Microsoft has published the TechDays 2011 application for Windows Phone 7. With this application you have access to the sessions description (this already includes room ), you will be notify in live for any change (time schedule, room…), have access to the TechDays 2011 blog, speaker bio… Go to the Marketplace
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I’m using ForeFront Threat Management Gateway (TMG) and ForeFront Unified Access Gateway (UAG) for a while. These servers are virtualized using Hyper V R2 and running Windows Server 2008 R2. Almost since the initial installation of both software I experimented slow server starting (about 20 min to start) while other server were running smoothly. I
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Microsoft has released a tool to analyze the vulnerability surface of your platform before or after a product installation. This tool is now in beta. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=e068c224-9d6d-4bf4-aab8-f7352a5e7d45&displaylang=en It’s compatible with Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 (R1 and R2) in x32 bits and x64 bits.
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To follow my previous about an issue with SharePoint Designer when accessing a SharePoint site published with UAG (http://blog.hametbenoit.info/2011/01/07/sharepoint-uag-issue-with-sharepoint-designer-when-accessing-sharepoint-site-through-uag/) here is an update. To avoid the error ‘The server could not complete your request’, you have to disable the smuggling protection located on the Web Server Security tab on the application property
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Following my previous post, here is a quick step to install and use the IIS warm up module. Download the IIS Warm Up module from http://www.iis.net/download/ApplicationWarmUp Launch the setup program and follow the wizard; there is almost nothing else than accepting the license agreement. Once the setup is finished, you have to enabled the module.
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Many of SharePoint administrators have implemented a warm up script to improve responsiveness of SharePoint after a server reboot or an IISRESET. For example, with SharePoint 2010 you may have created a PowerShell script like this one: # Warmup the local SharePoint sites Function Warmup-Site { Param([string]$url) Process { $wc
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If you want to track your twitter account on Outlook, which allow you to keep tweet on your Outlook inbox, send tweet directly from Outlook… This will interest you http://www.techhit.com/TwInbox/twitter_plugin_outlook.html The good news is it’s working with Outlook 2010, even the x64 bits version !!! To install it you have to close your Outlook before.
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Microsoft has released the RTW (Release To the Web) of Active Directory Federation Services 2.0. ADFS is allowing users collaboration across organization boundaries as well as used for simple application authentication on premise and in the cloud. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=118c3588-9070-426a-b655-6cec0a92c10b
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If you are using Outlook 2010 and Exchange 2010, you may have experimented this. Your mailbox name show on top of your mailbox folders tree is showing your email address instead of your display name. After doing some research, I found nothing which could explain that, except maybe the autodiscover process. Indeed, the autodiscover process
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Microsoft has released the Service Pack 4 for SQL 2005. This may be the last SP for SQL 2005 – think to move to newer SQL version. SQL 2005 SP 4 includes SQL Server 2005 SP3 cumulative updates 1 to 11, customer requested fixes, and the SQL Server 2005 SP4 database engine support for DAC
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