From the monthly archives:

July 2012

Samsung reveals its pre-iPhone concepts: 10 touchscreen devices

July 31, 2012

It might be a cliche, but sometimes, a picture says more than a thousand words. Over the years, I’ve often talked about how the technology world is iterative, about how products are virtually always built upon that which came before, about how almost always, multiple people independently arrive at the same products since they work [...]

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SQL Server 2008 R2 SP2 Now Available

July 30, 2012

As part of our commitment to delivering and supporting high-quality software to our customers, Microsoft is pleased to announce SQL Server 2008 R2 SP2. Customers with existing investments on SQL Server 2008 R2 are encouraged to explore Service Pack 2. Service Pack 2 for SQL Server 2008 R2 includes product improvements based on requests from [...]

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IBM Webcast for Windows NAS

July 30, 2012

Today at 11:00am PST there is a webcast with IBM to discuss their Windows NAS product line. We would like to welcome you to come and join John Donovan and Scott Johnson (that’s me!) to discuss the capabilities and configurations that are possible in this cost effective and capable platform. IBM is one of the [...]

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IBM Webcast for Windows NAS

July 30, 2012

Today at 11:00am PST there is a webcast with IBM to discuss their Windows NAS product line. We would like to welcome you to come and join John Donovan and Scott Johnson (that’s me!) to discuss the capabilities and configurations that are possible in this cost effective and capable platform. IBM is one of the [...]

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Inside jOBS: TechCrunch Goes To The Movies

July 30, 2012

“IBM wants it all and is aiming its guns on its last obstacle to industry control: Apple. Will Big Blue dominate the entire computer industry?” Steve Jobs asks us. “No,” we cheer in unison. “The entire information age?” He asks again, “Was George Orwell right about 1984?” Then the Apple CEO introduces us to the [...]

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Support Tip: Moving a DPM machine from a domain to workgroup causes Consistency Checks to fail

July 30, 2012

Consider the following scenario: In your environment you have a Windows domain controller, a computer running System Center 2012 Data Protection Manager (DPM) and one member server. You are using Certificate Based Authentication (CBA) for the domain member and the domain member name is MemberServer.Contoso.Com. Note: The proper steps are followed to setup CBA as [...]

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Update on Multi-Mailbox Search Licensing

July 28, 2012

Earlier this month we announced a change on this blog related to licensing for Multi-Mailbox Search. Since then we’ve received questions about when it’ll go into effect. The change will go into effect starting October 1, which is when it’ll be reflected in the product use rights (PUR). The PUR contain the terms and conditions [...]

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Kerberos errors in network captures

July 28, 2012

Hi guys, Joji Oshima here again. When troubleshooting Kerberos authentication issues, a network capture is one of the best pieces of data to collect. When you review the capture, you may see various Kerberos errors but you may not know what they mean or if they are real problems. In this post, I’m going to [...]

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GNOME: ‘staring into the abyss’

July 28, 2012

Honest question. Do you think the GNOME project is as healthy today as it was, say, 4 years ago? Benjamin Otte explains that no, it isn’t. GNOME lacks developers, goals, mindshare and users. The situation as he describes it, is a lot more dire than I personally thought. OSNews

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Cloud and Datacenter Management System Center Update Rollup Improvements

July 28, 2012

Greetings, Hi, Carmen Summers here from the Cloud and Data Center Management System Center team.  Yesterday System Center released Update Rollup 2 for System Center 2012 posted on all System Center Blogs.  This is the second Update Rollup System Center 2012 has released since General Availability.  In the past year System Center has developed a [...]

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