From the monthly archives:

January 2012

How to pick a smartphone: a beginner’s guide

January 31, 2012

Like many of you, I’m itching to get my hands on one of those sleek and powerful new Windows Phones we’ve been announcing lately. But which one to get? I’m not the most hardware-savvy high-tech professional (shhh!), so I’m sometimes uncertain what specs I should look at when I shop for a new phone (beyond [...]

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Replica inconsistent and insufficient disk space on BMR (Bare Metal Recovery) Backup (How To Fix)

January 31, 2012

New from our community driven TechNet Wiki: System Center Data Protection Manager 2010 (DPM 2010) offers with its new console in the creation of a protection group in System Protection, a new option called "Bare Metal Recovery". This option saves the operating system files (System State) and critical volumes (excluding user data) to restore it [...]

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.PST, Time to Walk the Plank

January 31, 2012

PST Capture Download Documentation Ask and ye shall receive, mateys! As we announced in July, we are always looking for new ways to make your work easier – especially when your work involves ending PST proliferation. Today, we are happy to announce that PST Capture is now available as a free download. PST Capture helps [...]

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.PST, Time to Walk the Plank

January 31, 2012

PST Capture Download Documentation Ask and ye shall receive, mateys! As we announced in July, we are always looking for new ways to make your work easier – especially when your work involves ending PST proliferation. Today, we are happy to announce that PST Capture is now available as a free download. PST Capture helps [...]

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.PST, Time to Walk the Plank

January 31, 2012

PST Capture Download Documentation Ask and ye shall receive, mateys! As we announced in July, we are always looking for new ways to make your work easier – especially when your work involves ending PST proliferation. Today, we are happy to announce that PST Capture is now available as a free download. PST Capture helps [...]

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.PST, Time to Walk the Plank

January 31, 2012

PST Capture Download Documentation Ask and ye shall receive, mateys! As we announced in July, we are always looking for new ways to make your work easier – especially when your work involves ending PST proliferation. Today, we are happy to announce that PST Capture is now available as a free download. PST Capture helps [...]

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Landing another blow against email phishing

January 31, 2012

Posted by Adam Dawes, Product Manager Email phishing, in which someone tries to trick you into revealing personal information by sending fake emails that look legitimate, remains one of the biggest online threats. One of the most popular methods that scammers employ is something called domain spoofing. With this technique, someone sends a message that [...]

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Free music Monday!

January 30, 2012

Many of you know I’m a big music fan, so I got pumped when I heard about a new offer from Windows Phone for some free music. The new Gentleman Hall album has been free the last few weeks, but tomorrow is the last day to download! Head over to the Zune Marketplace on your [...]

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When imitation isn’t a form of flattery

January 30, 2012

When I was at school (many, many years ago…) a teacher once told me that if someone copies you, it’s a sign of flattery. Well, right now there are numerous “companies” copying us, but we are far from flattered.   For some time now, rogue security programs have been trying their hardest to look just [...]

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Friday Mail Sack: Carl Sandburg Edition

January 29, 2012

Hi folks, Jonathan again. Ned is taking some time off visiting his old stomping grounds – the land of Mother-in-Laws and heart-breaking baseball. Or, as Sandburg put it: “Hog Butcher for the World, Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat, Player with Railroads and the Nation’s Freight Handler; Stormy, husky, brawling, City of the Big Shoulders” Cool, [...]

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