Office Live Documents - Hotmail Founder Challenges Microsoft

posted by  mvrok (14)  12 months ago (feeds.feedburner.com)

Sabeer Bhatia sold Hotmail to Microsoft in 1997 for around $400 million. After selling Hotmail, Sabeer tried new ventures but none of them were very successful. Now Sabeer has decided to challenge... Continue this aticle on Bink.nu.. more »

Firefox Susceptible To QuickTime Security Flaw

posted by  mvrok (14)  12 months ago (rss.slashdot.org)

Hugh Pickens writes "Apple's QuickTime media player software contains a previously undocumented security weakness in the way QuickTime handles the RTSP media-streaming protocol. The vulnerability is present in QuickTime versions 4.0 through 7.3 (the latest version) on both Windows and Mac systems. Symantec has tested the publicly available exploit .. more »

Windows XP SP3, "10% performance boost"

posted by  mvrok (14)  12 months ago (feeds.feedburner.com)

Helmers Blog: After a disappointing showing by Windows Vista SP1 (see previous post), we were pleasantly surprised to discover that Windows XP Service Pack 3 (v.3244) delivers a measurable... Continue this aticle on Bink.nu.. more »

Microsoft Online Customer Story: 1-800-FLOWERS

posted by  mvrok (14)  12 months ago (feeds.feedburner.com)

Microsoft Online Customer Story: 1-800-FLOWERS .. more »

Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Shell (isolated mode) Redistributable Package

posted by  mvrok (14)  12 months ago (feeds.feedburner.com)

This redistributable package contains the runtime binaries needed to deploy your Visual Studio 2008 Shell (isolated mode) based application.   The Visual Studio Shell (isolated mode) provides a... Continue this aticle on Bink.nu.. more »

Virtual Machine Manager Scripting Guide

posted by  mvrok (14)  12 months ago (feeds.feedburner.com)

The Virtual Machine Manager Scripting Guide explains how to create Microsoft Windows PowerShell scripts that execute Virtual Machine Manger 2007 commands, and provides many useful sample scripts. .. more »

Microsoft Launches All-in-One PC Care for Home and Small Business Networks

posted by  mvrok (14)  12 months ago (feeds.feedburner.com)

 Today’s families increasingly have more than one PC at home, and with Microsoft internal data suggesting the average U.S. household now owns approximately 2.5 PCs, households and small... Continue this aticle on Bink.nu.. more »

Update for Windows Server 2003 for Itanium-based Systems (KB940349)

posted by  mvrok (14)  12 months ago (feeds.feedburner.com)

Install this update to improve the reliability, scalability, and memory optimization of the Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) in Windows Server 2003. .. more »

Belgian OWASP Day on September 6

posted by  mvrok (14)  15 months ago (blogs.msdn.com)

The Belgian-Luxembourg local chapter of OWASP (Open Web Application Security Project) is organizing a local OWASP Day in Brussels on September 6. The theme of the local OWASP Day is "Privacy in the 21st Century". One of the speakers will be Luc Beirens from the Belgian Federal

Tool to modify UAC behaviour in Vista using Group Policy - BeyondTrust Privilege Manager

posted by  mvrok (14)  15 months ago (uksbsguy.com)

Take A Tour Of Office Communicator 2007

posted by  mvrok (14)  15 months ago (feeds.feedburner.com)

Gary beat me to it (but he is in a different timezone:-) . An interactive flashdemo of Office Communicator 2007 ... Source: Take A Tour Of Office Communicator 2007Author: Gary Sweeting Date originally published: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 04:21:50.. more »

InfoWorld: E-mail's future, pumped look

posted by  mvrok (14)  15 months ago (feeds.feedburner.com)

InfoWorld has an interesting article on the evolution of email and how IBM may get a second chance in 'knocking-off' Microsoft in leading this market ... ... (InfoWorld) - With IBMs launch earlier this month of Lotus Notes 8.. more »

REMINDER: Xceed offers a FREE DataGrid for WPF

posted by  mvrok (14)  15 months ago (blogs.msdn.com)

Yes, you read that right!  Details here.

-Marc

Attensa RSS Reader

posted by  mvrok (14)  15 months ago (blogs.msdn.com)

If you are like me and want to read your RSS feeds in Outlook, but wanted a more powerful experience than the standard out of the box Outlook experience then Attensa is for you.

It is a free Outlook based feed reader.  It can integrate with your IE Feeds, keep posts as outlook items if you want them to be & does the "river

SQL 2005, SP2, Reporting Services and SharePoint 2007

posted by  mvrok (14)  15 months ago (blogs.technet.com)

We've now got a really good story around the integration between SharePoint and Reporting Services and Liam has done a great job of documenting how to configure it. Definitely worth setting up and showing customers how easy it is to publish Reporting...(..... more »

ISA 2006 versus IAG - Which one to use?

posted by  mvrok (14)  15 months ago (blogs.technet.com)

If you read the only two places where 

The facts - Vista is more Secure

posted by  mvrok (14)  15 months ago (blogs.technet.com)

I always like stuff like this when I can show people who are skeptical that Microsoft's OSes are less secure than Linux, etc.  The 6-month security analysis guide compares us against a number of other people in terms of vulnerabilities and fixes.  Check out the blog which has the full report here:

Business Contact Manager 2007 (BCM) is NOT supported on Windows Terminal Server, but a little hack will make it work

posted by  mvrok (14)  15 months ago (uksbsguy.com)

[updated on  28th July]

Hi,

I've pinged this around a bit internally and the answer I got back is that this is not supported and will not work.  I have not tried it myself, but don't expect it to work.  If you need this sort of functionality you need to look at MS-CRM I am

Migration in phases using VSS Converter

posted by  mvrok (14)  15 months ago (blogs.msdn.com)

We have added a interesting feature post Beta3 to VSS Converter.

This topic describes how to do an incremental migration if you want to migrate your Visual SourceSafe database in phases or if your migration was interrupted and you want to resume migration from where it stopped. Migrating a Visual SourceSafe database in phases ensures

Silverlight Security Cheat Sheet

posted by  mvrok (14)  15 months ago (blogs.msdn.com)

Over the last week we took a look at the new Silverlight security model.  When you're writing a Silverlight application though, there's a lot of information there that you may not want to wade through to get yourself unblocked.  Here's a quick cheat sheet highlighting the important points that

Microsoft Surface Coming To AT&T Stores

posted by  mvrok (14)  8 months ago (feeds.feedburner.com)

Microsoft’s Surface computer will make its commercial debut April 17 in AT&T stores in New York City, Atlanta, San Antonio and San Francisco. Microsoft first unveiled the Surface back in May 2007; the coffee-table like computer allows touch screen interaction with various surfaces, can recognize objects places on it and even interact .. more »

Standards group accepts format for Office 2007

posted by  mvrok (14)  8 months ago (seattletimes.nwsource.com)

The format that Microsoft's Office 2007 programs use to save documents was approved as an international standard Tuesday, a step the company..... more »

Continuous Backup for Exchange Server with DPM 2007 (Part 3)

posted by  mvrok (14)  8 months ago (www.msexchange.org)

Advanced configuration of the DPM 2007 server and delving into the Exchange backup process... more »

Northwood Children's Services CS

posted by  mvrok (14)  8 months ago (feeds.feedburner.com)

For Northwood, cost was a huge factor in its decision to hire Microsoft Gold Certified Partner Compudyne to deploy Windows Server® 2008 Standard Edition on three HP computers. The nonprofit needed a reliable solution to provide a platform for publishing applications. “We chose this edition because we didn’t currently see a need for the .. more »

Connected Services Framework 3.0 SP1 Standard Edition

posted by  mvrok (14)  8 months ago (feeds.feedburner.com)

Microsoft Connected Services Framework 3.0 SP1 Standard Edition .. more »

Windows Search 4.0 Preview for Windows Vista x64 Edition (KB940157)

posted by  mvrok (14)  8 months ago (feeds.feedburner.com)

Windows Search 4.0 is an updated component of Windows that enables instant search on your computer. .. more »

Windows Forensic Analysis

posted by  mvrok (14)  8 months ago (rss.slashdot.org)

Don Wolf writes "Computer forensics is a rapidly growing discipline and an even faster growing business. Whether it's the natural progression of technological science pertaining to crime or perhaps the digression of a few elite information security professionals, computer forensics is every so slowly gaining credibility in the otherwise PhD .. more »

Updated Exchange Public Folder Guidance

posted by  mvrok (14)  8 months ago (msexchangeteam.com)

Updated Exchange Public Folder Guidance.. more »

Microsoft broadband device shuts down during FCC test

posted by  mvrok (14)  8 months ago (seattletimes.nwsource.com)

A Microsoft device that federal regulators are testing to see if it will safely transmit high-speed Internet service over unused television..... more »

Microsoft Brand In Sharp Decline

posted by  mvrok (14)  8 months ago (rss.slashdot.org)

Amy Bennett writes "A recent poll of about 12,000 US business decision-makers by market researcher CoreBrand found that Microsoft's brand power has taken a dive over the past four years. According to the study, Microsoft dropped from number 12 in the ranking of the most powerful US company brands in 2004 to number 59 last year. In 1996, the company .. more »