http://www.digwin.com/user/jembury/submitted/top digWin: Community news sharing for Microsoft Techies. en http://www.digwin.com/windows-update-fails-with-error-code-80240016-0 Hi I have an issue on a laptop running Windows Vista in that windows updates is reporting that it can't get updates. All I get is an error code of 80240016 when it tries and fails to install Office 2007 SP1 from the update ... http://www.digwin.com/vista-error-updating-kb942763-code-80070643 All of the praise that I had for the new Update engine in Vista, and this happens. I am having trouble updating to the December 2007 DST update. I've read almost every kind of article on that error code and it all ... http://www.digwin.com/cannot-connect-to-xbox-live-0 Xbox 360: The test Xbox LIVE connection fails at DNS - You cannot connect to Xbox LIVE . During the network test that is performed on the screen in the Xbox Dashboard, the Domain Name Service (DNS) Address . ... http://www.digwin.com/microsoft-is-killing-xp-so-what Microsoft is planning to end all retail and PC OEM sales of XP on June 30 this year. This move by Microsoft is not being welcomed by many Windows PC users. In a survey conducted by PC World Magazine, it came out that two-thirds of the ... http://www.digwin.com/re-kb943899-vista-not-booting After running the Vista Business OS install I and failing the notebook after installing KB943899 I was able to safe boot and uninstalled the KB943899 update. After which I set the KB943899 update to be hidden. All was working ... http://www.digwin.com/re-windows-update-error-for-vista-code-80040154-0 I get the same exact error code when i try to update Vista Ultimate Error Code 80040154. also getting an error code with Windows Defender Error Code 0x80244030 and Norton Anti Virus Error Code 1812 None of these 3 applications will ... http://www.digwin.com/microsoft-to-sidestep-vista-pitfalls-with-windows-7 Microsoft executives officially maintain that Windows Vista is selling well and that they're happy with the operating system. Behind closed doors, however, Microsoft is working hard to make sure Windows 7 doesn't run into the same ... http://www.digwin.com/microsoft-exec-predicts-big-growth-for-windows-mobile A Microsoft executive in Asia says the company is expecting over 50 percent growth from its Windows Mobile operating system over the next couple of years but the company faces stiff competition from rivals. Source: CNET News. http://www.digwin.com/new-features-of-visual-studio-2008-and-microsoft-net-framework-35 Part 6: Retrieving Data Using Stored Procedures Part 7: Updating our Database using Stored Procedures Part 8: Executing Custom SQL Expressions Part 9 LINQ to SQL (Part 9 - Using a Custom LINQ Expression with the ... http://www.digwin.com/google-says-microsofts-yahoo-buy-might-hurt-internet-3 BEIJING (Reuters) - Google Inc, the world’s leading search engine, said on Monday it was concerned about the free flow of information on the Internet if Microsoft Corp were to succeed in acquiring Yahoo Inc. ... http://www.digwin.com/microsoft-silverlight-for-nokia-n810 So, after the good news about the first price cut for N810, Microsoft has decided to give us another present by making pulic the next release of its Microsoft Silverlight. Reading from the press release: ” Nokia’s software strategy is ... http://www.digwin.com/microsoft-said-to-be-ditching-20gb-xbox-360-for-60gb-model-0 That word apparently comes from a “rock solid source,” who says that Microsoft wants to get it out the door by the end of its financial year, which comes at the end of June. TrustedReviews also goes into a bit of speculation, ... http://www.digwin.com/web-services-and-cloud-computing Now Amazon Elastic Compute, Google Apps, Microsoft Mesh are to name from the big players in this area. All these are the phases of widening of our technical advancements and it is going to be a joyful trip as we leap forward. http://www.digwin.com/compound-assignment-operators-in-sql-server-2008-1 Compound Assignment Operators in SQL Server 2008: “We have seen and used compound assignment operators in procedural languages like C and C# etc. Now this Compound Assignment Operator feature and enhancement is introduced in SQL ... http://www.digwin.com/microsoft-demos-windows-7 The world's largest software giant Microsoft is coming with new OS Windows 7 the successor of Windows Vista that doesn't impress many. It includes multi-touch features as an alternative to mouse and enhancing the user interaction. ... http://www.digwin.com/office-communications-server-2007-backup-part-2-0 OCS Server Standard Edition in Consolidated Topology (all OCS MCU's on one box) example name: contoso1; OCS Edge Server Consolidated Topology (all Edge components on one box) example name: contoso2; OCS Mediation Server (Mediation ... http://www.digwin.com/finally-a-way-to-install-wss-3-onto-vista-woohoo You have to manually enable IIS7 with the proper options (explained). Your workstation has to be part of a domain. Here’s how you install it. First download the installation helper and the correct version of WSS with SP1. ... http://www.digwin.com/communications-tab-missing-in-aduc-on-ocs-2007 If you've installed Office Communication Server 2007 on a machine running Windows Server 2003 x64, you will probably not see the Communications tab in Active Directory Users http://www.digwin.com/ocs-server-office-comminicator Installation Path: C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007\; Main service account name: RTCService; Conferencing service account name: RTCComponentService; Internal web farm FQDN: NHQOSC001.smtp25.org ... http://www.digwin.com/how-to-generate-a-csr-for-exchange-2007 So that we could securely use OWA Outlook Web Access with Forms Based Authentication on our Exchange 2007 server we Purchased a SSL certificate from Go Daddy. To Generate the required CSR i found this really handy tool on ... http://www.digwin.com/owa-redirection-to-https-problem I want to simplify the way my users log on to OWA by doing two things, remove the need to type in the /owa and redirect automatically to https. I have... http://www.digwin.com/windows-next-version-releasing-next-year The new windows OS is codenamed as windows 7.He is in target of getting latest updates within his OS, where a lot of feautures can be enabledand is more friendly to use.Gates said that a successor to the Vista is the need of the hour. ... http://www.digwin.com/a-shortage-of-skilled-american-workers-at-microsoft In some ways, Microsoft’s problem is an American problem: there are not enough skilled local workers, or perhaps even American workers available to do the jobs that many Indian, Asian and other foreign workers are well-trained and ... http://www.digwin.com/windows-7-modularity Exploring Modularity With Windows 7 March 23, 2008, Windows 7 may harken back to the days of Windows 95, when you could choose what applications you wanted to install with Windows. But with a twist, as charging users different amounts ... http://www.digwin.com/adding-disk-to-cluster-on-windows-2008 The Cluster Guys have a nice post about a few ways to add a disk to a windows 2008 cluster. I would like to see a similar post for windows 2003 clusters. They don’t seem to allow comments so I’m creating my own post and sending them a ... http://www.digwin.com/microsoft-response-point-blog After a ton of interest via the Microsoft Worldwide Partner conference, I have decided to keep a running blog for Microsoft Response Point to answer questions about features, troubleshooting, information about VoIP, SIP/TLS, and more! ... http://www.digwin.com/google-goes-after-another-microsoft-cash-cow-0 Google broadens its assault on Microsoft's business software franchise with a program that allows groups of workers to jointly create Web documents. http://www.digwin.com/google-aps-vs-microsoft-office-infrastructure Each of these articles tries to draw comparisons to Microsoft SharePoint and puts Google Sites forward as a valid contender. Complete Twoddle! I think this is total nonsense… Google Sites isn’t even in the same ball-park as SharePoint ... http://www.digwin.com/thanks-microsoft-just-another-reason-google-rocks But wait, right after I said microsoft never does things like that to us, they turn around and cut the cost of Vista Home Premium and Vista Ultimate by up to 48%!!!!!!!!! Thanks to those good ol boys up in redmond for totally screwing ... http://www.digwin.com/vmware-sets-capacity-record-running-microsoft-exchange-on-ibm- datacenter, has set a record in system capacity and resource utilization for running Microsoft Exchange. VMware deployed Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 on VMware Infrastructure 3 (VI3) and successfully supported 16000 heavy-user*