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Project Server 2010 Beta ensures organizations select and deliver the right projects, while gaining greater visibility and control of resources leading to improved productivity and better business performance. Participate in the Microsoft Project Server 2010 Beta and be the first to see how the innovative new capabilities can help organizations to: Capture all types of work in a centralized demand management repository Select the right project portfolios and maximize resource utilization Build and conveniently update project schedules online Create powerful dashboards and project reports
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That Office would be released in June was news last November, but now Paul Thurrott mentions a hard date June 15th 2010 in his weekly WinInfo Short Takes.
GA or General Availability means that RTM should be at least a month before that, but I expect even 2 months
WinInfo Short Takes Week of February 15, 2010 -RSS
This is an update to Microsoft Office Word 2007. Generally, customers who purchase or license Word 2007 from Microsoft after January 10, 2010 for use in the United States and its territories must use updated software that does not include a particular custom XML tagging implementation. You must install this update if you are instructed by Microsoft in a separate communication. For technical details on the affected custom XML tagging functionality, please see KB978951.
Download details Update for Word 2007 (KB974631)
OK I have been participating in Exchange 2010 beta testing and also Office 2010 beta testing, but I never heard that one of the most requested feature is actually available in Outlook 2010!
Below you see a screenshot of my accounts in my default Outlook 2010 profile.
I have 4 Exchange mailboxes from 3 organizations in my profile and 2 hotmail mailboxes.
Before Outlook 2010 you could add extra mailboxes, but only from the same organization and sent items were saved in sent items folder of the main mailbox.
Now in Outlook 2010 by default it will let you connect to 3 Exchange mailboxes maximum, in or outside default Exchange organization.
But Group Policy settings (GPO) for Outlook 2010 can change this maximum behavior from 1 to 15 (!).
This GPO set to maximum of 15 Exchange accounts, translates to this registry setting:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\exchange] "MaxNumExchange"=dword:0000000f
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\exchange] "MaxNumExchange"=dword:0000000f
Other GPO settings are also available for forcing behavior.
Now I wouldn’t be happy with 15 mailboxes in my Outlook, but I can manage 3 or 4. I suggest using the favorites section for quick access.
When sending a new message you can choose which (Exchange) account to use.
Items you sent are saved in the sent items of your Exchange account
Thanks to Kees for pointing me to Jaap Wesselius article: http://ucug.nl/blogs/jaapwess/archive/2009/11/12/outlook-2010-en-meerdere-exchange-mailboxen.aspx
Boxshots of retail packages of Microsoft Office 2010. Pics thanks to CentrumXP.pl
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Microsoft is set to launch an entirely new updated wave of Office applications in June 2010. The Office suite will be updated for Windows, including ribbon support for all products, and will also be launching Office 2010 for Mac OS X sometime in 2010. Office 2010 will be released in six different flavors, including a free version that includes Microsoft Word and Excel, but comes with limited functionality and includes advertisements. The editions of Office 2010 will come in Starter, Home and Student, Home and Business, Standard, Professional and Professional Plus.
Continue: Office 2010 scheduled for June release
Office 2010 Click to run is a very cool implementation of Microsoft App-v from the cloud. Users can run Office 2010 applications within minutes after starting the small installer.
This method will be used for trial version of Office 2010 home and Office edition, but I was told it will also be used for online purchase.
I do wonder though if this will be tied to the user’s computer or say the user’s Live-ID, in the that last scenario users could sign in on any PC and run their Office 2010. But I’m afraid it is tied to a PC (it requires a product key which is automatically activated)
Below some screenshots:
Office can run besides any other office install which is locally installed. But you can only run 1 intance of Outlook becuase of MAPI conflicts.
Plugins like this 3rd party Merge Tables plugn do work in Click to run.
Click to run will be allways up to date and patched, the current build is newer then the publicly released Beta.
Using Presentation Companion, you can use Microsoft Office PowerPoint® Mobile on your Windows® phone to control a PowerPoint presentation on your laptop.
Overview After downloading Presentation Companion from this site and installing it on your laptop, it works together with the Presentation Companion feature in Office Mobile 2010 [Beta]. Using Presentation Companion, you can: • Control the presentation on your laptop from your Windows® phone. • View speaker notes on your Windows® phone as you control the presentation. You can download Office Mobile 2010[Beta] on your Windows Mobile 6.5 phone here.
Download details Presentation Companion 1.0 [Beta]
Office 2010 on Technet and MSDN now!
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Business Contact Manager for Microsoft Outlook 2010 Beta (x86) - (English)
Click-to-Run is a new software delivery mechanism built by the Office product team. It’s based on core virtualization and streaming technologies from the Microsoft App-V team in Cambridge, MA. Click-to-Run is optimized for home users on broadband connections (at least 1Mbps), and there are three key pillars of the investment:
Click-to-Run products also take up about half the disk space of normal products, they repair more completely, and they won’t break other software installed on the PC because they have private copies of all of their files and registration.
Click-to-Run is not a new Office “product”, it’s a new way of delivering and updating the products with which you are already familiar. Click-to-Run delivery is available for both the Office Home and Student 2010, and Office Home and Business 2010 products. It has full language support, and will work on both 32-bit and 64-bit Operating Systems (although only the 32-bit version of Office is actually run on both platforms).
How does Click-to-Run work?
Continue: Microsoft Office 2010 Engineering Click-to-Run Delivering Office in the 21st Century
This white paper presents issues related to running different versions of Microsoft Outlook for manager/delegate pairs (for example, Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 and Microsoft Office Outlook 2007). The paper provides a statement from the Microsoft Outlook product team on the issue, and discusses general issues, customer-reported issues, and calendar risk areas for this scenario.
The text in the Microsoft Knowledge Base (KB) article (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/924470) is written specifically to discourage long-term cross-version solutions. For example, setting up an organizational unit of delegates on Microsoft Office Outlook 2003, and then upgrading the rest of the company including managers to Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 is discouraged. When planning to run for long periods of time with mixed versions of Outlook accessing the same Microsoft Exchange mailboxes (as in the manager/delegate scenario), customers can report inconsistencies. To minimize these inconsistencies, upgrading manager/delegate pairs together where possible is recommended.
Unfortunately, the cause of these inconsistencies has proven to be extremely difficult to track down. They are often complex timing issues related to being temporarily offline, using various devices to update calendars, using add-in solutions on mixed versions of Outlook, and subtle differences between the code of Outlook 2003 and Outlook 2007. Combining all of these update semantics together and aiming them at important mailboxes like manager/delegate mailboxes can, from time to time, result in calendar inconsistencies.
The Microsoft Office Outlook product team is aware of this, and has worked very hard for the Outlook 2007 Service Pack 2 (SP2) release to dramatically reduce these inconsistencies. The calendar reliability work incorporated into the SP2 release was the result of many man-years of work. Unfortunately, the code base between 2007 and 2003 is too different to take these calendar reliability fixes back to 2003, and would require significant re-engineering and risk. The best way to get the improvements of the calendar reliability in Outlook 2007 SP2 is to run Outlook 2007 SP2.
Microsoft understands that corporate environments cannot be upgraded overnight. Many of our customers will run with mixed versions for extended periods of time during upgrades. This is a normal upgrade process, and in no way is the product team saying that an upgrade cannot be performed without simultaneously upgrading all manager/delegate pairs in a single sweep. However, targeting manager/delegate pairs to be upgraded in close proximity will reduce the possibility of encountering calendar inconsistencies. Should you run into inconsistencies during your upgrade, usually the simplest way to address them is to upgrade both manager and delegate to the same Outlook version. Investigating the inconsistencies with mixed versions is often a time-consuming and somewhat painful experience for our customers. Where upgrading will nearly always resolve the issue faster, we have found with experience that an issue that is resolved significantly faster is often favored by our customers.
About this document
This document focuses on the scenario of upgrading a manager to Outlook 2007 while the delegate remains on Outlook 2003. If the delegates are upgraded to Outlook 2007 and the manager remains at Outlook 2003, there is a benefit that the delegate uses all the improvements for Outlook 2007 that are covered in the following sections. However, this still remains an untested scenario.
Download details Using different versions of Outlook for manager-delegate pairs (White paper)
VAMT 2.0 allows you to manage volume editions of Windows and Office installed with a KMS client key or a MAK key.
Volume Activation Management Tool (VAMT) 2.0 (Beta) is a managed MMC plug-in with support for Office 2010 Beta. Administrators may use it to manage volume editions of Windows and Office 2010 Beta installed with a Key Management Service (KMS) client key or a Multiple Activation Key (MAK). A convenient command line interface (CLI) allows automated, scheduled VAMT tasks without UI interaction.
Download details VAMT 2.0
Just a week before public beta starts, Michael Aulia of Craving Tech posted some screen shots and his initial impressions after Microsoft sent him the beta directly.
Neowin has the story
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