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Archive for March 10th, 2008

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Mar 10

Software companies that provide alternatives to Microsoft Exchange, cautiously welcomed at CeBIT last week the recent publication of application programming interfaces for Microsoft volume server products, but have found gaps already in what has been released.Zarafa Chief Executive Brian Joseph--having ported, as he put it, "all the Exchange features to the Linux platform with

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Here's a few items in additon to the PhotoZoom  post that’re worth highlighting: Matt Augstine from the PhotoZoom team has given some info about how the service works, and mentions that its using Silverlight Streaming. John (of John & Bronwen of ViaWindowsLive) has written about how developers can recreate the Hard Rock

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Windows Live FolderShare is an Online storage service that lets users sign-in to set up Libraries that consist of folders on multiple PCs. These Libraries are synced using the Windows Live FolderShare client that sits on each PC. Users can have multiple Libraries setup as well as Shared Libraries with friends. Today,

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Microsoft today released a number of communications around the long-standing Windows Home Server Data Corruption bug, providing more details on the cause of the bug and outlining plans to release a fix for the issue in June 2008. In a post today on the Windows Home Server Team blog, the team stated that

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One of the features of Hyper-V is VLAN support.  This is a little bit confusing - so let me explain how it works. For every virtual network adapter you connect to a virtual machine you can specify a VLAN ID to be used by that virtual machine.  In order for this to work you need: A physical network

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Windows Vista SP1 Backup & Restore contains many updates that improve reliability. Great effort has been put into improving the overall quality of File Backup, Complete PC Backup and System Restore.Many of those important changes may not be visible to users, but if you run Backup and Restore tools, you can see some functionality

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Looking at Microsoft Word over the last twenty years. It’s more amazing how many things were in place already in 1989, including the familiar toolbar layout, and how long it took some things to change. You can see Microsoft made the right move with Office 2007, given how the only major changes in the previous several

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Before you can install Exchange Server 2007 SP1 on a Windows Server 2008 there are varying prerequisites that need to be installed, depending on the Exchange 2007 Server role you plan on installing. Details on how to install those prerequisites manually can be found in the Exchange 2007 SP1 documentation: How to Install Exchange 2007

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Rob Durfee has updated and released TiVo Publisher to version 1.3 an Windows Home Server add-in: This update adds the following features: FLAC, OGG, M4A (AAC unprotected) audio formats are now supported. Updated ffmpeg to newer release (2/5/2008, r11870). TagLib# library is now used to read audio file tags. Additional Video Metadata fields are now viewable on the TiVo (e.g., year,

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This spreadsheet lists the policy settings for computer and user configurations included in the Administrative template files (.admx/.adml) delivered with Windows Server 2008 Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1). The policy settings included in this spreadsheet cover Windows Server 2008, Windows Vista SP1, Windows Server 2003, Windows XP Professional, and Windows 2000. You can configure these

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The Windows Home Server team has released an undate to the Knowledge Base (KB946676) article of December 2007, that provides more information regarding symptoms, cause, status and guidance.  You can read the KB at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/946676/en-us. One question that is getting asked is, “Will I be affected”?  We are aware of only a very small

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The product group has released the HPC Server 2008 Community Technology Preview (CTP). This is the next major milestone on our way to RTM. As always, the software is available via Microsoft Connect.If you are interested in the CTP build, please visit this page on Microsoft Connect. You'll have to provide a

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Microsoft dropped its prohibition on running the most popular versions of Windows Vista in virtual machines because of a complaint filed with antitrust regulators, court documents show.According to a status report filed with U.S. District Court Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly , Microsoft changed the EULA (end-user licensing agreements) of Vista Home Basic and Vista Home

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If you happen to be one of the few people trying out the Windows XP Service Pack 3 beta, be advised: your clocks apparently won't update automatically Saturday night/early Sunday morning. According to this Microsoft TechNet post, Microsoft decided to hold off on adding time-zone updates until about the time SP3 goes live, which will

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Eric Watson: Welcome to the Windows Essential Business Server Team Blog. That name is a mouthful for being Essential. But maybe that’s fitting. The product actually packs a lot of software and new features for an ‘essential’ product as well.In this Blog, key people that design and develop the product will discuss all of

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