September 2006 - Posts
While I am using the Win-Tab (flip 3d) and Win-L (lock computer) key a lot I was wondering which keystrokes could be handy so I tried them out and here is the result: Win-Space: Show sidebar Win-D: Show desktop Win-Tab: Flip 3D Ctrl Win-Tab: Flip 3D which
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As of today you can download System Center Data Protection Manager V2 Beta 1 (DPM V2). To download the beta bits just go and apply for the beta program onto the connect site . How does DPM works? Well you install an agent onto the servers you want to
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November 9th will be the day that we will have the biggest event in Belgium. During that full day we will share lot's of information about Office, Vista and Exchange. There will be 16 breakout sessions of 30 min's. I am responsible for 3 sessions about
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Yesterday I discovered the following, If you have two machines that are member of the same Active Directory domain and you change your domain password on one. And if you logon to the second machine without network connection. So far so good. After a while
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You might already have noticed it we released Windows Powershell RC2. Go ahead and download Powershell RC2 Some resources about Windows Powershell: /\/\o\/\/ PowerShelled Bart De Smet Powershell Team Powershell script center Vivek Sharma Lee Holmes My
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Yesterday we had our TechNet & MSDN event in Brussels. The free event was fully booked over a 1000 attendees. Which is great and whoever attended I just want to say thank you to be there it was a great event and I hope you liked it. I know Ilse liked
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As I am preparing to do a session about some of our System Center Products. I thought by myself why not share it and blog about one topics I will talk about. So are you busy designing or managing Exchange 2003 or MOM 2005 then this is a product you really
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TechNet Evening : Technical Overview of Windows Sharepoint Services 3.0 and Office SharePoint Server 2007 During this session we will go into more detail on the specific feature areas in SharePoint 2007: collaboration, portal, search, content management,
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Just got back from dinner with Thomas Lee who is an MVP and Ilse Van Criekinge who is one of the founders of Pro-Exchange and guess what we talked about yeah powershell. I enjoyed talking about powershell providers and cmdlets. You know that Exchange
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Today I was at the EuroOSCON conference in Brussels most of the day. The first keynote in the morning was done by Tim O'Reilly. Open Source 2.0 Tim talked about Open Source 2.0. His main question was what is the value of opens source when the data is
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I am currently reading the first chapters of a Powershell book called "Windows Powershell in Action" written by Bruce Payette. There are currently Five chapters available and I am done with the first two. It's very well written with lot's of examples
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Yesterday I was talking to Kris Hoet about blogging and feedreaders. We talked about how many blogs we read and which feedreader and which editor to use, etc ... If you read my blog often you know I like RSS bandit but had some issues with this piece
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I wanted to inform you that we are almost closing on the Teched IT Forum early bird. It is the absolute top event for IT Professionals across Europe. Gerd de Bruycker , who is responsible for TechEd : IT Forum , and his team have been working overtime
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Today we revealed some of the details of Zune. I have one word for it "Awesome", now I know why I didn't bought an I**d yet. Source Picture: http://www.flickr.com/photos/92906904@N00/243185960/ Read the interview with J Allard, Microsoft Corporate Vice
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The BDD 2007 Beta has been available on connect for a while and have now been updated to support the deployment of Vista RC1. Here is the list of changes we made: Zero Touch Installation (ZTI) using SMS 2003 (requires OSD Update build 3726) in addition
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We already had some step by step guide but we just released som new ones. Have a look (or download) at the following guides: Deploying Vista Step by Step Guide Managing Group Policy ADMX Files Step by Step Guide Managing Roaming User Data Deployment Guide
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Today I came across this blog post about how to run Windows Programs really fast from the run dialogue box. It's basically a list of 112 commands you can run. Useful, maybe on Windows XP but with the integrated search in Windows Vista this not needed
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If you like Monad like I do then I have some resources for you. Check out Thomas Lee's blog , he likes Monad and Vista and links also to valuable resources like the video of Monad that we posted on IT's showtime guess who is doing the Video. IT's Showtime
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System Center Essentials Beta 2 has been released as always you can subscribe and download the Beta from the http://connect.microsoft.com site. Do you know what System Center Essentials does? If you don't read my post about SCE. A great resource for you
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One of my colleagues received a mail from Matthias with the question how to find the stereo mix device in his recording devices, with the previous versions of Vista these devices where visible. The next day he sent us a mail that he had found the solution.
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I was reading through my blogs when I came onto this post from omar about inline search for Internet Explorer. It's a simple add-on for IE but it will make my life searching so much easier. Why didn't we develop that ??? Anyway you can download it here
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I just read on the Vista team blog site that all who subscribed to the CPP program back in June can start using Vista RC1. The Beta2 keys you received are still useable with RC1. So if you have a key download Windows Vista RC1. If you are not part of
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Yesterday Ilse Van Criekinge presented the Technet Evening about "Designing, Managing and Maintaining Exchange Server 2007, beyond the basics" She tackled different topics going from the installation requirements through high availability. In this post
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With the release of Windows Vista RC1 we also released the suggested US retail prices for the different Vista editions. Windows Vista Business: Suggested retail price for full package product, $299.00 USD. Suggested upgrade retail price, $199.00 USD.
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What I really like in Vista and particularly in this build is that you define different sound settings for your applications. So if you are listening to a podcast or viewing a Webcast you don't want to have your Messenger sounds interfering with that.
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Still in holiday but I wanted to share this with you if didn't know yet we released Vista RC1 it is build 5600. Its not yet available for the broad community but I will start download it as I speak. Some words from Jim read on Vista blog : It’s official
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