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February 2008 - Posts

Friday, February 29, 2008 12:47 PM

Happy Leap Day!

Happy February 29th and if this is your Birthday and you were born in 1972, happy 11th birthday.  :-) Interesting facts about Leap year from: Leap Year Explained What are your chances of being born on leap day? About 1 in 1500 How many people were
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Thursday, February 28, 2008 2:38 PM

2 Bits, 4 Bits, 64 bits!!!! Windows Vista SP1 x64 Full DVD now available!

Now both the x86 and x64 fully integrated version of the OS bits are FINNALY available!.  They are up on the TechNet Subscriber download center!!!   My buddy Keith announced the x86 bits a couple of days ago, and he even briefly talked
Posted by Matt-MS | 1 Comments
Wednesday, February 27, 2008 9:07 AM

New Assessment and Deployment Tool for the Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista SP1 Launches!

Congratulations to the Microsoft Assessment and Planning Team!  They just launched the  third-generation of the agent-less infrastructure assessment platform called Microsoft Assessment and Planning Solution Accelerator 3.0 (or simply MAP). 
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Monday, February 25, 2008 12:37 PM

Got Star Trek?

Check out the CBS site: Trekkies Will Love This!  
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Friday, February 22, 2008 6:59 PM

Challenge Question: Traveling is fun.

Happy Friday! Last night I arrived in Los Angeles for a presentation on Enterprise search.  Well I check into the hotel (The Westin Bonaventure Hotel in downtown Los Angeles) hop on the elevator, and I notice a sign.  The sign mentioned that
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Wednesday, February 20, 2008 8:55 AM

Simply Amazing, Randy Pausch reprising his "Last Lecture"

If you have never scene this talk, I highly recommend it, it is about 10 minutes long and worth every second.  I guarantee it will touch you.  It is an shorter version of a full lecture that he gave, and you can click on his name to learn more
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Wednesday, February 20, 2008 12:17 AM

TechNet Radio Interview: Windows Mobile Top 10 Features (Part 3 of 3)

On the heals of the announcement of the  RTM of System Center Mobile Device Manager (SCMDM), I am happy to announce part 3 of my 3 part radio interviews with the folks from the mobility group has gone live!!! I had a great opportunity to speak with
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Monday, February 18, 2008 7:09 PM

System Center Mobile Device Manager 2008 has gone RTM!

Good afternoon all my Mobile device managers!  I just heard that System Center Mobile Device Manager (SCMDM) 2008 has gone RTM!  You can read about it here: Microsoft System Center Mobile Device Manager 2008 This is a great release, also in
Posted by Matt-MS | 7 Comments
Monday, February 18, 2008 9:13 AM

Dwight Howard 2008 All-Star Dunk Champion, what would you call this "dunk"?

Okay, I have to admit I tuned into the the NBA all-star game, I loved watching the Saturday contests, with the team shooting, three-point and of course the dunk contest.  Well this morning I heard an interesting conversation on Mike and Mike in the
Posted by Matt-MS | 3 Comments
Saturday, February 16, 2008 1:39 PM

Free Guitar Hero III song: "Dream On" by Aerosmith - Expires 2/18/2008!

Get your rock on with Aerosmith! I did, and already got 5 stars on easy. :-) "Dream On" was the first major hit for the rock band Aerosmith, appearing on their debut self-titled album in 1973. Now all of you Guitar Hero™ III: Legends of Rock players will
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Friday, February 15, 2008 8:13 PM

Silverlight, Matt's new toy!!!!

Okay folks I have arrived, I have learned how publish with Silverlight, so the post I did today on MOSS: Screencast: How To Install Office Sharepoint Server 2007 on Windows Server 2008 I can now offer streaming with Silverlight!!!!  Click on play
Posted by Matt-MS | 6 Comments
Friday, February 15, 2008 7:45 AM

Screencast: How To Install Office Sharepoint Server 2007 on Windows Server 2008

The other day I was building some new demo servers to showcase search capabilities with Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server 2007 (MOSS).  During the process I decided to install MOSS on my brand new RTM copy of Windows 2008 Enterprise server. 
Posted by Matt-MS | 15 Comments
Thursday, February 14, 2008 1:15 PM

It's alive, NOW Available: Windows Vista SP1 for download.

Again thank you to everyone who gave me feedback on SP1, you can read that here: Windows Vista SP1 is coming soon to a download center near you As some of you may already know about 1/2 hour ago SP1 was released for TechNet and MSDN subscribers. 
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Thursday, February 14, 2008 8:05 AM

TechNet Radio Interview: Windows Mobile Top 10 Features for Business (Part 2 of 3)

I had a great opportunity to speak with 3 fantastic Windows Mobile experts from the product group.  I sat down with and had some great TechNet Radio interviews with Derek Snyder, Brian Hoskins and Dan Arildson.  Over of the 3 parts we spoke
Posted by Matt-MS | 4 Comments
Wednesday, February 13, 2008 8:05 AM

Windows Vista SP1 is coming soon to a download center near you.

First off thank you to everyone you commented, emailed, and otherwise gave direct feedback to Mike Nash when he announced the Windows Vista SP1 had RTM'ed . It became very clear form all the feedback from folks like yourself that you wanted the bits,
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Tuesday, February 12, 2008 3:11 PM

You be the Judge: What is the best search engine: Live Search, Google or Yahoo?

You get to be the judge, click on the picture below and got the search-off web site , click the picture below, run a search and click the check in the upper right to vote.  Happy Searching!
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Monday, February 11, 2008 5:06 PM

MOSS Faceted Search code v2 released

One of the great things about working with search is seeing all of the great facets of the product.  One of the more intriguing aspects I have seen is the faceted searching inside of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS).  So what is faceted
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Friday, February 08, 2008 8:05 AM

Must See TV: The 2008 Pro Bowl, 6 Cleveland Browns are going!!!!!

Okay I have to admit, I normally do not watch the pro bowl but now it is another reason to have a party.  Not 1 or 2 Cleveland Browns are going but 6 . That is right 6 Cleveland Browns are going!  There was an announcement on Monday telling
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Thursday, February 07, 2008 12:34 PM

TechNet Radio Interview: Windows Mobile Top 10 Features for Business (Part 1 of 3)

begin Julie Andrews visualization Windows Mobile 6, Active Sync, Mobile CRM, Mobile OOF, Mobile Device Center, System Center Mobile Device Center..... These are just a few of my favorite things. end Julie Andrews visualization :-) I had a great opportunity
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Wednesday, February 06, 2008 8:05 AM

Book of the Month for February 2008: "Then Tress Said to Troy..."

Good afternoon all my fellow Ohio State fans!!!! This book of the month I decided to lift my spirits as well as all of my fellow buckeye fans! Even if your not a buckeye fan, this is a good football book. The book is all about the last 115 years of Ohio
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Tuesday, February 05, 2008 11:05 AM

Questions: Who is #1 and Which one of you was not watching?

I saw an interesting article on the amount of viewers for the Super Bowl on Sunday. It was the most watched Super Bowl in NFL History. With The 97.5 million viewers who saw the New York Giants ' last-minute win over the New England Patriots made it second
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Tuesday, February 05, 2008 8:05 AM

Microsoft, Google's and other opinions on the Yahoo! acquisition

Yesterday I was reading a couple of interesting posts and the general news surrounding the proposed acquisition we made to buy Yahoo: Microsoft Bid To Buy Yahoo Faces Scrutiny   During my reading I stumbled upon a couple of interesting posts one
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Monday, February 04, 2008 3:27 PM

Windows Server 2008 is Live for TechNet Subscribers

TechNet Subscriptions launched 3 editions of Windows Server 2008 simultaneously with the Windows team’s RTM. These downloads are available to TechNet subscribers worldwide: Windows Server 2008 Datacenter, Enterprise and Standard (x64) X86 is Coming
Posted by Matt-MS | 2 Comments
Friday, February 01, 2008 8:05 AM

Save the Firewall, Save the IT Pro --- Heroes IT Style!!!!!!!

Happy Friday everyone! Do you want your favorite IT story put into a comic?  Well now you can, I just found a new online comic strip blog: Heroes Happen Here {Comic Series}   This is a daily web comic that adapts tech stories from actual IT
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