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Windows Server 8 online backup beta

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Microsoft is now offering a beta of its new cloud backup service for Windows Server 8, for customers who want to test the Azure-based service. This gives you the ability to back up data over the Internet and recover it from the cloud storage location, so that you don’t have to worry about hardware costs and maintenance. The service also offers advanced features, including block level incremental backups, compression and encryption. The catch? It works only with Windows Server 8 – not with any previous versions of the OS (and with Windows 8 client, either). http://www.crn.com/news/storage/232700523/microsoft-details-windows-server-8-online-backup-offers-beta.htm

Security considerations for Platform as a Service (PaaS)

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What are the main security issues when deploying a Platform as a Service (PaaS) model of cloud computing such as Windows Azure? The shared development environment presents some unique challenges, include those involving authentication, access control and authorization. Working with distributed applications and storage and data security issues are also important. This article over on the Microsoft TechNet Wiki provides an overview of some of the most important security considerations for PaaS and provides some guidance on how the role of security mechanisms in the PaaS cloud can differ from on-premise solutions. Check it out here: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/3809.aspx

Citrix and Amazon AWS Partnership

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Citrix recently announced engineering support to Amazon for the optimization of Citrix products and Windows applications that run on Amazon Web Services (AWS). This effort will further enhance interoperability and performance of Windows workloads on AWS, while ensuring continued innovation for the Xen® virtualization platform. Citrix will also work to extend these optimizations to on-premise deployments of its commercial server virtualization platform, Citrix XenServer®, making it easier for customers to seamlessly migrate workloads between enterprise datacenters and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). As a result, AWS customers will be able to take advantage of the extensive expertise Citrix provides in virtualizing and optimizing the delivery of Windows workloads. Citrix's Simon Crosby point's out some key take-aways for Citrix customers: You can expect seamless manageability for private and hosted workloads, with role-based, end-to end management, from any enterprise virtualization platform, to the cloud. A Citrix XenServer customer will be able to simply use XenCenter to manage their hosted workloads This announcement is good news for another great partner: Microsoft. The Azure VM Role thus far offers only an ephemeral instance model for Windows Server 2008 R2 VMs. Our collaboration with Amazon will enable Microsoft's Enterprise customers (and SPLA consumers) to confidently select AWS for their most demanding non-ephemeral workloads. Citrix is committed to offering customers a set of solutions that embrace cloud computing and seamlessly extend the enterprise in

Windows Phone 7 for the Enterprise

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Augusto and Rob immediately start showing demos of how Windows Phone 7 WP7 provides great value for the enterprise. Augusto demos some enterprise productivity scenarios with Outlook, PowerPoint, SharePoint on WP7. Rob demos some enterprise application capabilities on WP7 such as the ability to store data locally on the app and synchronize with Windows or SQL Azure. We also get into the enterprise management and security capabilities of WP7. We provide some developer and IT Pro reasons why WP7 stands out from the mobile smart phone competition like the iPhone. Finally, get some good resources to learn more about WP7. Watch the video at: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-US/edge/Gg405039(MSDN.10)?query=1 Cheers, Anderson Patricio http://blogs.msexchange.org/patricio Twitter: @apatricio

The Reality of Virtual Desktops

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VDI is a hot buzz-word. A lot of vendors are betting on an emerging market with VDI to take off. Today, VDI has 1% or less of the market share of desktops. However, Microsoft, Gartner, and IDC predict that VDI will reach a 30% market share in 2010 and a 60% market share in 2012. Those are some bold predictions. Benny Tritsch puts some of this into perspective in a recent blog post. Benny explores these claims, talks a little about Citrix versus VMware versus Microsoft in the VDI space, and throws in some information about Silverlight and Azure. Continue at source… Technorati : Azure, Citrix, Microsoft, VDI, VMware Del.icio.us : Azure, Citrix, Microsoft, VDI, VMware

How to Use Smart Encryption Techniques for Cloud Apps

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“As you know, if you use Visual Studio, you can already develop in Azure. That's great news as you can apply encryption to your cloud app. Join Katheryn Baker as she explains the basics behind encryption algorithms and practices used to create cryptographic schemes. Learn more about symmetric and asymmetric encryption algorithms, the SHA256 hash encryption algorithms, and how to implement in a simple application…” Presented by Katheryn Baker, Exsilio Consulting on February 5, 2009Length: 11 minutes 26 seconds http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/security/dd442480.aspx HTH, Tom Thomas W Shinder, M.D., MCSESr. Consultant / Technical Writer Prowess Consulting www.prowessconsulting.com PROWESS CONSULTING | Microsoft Forefront Security SpecialistEmail: [email protected] MVP – Forefront Edge Security (ISA/TMG/IAG)

Exchange Online Developer Guide

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Microsoft released the Exchange Online Developer Guide. OverviewThis document shows how to use exchange web services to programmatically communicate with exchange online. Some key scenarios such as integration with Azure are also documented. Related Resources Microsoft Onlone TechCenter Table of ContentsIntroduction
About Exchange Online
Features of Exchange Online
Exchange Web Services
Requirements
Using Autogenerated Proxy
Proxy Generation
Creating a Proxy Reference
Adding a Web Reference to a Visual Studio 2008 Project
Creating an Exchange Web Services Client Application1
Available Operations
Autodiscover Service
Autodiscover Lookup Logic
Autodiscover Service Sample Application
Integration Scenarios
Integration with Microsoft Dynamics AX 4.0
Task 1: Create the Wrapper Class
Task 2: Add Reference of the Wrapper Class
Task 3: Invoke the Wrapper Class
Integration with Windows Azure
Task 1: Create an Online Project
Task 2: Create a Web Cloud Service
Task 3: Deploy Web Cloud Service on Windows Azure
Windows Azure Resources
Generating an Exchange Web Services Proxy for Java
Prepare the Java-Related WSDL File
Generate the Proxy
Create a Java Project
Create the Java Client Application
More Information
Appendix: Autodiscover Sample Application
Sample Application Overview
Code Sample for Autodiscover Call

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