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Active Directory Group Policy Object (GPO) Delegation and Approval Workflow With AGPM 3.0 in MDOP 2008 R2Yesterday

In the TechNet Webcast: Microsoft Solutions for Windows Vista Management (Level 300), I will demo a number of capabilities includnig Microsoft Advanced Group Policy Management (AGPM) 3.0 for managing Vista desktops and Windows environment in general. AGPM 3.0 is one of the 5 components in Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack for Software Assurance (MDOP) 2008 R2. AGPM enables the change-approval workflow of Group Policy Objects (GPOs) and is something I thought worth a special introduction here. Meanwhile I am also developing a screencast and will publish it here soon.

AGPM is to help customers better manage GPOs, particularly those with complex information technology (IT) environments. A robust delegation model, role-based administration, and change-request approval provide granular administrative control as described in the overview whitepaper and

SQL Server VirtualizationNovember 27

Last week at the SQL PASS Conference, one of the topics that got alot of buzz was virtualization of SQL Server.  I had a chance to sit down and chat with Joe Yong from Scalability Experts and get his expert advice on the subject.  Joe has some great suggestions and best practices on using SQL Server with Hyper-V.

Forefront Server for Exchange v2 featuresNovember 26

Mike Chan, Product Manager for Forefront Server for Exchange (FSE), gives details around some of the new features in the next version of FSE and Stirling.  Here’s a little more about how the interview breaks down:

• [3:14] Exchange Hosted Filtering (EHF) vs Exchange on-premise - Decisions around, advantages of, and where we are headed with our solution
• [7:03] White listing with FSE and Stirling – implementation, automation, and a “Super reputation service”
• [13:30] Whiteboard session of mail flow with EHF and Stirling
• How Stirling can help with transition between EHF & On-Premise.
• Example of how Forefront Stirling uses ESAS to further secure your environment

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Microsoft Office Groove 2007 Workspace Replication Upon Acceptance of InvitationNovember 25

This blog explains how a Groove 2007 client behaves differently from a Groove 3.x client on the replication of a workspace.

Upon a client's acceptance of a Groove workspace invitation, the current content of the workspace is replicated via a Groove cloud to the client's end. I am here referring a Groove cloud as the network infrastructure required to establish Groove connectivity between two Groove clients either directly or with Groove Server Relay. This is whenevery workspace member gets an initial copy of a workspace replicated to ones local Groove device when first joining a workspace. Where a new workspace member to acquire an initial copy of a workspace in Groove 2007 is different form that in Groove 3.x however.

Groove 2007 has a flexible scheme of workspace replication. (See the Groove 2007 protocol slide.) All the members who were online at the time when a workspace invitation was created can carry out workspace replication. For instance, let's assume when Alice created a workspace invitation

What is new in DPM 2007 SP1 -- for protecting SharePointNovember 24

This segment continues our series on "What is new in Service Pack 1" for System Center Data Protection Manager 2007.

In this installment, we look at the new SP1 features for enhancing protection of SharePoint 2003/2007 and WSS 2.0/3.0.

We are still tracking for a December release of SP1, so keep looking for more videos on SP1 -- and please tell us what feature you'd like us to cover next !