Shared by sls Shame on you microsoft! Only worth reading with tongue firmly in-cheek! With the ailing global economy, I am looking at ways I get better value for my money. One way I can do this if I need to replace a computer is by avoiding the “Apple Tax.” Microsoft sponsored a new whitepaper (PDF) from Roger Kay of Endpoint Technologies Associates which ta […]
This question comes up during every Beta release (see here and here) and we have again seen it pop up in both Exchange 2010 forum as well as on our blog. The short answer is: No! Many people know that we run several customer test programs, and as part of those programs, we have customers that are running pre-release code in production. Those programs and dep […]
Lately we have seen more interest in certificate based authentication with Exchange 2007 Outlook Web Access. Using certificates for authentication can be considered more secure because a user cannot gain access to the mailbox simply by knowing the user name and password. The certificate option prevents key loggers or other malware on a client machine capturi […]
I found this graphical open application tool through an email here at work. Essentially its a tool that adds some really nice, almost round green fruit like, functionality to Windows Vista. It allows you to easily see graphically whats running like Alt-Tab does but a bit bigger and more useful. Here take a look! Its very cool! Nice huh? Its much better than […]
We’ve just released an update for Hyper-V which enables 24 Logical Processor Support. This is up from 16 Logical Processors when Hyper-V was released. We have also increased the number of supported running virtual machines from 128 to 192. This update even has a side benefit as well. Workloads that start a large number of processes will benefit from an i […]
Have you ever had one of those moments in IT, when you discover a tool, and a light bulb goes on inside your head, and you say to yourself “I’ve needed this for ages! This really fixes issue X”? I’ve had that a few times (maybe I need to get out more?), and one of those times was a few years ago with a tool from Microsoft, named as only MS can: Windows Serve […]
In a team meeting today Bjorn one of my colleagues was presenting using a very cool add-in developed by our OfficeLabs team. The add-in is called PPTPlex and with it you can present your slides as a tour through a zoomable canvas instead of a series of linear slides. It’s free and downloadable now :) […]
Ive been reading up a bit on USB booting. Theres a variety of reasons to do this. Some people make their own toolkits that they want readily available - some simply want to boot WinPE. Now that WinPE 2.0 comes with Vista DVD's and the WAIK, it provides for a ready easy way to make your own set of tools. Ill leave aside the coolness of ImageX and packagi […]
Spotted this over on Steve’s Blog and couldn’t help by repost it. Our Office Labs team has released a prototype tool that helps you manage email overload. This concept test provides a “do not disturb” button that temporarily pauses new email arrival, and prioritizes email with a 0-3 star rating system. You can get more details HERE […]
I might be the last person to know this but one of my favorite internal Microsoft tools is now external. Err.exe is a command-line tool that looks up error codes and spits out possible matches from various header files. This is invaluable when you're reading through a log and run across something like "Failed, err 0x80070003" -- just run err […]
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