Today I’ve visited the TechNet Live at the World Forum in Den Haag. A great location and a lot of IT Pro’s, MVP’s and nice speakers from Microsoft. We’ve seen a lot of nice presentations and demonstrations from Tony Krijnen,  Daniel van Soest and some other great speakers from Microsoft! This nice day started with a keynote from Steve Ballmer (CEO from Microsoft). This was also the official release of the following products:

* Microsoft Windows 7
* Microsoft Exchange 2010
* Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2

This guide will teach you about the benefits of the latest virtualization technologies and how to plan, implement, and manage virtual infrastructure solutions. The technologies covered include: Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V, System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2009, Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.5, Microsoft Enterprise Desktop Virtualization, and Microsoft Virtual Desktop Infrastructure.

Book content:

1.) Microsoft’s Virtualization Solution
2.) Server Virtualization – Hyper-V
3.) Managing Virtualization – VMM 2008
4.) Application Virtualization – App-V
5.) Presentation Virtualization – Terminal Services
6.) Desktop Virtualization – MED-V and VDI
7.) User State Virtualization
8.) Building a Virtualization Infrastructure

Click the image below to optain a copy! 

 Ahead of time, Exchange 2010 Beta is available for download and TechNet is ready to grab the information….

Download Details: Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Beta
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=1898ed2c-2f88-48ac-824e-d3d20fad77d7

TechNet: Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 (Beta)
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb124558(EXCHG.140).aspx

Today i’ve installed the public beta release and here are some first looks of Microsoft Exchange Server 2010. (Exchange 14)

First of all i’ve installed a Microsoft Windows 2008 x64 Server. The next step is to install the pre-requisites.

- Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5
- Windows Remote Management (WinRM) 2.0 CTP 3
- Windows PowerShell 2.0 CTP 3
- Update from KB 951725
- Update from KB 950888
- Update from KB 951116
- Update from KB 952664
- Update from KB 953290
- Update from KB 958178
- ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 Extensions

ServerManagerCmd -i Web-Server
ServerManagerCmd -i Web-ISAPI-Ext
ServerManagerCmd -i Web-Metabase
ServerManagerCmd -i Web-Lgcy-Mgmt-Console
ServerManagerCmd -i Web-Basic-Auth
ServerManagerCmd -i Web-Digest-Auth
ServerManagerCmd -i Web-Windows-Auth
ServerManagerCmd -i Web-Dyn-Compression
ServerManagerCmd -i NET-HTTP-Activation
ServerManagerCmd -I RPC-over-HTTP-proxy
ServerManagerCmd -i RSAT-ADDS (reboot required)

After installing this pre-requisites, we’re going to install Microsoft Exchange 2010.

Today i’ve installed the Beta version of Microsoft Windows 7. It looks pretty much on Windows Vista, the setup is notting more then next…next…next.

After the installation, I’ve to fill in a username and password, setting the time zone, productkey.

Let’s have a look on the screenshots:

As you can see, it looks pretty much to Windows Vista. A few things that I immediatly saw was:

- Windows PowerShell V2, with a graphical interface. Easy with building scripts!
- Internet Explorer 8, first looks are great!