Hello, On reçoit pas mal de dossiers depuis 2-3 jours et je peux vous garantir que la qualité est bien au rendez-vous! La sélection va être difficile!! :) Vous avez jusqu’à ce soir minuit pour nous les envoyer à icfr@microsoft.com . Les résultats probablement...

Hello Guys, We have just announced you will have the opportunity to participate in 3 special paths…. So enjoy these special awards, they are created to reward some specific solution aspects…so feel free to register! Interoperability award : how to mix...

Following important feedbacks, particularly on VS2010, the beta period is extended and there will be a RC version in February. Feedbacks around performance issue. Developers work intensively to offer the best user experience! Vincent

Following the different PDC announces, you have now Silverlight 4 and ASP.NET MVC beta versions available. Feel free to go to each website to get product and further information: SL4 Beta: http://www.silverlight.net/getstarted/silverlight-4-beta/ ASP...

In this post, we will see how to prepare a slipstreamed installation of SQL Server 2008 RTM with its Service Pack 1. What? A slipstreamed version is in reality an installation package modified to integrate product updates such as service packs. More and...

Hey guys, There is a great tool which is developed by our friends from MSR (Microsoft Research) to compile a set of pictures and mix them to get a really nice result It is not just a tool which takes pictures one by one, it takes in account a big number...

Hey, You will find below the different steps to install SQL Server 2008 R2 November CTP. As you will see, it is quite the same procedure as the August CTP and also SQL Server 2008 RTM. The main difference is the ability to deploy the gemini service...

Hey guys, You follow up very closely this great product development? After the august CTP, now you have the November one so go to the download page and enjoy it! http://www.microsoft.com/sqlserver/2008/en/us/R2.aspx Vincent

To follow up information from the product team and so on….just one address: http://blogs.msdn.com/gemini Enjoy!

As you know, today is a great for us as we launch our famous Windows 7 officially! You will appreciate some new features such as to customize your windows with lots of themes and with an easy way! To provide you a maximum of content, you have lots...

Still some doubts about our innovative power?? Ok let’s go, we have just added a new feature on our famous search engine….you can now search againts tweets that are grouped by themes! Note that this feature is only provided on the US version at this...

I’m sure you all heard about Gemini….s great add-in for Excel 2010 to improve data analysis directly from your favorite client application….Excel! You need further information about Power Pivot? Really simple, we put online a dedicated website http...

Here we go! We announced some important news around the development ecosystem! Visual Studio 2010 Download Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 Official site: http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/en-us/default.mspx A new logo! .NET framework...

At the SharePoint conference in Las Vegas we announced some further information about SharePoint 2010. This is a really important release for us and you! To understand why, you have a lot of resources you can use: SharePoint 2010 Website...

Hi all, After having some problems recently to install a TFS platform, I decided to post some tips and tricks about it. Even if your favorite search engine (just in case I precise Bing www.bing.com ) is your best friend to troubleshoot errors with...

A new time, Microsoft is considered as a leader on this market by the Gartner group. A new proof of Microsoft’s capabilities in building, deploying and supporting applications! Lots of innovations continue notably with SaaS (Software as a Service)...

As you might know, TFS 2010 is really closed from us now, just few months to wait for. I would like to remind you some great possibilities around the installation process we will have: No architecture restriction: TFS will be installed on x86...

You like your local theme when you selected your regional settings during Windows 7 installation….but you might want to use other available themes. Really simple, type the following address in your explorer : C:\Windows\Globalization\MCT and you will...

MSE (code name Morro) is exactly the challenge we decided to take for our users! It is often requested by users to have free antivirus on PC as data protection became a big issue with Internet. Now, we offer a free, reliable with no performance impact...

If one day, you try to develop an availability report from scratch for your organization it might be a bit confusing to navigate through the SCOM reporting datawarehouse. To help you, I formalized the different references according to downtime type...

If you try to install your TFS 2008 on a SQL Server 2008 SP1 installation you will get an error message about SQL Server compatibility during the System Health check processing. Why? It' is written everywhere SQL Server 2008 is supported by TFS 2008...

As you know, you have a great tool to help you in planning and sizing this of thing today….the Capacity Planner. Now, you have a new tool to complete these tasks, it is named Sizing Helper and it is an interactive document. All information was published...

So many produtcts and so many blogs by product….it is not always so easy to get the loist of our blogs whereas it is so useful to have the latest news about this or this product/techno…. Then, colleagues put a list online about the official product...

We annouced yesterday the availability of Visual Search…a first version which show a new way to search on the Web. What a great thing to search with images rather than text! Much easier for a lot of use cases. You know the face of a politician...

By default and for obvious security reasons the default execution policy of Powershell scripts is “Restricted”. With this kind of mode you can run individual cmdlets but not saved Powershell scripts. If you want to change this policy, you can run...