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Great news we have just released Microsoft Security Essentials more info here: Introducing Microsoft Security Essentials
Microsoft Security Essentials provides real-time protection for your home PC that guards against viruses, spyware, and other malicious software.
Time to update all your PCs, no excuse not to be protected :)
[updated on December 21, 2009: US locations and dates are now: http://blogs.msdn.com/chrisfie/archive/2009/11/25/microsoft-project-2010-ignite-us-training-location-and-dates-in-march-2010.aspx]
We are pleased to announce a series of Microsoft Project 2010 in-person training events targeted for Microsoft Partners and Microsoft Field in consulting, sales, and marketing roles.
Register for the appropriate track and location now!
Following Project Conference 2009, it’s great to see the number of solutions that have been created to extend the out of the box capabilities of Microsoft Project Server 2007 (PS07) timesheet capabilities. All these solutions demonstrate the two key pillars of timesheets in Project Server 2007: scalability and extensibility. With its new queuing mechanism PS07 can easily handle thousands of timesheets per hour (see this whitepaper for scalability lab results: Microsoft Office Project Server 2007 Performance Testing Lab – English). Additionally PS07 offers fully documented API (Project Server Interface timesheet web services are fully documented in the SDK) and hence enables rich extensibility as demonstrated below with this impressive list of solution built by Microsoft and partners.
To learn more about about the out of the box PS07 capabilities check this diagram: Timesheeting and Statusing Data Flow Diagram
As disclosed at the Project Conference in Phoenix two weeks ago, Project Server 2010 offers additional enhancements to timesheets/statusing: tied-mode, new user interface and Exchange integration.
If you know of any other partner solution around timesheet and statusing please send me an email and I will gladly update this blog post.
Following this post from last may: Solid State Drive/SSD and SharePoint Server, Project Server Demo Image Benchmark I have had the chance to test two more Solid State Drives to demo Project Server 2010/Server SharePoint Server 2010 at our Microsoft Project Conference event last week. Lots of you have been asking what hardware/software was used for the super fast keynote demos for instance. The answer a Dell Latitude E6400 Dual Core T9900 @ 3.06 GHz with 8GB, with Windows Server 2008 R2 and Hyper-V and most importantly a secondary hard drive: a 160GB Intel Solid State Drive (SSDSA2MH160G1GC).
Please find below results running on a Dell E6400 for the following two SSD:
Key Takeaways:
I have also tested the Samsung on a HP 8530W (2 Intel Extreme Q9300 @2.53 GHz (four core), 8GB + Windows Server 2008 R2) and found similar results, more CPU does help but does not improve performance as much as a faster SSD.
Related links:
Excellent Microsoft Project 2010 Q&A from my colleague Doug: Latest Q & A on Project 2010 , including how to access beta
One of my favorite videos from last week, plenty more here: http://www.youtube.com/user/MSFTProject
Might missed some but thanks to BING please find below what I have seen so far (excluding plenty of great blog posts/tweets from the experts in the community), first as a reminder the official Microsoft Project Virtual Press Kit is here (contains videos, screenshots, etc…)
Please check out Vincent Capitaine’s post for the equivalent French press articles: Microsoft Project 2010 : rapide revue de presse (Internet) francophone
As disclosed last week during the Project Conference, Project Server 2010 will be built on SharePoint Enterprise 2010 (more info. here: Microsoft Project Conference 2009 – Project 2010 Keynote Videos); so as I mentioned to Ignite attendees in Phoenix, going forward you need to know your SharePoint 2010, hence please register or send your top architect to the upcoming SharePoint Conference in Last Vegas in less than a month; the event is selling out fast (SharePoint Conference 2009 Update: We’re SELLING OUT FAST!) so hurry if you have not done so already. If you can’t make it you should also consider this readiness event: SharePoint Ignite SharePoint 2010 Partner Training for SharePoint 2007 Partners!
As mentioned before, we will have Project 2010 sessions and presence at the event: Microsoft Project 2010 Events This Fall
I am still looking for volunteers that have experience with Project and Project Server 2010 to staff the Project kiosk and answer questions on 2010, so if you are planning to come and/or considering it send me an email. I will fund an exhibitor pass to help with the kiosk but as mentioned above I highly recommend registering to the full event.
For those of you who missed the Project Conference 2009 last week, the Project 2010 keynote recordings from both Ludovic Hauduc and Chris Capossela are available here, additionally check out our official site here: http://www.microsoft.com/project/2010/en/us/default.aspx:
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/presskits/projectserver/default.aspx
Official press pass from MSFT: Microsoft Unveils Microsoft Project 2010
Part of the next wave of Office-related products, Microsoft Project 2010 helps customers reduce costs, improve efficiency, and simplify project and portfolio management.
Similar to SharePoint 2010, notice how the “Office” has been removed from the name:
We officially disclosed the next version of the EPM solution at the Project Conference 2009 in Phoenix this morning: Microsoft Project 2010
It’s so exciting to finally be able to discuss the next version to the outside world and how it will solve our customer’s needs. This is the beginning of a journey to a milestone release.
Microsoft Project 2010, generally available next year, will provide teams and organizations of all sizes with the right project collaboration tools, and a pathway to step up to more advanced Project and Portfolio Management capabilities as their needs evolve.
http://www.microsoft.com/project/en/us/default.aspx