Helmers Blog

It took them quiet a while, but it’s finally there (I first blogged about Forefront Codename ‘Stirling’ back in 2008!)…the beta of Forefront Endpoint Security 2010! In the next few weeks I’m certainly going to check it out and blog about it! Right now I’m kinda busy with the latest Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2010 (MDT 2010 for the geeks) building a Windows 7 client environment for one of our customers. Besides that I’m also implementing a new App-V (4.6) environment together with a colleage….so when that all is finished I’m really going to take a deep dive into Forefront Endpoint Security 2010!

Of course you don’t have to wait that long to see something about Forefront Endpoint Security….you can start right now by downloading the bits from Microsoft.com!

The Windows Live Essentials Beta is available for download. It’s available in the following languages: English, Spanish, French, Dutch, Portuguese, Japanese and Chinese. Just go to http://explore.live.com/windows-live-essentials-beta and logon with your Windows Live ID to download the software.

Piero Sierra announced earlier today on the Windows Team Blog that the Public Beta version of the new Windows Live Essentials (Wave 14) will be available later today (June 24th) for download. The exact time the download will be available is not given, but when it is available, you can download it here.

For more info about the new features, please visit the WindowsTeamBlog or Liveside.net

Earlier today I blogged about the availability of the new Windows Server 2008 Server Virtualization beta exam. You probably want to prepare yourself for this beta exam, but (as always with a beta exam) you can’t find all the info you need. That’s normal! The preparation material for a beta exam is always limited….but there is some info available. To make it easy for you, I’ll collected some resources and I placed them below!

1. Exam Preparation Guide
2. A Free 2 Hour Windows Server 2008 R2 Training
3. Windows Server 2008 R2 Overview
4. Download a Windows Server 2008 R2 Evaluation Version
5. Windows Server 2008 R2 Product Documentation
6. Windows Server 2008 R2 Homepage

If you happen to run into some more resources, please let me know and I’ll add them to the list!

At 12:00am (EST) the 71-659 became available for registration. As I blogged before there will be a very limited number of seats!

I’ve been able to register for the exam…..I’m curious how long it will take this time to fill up all the seats! Will Microsoft extend the number of seats again like they did before, they said they won’t…..

To be clear : I won’t give you the promotional code to register for the exam. It will be announced later this week on the MS Learn Blog!