Michael Pietroforte wrote a super serie of articles about Windows 7 on 4sysops blog. A must read. thanks Michael.
Every time I got a NetBIOS or WINS name resolution problem I hit google and search for a way to query a WINS server. And every time loose many minutes looking for a tool.
Well, this time I decided to blog about it so next time maybe my blog will show up in my search.
Actually the answer to the question «How do you query a WINS server ?» is pretty simple :
Nice post by Tim Allison from C/D/H about installing Microsoft Search Server 2008 Express on Windows Sharepoint Service 3.0
Link : www.cdhtalkstech.com
Yesterday Google released a new version of their free 3D modeling software : Google Sketchup 7
I didn't tried the package yet, but it looks very cool.
Microsoft is also offering a free 3D modeling software with Microsoft TrueSpace.
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Google Docs had arround 4.4 million unique visitors in september (2208), it's a very large user base. But does all thoses users really use Google Docs to do realy work ?
Well according Amit Agarwal from digital inspiration, that may not be the case. Looks like all those users only spent 5 minutes each mount workging on Google Docs
Source : Digital Inspiration
The tool, called SPDisposeCheck, will open your custom compiled assemblies recursively and validate them against the Microsoft published guidance. The output from the tool will contain messages that may indicate the SPSite and SPWeb Dispose() methods guidance are not being followed in the customers source code
Looks cool, unfortunately the tool will not be available until winter.
Source : Microsoft SharePoint Team Blog
Do you know which databases or applications are using the most resources on your server? How will a service pack upgrade, configuration change or application change affect your production SQL Server? The RML Utilities for SQL Server provide you a set of tools and processes to answer these questions and much more.
Downloads :
If you like to know out about all software programs on your computer that are connecting to the Internet, here’s a simple tip.
Type "perfmon" in the Windows Vista search box to run the "Reliability and Performance Monitor" utility. Next click the Network tab in the right pane to expand it.
Source : www.labnol.org
Blogger today launched "Reactions", an instant ratings feature for individual blog posts. So unlike the start ratings system where people express their opinion (poor to excellent) on a scale of 1 to 5, here you can customize the scale.
Source : www.labnol.org
Disabling unnecessary Windows services can result in significant performance gains for production machines and virtual machines. This script helps you manage and share templates for services optmization. Some templates are included.
Perhaps the largest call generator for the Core Team is for us to determine cause of a hard system crash that generates a Blue Screen and memory dump file. Commonly called a "Blue Screen of Death (BSOD)." The vast majority of these memory dumps could be analyzed by Administrators in just a few minutes using the latest debugging tools. These tools do most of the work for you, once they're set up. Kernel mode debugging is a pretty specialized skill, with experienced debuggers throwing around lots of imponderable terms. But it's really pretty simple and I'll point out the gaffe's you'll want to avoid as a beginner.
Read the complete article : blogs.technet.com/askcore
Now there is a downloadable CHM version of Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 content on TechNet. Cool !
Download : www.microsoft.com/downloads
Here's a great trick Amit Agarwal to convert your scanned documents (in PDF) to Text with Google OCR for free.
Link : www.labnol.org
