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Hierbij de maandelijkse links naar alle nieuwsberichten, whitepapers, publicaties en blog berichten van de Microsoft product teams. Nu o.a. over: Agile en SDL templates voor TFS 2010, Microsoft Cloud Services, Server Core, App-V en Hyper-V, SQL Azure, HTML5, Silverlight Security, WCF en WF, .NET4, etc

Microsoft Developer Information

• Windows 7 Programming Guide – Taskbar This post is an index to the Windows 7 Taskbar posts and resources. It includes Channel 9 interviews, links to additional content on MSDN, as well as code samples for programming the Windows 7 Taskbar.
• HTML5 and Same Markup: Second IE9 Platform Preview Available for Developers Seven weeks ago at the MIX Conference, we released the first IE9 Platform Preview. We committed to updating the Preview approximately every eight weeks. Today, we’re releasing the second Platform Preview of Internet Explorer 9, available now at www.IETestDrive.com.
• Using Push Notification from Your Windows Phone Application In the previous post, Understanding How Microsoft Push Notification Works – Part 2, we explained how Microsoft Push Notification (MPN) works and the different players that are required. This post focuses on how to write your WP application so it can use MPN.
• How the SDL helped improve Security in Office 2010 I would like to highlight some achievements that were completed during Office 2010 development that will help keep our customers secure.
• Securing Your Silverlight Applications Josh Twist explains the unique challenges developers face in securing Silverlight applications. He shows where to focus your efforts, concentrating on the key aspects of authentication and authorization.
• Visual Design of Workflows with WCF and WF 4 The .NET Framework 4 makes it easier than ever to implement WCF services using WF. We’ll demonstrate just how easy it is by modeling a long-running, durable and instrumented workflow based on a real-world business case without having to write any code.
• Regular Expression Denial of Service Attacks and Defenses Microsoft security expert Bryan Sullivan believes denial-of-service blackmail attacks will become more common as privilege escalation attacks become more difficult to execute. He demonstrates how to protect your apps against regular expression DoS threats.
• The May 2010 Security Runtime Engine Preview is now available on CodePlex The WPL site on CodePlex now has the May CTP code only release for the Web Protection Library and a Word document introducing the new extensibility points for the Security Runtime Engine.
• Microsoft Cloud Services: Taking advantage of Windows Azure Storage from PHP: example with a WordPress plugin Continuing our efforts on improving interoperability between PHP and Microsoft technologies, we have created an example showcasing a new plugin for WordPress that allows WordPress developers to take advantage of the storage capacity of Windows Azure. This plugin enables WordPress to use Windows Azure Storage Service to host media for a WordPress-powered blog.
• VSTFS: Setting up various topologies to test with Visual Studio Lab Management – Part 3 In this Part3 of this topology blog series, we will talk about a topology that has TMG proxy and with application tiers being load balanced with Windows NLB. We will also touch upon testing with Lab Environments that has one of their tiers (DB tier for this discussion) outside of the Lab Environment.
• Announcing the MSF-Agile+SDL Process Template for TFS 2010 If you’re already using either the MSF-Agile+SDL template for TFS 2008 or the MSF for Agile Software Development template that ships in the box with TFS, you’ll find it extremely easy to pick up the new MSF-Agile+SDL template for TFS 2010.

Security

• MSRT May Threat Reports and Alureon  Last month we had reported good cleaning results against the Win32/Alureon rootkit, and this month we have more good numbers to share with the May edition of MSRT.
• Updating Pays Security Dividends On the newly published Volume 8 of the Microsoft Security Intelligence Report (SIR), you will find a familiar observation on malware infection across Windows operating systems, based on the Microsoft Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool (MSRT), one of the datasets that contributed to the SIR.

How Microsoft does IT

• How Microsoft Does IT: Deploying Microsoft Windows 7 Join us for this webcast to learn about Microsoft IT’s experience in deploying Microsoft Windows 7. This discussion includes details about installation scenarios, deployment and support metrics, feature benefits based on Microsoft IT’s experience, and also shares recommendations for a successful deployment.
• How Microsoft IT Reduces Operating Expenses Using Virtualization Learn how Microsoft leverages virtualization in the datacenter to reduce costs associated with deployment, management, and operations while at the same time improving client satisfaction and service levels.
• Forefront Identity Manager Microsoft Forefront Identity Management 2010 extends the Identity Management offering by providing a family of tools that simplify the Identify Management landscape. Microsoft IT has deployed Forefront Identity Manager to save the company money and to increase IT and End-user productivity. Understand why Microsoft deployed Forefront Identity Manager and the hard/soft dollars Microsoft have saved in their deployment.
• Virtualization Cuts Capital and Operating Expenses by 75 Percent at Microsoft Microsoft IT is using Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V, Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007, and Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 to save costs and improve server performance in Microsoft data centers

Microsoft Cloud Services

• How to take advantage of the new 25GB mailbox storage limit Microsoft recently upgraded the BPOS mailbox storage limit from 5GB to 25GB. While new users get the 25GB limit automatically, you need to manually upgrade your existing users to take advantage of the new limit. This short tutorial will show you how.
• Technical Computing in the cloud Recent world events have clearly demonstrated our inability to process vast amounts of information and variables. Two events in particular – the behavior of global financial markets and the (ongoing) occurrence and impact of a volcano eruption in Iceland. The Technical Computing initiative seeks to bring vast computing power to the scientists and communities who are focused on these problems.
• Got Two Hours? Take a Free Windows Azure Online Workshop and Make A Difference Would you like to learn how to build and deploy a large-scale Windows Azure application in just two hours, while making a difference in the world at the same time?  If the answer is yes, then you should check out @ Home with Windows Azure, a two-hour live meeting virtual classroom presentation that will walk you through the process of creating, deploying and managing a Windows Azure application and will leave you with a rock-solid understanding of the Windows Azure platform.

Windows Desktop and Server – 7 / 2008 / Vista / 2003 / XP

• Windows Management with MDOP MDOP is more than App-V and MED-V. Advanced Group Policy Management (AGPM) and the Diagnostics and Recovery Toolset (DaRT)—also part of MDOP—are no slouches. In fact, considering how little time and effort it takes to deploy both of these products, and how easy they are to use, they offer a pretty big bang for the buck. Put another way: Their return on investment is huge.
• Using Kerberos security with Server for NFS How to configure a UNIX based NFS client to connect to Windows Server for NFS using Kerberos security with RPCSEC_GSS.
• Simplifying Desktop Virtualization I thought I would share some tips and considerations to help you build a successful desktop virtualization roadmap. The guidance builds upon the recent discussions we’ve had at the Microsoft Management Summit and the Desktop Virtualization Hour.
• Choosing an Appropriate User State Virtualization Solution We’ve come out with some great content to help you understand how to take advantage of User State Virtualization on the Microsoft Platform.
• Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2010 Update 1 – Now in Beta Release! If you’re making the move to Windows 7 and Office 2010, you need tools and guidance to help deploy Windows and Office quickly—and do it right the first time. Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) 2010 Update 1 Beta includes new features like Office 2010 support, the ability for users to initiate and customize their own deployments using Configuration Manager, key enhancements in driver support, and much more.
• Server Core: Best Practice for Applications on Windows Server For more information and background on the capabilities of Server Core in Windows Server 2008 R2, see our TechEd presentation from last year or to get started with a Server Core installation now, see our downloadable guide.
• Directory Services: Available now: Active Directory Federation Services 2.0 Active Directory Federation Services 2.0 (AD FS 2.0) has been finalized and is now available for download! AD FS 2.0 is a role in Windows Server that simplifies access and single sign-on to both on-premises and cloud-based applications.  Using “claims-based” identity technology, it helps enable secure business collaboration and productivity within the enterprise, across organizations, and on the Web.
• Designing and Implementing a PKI: Part III Certificate Templates In this segment I will be covering setting up certificate templates on the newly created CA hierarchy.
• FRS to DFSR Migration Tool Released The author recently wrote a TechNet Whitepaper on how to migrate your old custom FRS data to DFSR. Mike Stephens and the author also created a free migration tool.
• Enabling CEP and CES for enrolling non-domain joined computers for certificates  The author expands upon his last blog describing Certificate Enrollment Web Services by covering some of the different configurations that are possible.
• The Next Generation of AD Performance Analysis I’m going to cover configuration and management of Active Directory Diagnostics Data Collector Sets. Data Collector Sets are the next generation of a utility called Server Performance Advisor (SPA).
• Cluster: Introduction to the Cluster Quorum Model Clustering supports four quorum modes. They are: Node Majority, Node and Disk Majority, Node and File Share Majority, and No Majority: Disk Only (Legacy).
• Remote Desktop Services: Deployment guides for Remote Desktop Services in Windows Server 2008 R2 and for Terminal Services in Windows Server 2008 are now available. The Remote Desktop Services Deployment Guide for Windows Server 2008 R2 is now live on the Download Center and on TechNet.  This guide is intended for use by system administrators and system engineers who are responsible for deploying the role services and features for Remote Desktop Services for the Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) environment.
• Internet Explorer: Another Follow-up on HTML5 Video in IE9 In previous posts, we described why IE9 will support H.264-encoded HTML5 video. Microsoft and other browser providers see hardware support, customer and partner readiness, and intellectual property rights as key factors making H.264 an excellent choice for video encoding and playback.
• Protecting Browsers with Defense In Depth Techniques Protecting Windows customers is an absolute priority for the Internet Explorer engineering team.  That’s why we work hard to make sure our browser has some of the best safety and privacy features available today.
• Performance: Two Minute Drill: The Eventcreate command What exactly is Eventcreate? I’m glad you asked. In a nutshell, Eventcreate is a command line tool that enables an administrator to create a custom event ID and message in a specified event log. Let’s check out its options and some examples.

Virtualization Technologies

• Guest post: NetApp and Microsoft See Virtualization Success Together I’d like to share how Microsoft and NetApp have been helping customers get the most out of their virtualized infrastructure. Microsoft is a leader in applications, Windows, and management while NetApp leads in highly efficient and flexible storage. By integrating our solutions and joining forces, we provide the virtualized infrastructure building blocks that enable customer success.
• Hyper-V: Windows Server 2008 R2: Hyper-V Component Architecture Poster Our documentation team has done a great job of putting together a detailed Windows Server 2008 R2: Hyper-V Component Architecture Poster.  They were nice enough to give us on the development team some physical copies – but you can download the .PDF to create your own.
• Hyper-V and Dynamic MAC Address Regeneration A couple of weeks ago used SCVMM to quick migrate my FTP server from one Hyper-V server to another.  Everything appeared to work correctly.  But two days later I could no longer access the FTP server from an external computer
• App-V: App-V 4.5 SP2 now available App-V 4.5 Service Pack 2  provides the latest updates to Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.5 code line. This is the first time the team has delivered via Windows Update. See the post for new features.
• The App-V 4.6 for RDS whitepaper is now available This whitepaper discusses the benefits, configurations and considerations when planning a Microsoft Windows Server Remote Desktop Services solution with Microsoft Application Virtualization (App‑V).
• Application Virtualization Explorer – Released Building on the success of hugely popular SFT Explorer – trusted by thousands of App-V professionals around the world – Application Virtualization Explorer (AVE) introduces a new era in App-V package editors and viewers.
• The Microsoft Office 2010 Deployment Kit for App-V is now available The Microsoft Office 2010 Deployment Kit for App-V enables Office 2010 client products to be sequenced and deployed with Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V).
• MED-V: Factors that can affect the performance of TrimTransfer downloads, Image uploads, and BITS in general when running MED-V An issue I see sometimes with our MED-V customers using image deployment servers is the slow download speed when downloading MED-V images. This can be quite inconvenient when leveraging TrimTransfer for deploying images (especially updates for revertible images.) Likewise with persistent workspaces, this can further prolong the initial first-time setup of a MED-V Workspace
• Windows Virtual PC: What is the Default Virtual Machine Location for Windows Virtual PC? (And why is it what it is?)

SQL Server

• SQL Azure Customer Best Practices The SQLCAT team and the SQL Azure team have been working closely together with a number of customers. After our production release in January, 2010, we’ve continued working with some interesting customers and have captured a number of great learnings in these best practice documents.  We’ve posted 2 documents to date and have a few more planned over the next few weeks.
• Make your servers work harder: Consolidate with SQL Server 2008 R2! SQL Server 2008 R2 introduces several new features which significantly expand upon existing support for working in, managing, and leveraging a multi-instance SQL Server environment.  This blog post will focus on three of the new areas to improve your consolidation experience by using SQL Server 2008 R2.
• Don’t touch that schema!!! You know how every product that has an underlying database has documentation that says not to modify the schema? If your product is Reporting Services, I just ran into a case today which I hope convinces you to keep your hands off!!!
• Reporting Services, Scale Out and Clusters… Every once in a while, I get asked the question about deploying Reporting Services on a Cluster. Usually it is tied to a scale out deployment, sometimes it is not. I just was asked the question again by an engineer in our group. So, I figured I should put this out there to have some reference.

Exchange Server

• RELEASED: Exchange 2010 Database Redundancy Check Script When running in an Exchange 2010 mailbox resiliency environment, it is important that you monitor the health and status of the database availability group (DAG) and your mailbox database copies. It is especially vital to perform data redundancy risk management and monitor for periods in which a replicated database is down to just a single copy.
• Exploring Exchange 2010 RPC Client Access service In Exchange 2010, we have the same five server roles. However, there are some significant architectural changes and some shift in responsibilities. In this blog, I focus on the Client Access server role and go into detail about some of its architectural changes.
• Configuring Exchange Servers Without Internet Access We’ve noticed that customers may experience Exchange services timeout or long wait times for services or application to start up. This problem occurs when a server has no internet access or occasionally when a server has limited internet access. The cause of this problem is likely related to a routine check of the Certificate Revocation List (CRL) for .NET assemblies. In this post, I will provide some details regarding how CRL check affects Exchange server services and applications and how some registry settings can contribute to the problem (and solution).
• IMAP4 and Exchange 2010 RTM I’d like to take the time to highlight the significant improvements in the performance of the Internet Message Access Protocol 4 (IMAP4) in Exchange 2010, and also emphasize the importance of knowing the mailbox size when sizing your Client Access Servers for IMAP4 users. These results, and more details, will be included in an upcoming CAS Guidance whitepaper that will be posted on TechNet.

System Center

•  Introduction to Virtualization in System Center Essentials 2010 Looking for information on the virtualization features in System Center Essentials 2010?  What, you didn’t even know SCE 2010 had some awesome virtualization tech in it, including some of the features found in SCVMM?
• TechNet Webcast: Understanding the Microsoft Offline Virtual Machine Servicing Tool The Microsoft Offline Virtual Machine Servicing Tool (OVMST) provides guidance and automated tools to keep your offline virtualized environment up to date with the latest updates and safe from attackers.
• CM: Configure SCCM to use BITS + BranchCache System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) leverages BITS and BranchCache to download patches from a local distribution point and conserve WAN usage. Check out this blog post that provides an overview of how SCCM leverages this feature and how to enable it.
• PXE Cache Expire Behavior in Configuration Manager 2007 SP1 and SP2 If a Configuration Manager client has received and started an advertised operating system deployment task sequence, attempting to start another operating system deployment advertisement within a certain period of time might result in the deployment being ignored and failed to start.
• DPM: Performing a Bare Metal Restore with DPM 2010 So, you’ve protected your server with BMR using DPM and now you need to restore. What’s next?
• How to be sure that your SharePoint farm is fully protected Certainly, you can use DPM 2010 to protect the content databases within the farm, and there is goodness in DPM 2010 such as auto-protection of new content databases within the farm and the one-click setup for farm content protection. But there are a few other aspects of the SharePoint farm that you need to consider when planning comprehensive protection and full-farm recovery.

Office SharePoint Technologies

• New end-user training for SharePoint Server 2010 We’re pleased to announce the availability of a set of introductory end-user training courses for SharePoint Server 2010. The online SharePoint Server 2010 training courses are video-based. Each course includes video lessons, a brief quiz (not scored), and a printable Quick Reference Card. You can take these training courses at your desk and your own pace by viewing them in a Web browser.
• Data source authentication in PerformancePoint Services for SharePoint 2010 PerformancePoint Services supports five types of data sources. Of the five, only the Excel Workbook data source does not have an authentication model (the workbook is embedded directly into the data source).  The four remaining all support Unattended Service Account and Per-user Identity.  In addition, the Analysis Services data source supports a third authentication mode which I will talk about later.
• Ways to use SharePoint Server 2010 content pages This is the second installment in an occasional series exploring how to choose the best option for your content needs. It’s a follow-up post to Overview of SharePoint Server 2010 Pages.
• How do I open Dashboard Designer? SharePoint Server 2010 includes powerful business intelligence capabilities, such as PerformancePoint Services. If PerformancePoint Services is configured and you have the necessary permissions, you can create and use a dashboard to display performance across an organization.
• Creating dashboards that include a mix of PerformancePoint Web Parts and other kinds of SharePoint Web Parts Using Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010, you have several tools available to create dashboards. The tool you choose depends largely upon on what kind of dashboard you want to create.

Microsoft Office System

• SmartArt Diagram Improvements In the Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, and Word 2010 desktop applications we have added a series of improvements for SmartArt diagrams.
• Free Office Mobile 2010 for Windows Phones Office Mobile 2010 for Windows Mobile 6.5 includes new mobile versions of Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote and SharePoint Workspace.
• Access: Power Tip: Distinguish between an unsaved record and a saved one When you are in the process of entering a new record in an Access database, you can press the Escape key to cancel the entry of the record. However, some events, such as clicking or tabbing into a subform on the main form, can save the record on the main form. At that point, you can’t press Escape to cancel the entry—you must use the Delete command to delete it.
• Download Access 2010 Runtime, Database Engine Redistributable and Source Code Control Download Access 2010 Runtime, Access Database Engine Redistributable (office connectivity components) 2010 and Source Code Control Add-in for Access 2010 today!
• Excel: Track the Soccer World Cup scores with Excel As we approached the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, and continuing on a theme from a couple of weeks ago, I set off to create an Excel template that was as automated as possible; with not a single line of VBA code but with conditional formatting, formulas, and the camera tool feature; I wanted to create the ultimate couch companion for the hours I have planned to spend in front of the TV waking up at 4:30 AM PST to watch 32 nations battle it out for ultimate glory.
• Outlook: My Favorite Feature: Quick Steps You can use Quick Steps to perform tasks you need to do frequently that involve multiple steps, such as filing messages in specific folders or flagging messages for follow up and sending a reply. You can assign keyboard shortcuts to your most frequently used quick steps or click the quick step buttons using your mouse.
• Send Text Messages Using Outlook 2010 You can stay connected beyond just e-mail messages. Sending and receiving text messages (SMS) in Microsoft Outlook 2010 is a convenient way to send a quick note.
• New Outlook Hotmail Connector released today With Outlook Hotmail Connector 14.0 and Outlook 2010, you see additional benefits.
• PowerPoint: Producer for PowerPoint: Now Official! Microsoft Producer allows you to take an existing presentation file, capture and synchronize video and audio narration, add additional media content, and produce a unified set of content ready for viewing in a browser on your corporate intranet or a generally accessible web server.
• Review and deliver dynamic presentations with PowerPoint Mobile 2010 We take a detailed look at PowerPoint Mobile which now features the ability to review and edit slides, and even acts as a companion to assist you as you deliver that big presentation!
• Video Makeover An overview of the new PowerPoint 2010 Video Styles.
• PowerPoint 2010 Viewer – Available for Download By installing the PowerPoint Viewer, you can open and watch PowerPoint presentations in all formats, no matter what computer you’re using. We’ve revamped our viewer to display PowerPoint presentations, including those created in 2010, in full-fidelity.
• Visio: Visualizing Operations Manager Data in Visio Services We enjoy seeing the innovative solutions that are implemented on the Visio platform. Now, with Visio 2010 and Visio Services, we’re starting to see some great new solutions that weren’t possible before. A good example is the Visio 2010 add-in for System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2. This add-in, which was originally released for Visio 2007, lets you generate a data-linked Visio diagram from Microsoft System Center Operations Manager. Visio’s data graphics are used to show the health of applications, services, and infrastructure monitored by Operations Manager. For instance, the status of a database server can be shown with an icon on the shape or by changing the shape’s color.

Forefront

• Issuing information cards with AD FS 2.0: Community Technology Review released This will enable IT administrators to easily issue information cards via Active Directory Federation Services 2.0, giving end users a more flexible and secure means of authentication to applications within the enterprise, across company boundaries and into the cloud.
• Forefront Protection 2010 for SharePoint overview and demo video available A member of our Development team recently released a video that gives an overview of the new FPSP release and a demo of some of its main features.
• New Forefront Protection 2010 for SharePoint Whitepapers are available! We recently released Forefront Protection 2010 for SharePoint (FPSP) and I want to let you know about several whitepapers that were written about FPSP.
• UAG: DirectAccess and Teredo Adapter Behavior Teredo is an IPv6 transition technology that is used by DirectAccess clients when they are located behind a NAT device, and thus are typically assigned a private IP address (RPC 1918).
• The Mystery of the IP-HTTPS Listener, an Outlook Client and an IPv4 Only Network A customer presented the DirectAccess team with an interesting problem that brought together many pieces of how a DirectAccess works, and how things might not work in certain circumstances. Because the problem was an interesting one, and because it highlights how some features of DirectAccess work, we thought it might be a good idea to share our experiences.
• How to configure UAG to send Request Headers to published Web Applications While this is pretty simple once you know how to do it, I found there was little documentation on this topic, so I thought I would share this information in this blog.

Microsoft Dynamics

• CRM: Delivering solutions: Microsoft Dynamics + Office 2010 + SharePoint 2010 For more information, demos and whitepapers on how Microsoft Dynamics CRM and ERP solutions work with Office and SharePoint 2010, visit the Next wave of Business Productivity Innovation website.
• Working with Data Maps in Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online In the Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online November 2009 Service update release, one of the key delivered features was enhanced Import Data Wizard. This feature brings lots of power and functionality and one of its main components that work behind the scene to make everything possible is Data Map.
• GP: Hungry Anyone? New Learning Options Now Available Microsoft Learning is creating some fantastic content in a new format:  Learning Snacks.  They are little interactive presentations on specific topics, most are 15 minutes or less.  We invested into this new format for Dynamics GP 2010 hopeful that it will make it easier for people to learn one bite at a time.

Other Information

• New ways we’re fighting spam in Hotmail Hotmail’s fight against spam has certainly come a long way in the last five years. Over the last several years we’ve made substantial investments in the research and development of sophisticated anti-spam technologies. See also: Re-inventing Windows Live Hotmail – the next generation of personal email

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