Lately I have been repeatedly asked on the subjected and I thought of posting it hear for greater consumption, in an event your Exchange Server is attacked, the following happens: Step 1 - Spam email is created with the intended spam victim's address...

The Windows Server 2003 admin pack is not fully compatible with Windows Vista and is not supported. However, I'd like to include the following workaround for your reference and hope it helps: 1. Install Windows 2003 SP1 adminpak.msi on your Windows Vista...

  Apparently there are some third-party screen savers out there that use Macromedia's Flash Player to render the images when the screen saver kicks in. A third-party screen saver is something that you installed yourself and should not be confused...

If you have been a Microsoft Enterprise customer or have/entitled to Software assurance, you would be happy to find out that we have announced plans for Windows Thin PC, which would be an upcoming addition to the software assurance benefits. Windows Thin...

As most of you know that I have been heavily focused with the deployment and management of Windows 7 and peripheral products and how customer have an opportunity to review their current practices for image management, deployment and use of new capabilities...

Well if you are among few who still for some odd reason get the BLUE screen error running Windows Vista, or the participants to my DDPS (Desktop Deployment and Planning Session) workshops – who have repeated ask me on the Vista issues, then I would like...

Checkout this blog post where unofficial Lync client for Windows Phone would be made available. I don’t have much details but this would be a good stop-gap measure till we have an official client released. Screen shot below – They say that it will be...

Lately I have been getting a lot of issues finding a good DVD/ISO burner and had to look for the one that really worked. Check out ISO Recorder http://isorecorder.alexfeinman.com/isorecorder.htm which could be a great arsenal in your toolkit. For screen...

I was recently asked can we force our users to Save documents in Word 2003 format in Office 2007 ? and the answer is yes we can configure it using Office 2007 ADM files through Group Policies. Following are the detail steps. 1. Download the 2007 Office...

I got a call from my colleague asking me that he was not able to get the Telnet command working in Windows Vista. So for all the Telnet lovers, follow the steps below to get it working: 1. From the Start menu, click Control Panel. 2. Select ...

Please find below a recap of all content released by the Project User Assistance team during the past two months. Office Online content: The PWA Role Guides These role guides present broad overviews of Office Project Web Access functionality...

During the past week - I have been meeting up a lot of Microosft Parnters and invariently the discussion quickly moves, where I explain the new MCS (Microsoft Consulting Services) Services Lines. This is basically a relignment to a lot of feedback we...

We are getting reports that some customers are receiving e-mails that look like Microsoft Security Bulletin updates, but which is actually fake and contain a link to dangerous executable. The title of the reported e-mail is “Microsoft Security Bulletin...

Lately I have received few inquires about the use of GPPMIG tool form Microsoft, and I am glad to let you know that is supported on Windows 7 and Windows Server 2003 R2. However, the installer does not check for Windows Server 2008 R2, and hence to make...

Tafiti , an experimental demonstration site that combines Live Search with Silverlight has just been launched. Its described as follows: Tafiti, which means "do research" in Swahili, is an experimental search front-end from Microsoft, designed to help...

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Wanted to share the great animatics on Microsoft ECI (Enrollment for Core Infrastructure), find time to have it reviewed at http://www.bubble-solutions.com/review/html/2456ms-ecieap.html

With the Launch wave 2008 in full swing globally from Microsoft, we in Pakistan have been buzy like wild to get the enthusiastic Pakistani IT Pro community with the best of the bread technology showcase in sync with our global launch. This would hopefully...

This was quoted by one of my ex-manager whome I really admire, loved it - so thought of sharing: “ Think Big, Act Big, Be Big ” (Norman Vincent)

Check out the new TechNet Wiki at http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/ What began internally a few years ago inside at Microsoft, is now a full collection concept through the grassroots efforts and work of many, the TechNet Wiki has landed and the...

Neatly comming out of my another hibernation and wanted to share some of my ideas around the subjected. For the past few weeks have been workign like carzy and during my interactions with alot of customers and partners, there seems to be an every increasing...

Microsoft SC VMM has been released to manufacturing and brings Enterprise-class Virtual Machine Management to Microsoft Virtual Server installations, including: § Centralized VM management § Physical to Virtual (P2V) conversions § Virtual...

I couldn't help miss this exciting news to blog. With this new release through DELL, I am now loving new MSFT tech devices - which started with Microsoft Kinect, followed by Windows Phone 7 and now Microsoft Slate devices. This is all  nicely completing...

I have finally been given the task to covery the subjected in the comming days would be trying to provide you tons of first hand informaiton on how the subjected would help you look at Virtulization form a new workload prespective. So keep tuned! Hyper...