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Authored by MVP Jeff Centimano, this white paper provides an overview of new ease of administration and usability improvements in WSUS 3.0. Learn more about initial configuration options, the new MMC-based user interface and remote console, nested target group and inherited approval support, custom update views, and the new reporting capabilities, complete with 'read only' access.

WSUS 3.0 Usability Improvements

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Synchronization Services lets you synchronize data from disparate sources over two-tier, N-tier, and service-based architectures. Instead of only replicating a database and its schema, the Synchronization Services application programming interface (API) provides a set of components to synchronize data between data services and a local store. Applications are increasingly used on mobile clients, such as portable computers and devices, that do not have a consistent or reliable network connection to a central server. It is important for these applications to work against a local copy of data on the client. Equally important is the need to synchronize the local copy of the data with a central server when a network connection is available. The Synchronization Services API is modeled after the ADO.NET data access APIs and gives you an intuitive way to synchronize data. It makes building applications for occasionally connected environments a logical extension of building applications where you can depend on a consistent network connection.

Microsoft Synchronization Services for ADO.NET Books Online Beta 1

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Virtual Earth 3D brings you another step closer to knowing what it is like out there. You can search, browse, and organize local information viewed in three dimensions, just the way it exists in the real world. This enables you to more effectively find the data that is relevant to you, making Live Maps more useful than ever. Even better -- it's just plain fun!

Virtual Earth 3D (Beta)

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Microsoft System Center Essentials 2007 is a proactive and unified management solution that enables IT professionals in midsize organizations to more efficiently secure, update, monitor and troubleshoot their IT environments.

Essentials 2007 provides:
- Proactive monitoring, troubleshooting and asset tracking to keep your IT environment secure and up-to-date
- A unified solution with a single console for managing your servers, clients, hardware, software, and IT services
- Efficient execution of complex management tasks like troubleshooting end user issues, monitoring, and server and client software deployment

The evaluation edition is valid for 90 days after installation.

Essentials 2007 Evaluation Edition

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Visual Studio Code Name Orcas delivers on Microsoft's vision of smart client applications by enabling developers to rapidly create connected applications that deliver the highest quality rich user experiences. This new version enables any size organization to rapidly create more secure, manageable, and more reliable applications that take advantage of Windows Vista, 2007 Office System and the Web. By building these new types of applications, organizations will find it easier than ever before to capture and analyze information so that they can make effective business decisions.
For an overview of Visual Studio Code NameOrcas and to see the list of features that are available in this beta release please review the Visual Studio Code Name Orcas Overview Whitepaper. This beta release is available in English and Japanese only.

This beta targets early adopters of the Microsoft technology, platform, and tools offerings. It enables developers to experience the upcoming toolset and underlying platform improvements. We designed this release to enable developers to try out new technology and product changes, but not to build production systems. This limitation is fully covered in the EULA that accompanies this beta.

Note: When uninstalling this beta release existing Visual Studio and .NET Framework installations may be affected. Please check the ReadMe file for more information

Visual Studio Code Name "Orcas" Beta 1 Team Suite (self-extracting)

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The Microsoft CRM 3.0 SDK is for developers, system customizers and report writers. It contains the following sections:

Server Programming Guide - A guide for developers writing server side code, custom business logic, integration modules, workflow assemblies and more. This guide provides an architectural overview of Microsoft CRM, the entity model, security model, Web services, and sample code.

Client Programming Guide - A guide for developers customizing the Web client or the Microsoft CRM client for Outlook, including scripting, integration of custom Web pages, and sample code.

ISV Programming Guide - A guide for independent software vendors (ISVs) developing installable add-ins for Microsoft CRM.

Report Writers Guide - A guide for developers writing reports for Microsoft CRM using Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services Report Designer.

Microsoft CRM 3.0 SDK

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Download the product documentation for Forefront Client Security. Documentation includes guidelines and information from the Microsoft Forefront Client Security team, including deployment instructions and more.

The May 2007 release contains:
- Microsoft Forefront Client Security Getting Started Guide
- Microsoft Forefront Client Security Deployment Guide
- Microsoft Forefront Client Security Administrator's Guide
- Microsoft Forefront Client Security Performance and Scalability Guide
- Microsoft Forefront Client Security Disaster Recovery Guide
- Microsoft Forefront Client Security Security Guide
- Microsoft Forefront Client Security Troubleshooting Guide
- Microsoft Forefront Client Security Technical Reference Guide

Microsoft Forefront Client Security Product Documentation (May 2007)

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The Windows Media Center Software Development Kit is designed to help developers create applications and software components that take advantage of features provided by Windows Media Center.

This release includes documentation, tools, sample code and Visual Studio 2005 project templates for the following Windows Media Center platform models:

Windows Media Center Presentation Layer Application (Local, Background and Web)

Hosted .NET Framework 3.0 eXtensible Application Markup Language Browser Application (XBAP)

Hosted HTML

Windows Media Center Software Development Kit 5.0