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Bullfighter for writing

Posted Wednesday, July 26, 2006 6:08 PM by Jeanie Decker
Matthew Stibbe's review of the Bullfighter add-on for Word and PowerPoint intrigued me enough to try it. It's a quick and easy install that adds a toolbar to the applications. I decided to test it against my most recent doc, What's New in Data Protection Read More...
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Learn from nonexamples

Posted Thursday, July 20, 2006 9:30 AM by Jeanie Decker
I think that content at Microsoft has gotten better over the years at providing examples. Examples are a good thing. What we still tend to overlook are non examples. Nonexamples can be as effective, or even more effective, for learning. They provide an Read More...
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The system tray that never was

Posted Wednesday, July 19, 2006 10:29 AM by Jeanie Decker
In a a recent post , The Old New Thing made reference to terminology errors, citing the system tray as an example. To quote: "One of the most common errors is to refer to the Taskbar Notification Area as the "tray" or the "system tray". This has never Read More...
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Development, the microscopic view

Posted Tuesday, July 18, 2006 9:18 AM by Jeanie Decker
Whether it's software or content, making a change can often be a much bigger deal than you'd think. I was reading The Best Software Writing I , selected and introduced by Joel Spolsky , and came across a delightful essay on that very topic. It was from Read More...
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A peculiar behavior for agent install

Posted Monday, July 17, 2006 1:02 PM by Jeanie Decker
This is something you'll see more about in the next revision of the DPM FAQ . I don't have all of the details yet, but what happens is that you try to install an agent on a file server and the installation just seems to hang. Forever (or at least to the Read More...
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DPM and 64 bits

Posted Saturday, July 15, 2006 11:52 AM by Jeanie Decker
A question came up in the DPM newsgroup that made me go "interesting! I hadn't thought of that possibly being an issue!", and of course I love being surprised by that sort of thing. The question was about SP1's support for 64-bit computers. "Can the same Read More...
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TechNet Flash

Posted Thursday, July 13, 2006 6:11 PM by Jeanie Decker
Do you subscribe to TechNet Flash ? I've customized mine to include storage systems news, and the 12 July issue highlighted two new DPM papers: "Hurricane Season is here – are your branch offices protected?" , which I was already aware of, and the provocatively Read More...
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Ghosts in the report

Posted Friday, July 07, 2006 9:22 AM by Jeanie Decker
A customer removed a data source from a protection group and expected that to be the end of it. But, for what seemed like a long time, that data source continued to pop up in the reports. "I wouldst rid myself of this ghost," the customer proclaimed -- Read More...
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What's new in DPM SP1

Posted Thursday, July 06, 2006 3:01 PM by Jeanie Decker
If you signed up for the DPM SP1 beta, you can download "What's New in DPM SP1?" now from Microsoft Connect . In summary, it covers the following changes included in SP1: Support for 64-bit protection Updated system requirements (to include R2) Support Read More...
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I tried Live.com

Posted Wednesday, July 05, 2006 11:21 AM by Jeanie Decker
I tried Live.com ...and I like it! I had been using a personalized homepage on my.yahoo.com but I wasn't thrilled with it -- took a long time to load, and was constantly stealing my cursor (because I start typing in the search toolbar before the page Read More...
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