Last week while I was visiting with a group of the Microsoft SBS MVPs here on campus, the question came up of, “What media do we use to install the previous version of Windows if a client wants to use the downgrade rights associated with their OEM Windows license?”  As a follow-up to that conversation that ensued afterwards, I told them I would.. more »

Hi everyone, recently at the Intel Developer Forum, we sat down with our friends at Intel and recorded a demonstration of the integration between ConfigMgr 2007 SP2 and Intel vPro.  The video is now live, and is available here on Edge.  I hope you find it useful. For more information, please visit:System Center Configuration Manager we.. more »

Next in our series: how to enable scanning of reparse points, also known as junctions, or mount points.   (For more information about what exactly reparse points, junctions and mount points are, see http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa365006(VS.85).aspx and http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa365503(VS.85).aspx)     Out of box, FCS doe.. more »

, I mentioned a family of malware named Dogrobot, which attempts to penetrate the protection offered by particular hardware that is widely used in Internet cafs in China. Interestingly, we recently discovered a trojan, , that checks whether an affected machine is in an Internet caf or not. If the affected machine is not from an Internet caf , it .. more »

The Microsoft SharePoint 2010 SocialFest was a very code-intensive week for the Calinda software development team. We arrived at Microsoft’s Silicon Valley campus at 8AM, coded non-stop until 10PM, just to drive back to the hotel and resume coding at the hotel into early morning. We got only 3 to 4 hours of sleep each day, before starting over. Th.. more »

Stephen Berard, recipient of Microsoft's quarterly Environmental Action Award, helped develop features in Windows 7 to make computer servers more energy efficient... more »

an improvement to certain health queries, meaning users are seeing updated organic listings for searches on topics like health conditions (try ). For health advertisers, now it's even more important to focus on keywords in the top of the search funnel. Unlike brand queries, people searching on general health terms are in research mode. With these .. more »

We’re T-4.5 days from the opening ceremonies of the 2010 Winter Olympics Games. Who are you excited to see flying down the men’s downhill course or dancing across the ice? Will you be rooting for your homeland or just your favorite event? Do you know anyone crazy enough to get on one of those luge sleds? Making the trip to Canada or are you plan.. more »

series of Top 10 ICT Money Saving Tips for schools , based on my BETT 2010 presentation. If you don’t spend all of your time obsessing about licensing, then it is pretty easy to decide that it is too complicated (and I’m definitely not just referring to Microsoft licensing!). And amongst all of the licensing detail, it is sometimes a little diff.. more »

Not much has changed since last week on our Monday list of fastest-growing Facebook apps by monthly average users (MAU), taken from : eight of the top 10 are either in the same place they held last week or within a few places. The top position is still held by , as it has been almost since the holidays. And , an app your friends important dates .. more »

have teamed up to offer prizes to Facebook users through a new game application called Go Big , in which players rack up points completing snowboard tricks. Players compete for weekly prizes, including laptops, snowboards and gift cards, and one grand prize winner will receive a vacation for two to Whistler ski resort. Entering some personal .. more »

Troy Hunter is seeing a problem where the modification dates of Office files change when files are opened on a Windows server: When connected to Windows Server 2003 shares via SMB, our fully updated 10.6 machines exhibit wonkiness. If you open anything that can be opened in Office 2008 (Powerpoint, Excel, Word) and immediately close it, the Date .. more »

James Pennells in the United Kingdom has a problem with Software Update in Snow Leopard on bound to Active Directory similar to the previously reported problem, but it started with Mac OS X 10.6.2: I just wanted to say that I also have this issue. I am running a 2.2Ghz MacBook Pro, which came with Leopard. I decided to do a fresh install of Snow .. more »

Dave Hetherington confirmed a tip last week to fix the problem of Snow Leopard -36 errors. The suggetion is to add "unix extensions = no" to the smb.conf file (or settings) on a Linux server or Mac OS X Server. Hetherington said "We have previously done this on our machines and it works!" We've also recently posted a variation of this, which is to .. more »

mc : error : 0x2 trying to open file Post-Build Event, remove the regsvr32 command... more »

http://forums.zune.net/569624/ShowPost.aspx"Zune Pass is just such a subscription service, and it's a pretty good one… but lately, Zune Pass subscribers have been seeing their music collections just disappear into thin air. This can be a single song, an entire album or even whole artists' collections. Disappearing acts included, but weren't li.. more »

Hot on the heels of the Series 2 SQA-5H Windows Home Server, and the Safe Server Module (SSM), Tranquil will announce tomorrow two new Series 2 Windows Home Servers and a price drop for the SQA-5H. For the full article, please visit http://usingwindowshomeserver.com.. more »

This weekly post is five screen shots of Windows Media Center with a CableCARD tuner to get you excited about Windows Media Center and Windows Home Server. For the full article, please visit http://usingwindowshomeserver.com.. more »

If you are finding it difficult to restore a 64-bit PC with Windows Home Server then we have a solution for you. These problems are mostly due to network interface and/or SATA AHCI/RAID drivers and Matt Whitlock explains in the first place where to find the drivers and then how to restore a 64-bit PC using 32-bit drivers as a workaround since .. more »

Tranquil PC are now offering a new line up of Series 2 Home Servers which are similar to the original series 1 but based on new low power Intel CPUs and equipped with the new D510 powered main board and extendable RAM (up to 4GB of 800MHz). Providing higher performance, at new reduced prices as well as lower prices for optional parts. There are 3 .. more »

And here we thought the well of Lego Star Wars material had dried up. Perhaps we've underestimated TT Games, which has revealed that it's constructing a new armed and fully operational entry in the series: Lego Star Wars III: The Clone Wars. Destined for an Autumn 2010 release on the Xbox 360, PS3, PSP, Nintendo DS and Wii, the game will focus on .. more »