The lowdown on Windows Multipoint Server; Microsoft out of 'the doghouse' on security

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	Introducing Windows Multipoint Server 2010 Tyson Kopczynski: Microsoft has just released a new product called Windows MultiPoint Server 2010 which is based on Windows Server 2008 R2 and designed to allow a number of users to simultaneously share access to a single PC workstation. Keep in mind that these instances of Window 7 have certain limitations and are far from being mobile. Read More WHITE PAPER: Tripwire A Holistic Approach to Compliance Makes Business Sense IT management has tremendous incentive to figure out a new, more effective and comprehensive approach to meeting information security and compliance goals. This webcast will explore those pain points, the solutions, and the best practices organizations should consider to make strategic information security an enabler of business value. Learn More! In this Issue Microsoft out of 'the doghouse' on security, analyst says SSIS 2008 Lookup Caching Governance Planning for SharePoint 2010: What's New? Behaving Badly with SQL Server SSIS 2008 Panasonic doesn't want to be another TomTom, licenses Microsoft's exFAT File-sharing risk a company's responsibility to restrict Microsoft publishes Outlook PST files, but uses funky patent language Upgrading from the DPM 2010 Beta to RC Go to the head of the class: just-in-time training for SharePoint 2010 Confer Simplifies Micro-Blogging, Chat and Social Networking for Enterprises SQL Server 2005 SP4 or SQL Server 2008 SP2? From Microsoft Subnet WHITE PAPER: Splunk Make IT Data a Strategic Asset This paper outlines the struggles organizations face managing silos of IT data and how, using Splunk, users are changing the way they do their jobs and elevating the role of IT in their organizations. Learn More! Microsoft out of 'the doghouse' on security, analyst says Robert Mullins: Microsoft's reputation for lax software security used to be so bad that one of the guys who runs it, Scott Charney, corporate vice president of the company's Trustworthy Computing initiative, said at last year's RSA Conference that friends laughed when he used the words "security" and "Microsoft" in the same sentence. Read More SSIS 2008 Lookup Caching Brian Egler: Integration Services 2008 has a new Lookup transformation that includes a caching option that allows lookups to execute much faster than before. Read More Governance Planning for SharePoint 2010: What's New? Susan Hanley: What new aspects of governance you need to think about for SharePoint 2010? Here's a preview, Read More Behaving Badly with SQL Server SSIS 2008 Brian Egler: With SQL Server 2008 being an incremental release you would have thought that upgrading packages from SSIS 2005 would be fairly straight forward. Not so fast. Read More WHITE PAPER: HP WAN Design – Don't Buy More than You Need This Gartner research note examines the methodology organizations should employ when designing a WAN. It offers advice on how to ensure that important applications are networked with sufficient performance and that there is not an "overspend" on less important applications and provides guidance on meeting unique network needs. Read Now. Panasonic doesn't want to be another TomTom, licenses Microsoft's exFAT Microsoft Subnet blog: Looks like Microsoft will continue to reap patent licensing fees from many a flash-storage device maker (a sore issue for the Linux community). Panasonic has entered into a licensing agreement for Microsoft's Extended File Allocation Table (exFAT) technology. Read More File-sharing risk a company's responsibility to restrict Robert Mullins: The Washington Post published an alarming story about the risk to company computer networks from employees who visit file sharing sites to acquire music, software or videos for personal use. Read More Microsoft publishes Outlook PST files, but uses funky patent language Microsoft today published the technical specifications for its Outlook 2010PST files. Microsoft had promised in October that it would do so. Read More Upgrading from the DPM 2010 Beta to RC The Data Protection Manager 2010 RC has been out in the wild for a couple weeks now. Read More WHITE PAPER: Riverbed WAN Optimization Can Multiply IT Efficiencies Data center consolidation, regulatory compliance and a more distributed environment are some of the IT initiatives making a comprehensive and robust disaster recovery plan more important than ever before. The Enterprise Strategy Group highlights trends in DR, the role of virtualization and the impact of WAN optimization. Learn more. Go to the head of the class: just-in-time training for SharePoint 2010 Susan Hanley: There is an ever growing set of documentation and training available for SharePoint 2010 - months before the official release. Read More Confer Simplifies Micro-Blogging, Chat and Social Networking for Enterprises Alpa Agarwal: Based in North-East Ohio, Confer's is the quintessential startup story. Read More SQL Server 2005 SP4 or SQL Server 2008 SP2? Brian Egler: Recently, because of customer requests, Microsoft announced that SP4 for SQL Server 2005 would be released by the end of the calendar year 2010. It was also announced that SP2 for SQL Server 2008 would be released earlier in Q3 2010. 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