November 2006 - Posts
We've released the Remote Desktop Client (RDP) 6.0 this week. There are some new features like: Network Level Authentication Server Authentication TS Gateway support Multiple monitor spanning .... Have a look at the KB925876 article for explanation of
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As it has been one year now that SQL Server 2005 has been released we decided it would be a good idea to put together a website which brings together information to help you upgrade to the latest release of SQL Server. On this website you will find valuable
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Just wanted to share with you that we released the Windows Vista product guide. It's a guide that explains feature by feature the new Windows Vista. The guide is available in two formats Word 2007 and the XPS format. Download Product Guide Technorati
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Today I was working at a booth on a Partner Event. I was explaining how we can block the installation of USB devices by using Group Policies. I also showed how we can change the default message a user gets when he tries to install such a device. I talked
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Last week I read a blogpost on how to slow down the animations in Vista . Basically you have to add a registry key and HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\DWM\ add the Dword key AnimationsShiftkey with value 1 and log off and log back on. Once you have logged
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TechNet Evening : Upgrading to SQL Server 2005 - Tips and tricks from the field Frederik Vandeputte will demonstrate different upgrade scenarios and show you the pros and cons of each upgrade path. He will pinpoint potential pitfalls and show you the
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Today Bart Bultinck , who is a member of the Belgian IT Pro community, give his first Funcast about "How to Create a Blog and Wiki with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007". Although it was his first time it went well and we will continue drive this
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Are you looking for a good Powershell Text Editor, don't look further. Thanks to David I found this really good Powershell Texteditor. You can always download the latest version from http://www.powershellanalyzer.com/ . Source: CCalderon Technorati tags:
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The RSS bandit team listened to us the users and on the blog of Dare Obasanjo you can read that they found a solution for this problem. They have tracked the problem down to an issue with the SandDock GUI components that are used by RSS Bandit . In what
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I know most of you already know that we Released To Web (RTW) Windows Powershell 1.0 for Windows XP SP2 or Windows Server 2003. Go ahead and download Powershell 1.0. On the Vista team blog Alex Heaton wrote a post about 12 cool features of Windows Powershell
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Going through the blogs that I read I saw a post about really cool gadgets. My colleague Matt McSpirit wrote a post about some cool gadgets . I downloaded and installed the two following cool gadgets: This gadgets shows you your wireless connection strength
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Today we kicked-off TechEd IT Forum in Barcelona with the pre conference sessions, I walked in different sessions. I didn't had the time to stay at the sessions because I had some catch up work todo (remember we had our amazing launch event) on e-mail
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I am in Barcelona this week and I will be at the Ask the Experts booth on tuesday, in the morning I will do the infodesk and in the afternoon at the Vista booth. If you want to talk to me just come and see me.
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What a week; A few days ago we announced that the 2007 Office System has been released to manufacturing and Now we just announced that Windows Vista has been released to manufacturing . This is a great moment for all people that worked really hard to
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We just launched the VHD Test Drive program, we are not only giving the VHD format away for free we also leverage the Virtualisation technology by delivering a bunch of pre-prepared Virtual Machines for evaluation purposes. What are we preparing: Windows
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Today I came across this an interesting mail about IT Manager content on the Technet site. I just wanted to share this information with you. Optimize Platform Value: IT Showcase Infrastructure Optimization at Microsoft Implementing Visual Studio Team
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It's there Office 2007 bits have been Released to Manufacturing (RTM). They are the first and Windows Vista will soon follow. This release is such a major change for the office product line and not only for the UI interface but also for the server products.
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We are @ T-7 days and everybody is working really hard to make this event a success. As of today we already have more than 6000 subscriptions which is great. Meanwhile we had our first dry run sessions and I planned the second one next week. Wednesday
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Last week I started playing around with "Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003" (CCS) and for that I received 4 brand new machines (on loan :( ). The servers I received are Dual QUAD Core CPU's monsters. The hardware used has not yet been announced (officially)
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