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Well if you’ve been wondering just who I am I finally updated the About section of my blog.  (for those that are interested)

http://aspoc.net/about/

The Windows Automated Installation Kit (Windows AIK) is designed to help corporate IT professionals customize and deploy the Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 family of operation systems. By using Windows AIK, you can perform unattended Windows installations, capture Windows images with ImageX, and create Windows PE images.

Click here to download the kit…

…PS: This download is over 1GB.

Just a collection of downloads covering Vista SP1.

• Notable changes in Windows Vista SP1
• Overview of Windows Vista SP1
• Vista SP1 Release Notes

Office Communicator Server 2007 Visio stencils are now available from the MS Downloads site.

Overview:

The Office Communications Server 2007 Visio stencil contains icons for Office Communications Server 2007 server roles and components.

Click here to get the stencils…

MS recently updated three documents covering NAP (Network Access Protection).  Good reference materials for your ever growing library.

• Introduction to Network Access Protection
• Network Access Protection Policies in Windows Server 2008
• Network Access Protection Platform Architecture

I’ve been running SP1 since the early beta stages and have been very impressed with the performance and reliability improvements.  A recommended upgrade for any Vista user.

You can read more about the release here…

You can now download the latest version of Forefront for Exchange 2007 SP1 from the MS Downloads site.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=2ceb14d4-404b-4d8f-8a21-ebfc71b2e82b&displaylang=en&tm

Forefront Security for Exchange Server SP1 integrates multiple scan engines from industry-leading security firms into a comprehensive, layered solution, helping protect your Microsoft Exchange Server messaging environments from viruses, worms, spam, and inappropriate content.
This new release provides support for Exchange Server 2007 SP1 and Windows Server 2008, as well as content filtering and manageability enhancements. These enhancements include:

• Seamless support for organizations running IPv6.
• Improved content filtering with installable keyword lists that can be used to eliminate email containing profanity in eleven supported languages.
• Improved integration with Microsoft System Center Operations Manager through new management packs that allow administrators to proactively monitor the state of their Exchange 2007 protection.
• Increased flexibility for scanning or blocking high compression zip files and RAR archives.

Note: Forefront Security for Exchange users who are running Exchange 2007 RTM and wish to upgrade to Exchange 2007 SP1 must first upgrade to Forefront Security for Exchange SP1.

Hmmm…could be interesting.

http://blog.tmcnet.com/blog/tom-keating/microsoft/microsoft-assimilates-yahoo.asp

The guys over on the MS Performance Team blog just posted some great information about Windows 2008.

• Upgrade Paths for 2003 -> 2008
• Resource Limits of 32-bit and 64-bit
• Key Memory Management registry limits

Excerpt:

"It’s February 1, 2008.  Only twenty-six more days until Windows Server 2008 is released to the world.  With that in mind, we have twenty-six posts lined up between now and February 27 covering areas of Windows Server 2008 that contain both general information as well as specific posts that are relevant to what we support here on the Performance team.  So without further ado, let’s dive right in, beginning with the upgrade paths available for Windows Server 2008 shown in the table below:"

Click here for the rest of the article…