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Wednesday, March 26, 2008 9:16 PM

Windows 2008 Server Admin Tools for Vista

Good post from the DS blog below, thanks to Ned Pyle .. The long-awaited Remote Server Administration Tools (RSAT) have been released for Windows Vista. These will allow administrators to use their Vista machines to manage their Windows 2000, Windows
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Monday, March 24, 2008 7:51 PM

Live Translator

Windows Live now offers a translator for web pages as well as normal text. Try it out -> http://translator.live.com/
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Friday, March 21, 2008 1:28 PM

Microsoft Acquires Komoku

Microsoft strengthens anti-malware protection with leading-edge rootkit detection provider. REDMOND, Wash. — March 20, 2008 — Today Microsoft Corp. announced it has acquired Maryland-based Komoku Inc., a provider of advanced rootkit security detection
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Sunday, March 16, 2008 3:38 PM

Certification last reminder (Two weeks)

Just a last reminder to current MCSA/MCSE 2000 holders, you have until March 31st 2008 to sit the two exams (70-292 & 70-296) to upgrade to MCSA/MCSE 2003. These and other exams are being retired . Info on upgrading to the Windows 2008 certs are here
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Sunday, March 16, 2008 12:50 AM

Defrag

Bit of deja vu here, been a while (or an OS or two) since I discussed defrag seriously. Nice article from the performance team talking about defrag . Recently installed the new version of diskeeper on my Vista machine, pleased to say I could actually
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Friday, March 07, 2008 7:53 PM

Worldwide Telescope

Coming Soon ... FAQ The WorldWide Telescope (WWT) is a rich visualization environment that functions as a virtual telescope, bringing together imagery from the best ground- and space telescopes to enable seamless, guided explorations of the universe.
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Friday, March 07, 2008 7:15 PM

IE 8 VHD download

As most people know, Internet Explorer 8 beta has been released, Home Page for IE 8 Nice VHD download for testing, so you don't have to touch your day to day machine, VirtualPC available here Some images of the beta (from Microsoft site)
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Friday, March 07, 2008 5:24 PM

Community Kit for Sharepoint

The Community Kit for SharePoint is a set of best practices, templates, Web Parts, tools, and source code that enables practically anyone to create a community website based on SharePoint technology for practically any group of people with a common interest.
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Friday, March 07, 2008 5:16 PM

Firewire compromise

Nasty little Windows hack using Firewire (disable in System properties if not using), just to remind us how many more problems physical access can allow, following on the memory cooling exploit which actually compromised Windows, Mac & Linux, blog
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Friday, March 07, 2008 5:03 PM

ActiveSync for iPhone?

Interesting, one of the big strenghs of the Windows Mobile platform being shared. Microsoft has announced it will license ActiveSync functionality to allow Apple's devices to sync with Exchange Server for mail, calendar, etc. Press release here
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Friday, March 07, 2008 4:36 PM

Adding Windows 2008 Server to your network

New OS, normal questions, how do I add a DC? which apps don't work? etc. Nice starting article from WindowsITPro site here
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Friday, March 07, 2008 3:57 PM

Backup to VHD

Vista's CompletePC backup allows you to backup to VHD (the standard for Microsoft's Virtual Hard Drives, used with VirtualPC/Server & Hyper-V). You can mount it, nice article here on how to use the Mount VHD tool to set up a double click mount. Unfortunately
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Friday, March 07, 2008 3:38 PM

Codecs

Was reminded again of how Codecs can be a pain at the worst time, was helping with our pre launch event and someone wanted to play a video on the screens with an old XP loaner, of course no codec for the video .. so for all of us with the same problem,
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Friday, March 07, 2008 2:49 PM

Windows Server 2008 influenced by Open Source?

Not everyone knows it, but Microsoft is a lot more involved in "Open Source" and standards over the last few years. Projects like Port25 , Microsoft's partnership anouncements with Novell, the Open Specifications Promise , and Microsoft's adoption of
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Friday, March 07, 2008 2:30 PM

Security Development Lifecycle Blog

Interesting blog around the SDL, this one I've preached a bit for a while. When discussing OS security issues, it's not about who's OS has 3 vulnerabilities this month vs. 4 for the next guy, it's about how we in the industry are trying/striving to fix
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Thursday, March 06, 2008 10:35 PM

Windows Mobile Sales figures

Very interesting numbers released on Windows Mobile sales. Listen to general media and you would believe that the iPhone is outselling every other phone. Seems Windows Mobile is actually selling at over a 3 to 1 ratio vs. Apple's offering. Article ->
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Wednesday, March 05, 2008 8:46 PM

Skydrive !! 5Gb Free Storage

Live (Microsoft) has released Skydrive, basically 5Gb of free storage online Take a look here -> http://skydrive.live.com/welcomemoreinfo.aspx?provision=1
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Wednesday, March 05, 2008 7:56 PM

Singularity !!!

O.k, one of those things we sometimes don't always hear about. Microsoft has released a concept OS for researchers and academics to experiment with how Operating Systems work and interact with Applications. Hopefully will lead to some new Architectures
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Monday, March 03, 2008 4:21 PM

Windows 2008 Launch !!!

Ok ... public launch was on 27th February, so the code is available to eveyone now, take a look here -> http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/en/us/try-it.aspx for trial software downloads, VHDs, virtual labs, etc. You can also look over the reviewer's
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