This post is from Chris Hallum, a Senior Product Marketing Manager on the Windows/MDOP team. I talk to customers, the press, and analysts every week about Windows security and as we approached the public release of Windows 8 on October 26th the frequency of these conversations increased dramatically...

This is the first in a series of three blogs by the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack (MDOP) team, which will cover new advancements to the suite of products available in MDOP 2012. A.J. Smith, product marketing manager for Microsoft User Experience Virtualization (UE-V) kicks-off the series. As you...

A few weeks ago at TechEd North America you might have heard that we announced that Beta 2 of User Experience Virtualization (UE-V) would be available by the end of the month. Fulfilling that commitment, I am happy to say that we are making it available today for you to download from http://www.microsoft...

The bus tour is almost over with only one more city to go. The people in Charlotte were excited we made their city one of our stops and show them all the cool new tools and software. See what they had to say about Windows 7, MDOP and Office 2010.

Thank you again for all of you who tuned in live for our most recent virtual roundtable. We had so many questions asked during the broadcast, we were unable to get to all of them so I am dedicating this blog post to the questions and to the answers provided by our product teams involved in the broadcast...

I wanted to first thank everyone who attended our session on the latest Springboard Series Tour. We had an amazing time meeting and presenting to all of you. You had awesome questions and I love that so many of you told me how you could not wait to get into the office, share what you learned and start...

The last stop on our tour was beautiful Vienna. Austria.  As well as being home for famous composers like Mozart and Shubert, it is also home some some awesome local IT Pros. After 5 hours of presentations, they still had tons of questions and keep us there chatting long after the event ended. It...

As you might have read on the Windows for Your Business blog , today Karri Alexion-Tiernan announced that the User Experience Virtualization (UE-V) Release Candidate (RC) is available for download . UE-V, which was first announced in April , will be included in MDOP and gives users a consistent and personal...

Today on the Windows For Your Business blog, we announced the next release of Windows Intune is available. If you are already running Windows Intune, the best part is, in order to get the new features, you don’t need to do anything. The new features will automatically show up in your console.  What...

For those of you reading our newsletter , following our Twitter feed or blogs, you are aware that I the Springboard Series partnered with Microsoft Learning for the “ Get On The Bus Tour ” The goal was to bring information on Windows 7, Server 2008 R2, Exchange 2010 and Certification. So...

Our third stop on the Springboard Series Tour took us to the city of big shoulders, Chicago, Illinois. I love Chicago. It’s an amazing city filled with great food, one of a kind architecture and of course, great IT pros. Check out the video see see the great time we had! Next stop, the home of the Indy...

Today’s post is from MVP/MCT and STEP member, Erdal Ozkaya. The Windows Intune is cloud service helps you centrally manage and secure your PCs through a simple web-based console. No matter if your IT staff or end users are in the main office, at a branch office, or on the road, domain or non-domained...

Over the past few years I have been very fortunate to meet so many of you face to face during my travels with the Springboard Series Tours. I have spent time in Finland and Rome talking MDT, ACT and MAP, London and Barcelona discussing AppCompat, and even sharing with you twenty Windows tools you did...

We are pleased to announce the release of the Microsoft Desktop Virtualization zone on Springboard Series on TechNet that provides dynamic information and structured resources to help you explore, test, pilot, and deploy the latest Windows OS in your environment. With Microsoft Desktop Virtualization...

Stop number four on the Springboard Series Tour took us just outside of London to Reading, UK. Over 200 IT pros showed up for a day full day of IT pro guidance around Windows, Office and MDOP as well as getting a chance to learn about certification from our friends at MCT Europe . Check out the great...

Today’s post comes to us from David Trupkin, Sr Product Manager for App-V and MED-V One of the ways I can tell it’s going to be a good day at work is when I look at my calendar in the morning and see that I’ve got some sort of IT Pro related activity on my schedule. As the product manager for Microsoft...

This morning on the Windows for your Business blog , we announced a new Desktop Virtualization product called Microsoft User Experience Virtualization (UE-V), which will be available via the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack (MDOP) once it’s complete. The central idea of UE-V is to enable users to...

Greetings from Amsterdam! The Springboard Series tour kicked off yesterday to a packed house of IT pros yesterday. We spent the whole day talking about Windows7, Office 2010 and MDOP tips, tricks ,how-to’s around deployment, management, app compat and virtualization. Check out the video to hear what...

This week we recently released a new version of MDOP that includes six virtualization and management tools for Windows desktops. Along with the new App-v 4.6 , we have also released the MED-V v1 SP1 Release Candidate, with support for Windows 7 32 bit and 64 bit for download . It’s final release is expected...

Todays post is from Dave Trupkin, Senior Product Manager for App-V and Med-V I’m coming to you live from Tech·Ed Berlin. Karri Alexion-Tiernan just posted over on the Windows for Your Business a blog outlining Microsoft’s position on Desktop Virtualization describing the “layers” and the importance of...

The Get On The Bus Tour visited Boston, MA yesterday. Here’s a peek at what you missed. To join us in New York, Philly, DC or any of our other stops, make sure to visit the Get On The Bus site and find out how you can attend one of our Windows7/Office 2010 seminars...

This morning Brandon LeBlanc on announced the availability of  the RTM for Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 on his blog, Blogging Windows . In addition, Gavriella Schuster announced some great new business value motions as well as a new product beta, MBAM (Microsoft BitLocker Administration...

This week I had a chance to sit down with Brad McCabe, the product manager for DaRT (Diagnostics and Recovery Toolset). DaRT has been a favorite tool for many IT Pros, dating back to its days as part of Winternals Admin Pack. DaRT has continued to evolve since then but it’s still focused on helping IT...

The Springboard Series Tour made it’s 5th stop in Dallas, Texas. Despite high winds, torrential rain and hail, the IT pro community came out in droves to greet us. Folks came as far a Santa Fe and Austin in Texas and one intrepid attendee, drove all the way from Mississippi to attend. We capped of our...

Yesterday, Microsoft’s Get On The Bus tour came to Philadelphia, PA. We got to see the sites, try some Cheesesteak sandwiches and meet with some amazing IT pros, We even got to meet the Mayor of Philadelphia, Michael Nutter. It was a great stop with many more to come. If you in DC, Charlotte, Richmond...