cost effective enterprise-class monitoring and diagnostics while reducing the total cost of ownership by leveraging commodity hardware, configurations, and heterogeneous environments.
  • Helping to ensure the availability of business-critical applications and services through market-leading .NET application performance monitoring and diagnostics and JEE application health monitoring.
  • Providing a comprehensive view of datacenters, and private and public clouds.

Feature Summary 

    • Setup

 

      Operations Manager 2012 has a new Setup wizard. For important instructions about how to install Operations Manager 2012, see Install Operations Manager 2012 Beta.

    • Highly Available Management Group Out of the Box

 

      In Operations Manager 2012, all management servers are peers; there is no root management server. The workload is split among all management servers in a management group, which provides high availability without requiring a cluster.

    • Resource pools

 

      A resource pool provides the ability to distribute workloads across multiple management servers, such as availability, network device monitoring, distributed monitor health rollup, and group calculation.

    • Agent Configuration

 

      Operations Manager 2012 provides an easy method for configuring agents to report to multiple management servers by adding an Operations Manager Agent application to Control Panel on each agent-managed computer.

    • Operations Console

 

      You will notice some subtle changes to the Operations console. The

Actions

       pane is now the

Tasks

       pane, and includes a new section called

Navigation Tasks

       that makes it easy for you to open views for a selected object. The

Tasks

       pane offers two tabs: one for actions and one for resources and Help links. The

Navigation

       and

Tasks

       panes can be hidden or revealed instantly by clicking the arrow in the title bar of the pane.

    • Web console

 

      Operations Manager 2012 introduces a new Web console. In Operations Manager 2012, all Operations Manager views are available in the Web console.

    • Network monitoring

 

      Operations Manager 2012 provides the ability to discover and monitor network routers and switches, including the network interfaces and ports on those devices and the virtual LAN (VLAN) that they participate in. You can also delete discovered network devices and prevent the deleted network devices from being rediscovered the next time discovery runs. For more information, see Monitor Network Devices.

    • Application monitoring

 

      In Operations Manager 2012, you can monitor ASP.NET applications in server- and client-side environments to get details about application availability and performance. Configure monitoring settings, such as polling frequency and transaction threshold. Then use results, including how frequently a problem is occurring, how a server was performing when a problem occurred, and the distributed chain for a transaction in question to pinpoint problems and solutions. For more information, see Monitor a .NET Application.

    • Dashboard views

 

      As part of the network monitoring and application monitoring capabilities, Operations Manager 2012 includes new comprehensive dashboard views that combine multiple panels of information into a single view. In Operations Manager 2012, you can add the new dashboard views to My Workspace.

    • Display dashboard views using SharePoint

 

      The Operations Manager web part displays specified dashboard views and can be added to Microsoft SharePoint 2010 sites. For more information, see Add a Dashboard View to a SharePoint Site.

    • Creating dashboard views

 

      Dashboard views have been significantly upgraded in Operations Manager 2012 from their capabilities in Operations Manager 2007 R2, including custom layouts and nested dashboard views. For more information, see Create a Dashboard View.

    • Operations Manager Module for Windows PowerShell

 

      Operations Manager 2012 provides a Windows PowerShell 2.0 module containing a full set of new cmdlets. The cmdlets in this module are only compatible with Operations Manager 2012. You can recognize the Operations Manager 2012 cmdlets by the “SC” preceding the noun. For additional information about the Operations Manager 2012 cmdlets, open the Operations Manager command shell and type

Get-Help about_OpsMgr_WhatsNew

      . For information about how the Operations Manager 2007 cmdlets map to the Operations Manager 2012 cmdlets, type

Get-Help about_OpsMgr_Cmdlet_Names

      .To use the Operations Manager 2012 cmdlets, you must establish a connection to an Operations Manager management group. You can establish either a persistent connection in which you can run multiple cmdlets, or a temporary connection when running a single cmdlet. For more information about connections, open the Operations Manager Shell and type

Get-Help about_OpsMgr_Connections

      .

    • UNIX- and Linux-based computers

 

      In Operations Manager 2012, the Discovery Wizard is easier to use for discovering UNIX- and Linux-based computers. You can now use Windows PowerShell to manage UNIX- and Linux-based computers, for more information, see the

UNIX and Linux

    section in the release notes. High availability is also supported.

UNIX/Linux Shell Command Template Management Pack
This Management Pack implements authoring templates that allow the creation of rules, tasks, and monitors based on execution of shell commands on UNIX/Linux agents.

JEE Management Packs
These management packs monitor JEE (Java Enterprise Edition) application servers. Management packs are available for IBM WebSphere, Oracle WebLogic, Red Hat JBoss and Apache Tomcat.

 

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System requirements

Supported Operating Systems: Windows Server 2008 R2

 

  • Any server role
    • .NET 3.5 or 4.0
  • Management Server, Reporting Server, Web Console, Gateway Server
    • Windows Server 2008 R2 (64 bit)
  • Operational & Data Warehouse
    • SQL 2008 SP1 and above
    • SQL Collation – SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS
    • Agent
    • Windows Server 2003 SP2 and above
    • Windows Server 2008 SP2 and above
    • Windows Server 2008 R2
    • Windows XP Professional SP3 and above
    • Windows Vista SP2 and above
    • Windows 7
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Microsoft Security Compliance Manager

Posted: October 31, 2011 in Uncategorized
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Microsoft Security Compliance Manager 2 (SCM 2) is a free tool from the Microsoft Solution Accelerators team that enables you to quickly configure and manage your computers, traditional datacenter, and private cloud using Group Policy and Microsoft® System Center Configuration Manager.

SCM 2 provides ready to deploy policies and DCM configuration packs that are tested and fully supported. These baselines are based on Microsoft Security Guide recommendations and industry best practices, allowing you to manage configuration drift, address compliance requirements, and reduce security threats.

Easily configure the latest Windows® operating systems, Microsoft Office applications, and Internet Explorer with industry leading knowledge and fully supported tools.

Take advantage of SCM 2 to import the configuration of a “golden master” reference machine or existing Group Policy. Compare your standards to industry best practices, customize them using rich knowledge, and seamlessly create new policies and DCM configuration packs in the user-friendly UI designed to work with Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007 R2.

Key Features Include:

  • Gold master support: Import and take advantage of your existing Group Policy or create a snapshot of a reference machine to kick-start your project!
  • Configure stand-alone machines: Deploy your configurations to non-domain joined computers using the new GPO Pack feature!
  • Updated security guides: Take advantage of the deep security expertise and best practices in the updated security guides, and the attack surface reference workbooks to help reduce the security risks that you consider to be the most important!
  • Compare against industry best practices: Analyze your configurations against prebuilt baselines for the latest Windows client and server operating systems!
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Productivity Future Vision (2011)

Posted: October 31, 2011 in Youtube
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