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Bird's eye on Ireland on Maps.Live.com
04 May 08 11:30 AM | michalos | 3 Comments   

Until now, Ireland was not included in "bird's eye" views on maps.live.com. What happened last week was a huge blast to users Live.com experience with great photos from Dublin, Carlow, Cork, Galway, Limerick, Navan and Wexford. Below, a compilation a Read More...

Filed under: Microsoft, work, photo, Ireland

SP1 here and there, SP1 everywhere!
25 March 08 12:07 PM | michalos | 0 Comments   

I've lost touch with news and while Windows Vista Service Pack1 was released I was far, far away on a Moroccan desert. Since 18th of March SP1 is widely available on Windows Update. I'm just downloading my copy to install on my desktop machine, which Read More...

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John O'Brien, version web 2.0
10 March 08 11:50 PM | michalos | 1 Comments   

I wrote two posts about CodeSigning, part of my job in Microsoft. But this post is not about me and my job, well, just this time. I'm proud to present blog of my work colleague - General Blog On the verge of a boundary by John O'Brien . John is CodeSign Read More...

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SQL Reporting Services, Web Application Pool and LocalSystem
29 February 08 08:18 PM | michalos | 2 Comments   

One day I was preparing for SQL Server Reporting Services presentation. I don’t do it much often but it was required for a bigger presentation about Project Server 2007 and Project Portfolio Server 2007 which was a part of my project. I was configuring Read More...

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Against all odds
24 January 08 04:48 PM | michalos | 0 Comments   

Jeff Jones published very interesting report comparing vulnerabilities in Windows XP, Vista, RedHat, Ubuntu and MacOS X 10.4 in first year from release. It's pretty self explanatory and I don't think it requires any explanation from myself. All I can Read More...

Filed under: security, Microsoft, Vista, windows

Aftermath
11 January 08 09:15 PM | michalos | 0 Comments   

It looks like after my last entry I vanished in Spain. Well, not exactly. The conference was great. So much new stuff I always wanted to know about Project Server and project management. For all interested in topics related to PS, PPS or even SQL Reporting Read More...

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Microsoft Office Project Conference 2007 EMEA
02 December 07 05:32 PM | michalos | 1 Comments   

See you in Madrid tomorrow! Read More...

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JoinMicrosoftEurope.com
17 November 07 08:57 AM | michalos | 0 Comments   

JoinMicrosoftEurope.com: Core tech jobs based in Dublin with work across Europe Read More...

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7 highly ineffective habits of Project Managers
16 November 07 07:25 PM | michalos | 0 Comments   

Poor Alignment - Structure/Vision/Values/Systems No Strategic Path - Strategy not developed/express No Shared Vision - Common understanding/commitment Wrong Style - Management philosophy/approach Poor Skills - To inspire & encourage a team vision Read More...

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Ink your daily tasks
05 October 07 11:01 AM | michalos | 0 Comments   

Would you like to taste some of the technologies used with Surface with your TabletPC? Take a look at this video. This is a tool developed by MS's Ken Hinckley and his team. It is called InkSeine. It runs on Windows Vista and Windows XP Tablet PC Edition. Read More...

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VMRCplus available on Microsoft Download Center
02 July 07 07:44 PM | michalos | 0 Comments   

Just a few minutes ago VMRCplus , the great tool for Virtual Server 2005 has been published on Microsoft Download Center. Go and grab it! Read More...

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Pimp your Virtual Server 2005 experience with VMRCplus!
28 June 07 09:09 AM | michalos | 1 Comments   

VMRCplus is the greatest tool I've seen so far to use with Virtual Server 2005. You can use it to connect to local as well as to remote Virtual Server 2005 machine, you can add new guest machines, start, stop, save state of existing ones, manage hardware, Read More...

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If you do a g**gle search ...
20 June 07 02:57 PM | michalos | 4 Comments   

So, one of my collegues used this term on internal discussion group: "if you do a g**gle search ...". Yes, we don't use Google Search, we use g**gle . I'm wondering if guys in Google Corp say l**e.com talking about our search engine? Read More...

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So, we're going 2k7!
19 June 07 09:36 PM | michalos | 0 Comments   

Blogs platform running on Technet and MSDN is being updated to Community Server 2007 version. With help from Telligent and Scott Watermasysk we'll be better, faster and shiny :) Some new features: Better file management (upload files via web UI) Better Read More...

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Microsoft Confidentiality or what?
11 June 07 01:22 PM | michalos | 2 Comments   

On daily basis we work with multiple confidential documents and only selected full time employees have access to them. Everybody is making sure that all documents with "Microsoft Confidential" are secure and absolutely not transferred, sent, forwarded Read More...

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