Check out the available webcasts, labcasts, virtual labs, and podcasts for Microsoft Exchange Server. Receive practical technical information and proven techniques from leading industry experts before trying Exchange Server yourself in our free virtual labs or labcasts.

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Try the next generation of Microsoft Internet Security & Acceleration (ISA) Server and experience key features that include Web antimalware, HTTPS inspection and the Network Inspection System. Learn more today.

Learn how customers rely on Microsoft Application Platform technologies for development, deployment and management of mission critical business applications.

The Azure Services Platform is a new cloud computing and services platform hosted in Microsoft data centers, which provides an operating system and a set of developer services, including .NET Services, SQL Server Data Services, and Live Services. Download the SDKs and get started building applications for the cloud using Visual Studio, ASP.NET, and the .NET Framework.

The newly released Identity Lifecycle Manager (ILM) “2” RC dramatically changes the identity management landscape by delivering powerful self-service capabilities for Office end users, rich administrative tools and enhanced automation for IT professionals, and .NET and WS-* based extensibility for developers.

Real World SOA is grounded in creating SOA solutions for specific business problems quickly, by using skills and products that are already familiar—and incrementally, by delivering timely solutions that align with your existing business goals. See for yourself the work that other companies are doing to improve their Service-Oriented Architecture in these customer videos.

System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 provides a management solution for the virtualized data center that helps enable centralized management of IT infrastructure, increased server utilization, and dynamic resource optimization across multiple virtualization platforms.

Microsoft and its partners and customers show how their solutions remove barriers to virtualization from the desktop to the datacenter at the Microsoft Virtualization Launch. Read more

Read in these newly released white paper and datasheets how Windows Server 2008 can help to reduce the power consumption of server and client operating systems, minimize environmental byproducts, and increase server efficiency.

View this six-part webcast miniseries and learn about the tools and technologies that enhance the security and interoperability of Windows and make it a reliable, cost-efficient, and easy-to-manage computer platform for your business. We explore interoperability between Windows and Linux, compare Internet Information Services (IIS) to Apache and Windows high-performance computing (HPC) to a Linux solution, and discuss Windows open source software.