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BDD 2007 Beta Updated for Windows Vista RC1 Business Desktop Deployment (BDD) 2007 Beta 2 is now available for download on Microsoft Connect. BDD 2007 provides end-to-end guidance and automation for large-scale deployment of Microsoft® Windows Vista and the 2007 Microsoft Office system.

Always playing catch-up to the competition, but the boys from Redmond eventually get there and many time surpass the competition’s efforts. Such is the case with Word 2007, which now supports Blogging among many, many, many other items. I'll be using this from time-to-time to see if I prefer it over some of the other WYSIWYG and offline editors. More to come...

I am very pleased to announce the public Beta release of System Center Capacity Planner (SCCP). This release marks the completion of application models of Exchange 2003 and MOM 2005. It incorporates feedback received from previously released private Beta and the TAP airlift held in August. SCCP Public Beta Capabilities What scenarios will it solve: Customers and System Integrators can create green-field deployment plans for Exchange 2003 and MOM 2005. SCCP prescribes a System Architecture Model based

Active Directory Migration Toolkit (ADMT) is the strategic offering from Microsoft that assists you in solving technical and business problems pertaining to restructuring of your Active Directory environments, as well as transitioning from NT4.0 to Active Directory. ADMTv3 enhances the rich feature set of v2 with a new backend database, support for simultaneous migration tasks, multiple ADMT consoles with delegation, agent enhancements, full object rename, and a host of other improvements. Active

You needed to accomplish a particular task, and you wanted to use a script. You checked the Script Center (always your first step of course). What? It’s not there? Okay, so then you searched the Internet. No luck. You sent email to the Scripting Guys to see if your question showed up in a Hey, Scripting Guy! article, and…Nothing. You looked everywhere, explored all avenues, and couldn’t find the script you were looking for. What did you do? After hours of hard work and research

Have the stars begun falling? Has hell really frozen over? Is the world as we know it coming to an end? Could MSN and AOL really become America on MSN? Being in the middle of Microsoft valley you tend to hear things on the street before they actually hit the mainstream media. Most of the time you take it with a grain of salt, but after hearing about a potential MSN/AOL merger a few days ago and now starting to see it actually hit the press, I think I'll listen to those around me a little more closely

The DPM Management Pack monitors the state of data protection and recovery for DPM servers and the file servers that they protect, and monitors key health and performance indicators on DPM servers. http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=3906256

The AVICode .NET management pack (Operations Edition) extends MOM to monitor health of ASP.NET and Web Services applications providing probable cause information for application failures. http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=3906254