Yesterday Microsoft made Internet Explorer 8.0 Beta 2 available for public download. While beta 1 was more a developer release, this beta 2 is a more public release for everyone to test the new version.
Quote from the IE Team:
We focused our work around three themes: everyday browsing (the things that real people do all the time), safety (the term most people use for what we’ve called ‘trustworthy’ in previous posts), and the platform (the focus of Beta 1, how developers around the world will build the next billion web pages and the next waves of great services).
Read more about this release from the IE Team blog.
Download it here.
Microsoft has released an updated version of Office Communication Server 2007 (OCS) Best Practice Analyzer (BPA).
Microsoft has released the latest version of URLScan 3.0, it’s released to web (RTW) like a lot of the other IIS modules and tools on IIS.net.
URLScan 3.0 can help block automated sql injection attacks at global or site level and it can be used with IIS 6 and IIS 7.
Download links:
More info here.
Great news! – Microsoft has now officially announced support for Exchange Server 2007 in virtual environments, such as Microsoft Hyper-V or any third-party hypervisor that has been validated under the Windows Server Virtualization Validation Program.
| What’s supported: |
Exchange Server 2007 SP1 running on Windows Server 2008 |
| Supported Exchange roles: |
All except Unified Messaging |
| What Hypervisor: |
Microsoft Hyper-V, or any hypervisor validated by MSVVP |
More about this from the Exchange Team or Microsoft Support Policies and Recommendations for Exchange Servers in Hardware Virtualization Environments.
A new blog has gone live, the new blog “Engineering Windows 7” is hosted by Jon DeVaan and Steven Sinofsky. Jon and Steven, along with members of the Windows 7 engineering team will post, comment, and participate in this new blog about the upcoming Windows 7.
Read the new blog here.
Upgraded my blog to WordPress 2.6 yesterday and encountered an issue with permalinks not working anymore.
Apparently this is a wellknown issue, especially when you host your WordPress blog on Windows and use permalinks with the index.php in the link, then the permalinks may fail.
I found a few solutions to this, the first one was to change some of the php files and the second was to add some text into the Category base and tag base within the admin console. I went for the second solution, since it seemed must simple and adding the settings worked for me.
Here’s what I found of solutions on the issue:
1. PHP file change
2. Category base and Tag base solution (the simple one) 
WordPress are working on it and the fix is included in the upcoming version 2.6.1.
In the latest edition of TechNet Magazine there’s an interesting article about Top 10 Performance Improvements in IIS 7.0 written by Mike Volodarsky.
Read the full article “Top 10 Performance Improvements in IIS 7.0” at TechNet.
