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We kicked off the 2008 events at our Software Answers facility in Akron, this March 25, 2008. This time we discussed Virtualization and the benefits the different products can provide to your business. We would like to Thank everyone for coming out, we...
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I rarely have time to post anything nowadays, but this is important. Office 2007 Service Pack 1 (client and server) has been released. One announcement is available here: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/abouttn/flash/landingpages/editorial_121207.mspx...
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We held another event at the Microsoft building this past Friday, Dec. 7th, 2007. This time we introduced Microsoft's Exchange Server 2007 and showed new features and benefits the product would bring to your business. We had a great turn out and would...
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I did not catch this until now for some reason, but there is now the ability to perform online hotfix requests , instead of calling Microsoft PSS. This is a very, very good thing!...
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Yesterday we held another event at Microsoft's Independence, OH (Cleveland) office. The event's focus was how the different Microsoft products work together to help with collaboration in a corporate/enterprise environment. The slide deck is small...
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Go get Windows Server 2003 SP2 and start doing your test deployments! The best search is to look for " Service Pack " and sort by date at the MS Downloads site. The downloads include a blocking tool for preventing an AU installation. I'm...
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It's been about a month and a half since our very successfully, highly attended SharePoint event at Microsoft in Independence. I never had the chance to post the presentation until now, but it is now in the Downloads area . It's available in both...
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A topic that comes up very often in the CE courses is "what is the difference between Windows CE and Windows Mobile"? There is actually a set of slides in the 2540N course (the CE 5.0 course) about this very topic, in fact. There seems to be...
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This week, I'm in Redmond Building 31, taking the Train-The-Trainer for the new Windows Embedded Training: Windows Embedded CE 6.0 course. The material is quite good overall, although there are some issues/additions/corrections which are expected...
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Just a reminder that I am giving a SharePoint presentation at Microsoft this coming Tuesday, Jan. 9. The invitation information is below. Come on by and learn about the new version of the SharePoint platform ! Featured Products/Topics: Microsoft Office...
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Visual Studio 2005 SP1 has been released. This is a requirement for running Windows Embedded CE 6.0 Live .NET (the last two words are not really in the name, at the moment) Platform Builder, and has been eagerly awaited by pretty much everybody running...
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Thank you for attending last week’s Vista presentation! Several questions came up during the presentation that required additional research, and we’d like to follow up with that additional information for everyone who attended. We have set...
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In a strange turn, the day-long Cleveland, OH launch event for Vista/Office/Exchange launch events are being held at the Renaissance Cleveland Hotel, not at the IX Center. The day of events (five choices total, three in half of the day and two in the...
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I have a customer who recently replaced a braindead port-filtering NAT "firewall" with a real firewall, namely an HP ProLiant DL320 ISA Server 2004 Appliance (purchased from Business Smarts ). Because ISA Server 2004 is an intelligent firewall...
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When I was working the TechEd Hands-On-Labs this summer, PowerShell (a. k. a. codename "Monad") was a very popular lab. Many administrators wanted to work with the product and have an early hands-on with it. Well, version 1.0 for XP/2003 (x86/x64/IA64)...
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In my post covering what's happened since I posted in the spring, I neglected to mention something else very important that was not a Microsoft event - the release of Firefox 2.0 . Competition is good, as long as it's done well. It forces improvements...
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One topic that has come up occasionally during the tail portion of the Vista beta was around the sounds associated with the beta. For example, there is a "startup" sound, which initially the user would not be able to turn off , although the...
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It has been almost seven months since I've had time to sit down and write a blog post. All kinds of things have happened in that time. Vista and Office have RTM'd, which is great - I am very excited about Office 2007, more than I was about Office...
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Attached is the second of two zip files for the code used in the demos. This file has the Visual Studio 2005 code. This code comes with no warranty, expressed or implied, and may be freely used and shared....
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Attached is the first of two zip files for the code used in the demos. This file has the SQL Server 2005 code. This code comes with no warranty, expressed or implied, and may be freely used and shared....
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The event presentation handout has been attached as an Acrobat (PDF) document. Source code will be posted in separate posts. This presentation is (C) 2006, Software Answers, Inc., all rights reserved. You are allowed to distribute as you wish in complete,...
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Microsoft has already - yes, already, as in 6 1/2 months after initial release - released SQL Server 2005 SP1! The main page for SP1 is part of the SQL Server site but doesn't give a lot of detail. The press release on SP1 is vaguely helpful, including...
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Microsoft has released their Beta 2 build 1347 of Giant AntiSpyware/Microsoft AntiSpyware/Windows Defender. Besides inching towards release (Beta 1 was out for approximately forever), the addition of x64 support is nice for folks like myself, running...
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I think the first major Windows Mobile Messaging and Security Feature Pack (AKU2) device is going to be out shortly via an update to the Treo 700W. I have been told about other devices, e. g. Asus, but I think this is the first "real" device to see it,...
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Earlier in the life of this blog, I had a posting about how Virtual Server 2005 R2 had RTM'd, and it was very inexpensive . After that, the entry-level VMWare Server product became free . (Actually, their next version, currently in beta, is/will be free.)...
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