From the monthly archives:

April 2011

Faces of Gmail: Petra Cross

April 30, 2011

Posted by Kathleen Chen, Consumer Operations Last month we kicked off “Faces of Gmail,” a series where we’ll introduce you to some of the members of the Gmail team. For our first post, we spoke with Manu Cornet, an engineer in Paris who made some of our favorite themes. This month we’re back in Mountain [...]

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PowerShell at TechEd 2011

April 30, 2011

  We’re just a couple weeks away from TechEd (May 16-19) and there’s going to be a ton of great PowerShell content again this year! Kirk Munro just made a post over at Poshoholic with an easy-to-read list of all the PowerShell related sessions for the conference. Thanks to Kirk for his effort in compiling [...]

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Microsoft Aids Apps Developers Migrate from iPhone to Windows Phone 7

April 30, 2011

Microsoft is serious about its position in the mobile market. It is not just the mobile phone, or the OS, but it is about Apps, and Microsoft is lagging far behind. But it aims to catchup by releasing a developer tool to help developers migrate their iPhone Apps over to Windows Phone 7. Microsoft officials [...]

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New KB: [SDP 2][68382705-9E2B-4F69-A48A-9A0F6DE7D330] System Center Data Protection Manager 2010 – Windows Server 2008 – Basic

April 30, 2011

Just a quick heads up on a new KB article we published today.  This one’s really only relevant from a support standpoint as it details the information our troubleshooting tool gathers but I thought you’d like to know about it anyway. Summary System Center Data Protection Manager 2010 – Windows Server 2008 – Basic troubleshooter [...]

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SQL Server Migration Assistant v5.0 is now available

April 30, 2011

      Migrate from Sybase, Oracle, MySQL and Microsoft Access to SQL Azure and SQL Server with ease! Microsoft announced today the release of SQL Server Migration Assistant (SSMA) v5.0, a family of products to further simplify the user experience in automating the migration of Oracle, Sybase, MySQL and Microsoft Access databases to SQL server or [...]

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Fix a Green Screen on Flash Videos by Disabling Hardware Acceleration [Fixes]

April 30, 2011

Many of you may have been noticing issues with Flash lately where videos don’t play on the first try—you just get a green screen. Technology weblog Digital Inspiration shows us how to fix this problem. More » Lifehacker: windows

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Everybody’s talking (and translating) with Chrome

April 30, 2011

Today, we’re excited to make a nifty feature widely available in today’s new Chrome stable release: speech input through HTML. Curious about how speech input can be used in real life? Here’s one example: Using Chrome, you can now translate what you say into other languages with Google Translate. If you’re translating from English, just [...]

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Jetstress Field Guide – April 2011 Release

April 30, 2011

When I released the first version of this guide back in November 2010 I had no idea how many people were out there having problems with Jetstress testing. Over the last 5 months I have had the opportunity to work through and discuss some interesting cases with a number of you. So I thought it [...]

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Sites Sites Everywhere…

April 30, 2011

…Without a DC to spare! Hey all, this is Sean. You may remember me from a few old ADFS posts. I’m no longer on the Directory Services team but I still do a lot of DS stuff in Premier Field Engineering (PFE). Anyway, I recently ran into a few “interesting” site topologies while in the [...]

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Microsoft’s Q3 Report: Entertainment/Office Up, Windows Down

April 29, 2011

Earlier today, Microsoft announced their report for their earnings in the 3rd quarter. Revenues were up 13% from this time last year at $ 16.43 billion. Operating income was also up 10% at 5.71 billion and finally net income was up 31% at 5.23 billion. This is all excellent news when you consider that Microsoft exceeded [...]

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