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How to import M4P to Windows Movie Maker

Many people are fond of making slideshows on their Windows Movie Maker, however, it won’t let them import any purchased music song as they are DRM protected. Since iTunes store tops the music retailer in the world, the following tutorial focuses on how to convert purchased iTunes M4P music to MP3, WAV or unprotected WMA

Hide a Drive in Vista

There are several reasons you may want to hide a drive in vista... for example if you have a nosy little brother who you need to keep away from your important files. When I say hide a drive what I mean is that you won't be able to see it when you go to My Computer but that you will still be able to access it if you type in the drives location and

Install KDE on the EEE (replaces default desktop)

Before doing this, remove any repositories you may have added. You ONLY want to use the packages from the Asus update repositories. To do this: ctrl-alt-T, sudo kwrite /etc/apt/source.list. Put '#' (no quotes) in front of any repositories other than the Asus ones. Save and close. Then, sudo apt-get update.Enabling to full desktop mode (KDE) This

Enabling the Startmenu on the EEE (default OS)

This will show you how to enable to startmenu on the linux OS that ships on your EEE pc.Remove the quotes when typing in the commandsOpen a terminal window by pressing CTRL+ALT+T on your keyboard.Inside the terminal window type "mkdir ~/.icewm" and press enter.Inside the terminal window type "copy /etc/X11/icewm/preferences /home/user/.icewm" and

The Exchange Exchange August 2008 Contest!

Last month we changed the site look and changed out the old logo for something a little cooler. To follow up those mediocre amazing events, this month we are be having a participation contest!

The two award categories are:

Most valuable member award - who answered the most questions?

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How to convert protected WMA to MP3 for iPod

"The majority of my albums are in my Windows Media Player and I would like to transfer those albums to my iPod. Now I don't know how to. All I know is that WMA is not compatible with Apple iPod. So how do I rescue my songs? I tried to use limewire to download free music but it is a mess."If you meet the same problem, you got the right place! The

How to play iTunes protected AAC (M4P) music on PS3?

"Can I play iTunes (that I have stored on my computer) on my PS3? I know I can't just hook up my iPod to it or stream from my PC. I read something about transferring music to USB and then put that flash drive in the PS3, will this work? I want to play my iTunes on my home theater but I have no other way than to play it through my PS3. I have a

Microsoft Office for Mac releases 12.1.4 Update - Fixes Entourage calendar issue

Our friends over at Mactopia.com announced the release of the 12.1.4 update. According to their site, this fixes an issue from the 12.1.3 and scheduling meetings when an Entourage identity is configured with more than one mail account. Check it out here: http://www.microsoft.com/mac/downloads.mspx - Joey Masterson Share this post :

App-V Best Practices Analyzer Now Available!

A sensible question to ask is how you know whether your Streaming Server has settings that result in sub-optimal server performance. Enter the Microsoft Application Virtualization Best Practices Analyzer tool. The App-V BPA is a tool used to scan an App-V...(read more)

App-V tools and whitepapers

Looks like over on the MDOP blog Karri Alexion-Tiernan posted some tidbits about the latest App-V related tools and whitepapers. The quick list is below but you can read her entire post here . ======== · App-V Home Page Update –...(read more)

Howto: Import Organizational Root CA certificates into Internet Explorer to get rid of Security Alert pop-ups

Yesterday I wrote about how to create eDirectory SSL certificates with alternate names to use across round robin DNS load balanced web servers. Today I’ll discuss how to import the Organizational Root CA certificates into Internet Explorer to get rid of the Security Alert pop-ups. To begin with, only a few Trusted Root Certification Authority

Exchange 2007 Install and Configuration from the command line (Part 1)

Installing Exchange 2007 from the command line.

ISA Server wins Readers' Choice award

Microsoft ISA Server was recently selected the winner in the Firewall Software category of the WindowSecurity.com Readers’ Choice Awards. Read about it here! Nathan Bigman Content Publishing Manager Forefront Threat Management Gateway

USCIS Benefits Information System and FOIA

Finally, the much talked Benefits Information System, which gives USCIS a handle of their legacy systems by consolidating them into one single system is going to go live on 10/29/08. Read this publication in Federal Register. AOS/I-485 applications are in the legacy CLAIMS database and Finally, It is possible (cautiously optimistic) that USCIS can

Uncovering the Exchange 2007 Edge Transport Server (Part 3)

In this part of the series uncovering the Edge Transport server role, we will create an Edge Subscription and verify it works as expected.

App-V: Application packages disappear when installing Standalone MSI packages to a 4.5 App-V Client

Here's an interesting issue our very own John Behneman ran into the other day. If you're currently investigating a case of missing icons then check this out. ======== Issue: When distributing App-V 4.5 standalone packages to a 4.5 Application...(read more)

Restoring Multiple Stores into an Exchange 2007 RSG

Recently we have learned that some of our customers that use Recovery Storage Group and add multiple databases to it, ran into the following issue: Recovery configured through Database Recovery Management in Exchange Management Console has and issue with picking the Database name if you have multiple databases in storage group (for example

Accessing and Using Shared Email Addresses (Part 1)

A look at two ways to set up access to shared email addresses in Exchange 2007.

New Articles on Tales from the Edge

Security Considerations with Forefront Edge Virtual Deployments As it's title suggests, this article deals with the security issues related to virtualized edge deployments. Hopefully, this will provide an alternative solution for those who are also interested in the next subject: ISA Server Branch Office Policies Best Practices: ISA Server

Off Topic: Building NBCOlympics.com with Silverlight

OK, I know this has nothing to do with SoftGrid or App-V but with the Olympics starting tomorrow I thought some of you might be interested in this. I love watching the Olympics and the fact that NBC's site is running some really cool Microsoft tech is icing on the cake. ======== NBCOlympics.com is one of the most ambitious projects on the

ISA Server 2006 SP1 - Test Button Issues

One of the features released in ISA Server SP1 is the Test Button feature. Its major purpose is to test the compatibility between an ISA Web publishing rule and the published Web server. Test Button works well in common deployment scenarios; however, in some fairly uncommon cases it might report inconsistent results, when it reports success to an

64-bit RPC traffic fails across ISA Sever 2006

1. Introduction This post describes an issue where two 64-bit Windows hosts are failing to communicate to each other using RPC . The hosts each operate in a network physically separated from each other by ISA Server 2006. Figure 1 illustrates the basic scenario. Figure 1 – Sample network diagram. All other traffic allowed between

Updated Hyper-V Planning and Deployment Guide version 1.1 is now available for download

The Hyper-V Planning and Deployment Guide version 1.1 is now available for download. Topic covered include: Hardware Requirements Supported guest operating systems Installing Hyper-V Configuring Hyper-V for Remote Administration Configuring Virutal Networks

Managing Unified Messaging Auto Attendant (Part 3)

We will go through the scenario of creating an Auto Attendant infrastructure.

Microsoft Virtualization and Licensing Announcements

Today Microsoft announced some significant changes to its licensing and support policies for applications in hardware virtualization environments. There are two key parts of the announcement worth highlighting for Exchange customers: Microsoft now supports Exchange Server 2007 SP1 running Hyper-V or hypervisors validated under the Microsoft

Windows 2008 read only domain controllers and Exchange

I was reading some interesting threads recently on the use of Windows Server 2008 read-only domain controllers. Basically, Exchange does NOT make use of these even as global catalog servers (I hope that the Exchange team will address this for E2K7). So, every physical site that you have Exchange Server 2007, you should have read/write domain

PST Upgrade Tool

SysTools Software PST Conversion tool converts Ansi PST to Unicode PST and Vice versa. Software efficiently performs conversion of Ansi PST (Outlook 2000/2002/XP) to Unicode PST (Outlook 2003/2007). Conversion of Unicode PST (Outlook 2003/2007) to Ansi PST (Outlook 2000/2002)

Managing Unified Messaging Auto Attendant (Part 2)

In this article we will go over some UM Auto Attendant settings.

Where does the time go? -519 Jet_errLogSequenceEnd - Part II

In Part I of this blog post I covered the specifics of the -519 Jet_errLogSequenceEnd issue and the resolution. We had a great follow up question from our readers about the when and how often Exchange issues the ESE 514 warning events? We'll answer those questions in detail here in Part II. How much time do I have? The key information you should

HTC TyTN II 2, HTC Kaiser or HTC P4550? Three Identities of a PDA Phone

By Susan Hargreaves When it comes to naming new models it is a small minefield trying to keep up with HTC, with rumours abound of a new PDA release the forums come alive with speculation on the new models name and every scrap of evidence is present for the general public to make their assumptions.The new HTC TyTN II (2) is also known as the HTC