Archive for October 15th, 2009
Oct
15
Microsoft opened its “Hardware + Windows 7” site, that demos, Windows 7 features on new compatible hardware. Note: you must run the site in Silverlight compatible browser:
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Oct
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Microsoft released IIS Application Warm-Up beta – an extension for IIS 7.5 that enables IT Professionals to improve the responsiveness of their Web sites by loading the Web applications before the first request arrives. By proactively loading and initializing all the dependencies such as database connections, compilation of ASP.NET code, and loading of modules, IT
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Oct
15
To celebrate this awesome Windows 7 exclusive upcoming TV show from Seth MacFarlane called Family Guy Presents: Seth & Alex’s Almost Live Comedy Show, the Windows Outreach Team’ll be doing a giveaway as part of their ongoing #WinWin7 Contest on Twitter for exclusive tickets to see the taping of Family Guy Presents: Seth &
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Oct
15
Adobe has released a massive patch to fix flaws in Adobe Reader 9.1.3 and Acrobat 9.1.3, Adobe Reader 8.1.6 and Acrobat 8.1.6 for Windows, Macintosh and UNIX, and Adobe Reader 7.1.3 and Acrobat 7.1.3 for Windows and Macintosh. Adobe said that the patches covered zero-day flaw, heap, integer and buffer overflow vulnerabilities, as well as memory corruption issues
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Oct
15
Microsoft has released a white paper “Application Virtualization 4.5 for Terminal Services” that discusses the benefits, configurations, and considerations when planning a Terminal Services (TS) solution with Microsoft Application Virtualization for TS (App-V for TS). Many customers want to find out the best way to configure and/or deploy App-V for TS on terminal servers. This paper includes
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Oct
15
Although it is relatively easy to make a clone of a virtual machine, the cloning process is less than intuitive. This article series shows you how to avoid disaster by creating a virtual machine clone in the proper way. The problem with cloning a virtual machine is that you can not have two identical computers on
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Oct
15
The System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 Cross Platform Update adds fixes for a defunct process issue on Unix/Linux Servers, as well as, adds support for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 (both 32-bit and 64-bit versions) and Solaris Zone support. This update contains the latest versions of the Operations Manager 2007 R2 UNIX/Linux agents for the following
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Oct
15
Miami city is moving to Windows 7 in several of the computer centers that are part of the Elevate Miami project, which aims to equip all of the city's residents with digital know-how, including its vast Spanish-speaking population and the city's most economically challenged areas. The city’s putting Windows 7 machines in five locations, including four
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Oct
15
SQL Azure Database October CTP 2 is available and includes the complete feature set that will be delivered at the Professional Developers Conference (PDC) on November 17th - 20th, 2009 in LA. ‘The CTP has been deployed to one of our go-live production clusters. This production cluster’s significantly larger and more powerful than the machine cluster that’s supporting Aug
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Oct
15
This screencasts discusses how networks’re used when live migration is configured with cluster shared volumes and shows which parameters you can configure to control traffic:
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Oct
15
With release of Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2, The Dutch Network User Group (Netwerk Gebruikersgroep Nederland or NGN) organizes a Windows 7 Deployment event on Monday October 26th, 2009 in Ede, the Netherlands. The event’ll focus on the deployment of Windows 7 in enterprise environments. Concluding the event’s a Q&A Panel (16:00 –
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Oct
15
Microsoft Online Services Service Update for Oct 2009 is currently being deployed into production data centers and is scheduled to be available to all customers before the end of October. The following features and capabilities’re included in this Service Update:
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Oct
15
GlideTV Navigator combines the functionality of a keyboard, mouse and AV remote in an elegant device that fits the palm of your hand, and is the easiest way to surf the net from your TV head-up and leaning-back. From movies to TV shows, from music services to radio stations, it’s all there at a click of a
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Oct
15
Microsoft announced of doing an Xbox LIVE Update Preview program for upcoming features such as Zune, Facebook and Twitter. You’ll need to visit Microsoft Connect site and sign in with your Windows LIVE ID that’s connected to your Xbox LIVE Gamertag. Once you do that, you need to fill out the "Xbox LIVE Update Preview Sign Up" survey
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Oct
15
Jonathan Frederickson has made available Google Chrome OS unstable build. Frederickson has placed the files he downloaded a few days ago on a Rapidshare account for anyone to access.
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