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Want to test your knowledge of Microsoft Office Groove? Take the (beta) certification exam (70-555) before October 4th, 2007, using the promo code MOG07! Free, except for your time.

You can read more about this here.

Note: Beta exams always start with 71, so during beta when you sign up, you will want to look for 71-555 as the exam code to register for on the Prometric site. When the exam is released, the exam code becomes 70-555.

Unified communication devices, such as Microsoft Office Communicator Phone Experience and Microsoft RoundTable, enable rich communication within an organization. Deploying these devices requires regular maintenance by the IT department, which includes providing available software updates to these unified communications devices. All UC devices rely on an automatic mechanism to obtain software updates required on a regular basis.

Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 Software Update Service provides an automated way to update all unified communications devices deployed in an organization.

Download here and grab the deployment guide here.

Go here to read what has changed overall.

Changes and fixes in Office 2003 Service Pack 3, broken down by product:
Excel
Excel Viewer
Office
Outlook
OneNote
Powerpoint
Project
Sharepoint Portal Services
Visio
Windows Sharepoint Services
Word
Word Viewer

Download links for Office 2003 Service Pack 3:
Excel Viewer
Office (complete package)
Office MUI Pack
Office Proofing Tools
OneNote
Outlook Live
Project
Project MUI Pack
Project Server
Project Server MUI Pack
Sharepoint Portal Server
Visio
Visio MUI Pack
Windows SharePoint Services
Windows SharePoint Services Language Template Pack
Word Viewer

I've written about BDD in the past and this is a noteworthy announcement too. "BDD Development 4" is now available on the Microsoft Connect site if you use an invitation code of: BDDP-QMYH-VWTH

What is new so far? A lot!

Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007 support
Support for multiple task sequence templates
New sample templates
Ability to invoke web service calls
Support for web service calls from rules
Support for side-by-side installation with Deployment 4 and BDD 2007 installed on the same machine

Lite Touch Installation (LTI) enhancements:
Support for Windows Server 2008, including multicast WDS
Enhanced disk and network interface cards (NICs) configuration options, including support for static TCP/IP configuration
Design changes to ease the migration from LTI to Configuration Manager 2007

Check here for more info.