Vol. 14, #20 - May 4, 2009 - Issue #725 Win7 News Roundup This issue of WServerNews is sponsored by Editors Corner Win7 News Roundup Know Some One That Needs A Job? Sunbelt Wins Best Corporate Blog at RSA Quotes Of The Week Webinars and Seminars Webinar: Ninja Email Security Product Demonstration Webinar: VIPRE Enterprise Product Demonstration Free Virtual Seminar: Desktop and App Virtualization - June 4 Admin Toolbox Admin Tools We Think You Shouldn't Be Without Tech Briefing Redmond Tightens Win7 Security For USB Drives Why MS Won't Release Windows Azure This Year ... But They Should Microsoft: No Vista SP2 For You Yet Microsoft's Application Virtualization Tool: A Closer Look Windows Distributed File System (DFS) Tutorial Windows Server News Microsoft Releases Office 2007 Service Pack 2 WServer Third Party News 10+ IT Pros Share The Utilities And Tools They Can't Live Without WServerNews Fave Links This Week's Links We Like. Tips, Hints And Fun Stuff. WServerNews - Product of the Week Do You Or Somebody You Know Have An Exchange Problem? Do you or somebody you know have an Exchange problem? Admin It with ScriptLogic! Thousands of Exchange problems occur every day. These problems affect environments of all kinds. There may be no physical symptoms, and they can lead companies to financial devastation. Fortunately, Exchange problems are treatable. Take the first step to recovery and download a ScriptLogic Exchange Solution today! Click here to see our full lineup of Exchange solutions. http://www.wservernews.com/090504-ScriptLogic Editors Corner Win7 News Roundup Redmond has launched a new Web site that aims to build interest in Win7 among developers and other IT pros. The site is called TalkingAboutWindows.com, and it has numerous blog posts, videos, and Q&A's by the Redmond Win7 dev-team. RC1 is being rolled out and they are effectively giving away Win7 free for a year as the code will not expire until June 1, 2010. If you run the beta you are strongly encouraged to move to the Release Candidate. This code is snappier and more polished than the beta, and looks pretty good. VIPRE runs fine too, and we provide Tech Support. But things do change during RC's so our devs may have to make some mods to VIPRE after Win7 goes RTM. They have a WinXP emulator in Win7, which has been both praised and bashed, but is not part of RC1 and will be available later via a download. It's specifically designed to help small businesses move to Win7. Acer UK marketing director Bobby Watkins said that Win7 would be available on October 23 this year. A new Acer PC built around Windows 7 will come out that day. They will give people a 30-day upgrade period to Win7 so that customers don't wait to buy a new computer. WinXP will still be available after Windows 7 release. "OEMs that are using Windows XP on netbooks will have the ability to install Windows XP for one year -- 12 months -- after Windows 7 general availability," said Mike Nash, corporate Veep of the Windows product management group. Know Some One That Needs A Job? If you know some one that has been laid off, Sunbelt is hiring for growth as VIPRE is taking the market by storm. We have more than 20 positions open so if you know some one please send them to this "Careers" link and ask them to send their resume? Thanks so much! http://www.wservernews.com/090504-SunbeltCareers Sunbelt Wins Best Corporate Blog at RSA The announcement started with: "Congratulations to the winners of the first ever 'Social Security' Awards! Based on submissions from your readership, a list of blogs was sent to a distinguished panel of judges and the winners were chosen as the best blogs and podcasts in the security sphere. Some of the winners were surprising as were some of the categories they won in. We hope we've started a new tradition at RSA, but only time will tell: http://www.wservernews.com/090504-Security-Bloggers Quotes Of The Week "Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances." - Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826) "My definition of an expert in any field is a person who knows enough about what's really going on to be scared." - P.J. Plauger Warm regards, and thank you for being a WServerNews subscriber. No trees were killed in the sending of this message, but a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced. Please tell your friends about us. They can subscribe here: http://www.wservernews.com/090504-Subscribe PS: Did you know this newsletter has a sister publication for XP users called WXPnews? You can subscribe here, and tell your friends: http://www.wservernews.com/090504-WXPNews PPS: And of course we also have our weekly VistaNews. You can subscribe here, and tell your friends: http://www.wservernews.com/090504-VistaNews Hope you enjoy this issue of WServerNews! Warm regards, Stu  |   Email me: feedback@wservernews.com Automated Uninstall of Symantec AV No more 2-day SEP V11 Migration Classes! Sunbelt built VIPRE Enterprise; a completely new technology combining corporate antivirus plus an enterprise antispyware solution for total endpoint security designed by admins for admins. And that means EASY DEPLOYMENT. Save your IT budget and don't renew products from Symantec, McAfee and Trend Micro, Learn how VIPRE Enterprise takes much less resources than the competition! It's clearly time to ditch expensive, bloated, old-style AV products. Get your 30-day eval here: http://www.wservernews.com/090504-VIPRE-Enterprise < Webinars and Seminars Webinar: Ninja Email Security Product Demonstration Tuesday, May 5, 2009, 2:00pm - 2:30pm EDT. Securing your Exchange Server is key to protecting your enterprise environment from spam, viruses, and other malware. Ninja Email Security is an 'all-in-one' integrated and policy-based email security solution that helps you to fight spam, viruses, trojans, phishing and other email security threats with a series of 'best-of-breed' plug-ins Register here: http://www.wservernews.com/090504-Ninja-Demo Webinar: VIPRE Enterprise Product Demonstration Tuesday, May 19, 2009, 2:00pm - 2:30pm EDT. VIPRE Enterprise is designed to optimize overall performance by melding antivirus and antispyware together into one, single, powerful engine. This combination of technologies gives you high-performance software that doesn't slow down users' workstations, is low on system resources, and makes it easy for you to protect your network. Register at: http://www.wservernews.com/090504-VIPRE-Demo Free Virtual Seminar: Desktop and App Virtualization - June 4 Get independent expert advice and best practices for planning, implementing, and managing your desktop virtualization project at this free one-day online seminar. You'll hear from top experts including industry analyst and blogger, Brian Madden along with Senior Solutions Architect at Appliance Technologies, Michael Keen. In addition to webcast and video presentations, you'll also have the opportunity to get your questions answered by our experts during the live Q&A opportunities throughout the day, plus chat with your peers from across the globe. Learn more about this event and register today: http://www.wservernews.com/090504-Desktop-Virtualization Admin Toolbox Admin Tools We Think You Shouldn't Be Without Help desk problems? Start doing it right with BridgeTrak from ScriptLogic! Learn more about BridgeTrak http://www.wservernews.com/090504-BridgeTrak Customers call rDirectory "The perfect system; it does everything we need & more!" Leverage your AD investment & explore the potential of all editions. http://www.wservernews.com/090504-rDirectory The 12 Best Freebie Add-Ons For SharePoint. There are many good add-on tools. This list represents a good blend of customization and easy management: http://www.wservernews.com/090504-SharePoint-Add-Ons Tech Briefing Redmond Tightens Win7 Security For USB Drives Looking at the Conficker worm using removable storage devices to spread, Microsoft said this Tuesday it will change the way Win7 handles USB drives. In the future, most USB drives won't be able to auto-launch any code using AutoRun, they said in a post on their Security Research & Defense Blog. That means if an infected USB drive is inserted, the AutoRun task will not be displayed. Of course fixed removable media, such as CDs and DVDs will still be able to use AutoRun. You will see this change in Win7 RC1. Oh, and it's pretty sure you will see Win7 on new PCs this holiday season. Here is the MS Blog with more detail: http://www.wservernews.com/090504-AutoRun Why MS Won't Release Windows Azure This Year ... But They Should I found an interesting article on azurejournal.com that got lots of attention lately. The title 'sez it all' so here is the link: http://www.wservernews.com/090504-Azure Microsoft: No Vista SP2 For You Yet ComputerWorld reported that Microsoft announced this week that it had wrapped up work on Windows Vista Service Pack 2 but said it could be months before users get their hands on the upgrade to the problem-plagued operating system. Microsoft shifted Vista SP2 to what it calls "release to manufacturing," or RTM, meaning the developers have signed off on the service pack and the company has moved it into duplication and toward distribution. But when you will be able to get your hands on it is not sure. More at: http://www.wservernews.com/090504-Vista-SP2 Microsoft's Application Virtualization Tool: A Closer Look With the recent release of Microsoft Enterprise Desktop Virtualization (MED-V), formerly known as Kidaro, Microsoft has added application virtualization to its product lineup. Application virtualization is the process of taking a single application and isolating it from the rest of the operating system. It can run in its own sandbox, regardless of the OS, for example, Microsoft Office 2007 and Microsoft Office 2003, Internet Explorer 6 and IE 7 can all run simultaneously. This article discusses some of the requirements and benefits of MED-V for application virtualization. http://www.wservernews.com/090504-Virtual-Desktop Windows Distributed File System (DFS) Tutorial Distributed File System (DFS), is a client/server-based application that allows clients to access and process data stored on the server as if it were on their own computer. This quick tutorial provides troubleshooting tips and best practices for working with DFS Replication and DFS Namespace, as well as considerations for migrating DFS to Windows Server 2003 and 2008: http://www.wservernews.com/090504-DFS Windows Server News Microsoft Releases Office 2007 Service Pack 2 Microsoft on Tuesday launched the second service pack for Office 2007, which fine-tunes the stability, performance and security features of the desktop. The page at microsoft with all the details and the download is at: http://www.wservernews.com/090504-Office-SP2 WServer Third Party News 10+ IT Pros Share The Utilities And Tools They Can't Live Without One way to make your job a little easier is to find out which tools other IT pros rely on - and then try them out for yourself. Susan Harkins extracted a list of favorite tools from 13 IT pros, whose roles range from consultant to developer to DBA: Over at: http://www.wservernews.com/090504-10Tools WServerNews Fave Links This Week's Links We Like. Tips, Hints And Fun Stuff. Brian Myers sent this: The engine sound of a Renault Formula One V10 racing car playing "We Are The Champions" by Queen. Think for a moment about the control software this must take. Well, that and about zero rotational inertia... http://www.wservernews.com/090504-Champions The largest, heaviest amateur rocket ever launched - a 1:10 scale Saturn V rocket weighing 1648 pounds - reached an altitude of 4,440 feet. Amazingly enough the thing lands on its tail after the parachute drop: http://www.wservernews.com/090504-Rocket A Google Map that tracks confirmed Swine Flu outbreaks: http://www.wservernews.com/090504-Swine-Map Vintage PSAs from the swine flu epidemic in the 1970s: http://www.wservernews.com/090504-Swine-PSA Oh yeah, this video really convinces me that Citrix is the way to go! http://www.wservernews.com/090504-Citrix This man's best friend is a full grown 800 pound Grizzly Bear: http://www.wservernews.com/090504-Bear The last time we'll ever see two shuttles on the launch pad at the same time: http://www.wservernews.com/090504-Jets 10-year-old Hollie on "Britain's Got Talent" looks like any other little girl wanting to be a ballerina... that is until she starts singing: http://www.wservernews.com/090504-Talent Did you know the derivation of the name "Apache Server"? There have been two explanations. According to the Apache Foundation, the name was chosen out of respect for the Native American tribe of Apache. However, the original FAQ on the Apache website, until 2001, claimed that "The result after combining [the NCSA httpd patches] was "a patchy server": http://www.wservernews.com/090504-Apache This shot of a blown CPU makes for an incredible desktop: http://www.wservernews.com/090504-CPU A beautiful 2 min short film animation answers the question of where all the balloons go... http://www.wservernews.com/090504-Le-Ballon WServerNews - Product of the Week Do You Or Somebody You Know Have An Exchange Problem? Admin It with ScriptLogic! Thousands of Exchange problems occur every day. These problems affect environments of all kinds. There may be no physical symptoms, and they can lead companies to financial devastation. Fortunately, Exchange problems are treatable. Take the first step to recovery and download a ScriptLogic Exchange Solution today! 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