The SkyDrive team have just released the updated SkyDrive and the associated clients for various mobile devices.
I just finished downloading and installing the Windows Phone 7.5 client from the Marketplace. The settings showed me that I had a total of 7GB of storage space. What happened to the 25GB of previous space? This is discussed over on this page. If you had an account prior, then you can keep the existing space if you go to SkyDrive and claim the storage now.
All you need to do is go to the SkyDrive storage page and choose Upgrade my storage. That’s it—you’re locked in for 25 GB for free.
When you click the link shown above, it will take you to the Manage Storage section. Then click the free upgrade.
Cheers,
Rhoderick
The polyester packing virtualization sales guy from the past is back! You may have seen Tad in his inaugural video over at VM-Limited.
Now the second instalment of his genius is live. I wish that I could get it on VHS, Betamax or maybe even VHS 2000 (points for those who remember that format!). That would be cool
For those in the UK, Tad’s look screams C & A on the high street. They were the finest purveyors of polyester that ever did grace our streets.
On some recent Exchange 2010 builds I noticed that sometimes the Exchange services would fail due to a lack of connectivity with Active Directory. I noticed that the network location had changed from Domain and was listed as Public even though the server had a single connection which was on the internal corporate network.
A fix was released on this issue and can be downloaded from Microsoft.
The network location profile changes from "Domain" to "Public" in Windows 7 or in Windows Server 2008 R2
Update: 19-9-2012: One thing I have noticed is that restarting the "Network Location Awareness" service will cause Windows to re-evaluate the firewall policy to apply which is great to avoid a restart. However sometimes I could not restart the service and I would get a message saying that "Error 1051 A stop control has been sent to a service that other running services are dependent on". Stopping the one dependent service "Network List Service" did not change the behaviour. To correct this, make sure that the Network and Sharing Center window is closed. If that window is open to view the active networks, then that stops the services restarting.
Update 21-6-2014: On a recent customer engagement I saw this issue again. In that situation it was interesting that the network location was changing after the server had been running for a while. The network in question was experiencing other issues that seemed to exacerbate this issue. As a best practice please read the Exchange 2010 tweaks post and ensure that all the recommended cluster hot fixes have been installed.