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Tuesday, October 20, 2009 6:04 PM

SharePoint Conference Day 2 – IT Pro Overview of 2010

While I’m really busy tweeting live at this conference, I read a great overview for IT Pros who are interested in SharePoint 2010.  I’m doing more of a dev focus for this conference so if you’re interested, follow me on Twitter @tarpara  See
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Monday, October 12, 2009 10:02 AM

Orange Broadband Router SE572 Fix – Block UDP 500

I just got a Orange Broadband since they have a deal for Microsoft UK employees.  They conveniently provide a wireless b/g router from Seimens, unfortunately its not the most high-performance access point on the market.  For the last few days
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Friday, October 09, 2009 12:33 PM

Super Fast Technical Overview of BPOS – Exchange, SharePoint, and OCS Online

Bpos Architectural Consideration Architectural Forum View more presentations from ukdpe . One of our partners at CSC posted an excellent presentation of Microsoft’s Business Productivity Online Services (BPOS) offering which introduces IT to SharePoint
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Friday, October 09, 2009 12:18 PM

Microsoft is Having a Big Patch Tuesday – Webcast Announced

For October we are releasing 13 bulletins (eight critical and five important), addressing 34 vulnerabilities, affecting Windows, Internet Explorer, Office, Silverlight, Forefront, Developer Tools, and SQL Server. Most of these updates require a restart
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Thursday, October 01, 2009 4:31 PM

Microsoft Gets Top Marks in SAML 2.0 Interoperability

Microsoft security experts have never really been fans of SAML, a markup language, that is crucial to many e-government initiatives and SSO models.  The problem with SAML is that it is obese and almost no one had a full implementation of it until
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Wednesday, September 30, 2009 1:30 PM

Speed Up Your Boot Time, Shave 30 Seconds Off Windows 7 Boot

I just finished installing our Microsoft IT build of Windows 7 x64 with Office 2010.  After I installed all the updates on my Lenovo T61p with 4GB RAM, I decided to reboot my machine a few times and clock it with my stopwatch.  From shutdown
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Monday, August 24, 2009 11:02 AM

Audit Your IT Environment with Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit 4.0

The Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit 4.0 is Now Available! With Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 becoming available in the near future, the Solution Accelerators Team is offering customers and partners a head start on deployment planning
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Tuesday, August 04, 2009 4:18 PM

New Features in Windows XP Mode RC!

Windows XP Mode Release Candidate is publically available today at http://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtual-pc/download.aspx Since the beta release of Windows XP Mode, several updates have been made responding to user feedback. These changes reflect Microsoft’s
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Wednesday, May 13, 2009 1:51 PM

Spend A Day with SQL Server and SharePoint Experts

Spend a Day with the Experts: The Converging Paths of SQL Server and SharePoint Date: Wednesday, 27th May Time: 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. (breakfast and registration begin at 8:00 a.m.) Location: Microsoft Office, Victoria, London We invite you to this full
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Friday, May 08, 2009 6:53 PM

What is New in Windows 7 Volume Activation?

Edge has a really great video with Ram Rathnam, Director of Product Management for Windows Activation Technologies.  Windows Vista introduced new activation concepts like Key Management Server (KMS) and Multiple Activation Key (MAK).  From a
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Friday, May 08, 2009 1:58 PM

Windows 7 To Boost SSD Performance

The Engineering 7 Blog outlines enhancements made in newer solid-state disk technology that will improve user experience in Windows 7 significantly.  Because SSDs are essentially giant flash drives with no moving parts, there are inherent performance
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Thursday, April 30, 2009 5:13 PM

Understanding the State of Broadband

I absolutely love Fora.TV because it is one of the highest quality sources for policy-based discussions and videos on the web.  Recently they post a fascinating piece done by Derek Slater, a Policy Analyst at Google, who discuss the state of broadband
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Wednesday, April 29, 2009 11:52 AM

Windows 7 RC Tweaks Explorer Address Bar

There has been a lot of press about the leaked Windows 7 RC.  For the most part, the press and bloggers have been extremely positive. One very minor but significant tweak that I’ve found useful as an IT Pro has been full path display in the address
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Thursday, April 23, 2009 7:32 PM

Windows 7 to “Nag” 29% Less than Vista

Interesting article from ComputerWorld about UAC improvements and a reduction in prompts to the end-user by the operating system. “Among the changes Microsoft's made to UAC that will drive that decrease, Cooke cited several specific examples, then pointed
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Tuesday, March 10, 2009 2:41 PM

How To: Open All Office Applications in 0.5 Seconds!

Did you ever wish you could defrag your workstation in 3 seconds?  Have you ever accidentally opened ALL the applications in your start menu *not really* ?  What about jump up and down with 24 running hard drives in your hand?  The boys
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