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Sometimes you want to check if the network is up in your application, there is a built-in function for that : NetworkInterface.GetIsNetworkAvailable()

the problem with GetIsNetworkAvailable is that it incorrectly always report TRUE if a loopback adapter is present. It also report TRUE if a “VirtualBox Host-Only Network” adapter is present.

So I have written the following function in Visual Basic (vb) to replace GetIsNetworkAvailable :

Function IsNetworkAvailable() As Boolean
    IsNetworkAvailable = False
    Dim AllAdapters As NetworkInterface() = NetworkInterface.GetAllNetworkInterfaces()
    Dim Adapter As NetworkInterface
    For Each Adapter In AllAdapters
        If Adapter.OperationalStatus = OperationalStatus.Up And
            Adapter.NetworkInterfaceType <> NetworkInterfaceType.Loopback And _
            Adapter.NetworkInterfaceType <> NetworkInterfaceType.Tunnel And _
            Not Adapter.Name.Contains("LoopBack") And _
            Not Adapter.Name.Contains("VirtualBox Host-Only Network") Then
            IsNetworkAvailable = True
        End If
    Next
End Function

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IIS team has recently released a Web Farm Framework 2.0 beta . The goal of the Web Farm Framework is to enable easy provisioning, deployment and managing of web farms. This blog post provides an example of what Web Farm Framework can do and how it can simplify the Web Farm management tasks. To demonstrate the capabilities of the tool, we will create a simple web farm that looks as on the following diagram: The load balancer will be using the Application Request Routing for IIS 7 and will also act...(read more)

Source : The Official Microsoft IIS Site

Microsoft today said it will issue an emergency patch for the critical Windows shortcut bug on Monday, Aug. 2.

Source : www.computerworld.com

On this special international day, give your System Administrator something that shows that you truly appreciate their hard work and dedication.

More : www.sysadminday.com

judging the overall package based on the test cars, we'd have to say that the 2011 Jetta will be VW's best car.

Source : www.usatoday.com

I just find out that could get a copy of Microsoft’s Official logos for almost all Microsoft products at the Microsoft Press site.

An open source, AJAX implementation of the VirtualBox user interface written in PHP. As a modern web interface, it allows you to access and control remote VirtualBox instances. Much of its verbage and some of its code is based on the (inactive) vboxweb project.

phpVirtualBox was created for people (like me) who prefer not to have to log in to their headless VirtualBox host to administer their virtual machines.

Source : code.google.com/p/phpvirtualbox/

Microsoft Outlook Social Connector Provider for Windows Live Messenger Connect your Windows Live ID to the Outlook Social Connector and stay up to the minute with the people in your network by accessing everything from e-mail threads to status updates in one single, centralized view.

Microsoft Outlook Social Connector Provider for Facebook
Connect your Facebook account to the Outlook Social Connector and stay up to the minute with the people in your network by accessing everything from e-mail threads to status updates in one single, centralized view.

Download:

Microsoft Outlook Social Connector Provider for Windows Live Messenger

Microsoft Outlook Social Connector Provider for Facebook

Source : bink.nu

It’s been a while since we wrote the popular Tutorial on installing Snow Leopard on Virtualbox. Certail users had trouble with the guide due to lack of proper hardware support — Intel VT support. So here comes a tutorial with the help of tek411 which works without much hackery

Source : www.taranfx.com

Sandro Villinger wrote an excellent article on speeding up boot-times, most of these articles do not go further than msconfig.exe, this article does.

Like this article talks about “MainPathBootTime”

Read the full article: What’s Taking So Long How to Fight Slow Startup Times in Windows 7 « IT Expert Voice

Source : Bink.nu

Office Web Apps are now online :

Word
Excel
PowerPoint
OneNote

You can try it for yourself at office.live.com

This is a new tool available for free from Microsoft Download.
This is a ‘must have’.

RDCMan manages multiple remote desktop connections. It is useful for managing server labs where you need regular access to each machine such as automated checkin systems and data centers. It is similar to the built-in MMC Remote Desktops snap-in, but more flexible.

From a click in a tree I can launch a Remote Desktop on any of our servers.

rdcmon-main

There is even a thumbnail view of my connections.

rdcmon-thumbs

You can set all the Remote Desktop Client parameters for each server.

The settings in each tab can be inherited from the parent group. This mains that you can change the settings of all, or a group, of your connections in one place.

rdcmon-logoff

You can log off (or disconnect) all your connections in one click.

All the settings/groups/servers you define are store in a RDG file. You can copy this file to another computer or use it to import a list of servers.

Many thanks to Julian Burger who made this nice little tool.

Download : www.microsoft.com/downloads

I’m writing HTML pages in french with Microsoft Expression Web 3.0 (xWeb) and I can’t type certain characters like è, ê, or î. For example to produce an è you have to first hit the dead-key ` and than hit the e letter. This works everywhere except in xWeb.

A search in the Expression Web Forum showed me that I’m not the only one :

I was really disappointed to read :

The good news is that we have fixed the bug. The bad news is that the fix is not in the service pack and will not be available until the next release.

I can’t say that I think this is really professional. Come on guys you could have done better than that. I guess we just have to hope and wait for version 4.0

In the mean time I’ve used the ‘Code snippets’ to help paste the lost characters.

Here’s how to configure and use your codes snippets for french characters :

Close Microsoft Expression Web

Open the the file C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Expression\Web 3\Legacy\Expression\Web 3\Snippets\SnippetsCustom.xml

Copy the following XML, paste it in the SnippetsCustom.xml file and save it.

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!-- Fichier de configuration des extraits de code -->
<snippets><snippet keyword="é">
		<description>é</description>
		<text>é</text>
	</snippet>
	<snippet keyword="à">
		<description>à</description>
		<text>&amp;agrave;</text>
	</snippet>
<snippet keyword="â">
		<description>â</description>
		<text>&amp;acirc;</text>
	</snippet>
<snippet keyword="Â">
		<description>Â</description>
		<text>&amp;Acirc;</text>
	</snippet>
<snippet keyword="À">
		<description>À</description>
		<text>&amp;Agrave;</text>
	</snippet>
<snippet keyword="ç">
		<description>ç</description>
		<text>&amp;ccedil;</text>
	</snippet>
<snippet keyword="Ç">
		<description>Ç</description>
		<text>&amp;Ccedil;</text>
	</snippet>
<snippet keyword="é">
		<description>é</description>
		<text>&amp;Eacute;</text>
	</snippet>
<snippet keyword="É">
		<description>É</description>
		<text>&amp;Eacute;</text>
	</snippet>
<snippet keyword="ê">
		<description>ê</description>
		<text>&amp;ecirc;</text>
	</snippet>
<snippet keyword="Ê">
		<description>Ê</description>
		<text>&amp;Ecirc;</text>
	</snippet>
<snippet keyword="Ê">
		<description>Ê</description>
		<text>&amp;Ecirc;</text>
	</snippet>
<snippet keyword="è">
		<description>è</description>
		<text>&amp;egrave;</text>
	</snippet>
<snippet keyword="È">
		<description>È</description>
		<text>&amp;Egrave;</text>
	</snippet>
<snippet keyword="ë">
		<description>ë</description>
		<text>&amp;euml;</text>
	</snippet>
<snippet keyword="Ë">
		<description>Ë</description>
		<text>&amp;Euml;</text>
	</snippet>
<snippet keyword="î">
		<description>î</description>
		<text>&amp;icirc;</text>
	</snippet>
<snippet keyword="Î">
		<description>Î</description>
		<text>&amp;Icirc;</text>
	</snippet>
<snippet keyword="ô">
		<description>ô</description>
		<text>&amp;ocirc;</text>
	</snippet>
<snippet keyword="Ô">
		<description>Ô</description>
		<text>&amp;Ocirc;</text>
	</snippet>
<snippet keyword="û">
		<description>û</description>
		<text>&amp;ucirc;</text>
	</snippet>
<snippet keyword="Û">
		<description>Û</description>
		<text>&amp;Ucirc;</text>
	</snippet>
<snippet keyword="ù">
		<description>ù</description>
		<text>&amp;ugrave;</text>
	</snippet>
<snippet keyword="Ù">
		<description>Ù</description>
		<text>&amp;Ugrave;</text>
	</snippet>
</snippets>

Open Expression Web

In the code view hit CTRL + ENTER and choose one of your new snippets.

xWebCodeSnippets

Here are some tools that can help you to check to security settings (privacy) in Facebook :

Profile Watch

Get your “privacy score” and check what everyone can see on you Facebook profile

Reclaim privacy

Get a detailed scan of your Facebook profile and see what needs you attention.

Openbook

Search Facebook update from peoples that left their privacy settings open for everyone

Check how your friends sees your profile

This one is built in Facebook :

Logon to Facebook
Click on this link

Blackbird auditor express is a free and easy-to-use version of Blackbird auditor. This community version offers real-time change monitoring for organizations with basic Active Directory (AD) auditing needs.

Source : 4sysops

With this web site you can get your “privacy score” and check what everyone can see on your Facebook profile.

Link : http://www.profilewatch.org

This page contains resources to help you with capacity management in your Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 environment—map your solution design to a farm size and set of hardware that supports your business goals.

Additional content is under development. Check back for new and updated content.

Source : SharePoint Server 2010 > Resource Centers

Hi, I’m Alex Payne and I’m a Director in our Online Product Management team. A couple of news articles and blogs landed today where Google is trying to make the case that existing Office customers (and there are over 500 Million of them worldwide) should hold off on upgrading to Office 2010 and instead utilize Google Docs as a complement to older versions of Office.

…

This just isn’t the case.

Source : blogs.technet.com/whymicrosoft

Also interesting : Forrester: Google still a distant Office competitor

If you own a Scientific Atlanta HDTV recorder (Explorer 8300HD), here’s a few tips you might find interesting.

Tips	From	Enter
Enter diagnostic mode	Front of unit	Press and hold SELECT until the Mail LED lights, then press INFO
Enter diagnostic mode	Remote control	Press and hold PAUSE until the Mail LED lights, then press PAGE UP (+)
Reboot	Front of unit	Press and hold VOL+ and VOL-, then press INFO
Reboot	Remote control	Press and hold PAUSE until the Mail LED lights, then press PAGE DOWN (-)
Change diagnostic window transparency	Front of unit	While in diagnostic mode, press SELECT
Change diagnostic window transparency	Remote control	While in diagnostic mode, press B
Format hard drive	Remote control	Press and hold PAUSE until the Mail LED lights, then press LIST three times, the unit will format the drive and reboot

I hope I do not have to tell you not to try the “format hard drive” tips unless you really want to do this and loose all your recordings.

Source : www.digitalhome.ca and Videotron technical support.

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Here’s how to configure and use your codes snippets for french characters :

Profile Watch

Reclaim privacy

Openbook

Check how your friends sees your profile

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