Archive for August 12th, 2008
Aug
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Ed Bott has published a lengthy blog post questioning some of the sensationalist conclusions raised in press coverage of a paper presented by Alexander Sotirov and Mark Dowd at last week’s Black Hat Conference in Las Vegas, noted:
It’s a fascinating paper, rich in technical detail and hewing to the Black Hat tradition of providing clues
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Aug
12
Open Web Analytics (OWA) is an open source web analytics framework written in PHP, that provides a generic set of PHP and HTTP APIs that application developers can use to integrate web analytics into any application. The Framework also has built-in support for popular web applications such as WordPress and MediaWiki.
More info:
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Aug
12
A great opportunity for registered Partners: Get Ready for the Windows Essential Server Solutions Launch with Technical Training Series. The November 12, 2008 launch for Windows Essential Server Solutions is fast approaching!
Prepare by attending Partner Academy Live technical training sessions for Windows Small Business Server 2008 and Windows Essential Business Server 2008 starting on
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Aug
12
When a virtualized application was streamed to a client, the client could no longer view the contents of a folder on a mapped network drive that contained files needed by the user. The user could see that the folder existed but the contents of the folder were incorrect.
Cause: The application had been sequenced using the same
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Aug
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Bret Arsenault before working as Microsoft's Chief Security Officer, he worked extensively on the creation of the Microsoft Security Risk Assessment (MSRA) methodology, which is a standardized framework to assess and provide guidance to Microsoft customers on their security risk.With Microsoft since 1990, Arsenault has been integrally involved in the development of Microsoft's U.S. Emergency
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Aug
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It can be hard for administrators to get the time to piece all solution accelators and deploy.chm together to build a complete solution. This post will help us in getting on the issue, checkout the following list you need to download:
1) Windows Server 2008 - http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/en/us/trial-software.aspx (I use Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Edition x86 in this demo) 2) SQL 2008
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Aug
12
Windows Vista contains a much improved telemetry system that collects fault data and sends detailed reports to Microsoft that are used in fixing problems that cause apps to hang/crash (of course, this data only reaches us if you choose to send it...). What have we learned so far? What does Microsoft actually do with crash data?
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Aug
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Bloglines, popular web based RSS reader launched a new skin for Beta.bloglines.com. In addition, they’ve also launched display advertising in search results and an ad unit on the Classic Start Page. If you login to the Bloglines start page, you may see an ad on the right hand side. In addition, if you conduct a search
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Aug
12
Mess.be hands-on Wave 3 Milestone 1 installer for Windows Live Messenger v9.
Contact List:
The top of the contact list features the new Windows Live Wave 3 header. Not much else has changed here, with the links to other Windows Live Services still present, along with the colour customisation options.
Underneath the
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Aug
12
eScrum is a Web-based, end-to-end project management tool for Scrum built on the Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation Server platform. It provides multiple ways to interact with your Scrum project: eScrum Web-based UI, Team Explorer, and Excel or Project, via Team Foundation Office Integration. In addition, it provides a single place for all Scrum artifacts such
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Aug
12
The OpsMgr 2007 Cross Platform Extensions Beta 1 refresh is now available on the Microsoft connect site - http://connect.microsoft.com. This Beta refresh adds three new features to the product that customers have been asking for:
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Aug
12
If you want to enable logging on their print queues to capture as much information about print activities on their server. Configuring the logging options is actually quite an easy administrative task, but there are a couple of different ways to configure the options – through the GUI or through the
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Aug
12
Firefox’s market share is up a couple of percentage points while Internet Explorer’s share is actually down some 7 percent or so. But here’s something that caught our eye: Netscape - the no-longer-supported browser that probably has those die-hard AOL users to thank - is
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Aug
12
One of the least known yet most powerful management features to ship with Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 is built-in Event Forwarding which enables large scale health and state monitoring of a Windows environment (assuming health and state can be determined from Windows Events - which they usually can). Not only is this feature built
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Aug
12
For those of us who can't afford front-row seats at the Olympics, Popfly is proud to bring a veritable decathlon of games built using the Popfly Game Creator including Archery, Boxing, Diving, Gymnastics, Long Jump, Soccer, Synchronized Swimming, Track & Field, and Weightlifting,
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Random From The Popfly: Gets 2008 Beijing Olympic Games; play and win own medals
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