After a bunch of beers on Thanksgiving Day, and 20% Bing Cashback, I ordered a Zino HD from Dell. Well, I am already a Dell guy so it was not like I drunk-dialed. Anyway, after a month of waiting it finally arrived this week! The cost after Bing was $199. So, what do you get for $200 from the Dell Zino HD? When you buy the Inspiron Zino HD you get .. more »

The article briefly details the high availability solutions in exchange for e.g CCR,SCR and LCR. After that it shows step by step on how to create a Database Availability Group(DAG). This article nicely shows the difference among the evolving high availability solutions of Microsoft Exchange... more »

VMware has officially released VMware View 4.0. VMware View is VMware's desktop virtualization product line. View 4.0 includes the following new features: Software version of PC-over-IP (licensed from Teradici) vShpere 4 support Enhanced Single Image composition (View Composer) Restricted Entitlements User Principal Name (UPN) support Mixed Active .. more »

A few weeks ago I reported about the Sky Player in Windows Media Center being announced at the Windows 7 press launch. Well today, Sky Player is finally live and running. If you launch Windows Media Center you will see it under TV. Media Center - Sky Player If you click on it you will be prompted to install it. It only takes a moment or two to .. more »

Recently I installed a new free anti virus from Microsoft called Microsoft Security Essential (MSE). MSE will only able to be installed if the OS is a genuine one (although I had seen MSE capable of been installed on a cracked pirated … View post: Experimenting with Microsoft Security Essential.. more »

We are happy to announce the availability of the Management Pack (MP) for the Forefront Threat Management Gateway (TMG) 2010 Release Candidate. As a response to your feedback, we enhanced the management pack, to increase the coverage and usability of the feature pack. While the previous release monitored and managed some of Forefront TMGs features, .. more »

Waterfield Zune HD suede jacket a couple of weeks back, I also emailed the people at Waterfield and requested they send me both versions to check out. I didn't particularly like any of the first three cases that I looked at - I tend to prefer cases that add little to no bulk to the device, but also completely protect it. The Waterfield cases are .. more »

Scott McKay's university runs Windows XP in Boot Camp 2.1 and has some problems with Active Directory and time syncing. He writes: On our campus, we have a problem with Mac logins on Boot Camp dual-boot Macs running Windows XP in one partition and OS X 10.5.8 (Leopard) in another and authenticating to an Active Directory server from either. On the .. more »

(Editor's note: This post from Charles Timko continues an ongoing series of posts from college students offering advice on how to use Office Live Workspace and other Microsoft software and services for their classroom work.) Ever since finding out about it, I have used it from class projects to personal papers and research. I always thought it was .. more »

I’m going to be at DevConnections this year to deliver a session on Microsoft Ajax with Jim Wang and also chair a panel with Scott Guthrie and members of the ASP.NET Team.  First of all here are details on the invitation: Join us for a technical Read More......(read more).. more »

For those of you who program mostly in code behind, like I do, I have a gotcha for a nested repeater addhandler. The nested repeater is defined in the code in front: < asp : Repeater ID ="repTestKeyControl" runat ="server"> Your nested repeater contains a button that needs to fire a click event, so you add a "CommandName." < asp : Button ID .. more »

Hey everyone, recently I had the pleasure of sitting with Mark Aggar, who is an Environmental Technologist here at Microsoft.  We had a great chat about Environmental IT, and how Microsoft is delivering solutions to you that are based in sustainable engineering.  Mark shared with us how his team is working with different Microsoft product groups to.. more »

Preview in Browser. Depending on which browser you are using and your security settings, you may need to allow the browser to run the Silverlight content. The Silverlight content will appear in the top half of your page as an animated slide show as well as an interactive navigation bar. For more information on how to add Silverlight content to your .. more »

Security start-up Dasient says more than 640,000 Web sites out of about 5.8 million pages were infected with malware between July and September of this year... more »

A lot went on last week surrounding System Center Operations Manager 2007 so in case you might have missed one or two I have a quick recap below: The System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 Authoring Resource Kit was released: .. more »

We had one new Knowledge Base article published last week, this one documenting the hotfixes and updates that are contained in Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Service Pack 2 (SP2): KB971348 - List of hotfixes and updates that are contained in System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Service Pack 2 Enjoy! J.C. Hornbeck | .. more »

Two readers confirmed the workaround of using smb://share:139 to log into an SMB server from Snow Leopard, to get around file sharing problems: Jordon Cheung said "Just wanted to say a quick thanks for writing up the below tip. It worked like a charm!" Serge Rose agreed, "I tried workaround and it works great."Parallels Desktop 4.0 for Mac Now .. more »

With all the latest Windows Home Server news and views this weeks episode is also on Windows 7. Catch show #61 here. .. more »

If you have just upgraded to Windows 7, you might notice that you no longer see any adapters listed in your Select Networks selection. There is a very simple way to fix this problem. First run CMD as administrator. If you have not done this before, you can use the search option in the start menu to find CMD. Then right click it and select "Run as .. more »

I don’t know if you got the memo yet –- but I have some bad news for you. The Firewall client is gone. Poof. No more Firewall client. Now what? What are we going to do without the Firewall client? Well, you actually won’t have to do without the Firewall client – in fact, the Firewall client didn’t go anywhere at all. The only thing is that the F.. more »