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In this interview with Mike Chan, I help clarify when you might want to utilize Forefront Protection for Exchange versus Forefront Online Protection for Exchange – or use both. Most of the video is spent white boarding out how things work between FPE
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I couldn't find any good search results on how to remove an active partition on a Windows system (and this is not in the disk management GUI) and eventually figured this out on my own, so I thought I'd share. Of course, this is only useful if you have
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Ever wanted to not have to scroll through endless expansions of bite-sized content on the TechNet library and just download a document of only the content you want instead? I know this has been frustrating for me in the past and when I brought it up to
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There are so many virtualization options available from Microsoft, which one do you use when? We cleared this up in a short interview and addressed how these options might help you remediate your legacy applications over to Windows 7. Also, we just launched
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When you create a policy with a custom ADMX template which uses a registry key outside of the standard 4 recommended locations (below) and open up your group policy editor using gpedit.msc, the policy will not be listed and you will get no error. The
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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 (VDI),
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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
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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,
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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
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