MDOP 2010 Refresh – ROCKS! – The tools for an IT Administrator (Isvet Laclaustra)

The newest version of MDOP is Ready…

MDOP 2010 Refresh includes the Tools we know get the job done, one the most famous is the ERD plus the other tools made by Mark.

Also the Virtualization options for applications and desktops has been optimized.

Details later this week.

 

Isvet Laclaustra – MVP

Exchange 2010 – Whats New?

Microsoft helps us comply with Industry’s requirements as well as with user demands… no more mobile than ever!

In a nutshell what is offered by Exchange 2010:

For businesses, highlights include:

• New integrated archiving and discovery capabilities.

• New unified mailbox resilience model that provides high availability, disaster recovery, and back up capabilities.

• Ability to easily delegate administration to specialized users, such the help desk or a compliance officer.

• Comprehensive information protection capabilities—from e-mail moderation to automatic e-mail encryption.

• The choice to run Exchange on-premises, as a service hosted by Microsoft or as a hybrid of both.

For users, highlights include:

• A consistent inbox, calendaring, and contacts experience across the PC, browser and phone.

• Integrated conversation view bringing together information across all folders, inbox and sent and deleted items.

• Ability to remove (or "mute") themselves from irrelevant conversations with the click of a button.

• Text preview of voice mail messages in the inbox.

• New Call Answering Rules to easily create customized voice mail rules, such as call transfer options.

• Mail Tips to notify users about potential mistakes before they send e-mail.

More info at http://www.microsoft.com/exchange/2010/en/us/whats-new.aspx

Exchange 2010 and PowerShell… Perfect!

In the following weeks we will be conducting an Exchange 2010 class and the true power of POWER SHELL will be unleashed/

Manage risk with protection and compliance capabilities

A growing number of applications and devices access your e-mail infrastructure, so it is more important than ever that you consider the protection of your mission critical e-mail data when you choose an e-mail solution. Your organization has many reasons to protect and archive e-mail, from regulatory concerns to internal organizational governance. Exchange 2010 delivers integrated information protection, control, and compliance tools focused on helping you simplify and automate this process:

• New integrated, out-of-the-box e-mail archiving gives you tools to preserve e-mail data without changing the experience for your users or IT staff. Combined with the flexibility provided by the Exchange storage architecture, you can take control of your corporate e-mail data with a personal archive that seamlessly surfaces in both Outlook and Outlook Web App.

A new retention policy framework allows your IT staff to define, deploy, and automate the expiry and archiving of e-mail data. In addition to default policies set by your IT staff, your users can select and apply retention policies to individual messages or folders. And Exchange 2010 adds a new legal hold policy that retains and places on hold any edits or deletions of e-mail data that users make. A simplified e-Discovery process with a new Web-based multi-mailbox search feature. This easy-to-use capability can be delegated to specialist users, like a compliance officer, without providing the users full administrative privileges.

Learn more about archiving, retention, and discovery.

New Transport Protection Rules help you safeguard sensitive business information. You can automatically apply Information Rights Management (IRM) policies to both e-mail and voice mail messages, after they have been sent, based on a range of message content criteria.

Learn more about information protection and control.

Exchnage 2010… mail / service administrators will surely appreciate it!

Isvet Laclaustra – MVP

Windows 7 MDT 2010 continues to PERFORM… GOVERNMENT uses MDT for easy FAST Deploy (Isvet Laclaustra)

Windows 7 Deployment is a SIMPLE ATSK with MDT 2010 innovative tools!

The beauty provided by the Springboard Series = Microsoft … provides a simple integration of System Center Configuration Manager 2007 task sequences and WAIK for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2.

The guided tool, MDT 2010, incorporates Step by Step guides, clear HELP solutions, easy “See to Believe” magic!

During the past weeks we have been exchanging knowledge with the a variety of Government agencies planning to deploy Windows 7 in their environments.

Manny are the reasons for IT Director currently considering a REFRESH from Windows 2000, & XP to Windows 7.

The SIMPLE MDT 2010 integration of technologies like WAIK, Win PE, SIM, Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 & R2 make it very easy to plan, test and REFRESH the production environments.

For details see the PUBLIC folder in my Sky Drive = Windows 7 and look for MDT 2010.

Having fun!

Isvet – MVP

Windows 7 with XP Mode now available with out VT – Makes it EASY! ( Isvet Laclaustra)

Yes!

 

Since “XP Mode” for Windows 7 provided a “Patch” to remove the requirement of VT for Windows Virtual PC in Windows 7 now almost any computer can be upgraded to Windows 7 and still comply with old applications that ran in XP.

The true simple install and deploy of Windows 7 has received a TRUE boost of capability since XP Mode & Windows Virtual PC can assure the life of an old application for productions environments and of course testing scenarios.

XP mode is a very light .VHD of XP Professional that integrates with Windows Virtual PC, successor of  Virtual PC 2007 Sp1.

With XP Mode you can use the Old application no compatible with Windows 7 guides and still get the work done… XP mode comes even with IE 6 for those Web applications still not updated with windows 7 features and constraints.

Have XP Mode in production environments with several old and very, very, very, OLD legacy applications and it works like a BEAUTY.

More information later.

Isvet Laclaustra – MVP