Archive for May 16th, 2009
May
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At TechEd, Adam Glick talked about Mobility in Exchange 2010. In the video below, Adam shares why he is excited about Exchange 2010 and also why he thinks end-users and IT PROs will also be equally happy with the new features and functionality.
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May
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The video below focuses on a new capability in Hyper-V R2 RC (download) called “Dynamic Storage,” which allows an administrator to add or remove a virtual hard disk (VHD) or pass through disk, to a running virtual machine, without incurring any downtime for that virtual machine. This is particularly useful, when, for example, you want to backup
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May
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Microsoft offers a tool called “adCenter Excel Add-in Keyword Research Tool” for versions 2003 and 2007, designed to help users figure out which keywords to use with their Pay-Per-Click (PPC) advertising campaigns. However, the tool’s output is also extremely relevant to developing or revising a keyword list for your website as part of an SEO
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May
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Microsoft announced a partnership aimed at helping make the eastern Chinese city of Hangzhou a model for innovation and protection of intellectual property, in the company's latest attempt to combat rampant software piracy. A three-year agreement calls for setting up two new centers in Hangzhou to focus on developing the local technology industry. The deal came after Hangzhou
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May
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Microsoft posted the release candidate of the Windows Media Center Software Development Kit 6.0 for Windows 7. You can leave feedback here or chat about it over at http://discuss.mediacentersandbox.com. Note to developers: For all intents and purposes we are done with Windows 7 – if you want to report issues (application compatibility or
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May
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YouTube Insight is a free analytics tool that helps you better understand how the YouTube community is interacting with your video and grow your audience. So how do you master this "science"? First, let's start with the basics. Monitoring viewing trends through Insight's "Views" tab can help you nail down the best time to upload
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May
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The EBS Administration Console may crash if the IIS application pool default is configured to allow 32-bit applications. The SCE console will also crash with a distinct error: System.InvalidOperationException: Client found response content type of 'text/html; charset=utf-8', but expected 'text/xml'. This is usually caused by modifying the application pool setting in order to install an application
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May
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A TechEd interview video provides product overview on Windows Essential Business Server 2008. “Microsoft has just released a new product suite for midsized companies (under 300 PCs). Essential Business Server is a suite of server products and new integrated admin software designed exclusively for midsized businesses. Hear about how to reduce server count, quickly get to security best practices, and
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May
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Google now lets you controll its update mechanism via Windows Group Policy, allowing network administrators to specify which Google applications can be installed and how they should be updated. You can select from one of three update options: automatically, manually, or not at all. Administrators can also control how frequently
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May
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At TecgEd, Microsoft started registration for Office 2010 Technical Preview program from select testers on an invite-only basis. The testers don't even have the TP yet, but new screenshots have already arrived of version build 14.0.4006.1010. The build number of the official Technical Preview, which is scheduled for two months from now, is not known, so it is perfectly possible that
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May
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Microsoft Learning is providing 3 free online E-Learning Clinics on Windows 7 geared toward 3 distinct audiences. These “clinics” focus on many of the new features and functionality seen in Windows 7.
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May
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Mozilla began distributing Alpha 1 of Fennec for Windows Mobile. As with all Alphas, this release is by no means intended for every day use by the general public, but it gives us a sneak peak at what’s to come. If you’ve a Windows Mobile handset running at a resolution of 480×640, it’s worth to check; you can
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May
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The second service pack 2 for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 will fail to install on computers that have cloned disks or partitions via what Microsoft referred to as third-party disk management tools. When you install Vista SP2, the Vista SP2 installer must update the system boot files. If third-party disk management tools are used
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May
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"If you're just starting your testing of Vista, with the Windows 7 Release Candidate and the quality of that offering, I would switch over and do your testing on the Windows 7 RC, and use that going forward," said Bill Veghte, in a keynote speech. That same day, other Microsoft managers said work
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May
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While not a traditional Web search engine, a challenger to Google emerged on Friday “WolframAlpha”. Unlike Google, which takes a query and uses algorithms to scour the Web and return a series of links to relevant websites, WolframAlpha.com takes a query and crunches through its databases to return answers. "The basic idea of
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Random From The WolframAlpha test run Launched
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