Quite a bit of news in the last week – just to make sure you didn’t miss these events in the pre-Derby festivities:

Office 2007 SP2 has launched http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=b444bf18-79ea-46c6-8a81-9db49b4ab6e5&displaylang=en
Vista SP2 has reached RTM http://windowsteamblog.com/blogs/windowsvista/archive/2009/04/28/windows-vista-sp2-rtm-windows-vista-sp1-blocker-tool-removed.aspx
WSS v3 w/ SP2 is out http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=ef93e453-75f1-45df-8c6f-4565e8549c2a
Windows 7 RC hit MSDN […]

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Recently announced: Service Pack 2 for Microsoft Office 2007 is finally available for download.
Download URL: Click here File name: office2007sp2-kb953195-fullfile-en-us.exe Date published: 04/24/2009 Size: 290 MB
KEY IMPROVEMENTS:

Ability to open, edit and save OpenOffice.org 1.1 documents (*.odt, *.ods, *.odp)
SaveAs PDF has been added back in […]

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NOTE: This is a limited time offer, so grab it while you can!
Title: Windows Small Business Server 2008 Administrator’s Companion Authors: Charlie Russel & Sharon Crawford Publisher: Microsoft Press Publishes: January 07, 2009 ISBN: 9780735620704 Pages: 719 […]

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If you’re a Microsoft Partner selling & supporting Windows Small Business Server, you’ve probably already asked yourself the question above.
The answer to that question depends primarily on you and your company, rather than on the features or maturity EBS product itself. The reason being; the EBS market is vastly different than the SBS market. Different […]

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I saw this IM virus for the first time today:
WARNING – Don’t go to the URLs listed in this post, due to possible malware and NSFW content.

Followed a few minutes later by:
That’s from one of my sisters (so I see some phone support in my future.) She’s not signed in, so […]

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From the mailbag:
“After a migration, some of the users showed up in the SBS Console with a key under their name and some didn’t. Example:

 
I can’t change RWW access for these users either – it’s grayed out:

or even…

What does that key mean and how do […]

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If you read this blog, you should be familiar with the Windows Essential Server Solutions (WESS) family that includes:

Windows Home Server (WHS) – 1-10 home users
Windows Small Business Server (SBS) – 1-75 business users
Windows Essential Business Server (EBS) – 50-300 business users

On April 1, 2009, Microsoft announced the NEW […]

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