Archive for January 28th, 2009
Jan
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This post discuss an issue where connections to Outlook Anywhere are extremely slow or fail completely. This issue also affects other sites that use the SBS Web Applications app pool. If you notice these symptoms and wish to verify you are experiencing this problem, open IIS management console and check the worker process queue for the
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Jan
28
Since Windows NT4, clients who wanted to join a domain always needed a direct connection to the domain, either via VPN, dial-in or direct connection. New in Windows Server 2008 R2 (download link) is the option for an offline domain join. A new program is introduced called djoin.exe. We can use djoin.exe to join a
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Jan
28
Mark Riches from VizRT / Curious recently integrated Microsoft Virtual Earth into the Viz Curious Maps software for television production, which is built with C++ and Virtual Earth Web Service uses a SOAP protocol Mark used gSOAP to open communications between the two.
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Jan
28
Mike Peers and Matt McSpirit take us on a tour from Datacenter to Desktop. They are a great watch if you have no great understanding and want a bit of a ramp!
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Jan
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Yesterday, I had installed Windows 7 Beta Build 7000 on Lenovo Ideapad S10 Netbook. The S10 netbook was pre-installed with Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition. So, I set up Windows XP / Windows 7 dualboot. The Windows 7 installer set the default boot choice to Windows
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Jan
28
A virtual machine has be shut down in some way, and upon rebooting all the changes since data/time X have been lost. After viewing the file system you find that the VHD file’s last modified date is X time in the past, you also find that under the Snapshots directory that a .avhd file exists with
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Jan
28
Apple rolled out a minor software update to its iPhone, iPhone 3G, and iPod Touch devices this afternoon. According to the update information from Apple, among 246MB worth of unnamed bug fixes and improvements, Safari's stability has been improved, and an "issue where some images saved from Mail do not display correctly in the Camera Roll" has been fixed.
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Jan
28
"Trust the rogue programmers and Cydia—the independent equivalent to the iTunes App Store to bring you one of the most awaited features ever for the iPhone: Bluetooth file transfer." In the video below, you can see iBluetooth will bring you just that, allowing the iPhone to transfer files to any other device using Bluetooth. In this case, the application
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Jan
28
Microsoft announced the release of the Web Sandbox source code runtime created by its Live Labs team under the Apache 2.0 license. The Web Sandbox project explores how to advance the web platform to improve security, isolation, quality of service and extensibility capabilities for web developers and website users. More information on the licensing
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Jan
28
The new Active Directory Recycle Bin functionality in Windows Server 2008 R2 is really cool - you can actually undelete objects, and all their attributes are restored as if the object never went away - no requirement to rejoin the domain for computer objects, for example. The feature is all implemented in PowerShell, so
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Jan
28
How to use the ISA Server 2006 network templates to build and customize your own ISA Server 2006 network infrastructure. Microsoft ISA Server 2006 is a Multilayer Firewall to control access between networks. ISA Server 2006 uses the following objects to establish connections between networks and to control the network traffic between the following networks: Networks,
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Jan
28
Cecilia Cole, WSUS program manager, emphasized that WSUS 3.0 SP2 Beta was capable of integrating with Windows Server 2008 R2, came with support for Windows 7, and addresses a number of product features and fixes. Just remember that you have to be a registered Connect user and logged in or you won't see the download being available.
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Jan
28
Gmail Labs added a new features “offline Gmail” that once enabled will load Gmail in your browser even when you don't have an Internet connection. You can read messages, star, label and archive them, compose new mail and more. Messages ready to be sent will wait in your Outbox until you're online again. It's built on the Gears platform, which
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Jan
28
Yahoo! has published an explaination about the emailed notification on updated Terms and Conditions to Sponsored Search advertisers on January 5,which says that Yahoo may create ads, edit keywords, and/or optimize the accounts of U.S. advertisers not bound by an Insertion Order. In the post, Yahoo says the purpose is to help small- and mid-sized advertisers suffering
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Jan
28
Hyper-V R2 added a new toolbar to the virtual machine settings UI. You can use this to move from the settings of one virtual machine to another by either selecting the new virtual machine from the drop-down, or by using the forward and back
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