Archive for January 17th, 2009
Jan
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The laptop encryption study, conducted by Ponemon Institute, found that many workers think the data on their encrypted PCs is safe, but that their behavior on the road may continue to put that data at risk. "Encryption is an excellent security tool," the study observes. "However, if encryption is turned off, if passwords are shared,
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Jan
17
Another reason clients can have problems downloading the OCS Address Book is because the external download URL wasn’t set on initial installation. It’s an optional setting during the initial deployment of OCS 2007 Standard Edition or the Web Components portion of an Expanded Enterprise Edition deployment. This is a likely reason for the issue if the
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Jan
17
Windows 7 Beta Language Interface Packs will allow you to change the interface of Microsoft's latest operating system, Windows 7 to one of the following languages: English, German, Japanese, Korean, Arabic, Indian and Chinese. Both x86 and amd64 versions are available for both client and server editions.
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Jan
17
One of the key pieces to remember about Vista print notifications is that regardless of what is configured on the print server, the setting on the Vista client is the one that will be honored. For example, if you have print notifications turned off on the Windows Vista client but enabled on the print server, then
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Jan
17
Once a drive has failed, the data is inaccessible to users. If you’re using Seagate hard drives from the following families may fail when the host system is powered on. Seagate has isolated this issue to a firmware bug affecting drives from these families manufactured through December 2008.
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Jan
17
This paper explains how cross-forest certificate enrollment works. It also provides deployment guidance for cross-forest certificate enrollment in new and existing Active Directory Certificate Services (AD CS) deployments.
Windows Server 2008 R2 Beta enables enterprise Certification Authorities (CA) to issue digital certificates to clients that are members of a different Active Directory (AD) forest. This
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Jan
17
DISH Network is gearing up to unveil some sort of HD-capable DISH-to-Windows Media Center liaison, with current test setups involving a modified ViP 211K receiver attached via Ethernet to a PC. The initiative is being coined Draco, and we’re even told that dual tuner setups (most likely using dual boxes for now) are in action
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Jan
17
Sigmasoft Technologies released version 2.0 of Sigma Visual, an entire WYSIWYG Ajax GUI Builder. Sigma Visual is web based tool for AJAX RIA application GUI rapid design and involved scripts programming. With this powerful builder, developers can build your web application just like what they do in Visual Basic or Delphi.
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Jan
17
Microsoft announced that the Presidential Inaugural Committee (PIC) has selected the company’s Silverlight technology to enable live and on-demand video streaming of the official inauguration swearing-in ceremony on the PIC Web site at http://www.pic2009.org. As part of its efforts to hold the most open and accessible inauguration in history, on Saturday, Jan. 17, the PIC will
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Jan
17
Live Search released a new iPhone-friendly version of the Live Search site in the US, UK, and Australia. From the email outlining new features:
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Jan
17
If you own a blogging-network (multi-author blog), you can now easily add writers to your blog to increase its quality, traffic, and ultimately grow your ad revenue together, and at the same time share the ad revenue among the contributors.
Fair Blogs is a new web service from Fair Software that lets you organize a blogging network or a virtual
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Jan
17
The Media Center Diagnostic (MCDiag) Tool gathers a lot of pertinent information very useful to the team in troubleshooting issues with Windows Media Center. If you ever file a bug report during the beta or are working with someone at Microsoft to determine what's happening it's a good idea to have these tools installed and take
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Jan
17
The Windows Automated Installation Kit (Windows AIK) is designed to help corporate IT professionals customize and deploy the Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008 and Windows 7 family of operation systems. By using Windows AIK, you can perform unattended Windows installations, capture Windows images with ImageX, and create Windows PE images.
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Jan
17
The IE team has announced changes made in the Internet Explorer 8 RC aimed at improving support for ARIA, a syntax for making dynamic web content accessible. IE8 will now preserve the dash for ARIA attribute names in all modes. As part of this change, we are eliminating camelCased ARIA properties to avoid the naming conflict discussed above.
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Jan
17
January 2009 CTP of Windows Azure Tools added support to debug Silverlight in a Web Role. In order to add Silverlight to a Web, you first need to create a Cloud Service that contains a Web Role. In Visual Studio, click on File -> New Project and select a "Web Cloud Service". This will create the
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