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Microsoft has annonced a Go Live license for IIS 7.0, it?s for everyone who want?s to test IIS 7.0 in production or for hosting until the final product (Windows Server 2008) is released.

Read more and sign up for a free license here.

Microsoft has now annonced the official name for Longhorn Server – it will be Windows Server 2008 and you can download Windows Server 2008 beta 3 and see the newly lanuched Windows Server 2008 site at Microsoft.com.

See the Windows Server 2008 site here.

Saw this blog post at Brett’s blog, Microsoft has released an article about HTTP.SYS in Windows Vista and Longhorn. HTTP.sys Manageability in Windows Vista and Longhorn Server.

Download the article here.

Microsoft has released the presentation from the Microsoft Hosting Day. Here’s a complete overview of the released presentations.

Business Module Presentations

• Selling Hosted Messaging and Collaboration to Businesses (4.18 MB – .pdf file)
• The New Era of Software as a Service (SaaS) (10.1 MB – .pdf file)
• Windows-based Hosting (3.39 MB – .pdf file)
• Selling Customer Satisfaction to Businesses (2.32 MB – .pdf file)
• Partner with Microsoft for Success (2.64 MB – .pdf file)
• SPLA Licensing Class (4.05 KB – .pdf file)
• Marketing Best Practices (1.08 MB – .pdf file)
• Marketing Best Practices (1.08 MB – .pdf file)

Technical Presentations

• Hosting Services – Part 1 (2.58 MB – .pdf file)
• Hosting Services – Part 2 (2.70 MB – .pdf file)
• Virtual Server (790 KB – .pdf file)
• ASP, .NET 2.0, AJAX, and Expression (3.44 MB – .pdf file)
• Getting Started on Windows – Part 1 (1.43 MB – .pdf file)
• Getting Started on Windows – Part 2 (2.06 MB – .pdf file)
• Optimizing Windows-based Hosting (1.43 MB – .pdf file)
• IIS 7 Hosting (2.50 MB – .pdf file)
• Windows-based Hosting Core Infrastructure (3.70 MB – .pdf file)
• SharePoint Products And Technologies (3.52 MB – .pdf file)
• Microsoft.com Next Generation Platform (1.29 MB – .pdf file) 

Download them at source.

Today at the Microsoft Hosting Summit, Microsoft announced updates to two
solutions for hosting service providers:

• Microsoft Solution for Hosted Messaging and Collaboration (HMC) Version 4.0
• Microsoft Solution for Windows-based Hosting (WBH) Version 4.5. 

Following are key highlights:

The solutions take advantage of the enhancements to Microsoft Exchange
Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, improving communications
and information sharing, and work productivity for SMBs.

Utilizing Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, HMC 4.0 provides anywhere access
for users, built-in protection from spam and viruses, and operational
efficiency for IT administrators.

Windows-based Hosting Version 4.5 leverages SharePoint 3.0, which provides
40 customized templates designed to help address specific business needs,
such as time management, accounting, and project tracking, and new tools to
create Web-based content, such as blogs and wikis.

Read more about these solutions and MS Hosting Summit 2007 at:

www.MSHostingSummit.spaces.live.com

This blog also contains video clips of the keynote presentations announcing the updates, real-time blogging from
inside the show, event photos, and much more.

Read more about the announcement in today’s Press release.

Microsoft has published a series af presentations and videos from the following conference sessions:

Enterprise Search Strategy and Opportunities
This session starts with an overview of Microsoft’s enterprise search strategy, reviews the various products that it affects, and outlines what is new in SharePoint Search for the 2007 Microsoft Office system. Lastly, it discusses opportunities for partners building on the platform.
 

SharePoint Search Extensibility
This session addresses the core extensibility scenarios in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS) search, such as customizing the user interface, custom search using client applications, and crawling new repositories, including line-of-business data. It also covers the administration object model.
 

Protocol Handlers and IFilters
Learn about the overall architecture of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS) search. Protocol Handlers and iFilter interfaces are described in detail with code examples.
 

Customizing and Extending Search in Office SharePoint Server 2007
Learn how to customize Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS) search user interface and build search based applications in this session. Branding, Web parts and extending search using the object model and Web services are discussed.
 

Business Data Search
The Business Data Catalog (BDC) enables search to reach into line-of-business repositories and provide integrated search results. Learn about the Business Data Catalog including the design motivations, scenarios, and the apis.
 

SharePoint Search Deployment Scenarios
This session reviews both Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and Office SharePoint Server 2007 search topologies, and various deployment scenarios such as a collaboration environment, enterprise portals, and internet facing portals.

Download the presentations packages at source.

This month’s edition of MSDN Magazine has a great article about IIS 7.0 and all the new features. Although Windows Server “Longhorn” is still some time away, Windows Vista actually ships with the same full-featured IIS 7.0 bits that are expected to be released in Windows Server “Longhorn.” So you can start playing with it now!

Read the article at source.

Service Pack 2 for Windows Server 2003 has finally been released. Read more about this SP on the Microsoft Windows Server 2003 SP2 page. Here’s a complete list of updates in SP2.

Direct download links:

Windows Server 2003 SP2 for x86
Windows Server 2003 SP2 for x64
Windows Server 2003 SP2 for Itanium