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Windows Desktop and Server – 7 / 2008 / Vista / 2003 / XP
  • Heads Up: End of Life support for Windows 2000 and Windows XP SP2 This is just a quick reminder that Windows 2000 and Windows XP Service Pack 2 are nearing end-of-support. This applies to Windows 2000 Server and Windows 2000 Professional, as well as all editions of Windows XP with SP2. On July 13th, 2010, these products will no longer be eligible for regular support and free access to security updates. April 13th, 2010 is end-of-support for Windows Vista RTM version.
  • An Introduction to the Windows System State Analyzer The basic functionality of the System State Analyzer tool is to allow you to compare two snapshots taken at different points in time. This allows you to compare the state of a machine both before and after an application install for instance. Today I will give you a run-through of what the tool looks like while doing a compare of a system both before and after installing a software package, in this case Virtual PC 2007.
  • Mark’s Blog: The Case of the Slow Logons The case begins when a systems administrator at a large company got multiple end-user complaints that logon was taking over three minutes. The users didn’t encounter any problems once logged on, but the delays were understandably frustrating. Many other users running with the same software configuration weren’t experiencing issues, however.
  • VMMap – A Peek Inside Virtual Memory This tool gives us a neat summary of a process’ virtual and physical memory usage. It shows a graphical summary as well as a detailed report of a given process’ memory usage pattern.
  • Virtually Painless – Using Disk2VHD to reduce time to solution The Disk2VHD tool from Sysinternals may come in handy.  Simply create a virtual image of your physical server using Disk2VHD, then load the VHD under Microsoft Virtual PC or a Windows 2008 Hyper-V server.  With undo disks or snapshots enabled, you can reproduce the issue as many times as needed until root cause is determined.  At the same time, your production server can remain active while you troubleshoot it’s twin in a virtual environment.
  • Windows 7: What Does it Mean to be Compatible with Windows 7? There are a number of terms thrown around in the world of app compat that are vaguely defined at best. Now, I’m not one to suggest that tedium is a good practice in general, but in some cases understanding the true technical definition of a term can lead to significant time savings when that definition is applied to a project.
  • Directory Services: The importance of following ALL the authoritative restore steps Recently a customer contacted Microsoft Product Support to determine why the Connect to Domain Controller option in Active Directory Users and Computers (aka: ADUC or dsa.msc) was generating an incomplete list of Domain Controllers (DCs) for one domain. Even though the list of available DCs was truncated we found we could manually enter the name of any DC not in the list and Active Directory Users and Computers would connect to the DC without issue.
  • Clustered Certification Authority maintenance tasks I thought I would share with you how to do some common tasks with a Windows Server 2008 clustered Certification Authority (CA).
  • Cluster: New Cluster Docs for Cluster Shared Volumes (CSV) & Migration We have recently added some Windows Server 2008 R2 Failover Clustering content on the web.
  • R2 Print Cluster? Get this Hotfix! KB 976571 Many of you use Failover Clustering to provide high-availability to your print servers to ensure that the print spooler resource stays up and running.  We have recently released a Rollup Hotfix specific to print clustering which contains several fixes to improve the stability of the overall print system and fix issues with migration of print servers using PrintBRM.  Microsoft recommends that you install this Hotfix on all of your 2008 R2 print cluster nodes
  • Cluster Migration Wizard, is this the only way to migrate shares on a Cluster? As everyone should know by now, the way to get your Windows 2003 Cluster Server to Windows 2008 and 2008 R2 Failover Clustering is by doing a migration to the new cluster.  So let’s say we have a Windows 2003 Cluster running as a File Server and we are going to be using new hardware (machines, SAN, etc).  In order to migrate the shares, you can use the Cluster Migration Wizard in Failover Cluster Management.
  • Be Sure to Plan Carefully When Virtualizing Your Infrastructure There is a lot of excitement around Microsoft virtualization technologies these days and rightfully so.  One of the ‘hottest’ areas right now appears to be making virtual machines highly available using Windows Server 2008 R2 Failover Clusters so end users can take maximum advantage of Live Migration and Cluster Shared Volumes (CSV).  This configuration not only saves a lot of money but also provides business continuity in the event of an unforeseen failure in  the environment. So, what happens when a customer decides they love Microsoft virtualization and high availability technologies so much, they want to virtualize their entire infrastructure?
  • Deleting a Cluster resource? Do it the supported way
  • Remote Desktop Services: VIDEO: How to Install MS VDI on as Single Server using Windows 7 Guests People have asked us how easy it is to install a complete MS VDI solution and how many servers does it take.  I’ve created a video to showcase that you can setup a complete solution including backend, broker, and web publishing to provide virtualized clients on a single physical Windows Server 2008 R2 box.  This sample uses Windows 7 for the guest. The complete 16 minute video is here.
  • How to detect RDS-specific application compatibility issues by using the RDS Application Compatibility Analyzer The tool provides a summary of incompatible behavior between the RD Session Host server and an application, and provides recommendations for deploying the application on an RD Session Host server.
  • PowerShell: What’s new in Windows PowerShell 2.0 We are going to take a brief look at some of the new features in Windows PowerShell 2.0. As you may or may not know, PowerShell 2.0 is now included in Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. As of October 2009, PowerShell 2.0 is available to download for Windows XP SP3, Windows 2003 SP2, Windows Vista-SP1, and Windows Server 2008 RTM.
  • Perform asynchronous asset management using Windows PowerShell cmdlets for WMI With Windows 7 wmi cmdlets now have support to perform tasks asynchronously.
  • The PowerScripting Centennial 99 podcasts of Pure Power. That’s what the PowerScripting Podcast has been churning out for almost three years! Well, this week is extra special, as you might imagine from the title of this post. On Thursday, they record episode one hundred: a huge milestone by any means. A testament to dedication and passion.
  • How objects are sent to and from remote sessions Instead of piping unstructured text, Windows PowerShell pipes objects between commands in a pipeline.  As a consequence PowerShell remoting also deals with objects when passing data to and from remote sessions.  This post explains how remote objects are serialized and which types of objects can be sent with full fidelity.
  • PowerShell for Failover Clustering: Creating Highly Available Workloads One of the things we’ve provided in Failover Clustering PowerShell is a set of CMDlets to easily create highly available workloads in a cluster.
Virtualization Technologies
  • Hyper-V: Hyper-V virtual machines do not start after using Startup Repair Over the weekend, I attempted to reconfigure some of the drives in my Hyper-V server at home.  Note that I said “attempted”.  I ran into hardware issues and ended up having to revert back to my old configuration – but somehow in all of this – I broke my system disk. This did not faze me because I knew that the excellent startup repair tool in Windows would soon have me up and running – which it did.
  • Guest post: “Setting the Record Straight – 9 Reasons Why Hyper-V is a Great Choice for Enterprises” Recently, I came across an InformationWeek Analytics Weblog that asserted a bunch of half truths and misinformation about Microsoft’s Hyper-V virtualization solution. Usually, I can just let it go (everyone’s entitled to their own opinion, right?), but in this case, the article was so skewed and so misleading that I felt that I needed to respond.
  • App-V: App-V 4.6 and applications sequenced using earlier versions With the release of Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.6 looming on the horizon, a question that seems to pop up over and over again is “Can I run all my apps that I sequenced using App-V 4.5 or 4.2 with the new App-V 4.6 client?”  Another one is “Can I run my old 32-bit packages using the new App-V 64-bit client?”  The short answer to both is Yes but I have a couple bullet points below that should help clear up some of the confusion.
  • New Free App-V Self Support Tool (and how to make friends at the helpdesk) Peter Nap, from Login Consultants, has developed a light-weight, super user friendly tool which does not require MMC access.
  • MED-V: Moving the MED-V Reporting Database from one SQL Server to another The MEDV Reporting database is very basic as it is only used by the server for logging events, errors, and status messages. This makes the portability of the database all the more easy and the process to move a MEDV database from SQL server to another can be done in a few easy steps.
  • Microsoft Enterprise Desktop Virtualization (MED-V) Administration Video Series now available for download This series is designed to help IT professionals wishing to learn more about the administrative and management tasks in MED-V. The series provides step-by-step guidance around common tasks that would be performed by IT professionals to deploy MED-V. Intended to be consumed sequentially, these videos will help you get up to speed with key MED-V administrator tasks and accelerate the deployment of MED-V in your organization.
  • WSUS: New Antigen category in WSUS A new product family called Antigen will be added to your WSUS server in the next few days. The Antigen product category will include updates, including service packs, optional updates, and critical or security updates, for the Microsoft Antigen 9 for Exchange and Microsoft® Antigen 9 for SMTP.
SQL Server
  • How to have a Select All Multi-Value Cascading Parameter I’ve seen several cases that involved Multi-Value Cascading Parameters and how the behavior of those work.  Let me start with the default (Out of the box) behavior.  The example report I’ll be using will make use of the AdventureWorksDW sample database.  I will also be using SQL 2008 R2 November Release, but the same will apply to SQL 2008 Reporting Services as well.
  • Free Download: Microsoft SQL Server Migration Assistant Microsoft recently announced the first CTP of a SQL Server Migration Assistant (SSMA) for MySQL v1.0, which automates aspects of the migration process to Microsoft SQL Server 2005 & 2008 including SQL Azure Database.
  • PowerPivot: Are you a PowerPivot Alpha Geek? Ready to put your Excel and PowerPivot skills to the test? Take the Excelerators Quiz to see what kind of Excel user you are. Then check out the Alpha Geek Challenge with Donald Farmer for a chance to win a $250 shopping spree or an all-expense paid trip to the BI Conference in New Orleans!!!
Exchange Server
System Center
Office SharePoint Technologies
Microsoft Office System
  • Update Center for Microsoft Office, Office Servers, and Related Products The Office Sustaining Engineering team is happy to announce a new website that allows you to track all updates released by Office in a single place.
  • Office 2010 System Requirements First off, I’d like to explain what level of performance you can expect from minimum-requirement hardware.
  • Office 2010: Accessibility Investments & Document Accessibility Upon starting our research for the 2010 release, we knew it was important to continue our accessibility focus (see Microsoft Accessibility for more info) and ensure that Office 2010 is the most accessible version of Office ever.
  • Office 2010 Technology in Action at the Winter Games in Vancouver Microsoft, along with many of you has caught the Vancouver 2010 fever and we figured what better place to try out some of the new features of Office 2010. Two bloggers, Amber Johnson Borowski and Dylan Derryberry will use the Office 2010 beta technology to blog live from the Games come February as the winners of our Office Winter Games contest.
  • Accessing Office Documents Using Your Phone In this post we will talk in more details how you can access your documents on-the-go.
  • Access: Access 2010: How to write expressions for Web queries, forms, and reports Access has traditionally supported a wide variety of expressions in different areas of the application. Tables and fields, queries, form and report properties, controls, and macros can all use expressions to evaluate data or logic to drive the behavior of an application. In the past, each of these contexts in which an expression is used have shared a single, common expression evaluation engine. This means that no matter where you use an expression, the functions and operators available to you will likely be the same. Things will change when you start to build web databases with Access 2010.
  • Power Tip: Making forms easier to use and maintain In today’s post I would like to share with you some tips about form design that I’m using consistently in all applications I develop. Maybe you can get some benefit from my approach to form design.
  • Access 2010: Design more maintainable apps with calculated columns When I talk to developers about why they love Access, the most frequent response is always about fast they can build applications that track data. This saves time and money. Calculated columns are a new feature in Access 2010 that is designed to help end users and developers build applications faster, and are easier to maintain.
  • OCS: Free Instructor-Led Training for end-users: Introduction to Office Communicator This live course is held in a virtual classroom via Office Live Meeting. It will allow hands-on experience to build knowledge, skills, and confidence to use Office Communicator more effectively.
  • Additional Windows Live Messenger PIC/Federation IP Address In an effort to provide enhanced capacity and service reliance, Windows Live Messenger will soon be adding an additional IP address used for PIC/Federation traffic.
  • Excel: Excel Web App 2010 Overview Way back in November 2009, the author wrote a short blog post announcing the two browser-based solutions the Excel team is delivering as part of the Office 2010 wave of products. That article was mainly focused on Excel Services’ new features and functionality. This article is really part 2 – focusing on the Excel Web App 2010. See also: Editing in Excel Web App – Part I, Editing in Excel Web App – Part II, and Collaborative Editing Using Excel Web App.
  • Updated Excel Services Web Services API in SharePoint 2010 The Excel Web Services API that initially shipped with Excel Services 2007 has been updated and expanded for Excel Services in SharePoint 2010. I will address the additions and changes for the Excel Web Services API for SharePoint 2010 in this post. Additional information about the Web Services API covering the 2007 implementation can be found in the earlier posts Excel Services part 6: Building applications with Excel Web Services and Excel Services part 7: Sample application with Excel Web Services.
  • Table Improvements in Excel 2010 In this article the author will outline three features in Office 2010 that improve table interaction in Excel.  These feature additions build on the work started Excel 2007, addressing areas with significant customer feedback and further improving the feature area.
  • Outlook: Issue with message sizes in Outlook 2010 Beta We have heard from some of you that you are running into an issue with large e-mail message sizes in the Outlook 2010 Beta. We want to update you on the status of this issue.
  • PowerPoint: What Can Multimedia Do for You? Whether you’ve snapped a few videos with your digital camera that you’d like to share with your family or you’ve got important video clips displaying a product in action for your sales pitch, you can now show them all in the best possible light using PowerPoint 2010. Download the beta today and try for yourself!
  • PowerPoint 2010: Hardware Acceleration In Office 2007, we significantly improved the rendering quality of static content. Users could quickly and easily enhance shapes, pictures, and other content with effects such as bevels, soft edges, and reflections. For Office 2010, we switched our focus to enhancing dynamic content – animations, transitions and video. To accomplish this, we rebuilt the core rendering engine using DirectX 9.0. As a result, you’ll notice that PowerPoint 2010 is improved in four major ways detailed in this article.
  • Project: Task Statusing and the new Grid A few weeks back Patrick Conlan posted an overview of some of the Time Tracking investment areas for Project Server 2010. Today we are going to drill in on one such investment area, namely the Statusing feature area.
  • Project 2010: Copy and Paste In Project 2010, we’ve gone “back to basics” in an effort to bring you the output you want with minimum effort on your part. We’ve improved the copy/paste experience when going from Project into the Office apps, and also going from the Office apps into Project.
  • Tips and Tricks: Changing Constraints Back to Normal So how do you clean up a project with messy constraints and switch them back to Project’s preferred ASAP constraint? You could hunt for them one task at a time. But that’s too much work. Or you could add a Constraint Type column to a view, and search for them that way, but a bunch of work still remains. A better solution: search for the problem dates or constraints, and then have Project replace them automatically.
  • Project 2010: Business Intelligence Overview This post will provide an overview of the Business Intelligence (BI) investments that were made in Microsoft Project Server 2010.
  • Visio: SharePoint Workflow Authoring in Visio Premium 2010 (Part 2) Workflow design often takes a lot of communication and collaboration. Business stakeholders may send IT professionals business flowcharts to further automate as workflows. On the flip-side, once the IT professional has implemented the workflow, he/she may want to store the workflow as a Visio diagram so that all stakeholders are clear on what is being implemented. Such diagrams can also serve as copies that can be archived for auditing purposes.
  • Word: The Why Behind Our Styles and Lists Designs There a number of decisions that were made by those of us involved in those efforts that folks are still talking about (including in recent comments on this and other blogs). This post gives you some of my personal insights as to why we went in the directions we did.
  • Word Automation Services: How it Works In my first two posts in the series on Word Automation Services, I talked about what it is and what it does – in this post, I wanted to drill in on how the service works from an architectural standpoint, and what that means for solutions built on top of it.
Microsoft Dynamics
Other Information
  • Microsoft Research: Who’s Hogging The Bandwidth?: The Consequences Of Revealing The Invisible In The Home As more technologies enter the home, householders are burdened with the task of digital housekeeping – managing and sharing digital resources like bandwidth. In response to this, we created a domestic tool for bandwidth management called Home Watcher. Our field trial of Home Watcher showed that when resource contention amongst different household members is made visible, people’s understanding of bandwidth changes and household politics are revealed. In this paper, we describe the consequences of showing real time resource usage in a home, and how this varies depending on the social make up of the household.
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