Archive for February 16th, 2010
Feb
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Have you ever tried managing a Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V host using System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 RTM but kept running into issues that prevented it from working properly? If so, here’s a tip for you: “The original version of VMM 2008 doesn’t support managing Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V hosts. To manage Windows
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Feb
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WordPress dev team released the version 2.9.2, to address the issue ‘where logged in users can peek at trashed posts belonging to other authors. If you have untrusted users signed up on your blog and sensitive posts in the trash, you should upgrade to 2.9.2. As always, you can visit the Tools->Upgrade menu to upgrade,”
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Feb
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If need help understanding or explaining ‘why Windows Azure might be right for your business?’ Check Why Windows Azure series of short videos with Microsoft Trainer Bill Lodin, who uses a unique whiteboard to help illustrate why people should adopt Windows Azure:What Is Windows Azure and Why Is It In the Cloud?
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Feb
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Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate provides an integrated environment of tools and server infrastructure that simplifies the entire application development process. Deliver business results using productive, predictable, customizable processes and increase transparency and traceability throughout the lifecycle with detailed analytics. This virtual machine doesn’t have anti-virus installed. It should not be connected to any network until
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Feb
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ChaCha is rolling out a Facebook application allows users open access to questions and answers from both ChaCha and all of their friends. With ChaCha’s Facebook App, when individuals pose a question to any friends within their social network, the question is also automatically submitted to ChaCha. ChaCha returns an answer from its database of
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Feb
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As some of you may have noticed issues with the Windows Live ID service between 9 and 10AM PST on Feb 16th, that caused “due to the failure of one server, Windows Live ID logins were failing for some customers, and this increased the load on our remaining servers. We took the problematic server offline and
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Feb
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Windows Server 2008 hosting company known as “Discount ASP.NET” has partnered with Microsoft in order to boost their ASP.NET 4 hosting sandbox with support for.NET Framework 4 RC. At the same time, the hosting provider will be offering free hosting sandbox until mid-April 2010 for developers that leverage Visual Studio 2010 RC and .NET Framework 4
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Feb
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Microsoft announced the released of “Windows Embedded Standard 7” — which’s basically a reversioning of the system from release year-based versions to numeric versions based on the underlying OS for that embedded release. Therefore, Windows Embedded Standard 2011 will now be known as Windows Embedded Standard 7. It’s a componentized and embedded version of Windows 7,
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Feb
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Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate provides an integrated environment of tools and server infrastructure that simplifies the entire application development process. Deliver business results using productive, predictable, customizable processes and increase transparency and traceability throughout the lifecycle with detailed analytics. Whether creating new solutions or enhancing existing applications unleash your creativity with powerful prototyping, architecture and
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Feb
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Google News appears to be displaying Trending Topics (Top Stories) in the left sidebar for logged in users. According to these Buzz comments. But according to one Google Employee as it appears it's one of the “Google Experiments” . “At Google, we run anywhere from 50 to 200 experiments at any given
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Feb
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Microsoft published a new Knowledge Base article discusses the use of the MaxCacheSize parameter and the MinFreeSpaceMB parameter when you install Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V) 4.6 for Windows Desktops. You can find it at the following link: KB979594 - Information on the MaxCacheSize and MinFreeSpaceMB cache parameters in Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.6 Windows Desktops No Comments » - Posted by DG
Feb
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Home Server Show has a great walkthrough for sharing your Outlook Calendars on Windows Home Server’s remote access website. The walkthrough involves a little bit of work with the IIS settings on your home server, so is for seasoned tinkerers only! “In this case we want to publish content to existing WHS Internet Information Services (IIS)
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Feb
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Scott Barnes, formerly Microsoft Rich Platform Product Manager (WPF & Silverlight), has voiced his opinions on the Windows Phone 7 user interface (UI). "the UI is trying a little to hard to do the opposite of the iPhone, like it’s a challenge they need to rise up against. Examples like no Icons, panning up/down instead of
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Feb
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Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager 2010 (DPM) provides continuous data protection for virtual machines hosted on servers running Microsoft’s Hyper-V. This protection includes online backup of supported guest virtual machines hosted on clustered or standalone systems; protection of virtual machines during the live migration process; and, item level recovery from host-level backup. DPM 2010 offers
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Feb
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Microsoft scheduled a webinar on Feb 18, 2010 at 11 AM PST, in which Salvador Ramirez, of Microsoft Online Services working on Exchange Online, will tell us: How Exchange Online uses Forefront Online Protection for Exchange (FOPE) to provide virus and spam protection for all Exchange Online mailboxes; How to add Archiving to your Exchange Online
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