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	Conficker found on 25% of enterprise Windows PCs, Microsoft says Microsoft Subnet blog: Conficker was far and away the most prevalent threat found on Windows machines in the second half of 2009 in the enterprise, Microsoft says. Read More WHITE PAPER: Dell Address Server Sprawl The data center at DeKalb Medical had reached capacity. Physical space was maxed out and power utilization was at 90%. See how they embarked upon a virtualization and server consolidation project that dramatically accelerated new application development. Learn More In this Issue Imagine Cup 2010 IT Challenge Final Competition Blog For once, a Windows debacle not Microsoft's fault Imagining a world without MIcrosoft Express yourself with SSIS Variables… Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 Environment Management Best Practices Hitachi, Microsoft joins ranks of those selling the "Cisco-less" data center Why do I refuse to buy anything from Apple? Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 Design, Planning, and Implementation Best Practices Microsoft to fix broken IE security, warns of hole in WS 2000 and kills Forefront's Stirling Microsoft Formally Announces DPM 2010 and Service Mgr 2010 Service Manager 2010 Change Control Management Best Practices From Microsoft Subnet WHITE PAPER: HP Quadruple VMs without Increasing NICs IDC: As companies roll out blade-based virtualization deployments, many find that they have limited choices for network I/O. Virtual machines not only help bring more applications onto each server but also place additional demand on network I/O. Learn to adress these challenge.s Click to continue Imagine Cup 2010 IT Challenge Final Competition Blog Rand Morimoto: Welcome everyone to the my Live Blog of the 2010 Imagine Cup IT Challenge! Over the next 40 or so continuous hours, I will be blogging the final competition of the IT Challenge. Read More For once, a Windows debacle not Microsoft's fault Robert Mullins: Not that they would engage in schadenfreude, but the security people at Microsoft likely at least breathed a sigh of relief this week that the blame for a security screw-up in Windows systems did not land on their doorstep. Read More Imagining a world without MIcrosoft Robert Mullins: Imagine for a moment a world without Microsoft as we know it today. Remake "It's a Wonderful Life" starring Bill Gates instead of Jimmy Stewart discovering how the world would be different if he hadn't been there. Read More Express yourself with SSIS Variables… Brian Egler: SQL Server Integration Services supports variables, both system and user-defined. This enables an SSIS package to be truly dynamic in almost any way we want. Read More WHITE PAPER: Double-Take Software Virtualization and Disaster Recovery The need to protect virtualized systems is paramount but organizations may not understand how vulnerable they are to disaster. This whitepaper discusses the challenges of protecting virtualized workloads and how Double-Take Software's solutions can help. Read Now. Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 Environment Management Best Practices Rand Morimoto: Here is a list of best practices in managing your VMM 2008 R2 environment. Read More Hitachi, Microsoft joins ranks of those selling the "Cisco-less" data center Microsoft Subnet blog: At the Microsoft Management Summit this week, Hitachi Data Systems demonstrated its soon-to-be released competitor to Cisco's Unified Computing System. Read More Why do I refuse to buy anything from Apple? Tyson Kopczynski: I'm sure my Apple loving friends are going to give me a hard time about this post. But, I can't just simply stand around anymore and watch everyone drink the poison laced Kool-Aid. Read More Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 Design, Planning, and Implementation Best Practices Rand Morimoto: I've got long list of advice for esigning and planning your VMM 2008 R2 rollout. Read More WHITE PAPER: Oracle Oracle Accelerate - Not Just Smart But Timely This video highlights the Oracle Accelerate program - a group of pre-configured, tested solutions that combine Oracle enterprise applications and rapid implementation tools with industry-specific bundles. The program reduces the time, complexity and cost of deploying Oracle and is implemented by highly trained partners. Learn More. Microsoft to fix broken IE security, warns of hole in WS 2000 and kills Forefront's Stirling Microsoft Subnet: Microsoft says that a hole demonstrated at Blackhat EU last week against IE will be patched in June. Read More Microsoft Formally Announces DPM 2010 and Service Mgr 2010 Rand Morimoto: At the keynote address at the Venician Hotel in Las Vegas, Microsoft President of Software and Tools, Bob Muglia, formally announced Data Protection Manager (DPM) 2010 and System Center Service Manager (SCSM) 2010. Read More Service Manager 2010 Change Control Management Best Practices Rand Morimoto: Here are a list of best practices relative to change control in your Service Manage 2010 Environment: Read More From Microsoft Subnet This is Network World's Microsoft Subnet news alert in which we focus on the top items from Microsoft Subnet, your daily source for Microsoft news, blogs, discussion items, security alerts, giveaways and more. Follow Microsoft Subnet on Twitter @microsoftsubnet 15 copies of Microsoft System Center Enterprise Suite Unleashed up for grabs Read More
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