Microsoft Office 2007 Professional Life beyond Win
 

Believe it or not,Microsoft Office Professional 2010, Microsoft is nonetheless creating enterprise items besides Windows seven and Office 2010. Even though those two are garnering most of the headlines and attention recently, other Microsoft product teams are nonetheless chugging along, rolling out updates and readying new versions.Right here are just a few of the most recent updates that have encounter my RSS reader:Dynamics CRM/ERP: Microsoft has modified the support policy for service packs for its Dynamics line (Dynamics CRM, AX, GP,Microsoft Office Enterprise 2007, SL and NAV). According to Microsoft;s Support web-site, users will now get “24 months of support for a previous support pack, when a new services pack is released. Previously,Microsoft Office 2007 Enterprise, when a new support pack was released for these products, Microsoft provided 12 months of assistance for the previous company pack.” These currently deploying a currently supported Dynamics CRM or ERP services pack will get an additional 12 months of free assistance. Microsoft also is reactivating support for a variety of Dynamics support packs that had expired, but would be grandfathered in under the 24-month policy. There;s no change in the dates for extended,Microsoft Office 2007 Professional, paid support for these company packs.
Office Communications Server: Microsoft has made licensing changes around the instant-messaging connectivity supported by its Workplace Communications Server (OCS) item. Microsoft is renaming the Live Communications Server Public IM Connectivity (LCS PIC) license to “Office Communications Server Public IM Connectivity (OCS PIC). These with certain OCS Client Access Licenses (CALs) will no longer require additional licenses to federate with Windows Live — but nonetheless will require them to federate with AOL and Yahoo. Windows Live Federation offers customers the option to add Windows Live Contacts to their Workplace Communicator contact lists,Microsoft Office 2007 Professional, view presence status and send/receive IMs between the two items. The OCS licensing changes took effect July 1.Commerce Server: Last we heard about Commerce Server, Microsoft was planning many different releases — including the 2009 Commerce Server “Mojave” release and the 2009 R2 “Mojave R2″ release. Microsoft is in the final throes of recruiting Technology Adoption Program (TAP) testers who want to check out the private R2 test release. Microsoft released Commerce Server 2009 to manufacturing in March 2009. The R2 release is looking like an early 2010 item, at this point. The Commerce Server team said to expect yet another Commerce Server release in late 2010 or early 2011. No word on what that one will be codenamed and officially designated.