“Today is the day that the Windows Phone team has been driving towards, and we’re very excited to say that we’ve reached the biggest milestone for our internal team – the release to manufacturing (RTM) of Windows Phone 7!”, so Terry Myerson in his blog.
So we can stay tuned and wait for the new phones to be shipped.
I can confirm that Forefront TMG doesn’t work after installing SP1 for Exchange 2010 if you’re having TMG, Forefront Protection 2010 for Exchange Server and Exchange Server 2010 Edge bundled on one server (like promoted by Microsoft).
With the installation of the Service Pack 1 for Exchange the powershell command “Get-AntispamUpdates” gets removed. Forefront TMG still uses this command. As a result of that, the Forefront TMG Managed Control service won’t start up.
At the moment there seams to be no solution from Microsoft for the issue. If you maybe have on please comment on that blogpost.
Update:
I have opened a Microsoft support call this morning. I already got answer from Microsoft a couple of minutes ago. Currently this behaviour is reproducable within Microsoft and has been filed as a “bug”. Microsoft is currently working on an hotfix for the Get-AntispamUpdates issue. I’ll inform you as soon there is the hotfix for download.
The waiting is over! Exchange 2010 SP1 is available for download here: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=199950
So what is new?
Archiving and Discovery Enhancements
With the release of Exchange Server 2010 last November, integrated archiving capabilities aimed at helping you preserve and discover e-mail data. In SP1,this archiving functionality is enhanced . This includes adding the flexibility to provision a user’s Personal Archive to a different mailbox database from their primary mailbox. This means your organization can now more easily implement separate storage strategies (or tiered storage) for less frequently accessed e-mail. Also new server side capabilities were added so you can import historical e-mail data from .PST files, directly into Exchange, as well as IT pro controls to enable delegate access to a user’s Personal Archive.
To help streamline the implementation of retention policies, SP1 updates the Exchange Management Console with new tools to create Retention Policy Tags, so you can automate the deletion and archiving of e-mail and other Exchange items. New optional Retention Policy Tags give you even more flexibility in defining your organizations retention management strategy.
Lastly, several improvements were made to the Multi-Mailbox Search features, which can be used to conduct e-Discovery of e-mail for legal, regulatory or other reasons. A new search preview helps with, for example, early case assessment by providing you an estimate on the number of items in the result set-with keyword statistics-before e-mail located in the search are copied to the designated discovery mailbox. And, you now have a new search result de-duplication option, that when checked, only copies one instance of a message to the discovery mailbox. This can help you reduce the amount of e-mail you need to review following the search. Finally, added support for annotation of reviewed items means you can make your e-Discovery workflow even more efficient and less time consuming or costly.
Outlook Web App
OWA gets a significant facelift with SP1 as well. With new work to pre-fetch message content, the OWA reading experience becomes faster. With delete, mark as read, and categorize operations running asynchronously, these actions feel instantaneous to the user. We’ve also made sure that certain long running operations, such as attaching a very large file, will not block the rest of the OWA experience, protecting the user from irritating web UI hang-ups. You’ll see a number of other UI improvements as well to de-clutter a bit; helping make it easier to find common tasks with updated action icons and menus. The simpler UI will make OWA much friendlier to the smaller screens of ever popular Netbooks. Users will also be able to share their calendars to anonymous viewers via the web, assuming you enable this functionality as the admin.
In RTM, Information Rights Management (IRM) capabilities in OWA were delievered, allowing you to read and compose IRM-protected messages just like you’ve been able to do with Outlook in the past. In SP1, you’ll be able to add Web-Ready Document Viewing of IRM-protected documents as well and you’ll be able to do so in Safari on a Mac as well as in Firefox or IE on a PC.
Mobility
While Exchange Active Sync (EAS) has become the de facto standard for mobile communication, there is no resting on any laurels in Redmond. In SP1, mobile users will be treated with tether-free IRM support in EAS, enabling you to send and receive IRM-protected mail without having previously connected your device to Windows Mobile Device Center to provision IRM. Updated EAS capabilities also enable support for send-as, support for notifying the user if their device has been placed on block or quarantine by their admin, full implementation of conversation view including the ability to sync only unique parts of messages. Also, for those users who need help setting up their mobile device to access mail via POP/IMAP/SMTP, we’ve added information in OWA to provide them the server names for these services.
For Example: “Crackdown 2: Project Sunburst”. This is a tower defense game that uses real locations as the gaming world thanks the Bing maps. Defend the big landmark in your city or even your own house!
For all the news about the first wave of games visit: http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2010/aug10/08-16winphonegames.mspx
Microsoft’s COO Kevin Turner has clarified earlier this week the launch date for Windows 7 Phone: In October, the smartphone will be available in Europe, starting in November in the U.S.
Some things have been clarified via Microsoft’s “technical evangelist” Frank Prengel: The synchronization of emails, addresses and contacts is done via protocols such as IMAP and Exchange, so that not only Microsoft services are available, but for example, and Google contacts. The photo application integrates images from Facebook and Windows Live services such as Flickr or Picasa, you could potentially aggregate via Windows Live. Music and video come via USB Sync or via Zune or via Microsfts’ SkyDrive onto the device.
Office documents, you get via Office SharePoint Cloud service, or simply loaded USB or mail. Notes in OneNote are automatically synchronized. Other Cloud services like Google Docs or drop box are at the moment not supported.
So be sure, I’ll try to get on of these new devices asap. I’ll keep you updated on the features and the look and feel.
The following Microsoft products are downloadable on MSDN and Technet since last night.
Vist eather http://technet.microsoft.com or http://msdn.microsoft.com for the downlods.
Since a couple of hours the SQL Server 2008 R2 is ready to donwload in the MSDN and Technet portals.
If you aren’t able to attend one of the many worldwide SQL Server 2008 R2 launch events, can view a SQL Server 2008 R2 Digital Tour at www.sqlserverlaunch.com.
Feature Summary
Download the System Center Data Protection Manager 2010 Trial here: http://www.microsoft.com/systemcenter/en/us/data-protection-manager/dpm-try-it.aspx#Down
System Center Essentials 2010 provides IT professionals a unified physical and virtual management experience.
Microsoft® System Center Essentials 2010 provides IT professionals in mid-sized organizations, a unified physical and virtual management experience. It enables you to better secure, update, monitor, and troubleshoot from a single console, so you can efficiently and proactively manage your IT environment.
Feature Summary
Download System Center Essentials 2010 Trial here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/ee470677.aspx
the following products are now avaliable for download: