Below is a list of all of the Silverlight 1, 2, and 3 installation switches available and their description. This will be included in the Silverlight Enterprise Deployment guide v2 which I’m writing - to be released soon. In the mean time, here they are...

I interviewed Kymberlee Price, IE security PM responsible for future research with ClickJacking.  She gives us insight into what research the team is doing in this area as well other great insights into IE security. For a complete breakdown of the...

Below is a list of the top 5 technical reasons why you should care about deploying Internet Explorer 8 now - and also some reasons why IE 8 is better than Firefox/Chrome.  Original article published on Edge here .  More Productivity – Get things...

Attend the Internet Explorer 8 FireStarter event on Thursday, March 26th and learn the core of what all IT Pros and Developers need to know about IE 8. You will gain a deeper understanding of the new features, security, deployment best practices, compatibility...

Wonder why you can't independently update Internet Explorer 8 on Windows 7? We discuss this and a number of other interesting topics with Jane Maliouta, program manager at Microsoft who is responsible for setup and deployment of IE8. View the detailed...

I'm not an Apple hater, but I couldn't resist posting this up. Hopefully, you'll get a laugh out of this Simpsons episode too. "Who dares question the boss we fired 10 years ago and then brought back?" The full episode can be found here on hulu...

Today Windows Server 2008 and Vista released Service Pack 2 (pre-RTM) through the Customer Preview Program (CPP). MSDN and TechNet subscribers can download the SP2 CPP now, everyone else will have access this Thursday 12/14. What’s pretty interesting...

Want an easy way to know if Bing, Yahoo, or Google search will return better quality results? There is an easy way to do this using this site: http://www.mysearchoff.com . It’s great to get simultaneous results from all three engines in a single page...

Microsoft disclosed Windows Server 2008 R2 today at PDC for the 1st time today. Here is a short summary of some of the new cool features in 2008 R2: Virtualization R2 Hyper-V - client virtualization when used with Virtual Desktop Infrastructure...

Even in Beta 1 of Forefront Stirling you can check out the security policy capabilities the product has.  I know what you’re thinking – “whoopee, more policies”, but what you can do with the policies in Stirling are quite...

Ok, when Adam did the Edge interview with Bob Muglia back in January at his office, he talked about having a 9 server infrastructure at home.  Tina Wood actually went to his home and published a video today which shows this.  Bob shows his server...

Today at noon IE8 Beta 2 was released and I did an interview with James Pratt to do a quick run down of what's cool with IE8 for IT Pros.  One item I didn't mention in my post on Edge is a summary link of IE8 features for IT Pros on the IE blog and...

I had the chance to interview Mark about the future.. One thing he answers is - do you think we should or need to just scrap the windows code base and start over?  A breakdown of everything which was covered can be found on Edge. Interview with Mark...

The Midori I'm talking about is not an alcohol; it's an "incubation software project" at Microsoft research to try and address the upcoming trends with technology and inherent limitations with the current Windows code base.  For instance...

As far as I can tell, there isn't anywhere on Microsoft's sites or documentation which state DFS + Bitlocker is supported or works in Windows Server 2008.  The DFSR FAQ mentions DFSR does not work with EFS, but does not mention Bitlocker.  This...

If you're interested in going to Kuala Lumpur, Malyasia and you're into IT, then you should come check out TechEd South East Asia (SEA) this year from August 11-14th.  Tomorrow is the last day you are able to get a discount of 999 RM (or about 323...

There are a number of enhancements to DNS in Windows Server 2008. There are already some lengthy articles on the features, so in this post I hope to give a quick “why you care” on each of the features and some nuggets of wisdom / insight. Here we go…...

With the launch of the 1 st public beta for Forefront Stirling on April 8 th , I thought it would be relevant to do a post this week on it. This release proves that the Stirling vision scenario in my previous blog article is becoming a reality. “Stirling...

Gadgets for TechNet Edge, channel 8, channel 9, channel 10, and Visitmix are now live (thanks to Donavan West at Livegadgets.net ). Now you can see the posts for any of our channels via the sidebar! Download the gadget for TechNet Edge here . ...

I interviewed Tandy Trower last year and I asked about how he thinks robots will play a part in daily IT Pro activities.  Well, finally we have a very early temporary solution - the IT Probot (not to be confused with the Microsoft robot " IT...

I did an interview with Iain McDonald a couple days ago in spite of the launch for Server 2008 in Los Angeles today.  It was a pretty informative and fun interview, so check it out on Edge here.   Also, it'd be cool if you were to comment on...

Self-healing NTFS is a feature which is currently present in Vista and is also included with Windows Server 2008. There’s a good chance you haven’t heard of it until now with WS2008, so I’m assuming this is because it isn’t really...

So we just released this cool capability on Edge where you can imbed the latest video from the TechNet Edge homepage.  All you need to do is imbed the following code on your website or blog: <iframe src=" http://edge.technet.com/latest/player...

Ok, I had the chance to meet up with the friend, Jeff Toews, who has known Lone Server for about 7-8 years now (yes, he really does exist). Lone Server does indeed exist, however, it probably won't be much longer before he starts to hit the gym (aka upgraded...

I hope this post will act as a good reference point to be able to quickly understand the good and bad about new AD auditing enhancements and then enable you to dive deeper at will using the links in this article. There’s nothing more exciting than...