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Some more love for Windows Live
Continuing the sequence of more love for Windows Live, I am posting a couple of more...
Author: gpillai Date: 02/21/2009
A Little love for Windows Live – How easily Kylie uploads and shares photos
I am planning to post a series of blog-posts on the ease of use and friendliness of using...
Author: gpillai Date: 02/20/2009
Windows Azure bringing Cloud computing to the mainstream
Windows Azure is Microsoft’s Cloud Computing platform and it brings several ideas and concepts in...
Author: gpillai Date: 02/19/2009
Windows Live Essentials – free download
I was chatting with some of my friends and I learnt that they did not know of the free goodies from...
Author: gpillai Date: 02/14/2009
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Author: gpillai Date: 02/12/2009
Cool new nifty feature in Live Search
There is a cool and nifty feature in Live Search. For those who want to know quickly the stock price...
Author: gpillai Date: 02/12/2009
Live Services – Training material videos now available
Finally we are publicly releasing the internal Live Services Training power point decks and videos...
Author: gpillai Date: 02/11/2009
Managing consent after granting “Delegated Authentication” to a website
Once consent has been granted to a Web Site, how does one manage the consent or revoke it. After all...
Author: gpillai Date: 02/05/2009
Walkthrough of using the Web Platform Installer
With the release of Web Platform Installer it is very easy to install various software components...
Author: gpillai Date: 01/20/2009
Microsoft Web Platform Installer 1.0 Released
This is a significant announcement and a much needed product to smoothen integrated deployment of...
Author: gpillai Date: 01/20/2009
Cool Isn’t it? – I Shipped a Management Pack Mug
Finally here it comes after all the work. A cool mug from the Systems Center Operations' Manager...
Author: gpillai Date: 01/18/2009
SCOM Management Pack for Team Foundation Server 2008 has been posted.
As promised in an earlier blog post of mine a System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) based...
Author: gpillai Date: 11/28/2008
Live Services Jumpstart 2009 – Los Angeles, Dec 1st and 2nd
There is an upcoming Live Services Jumpstart training coming up in LA. For full details about venue...
Author: gpillai Date: 11/18/2008
Windows Live-ID Screen customization capability for Sign-UP and Sign-IN Pages.
A question that often comes up for Web sites that want to integrate with Windows Live-ID is, is it...
Author: gpillai Date: 11/11/2008
Patterns and Practices (p&p) – Slew of releases
This p&p team has released a slew of new releases listed below. It is a banner week for them and...
Author: gpillai Date: 10/30/2008
Azure Services Platform
Microsoft announced at PDC a Platform which enables users to upload and access applications, use...
Author: gpillai Date: 10/28/2008
Live Mesh Technology
There is some cool new technology called Live Mesh. The technology enables a user to have a very...
Author: gpillai Date: 10/24/2008
Very cool feature from Microsoft Outlook Connector
Folks, I downloaded the Windows Live bundle from https://home.live.com and liked the outlook...
Author: gpillai Date: 10/09/2008
Management Pack for Team Foundation Server (TFS)
There is a Management Pack (MP) for TFS currently in beta. This is referred to in Brian Harry's blog...
Author: gpillai Date: 07/10/2008
SilverLight 2 Beta 2 announced to the world
At TechEd The SilverLight 2 Beta 2 was announced. This brings together a number of feature...
Author: gpillai Date: 06/04/2008
Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition GDR CTP14
At TechEd the CTP14 GDR was announced to the world for the VSTS 2008 Database Edition of the...
Author: gpillai Date: 06/04/2008
Offline viewing of TFS Process Guidance Documents
This is an often asked question and though the answer is very easy, I thought I will post it so that...
Author: gpillai Date: 04/22/2008
Hyper-V - Windows Virtualization
Technorati Tags: Hyper-V Virtualization Virtual Server Core 64 bit 64bit snapshot RSAT Intel-VT...
Author: gpillai Date: 03/26/2008
How to categorize VSTS tests in the Reports?
Technorati Tags: VSTS Tests 2008 Reports Filter Is there a way to prioritize test cases in order to...
Author: gpillai Date: 02/08/2008
Web Test - Some Differences in VS2008 and VS2005
A lot of functionality has been added in Web Tests in VS - 2008 Edition. Below is highlighted the...
Author: gpillai Date: 01/30/2008
Viewing all Work Item Fields of a Team Foundation Server (TFS)
A question came up - Is it possible to view all fields of the various types of Work Items ( which...
Author: gpillai Date: 12/26/2007
Offline Viewing of TFS Process Guidance documentation
A question came up during a discussion and it was: Do I need to be connected to TFS to view and read...
Author: gpillai Date: 12/22/2007
VSTS 2008 TFS Power Tools Released
A new set of Power Tools for TFS 2008 has been released. This is a good one that I have been waiting...
Author: gpillai Date: 12/21/2007
MSBuild team seeking feedback on priority of features
The MSBuild Team is seeking feedback on prioritizing the list of features to be included in MSBuild....
Author: gpillai Date: 12/10/2007
Creating Fake or Dummy builds in TFS 2008
In TFS 2005, we were able to easily create a fake or dummy Team build definition using the Team...
Author: gpillai Date: 12/09/2007
Team system data - Power Tools
A new Power Tools bundle has been released. You can find it in the link below:...
Author: gpillai Date: 12/08/2007
ALM Assessment - different flavors
ALM assessment comes in two flavors 1. Online assessment - https://www.microsoft.com/almassement 2....
Author: gpillai Date: 12/08/2007
Webcast on - How to get started with an ALM assessment
Just last Thurssday I did worldwide Webcast on the above topic. The timing was early morning...
Author: gpillai Date: 12/08/2007
UI differences at first glance between VS2005 and VS2008
A customer was asking what are the major differences when we use the UI from 2005 to 2008. He just...
Author: gpillai Date: 12/08/2007
ALM Assessment - Webcast
Last Thursday I did a webcast on the topic - How to get started with an ALM assessment. This is now...
Author: gpillai Date: 12/08/2007
HOW TO: Filter Tests by various criteria in VSTS Reports
A colleague of mine posed this question: QUESTION: How can the tests be...
Author: gpillai Date: 08/06/2007
Why I chose to blog?
Well the blog bug bit me and I decided to write this blog. I intend to keep this primarily in the...
Author: gpillai Date: 08/06/2007