Archive for October 26th, 2009
Oct
26
Microsoft kick off Springboard/Microsoft Learning “Get On The Bus” tour, which’s an 11-city European road show that’ll begin in Milan and end at TechEd EMEA, Berlin. Each tour stop’ll get ou an exclusive preview of Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack (MDOP), Med-V,
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Oct
26
We're got our first look at what's in store for Microsoft/Fox/Seth MacFarlane television extravaganza planned for Nov 8. “TV.com's Tim Surette is not impressed with promotion, accusing MacFarlane of selling out and noting that the clip should leave viewers "underwhelmed." "Selling out to Microsoft (and let's not pretend that this stunt is anything other than selling out) may
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Oct
26
Windows Live team took off the ‘Sync’ functionality to fix a “serious problem in Windows Live Sync that could cause problems in rare cases for people who used Windows Easy Transfer”. They’ve released an update to Sync and began allowing people to sign in again. The next time you use your computers that are
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Oct
26
Here’e is a series of Bings TV Ads video produced by Microsoft Australian team:
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Oct
26
A new Hyper-V Knowledge Base article discusses an issue where you may receive Windows Time Service event IDs 24, 29, and 38 on a virtualized domain controller that is running on a Windows Server 2008-based host server: KB976924 - You receive Windows Time Service event IDs 24, 29, and 38 on a virtualized domain
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Oct
26
CloudBerry Explorer makes managing files in Microsoft Windows Azure Blob Storage EASY. By providing a user interface to Microsoft Azure Blob Storage accounts, and files, CloudBerry lets you manage your files on cloud just as you would on your own local computer. Here’re some features: “register and connect to any number of Microsoft Azure Blob Storage
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Oct
26
Microsoft is working on ADMT 3.2, which can be installed on Windows Server 2008 R2 servers for migrations. But there's no estimated date yet. In the meantime, a ADMT 3.1 comes with supported scenarios for using it to migrate to R2 domains. Read more about this:
KB976659 - Known issues that may occur
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Oct
26
Rich Snippets was introduced earlier this year, and makes it possible to show structured data from your pages on Google's search results. If your site has review or people/social networking content, it's now easier to mark up your content using microformats or RDFa so that Google can better understand it
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Oct
26
During the development of Windows 7, most cmdlet design and help authoring in Microsoft went through an internal tool called the “Cmdlet Designer,” which makes it much easier for teams to concentrate on the design, naming, and consistency of their cmdlets, while also guaranteeing name registration and collision
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Oct
26
Microsoft debuted ‘Windows 7 Solution Center,’ which’s focused on helping end users deal with possible problems associated with Windows 7, the Solution Center covers a range of areas, including installation, upgrading and activation, but also performance, safety and security, Internet Explorer, entertainment, and productivity. When first visiting the center users will be welcomed by a key
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Oct
26
In conjunction with Mozilla’s announcement for Web Open Font Format (WOFF) and continuing wanky tradition of removing vowels from web app names, CSS Ninja has created, Font dragr — an experimental web app that uses HTML5 & CSS3 to create a useful standalone web based application for testing custom fonts, once you visit it for the first
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Oct
26
This ‘Windows 7 hourly tracker’ is created to track ‘how Microsoft Windows 7 operating system is doing since its launch?’ The data’s based on live market share measured by Net Applications. Some highlights: At noon EDT on 22 Oct (launch day), Win 7 market share stood at 1.40%, Current peak is 2.90%, hit
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Oct
26
Microsoft has dropped its sponsorship off Fox's upcoming Seth MacFarlane comedy/variety special. Fox still plans to air "Family Guy Presents: Seth and Alex's Almost Live Comedy Show" on Nov. 8, but with another, yet-to-be-named sponsor. "We initially chose to participate in the Seth and Alex variety show based on the audience composition and creative humor of 'Family
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Oct
26
This post focuses on new Trigger Start Services in Windows 7. A trigger-start service’s a regular service that you can configure to run (or stop running) only when its triggered, that’s, only when certain criteria and conditions that you define’re met (for e.g., when first network IP address becomes available, or when last network IP’s lost).
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Oct
26
If you’re using SCVMM to manage your Hyper-V servers, and when you start using SCVMM to manage a Hyper-V server, SCVMM creates their own authorization store to be used by Hyper-V. As long as you only use SCVMM to manage your environment – this’s fine. But if you want to continue to use Hyper-V management tools, and
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Random From The SCVMM: Hyper-V Management + Delegated Administration
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In the realm of companies I wouldn't expect to release an online game, Symantec is right up at the top of the list. - May30Windows 7: Microsoft mysterious press communiqué
ZDNet.co.uk received a press release from Microsoft. It's titled "Windows 7 Information", but of the 1,500 or so words in it, barely a couple of
