1007red_Cover.v5 9/14/07 9:50 AM Page 1 2007 ASBPE Why Redmond’s Bullish on Windows Live 64 Award Winner Best Editorial Best Feature OCTOBER 2007 REDMONDMAG.COM SecretsSecrets ofof thethe WindowsWindows GurusGurus What makes them tick? 24 > Beta Man Shines a Light $5.95 10 • + on Silverlight 12 OCTOBER Readers: Word 2007 Is Not a Must-Have 19 When Will Vista Learn 25274 867 27 to Play Nice? 37 71 Project8 9/4/07 1:58 PM Page 1 Project8 9/4/07 1:58 PM Page 2 1007red_TOC2.v4 9/14/07 10:50 AM Page 2 2007 Winner for Best Single Issue Computers/Software, Training & Program Development/Trade Redmond OCTOBER 2007 The Independent Voice of the Microsoft IT Community Contents COVER STORY REDMOND REPORT 9 Server Manager Responds to Secrets Users’ Needs Technology better consolidates Longhorn’s of the management functions. 10 A Call for Windows More Flexible Desktop Standards Gurus Cavalancia thinks you Technology experts tell Redmond what need to accommodate makes them tick. Web 2.0 and Vista apps. Page 24 FEATURES 37 Windows Vista: Learning 45 Access Anywhere to Play Nice The Client Access Server 11 First Beta for Vista Despite Microsoft’s efforts so far, gives you many remote SP1 Coming Soon incompatibilities still dog the new OS. access options for Microsoft reveals first Exchange 2007. details of upcoming Vista service pack. 12 Beta Man Silverlight Bridges the Gap COLUMNS 6 Barney’s Rubble: Doug Barney Stop Bugging Me! 14 Mr. Roboto: Jeffery Hicks Event by Event 55 Windows Insider: Page 37 Greg Shields First Look: WinRM & WinRS REVIEWS 59 Security Advisor: Product Review Reader Review Joern Wettern Virtual Security 16 Navigate Your Network 19 Word 2007: Not WhatsUp Gold maps your Exactly a Must-Have 64 Foley on Microsoft: Mary Jo Foley network and helps you keep it Some sing its praises, but compatibility Why Is Redmond So running smoothly. problems and the new interface leave Bullish on Office Live? others cold. ALSO IN THIS ISSUE 4 Redmondmag.com | 62 Ad and Editorial Indexes COVER ILLUSTRATION BY GREGORY COPELAND Project2 8/10/07 4:36 PM Page 1 1007red_OnlineTOC_4.v3 9/14/07 10:21 AM Page 4 Redmondmag.comOCTOBER 2007 ENT Special Report Questions with ... Is 64-Bit Computing Doug Barney This month you can Finally Here? download a free, extended PDF version of “Secrets of t seems to be closer, at least for many Microsoft shops, according to the Windows Gurus” (read IRedmond Media Group Online News Editor Keith Ward. In Ward’s recent the cover story on p. 24). special report, “64-Bit Computing Moves to the Fore,” he examines the Author and Redmond current state of Redmond’s 64-bit apps and finds that if it’s not upon you Editor in Chief Doug Doug Barney now, it will be soon—especially with Windows Server 2008. Barney shared with us his “With Windows 2008, we’re really going to see a shift to 64-bit,” Ward take on the story. Ralston, senior technical product manager in the Windows Server division, FindIT code: GuruPDF told Keith. Ralston confirmed that the mid-cycle update of Windows Server 2008—known as Windows Server 2008 R2—will be 64-bit only. What’s in the expanded PDF version? Find out more on Microsoft’s 64-bit plans and what they’ll mean for you. More extensive interviews with the FindIT code: ENT64 gurus—a little more insight into how they think. MCPmag.com What do the 12 gurus you interviewed Exclusive Weekly Tips have in common? They all seem to take time just to think, from Greg Shields and they find ways to relax and think: Some may run, some may watch a ant to know a quick workaround for IE’s download hockey game, some may have a glass Greg Shields Wrestrictions? Need an ISO-creation app that actually of whiskey. works? Curious how to create an event-log event via the command line? 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I hate computers. No—I don’t hate Editor, Redmondmag.com Becky Nagel Online News Editor Keith Ward them—it’s more like I’m annoyed with them. I’m Associate Editor, Web Gladys Rama Contributing Editors Mary Jo Foley Jeffery Hicks annoyed because somehow they manage to handle the Greg Shields I Joern Wettern most awesome, complex feats with aplomb, yet they utterly Art Director Brad Zerbel Senior Graphic Designer Alan Tao choke when doing the easiest and most Here’s a quick list of other things that important stuff—like printing a Web test my patience: page or document, handling files in iBook power cords—my two sons have President Henry Allain VP, Publishing Matt N. Morollo today’s mobile environment and back- iBooks and their power cords last exactly VP, Editorial Director Doug Barney ing up data. one day more than the warranty. The VP, Conferences Tim G. Smith Director, Marketing Michele Imgrund Here’s how PCs bug me: replacement is $80 and you have to Executive Editor, Michael Domingo PCs are bad for the earth. While lots order it online or drive an hour to get New Media Executive Editor, Becky Nagel of greenies carp about the use of elec- one. A year later, the new one flakes out. Web Initiatives Director, Rita Zurcher tricity and how computers are melting Word—it always manages to impose Web Development million-year-old glaciers, I’m concerned the formatting of stuff you pasted into Senior Marketing Tracy S. Cook Manager about trees. PCs waste an awful lot of your existing doc. And getting rid of Marketing Programs Videssa Djucich paper. First, we seem compelled to print this formatting requires a computer sci- Manager every document, Web page or photo we ence degree from Carnegie Mellon. find, no matter how lame. That’s just Multiple PCs—Firefox has a neat tool human nature, not really the PC’s fault. to synchronize bookmarks between mul- I’m more bothered by how bad soft- tiple machines. I wish there was some- President & CEO Neal Vitale CFO Richard Vitale ware design wastes paper (and, more thing built into Windows that works as Executive VP Michael J. Valenti expensively, ink). well for e-mail folders and documents. I Managing Director Dick Blouin Think about the last Web don’t like Briefcase, don’t Managing Director Ellen Romanow VP, Financial William H. Burgin page you printed. Did it trust or want to pay for an Planning & Analysis VP, Finance & Christopher M. Coates come out right the first online service, and none of Administration time? Of course not! If you my USB drives are big VP, Audience Marketing Abraham M. Langer & Web Operations used IE, it probably failed enough. I know that Soft- VP, Erik Lindgren to print the right side of ware as a Service will even- Information Technology VP, Print & Mary Ann Paniccia the page. Ever try reading tually solve this, but I need Online Production an article that’s missing help now! Chairman of the Board Jeffrey S. Klein two or three words every Web site registration— line? This even happens like you, I always forget Reaching the Staff Editors can be reached via e-mail, fax, telephone or mail. with Microsoft Web pages, my user name or password A list of editors and contact information is available at and it’s the No. 1 reason I use Firefox. for a new site. Of course, it would be Redmondmag.com. E-mail: E-mail is routed to individuals’ desktops. Please use the Then there are the times you print a easy if it took the user name I asked for, following form: [email protected]. page and all that comes out is one ad. but it’s always taken so I have to add a Do not include a middle name or middle initials. 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