Archive for June 26th, 2009


Jun 26

Workaround to eMail from Synchronized Distribution Groups Flagged as Spam Issue

If all of the following conditions exist in your company, e-mail sent from Microsoft Exchange Online to your company’s distribution groups may be filtered as spam and not delivered. Why does this happen? Distribution groups have an Active Directory property called ReportToOriginatorEnabled. This property can have
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Jun 26

Windows Live ‘find right info fast, chat from hotmail’ and more features debuting

The Windows Live Team has sent a newsletter, mentioning the following new upcoming features: Chat from within Hotmail, One calendar for everything, Find the right info fast. Well, that is what they sounded like from the newsletter.  So, it was time to find out more. The first two are quite obivous and require
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Jun 26

Google Apps Status Dashboard goes global

Google Apps Status Dashboard is now available in 24 new languages. Announcements on the Dashboard will be available in all supported languages, and the language you see will correspond with your settings and preferences. There may be times when we'll give you a link to additional details in English or a smaller subset of languages in the interest
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Jun 26

Windows 7 Professional Upgrade for $99.99 at Amazon

With the release of Windows 7 GA and pricing, Microsoft announced taking pre-orders for Windows 7. Now you can pre-order, your copy of Windows 7 at Amazon. All orders will be shipped on Oct 22, 2009:
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Jun 26

Using Forms in Google Docs

Google spreadsheet forms can be used to collect information for employee surveys, volunteer lists, product feedback and managing events like team offsites etc. Just send a form with simple, straightforward questions via email and behind the scenes, your form busily updates your online spreadsheet with responses in real-time. If you're struggling to explain how forms work to your
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Jun 26

2007 Microsoft Office Servers hotifx – KB971620

Microsoft made the following updates available to fix the issue that triggers “during the installation of the 2007 Microsoft Office servers Service Pack 2, a product expiration date is activated incorrectly.” To resolve manually: Click Start, point to All Programs, point to Administrative Tools, and then click SharePoint 3.0 Central Administration; Click the
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Jun 26

Introduction to Remote Web Workplace in SBS 2008

Remote Web Workplace (RWW) is an integral component in the SBS feature set for 2008. Its purpose is to provide a secure centralized web portal for employees and administrators to access network resources. RWW is installed on the server during SBS Setup, but is not fully configured for Internet access until you complete the “Internet Address
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Jun 26

Microsoft and VivaKi/Publicis Groupe announced strategic agreement

Microsoft and Publicis Groupe announced a broad agreement to closely cooperate on three core objectives enabled by the emergence of the digital media world. Focusing on Content, Performance and Audience, respective teams will work to bring better value and more efficacy to their clients across the range of digital media experiences. Through the Publicis owned studio PBJS,
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Jun 26

Cache Pattern for offline HTML5 web applications: Gmail for Mobile HTML5 Series

This post expands on the handling of hit determination and merging server and local changes of cache pattern, which’s design pattern for building an offline-capable web application. It’s implemented to make Gmail for Mobile tolerant of flaky wireless connections but the approach is generally applicable. Here's how it works. Consider a typical AJAX application. As shown in the diagram, we
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Jun 26

Google Account ‘password recovery via SMS’

Google added a new password recovery option that let you “associate a mobile phone number with your Google Account and Google will send a recovery code by SMS”. To set up password recovery via your mobile phone, just sign in to your account and click Change Password Recovery Options. Enter your mobile phone number
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Jun 26

Google Chrome ‘comic book’ in Japanese

Since comics (or manga) are quite popular in Japan, Google released a new issue of comic book for Japanese users about the contributions of Japan team. The illustrations are by a Japanese artist Yutanpo Shirane, who picked up right where the first comic left off.
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Jun 26

SCVMM 2008 R2: Quick Storage Migration

As you may have seen, we recently released the Release Candidate for System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2. One of the most anticipated features of SCVMM 2008 R2 is Quick Storage Migration (QSM) which enables the migration of the storage of VM from one location to another. For example, suppose you have virtual machines on
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Jun 26

Michael Jackson ‘King of Pop’ Died in LA

Michael Jackson, the pop legend, died of a heart attack in a Los Angeles hospital, just weeks before he hoped to resurrect his four-decade long career with a series of sold-out shows in London. Jackson was taken to the University of California at Los
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Jun 26

Developing Windows 7 Taskbar Jump Lists – Part 2

In this post, we walk through the different APIs that you can use when programming the Taskbar Jump Lists in Windows 7 OS. Before we begin, there is one very important thing you need to know. “Items” in the Recent category, or in any other category (any destination), must have a registered file handler for your
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Jun 26

$100 discount on Microsoft TechNet subscription

Microsoft began offering discount on its Technet subscription until July 3; Under this program, you can get a one year subscription for $249, a $100 discount below the normal price. If interested visit the following link and enter the promo code "TEYFY09" to get the discount. UK users can enter the promo code "TNCARE09" to get the same discount (£187.37 instead of
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