February 2010

Various – Microsoft is providing a web platform

Microsoft is providing to everyone a web platform for testing and learning Microsoft technologies (Visual Team System, IIS web server…) This web platform will be free until June 30rd. 5000 free (until June 30rd) web servers to manage your web projects. These web servers are coming with many software such as DotNetNuke, WordPress… and more […]

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Exchange – Out of office still enabled while it was desactivated

Recently I had a strange behavior with my out of office (OOF). As I was away I enabled the OOF, with the scheduling option (send automatic reply between this date and this date) as usual. When I get back, I desactivated the OOF but colleagues and clients still continue to receive my OOF while they

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Office – Outlook Social Connector & LinkedIn Provider

Earlier this week, Microsoft released a social connector for Outlook 2003 and 2007. Once the new social connector is installed, the LinkedIn provider can be installed. This social connector is also works with the Outlook 2010 Beta and is a required update if the user wants to use the . The beta connector needs to

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SharePoint 2010 – Social networking – Tag cloud

With SharePoint 2010, Microsoft has taken into account the importance of social networking. Anyway, social networking was already included in MOSS but not really used – and I would say not really useful as it was located on My Profile but not accessible through SharePoint sites. Now, there is a better way. On each SharePoint

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Office 2010 – General availability date

Paul Thurrott, a well known blogger in the Microsoft sphere, mentions Office 2010 general availability will be June 15th 2010. That’s means the RTM version should be available about 1 month before. This includes Office clients and Office servers​ (SharePoint, Project, Fast Search and Search Server)

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Windows Server 2008 R2 – Microsoft DirectAccess Connectivity Assistant

The Microsoft DirectAccess Connectivity Assistant (DCA) helps organizations reduce the cost of supporting DirectAccess users and significantly improve their connectivity experience. This Solution Accelerator is part of the Windows® Optimized Desktop Toolkit 2010 (WODT 2010).   The Microsoft DirectAccess Connectivity Assistant (DCA) helps organizations reduce the cost of supporting DirectAccess users and significantly improve their

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