Archive for May 6th, 2010
May
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The “Office 2010 deployment kit, recipe, and PoC Package are now available. If you haven’t given it a try than here's the recipe: Office 2010 App-V Recipe Guide (RTM). To Make the recipe and office 2010 work you’ll need the Office 2010 Deployment Kit; Office 2010 App-V Deployment Kit (RTM) published as a
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May
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Google Search is now showing a link "add to iGoogle" on corresponding search result for a small number of sites (BBC, New York Times, National Geographic, TVGuide.com, NPR, Flixster, Epicurious). When you click "add to iGoogle" link, displayed next to search result, Google adds corresponding official gadget on your iGoogle page. “Google set a cookie
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May
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Professional Association for SQL Server “started a SQL Azure Virtual Chapter, and are looking for: » Virtual Chapter Leader - work directly with Microsoft leads to get this group off ground, connect with speakers, bring lot of energy to PASS community, will be at TechEd North America where Virtual Chapter is launching »
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May
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Front Runner for SharePoint can help software companies move your SharePoint 2007 application to SharePoint 2010. When you join Front Runner program, you can access one-on-one technical support by phone or e-mail from developer experts, who can help you get your app compatible with SharePoint 2010. Once your app is compatible, you'll get a range
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May
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Yesterday, Google introduced new look search results page, today Jon Wiley, “shared a bit of Google’s thinking on the design team. “During our process we focused on people’s rising expectations for search. As the web has evolved over the past decade, people have been typing more sophisticated searches and seeking out specialized search tools to
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May
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There will be “two new product categories added to your WSUS server under the existing Forefront family. Forefront Security for Exchange Server will be used for updates that apply to Forefront Security for Exchange Server version 10.1 (and later). Forefront Security for SharePoint will be used for updates that apply to Forefront Security for SharePoint version
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May
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Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers has finally begun to enable top-level domain names based on non-Latin alphabets. The first three country code top level domains (ccTLD) written in Arabic script placed in the DNS root zone are: "Al-Saudiah," "Emarat, and "Misr," and they allow site names to be written right-to-left. ICANN began testing internationalized
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May
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How do I get to a standard operating system image? In this screencast, John Baker, uses Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2010 to first create, and then deploy a custom Windows 7 image to a Reference computer. Then the image is "Sysprepped" and captured, creating a custom, Windows image in the form of a .wim file:
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May
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Google and Global Voices “recognized three groups from around the world who're fighting for free expression online from Africa to Asia with the first "Breaking Borders" awards, in Santiago, Chile. At Global Voices Summit where Internet activists from 60 countries have gathered — were originally announced Nov 3, 2009, when Google and others
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May
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To help developers jumpstart development of Windows Phone applications and games, Microsoft released a refresh of Windows Phone Training Kit, that includes “Windows Phone MIX10 videos as well as one new lab. Due to limited nature of this release, which focused on getting tools to work with VS2010 RTM, we managed to introduce only one
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May
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Microsoft released a new hotfix for Windows 7 Media Center which resolves a problem some users have experienced whereby the Music Library appears to be in a perpetual state of re-building, with the UI unresponsive. In KB 981770, Microsoft states: “You frequently experience a music library issue when you access the music library in Windows Media
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May
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“Windows 2000 Server and Advanced Server virtual machines display an Operating System property of 'Unknown.' If the Operating System property is set manually, it’ll revert to 'Unknown' following an automatic SCVMM refresh. There’re no errors associated with this change. Cause: A database entry that identifies the list of supported virtual machine operating systems per hypervisor requires
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May
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Chris Pendleton, give the technical peeps out there a sneak peak into ‘how Bing Maps created the Streetside user experience’. So, while our satellite imagery and orthographic aerial photography (Aerial map style) provide great context to accompany our vector-based raster maps (Road map style) and our oblique imagery (Bird’s Eye map style) is even higher
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May
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A Facebook bug quitely “add apps to your profile without your knowledge, when you visit certain sites while logged into Facebook. There’s no notification or prompt, Facebook window doesn’t have to be open, you don’t need to be signed in to these sites, and there is no option to opt-out anywhere in Facebook's byzantine privacy settings,”
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May
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Google Goggles “v1.1 is now available on devices running Android 1.6 and higher. To download, go to Android Market app on your phone and search for “Google Goggles”. This release can read English, French, Italian, German and Spanish and can translate to many more languages. Google is working to extend recognition capabilities to other Latin-based
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Random From The Goggles can read & translate ‘English, French, Italian, German and Spanish’
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