Archive for November 21st, 2009
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For iGoogle gadgets developers to get data that lets them know how their gadget is doing, Google launched a “iGoogle gadget dashboard,” where developers can manage their gadgets and see detailed analytics about their gadgets' usage. Right now dashboard allows you to see user numbers over time, number of gadget loads in home and
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Google Voice was GrandCentral before Google acquired company back in 2007. Now, that Google Voice is up & ruuning in private beta, and should roll out publicly shortly; Google Voice team've notified GrandCentral users that “we'll be closing down the GrandCentral website as of December 31, 2009. Here’s email excerpt:All GrandCentral
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Microsoft released an update of “Games for Windows Live PC client,” that brings with it many cosmetic changes. The redesigned marketplace and more detailed game pages’ll make browsing the marketplace easier. Also of note is a change to downloads system, that takes on more of an Xbox Live approach to content. A "Top Sellers" box has
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SecAnnotate can be used to analyze your assemblies, especially APTCA assemblies in order to find transparency violations without needing code coverage from a test case. Instead, static analysis provided by SecAnnotate is valuable in ensuring that your assembly’s fully correct from a transparency perspective. SecAnnotate runs in two different modes. By default, it runs in annotation
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In Windows Server 2008 R2, one of the enhancements was improving the performance of dynamic VHD files. Prior to R2, writes to dynamically expanding VHD files could be 3x slower than writes to a fixed size VHD file due to limited meta data caching. Overall, Microsoft’s claiming performance of dynamic VHD files vs. fixed size VHD
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Microsoft posted a documentation on “how to deploy Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 on USB Flash drive”. Even cooler than booting Hyper-V off of a USB device is the fact that what we’re doing here’s booting a VHD with Hyper-V installed on it off of a USB device:Download BootHVSR2FromUSB tool, with this tool
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This post talks about how you can transition your existing Exchange environment to Exchange Server 2010 from a client access perspective. For most of you, this’ll also mean coexisting with legacy Exchange and Exchange 2010 for a period of time. This post’ll hopefully answer these questions by breaking down your transition into two scenarios: •
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Microsoft released the Forefront Security for Exchange Server (FSE) with Service Pack 2, an optional but recommended update for FSE customers, including EBS customers. For EBS installations, additional manual steps may be necessary to complete installation. If you selected a separate data partition during Messaging Server installation, steps below apply to you. If you’ve
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IBM is working hard to provide customers direct insight into IBM Hardware, and guidance for consolidated workloads for IBM System X and Blade servers using MAP 4.0. In this regard, a new IBM Hardware Pack for Microsoft Assessment and Panning Toolkit version 1.1 is released. IBM Hardware Pack for MAP 1.1 helps customers assess their current
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Pigeon Impossible is the tale of Walter, a rookie secret agent faced with a problem seldom covered in basic training: what to do when a curious pigeon gets trapped inside your multi-million dollar, government-issued nuclear briefcase. The film took nearly 5 years to complete and is the first attempt at animation by writer/director Lucas Martell: "When
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In response to Kristof's post suggesting that Bing search engine filters results for searches conducted outside of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) using Simplified Chinese characters for their query, Microsoft said it's "committed to comprehensive results" and did fix a bug in web search that addressed this issue. There’re “some queries that provide
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This guide provides recommendations and cautions for running domain controllers as guests on Hyper-V servers. With Hyper-V, its possible to install multiple domain controllers on a single host server running Windows Server 2008. You can effectivel host multiple domains, multiple domains, multiple domain controllers for the same domain, or even multiple forests on one
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