Kolby Hoover Welcome to SharePoint Designer 2010! As Todd Haugen mentioned in his latest blog, weve got a number of wonderful features this release and were really excited to get them into your hands. This is a follow-up blog to dive into the new shell, or user interface, of SPD 2010. I think this is one of the greatest enhancements for the 2010 .. more »

Have you ever wanted to make edits to a project plan far away from your desktop installation of Project? Perhaps you were in a meeting and pulled up Project Web Access to show project status but hoped to capture updates directly in PWA as the meeting progressed. Maybe you have multiple stakeholders on a plan who want the ability to add tasks even .. more »

Fresh on the heels of the beta 2 release of .NET 4/Visual Studio 2010 , the team has been working on supplemental documentation to help you out with evaluation and adoption of WCF and WF in .NET 4. Last week, two sets of documentation went live: : The WF team updated the documents to .NET Beta 2. We posted the documents up to the Downloads site mid .. more »

Shortly after I published my Regardless of what any hack says, a Windows 7 Upgrade is an Upgrade. What you need to know blog post, there was one particular statement that several people seemed to focus on. The statement in that blog post I am referring to is, “Over the past several days there have been various posts, etc. across a variety of so.. more »

Two years ago, Microsoft employee Bill Hilf founded High Five Hope, an organization that uses basketball to help children in the Philippines build their confidence in hopes of giving them a path out of poverty... more »

The Hallways here are all a flutter as we celebrate with our MSN teammates. With a new, streamlined and less cluttered appearance you will be able to navigate more quickly to the information and services you use on a daily basis like online videos, local information, news, entertainment, sports, money, lifestyle and of course your familiar Bing .. more »

In the words of Lord Cutler Beckett, it's just good business. Or, as Capcom's Seth Killian explained on the Capcom-Unity forums, releasing a downloadable version of Capcom vs. SNK 2 could be bad business. In a lengthy response to a call for the game on PSN, Killian gave several reasons for not re-releasing Capcom vs. SNK 2; all of them centered .. more »

This upcoming week, PASS (Professional Association for SQL Server) will be holding its annual summit in Seattle, WA. The summit runs from November 2nd through the 5th and, as described on the website, provides: In-depth technical sessions all focused on SQL Server Unparalleled access to the industry’s top SQL Server experts and the Mi.. more »

Situated in the North East of London as well as Dubai, Middlesex University provides outstanding service to its 33,000 students. It recently adopted to help enhance the student experience as well as contain costs by providing seamless services across staff and students. has transformed the relationship between our staff and our students.its .. more »

Improving the Wireless Network Infrastructure at Microsoft Attend this webcast to learn how Microsoft IT deployed the latest in wireless technology in its efforts to improve employee productivity and enhanced security. The deployment and testing were also in line with the Microsoft goal to move toward completely wireless office buildings. more..... more »

MVP Kevin Smith runs an open source project for automated testing of Microsoft BizTalk solutions. He developed BizUnit to help drive up the quality of BizTalk solutions. Since March 2007, he has received over 5,792 downloads across all build releases. The BizUnit tool is used by many BizTalk architects to performance test their BizTalk Server .. more »

Jason Kuo reports that Entourage Web Services Edition (WSE) can't see private events: We've got an issue with private events not being viewable with Entourage Web Services Edition (13.0). We have Exchange 2007, and all clients running Entourage 13 and 10.5.8. With Entourage 12.2.1, people are able to see that another user has a private event, .. more »

Show 62 of The Home Server Show podcast with some great chat on Windows Home Server as well as Windows 7. Get it here. .. more »

CDMA Touch Pro2 has been SIM and ROM unlocked.. more »

The server-packages of October 2009 Cumulative Update for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 are ready for download. October 2009 Cumulative Updates introduce more rules on Pre-Upgrade Checker, which can help customers to prepare the upgrade of their SharePoint farm to SharePoint 2010. Windows SharePoint .. more »

“As you know, if you use Visual Studio, you can already develop in Azure. That's great news as you can apply encryption to your cloud app. Join Katheryn Baker as she explains the basics behind encryption algorithms and practices used to create cryptographic schemes. more..... more »

Tony Hey, in charge of external research for Microsoft, is interested in the impact of digital data across all fields – not just science, but the humanities as well... more »

Dan Reed, Microsoft corporate vice president of the eXtreme Computing Group, discusses the potential offered by parallel programming and cloud infrastructures... more »

If youve turned on the TV, opened a newspaper or magazine, youve likely heard about the new operating system, WIndows 7 that just released today. I woke up this morning to find Steve Ballmer on TV delivering live demonstrations of Windows 7 for Matt Lauer on the Today Show. As I made my way to the airport, there were radio ads playing and email ads .. more »

I have looked at everyones comments from part 1 and have to say I agree with them, so I want to clarify what it is I am trying to convey. Hyper-v isnt going to be for everyone, I except that, and I also except that hyper-v is not going to be for the average user that only uses WHS for just backing up, maybe a laptop and desktop, then maybe .. more »