I confess: I love the Office 2007 Ribbon. But I know it’s a source of pain for some people. And truth to tell, even I sometimes have trouble finding a command. Which is why I was so pleased to see the new Office Search Commands add-in
Source : www.edbott.com
If your are lucky enough to have a Windows Volume License for Vista Enterprise you should know that you can download a DVD Playback Pack for free. With this pack you will be able to play DVD, MPEG-2, and Dolby 5.1 content.
Source : www.microsoft.com
Download : www.microsoft.com/licensing/servicecenter
Consolas is a great fixed-pitch font developped by Microsoft for the developpers (Visutal Studio), but it makes a great font for your CMD.EXE windows.
To make this work you have to play a little bit with regedit but it's all worth it. There is an excellent article to learn how to do that on the IEBlog.
Source : blogs.msdn.com/ie
Finally, IIS 7.0 has a PowerShell Provider!
The IIS7 PowerShell Provider allows you to
Source : blogs.iis.net/thomad
Seem's that NEOWIN.net had managed to get their hands on the internal schedule for the release of Windows XP SP3 :
It looks like the real thing (I think we can trust NEOWIN), the news was also publish by bink.nu
Brandon Paddock, who works on the Windows Shell Team here at Microsoft, wrote a Windows Sidebar Gadget that displays the status of the Windows Search Indexer.
Download the Indexer Status Gadget here.
Memory is getting cheaper every day. This is one reason why more and more people are equipping their PCs with 4GB RAM or more. Modern desktops often support up to 8GB. So it happens quite often these days that a proud owner of a new a PC wonders why Vista only reports about 3GB RAM even though he bought 4GB. I have been asked this question by several people within the last weeks. Some of them were IT pros, so I thought I should post something about it here. The things I say in this post mostly apply to Windows XP as well.
Read this post at 4sysops.com
An update to VMRCplus 1.6.0 has been released and is now available here.
This release contains several fixes and minor enhancements.
It has been tested on Windows Server 2008 as well.
Matthijs
Source : blogs.technet.com/matthts
On Windows Server 2003 R2, the staging area is contained within a folder under the replicated folder itself. Basically, there is a hidden sub-folder called ‘DfsrPrivate’ under the root of every replicated folder.
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On Windows Server 2008, the ‘DfsrPrivate’ directory has been moved under the ‘System Volume Information’ folder on the same volume.
Source : blogs.technet.com/filecab
Windows Vista SP1 is released to Windows Update ... as an optional update (since march 18th). It should be available as an automatic update around mid-april. The Windows Vista Team explained all that in there blog.
If you have a WSUS server in your organisation you could deploy SP1 now by importing the update from Microsoft Update Catalog. The WSUS team has a post describing the procedure in there blog.
You should however note that you can't import an update in WSUS from the Microsoft Update Catalog if your server is setup as a downstream server. You will receive an error number 80131509.
I've added a bouton on my blog. Now you can send me your comments.
I'm using kontactr for this. It looks great and it is free.
The bouton is in my About section (at the right) and at the bottom of the page.
As you all know configuring basic components of Server Core could be a little confusing for a new comer. Guy Teverovsky made a great little tool to help us.
Source and download : Windowmaker's blog
Today marks the release of the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack (MDOP) 2008 - a set of tools for IT Pros managing IT environments for companies who have purchased MDOP plus Windows Software Assurance agreements with Microsoft. There are two key product updates in this release I'd like to highlight that I think IT Pros will find very useful - Diagnostics and Recovery Toolset 6.0 (DaRT) and Desktop Error Monitoring 3.0 SP1 (DEM).
Source : windowsvistablog.com/
WinHlp32.exe is required to display 32-bit Help files that have the ".hlp" file name extension. To view .hlp files on Windows Server 2008, you need to install this application.
Download : www.microsoft.com/downloads
With Microsoft Corp.'s aggressive strategy to build out its Software-as-a-Service capability to online storage—even as physical, hardware-based storage remains ubiquitous and competitive—some businesses may find it tempting to allow employees and workgroups to jump into Microsoft's SkyDrive for some limited purpose.
Read this article by Edward F. Moltzen at crn.com
The Web Service Software Factory: Modeling Edition (also known as the Service Factory) is an integrated collection of resources designed to help you quickly and consistently build Web services that adhere to well-known architecture and design patterns. These resources consist of patterns and architecture topics in the form of written guidance and models with code generation in the form of tools integrated with Visual Studio 2008.
Source : msdn2.microsoft.com
Windows Vista SP1 stand-alone packages do not contain the updated Windows Vista SP1 Help files.
The updated Windows Vista Help file packages are named "Update for Help Files." These files are packaged separately for each language.
The updated Help files have been excluded from the stand-alone SP1 packages to reduce the size of the packages. However, the updated Windows Vista Help files are contained in the retail and OEM versions of Windows Vista that include SP1. Therefore, if you perform a clean installation of a version of Windows Vista that includes SP1, you do not have to add an updated Help file.
To discover the various scenarios in which you must manually install the "Update for Help Files" package to obtain the updated Windows Vista Help files or to learn how to verify if the updated help files are installed check kb937286.
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Say No To IE 6!
Our current campaign focuses on assisting users in upgrading their Internet Explorer 6 web browser. This campaign will result in former IE 6 users having a more enjoyable experience on the web while (hopefully) creating a less stressful and complicated environment for web developers by hastening the retirement of an outdated browser.
Source : www.savethedevelopers.org
Don't waste your time trying to understand what this blog is about or why is there so many unrelated news in it (from Formula 1 to computer programming). It's simply my own personal blog where I can put any information I like.