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TechReady9 Day 3 Wrap-up

Posted Thursday, July 30, 2009 11:22 AM by davidzi
Day 3 kicked off with a keynote by Ray Ozzie and several very cool demos on UI futures, what’s coming across some of the Bing features, and some stuff MSR is working on. There was also a good discussion of how concepts move from MSR, to Labs, then into Read More...
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TechReady9 Day 2 Wrap-up

Posted Wednesday, July 29, 2009 1:02 PM by davidzi
Day 2 at TechReady was packed with technical sessions, no keynotes. In the morning I attended a session on model driven development. Not yet an infrastructure architecture related technology but as I mentioned yesterday regarding System Center, Microsoft Read More...
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New Microsoft Security Site for Governments

Posted Monday, July 06, 2009 5:44 PM by davidzi
A new Security section has been added to the government site on Microsoft.com. The site consolidates a number of relevant tools, solutions, case studies, and links relevant to Public Sector organizations. Several of the solutions call for specific mentions Read More...
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Free OCS 2007 R2 eBooks!

Posted Tuesday, June 16, 2009 1:53 PM by davidzi
I’m liking this MS Press monthly free ebook program. Especially with my new Kindle DX! Last month it was the Terminal Services Resource Kit , this month it is two for OCS: Be sure to download these now, the offer only lasts for a short time (as in I waited Read More...
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Windows Server 2008 R2 to RTM in July!

Posted Tuesday, June 02, 2009 7:09 PM by davidzi
The Windows Server Division blog announced that Windows Server 2008 R2 is tracking with Windows 7 and both are planned to RTM in the second half of July with General Availability on Oct 22! That RTM date is earlier than I thought it would be, I was thinking Read More...
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Free eBook: Windows Server 2008 Terminal Services Resource Kit

Posted Saturday, May 23, 2009 9:29 AM by davidzi
The Terminal Services (now called Remote Desktop Virtualization) team has announced that the Windows Server 2008 Terminal Services Resource Kit eBook is available for free download for a limited time. You can register (LiveID required) here and download Read More...
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Microsoft SDL: Get it to go

Posted Tuesday, May 19, 2009 9:02 PM by davidzi
Today Microsoft made available the Microsoft SDL Process Template . This was announced over on the SDL Blog . Roger has some comments on it as well. The SDL Process Template is a free downloadable template for Visual Studio Team System that integrates Read More...
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Social Bookmarking: How to know where to go…

Posted Saturday, May 16, 2009 12:15 PM by davidzi
Continuing the foray into social networking I started on a couple weeks ago, today’s topic is social bookmarking. For those who are even later to the game than I am, social bookmarking is basically a site or service that lets you tag and store your website Read More...
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Hyper-V and VMM: Scale Up, Out, and to the Cloud

Posted Thursday, May 14, 2009 5:44 PM by davidzi
Between MMS and TechEd there have been a lot of announcements on the virtualization and cloud computing front. First, over on the Virtualization Team Blog , Jeff provided the announcement and details around some new capabilities coming in Hyper-V with Read More...
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Facebook, Twitter, and FriendFeed in One Client with .NET!

Posted Friday, May 08, 2009 4:56 PM by davidzi
So I’ve been using Seesmic Desktop as a Twitter and Facebook client for the last week or two. Very cool app built on Adobe Air. Today via @EverythingMS I heard about sobees , a .NET app that aggregates Facebook, Twitter, FriendFeed (yeah!), and many other Read More...
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Facebook for Windows Mobile

Posted Friday, May 08, 2009 10:33 AM by davidzi
Microsoft has released Facebook for Windows Mobile . The application provides the following features: Send messages to any of the people in your Friends list. Take pictures and videos on your phone, then upload them right to Facebook. Send messages or Read More...
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NASA Launches Space Station and Rover Photosynths

Posted Friday, May 08, 2009 9:51 AM by davidzi
From the press release : “NASA and Microsoft Corporation of Redmond, Wash., released an interactive, 3-D photographic collection of internal and external views of the International Space Station and a model of the next Mars rover on Thursday, May 7. NASA Read More...
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Remote Server Administration Tools for Windows 7 RC

Posted Wednesday, May 06, 2009 6:24 AM by davidzi
The Remote Server Administration Tools (RSAT) have been updated for the Windows 7 RC build. I’ve been using a combination of the RSAT and the Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 Beta console on my Windows 7 machine to manage my Hyper-V lab machines and its Read More...
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Facebook via Silverlight and WPF

Posted Sunday, May 03, 2009 9:43 AM by davidzi
There was a lot of buzz last week with Facebook’s Open Stream API announcement . There were many demos of applications leveraging the new API, one good one is Seesmic Desktop which I’ve been using as my Twitter client and now has Facebook integration. Read More...
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Windows 7 RC Available: What a day for my MSDN to expire!

Posted Thursday, April 30, 2009 12:33 PM by davidzi
By now you’ve probably heard that the Windows 7 RC is available for download for TechNet and MSDN subscribers. Unfortunately for me, my MSDN subscription expired in the last couple days #%$! and won’t be renewed for another day or two. Fortunately, with Read More...
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