This download will install and register IFilters with the Windows Indexing Service. These IFilters are used by Microsoft Search products to index the contents of specific document formats. This Filter Pack includes IFilters for the following formats: .docx, .docm, .pptx, .pptm, .xlsx, .xlsm, .xlsb, .zip, .one, .vdx, .vsd, .vss, .vst, .vdx, .vsx, and .vtx.
Because Windows Desktop Search (WDS) consumes IFilters from Windows Indexing Service, the IFilters will be automatically registered and available for use by WDS.
To register these IFilters with a specific Search product, please see the associated KB article below: Office SharePoint Server 2007 - Office SharePoint Server 2007 registration steps Search Server 2008 - Search Server 2008 registration steps SharePoint Portal Server 2003 -
The Visual Basic Language Specification provides a complete description of the Visual Basic language 9.0. Download : www.microsoft.com/downloads
Updated Windows PowerShell Help topics are now live in the TechNet library at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb978526.aspx. We'll be updating weekly, so keep it bookmarked and check back frequently. If you misplace this easy-to-recall URL, you can find us anyway: Go to TechNet (http://technet.microsoft.com). Click the Library tab. In the TOC, click Windows PowerShell. Source : blogs.msdn.com/powershell
One of the new feature areas for PowerShell V2 CTP is support for rich output. The out-gridview cmdlet allows you to send the output of any PowerShell command into a fully interactive grid window. Really cool ! Source : blogs.msdn.com/powershell
There's a new blog on msdn about SharePoint : Microsoft SharePoint Developer Documentation Team Blog
Official Blog of the SharePoint Developer Documentation Team Well in fact it's not so new, it was created last November, but I guess I was sleeping that day.
Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 is the next-generation development tool for Windows Vista, the 2007 Office System, and the Web. This is a Virtual Machine (VHD) that is designed to help you get started with Visual Studio 2008 and the .NET Framework 3.5. Download : microsoft.com/downloads/
The service pack 1 for SharePoint Services 3.0 is now available for download. You can get a complete description of SP1, including a list of issues that were fixed, in the Microsoft Knowledge Base article 936988: Description of the Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Service Pack 1 Download links : Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 SP1, 32 bits edition and 64 bits edition Windows SharePoint Services Language Pack 3.0 SP1, 32 bits edition Windows SharePoint Services Language Pack 3.0 SP1, 64 bits edition Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 with Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 SP1 Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 with Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 SP1, 64 bits edition [December 12, 2007] On the Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Team Blog you
This new whitepaper paper provides key recommendations and best practices to help administrators of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 plan and monitor their SQL Server storage requirements to support optimal performance and operation of their server farms. This paper has a ton of new information for recommendations on optimizing your hardware and storage. Download this paper as a Microsoft Word document (.doc) Source : blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint
These guides provide instructions for evaluating and deploying Windows Vista SP1. Product Evaluation Overview of Windows Vista Service Pack 1 This white paper presents an overview of Windows Vista SP1 and the improvements it contains. Notable Changes in Windows Vista Service Pack 1 Release Candidate This document describes the notable changes made to Windows Vista in Service Pack 1 Release Candidate, which were focused on addressing specific reliability, performance, and compatibility issues, supporting new types of hardware, and adding support for several emerging standards. Enterprise Guidance for Application Compatibility Testing and Windows Vista SP1 This white paper provides enterprise customers guidance for testing applications on the currently available version of Windows Vista and Windows Vista with Service Pack
The SharePoint Capacity Planning Tool (Beta) provides a wealth of helpful information when planning a SharePoint Products and Technologies deployment; helping administrators, consultants, and IT Pros determine the potential required hardware investment(s) and topologies to support and meet requirements for availability and performance or even the affect of introducing additonal offices with their own unique bandwidth and latency constraints. Using the SharePoint Capacity Planning Tool (Beta) you can build topology models, run simulations, and generate reports that will help you evaluate and identify alternative solutions considering profile-based usage variations, content size and scope, networking technology, and availability requirements. The SharePoint Capacity Planning Tool (Beta) provides both Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 models allowing
This great tool allow you extract data from a SharePoint Database directly through SLQ. So in case of a crash, if you just want to restore a few documents, don't bother to install a new SharePoint Server, just restore your SQL backup in a new BD and use «SharePoint Database Exporter». Many thanks to Pascal Gill who gave us this great tool for free. More infos and Download : blog.dreamdevil.com Note : There is an Alpha (pre-beta) version of SharePoint Database Exporter for Sharepoint 2007 and WSS 3.0.
Recently I was asked how to display Rich media (mainly video) in Sharepoint 2007 by our communications department. This shouldn't be too hard to do so time to whip up a quick demo/proof of concept to make sure that it in fact can be done, and what better way than to create a custom web part that embeds Microsoft's Silverlight. Read the article : www.liveside.net
Almost all the IT news sites covered this great news. I think it was predictable that Microsoft would remove Reduced Functionality Mode (RFM) sooner or later. I am just a little surprised that they gave up so soon. My personal term for RFM and Vista activation in general is Windows Genuine Activation mess (WGA). If you have been reading this blog for some time now, then you know what I am talking about. Source : 4sysops.com
In addition to the useful RSS feeds that have been listed on the SharePoint Community Portal Feeds list for many months now, the new (English only) RSS feed for SharePoint content on MSDN is now available at http://www.microsoft.com/feeds/msdn/en-us/sharepoint/rss.xml. If you're a developer doing work on SharePoint or just interested in SharePoint, you should definitely subscribe to this feed! Source : Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Team Blog
This download comes as a pre-configured VHD. This allows you to trial SQL Server 2008 CTP in a virtual environment. Download : www.microsoft.com/downloads
Next Tuesday, December 11th 2007, the Office System team here at Microsoft expects to announce the availability for download of the 2007 Microsoft® Office System Service Pack 1 (SP1). This is sooner than previously announced for the "release to web" when the target date was announced at the IT Forum in Europe earlier this year! Source : blogs.technet.com/upstate-ny-technology
This download comes as a pre-configured VHD. This download enables you to evaluate Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 SP1 for 30 days. Download : www.microsoft.com/downloads
Anticipation and excitement around Service Pack 1 for WSS 3.0 and Office SharePoint Server 2007 has been building, and I'm excited to share some information on the upcoming service packs. There are truly gifts for everyone in Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) 3.0 SP1 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 SP1. From developers getting excited about AJAX support and compatibility to IT Pro's being excited about the new STSADM commands allowing them to repartition their databases not to mention the new performance, manageability, and security enhancements in Windows Server 2008 and IIS 7. (Which easily promises to be best server OS release ever.) Even information workers are well served with over 60 hotfixes across the SharePoint Products and Technologies
PowerShell+ is now free for non-commercial use. Get your personal copy now: http://www.powershell.com/downloads/psp1.zip! Read more : www.powershell.com/plus
If you installed the software Update for Web Folder of may 18,2007 (kb97306) you may discovered afterward that you can't uninstall it. Here's a trick to do that : Re-download the update from Microsoft Downloads Open a command line in the directory containing the downloaded file (webfldrs-KB907306-ENU.exe) Launch the package with the /C switch (Webfldrs-KB907306-ENU.exe /C) to extract the MSI file from the package. Right-click the webfldrs.msi file and chose uninstall
Looks like there is a new version of VMRCplus available since November 2, sorry I missed it. According to 4sysops the Snapshot feature is now working (didn't test it yet). You can read about this new version on Aaron Tiensivu's Blog Download : microsoft.com/downloads
Now you can Digg my posts ! Check the little Digg it! icon on the bottom of each post (next to the labels) and vote for me. For those of you interested, here's the code I have added to my blog template : <!-- digg post link --> <span class='item-action' style='padding-left: 12px'> <a expr:href='"http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&url=" + data:post.url + "&title=" + data:post.title' target='_blank'> <img alt='Digg it!' border='0' height='16' src='http://digg.com/img/badges/16x16-digg-guy.gif' style='border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px' width='16'/> </a> </span>
The FastCGI Extension for IIS 6.0 enables popular application frameworks that support FastCGI protocol to be hosted on the IIS web server in a high-performance and reliable way. FastCGI provides a high-performance alternative to the Common Gateway Interface (CGI), a standard way of interfacing external applications with Web servers that has been supported as part of the IIS feature-set since the very first release. CGI programs are executables launched by the web server for each request in order to process the request and generate dynamic responses that are sent back to the client. Because many of these frameworks do not support multi-threaded execution, CGI enables them to execute reliably on IIS by executing exactly one request per process.
ADInsight is an LDAP (Light-weight Directory Access Protocol) real-time monitoring tool aimed at troubleshooting Active Directory client applications. Use its detailed tracing of Active Directory client-server communications to solve Windows authentication, Exchange, DNS, and other problems. Source : bink.nu
Download : www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals
This download consists of a virtual hard disk (VHD), along with a walkthrough guide. The guide gives a hands-on tour of the product, along with useful information for administrators and other IT professionals. You can use the guide and VHD to demonstrate many of the key features of Microsoft Search Server 2008. The VHD includes all of the files and software you need in order to complete the walkthrough. They will provide you with a basic understanding of the configuration, administration, and end-user search capabilities in Microsoft® Search Server 2008 Express edition. Source : www.microsoft.com/downloads/
Microsoft Deployment, the next version Business Desktop Deployment (BDD) 2007, is finally available at Microsoft’s Download Center. A description of all new features can be found here.
View the Windows PowerShell 2.0 help (including cmdlet help and the About topics) in a fully-searchable, graphical format (a standard Windows .chm file). Also included in the help file is the VBScript to Windows PowerShell Conversion Guide and a collection of PowerShell Tips of the Week. Source : www.microsoft.com/downloads
Michael Pietroforte has a few screens shots of the new Graphical "IDE" in PowerShell 2.0 CTP in his 4sysops.com blog
Microsoft just enabled the @live.xx signup! Go grab yours now! http://get.live.com/getlive/overview for the local domains (eg @live.co.uk) or use the following link for @live.com - @live.com signup ... Signup is still somewhat buggy as it is being rolled out so just bear with it. Tip : You could also try this link to get an @live.ca account (in french) Source : www.liveside.net
Wish you could get a network capture from a computer with no capture software installed? Wish you could have a network traffic "flight recorder" on a USB key? Here's your answer!" The motivation behind creating this tool was to provide an extremely simple way to get a trace from an end user. And the name says it all, though maybe a small bit of false advertisement as it may take a bit more than just one click :). Once you have it downloaded to your machine, you can launch the executable and it will lead you through some simple dialogs that install the tool and start a trace. Once the trace is complete, which means it was
Thank you to everyone who tried out the beta releases of Writer over the last year and gave us feedback. Over 1.5 million of you downloaded our last beta release, and your input helped make Writer the product it is today. Our goal from the start has been to help make blogging more powerful, intuitive, and fun for everyone. Today, we’re proud to announce that Windows Live Writer 2008 is now available! Download it : Windows Live Writer 2008 (version 12.0.1366.1026) Mostly this new version is focused on raising the quality of Writer and putting the final fit and finish on the product. However, there are still a few new features in this release to check
The following Windows Live applications are now out of beta : Windows Live Messenger 8.5 Windows Live Mail Windows Live Writer Windows Live Photo Gallery Windows Live OneCare Family Safety Check them out at www.windowslive.com
I’m pleased to announce that we're unveiling Microsoft Search Server 2008 today at the Enterprise Search Summit in San Jose! The really exciting news is that we're also offering a free version of this product – Microsoft Search Server 2008 Express – which you can download now as a release candidate. Our team worked extremely hard to get this release to you, and we’re proud of what we’re delivering today. Our aim for Search Server Express is to give you a free and powerful enterprise search product that’s incredibly easy for you to deploy. After you download it, you’ll find it takes just a few minutes to get it up and running. It’s going to be the
The Community Technology Preview (CTP) of PowerShell 2.0 is now available for download. But first you should read the "What's new" posted by the Windows PowerShell Team.
SharePointPedia is the successor of the "Recommended Reading" lists on the Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Blog. Here's what the have to say about this new site : SharePointPedia.com is a web site where people discover and share useful content about SharePoint and SharePoint related products and technologies. It’s a social computing application built on top of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007. Anyone with a Windows Live ID may become a registered user and can then submit content recommendations or requests, leave comments, or just vouch for whatever they like. Note that SharePointPedia is not a wiki. It’s a “pedia” in the sense of being a compendium of useful content, but rather than being limited by just
If you ever want to create a Visual Basic 2005 application that works like a wizard you should have a look at this great control made by Manish Ranjan Kumar. Link : www.codeproject.com
Create a handy button so your friends can easily add you to their contact list. Buttons make it easy! Use the button builder below to create a button that fits your personal style or even just your mood. Add the button to your Windows Live Hotmail, Outlook and other email signatures, Windows Live Space, or blog, and your friends and family can simply click your button to add you to their contact list. Link : www.messengerbuttons.com
Great post by 'Michael Pietroforte' on his 4sysops blog where he compares the following free products : RD Tabs v2.0.8 mRemote v0.0.8.0 RoayalTS v1.3.2 vissionapp Remote Desktop v1.5 (vRD) Terminals v1.6 Remote Desktop Manager v3.0.0.1 (RD Manager). Source : 4sysops.com
DriveImage XML is an easy to use and reliable program for imaging and backing up partitions and logical drives. The program allows you to: Backup logical drives and partitions to image files Browse these images, view and extract files Restore these images to the same or a different drive Copy directly from drive to drive Schedule automatic backups with your Task Scheduler Image creation uses Microsoft's Volume Shadow Services (VSS), allowing you to create safe "hot images" even from drives currently in use. Images are stored in
As more and more companies get past the pilot stage with their SharePoint 2007 deployments and start broad roll-outs in early 2008, there will likely be a significant increase in the need to integrate SharePoint with other portals and applications. I was just about to draft a blog entry, outlining the various integration options provided by SharePoint, when a few people pointed out to me that there was already an excellent post by Jose Barreto, who was an Enterprise Systems Architect prior to taking his current role as Technical Evangelist for the Microsoft Storage Partners Team. Although you can find some fairly useful content by doing a search for "sharepoint integration" or visiting our Interoperability Center for MOSS
Did you ever try to create a new site collection in SharePoint Service 3.0 (WSS) with a URL like http://myserver.com/newsite ? Well, if you try then you already know SharePoint Central Administration site only allow you to create a site collection under http://myserver.com/sites (or any other defined managed paths with wildcard inclusion) Here's a trick to create a new collection under the root : Delete the managed path for (root) Explicit inclusion (Central Administration > Application Management > Define Managed Paths) Add a new managed path for / with Wildcard inclusion (Central Administration > Application Management > Define Managed Paths). At that point your root site (http://myserver.com/ will not be accessible, don't worry we will make it work
Gary Lapointe has an excellent blog about automating SharePoint 2007 Configurations via STSADM Custom Extensions. He has develop a lot of usefull stuff for SharePoint. Link : stsadm.blogspot.com
There is a DHCP Server management API DhcpGetClientInfo() with which DHCPUser can get the information about DHCP Clients. There are three way to figure out the information for the client with the above API. The first one is by specifing ClientIPAddress in DHCP_SEARCH_INFO structure. The second way is by specifing the ClientName in DHCP_SERACH_INFO structure. The third one and the trickest one is by specify the MAC addess. For particular MAC address there can be more the one address assigned to client in differnt subnets so while doing the search the API caller should specify in which subnet one wants to perform the serach. Read more : Microsoft Windows DHCP Team Blog
This paper has been long in coming and I think they nailed it. Announcing a new whitepaper... Data protection and recovery for Office SharePoint Server in small to medium deployments This downloadable white paper explains how administrators managing small-to-medium-size deployments can protect and recover data. It describes data recovery tools and procedures from the item level to the farm level. Author: Bruno Lancelaeux a Sr. Consultant from OBS. Although the initial target for this paper was small to medium, the disaster recovery strategies and thoroughness of this 40 page paper including the best information out there on recovering an SSP, recovering any given server in the farm with step by step instructions. Again, don't let the name fool
Since the SharePoint 2007 products (WSS 3.0, MOSS 2007, and SPD 2007) released about 11 months ago, there has been a tremendous amount of Q&A and discussions in numerous blog comments, in several major public e-mail distribution lists, in a handful of newsgroups, in dozens of web forums, and in countless private corporate e-mail distribution lists. From what I can tell though I must admit that I haven't done extensive research, there's quite a bit of duplication in the topics being asked about or discussed. Forums to the rescue! And now there's a friendly URL for you to get to them much more quickly: http://mssharepointforums.com. Source : Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Team Blog
A year ago, I advised users to stay away from Vista x64. But what a difference a year makes: Find out whether x64 passes muster now in my latest tech showcase, Windows Vista x64: One Year Later! Source : Paul Thurrott's SuerSite for Windows
« We are pleased to announce the RC1 release and new name for the fourth generation deployment Solution Accelerator, Microsoft Deployment. » « Microsoft Deployment is the next version of Business Desktop Deployment (BDD) 2007 » New Features in Microsoft Deployment Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007 support, with the following features: Full support for Windows Vista, Windows XP, and Windows Server 2003 deployments with Microsoft Deployment and Configuration Manager 2007. Complete integration into the Configuration Manager 2007 admin console and task sequencing capabilities. Quick start Configuration Manager 2007 operating system deployments using one wizard to create needed task sequences and packages. Extension of the Configuration Manager 2007 task sequencing capabilities with new actions. Feature parity with BDD
In the saga of the Windows Desktop Search 3.01 update (kb917013) that was installed on all Windows XP computers via WSUS, Microsoft finally admited they made a mistake. Read the apolgies post on the WSUS Product Team Blog
The Ubuntu team is excited to bring you the absolute latest and greatest software that the open source and free software communities have to offer. This is Ubuntu 7.10, which brings a host of excellent new features. GNOME 2.20 Desktop 3D effects Desktop search Fast user switching Firefox plugins in Ubuntu Dynamic screen configuration Graphical configuration tool for X Fully automatic printer installation Handling of non-free device drivers NTFS writing Power consumption Encrypted hard disks AppArmor security framework Additional installation profiles for Ubuntu Server Profile-based Authentication Configuration
by Paul Thurrott, thurrott@windowsitpro.com Plagued by delays and missing any of the exciting "secret" features promised a year ago, Apple Computer's next-generation Mac OS X operating system, code-named Leopard, will be released to the public on October 26, the company announced. Leopard is the fifth minor revision to the company's OS X system, and it's shipping almost exactly a year after Windows Vista, an OS that Apple incessantly ridiculed for its tardiness. Yep, reality really is distorted in Cupertino. And if you're looking for even more proof, consider the way that Apple hawks this system. "Leopard is packed with more than 300 new features and introduces a brand new desktop," the official announcement reads. Many of these 300
mRemote allows you to manage all your remote connections in a single place. Currently it supports the RDP, VNC, SSH2 and Telnet protocols. The main intention is to have a central place to store all your connections and access them in the same window. Source : mstn.homedns.org
Web Site : sourceforge.net/projects/mremote/
The Microsoft SQL Server JDBC team is proud to announce the general availability of the v1.2 RTW release. This release continues Microsoft's commitment to the JAVA community and non-Microsoft centric programming platforms. The driver can be found at http://msdn.microsoft.com/data/jdbc. Source : bink.nu
In its continued commitment to interoperability, Microsoft has released a new SQL Server 2005 Driver for PHP. The SQL Server 2005 Driver for PHP Community Technology Preview (CTP) download is available to all SQL Server users at no additional charge. The SQL Server 2005 Driver for PHP is a PHP 5 extension that allows for the reading and writing of SQL Server data from within PHP scripts. The extension provides a procedural interface for accessing data in all editions of SQL Server 2005 and SQL Server 2000. Source : bink.nu
I'm a new Windows Sharepoint Services 3.0 administrator. I recently downloaded the new 20 Site Admin Templates from Microsoft. They are great and suddenly I start wondering If I could install those templates for all my sites instead of manually installing them in every site collection. The anwser is Yes ! Did you know that there is a central (or global) library for Sites Templates ? Don't try to find it in the central admin interface, it is not there. The only way to access it is with the stsadm.exe tool. The only problem is that stsadm.exe does not recognize the title and description of the template like the web interface of a site collection template library. So
One of the most frequent complaints that we've received on this blog and elsewhere is the lack of end user training material for WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007. Although there are some companies offering training courses and a book or two focused on the end user, our customers want and deserve to get something directly from us. The SharePoint End User Training Kit is our offering, and it's available at no cost! Source : Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Team Blog
Everything to make Windows Live Writer even easier and better Windows Live Writer Plugins conventiently lists plugins, addons, hacks and tutorials for Windows Live Writer, a desktop blogging program that can post to various types of blogs. Thank you Cynthia. On her blog you will find lots of stuff including the "Windows Live Writer Portable 2.0" and "Windows Live Writer Backup" tools. Link : http://wlwplugins.com/
Joris Poelmans has a cool list of Tools for SharePoint 2007. You should look at it. Link : http://jopx.blogspot.com
In February, we published a KB article about the discontinuation of the MSNBC web parts in the online Web Part gallery. Of these web parts, the one that displayed weather information was one of the most popular. Bamboo Solutions, a SharePoint ISV partner since 2001, has graciously donated to the Community Kit for SharePoint project an enhanced version of the weather web part that fetches data from the MSN Weather service and displays the current time of the location. It can also accommodate multiple locations as shown below.
This DHCP Server Callout DLL helps administrator to filter out DHCP Requests to DHCP Server based on MAC Address. When a device or computer tries to connect to network, it shall first try to obtain ip address from DHCP Server. DHCP Server Callout DLL checks if this device MAC address is present in known list of MAC addresses configured by administrators. If it is present, device shall be allowed to obtain ip address or device requests shall be ignored based on action configured by administrator. Source : Microsoft Windows DHCP Team Blog
A network monitoring solution helps you get an overview of your network and it allows you to monitor the availability of devices and services. There are many sophisticated commercial monitoring tools. But The Dude from Mikro Tik is by far the best free network monitoring tool I have ever tried under Windows. Source : http://feeds.4sysops.com/~r/4sysops/~3/167074153/
The BITS Repair Tool will help you fix a problem caused by the corruption of BITS state files. The problem stops the host process for Windows Services, which prevents you from using BITS to transfer files. Use this tool to resolve the corruption and re-enable BITS transfers. After you install this item, you may have to restart your computer. Source : Microsoft.com
Microsoft has released several updates to improve the reliabiliy and compatibility of Windows Vista in certain scenarios. The issues resolved by these updates are detailed in the following Knowledge Base articles: October 2007 Cumulative Update for Media Center for Windows Vista (KB941229)
Microsoft has released the October 2007 Cumulative Update for Media Center for Windows Vista. This update rollup is intended for computers that are running Windows Vista Home Premium or Windows Vista Ultimate. Cumulative update rollup for USB core components in Windows Vista (KB941600)
This update resolves some reliability issues in the USB core components on the Windows Vista operating system. Update for Windows Vista (KB941649)
This update improves the compatibility, reliability, and stability of Windows Vista. Update for Windows
The Microsoft Active Directory Topology Diagrammer reads an Active Directory configuration using ActiveX Data Objects (ADO), and then automatically generates a Visio diagram of your Active Directory and /or your Exchange 200x Server topology. The diagramms include domains, sites, servers, administrative groups, routing groups and connectors and can be changed manually in Visio if needed. Source : Microsoft.com
There is an excellent article in october's issue of TechNet Magazine about WIM and ImageX. Source : www.microsoft.com/technet/technetmag
Today Microsoft released the newest version of our FTP server for Windows Server 2008 Release Candidate 0 (RC0)! Source & details : blogs.msdn.com/robert_mcmurray
... You could invest in a recording booth, high-end studio microphone, and some high-quality shielded cables. Or, you could use Windows Vista's new Microphone Array technology. The former can cost many thousands of dollars. The latter comes free with Windows Vista and when coupled with a PC equipped with a microphone array, the results can be dramatic. So what exactly is a microphone array? Simply stated, a microphone array is two or more microphones used at the same time to capture sound. Windows Vista supports microphone arrays that consist of two or four microphones. The advantage of using more than one microphone to capture sound is that it allows the software that is processing the microphone signals
We are very happy to announce that we released Microsoft PerformancePoint Server 2007. PerformancePoint Server (PPS) allows to monitor, analyze and plan their business goals and performance against those goals. PPS builds on top of and requires SQL Server and Microsoft Office. Source : blogs.msdn.com/usisvde
Microsoft offers new Group Policy templates for Vista. You probably know that in Vista the Administrative template files (ADM) were replaced by the XML-based ADMX format. Please, check out this article for more information about ADM and ADMX. I compared the new templates with the ones which come with Vista. Source : 4sysops.com
The GNOME desktop and platform received many improvements and new features. Learn more about this release through the detailed release notes. (GNOME 2.20 should be included in the next Ubuntu version 7.10)
After you install a Microsoft Office service pack, you are prompted unexpectedly to restart the computer. For more information about this issue, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: 905726 You are unexpectedly prompted to restart the computer after you install an Office service pack or an Office update After you install Office 2003 SP3, an add-in, ActiveX control, or COM add-in may not work as expected in an Office 2003 program. For more information about this issue, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: 938814 The functionality of an add-in, an ActiveX control, or a COM add-in is reduced, or the functionality is
The BDD team have announced that Deployment 4 (the code name for the next version of Business Desktop Deployment (BDD) 2007) has been released as BETA 3 and unifies the tools and processes required for desktop and server deployment into a common deployment console and collection of guidance. Previously referenced as BDD.Next and Windows Server Deployment (WSD), Deployment 4 adds integration with recently released Microsoft deployment technologies to create a single path for image creation and deployment, including: System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Operating System Deployment Windows Automated Installation Kit Windows Deployment Services with new multicast technology Application Compatibility Toolkit 5.0 User State Migration Tool 3.0.1 Windows Server 2008 Server Manager for automated server role definition (coming soon)
Microsoft® Office 2003 Service Pack 3 (SP3) represents a major evolution in security for Office 2003. It further hardens the Office suite against potential attacks and other security threats. This service pack also includes fixes that have been previously released as separate updates for Office 2003. You can get specific information about this update in the Microsoft Knowledge Base article (923618): Description of Office 2003 Service Pack 3. Source : Bink.nu
One of the most-requested items in the forums on ScriptingAnswers.com is a way to automate FTP transfers - something more robust that simple input scripts for the built-in FTP.exe app. well, ask no more, just go to http://www.primalscript.com/freetools and download the new FTP COM object. With it, you can connect to FTP sites (providing credentials if needed) and Get and Put files using simple Get() and Put() methods. Quick, easy, and the download includes samples showing how to use it - you can even check for failed connections and transfers using status codes returned by the various methods. Free, free, free. Enjoy. PS. Works great in VBScript, PowerShell, KiXtart, JScript - any language that supports COM. Included
As part of Microsoft Corp.’s commitment to education, the company is introducing a promotion inviting students who are actively enrolled at educational institutions and have a valid e-mail address from the institution to purchase Microsoft® Office Ultimate 2007 at a student price of $59.95 (U.S.). “The Ultimate Steal” promotion will run in Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States starting today and in France, Italy and Spain starting Sept. 20, 2007. The promotion will end April 30, 2008. Source : www.microsoft.com/presspass
Official site : The Ultimate Steal Web Site
I'm using my Microsoft Outlook 2007 with two different mail profile. One for my house with the RPC over HTTP protocol and one for my office with the regular protocol (MAPI). I dont like to have to choose a profil every time i start Outlook. So I kept my office profile as the default profile Outlook use and I created a shortcut on my desktop to start Outlook with my house profile. The shortcut look like this : "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office12\OUTLOOK.EXE" /profile "RPC over HTTP" (don't forget to replace "RPC over HTTP" with the name of your profile)
Teredo is a transition technology that allows a computer or node located behind a IPv6-unaware network address translation (NAT) device to use IPv6 connectivity to communicate with other computers that use IPv6. Teredo tunneling technology defines a way of encapsulating IPv6 packets within IPv4 UDP datagrams that can be routed through NAT devices and on the IPv4 internet. IPv6 and Teredo is installed and enabled by default in Windows Vista, and users cannot uninstall them. Read the complete article : www.mydigitallife.info
Yesterday the Microsoft Live Team released the The Windows Live suite (http://windowslivewire.spaces.live.com/blog). I was so happy to discover all new versions buddle in the suite. But a few minutes later my face turned red. I CAN'T INSTALL IT ON MY VISTA x64 !!!!!! Why did you do that ?
I'm using Windows Live Writer for many mounths and it's more than live it's passion. Now I can't get the BETA 3. If you feel a little bit adventurous you could try this hack.
Yes ! Look at the right sidebar, you will find my new Labal Cloud. Great isn't it ? Many, many thanks to phydeaux3 who develop the New Blogger Tag Cloud / Label Cloud widget. Great Job. You will also notice that I've added an 'Original content' Label to mark articles I wrote myself (everything else are grabbed from elsewhere).
When I first read about NAP (Network Access Protection), Microsoft’s new Network Access Control (NAC) solution in Windows Server 2008, I was quite surprised how complex it has become. All the papers, I have read about its infrastructure, were somewhat confusing. This post lists all the important NAP components accompanied by a brief description of their function. Just in case you didn’t read my post about the NAP essentials yet, I recommend having a look at it first. Read the complete article : 4sysops.com
The Microsoft Group Policy Diagnostic Best Practice Analyzer (GPDBPA) for Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 is designed to help you identify Group Policy configuration errors or other dependency failures that may prevent settings or features from functioning as expected. Source : www.microsoft.com/downloads
This is a project for SharePoint 2007 Features. Features add new functionality to a SharePoint 2007 farm, site collection, or site. This project will create Features to address deficiencies in SharePoint 2007 or add new capabilities. You should understand a little about Features before trying these out. The packages here use batch files or WSP files to install the Features. After installation, be sure to activate the Features to see them in SharePoint. Source : www.codeplex.com/features
This week I got a Windows Vista question that sounded easy, but turned out to be one of those things missing as a policy configurable option. Whenever Windows Vista is connected to a new network, the system presents the "Set Network Location" dialog requesting to categorize the newly connected network as one of the following: Home Work Public Location Public is the only option that can be chosen without using administrative rights on the system. When an admin does not want this dialog to pop when one of his mobile computers is connected to non-trusted network, there is no option in Group Policy to stop the dialog from occurring. The user has the option to disable the dialog
Sometime you want to let a «normal user» do something that require an administrator privilege but you don't want to give him your administrator password. Why not use the built in RUNAS command ? Simply because you must type the password and you have no assurance that you user will not replace the command you want him tu run with his own. Here you will find a few solutions to that problem : CPAU. Command line tool that allows you to launch a process as another user similar to RUNAS only with encrypted job files. SuperExec. Allow you to launch any application using administrator privileges. The parameters are encrypted and store in the registry. You can even impose a
Windows System state analyzer tool Helps create snapshots of the computer—some of which include fixed drives, services, drivers and the registry. Users can create two snapshots at different points in time and compare them to view differences. A detailed report could be generated at the end of a compare operation. Source : Brad Rutkowski's Blog
There is two new projects for a better PowerShell console : PoshConsole (open source) PowerShell plus (commercial)
As time goes on, you will see more references to WinRM, especially with Windows Server 2008. Windows 2003 R2 had a form of WinRM that has now been updated to support the WS-Management industry standard. Who should be interested in this? People that manage servers remotely and need a firewall friendly protocol to use. People that are looking into deploying Windows Server 2008 and especially Windows Server 2008 Core. People that need to interface with the BMC adapters on servers from remote. Anyway, KB 936059 updates Windows XP SP2 and Windows Server 2003 WinRM components to bring them more in line with what Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 are using. Source : bink.nu
I just ran across the new McAfee Rootkit Detective 1.0. There are so many anti-rootkit tools available now, and it’s about time that McAfee comes out with its own free rootkit detection utility. Source : 4sysops.com But wait, IT DOESN'T SUPPORT VISTA ! How can a serious company like McAfee do that in 2007.
With the august update of "Virtual Earth Imagery" you will be happy to see that Montreal is now in 3D. Cool. Look at it : maps.live.com Source : blogs.msdn.com/virtualearth
The IE VPC v2 hard disk image containing a pre-activated Windows XP SP2, and either IE6 or IE7 and the IE7 Readiness Toolkit. This VPC image will expire on December 7, 2007. Source : bink.nu
Download : www.microsoft.com/downloads
This site is cool, download drivers or hotfixes, from windows update catalog. You can even import them in your WSUS 3.0 server. Hopefully soon hotfixes not published in Windows Update will be available here soon too, so you van distribute them with WSUS too. we have released version 1.0 of the Microsoft Update Catalog ! With the new Catalog, you can search for updates available through the Microsoft Update service and download them to your machine (regardless of whether the update is applicable to your machine). You can also import updates from the Catalog directly into WSUS 3.0, System Center Essentials 2007, or System Center Configuration Manager 2007. Some key features of the MU Catalog include: Full-text search:
No more /console switch ! There are several changes in Windows Server 2008 with regard to the way Terminal Services work in remote administration mode. Some are enhancements; at least one is a change for the worse. This post summarizes the most important changes. Read the complete article : 4sysops.com
VbsToExe is a command line application that converts VB-Scripts into an executable. This utility hides the source of your scripts and protects them optionally with a password.
No temporary file will be created while executing. You can also extract your source from the exe files,
if they are password protected, you will be asked for it. Source : http://www.f2ko.de/English/v2e/v2e.html
