Archive for September 30th, 2009
Sep
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When configuring a Virtual Desktop Infrastructure using Remote Desktop Services in Windows Server 2008 R2, you need the Remote Desktop Virtualization Host role service. Enabling that on a Windows Server 2008 R2 system with the Full UI is rather straightforward. DISM: dism /online /Enable-Feature /FeatureName:VmHostAgent – ! Make sure you type VmHostAgent with correct casing ! PowerShell:
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Sep
30
Google AdSense for Feeds (FeedBurner) announced that going forward all links’ll be "301 Permanent Redirect." Some users selected to use a 302 redirected link, as opposed to a 301 redirected link, to obtain better tracking. Google has made this change for the URLs to become “more compatible with search engines that crawl feeds,” and will consider these to
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Sep
30
This post is going to focus on the use and deployment of a custom Group Policy to disable the Reply-All functionality in Outlook. The steps outlined below’ll effectively remove a user's ability to use the Reply-All functionality in Outlook via creation and deployment of a custom Group Policy Object (GPO). The examples presented below’ll target a
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Sep
30
With global availability (GA) day for Windows 7 is near, major software retailers’ve heavily discounted pre-orders for the OEM full-installation editions (minimal packaging), with Newegg offering the Home Premium SKU at $99.99:
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Sep
30
Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 has the capability to take advantage of greater computing resources compared with the company's first version. For e.g., with R2, Microsoft increased the number of physical processors supported from four to eight. The delta on logical processors is even more dramatic. While the original Hyper-V supported up to 16 logical processors, the new
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Sep
30
With Windows 7, Microsoft and Intel allianced again; Steve Ballmer cites Intel as one of the early corporate adopters of Windows 7 in an open email issued to Redmond company's partners and customers. Ballmer says Windows 7 provides Intel employees with "improved performance, greater application responsiveness, and a better platform for mobile workers." Intel released
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Sep
30
Microsoft has been pushing Windows 7 as greener than Vista or XP, designed with a variety of energy-saving options for both IT administrators and end users. In an interview, Rob Bernard of Microsoft, insisted that the company's newest operating system will come with environmentally friendly features baked into its infrastructure, creating greater energy efficiency (and a smaller carbon
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Sep
30
With Windows 7 launch right around the corner, Windows 7 Logo Program highlights the products from ecosystem, and is designed to help customers make better purchase decisions by identifying products that’ve passed Microsoft designed tests for compatibility and reliability with Windows 7. For last several months Microsoft’ve been running a program for partners called Ready.Set.7 designed to help
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Sep
30
Google is deprecating iGoogle’s shareable-prefs API & feature that enables gadgets to share state across multiple users' pages. In the next few weeks, iGoogle’ll remove the UI elements for shareable-prefs, preventing any new gadgets from implementing this feature. A few weeks later, iGoogle’ll break the links between these gadgets entirely, at which point, the gadgets’ll behave as if
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Sep
30
Google added Polylines and Polygons to Maps API v3. These allow you to draw lines or filled regions on the map, specify stroke and fill styles, and handle events, and work in all supported browsers. Also made a few improvements from Polylines and Polygons in Maps
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Sep
30
With mobile web surfing on the rise, Yahoo! have tweaked & launched Yahoo! Sponsored Search system to serve your ads to iPhones, iTouch and Android mobile phones. With this tweak, standard Sponsored Search ads (40-character header, 70-character description, the host URL—you know the drill) will appear on these mobile devices, giving your ads wider appeal and more
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Sep
30
Data Protection Manager (DPM) 2010 Beta builds on the success of DPM 2007 as the Microsoft backup and recovery solution for Windows customers in four significant areas: First and foremost, DPM 2010 Beta protects highly available virtual machines (VM) deployed on Windows Server 2008 R2 using Cluster Shared Volumes (CSV) clusters -- in addition to standalone
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Sep
30
Google is hosting a live webcast on Oct 1, 2009, 11:00 a.m. PDT / 2:00 p.m. EDT / 6:00 p.m. GMT, “How Google Tackles IT Security – and What You Can Learn From It,” for you to learn about security in the cloud and get your questions answered by members of Google's Security team. The security experts
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Sep
30
Missed the VRT with Mark Russinovich? Here’s the promo of what you can look forward to when the replay become available later this week.
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Sep
30
Hackers’ve publicly released new attack code that exploits a critical bug in the Windows operating system, putting pressure on Microsoft to fix the flaw before it leads to a worm outbreak. The vulnerability has been known since Sep 7, but until today the publicly available programs that leverage it to attack PCs haven't been able to do
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