From the monthly archives:

June 2011

Deployment Blogs and Twitter

June 30, 2011

When I started blogging five years ago there were not many great blogs out there and twitter was just emerging from its egg. It was hard to find good information on deployment. However things have changed, there is a vibrant community of deployment experts out there who are only too willing to share their expertise. [...]

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Google’s Uphill Battle With Social, Animated

June 30, 2011

NMA continues in its tech blog bait campaign, this time capturing Google’s multiple attempts to crack the nut of social in subtitled CGI format. Our ingenious Taiwanese friends have chose to represent the Google Buzz privacy debacle as a guy who remarkably resembles Mark Zuckerberg spying on a woman in the shower and Google Wave [...]

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Application Integration Partner of the Year

June 30, 2011

Microsoft is pleased to announce Solidsoft as Application Integration Partner of the Year.  Solidsoft’s Tell Us Once (TUO) – Change Reporting System (CRS) solution, which relies heavily on Microsoft BizTalk Server, delivers unsurpassed value to customers seeking to build end-to-end applications.  The Tell Us Once Change Reporting System is a major program being led by [...]

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SQL Server developer training kit–to useful to be just for developers

June 30, 2011

One of the few niggles I have about working at Microsoft is the way we try and put you the reader into pigeon holes, and an area where this fails for me is when it comes to SQL Server.  My developer friends won’t go near SQL Server unless they have to and this things like  [...]

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System Center Data Protection Manager 2010 now supports protecting up to 3000 client computers

June 30, 2011

Hi, Marc Reynolds here.  I wanted give you a quick update on an improvement in DPM Client Protection after installing the hotfix rollup package from March 2011.  With this hotfix rollup, System Center Data Protection Manager 2010 (DPM) now supports protecting up to 3000 client computers. Previously,  you would receive a warning when attempting to [...]

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Updates resume for Omnia phones on Orange

June 30, 2011

Hello everyone.  Busy week. Updates for the Samsung Focus with the memory variant are in the final phases of testing. Here’s what to expect when they become available. You’ll receive two back-to-back update notifications. The first is for the 7008 update. Once installed, you can then immediately update to 7392 (which will also include the [...]

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Windows MultiPoint Server 2011 Availability

June 30, 2011

Back in January, Gavriella Schuster published a blog post introducing Windows MultiPoint Server 2011. Windows MultiPoint Server is designed to make technology access easier and more affordable for educational institutions. What Windows MultiPoint Server does is a PC’s excess capability to enable a single PC to support multiple users simultaneously. It can be used for [...]

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Protect yourself from scams by knowing who really emailed you

June 30, 2011

Posted by Ela Iwaszkiewicz, Software Engineer I recently received an email from what looked like my bank saying I should update my account, but it looked a little weird. I clicked on the “show details” link and quickly learned it wasn’t from my bank after all; instead of being sent from First National Bank’s real [...]

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The J. Paul Getty Museum collection comes alive with Google Goggles

June 30, 2011

The Google Goggles team has worked with The J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles to “Goggles-enable” their permanent collection of paintings. You can use the Google Goggles app on your phone to take a photo of a painting from the collection and instantly access information about it from the Getty’s mobile-optimized website and the [...]

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The J. Paul Getty Museum collection comes alive with Google Goggles

June 30, 2011

The Google Goggles team has worked with The J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles to “Goggles-enable” their permanent collection of paintings. You can use the Google Goggles app on your phone to take a photo of a painting from the collection and instantly access information about it from the Getty’s mobile-optimized website and the [...]

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