As my suntan fades more and more each day and as peoples Facebook status updates are saying that they are heading to HawaiiMexicoand I sit here in this dreary weather pondering when I might see the sun againI have a new found hope! Today I heard in the hallways that there is an exciting contest that is going to be announced next week that includes; .. more »

[IMG]For the past years, Ive worked closely with Yellow Pages (owned by AT&T Interactive) getting web site; however, theyve also been working on some mobile applications that use Bing Maps. You can see the applications from your mobile browser at . I was able to commandeer a from them that illustrates all of the offerings from the mobile side of th.. more »

I asked the FixIt team for this a while back and they have delivered.  Now if you ever run into the symptoms below the chances are good we can automatically fix it with just a few clicks of the mouse: You only receive this error message if you try to browse the Web site directly on the server. If you browse the Web site from a client computer, the W.. more »

Just a heads up but the folks at the MSRC just announced their Advance Notification for the November 2009 Security Bulletin Release: To help customers plan and prioritize for this month’s security updates, we wanted to let you know that we will be releasing 6 bulletins (three critical and three important) addressing 15 vulnerabilities, affecting Wi.. more »

As usual at these events, we have the best intention of writing blog posts every day, but the events agenda of workshops, keynotes and collaboration projects has kept us completely occupied from 9 18:30 every day. Thus its now Friday and its only our second post of the week. Better late than never, I always say In my last post, I mentioned that .. more »

After many hours of travel, Stuart and I, our innovative Teachers Ollie and Mandeep and our new Innovative Schools from Scotland arrived in beautiful Salvador, Brasil. We were particularly excited about this years Innovative Education Forum, as it combines the best teachers from around the world, sharing practice and collaborating together, with .. more »

My favourite part of the Microsoft Innovative Education Forum is meeting the teachers that have submitted Virtual Classroom Tours to share with their colleagues. Im lucky enough to have been asked to be a judge at this years Forum, which is a lot of work, but also means that I get to speak in-depth to most of the teachers about their truly .. more »

If you’ve got a Sixth Form, you’ll want to know… XMA and Toshiba have launched a competition, called “The next Bill Gates”. In a world of competitions and campaigns all the time, it’s a bit of a “does what it says on the tin” competition. It’s for students who’ll be applying for university next year, and students enter by re.. more »

Picture this: you’ve just listened to a captivating presentation on MOF 4.0, and you’re all fired up and ready to get started. This stuff sounds great, makes sense, and could really turn your organization around. You can see all sorts of benefits from...(read more).. more »

Centralizing and sharing business intelligence helps Microsoft lower costs, streamline business processes, share business information securely across the entire company, and establish closer relationships with business partners... more »

n10381469571_2067A Facebook page can help a local government build a stronger social connection to the citizens it represents. Sure, local governments in democratic countries are already social, as they do things like offer public hearings around controversial issues, or mail out surveys to residents. But how many people come to hearings, or bother .. more »

Retailers that are launching or beefing up their Facebook pages may not be able to easily track a monetary return on the time and energy spent on the pages, but many are starting to see benefits. Engaging in customers and building large fan followings is giving retailers like Kohls valuable insight into what their customers want, so sellers are .. more »

Facebook has been working on Jabber support for Facebook Chat for a while, but it appears the service may be closer to launching. IM server company Process One says their bot has just detected Facebook’s deployment of the XMPP stack on chat.facebook.com. Facebook has previously said the Jabber interface to Facebook Chat will allow users to: Chat wi.. more »

Five more readers report success with adding port 139 to the SMB file sharing logon (smb://share:139) as a workaround to problems with Snow Leopard accessing SMB servers. One reader said it didn't work. Tyler Gingrich reported: Snow Leopard "139" SMB server access tip port trick worked once but after I unmounted the drive, can't get it mounted .. more »

Reads have previously reported problems printing from Snow Leopard to Windows-connected printers, but Mausy's problem is the other way around: Have an iMac (early 2008) with an Epson DX7450 connected via USB. This printer is being shared across the network. Earlier this week this set-up worked fine. I could print from my Windows XP SP3 PC to the .. more »

“…BranchCache is a new capability available as a part of Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7.  BranchCache helps increase the network responsiveness of applications, giving users in remote offices an experience more like working in the head office. When accessing content stored on Windows Server 2008 R2, users in a branch office don't need to wa.. more »

Management is the holy grail for IT. A well managed network reduces overhead and give you time to do things that will help your company make more money, instead of wasting your time handling things in reactive mode. A far better way to approach things is to be proactive – and that’s what management is all about. That’s why it’s such great news to .. more »

Recently, I wrote about how you can make your life so much easier by using backing up using VMware virtualization-specific application. It is very robust with features like data-duplication and file level restore. VMware Data Recovery (or vDR as it is called) is included in vSphere Essentials Pl. more..... more »

Periodically we ask our readers to vote on the best virtualization products. The readers have spoken when it comes to the best hypervisor available today. 56% of our readers chose VMware ESX where only 30% voted for Microsoft Server 2008 Hyper-V. Read the full story at: VMware ESX - Voted VirtualizationAdmin.com Readers’ Choice Award Winner - Hy.. more »

As part of the Windows Azure CTP, we are announcing the Windows Azure Content Delivery Network (CDN) to deliver Windows Azure Blob content. Windows Azure CDN offers developers a global solution for delivering high-bandwidth content. Windows Azure CDN has 18 locations globally (United States, Europe, Asia, Australia and South America) and continues .. more »