After seeing Puneet's post I have downloaded IEAK7 , and playing with it. As mentioned in the post IEAK7 can be used in the following scenarios. A corporate system admin wants to deploy IE7 and have it immediately configured according to specifications...

I am at the Ankara Airport and seems that I will be here for a while. So I was checking my e-mails, and saw some cool applications were available for download. ActiveSync Web Administration Tool and ActiveSync Certificate-Based Authentication Tool ...

You can find hands-on labs to start developing for Windows Mobile at http://msdn.microsoft.com/mobility/windowsmobile/howto/hols/ The page also describes and gives brief information about each lab. MED201_MSDN_NETCF_App_VS2005.doc MED202_MSDN_Intro_New_WM5_Managed_APIs...

Microsoft IT needed to improve its performance reporting system to better address evolving business needs in a complex and geography dispersed environment. Two of the key challenges were to gain a more insightful view of IT services' performance and improve...

MS Sales is an internal, mission-critical data warehousing and revenue reporting system that provides decision makers at Microsoft with key information about worldwide sales of products. To optimize the infrastructure of MS Sales and to improve decision...

Headquartered in Düsseldorf, Germany, Vodafone D2 serves 27 million mobile phone users. As a result of rapid growth, the company’s IT infrastructure became increasingly complex and difficult to manage over time. It was also based on outdated technologies...

As I wrote earlier MSN is now providing Virtual Earth Service. And you can visit http://www.virtualearth.com or http://local.live.com if you would like to try it. (built with MapPoint ) And, if you want try it on your own; you can find the documentation...

There will be a series of webcasts detailing both business and technical aspects of Microsoft Hosting Solutions. Boost Your Business with Windows Website Starters SQL Server 2005 for Hosters Why It’s Time to Add Windows to Your Hosting Business...

Registration for MEDC 06 is open at http://www.medc2006.com/ . MEDC 06 will be held between May 8 - 11 at the Venetian Hotel, Las Vegas. Pre-Conference Tutorials (May 8) Application Development for Windows Mobile (Presenter: Jim Wilson) This...

...Out of the remote recesses of Software City , four courageous heroes bound together by a code of knowledge , insight , and honor dared to stand up and fight for software developers around the globe. The time has come for caffeine . The time has come...

eBay built a Starter Kit for Visual Studio 2005, which could be downloaded here . Also there is an MSDN Article " Introduction to eBay Starter Kit " which has all the details for developing the application and using eBay web services. If you would...

BOTs (or robots) are used generally to answer prompt questions with some artificial intelligence, like directory assistance service - you ask the name, bot returns the phone number. Developing a bot is easy. We need to get RTC Client API first which...

There is a contest at microsoftgadgets.com ! Free trip to Mix06 for the best Live.com gadget. The contest ends on March 13! Good Luck!

Windows Mobile Enterprise Resource Kit provides a walk through demo of Outlook Mobile, white papers about mobility-enabled business, links to web casts and customer experiences. Also there are additional resources for Windows Mobile deployment in enterprises...

On Feb. 06 , Microsoft announced, that Sony Ericsson has licensed the Exchange ActiveSync protocol for Sony Ericsson’s P990 and M600 phones. After this announcement Microsoft's partners who have licensed ActiveSync are; DataViz An after-market...

Speaking in San Jose, California at the preeminent forum for information security professionals, Microsoft Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates outlines an industry vision for security and describes Microsoft’s efforts to shape a future that...

In a live keynote from Barcelona at the 3GSM World Congress--the world’s premier mobile event--Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer will highlight the company’s latest innovations and partnerships as well as share some insights on the company’s strategies and...

In a live keynote from Las Vegas at the world’s premier event for consumer electronics retailers and manufacturers, Microsoft Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates provided an overview of the latest devices and services that enable consumers...

I couldn't go to 3GSM World Congress, but it seems amazing from what I have read so far :) Also a note: There are a lot of thing to talk about here. I will try to write as much as possible as soon as possible... February 12, 2006 Vodafone...

I have added " Search Discovery " to CSUpdate. I think your search button should have lighted up by now, if you are using IE7. Search Discovery The Beta 2 Preview also allows sites to advertise additional search providers that might be interesting...

It is snowing outside, I have a cup of coffee playing with new IE7! I have installed yesterday. It has cool features. My favorites are RSS feeds and custom search providers . There are a lot more features, check http://www.microsoft.com/ie and http:/...

Microsoft has announced Live vision in November, 2005. Windows Live (for consumers) and Office Live (for small and medium businesses) will be software based services. ...the new offerings combine the power of software plus services and provide compelling...

If you have some time, to see more or refresh your knowledge you can watch this webcast (200 level) about Exchange 2003 component of HMC at http://www.microsoft.com/serviceproviders/webhosting/webcasts/Exchange2003Hosting.wvx . Also there is a demo...

Clean and safe messaging is one of the hottest topics around nowadays. You can find d etailed discussion on how Microsoft IT manages the large quantities of unwanted e-mail (a.k.a. spam) and malware-infected messages in its inbound Internet e-mail traffic...

Feature Pack 1 for Hosted Messaging and Collaboration version 3.5 has been released. Registered members can download the solution from https://members.microsoft.com/serviceproviders/webhosting/hostedmessaging/default.mspx