Introduzindo a avaliação e planear de Microsoft 3.0

Para aqueles de você a que estão considerando a migração de seu infrastructure do desktop e do usuário Windows Vista SP1 e usuário 2008 de Windows, nós temos notícias boas para você!

Como nós temos anunciado em TechEd O Forum 2007 em Barcelona último novembro, a equipe dos Accelerators da solução de Microsoft está indo liberar a versão expandida da avaliação 2.1 da ferragem de Windows Vista chamada Avaliação de Microsoft e planeamento 3.0 (MAPA do aka).

No short, MAPA é uma ferramenta rede-larga automatizada do inventário e da avaliação do agente-menos que possa rapidamente determinar se os desktops e os usuários da sua organização estiverem prontos para a migração a Windows Vista e ao usuário 2008 de Windows.

O que mim signifique perto AGENT-LESS inventário? Posto simplesmente, não significa que você não necessita lançar nenhuns agentes do software em algumas daquelas máquinas que você quer esta ferramenta inventory e perguntar - assim que não mais interesses da segurança e interruption do usuário!

Oferece o inventário rede-largo rápido das máquinas e gera relatórios da compatibilidade da ferragem e do dispositivo com recomendações actionable no formulário de originais automóvel-gerados da proposta - documentação perfeita para o seu ELE planeamento do projeto no ano fiscal novo!

A mais melhor parte é aquela

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Houve algum speculation em linha que Windows, Dell e (VERMELHO) está indo fazer um anúncio mais atrasada esta semana em Davos. Wouldn’t it be incredible if, through the simple act of choosing a PC, and at no extra cost to you, you could put someone living with AIDS in Africa on antiretroviral (ARV) treatment for more than six months? Windows, Dell and (RED) are proud to introduce our (PRODUCT) RED products later this week. Look for details in the coming days…

I’m relaying the following article on behalf of my colleague Shanen Boettcher, General Manager of Windows Product Management for the enterprise. It’s the first in a series of posts from Shanen exploring what we’re doing to make it simpler and easier to introduce and get the most out of virtualization of Windows in enterprise environments.

Today we’re making a series of announcements outlining our company-wide strategy for virtualization from the desktop to the datacenter.

For all the hype and excitement in the industry, the primary scenario of using machine-level hardware virtualization to consolidate server machines has been used on less than 10% of hardware servers. While virtualization started in server consolidation, it is only a small piece of the value offered by virtualization. Nowadays virtualization is not a single technology; instead, it is a collection of technologies that can be applied to all aspects of the server and the desktop. Less than 1% of desktops take advantage of virtualization and yet machine virtualization, application virtualization, presentation virtualization and even profile virtualization are upcoming virtualization techniques that when applied can increase the flexibility, business continuity, security and agility of desktop deployments. Application virtualization — the notion of reducing conflicts between

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Today Internet Explorer General Manager Dean Hachamovitch posted about an important milestone in the development of the next version of Internet Explorer, IE8. As of last week – 12 December, to be exact – the latest build correctly renders the Acid2 browser test in IE8 standards mode. As Dean points out, this is just one of many milestones ahead for Internet Explorer 8 and we can expect to hear more as further progress is made.

IE8 will be at MIX08, with a beta release due sometime in the first half of 2008.

If you have questions on IE8 and the team’s progress, those are best directed to the IE Team blog.

Hi all! It’s been a little bit over 2 months since my last blog on the Windows Vista Hardware Assessment 2.1 (WVHA) release back in August. You may wonder what our dev team is up to. Well, aside from getting the much needed rest, we have been busy working Read More……(read more)

Hi all! It’s been a little bit over 2 months since my last blog on the Windows Vista Hardware Assessment 2.1 (WVHA) release back in August. You may wonder what our dev team is up to. Well, aside from getting the much needed rest, we have been busy working on the NEXT version of the tool. Yes, we’re talking about a major expansion here. For those of you who haven’t heard of WVHA, it’s basically a network-wide readiness assessment tool that goes out to your network and securely assess each PC for their hardware and device compatibility for Windows Vista and 2007 Microsoft Office migration - click here for my detailed blog post.

Tool Expansion - Microsoft Assessment and Planning Solution Accelerator

This expansion will not only retain the original WVHA functionalities and the 7-language localization, but it will also incorporate many elements for the Windows Server 2008 wave and Microsoft Integrated Virtualization initiative. Imagine having the same agent-less inventory capabilities to survey the IT infrastructure of servers, applications and workstations and get back a series of assessment reports in an hour or two!

Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Solution Accelerator, the new name announced

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