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UK Tech Days is a week-long series of free events run by Microsoft and technical communities to celebrate and inspire developers, IT professionals and IT Managers to get more from Microsoft technology. Our day events in London from 12th to 16th April will cover the latest technology releases including Microsoft Visual Studio 2010, Microsoft Office 2010, Virtualisation, Silverlight, Microsoft Windows 7 and Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2, plus events focusing on deployment and an IT Manager day.
Monday, 12 April 2010 Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Launch - A Path to Big Ideas (For Heads of development and Software Architects) This launch event is aimed at development managers, heads of development and software architects who want to hear how Visual Studio 2010 can help build better applications whilst taking advantage of great integration with other key technologies. NB – Day 2 will cover the technical in-depth sessions aimed at developers
Tuesday, 13 April 2010 Getting started with Microsoft .NET Framework 4 and Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Microsoft and industry experts will share their perspectives on the top new and useful features with core programming languages and in the framework and tooling, such as -- ASP.NET MVC, Parallel Programming, Entity Framework 4, and the offerings around rich client and web development experiences.
Wednesday, 14 April 2010 The Essential MIX Join us for the Essential MIX as we continue exploring the art and science of creating great user experiences. Learn about the next generation ASP.NET & Silverlight platforms that make it a rich and reach world.
Thursday, 15 April 2010 Best of Breed Client Applications on Microsoft Windows 7 Windows 7 adoption is happening at a startling pace. In this demo-driven day, we’ll look at the developer landscape around Windows 7 to get you up to speed on the operating system that’ll your applications will run on through the new decade.
Friday, 16 April 2010 – Registration opening soon! Windows phone Day Join us for a practical day of detailed Windows Phone7 development sessions covering the new Windows Phone specification, application standards and services
Monday, 12 April 2010
Virtualization Summit – From the Desktop to the Datacentre
Designed to provide you with an understanding of the key products & technologies enabling seamless physical and virtual management, interoperable tools, and cost-savings & value.
Tuesday, 13 April 2010 Office 2010 - Experience the Next Wave in Business Productivity
The event will cover how the improvements to Office, SharePoint, Exchange, Project and Visio will provide a practical platform that will allow IT professionals to not only solve problems and deliver business value, but also demonstrate this value to IT’s stakeholders.
Wednesday, 14 April 2010 Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 – Deployment made easy
This event will provide you with an understanding of these tools including the new Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2010, Windows Deployment services and the Application Compatibility Toolkit. Understanding of these tools including the new Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2010, Windows Deployment Services. We will also take you through the considerations for deploying Windows Server 2008 R2 and migrating your server roles.
Thursday, 15 April 2010 SQL Server 2008 R2 – The Information Platform Highlighting the new capabilities of the platform, as well as diving into specific topics, such as consolidating SQL Server databases, and tips and techniques for Performance Monitoring and Tuning as well as looking at our newly released Cloud platform SQL Azure.
Friday, 16 April 2010 (IT Managers)
Looking ahead, keeping the boss happy and raising the profile of IT IT Managers have more and more responsibilities to drive and support the direction of the business. We’ll explore the various trends and technologies that can bring IT to the top table, from score-carding to data governance and cloud computing.
For more information and to register goto:
http://www.microsoft.com/uk/techdays/
Please read the following post from Jeff who needs our feedback to help with his upcoming series of blog posts:
Hey everyone, we are commencing a 5 part series on this blog about Client Deployment, and based on some recent trends, publications and evaluations we have determined there are 5 topics we will focus on. These will post in the below order. The topics are as follows:
Some other topics are absolutely meshed into this, for example training, virtualization, security, hardware refresh and the end user experience, so we will ensure we also touch on these for you.
I hope these sound interesting. I would love to hear from you and your experiences about these topics. Your stories could make these even more interesting for our community.
Do you have an experience, good or bad that was a learning in your deployment? Did something you or your organization figure out really help your Client Deployment? I would love to hear your stories. If you have something to contribute, or comment on, or want to share some advice, ping us a note, we want to roll these into our coverage.
We really look forward to hearing from you!
Jeff Wettlaufer Sr. Technical Product Manager System Center
http://blogs.technet.com/systemcenter/archive/2010/02/26/client-deployment-with-system-center.aspx
This could be one of those really useful snippets to file away somewhere:
“You're trying to do some basic troubleshooting on your network and you ping a machine but it doesn't respond. You know its there. Why isn't it responding? It's probably the firewall on the machine that's causing the problem. In this screencast you'll see how to create a firewall rule that will allow the machine to respond to a PING, (ICMPv4 Echo Request).”
http://edge.technet.com/Media/Creating-a-Firewall-Rule-to-Allow-ICMPv4-Echo-Requests/
Those of you who have been following my blog (thank you), will see that I try to blog as much on the System Center suite and other topics that interest me and that I think will be of interest to you. However, the problem I’ve had for sometime is with the sheer volume of content “out there” and an ever growing “wishlist” I need to work smarter not harder.
This was one of the key drivers for me creating the FAQShop Twitter feed to basically capture and summarise this vast amount of information in one place for us all. The thing I really like about Twitter is because of it’s 140 character limit the posts are kept bite-sized plus Twitter offers a RSS feed for each account so you can sign up to one feed and literally get a wealth of information without having to ever look at Twitter.
ConfigMgr has always been (and will always be I hope), my passion. So from now on I’ll be limiting my blog posts just to ConfigMgr and ConfigMgr-related posts.
Please let me have your thoughts and comments on this as after all if I think I’m meeting your needs but failing then I’m not achieving what I’m setting out to.
BTW if you’re interested checkout FAQShop on Twitter at (no prizes for guessing) http://www.twitter.com/faqshop. I also have my own personal account (cliffhobbs) which feeds into the FAQShop one.
Well, it was long overdue in coming but we’re pleased to announce that the home for the App-V Team blog has now changed. Out is the old http://blogs.technet.com/SoftGrid URL we used to use and in is the new http://blogs.technet.com/AppV URL we've begun using this week. What, you didn't notice? That's thanks to our wonderful blog admins who simply put a redirect on the old site, mirroring the content and sending all traffic to the new site instead.
So what does this mean to you? Really not much, but if you have any RSS or ATOM subscriptions you might want to update them to point to the new feed URL instead. All existing subscriptions should continue to work but we can't guarantee how long the old SoftGrid site will remain live and we'd hate for you to miss out on an important announcement because your subscription wasn't updating. If you have any old shortcuts or bookmarks you're hanging onto, you might want to update those as well.
Aside from this it should look like the same blog you've become familiar with since we launched it way back in 2007. As always, thanks for reading and if you have any suggestions or feedback don't hesitate to send us a note.
The App-V Team
From the Configuration Manager Writers - Announcements, Comments and other Stuff blog:
In case you missed them, the following posts were published on the System Center Configuration Manager Team Blog for the time period January 26th, 2010 – February 26th, 2010:
Things you need to know when using Windows Embedded Standard 2009
Announcement: Configuration Manager Documentation Library Update for January 2010
Announcing the Release of Configuration Manager 2007 SuperFlows!!
Announcement: Configuration Manager Documentation Library Update for February 2010
http://blogs.technet.com/wemd_ua_-_sms_writing_team/archive/2010/02/26/round-up-of-new-posts-on-the-configuration-manager-team-blog-january-26th-2010-february-26th-2010.aspx
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee849855(WS.10).aspx
Overview
The Windows Server 2008 R2 Migration Utilities package works with Windows Server Migration Tools to let you migrate Hyper-V and Routing and Remote Access Services. Detailed, step-by-step information about how to use the Windows Server 2008 R2 Migration Utilities package to complete these migrations is available in the Hyper-V Server Migration Guide and the Routing and Remote Access Server Migration Guide . After you install this item, you may have to restart your computer.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=5c1ec14a-e9d7-46ea-9c6e-73d6bc4219b4&displaylang=en
Language(s): English.
Product(s): Microsoft System Center.
Audience(s): IT Generalist.
Duration: 60 Minutes
Start Date: Wednesday, March 03, 2010 11:00 AM Pacific Time (US & Canada)
Event Overview Microsoft System Center helps you get the most from your mission-critical messaging infrastructure with management solutions that enhance the availability features built into Microsoft Exchange Server 2010. In this webcast, we look at how System Center can improve the health and availability of your servers running Exchange with the Exchange Server 2010 Management Pack for Microsoft Operations Manager 2007 and Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager 2007. System Center has application awareness built into its management solutions to help deliver guidance and best practices to Exchange administrators, ensuring service level agreements (SLAs) are met and saving organizations money.
Presenters: Leslie Kitz, Program Manager, Microsoft Corporation and Jon LeCroy, Program Manager, Microsoft Corporation
http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?culture=en-US&EventID=1032437151
From The Operations Manager Support Team Blog:
A large and sudden increase in the number of alerts is called an alert storm. An alert storm can be a symptom of massive changes of some kind within your management group, such as the catastrophic failure of networks. An alert storm can also be a symptom of configuration issues within Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007.
Installing new or updated management packs can give rise to an alert storm. Monitors in a management pack begin working as soon as the management pack has been imported. Use best practices in importing management packs to minimize alert storms.
For general, real-time monitoring of alerts, use the Active Alerts view. Make sure Scope is not active and hiding alerts.
Check for large numbers of alerts when your network undergoes changes. Monitor closely when you install a new management pack.
Operations Manager 2007 offers reports that can be useful in identifying alert storms. From an Operations console with access to a reporting server, look at the Microsoft Generic Report Library. The reports Most Common Alerts and Most Common Events help identify high-volume alerts.
If you are getting a large number of alerts that do not point to issues in your managed systems, you need to modify the monitors or rules that create those alerts.
View active alert details in the Monitoring pane. Alert Details specifies the monitor or rule for an alert.
1. Log on to the computer with an account that is a member of the Operations Manager Advanced Operator role for the Operations Manager 2007 management group.
2. In the Operations console, click the Authoring button.
3. In the Authoring pane, expand Management Pack Objects and then click Monitors.
4. In the Monitors pane, expand an object type completely and then click a monitor.
5. On the Operations console toolbar, click Overrides and then point to Override the Monitor. You can choose to override this monitor for objects of a specific type or for all objects within a group. After you choose which group of object type to override, the Override Properties dialog box opens, enabling you to view the default settings contained in this monitor. You can then choose whether to override each individual setting contained in the monitor.
Note: If the Overrides button is not available, make sure you have selected a monitor and not a container object in the Monitors pane.
6. Click to place a check mark in the Override column next to each setting that you want to override.
7. Either select a management pack from the Select destination management pack list or create a new unsealed management pack by clicking New.
Note: By default, when you create a management pack object, disable a rule or monitor, or create an override, Operations Manager saves the setting to the Default Management Pack. As a best practice, you should create a separate management pack for each sealed management pack you want to customize, rather than saving your customized settings to the Default Management Pack. For more information, see Default Management Pack.
8. When you complete your changes, click OK.
Note: The procedure for overriding rules is the same as for monitors. See how your overrides affect the amount of alerts and continue to fine-tune the monitors as necessary.
For more details see http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb309455.aspx
Rules offer the option of suppressing duplicate alerts. A suppressed alert is not displayed in the Operations console.
Operations Manager 2007 suppresses only duplicate alerts as defined by the alert suppression criteria. Fields stated in the suppression criteria must be identical for the alert to be considered a duplicate and suppressed. An alert must be created by the same rule and be unresolved to be considered a duplicate.
Certain rule subtypes can raise an alert as a response to a successful criteria match. By default, an alert is created for each instance of the criteria match. This might not be useful to operations personnel if each new alert instance is displayed in the Operator console as a new issue. OpsMgr allows you to configure the rule so that duplicate instances of the alert are suppressed, or hidden, within an existing, but unresolved, alert. When the representative alert is resolved, so are all suppressed alerts within it.
Alert suppression is rule-based and a rule can only suppress alerts that it generated. If two different alert-generating rules matched the same event, then two unique alerts would appear in the MOM Operator console.
Important
The operations personnel using your Management Pack might want to configure your rules to suppress additional parameters in the events. The event collection rules might not collect these parameters by default, and therefore suppressing on these parameters would not be possible. In building your event collection rules, make sure that you configure them to collect these additional parameters. Security Log events are a good example of events that end users will want to suppress.
Alert suppression policy is highly-configurable but default settings (Computer and Domain checked) satisfy most Management Pack needs. Custom alert suppression policy might be used in the following cases:
A rule executes a script that runs a number of health checks on an application. As a result, the script might generate two or more different alerts directly from the script code. The author suppresses on "Alert Name".
A rule is configured to generate an alert, based on an event that might expose different health states and problems. In this case, the difference in the heath states can be distinguished by the text in the description. The author can suppress by "Description" such that unique alerts are generated when the descriptions vary.
Note: Suppressing on description can be problematic if the description consists of non-static text. For example, suppressing on a description that contains dates and times would not work as expected.
J.C. Hornbeck | System Center Knowledge Engineer
http://blogs.technet.com/operationsmgr/archive/2010/02/25/troubleshooting-alert-storms-in-opsmgr-2007.aspx
From the System Center Configuration Manager Team Blog:
The Configuration Manager documentation library (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb680651.aspx) has been updated on the Web and the latest content on the Web has Updated: February 1, 2010 at the top of the topic.
This month's updates incorporate customer feedback. We do value customer feedback and try to incorporate it when possible. Although we can't promise to make the docs perfect for everybody, we are committed to continual improvement. So, keep that feedback coming, and feel free to contact us about anything related to the documentation by using our usual address of SMSDocs@Microsoft.com.
What's New in the Configuration Manager Documentation Library for February 2010
The following information lists the topics that contain significant changes since the January 2010 update.
Supported Operating Systems and Hard Disk Configurations for Operating System Deployment
- Updated to clarify that Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 are supported by operating system deployment in Configuration Manager 2007 SP2.
Operating System Deployment Task Sequence Variables
- Updated to add the _SMSTSTimezone task sequence variable.
Apply Network Settings Task Sequence Action Variables
- Updated to correct the name of the OSDDNSSuffixSearchOrder task sequence variable.
Log Files for Operating System Deployment
- Updated to correct the location of the CreateTSMedia.log file.
How to Verify That Site Information Is Published to Active Directory Domain Services
- Updated to clarify that Configuration Manager 2007 does not use the msSMSSiteBoundaries attribute for the site code object.
Program Properties Page and Program Name Properties: Environment Tab
- Updated with corrected information that Allow users to interact with this program is available only when Program can run is configured for Only when a user is logged on or Whether or not a user is logged on.
Configuration Manager in Multiple Active Directory Forests
- Updated to clarify that to discover a computer resource in another forest by using Active Directory System Discovery, there must be a forest trust between the site server forest and the forest where the computer is located. The absence of the trust is also added to Troubleshooting Discovery Issues and the troubleshooting entry "Discovery Does Not Return Any Results". For more troubleshooting information about this requirement, see The Configuration Manager Support Team Blog post: Configuration Manager AD system discovery will not work across external trusts starting with Service Pack 2.
-- The Configuration Manager Writing Team
http://blogs.technet.com/configmgrteam/archive/2010/02/25/announcement-configuration-manager-documentation-library-update-for-february-2010.aspx
From the App-V Blog:
The App-V 4.6 client has been tested extensively with pre-4.6 sequenced packages.
If you have 4.5 RTM packages which use MSI for deployment, then they will have to be updated (4.5 CU1 and SP1 MSIs are not affected by this). There are three ways to update your 4.5 RTM packages:
You could also write a batch script to convert multiple MSIs using option 1 and 3.
You could get the Power Shell tool from here.
param ( [string]$root ) # Pass in the root location where all the *.msi exist
if (-not $root) { write-error "No root specified" return 1 }
$files = Get-ChildItem -Path $root -Recurse -Include *.msi # Recursively search for all *.msi in $root
foreach ($file in $files) { Write-Host Operating on $file
$p = Start-Process "\\bin\msitran.exe" -wait -PassThru -argumentlist "-a","\\launchcondition.mst","$($file.FullName)"
if ($p.ExitCode -ne 0) { Write-Host "MSItran returned error code $($p.ExitCode) for $($file.FullName)" }
}
To run: \\MsiTran_Apply_Transform.ps1 C:\msi_test This will run MsiTran_Apply_Transform.ps1 script with root parameter C:\msi_folder
param ( [string]$root ) # Pass in the root location where all the *.sprj exist
if (-not $root) { write-error "no root specified" return 1 }
$files = Get-ChildItem -Path $root -Recurse -Include *.sprj # Recursively search for all *.sprj in $root
foreach ($file in $files) { Write-Host Operating on $file start-process 'C:\Program Files\Microsoft Application Virtualization Sequencer\sftsequencer.exe' -wait -argumentlist "/open:""$($file.FullName)""","/msi" #Provide full path of sftsequencer.exe
if ($? -ne "True") { Write-Host "Error while opening file on Command Line Sequencer" } }
To run: .\Sequencer_Open_msi.ps1 C:\sprj_folder This will run Sequencer_Open_msi.ps1 script with root parameter C:\sprj_folder
Nidhi Doshi App-V team
http://blogs.technet.com/appv/archive/2010/02/25/how-to-use-pre-4-6-msi-packages-with-the-app-v-4-6-client.aspx
Forefront Security for Exchange Server
978297 Description of Hotfix Rollup 1 for Service Pack 2 for Forefront Security for Exchange Server
978915 Cumulative update package 8 for SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 3
979042 FIX: The principal database is not recovered if the database has a large number of virtual log files in SQL Server 2005
201512 How to Uninstall SQL Compact 3.5 after installing SQL Server 2008
978518 FIX: Error message in SQL Server 2005 when you run an update statement on a database whose compatibility level is 6"Msg 4104, Level 16, State 1, Line 1 The multi-part identifier . could not be bound"
979549 FIX: Data is corrupted when you update data that is in an LOB column in a SQL Server 2005 transactional replication
979777 FIX: You experience some problems when you perform a grouping members operation on an Excel pivot table whose data source is an SSAS 2005 cube
201912 A Data Collector collection set may fail to upload if a cache file is corrupted
201768 Operations Manager 2007 Management Group is not distributing new configuration to agents
Start Date: 2/24/2010 Start Time: 1:30 PM EST (GMT -5) End Time: 2:30 PM EST (GMT -5)
Come join Microsoft and Keith Combs, Senior PM in the Microsoft Server and Tools Online (STO) organization for a Live Chat on deploying Windows 7. The deployment tools used to roll out Microsoft desktop software continues to improve so come take advantage of this time to talk with your peers and get some questions answered about Windows 7 deployment.
http://windows.ittoolbox.com/research/chat-with-microsoft-expert-on-windows-7-deployment-tools-and-techniques-21317?r=WhitePaper+Alert+v2h&subtype=&mid=1878226
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General Interoperability Website | RSS Feed New Office Documentation Now Publicly Available - 19-Feb-2010
Microsoft On The Issues Legal and Policy Website | RSS Feed The Browser Choice Screen for Europe: What to Expect, When to Expect It - 19-Feb-2010 U.S., European Commission Clear Microsoft-Yahoo! Agreement - 18-Feb-2010
TechNet Magazine Website | RSS Feed Windows 7: Discover Helpful Keyboard Shortcuts Designed for Windows Media Center - 19-Feb-2010 Run Forefront Commands while Working with Exchange Management Shell - 19-Feb-2010 Enable BitLocker on USB Flash Drives to Protect Data - 18-Feb-2010 Use cmdlets to Create Room and Equipment Mailboxes in Exchange 2010 - 18-Feb-2010 Use cmdlets to Perform One-to-Many Remote Management of Exchange 2010 Servers - 17-Feb-2010 Get 7 Free Tools for Managing Disks and File Systems - 17-Feb-2010 Learn Commands for Viewing and Managing Boot Configuration Data on Windows 7 - 16-Feb-2010 Configure Offline Address Books and Autodiscover for Exchange 2010 - 15-Feb-2010
The Data Privacy Imperative Website | RSS Feed Microsoft Partners with Enough is Enough on Internet Safety 101 - 17-Feb-2010
The Microsoft Blog Website | RSS Feed Weekend Reading for Feb 20/21: Windows Phone 7 Series called, and the world said….. - 20-Feb-2010 MVPs Give Microsoft Reason to Listen - 19-Feb-2010 The Browser Choice Screen for Europe - 19-Feb-2010 U.S., Europe Clear Search Deal with Yahoo! - 18-Feb-2010 What Do Ada Lovelace, Barbie and I All Have in Common? - 18-Feb-2010 Microsoft Office 2010 Gets More Social - 16-Feb-2010 Windows Phone - Mobile World Congress Day 2 - 16-Feb-2010 Introducing Windows Phone 7 Series - 15-Feb-2010
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Education UK Schools Website | RSS Feed Get updates from the UK Schools blog in your email inbox - 19-Feb-2010 Free anti-virus protection for staff and student owned computers - 19-Feb-2010 Kodu Game Lab – using gaming to interest students in programming - 18-Feb-2010 Upgrading and virtualising to save money - 17-Feb-2010 Creating school websites – guidelines on usability - 17-Feb-2010 Finding good practice with ICT around the world - 16-Feb-2010 Internet Safety – how to get support in school - 16-Feb-2010 Windows 7 in Welsh - 16-Feb-2010 TechNet webcasts - 15-Feb-2010 Getting the cold-shoulder the day after Valentine’s Day? - 15-Feb-2010
Education UK Teachers K12 Website | RSS Feed Digital story telling tools from Microsoft - 17-Feb-2010 AutoCollage Workshop#2 – classroom ideas - 16-Feb-2010
Financial Services Risk and Compliance Website | RSS Feed Future State of Financial and Regulatory Reporting - thoughts from Sai Sireesh - 16-Feb-2010
Health Website | RSS Feed New Show! Microsoft Health Tech Today - 17-Feb-2010
Power and Utilities Website | RSS Feed More Microsoft Partners Grow Synergies: Bentley Systems Acquires Enterprise Informatics - 19-Feb-2010 EnergyBiz Magazine Carries Letter about Knowledge Transfers for CIOs - 16-Feb-2010
Internet Internet Explorer Website | RSS Feed Search Providers: Best Practices on Setting the Default - 17-Feb-2010
Microsoft Advertising adCenter Analytics Website | RSS Feed Thoughts on the Microsoft and Yahoo! Search Alliance - 18-Feb-2010 Quoting Jim Sterne at SES London 2010 - 18-Feb-2010 21 Secrets from Bryan Eisenberg’s Keynote – SES London 2010 - 17-Feb-2010 Where Did You Watch the Super Bowl Ads? - 17-Feb-2010 Avatar and Xbox: Movie Advertising Enters a New Dimension - 16-Feb-2010 Creative Confidential – Microsoft Advertising’s European Tour - 16-Feb-2010 Our B2B Social Media White Paper – Learn & Earn - 15-Feb-2010
adCenter API for Developers Website | RSS Feed adCenter API users: Microsoft, Yahoo! Search Agreement Cleared - 17-Feb-2010 adCenter API match type designated by appended letter: e=exact, b=broad, and so forth - 17-Feb-2010 Use multi-threading to pause more than 100 campaigns - 17-Feb-2010
Microsoft Conferences and Briefings MIX The Next Web Now Website | RSS Feed The Anatomy of Web Design - 18-Feb-2010 Incarnate for WordPress Plugin Updated - 16-Feb-2010
Microsoft Learning Microsoft Certified Master Website | RSS Feed A Batch Of Exchange MCM's and MCA's! - 18-Feb-2010 Another new SharePoint MCM to introduce... - 15-Feb-2010
Microsoft Learning Website | RSS Feed Recruiting Beta Candidates for Exam 71-669! - 19-Feb-2010 And we are BACK! - 19-Feb-2010 I’m a PC and I’m going for Gold! - 19-Feb-2010 Maps, more than reality - 19-Feb-2010 Calling all Project Server 2010 experts! Update your SME profile now! - 18-Feb-2010 Introduction to Microsoft Certifications – Free LiveMeeting Event - 17-Feb-2010 Quality Matters – Tell Us What You Think - 16-Feb-2010 Quality Matters – Tell Us What You Think - 16-Feb-2010 A Valentine to the B2L Community - 16-Feb-2010 Windows Phone 7 Series – got tools? - 15-Feb-2010
Microsoft Press Website | RSS Feed Videos with Forefront TMG Book Authors - 19-Feb-2010 Unofficial Support Site for the Windows 7 Resource Kit - 18-Feb-2010 Gerry O’Brien on free certification exams - 17-Feb-2010 Free ebook: Understanding Microsoft Virtualization Solutions (Second Edition) - 16-Feb-2010 New book: CLR via C#, Third Edition - 16-Feb-2010 Carl Chatfield: Top 10 Problems, #5: Expect that automatic resource leveling should be able to alter reality - 15-Feb-2010
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Press Pass Top Stories Website | RSS Feed Microsoft Hosts Summit for Most Valuable Professional Technology Experts - 19-Feb-2010 Windows Phone Designer Seeks the Right Balance - 16-Feb-2010 ‘Life in Motion’ Drives Development of New Windows Phone 7 Series - 15-Feb-2010
Office The Office Blog Website | RSS Feed Crabby's Daily Tip: Fight spam — be sneaky about your e-mail address - 19-Feb-2010 Template du Jour: Celebrate Design template - 19-Feb-2010 Crabby's Daily Tip: Resize, optimize & realize — Compressing images - 18-Feb-2010 Template du Jour: Charitable Contributions Database - 18-Feb-2010 Writing a donation receipt? - 18-Feb-2010 Template du Jour: Sudoku Game Helper - 17-Feb-2010 Crabby's Daily Tip: Publisher's Content Library — reduce, reuse & recycle - 17-Feb-2010 LinkedIn, Facebook join the Outlook 2010 Social Connector (The what?) - 17-Feb-2010 Office 2010 Application Compatibility Sweepstakes - 17-Feb-2010 Crabby's weekly podcast: Black History Month - 17-Feb-2010 Crabby's Daily Tip: Want perfect presentation timing? Practice, practice, practice - 16-Feb-2010 Template du Jour: Microsoft Server Network Diagram - 16-Feb-2010 Small business templates – what else do you need? - 16-Feb-2010 Template du Jour: Business Graph Design Template - 15-Feb-2010 Watch Top Templates with Doug and Ron: General Resume - 15-Feb-2010 Crabby's Daily Tip: Sending files in Communicator — tell AND show - 15-Feb-2010 Opera and SharePoint Part 2: End user training resources - 15-Feb-2010 Today's Image: Happy President's Day - 15-Feb-2010 Research paper in the works? Start with a template. - 15-Feb-2010 How Are You Approaching User Adoption for SharePoint? - 15-Feb-2010
Office Applications Office 2010 Website | RSS Feed Learn about InfoPath 2010 in free web casts with the Microsoft Product team! - 19-Feb-2010 Office 2010 Application Compatibility Sweepstakes - 17-Feb-2010
Office Access Website | RSS Feed Tips to migrate legacy databases to SharePoint and the Web - 20-Feb-2010 Composite keys in Web databases through data macros - 18-Feb-2010 White paper: Compatibility Between the 32-bit and 64-bit Versions of Office 2010 - 17-Feb-2010 Data Platform Improvements in SharePoint 2010 - 15-Feb-2010
Office Excel and Excel Services Website | RSS Feed Windows Touch & Excel 2010 - 18-Feb-2010 Migrating Excel 4 Macros to VBA - 17-Feb-2010
Office InfoPath Website | RSS Feed Only 10 days left to be in with a chance to win an XBox 360 Elite! - 18-Feb-2010 Learn about InfoPath 2010 in free Web casts with the Microsoft Product team! - 18-Feb-2010 Digital Signature Support in InfoPath 2010 - 18-Feb-2010
Office Outlook Website | RSS Feed Outlook Gets Social with LinkedIn, Facebook, and MySpace - 17-Feb-2010
Office Powerpoint Website | RSS Feed Smart Guides in PowerPoint 2010 - 15-Feb-2010
Office Project Website | RSS Feed Tips and Tricks for Project Show filtered tasks with other tasks - 18-Feb-2010
Office Sharepoint MOSS and Groove SharePoint End User Content Team Website | RSS Feed Friday Cool Content: Create a list that uses a column to display a picture - 19-Feb-2010 How Are You Approaching User Adoption for SharePoint? - 15-Feb-2010
SharePoint Products and Technologies Website | RSS Feed Enabling a Button on the Ribbon Based on Selection - 15-Feb-2010
Partner and Customer Resources Microsoft Partner Program TS2 Blog Website | RSS Feed TS2 Blogs are moving! - 20-Feb-2010 Live Meeting Audio - 18-Feb-2010
Microsoft Small Medium Business Community Website | RSS Feed Windows Phone 7 Series – Announced today plus Show & Tell Video - 15-Feb-2010 Microsoft is looking for customers and Partners for VLSC usability feedback – Sign up today - 15-Feb-2010
Microsoft Valuable Professional MVP Award Program Website | RSS Feed The 2010 MVP Summit from the eyes of a rookie - 18-Feb-2010 1,300 arrive in Redmond today for the 2010 MVP Summit - 15-Feb-2010
Startup Zone Emerging Business Team Website | RSS Feed Startup of the Day - Tensioncore - 19-Feb-2010 Startup of the Day - Legal River - 18-Feb-2010 Startup of the Day - Muecs - 17-Feb-2010 Startup of the Day - Vembu Technologies - 16-Feb-2010 1st US BizSpark Camp and the Winners are … - 16-Feb-2010 Startup of the Day - RedCritter - 15-Feb-2010
Planning Deployment and Update Windows Optimized Desktop Website | RSS Feed Microsoft DirectAccess Connectivity Assistant - Now Available! - 15-Feb-2010
Windows Server Update Services Support Website | RSS Feed The February 2010 Security Bulletin Webcast is now available - 15-Feb-2010
Research and Labs Microsoft Connect Recent Connections Website | RSS Feed Online Forums Connection - 17-Feb-2010
Microsoft Research Publications Website | RSS Feed Improving Mobile Search Experience with SONGO - 18-Feb-2010 LittleRock: Enabing Energy Efficient Continuous Sensing on Moble Phones - 18-Feb-2010
Office Labs Website | RSS Feed Getting ‘hands-on’ with Microsoft’s vision - 19-Feb-2010
Search Bing Maps formerly Live Maps Website | RSS Feed Using Bird’s Eye on Broadcast - 15-Feb-2010
Bing Search formerly Live Search Website | RSS Feed Burrrr it's cold outside…win a free t-shirt - 19-Feb-2010 Keeping you in the know for the Olympic Games - 17-Feb-2010
Bing Webmaster Website | RSS Feed The liability of loathsome, link-level web spam (SEM 101) - 18-Feb-2010
Security Microsoft Malware Protection Center Website | RSS Feed Restart issues on an Alureon infected machine after MS10-015 is applied - 18-Feb-2010
Microsoft Security Response Center MSRC Website | RSS Feed Update - Restart Issues After Installing MS10-015 and the Alureon Rootkit - 18-Feb-2010
MSRC Ecosystem Strategy Website | RSS Feed Snowpacalypse Now (I love the smell of briefings in the morning) - 19-Feb-2010
Security Bulletins Comprehensive Website | RSS Feed MS08-036 – Important: Vulnerabilities in Pragmatic General Multicast (PGM) Could Allow Denial of Service (950762) - Version:1.1 - 17-Feb-2010
The Security Development Lifecycle Website | RSS Feed VC++ 2010 and memcpy - 16-Feb-2010
Security Products Forefront Forefront Client Security Website | RSS Feed Additions to the Client Security Best Practice Analyzer - 19-Feb-2010
Forefront Server Security Website | RSS Feed The survey results are in! - 19-Feb-2010 Rollup 1 Now Available for Both Forefront Security for Exchange SP2 and Forefront Security for SharePoint SP3! - 17-Feb-2010 Rollup 1 Now Available for Both Forefront Security for Exchange SP2 and Forefront Security for SharePoint SP3! - 17-Feb-2010
Forefront Threat Management Gateway ISA Server Website | RSS Feed Web Proxy authentication methods are not retained in the UI - 18-Feb-2010
Forefront Unified Application Gateway UAG Website | RSS Feed Deep dive into UAG DirectAccess (Tweaking the GPOs) - 18-Feb-2010 IPv6 Must be Enabled on the Forefront UAG Server’s External Interface - 16-Feb-2010
Software and Web Development ADO dotNET Website | RSS Feed Entity Framework POCO Template updated for Visual Studio 2010 Release Candidate - 19-Feb-2010 Entity Framework Feature CTP 3 Now Available - 18-Feb-2010
Application Consulting and Engineering ACE Website | RSS Feed Technical Dependency Analysis - 19-Feb-2010
Patterns and Practices Website | RSS Feed Application Architecture Guide is now available in Russian - 19-Feb-2010
The dotNET Endpoint Website | RSS Feed Providing WCF and WF Feedback to Microsoft - 19-Feb-2010 Creating Views in WCF WebHttp Service with T4 - 15-Feb-2010
Visual C++ Website | RSS Feed Improving C++ Intellisense Performance with PCH - 19-Feb-2010 Project settings changes with VS2010 - 16-Feb-2010
Visual Studio Website | RSS Feed MSBuild Task Factories: guest starring Windows Powershell - 20-Feb-2010 How VSIX extensions are discovered and loaded in VS 2010 - 19-Feb-2010 Build Extensibility with .NET Framework 4 - 18-Feb-2010 WPF in Visual Studio 2010 - Part 1 : Introduction - 16-Feb-2010 If your build fails with “MSB6002: The command-line for the “ResGen” task is too long” - 16-Feb-2010 CodeBlog: Writing a Blogging Extension for Visual Studio 2010 - 15-Feb-2010
Visual Web Developer Website | RSS Feed How to package COM component - 20-Feb-2010 Workaround: Missing Declarations for Controls in Designer File - 19-Feb-2010 Free Sandbox Hosting for Visual Studio 2010 RC and ASP.NET 4.0 RC from Discount ASP.NET - 16-Feb-2010
XNA Games Development Website | RSS Feed GDC 2010: Register Today! - 19-Feb-2010 Creators Club Communiqué 42 - 19-Feb-2010
Software and Web Development Cloud Computing Azure SQL Data Services Website | RSS Feed SQL Azure Database Service Update 1 is Live - 18-Feb-2010
Windows Azure Website | RSS Feed Real World Windows Azure: Interview with Phil Calvin, CTO at Sitemasher - 18-Feb-2010 Learn More About Windows Azure at A Free, Local Event Near You - 17-Feb-2010 New Video Series Helps Illustrate "Why Windows Azure?" - 16-Feb-2010
SQL and Business Intelligence SQL Release Services Website | RSS Feed Cumulative Update #8 for SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 3 - 15-Feb-2010
Systems Center Systems Management System Center Website | RSS Feed Updated Management Pack for Operations Manager 2007 R2 - 20-Feb-2010 Inside Tips for Windows 7 Deployment Continued - 17-Feb-2010 New Whitepaper – How to protect Hyper-V with DPM 2010 - 16-Feb-2010 Data Protection Manager 2010 Release Candidate – now available - 15-Feb-2010
System Center Configuration Manager Support Website | RSS Feed When deploying Windows Server 2008 using an SCCM 2007 OSD Task Sequence, additional disks may show as offline when the Task Sequence completes - 17-Feb-2010 New Hotfix available: KB978754 - You cannot import a driver into an OSD image if the driver is signed for only the Windows 7 operating system in SCCM 2007 SP2 - 15-Feb-2010
System Center Data Protection Manager DPM Website | RSS Feed Dynamic Disk Hotfix - 18-Feb-2010 New Whitepaper – How to protect Hyper-V with DPM 2010 - 17-Feb-2010 New DPM 2010 Training for Microsoft Partners - 16-Feb-2010 DPM 2010: Helping you meet SLAs with less effort - 16-Feb-2010
System Center Essentials Website | RSS Feed You want different update deployment settings for servers and clients? - 17-Feb-2010 New SCE 2010 Training for Microsoft Partners - 16-Feb-2010
System Center Operations Manager Website | RSS Feed OpsMgr 2007 R2 MP version 6.1.7599.0 is Released! - 19-Feb-2010 SYSTEM CENTER CAPACITY PLANNER (SCCP) END-OF-LIFE ANNOUNCEMENT - 15-Feb-2010
System Center Service Manager Website | RSS Feed MMS 2010 Is 2 Months Away! Service Manager Will Be There… Will You? - 19-Feb-2010 Create View for Incidents that have not been modified in last 7 days - 17-Feb-2010 Office Communicator Integration – The Hidden Feature - 17-Feb-2010 Brief overview of the Service Manager Console - 16-Feb-2010 Creating a Dashboard with the Report Viewer Control and a Custom Overview View Type - 16-Feb-2010
System Center Virtual Machine Manager Website | RSS Feed Error 2912 when a Virtual Machine Manager 2008 operation fails due to a certificate issue: Element not found (0x80070490) - 17-Feb-2010 Various issues when trying to manage a Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V host using VMM 2008 - 16-Feb-2010
Unified Communications Microsoft Exchange Website | RSS Feed E2010 Mailbox Server Role Requirements Calculator v4.5 - 17-Feb-2010 Call Answering Rules (Part 2): Call Answering Conditions - 16-Feb-2010
Office Communications Server Website | RSS Feed Archiving Report for OCS 2007 R2 - 19-Feb-2010
Virtualization Dynamic Data Center Alliance Website | RSS Feed Dynamic Infrastructure Toolkit for System Center (DIT-SC): Sneak peek into “on-boarding” - 16-Feb-2010
Med-V Enterprise Desktop Virtualization Website | RSS Feed Using the MED-V file transfer utility to copy files from the host to the workspace - 17-Feb-2010 Prescriptive Guidance for Deploying the MED-V Client via an Electronic Software Distribution Method such as SMS/SCCM - 16-Feb-2010
Windows Desktop and Embedded Windows Embedded Website | RSS Feed Determining Image Size in Standard 7 (2011) - Part 2 - 18-Feb-2010 Download the RC for Windows Embedded Standard 7! - 16-Feb-2010
Windows Live Inside Windows Live Website | RSS Feed Short outage, now resolved - 16-Feb-2010
Windows Mobile Microsoft Tag Website | RSS Feed Artist Vs Poet premieres new album Favorite Fix on MySpace Music & Launches Microsoft Tag - 18-Feb-2010
Windows Mobile Website | RSS Feed Windows Phone Excitement - 16-Feb-2010 Windows Phone 7 Series – Show and Tell - 15-Feb-2010
Windows Mobile Developer Website | RSS Feed Windows Marketplace for Mobile: Certification Testing, Hopper, and Multiple Screen Support - 18-Feb-2010 Marketplace Momentum - 16-Feb-2010 Windows Phone 7 Series – Going Big for Developers at MIX10 - 15-Feb-2010
Windows Server and Infrastructure Active Directory Services Website | RSS Feed Friday Mail Sack – Big Picture Edition - 19-Feb-2010 AD’s Maybe Birthday - 18-Feb-2010 USMT 4 and WinPE: Common Issues - 18-Feb-2010 USMT and OfflineWinOld: Taking XP to Windows 7 in a Hurry - 16-Feb-2010 New Directory Services KB Articles/Blogs 2/7-2/13 - 15-Feb-2010 Strict Replication Consistency - Myth versus Reality - 15-Feb-2010
Advanced Windows Debugging and Troubleshooting Website | RSS Feed X64 Deep Dive Presentation from the 2010 Global Engineering Conference - 19-Feb-2010
Server Core Ask the Core Team Website | RSS Feed Windows Server 2008 R2: No Recording Tab for CD/DVD burner - 19-Feb-2010 Understanding the 2 TB Limit in Windows Storage - 18-Feb-2010 Cannot Save Recovery Information for Bitlocker in Windows 7 - 16-Feb-2010
Small Business Server SBS Website | RSS Feed Managing your firewalls with SBS 2008 and Windows 7 - 18-Feb-2010 Outlook 2007 Credential Prompts in Small Business Server 2008 - 16-Feb-2010
Windows Server Division Website | RSS Feed Windows Server 2008 R2 & Intel Slam Dunk iSCSI Performance Benchmark - 16-Feb-2010
Windows Server Networking and Remote Access Microsoft Enterprise Networking Website | RSS Feed Remote Desktop Gateway and Active Directory User Profiles - 18-Feb-2010 New Networking-related KB articles for the week of February 7 – February 13 - 17-Feb-2010
Windows Server Networking Documentation Website | RSS Feed The Microsoft DirectAccess Connectivity Assistant (DCA) is now available! - 15-Feb-2010
Windows Systems Management Scripting Hey Scripting Guys Website | RSS Feed Hey, Scripting Guy! Weekend Scripter: Conversion Module, Part 5 - 20-Feb-2010 Hey, Scripting Guy! Quick-Hits Friday: The Scripting Guys Respond to a Bunch of Questions (2/19/10) - 19-Feb-2010 Hey, Scripting Guy! What Are the Pros and Cons of Windows PowerShell 2.0 Remoting? - 18-Feb-2010 Hey, Scripting Guy! Tell Me About SharePoint Remoting with Windows PowerShell 2.0 and WinRM - 17-Feb-2010 Hey, Scripting Guy! With Windows PowerShell, How Can I Get the Same Information I Get Via PerfMon? - 16-Feb-2010 Hey, Scripting Guy! Can I Use Windows PowerShell 2.0 for Performance Monitoring? - 15-Feb-2010
Windows Management Infrastructure Website | RSS Feed Windows Management Framework Install Failure and Investigation - 17-Feb-2010
Windows Powershell Website | RSS Feed PSStandardMembers – The Stealth Property - 18-Feb-2010 Windows Management Framework Install Failure and Investigation - 15-Feb-2010