Numbers in perspective
While it is very nice to read about Microsoft’s free cloud service for research: http://blogs.technet.com/b/microsoft_blog/archive/2010/11/18/democratizing-research-with-the-cloud.aspx I couldn’t help noticing that their perspective on numbers are a bit peculiar. The comparison image they use even fail to link to their sources, you need to type them yourself: http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/idb/worldpop.php http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genbank/genbankstats.html Link to original image in larger format: http://blogs.technet.com/cfs-file.ashx/__key/CommunityServer-Blogs-Components-WeblogFiles/00-00-00-80-54/8132.NCBI_2D00_lg.bmp While I …
Read MoreTools to test Exchange connectivity
The following two tools enable testing of connection to an Exchange server Microsoft Exchange Remote Connectivity Analyzer http://www.testexchangeconnectivity.com/ Exchange ActiveSync MD by MobilityDojo.net http://mobilitydojo.net/2010/03/30/rolling-your-own-exchange-activesync-client/ The first one is Microsoft’s own, the second one can be run on any computer so its easy to rule out any firewalls and gateways that might mess with the traffic. Unfortunately the MobilityDojo one …
Read MoreHow not to provide “cloud” services
When providing cloud services to customers, it might seem as a good idea to have all information securely tucked away somewhere within the providers servers and storage devices. If, for instance, your phone is lost and all data is stored on a server somewhere its quite easy to just disable the phones access to the data and get a new …
Read MoreSharePoint Designer now available as a free download
Microsoft has decided to release Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007 as a free download. Find more information here: www.microsoft.com/spd
Read MoreA Microsoft Update killed printing in Reporting Services
One client recently had a novel experience with their SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services installation. One day the printing feature stopped to work with this error: Turns out Microsoft decided to kill the print control because of a security issue… Upgrading SQL Server 2005 with Service Pack 3 installed a new version of the control and solved the problem…
Read MoreIE8 RC1 released
Microsoft has now released the RC1 of the new version 8 of Internet Explorer more information here http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2009/01/26/internet-explorer-8-release-candidate-now-available.aspx
Read MoreCommunity Technology Preview of Visual Studio 2008 extensions for SharePoint v1.3
While waiting for decent developer support for SharePoint in Visual Studio 2010 one might use the STSADM utiliy from codeplex. However, Microsoft is working on it and now the 1.3 version of the Visual Studio extensions fix some of the earlier shortcomings of the Microsoft tools, get the CTP and try it out…
Read MoreHow to access Windows Live SkyDrive from Explorer
With the recent introduction of 25 GB online storage available through the Windows Live SkyDrive service, I became interested in trying it out again. However, the standard interface is through a web interface and I prefer to also have the option to access it through a standard explorer interface or through something like Outlook. While snooping around for options, I …
Read MoreWindows 7 development
The MSDN Windows 7 developer guide has been released here: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/Win7DeveloperGuide includes more general information on the upcoming release, including screenshots…
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