From the monthly archives:

August 2011

Now available: Windows Phone 7 Connector 2.0 for Mac

August 31, 2011

The next release of Windows Phone 7 Connector landed in the Mac App Store today. The software, which requires OS X 10.6 or later, makes it easy to sync media files from your Mac to your Windows Phone and vice versa. It’s also how Mac users update their Windows Phone software. Highlights of the 2.0 [...]

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Exchange Server 2010 SP2 and Support for Hosting Exchange

August 31, 2011

With the release of Exchange Server 2010 SP2 later this year, we will add a new feature known as Address Book Policies. Following this addition, hosters who wish to deploy the standard on-premises configuration of Exchange and use ABP will be supported. As you may have read in a recent post over on the Exchange [...]

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Understanding what the USMT 4.0 CONFIG manifests migrate (Part 10: Vista Section A)

August 31, 2011

This part covers the following config.xml components for Windows Vista: ————————————————————————————————– <component displayname=“gadgets“ migrate=“yes“ ID=“gadgets“>       <component displayname=“gadgets\sticky notes“ migrate=“yes“ ID=“gadgets\sticky notes“>         <component displayname=“Microsoft-Windows-Gadgets-stickyNotes“ migrate=“yes“ ID=“http://www.microsoft.com/migration/1.0/migxmlext/cmi/microsoft-windows-gadgets-stickynotes/microsoft-windows-gadgets-stickynotes/settings“/>       </component>     </component>     <component displayname=“Microsoft-Windows-sysdm“ migrate=“yes“ ID=“http://www.microsoft.com/migration/1.0/migxmlext/cmi/microsoft-windows-sysdm/microsoft-windows-sysdm/settings“/>     <component displayname=“Microsoft-Windows-eudcedit“ migrate=“yes“ ID=“http://www.microsoft.com/migration/1.0/migxmlext/cmi/microsoft-windows-eudcedit/microsoft-windows-eudcedit/settings“/>     <component displayname=“WCF-NonHTTP-Activation“ migrate=“yes“ ID=“http://www.microsoft.com/migration/1.0/migxmlext/cmi/wcf-nonhttp-activation/wcf-nonhttp-activation/settings“/>     <component displayname=“Microsoft-Windows-NETFX35CDFComp“ migrate=“yes“ ID=“http://www.microsoft.com/migration/1.0/migxmlext/cmi/microsoft-windows-netfx35cdfcomp/microsoft-windows-netfx35cdfcomp/settings“/>     <component displayname=“Microsoft-Windows-TerminalServices-AppServer-Licensing“ migrate=“yes“ [...]

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Mozilla Shows off Firefox Tablet UI

August 31, 2011

Mozilla is currently working on the tablet version of Firefox, and Ian Barlow, user interface designer at Mozilla, has just shown off the user interface for this tablet version. I can assure you – this might just be the first tablet browser interface actually designed for, you know, tablets. OSNews

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What’s new in Pictures + Camera for Mango

August 30, 2011

I don’t know about the rest of you, but I don’t own a “real” camera anymore, digital or otherwise. Instead, for the past couple of years I’ve recorded all my memorable events with my phone—my daughters’ birthdays, my trip to Hawaii, the amazing sandwich I’m about to eat, the weird-looking bird nesting under a bush [...]

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Microsoft Aligning with ODBC

August 30, 2011

Today we are announcing that Microsoft is aligning with ODBC for native relational data access – the de-facto industry standard. This move supports our commitment to interoperability and our partners and customers’ journey to the cloud. SQL Azure is already aligned with ODBC today. The next release of Microsoft SQL Server, Code Name “Denali,” will [...]

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More on Morto

August 30, 2011

As some of you might be aware, we’ve recently been seeing low levels of reports of Win32/Morto – a worm that causes headaches for users who may have less than ideal password policies – so we thought we’d look at this in more detail. The number of computers reporting infections or infection attempts continues to [...]

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Querying MDT/ConfigMgr Logs in MDT Scripts

August 30, 2011

The Lite Touch Deployment Process end in a Summary Wizard pane that displays any warning or errors that were logged in the MDT master log (BDD.log). This is a great feature but customers have pointed out that this summary is not preserved after the Summary Wizard is closed.  If you accidentally Finish before reading everything, [...]

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Exchange Server Deployment Assistant now includes a “Cloud Only” scenario

August 30, 2011

For many companies, the robust messaging and calendaring features offered by Office 365 for enterprises presents an opportunity to transition all messaging functionality from the on-premises organization into the cloud. Office 365 for enterprises includes a full suite of e-mail migration tools. However, there are dependencies and restrictions on the migration tools that you may [...]

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The Security Log Haystack – Event Forwarding and You

August 30, 2011

Hi. This is your guest writer Mark Renoden. I’m a Senior Premier Field Engineer based in Sydney, Australia and I’m going to talk to you about the use of Event Forwarding to collect security events. This is particularly useful when: You have specific events you’re looking for (e.g. account lock out investigations) You have an [...]

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