Partner Otaku

If you can’t attend in person, this is great opportunity to get some quality content. 

Check out the event here: http://vepexp.microsoft.com/thenewefficiency

Agenda

Windows 7 Track

9:00-9:45am      Taking Your Application to the Next Level with Windows® 7

9:45-9:55am       Break

9:55-10:40am     Beyond Human Interaction with Windows 7 Sensor and Location    

10:40-10:50am   Break

10:50-11:35am   Building the Next Generation User-Interface with
                            Multitouch Ribbon on Windows 7

11:35-1:15pm    Break

1:15-2:00pm      Windows 7 for the Optimized Desktop

2:00-2:10pm      Break

2:10-2:55pm      Windows 7: Make People Productive Anywhere

2:55-3:05pm      Break

3:05-3:50pm      Windows 7: Enhanced Security and Control

3:50-4:00pm      Break

4:00-4:45pm      Windows 7: Deployment Enhancements

Windows Server 2008 R2 Track

9:00-9:45am      What Developers Should Know About Windows Server 2008 R2

9:45-9:55am      Break

9:55-10:40am    Windows Server 2008 R2: Develop with New 
                           Parallel Computing Technologies

10:40-10:50am  Break

10:50-11:35am  Windows Server 2008 R2: Web and Enterprise Solutions

11:35-1:15pm   Break

1:15-2:00pm     What’s in Windows Server 2008 R2 for IT Administrators:
                          A Technical Overview Part 1

2:00-2:10pm    Break

2:10-2:55pm    What’s in Windows Server 2008 R2 for IT Administrators:
                         A Technical Overview Part 2

2:55-3:05pm    Break

3:05-3:50pm    Windows Server 2008 R2: New Server Deployment & Migration

3:50-4:00pm    Break

4:00-4:45pm    Windows Server 2008 R2 Virtualization Technologies–
                         Saving IT Costs

Exchange 2010 Track

1:15-2:00pm    Introducing Microsoft Exchange Server 2010

2:00-2:10pm    Break

2:10-2:55pm    Voice Mail with Unified Messaging in Microsoft Exchange 2010

2:55-3:05pm    Break

3:05-3:50pm    Exchange 2010 High Availability and Storage

3:50-4:00pm    Break

4:00-4:45pm    Exchange 2010 Archiving and Retention

Around the third week April, users still running IE6 or IE7 on WinXP, Vista, Win Server 2003 or 2008 will get a notification through Automatic Update about IE8. This will be a staged roll out over time to the entire user base.

• Windows XP and Win Server 2003, the update will be categorized as High Priority
• Vista and Win Server 2008, the update will be categorized as Important
• IE will not automatically install on their machines. Users must opt-in.

Reference Links:

Prepare for Automatic Update Distribution of IE8

IE8 Blocker Toolkit Available Today!

Blocker Toolkit to disable automatic delivery

Zend has released both the commercial and community editions of Zend Server.  Zend created a new set of development tools, a framework to build applications and collaborated with Microsoft. Zend has been working with Microsoft since 2006 to make PHP  a first-class citizen on Windows. The collaboration between Microsoft and Zend led to the development of the FastCGI component for IIS and the SQL Server for PHP extension.  Zend Server is designed provide added functionality to an Apache or IIS. Performance management, monitoring. security and patch/update deployment for PHP are also areas of functionality.

I found this article from back in July, but If you weren’t aware, Windows Server 2008 has improvements that enable PHP to run more efficiently than previous Windows Server releases. Click here to see the posting at the Windows Server Performance Blog.