May 2007 - Posts
The Windows Live team released some new Beta's including Windows Live Writer , Windows Live Mail and Windows Live Messenger 8.5 They have made some huge improvements which will make my life as a blogger easier :) Here are some of the improvements in Windows
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Look how Microsoft Belgium is trying to reach more developers and not by using the traditional channels. They just launched a new campaign called " Defy All Challenges " . I added a screenshot on how the advertisement in an Xbox game could look like.
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No need to say how cool this is just watch the videos and it's coming to us in 2007. Great I want one of these don't you? www.microsoft.com/surface Update: Watch the demo of Microsoft surface at the On10 site Technorati tags: Microsoft Surface , Surface
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Did you know that you can use PowerShell scripting to enhance the Group Policy administration? Me neither until I read the nice article "Simplifying Group Policy Administration with Windows PowerShell" In this article you will discover how to use the
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Back in November I wrote a blogpost about the VHD test program. Now we have added new products onto this program and we call it "Run IT on a Virtual Hard Disk". If you want to play with some of our latest technology without spending the time to install
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Today with a Windows Server 2003 domain you can only define one password and account lockout policies. We heard the feedback of many customers that we needed to change that because now it was one of the reasons to create another domain in your forest.
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TechNet Evening : IIS7 for IT Professionals What? If you had not the opportunity to join us last Monday during the Web Administration summit then here is your chance we are planning a TechNet evening session about our newest web platform IIS 7. During
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Last week the Compute Cluster (HPC) group released their Microsoft Compute Cluster Toolpack. ( Download Here ) The Toolpack consist out of three tools: Cluster monitoring tool to visualize the cluster utilization. MPIPingPong.exe to verify if all the
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This is the last post in my 10 reasons series, to conclude this series we will look at the improvements we've made in the Terminal Services. Due to my background this is by far my favorite topic. A question that we often receive when we announce or introduce
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It has been announced at WinHec by Bill Gates. Windows Server 2008 will be the official name of Longhorn Server. Will that mean that Windows Server 2008 will only be available in 2008? Probably, honestly I don't know, what I know is that RTM is still
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The new TechEd IT Forum site is online as of today. The event will run from 12-16 November 2007, Barcelona . Keep the dates into your agenda. Last year I was there for the Ask the Experts booth duty and to talk to a lot of customers and colleagues. This
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It has been quite a while now since I wrote part 8 of this series. I must admit I tried to start this post several times now and after all I am glad that I did wait because, as I wrote in my previous post about the Windows Server Virtualization features
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It has been a while since I received a mail (still behind on mails) from my fellow Evangelist from Switzerland Frank Koch and I wanted to share this with you. He has written a 44pages book about Windows Powershell. If you don't have the time to absorb
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As you might know with the new version of Operations Manager now known as System Center Operations Manager 2007 you can monitor your clients. The Windows Vista Client Monitoring Management Pack monitors the health of Windows Vista clients and presents
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Last week Mike Neil the GM of Virtualization wrote a blogpost about the future of Windows Server Virtualization . And it wasn't good news at all we will have a beta version of Viridian when Longhorn server will be RTM. We will also postpone some important
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After being in public beta for two years we released the new Windows Live Hotmail service in more than 36 languages. Windows Live Hotmail offers more services: 2GB of Storage, a new look and feel and a better anti spam filter and it goes even further.
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Yesterday I received a notification mail that we released the Microsoft Server Virtualization Management Pack Beta 2 for System Center Operations Manager 2007. Download the Management Pack (MP) from the connect site . Note that will need to logon with
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With System Center Essentials 2007 being released you can now download the English version as a Trial . What is System Center Essentials 2007 (SCE 2007)? It's our new management solution to manage mid-size customers with up to 30 servers and 500 clients.
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Already using Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) 2.0 than you probably know what this product does. If not here is an overview of what WSUS can offer you as a free of charge central patching tool. With WSUS we deliver you a tool where you can not only
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Watch the latest recorded funcasts: Implementing messaging policies using Exchange 2007 Exchange Server 2007 provides new tools for coping with a growing number of legal, regulatory, and internal policy and compliance requirements that relate to e-mail.
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I just found out that the product team opened the Nomination for the Windows Server Virtualization (WSv) Technology Adoption Program (TAP). The WSv TAP is an validation program focused on scenario testing. The level of commitment required from each TAP
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I just received a mail with free E-Learning courses about Longhorn Server Beta 3, these courses are free for a limited time. This online learning collection of five clinics introduces the new features and functionality in Windows Server "Longhorn." The
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