This trick should help to install VB6 on Windows 7: Installing VB6 without Java .. more »

On Wednesday, I presented DirectAccess to the Seattle Windows Networking User Group. This was essentially an updated version of the DirectAccess information that I presented at the TechNet Firestarter Event. Thanks to copious amounts of Mountain Dew and pizza, it was a good presentation with lots of great questions and discussion. Here is my .. more »

Here are the most recently published networking-related Knowledge Base articles: 975830 The memory usage of the Dns.exe process keeps increasing after you install hotfix 941672 on a computer that is running Windows Server 2003 SP2 and that has the DNS...(read more).. more »

Im Cheryl White and Im a Program Manager for Windows Live Movie Maker. Im here to say again how much we appreciate getting your feedback it helps us to build a better product. Also, Id like to talk more specifically about how users helped us shape the latest release of Windows Live Movie Maker. Weve heard many questions about why we didnt go with .. more »

For anyone who uses the favorites sync feature on , we have an important notice. Weve heard from some customers in the last 24 hours that in some cases, favorites have been removed from the Toolbar when they synced from one or more of their PCs. We have investigated, and we want to assure you, that if this is occurring for you, your favorites are .. more »

Contributed by Gerold Hbner, who I met when I was photographing this section of the wall in the Microsoft Conference Center in Redmond, Washington. What does it mean to me as a German citizen standing right next to a real piece of the Berlin Wall here in the United States? Spontaneously there are mixed feelings. I was fortunate having had the .. more »

This table indicates the current support for the indicated operating systems by System Center Essentials 2007 SP1 components. Support installing the System Center Essentials 2007 SP1 management server? Support installing the System Center Essentials 2007 SP1 agent (to manage the computer)? Support installing the System Center Essentials 2007 SP1 .. more »

I saw this question from a customer on a forum I read quite often: I've been meaning to check out the System Center Essentials package for a while now, I finally found time to setup a VM get it installed recently. Well, thats pretty generic, and you wont likely come up with an answer to the problem on any search engine. If you take a look at the .. more »

The problem I was trying to solve was that, when I had a playlist set to shuffle, WMP would break up songs that should always play together (for example, Jackson Brownes The Load-Out and Stay, or Pink Floyds Brain Damage and Total Eclipse). In those posts, I worked around this by building my own shuffler which would emit a new randomized playlist .. more »

XML Editor. This will close the design surface and open the contents of the EDMX file in the XML Editor. Scrolling down, the CSDL XML fragment for our Independent Association looks like this: It would also have an MSL XML fragment that tells EF how to traverse the relationship if wed mapped the new entity & association to storage objects. Since we .. more »

Windows Identity Foundation (formerly called code name Geneva framework) is a new Microsoft .NET Framework technology that gives developers a programming model and SDK to create new advanced identity capabilities in .NET applications.  It provides developers pre-built .NET security logic for building claims-aware applications, enhancing either A.. more »

Now that Windows 7 is available, a recent blog by Chester Wisnieski (who works at security vendor Sophos), entitled Windows 7 vulnerable to 8 out of 10 viruses , which has stirred some interest. Here's a quick summary for those who missed Chester's blog. During a test SophosLabs conducted, they subjected Windows 7 to "10 unique [malware] samples .. more »

Patient Controlled Encryption: patient privacy in electronic medical records.. more »

Socializing or Knowledge Sharing? Characterizing Social Intent in Community Question Answering.. more »

The BizSpark company of the day is mySkin, Inc., based in the US. They offer scientific, unbiased advice on what skin care products would work best for you. You will find below an interview with Rahul Mehendale, CEO and Co-founder of mySkin. All the best to them and congrats for being the startup of the day! .Note:you can get access through using .. more »

As stated in my, “Answers from Windows 7 Upgrade Install Hack post coming on Monday,” post, here is a collection of many questions I have posted answers to from my, “Regardless of what any hack says, a Windows 7 Upgrade is an Upgrade. What you need to know,” post.  Please note, this list will continue to grow as I continue to add more posts ove.. more »

Just a quick update for you about a topic that some of you have raised.  In case you did not see it, the Microsoft Exchange Team announced earlier this week that based on the feedback we have received, the decision has been made to create and issue an update for Exchange 2007 enabling full support for Windows Server 2008 R2.  According to the Mi.. more »

Abstract: Cool Content links to write-up from Lori Gowin about out-of-the-box vs. SPDvs. custom code and froma social computing presentation at Enterprise 2.0. Category: Branding;Cool Content;Social Networking Published: 11/6/2009 8:31 PM # Comments: 0.. more »

The SharePoint IT Pro content team is proud to announce the launching of our new SharePoint Server 2010 (Beta) Tech Center and our related set of . In addition, we have launched the We will keep this content up to date with timely information to help you design, build, and deploy SharePoint sites and solutions. We have launched these sites with an .. more »

This is a very frequently discussed issue. But before I get into the methods, you need to understand one of the principles of relational databases. That principle is that data should exist in one place only. Having the same data in multiple tables is a violation of normalization. Related records are indicated by a Foreign Key within the record that .. more »