Microsoft Datacentre Security & Management Update – July

We’ll start this week with a sneak preview of the next version of Windows Server codenamed “Windows Server 8″ this article has a recording of the session on private cloud from the Microsoft World Partner Conference a couple of weeks ago.

Continuing the theme of that last few weeks on Forefront Threat Management Gateway Deb Shinder’s Blog take you through creating a VPN Clients Access Rule for PPTP, L2TP and SSTP. It also includes how to block access to certain categories of website when users are connected via the VPN.

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TD Activate-here is a new initiative that makes it really simple, and profitable, to buy and deliver top-selling Microsoft software to end-customers, within seconds

TD Activate-here gives resellers in France, Germany, the UK and Sweden the opportunity to sell a wider range of products and improve attach-sell rates of software with sales of PCs, laptops and tablets by giving customers 100% availability on a complete portfolio of the top 20 retail sku’s, for instant electronic delivery minutes after purchasing them.

The service consists of a web portal, which can be white-labelled by the reseller, and a set of back-office processes, which are totally seamless to the end customer, that enables Tech Data partners to provide easy activation for a wide range of software packages. The portal is a simple access point for the end customer to retrieve their activation code and download if needed. This will enable retailers, web stores and resellers addressing the consumer and small business market to offer a comprehensive range of products without having to order and hold physical stock in advance.

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Symantec Endpoint Protection 12 Provides Best Protection, Performance in Virtual Environments

Symantec engaged with a number of well-known third-party testing organizations to benchmark Symantec Endpoint Protection 12 against competing products in the areas of protection and performance – so we thought we would put their press release on the blog.

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Eco System Specialism

How much thought do you give to the Eco system of your specialism?

Fear not this isn’t a twist on the Darwinist argument; more the opportunity to raise awareness on just how broad your speciality probably is.

Let’s run with an obvious one first which is the Microsoft Voice product range.  This is typically the hardest item to deliver to any reseller who’s first question is; “How do we make money out of it?”  The answer in all likelihood is that you don’t.  Obviously this is a fantastic business proposition then…(!)  What you do make money from is the Eco-system and the services in providing it.

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Interested in Virtualisation? Read the Microsoft Datacentre Security & Management Update

If you’re interested in Virtualisation, whether its Microsoft VDI Suite, Remote Desktop Services, Windows Thin PC, App-V or User State Virtualization and you have some time to spare, be it half an hour or half a day, the TechNet “Dive into Microsoft Virtualization” sessions will provide you with a wealth of knowledge and resources about the topics.

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McAfee makes significant investments to enable partners to sell McAfee security solutions into SMB

McAfee is making significant investments to enable partners to sell McAfee security solutions to Small and Mid-size Businesses (SMB) so we thought it was a good idea to put their press release up here on the C2000 blog.

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Unified Comms; information overload or organised chaos?

Last week I went on a time management course; ignoring the irony that I had to cancel two appointments to make it and subsequently worked until 2am Friday morning to catch up, it was a worthwhile experience.

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CPU liquid cooling – Antec’s KUHLER H2O Series Review Round-up

Liquid cooling for CPUs are a preferred method of cooling for many gamers due to its superior heat transferring characteristics. Antec have recently brought a new CPU cooler to the market, which could set the standard.  We have teamed up with Antec for this Blog.

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Microsoft Datacentre Security & Management Update – July 2

We’ll start with System Centre Operations Manager this week and the news that 2 new management packs have been released, they deal with BitLocker and CRM. Secondly with Operations Manager I was on a customer’s site the other week and the account used to run reporting had been configured to allow the password to expire. This of course caused issues with reporting this article helped to get it fixed.

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Microsoft Datacentre Security & Management Update – July

Microsoft Datacentre Security & Management Update

Finding the correct information about System Center products quickly and easily can prove a challenge and blogs can be an invaluable resource in this area, but which one do you need to look at? Well this post lists together all the Microsoft System Center team blogs.

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