Archive for the October, 2009
Oct
30
Application Virtualization for Terminal Servers/RDS help solve applications compatibility on Terminal Servers / Session Hosts. Often, 20 servers’re required to support 1,000 users. Don't have access to the Microsoft Volume Licensing Site? Need to download App-V for your deployment? Well if you have answered yes to these questions, i may have the answer for you. Microsoft
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Oct
14
Google started rolling out promoted videos in to AdWords in Canada, U.K., France, Italy, Germany, Spain and Netherlands, you can buy Promoted Videos directly in AdWords. If you have a video about your business, Promoted Videos allow you to drive viewership of your videos by targeting the hundreds of millions of searches that happen on YouTube every day. This
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Oct
9
Microsoft and YuLong Computer Telecommunication Scientific Co. Ltd. (YuLong Telecommunication) announced a patent licensing agreement that enables YuLong Telecommunication to integrate Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync protocol on the company’s mobile phones. By licensing Exchange ActiveSync, YuLong Telecommunication can provide mobile users with the ability to synchronize e-mails, calendars, contacts and notes between mobile devices and Microsoft Exchange Server using
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Oct
9
Microsoft confirms an issue with Windows 7 Homegroup joining of a new machine invalidate correct passwords and to effectively forbid end users to perform the action. You may receive error message "The password is incorrect", even though you have typed the password correctly. This can be caused by a difference in the Date and Time settings on the computer trying to
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Oct
29
There has been a lot of confusion over Remote Desktop Services (aka Terminal Server) client access license upgrade process in Windows and this posting is an explanation on how the behavior is actually supposed to function. In Windows Server 2003 as well as Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2 have a
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Oct
28
Promoted Videos, a way to place your video on related pages on YouTube and across web, is a advertising program that anyone advertiser can use to help people discover their video. The program was recently expanded beyond the US and launched in seven countries in North America and Europe. And now expanded
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Oct
26
Microsoft plans to release documentation for the .pst file format – in which data’s stored in Microsoft Outlook Personal Folders. “Providing access to documentation’ll facilitate interoperability, enabling customers and vendors to access their data in .pst files across a variety of platforms. This’s important to organizations that need exchange key corporate data in and out of Outlook, upload to cloud,
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Oct
8
Microsoft Photosynth released a new feature “Overhead View” that allows you to look at the synth from above in 3D points. It also offers a new way of navigation, which is particularly handy for larger area synths. On hover it will show you pictures covering that region and clicking will get you a great transition into the 3D
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Oct
14
Twitter added a spam fighting toolbox to give users the ability to flag bad accounts on Twitter. Click “Report as spam” button under the Actions section of a profile’s sidebar and Twitter’ll check it. In order to avoid misusage, ‘no automated action’ll be taken as a result of reporting a user as spam. And once you report
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Oct
5
This post introduces new Unified Background Process Manager (UBPM) scheduling engine in Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. The goal of UBPM is to move the common process lifecycle management portion of the existing process managers to a unified process lifecycle manager. UBPM provides a trigger-based activation platform to manage the lifecycle of background processes for
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Oct
8
Microsoft SQL Server Driver for PHP 1.1 is released and provide support for PHP ver 5.3. This driver’ll enable developers to build PHP applications with relational database capabilities to both SQL Server as well as SQL Azure databases. There’re some key performance improvements as well as new features such as support for UTF-8 encoding and scrollable
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Oct
10
Google introduced “Quick Search Box (QSB) for Android,” a fast and versatile new system-wide search experience, available right from home screen, and provides suggestions as you type, making it easy to access whatever you're looking for by typing just a few characters. You can also tap microphone button next to search box to search web and call contacts by voice. Note
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Oct
19
Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio extend Visual Studio to enable the creation, building, configuring, debugging, running and packaging of scalable web applications and services on Windows Azure. Microsoft is giving final touches on upcoming Windows Azure Tools, SDK and cloud which’ll support Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2, with added new UI over the service definition and
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Oct
19
Both Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 contain version 2 of PowerShell. Microsoft will hold a Virtual Launch Party on October 22nd, 9:30 PM EDT (GMT-4), designed to celebrate the official release of PowerShell 2.0. “Windows isn’t just about the GUI. Starting with Windows 7, you have built-in access to PowerShell version 2, an object-oriented scripting language
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Oct
18
Microsoft Forefront Security for Office Communications Server Management Pack for Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 provides real-time insight into the health and performance of key Forefront Security for Office Communications Server (Version 10) components and services. This Management Pack alerts the administrator to critical events affecting the security of their OCS environment. Proactive management of the
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Random From The Forefront Security for OCS Management Pack for Operations Manager 2007
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Ulteo unveiled their Virtual Desktop (screenshots, download) which is a free, full Linux desktop that runs seamlessly on Windows. It's interesting because it's not running under Xen or VMWare, but instead uses the coLinux patch, which they claim allows the system to achieve 'great performance, close to a native installation on the PC.' No need to reboot the system anymore to switch from Windows to Linux. - Jan02VIZIO Sponsor of the 2011 Rose Bowl Outs iPad Competitor
A message from Randy Waynick, Chief Sales Officer of VIZIO, the official sponsor of the 2011 Rose Bowl.