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Cloud Storage Studio

David Gristwood — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 14:14:01 GMT

I have recently been using Cloud Storage Studio from Cerebrata to help with my Azure development work, and found it a really useful tool to help navigate the Azure storage system. I’ve been using the WPF version as this is a classic scenario when a rich, responsive user interface is what’s needed in during the development cycle.

It can handle multiple storage accounts, and provides a simple UI to navigate tables, queues and blobs:

And you can edit and manipulate data directly:

So, all in all, a pretty nifty tool to have at your disposal.

Start a SQL Server Agent Job using the SQL Server PowerShell Provider

Buck Woody — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 14:13:45 GMT

Whew! That’s a mouthfull. Anyway, I thought I would share part of a script I wrote today to help automate (more) from PowerShell. This assumes a few things: that you’re doing this from the SQL Server 2008 PowerShell provider (not just good old regular PowerShell) and that you change the HAL9000 and SQL2K8 parts with your server name and your Instance name. Oh, and the Jobs I start are called “Test” and then something else. That’s the Test* part. You can use a specific name and drop the * or use your own naming convention.

Script Disclaimer, for people who need to be told this sort of thing:

Never trust any script, including those that you find here, until you understand exactly what it does and how it will act on your systems. Always check the script on a test system or Virtual Machine, not a production system. All scripts on this site are performed by a professional stunt driver on a closed course. Your mileage may vary. Void where prohibited. Offer good for a limited time only. Keep out of reach of small children. Do not operate heavy machinery while using this script. If you experience blurry vision, indigestion or diarrhea during the operation of this script, see a physician immediately.

# Start a Job named Test in the SQL Server 2008 PowrShell Provider

DIR SQLSERVER:\SQL\HAL9000\SQL2K8\JobServer\Jobs\Test* | % {$_.Start()}

Sustainable and energy efficient SAP systems on Windows

saptech — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 14:12:00 GMT

Energy efficiency and sustainability for IT infrastructures is clearly a major discussion today. There are of course quite a few environmental reasons to think about this but besides this, lowering the use of energy also improves the TCO and reduces the cost of IT infrastructures.

SAP is itself fully committed to improve the energy efficiency of SAP infrastructures and has started several initiatives during 2009. There was for example the announcement of the Green IT community at SAP Virtualization week 2009 and toward the end of 2009; the first SAP Power Benchmark was released.

One example how improved energy efficiency can be achieved with SAP infrastructures is the new Windows Server 2008 R2 operating system which has a feature called Core Parking. This feature in turn is using the underlying technology in modern multi-core CPU’s from Intel or AMD. The whole idea is basically to send cores to sleep whenever the workload of a server does not require all the available performance of this server.

Let’s for example assume a server for Hyper-V where only a few virtual machines are running. The scheduler in the OS would now arrange the threads for this workload to run on the fewest possible Processors. The idle processors than would be ‘parked’ which basically mean changes the ACPI power state of this cores so that they consume the least amount of energy. Vice versa, if the workload in this server grows, the OS would instantly wake-up those cores and make it available for processing. The good point here is, it happens in the kernel and is completely transparent to the applications. Measurements on the benefit of Core Parking have shown that it yields up to 15 % of energy saving – of course depending on the workload.

As Windows Server 2008 R2 is now supported by SAP for the usage of a Hyper-V server, Core Parking would be another good reason to install the latest version of Windows whenever SAP on Hyper-V comes into play.

Have fun using Windows Server 2008 R2

- Josef

Macon .Net Usergroup

chabrook — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 13:53:00 GMT

Thanks to the Macon .Net Usergroup for inviting me in to talk about the new features of Silverlight 4.0 ! I had a great time, and hopefully I shared some of the excitement around the improvements there. Please grab my slides and a couple of demos here . If I missed some of the demos, email me or leave a comment and I will get back to you shortly if I can share it. http://cid-f94e5578f397f00b.skydrive.live.com/browse.aspx/Roadshow/Macon%20-%20February%202010...(read more)

Si tienes instalado Windows 7 Release Candidate, esta información te interesa

armanhal — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 13:34:29 GMT

Si has instalado en tu casa u oficina una versión de prueba de Windows 7 RC, debes tener en cuenta lo siguiente:

A partir de Febrero 15/10 comenzarás a recibir notificaciones en la barra de tareas, que se estarán presentando cada vez con mayor frecuencia, para que actualices tu licencia.
En Marzo 1/10 el sistema se cerrará y reiniciará cada 2 horas, perdiendo toda la información que no hayas guardado.
En Junio 1/10 la licencia de prueba caduca. El sistema entra en estado de notificación; es decir, tu PC continuará cerrándose cada dos horas, sin guardar la información y además, el papel tapiz cambiará a un fondo negro con un mensaje persistente en el escritorio. También recibirás notificaciones periódicas que tu licencia de Windows no es válida, lo cual significa que tu equipo no podrá obtener las actualizaciones opcionales o descargas que requieren auténtica Validación de Windows.

Recomendaciones para evitar la interrupción:

Vuelve a instalar una versión anterior de Windows o actualiza tu equipo con Windows 7 Original.
Tendrás que hacer una instalación personalizada (limpia) para reemplazar la versión RC que tienes en uso.
Recuerda, como cualquier instalación limpia, necesitarás hacer copia de seguridad de tus datos y a continuación instalar todas las aplicaciones y restaurar los datos.
Puedes comprar en cualquiera de estas tiendas departamentales o de autoservicio dónde tenemos una promoción de 12 meses sin intereses con antivirus incluido (Microsoft Security Essentials).
Si eres estudiante tenemos una oferta especial para tí!

Nota: Para verificar que versión de Windows tienes instalada en tu equipo ve a: Inicio>Mi PC >Clic derecho>Propiedades. Si la versión instalada es RC o Beta de Windows 7, sigue las anteriores recomendaciones.

Visual Studio 2010 apporte-t-il un changement significatif pour les développeurs parallèles ?

ericv — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 13:33:36 GMT

Dans le cadre des TechDays10, j'ai été interrogé par Cyrille Chausson journaliste pour le site www.lemagit.fr vis à vis des apports de Visual Studio 2010 pour le développement parallèle. En d'autres mots, l'offre parallèle est suffisamment simple pour permettre l'accès à la programmation parallèle à tous les développeurs.

A bientôt,

Bruno

boucard.bruno@free.fr

Reinstalando a máquina: links e pacotes importantes

wcamb — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 13:28:00 GMT

Olá pessoal, tudo certo?

Como sabem, de tempos em tempos faço minha REVAMP de máquina, reinstalando as várias ferramentas que uso no dia-a-dia, como Visual Studio, SQL Server, SDK de Azure, etc.

Fiz isso essa semana e para facilitar, segue aqui uma lista dos principais pacotes que estou instalando/avaliando na máquina, sobre Windows 7 Enterprise 64 bits com Microsoft Office 2010 Beta:

Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2010 Beta
Ref.: http://www.microsoft.com/office/2010/en/download-office-professional-plus/default.aspx

Visual Studio 2010 e .NET Framework 4 Release Candidate
Ref.: http://msdn.microsoft.com/pt-br/vstudio/dd582936.aspx

Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Training Kit - January Release
Ref.: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=752CB725-969B-4732-A383-ED5740F02E93&displaylang=en

SQL Server 2008 Express Edition
Ref.: http://www.microsoft.com/express/Database/

SQL Server 2008 R2 November CTP
Ref.: http://www.microsoft.com/sqlserver/2008/en/us/R2Downloads.aspx

Além dos pacotes para Windows Azure:

Windows Azure Software Development Kit 1.1 (February 2010)
Ref.: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=dba6a576-468d-4ef6-877e-b14e3c865d3a&displaylang=en

Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio 1.1 (February 2010)
Ref.: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=5664019E-6860-4C33-9843-4EB40B297AB6&displaylang=en

Windows Azure Platform Training Kit - December Update
Ref.: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=413E88F8-5966-4A83-B309-53B7B77EDF78&displaylang=en

Windows Azure platform AppFabric SDK V1.0
Ref.: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=39856A03-1490-4283-908F-C8BF0BFAD8A5&displaylang=en

Por enquanto é só! Até o próximo post :)

Waldemir.

30 Seconds To Mars in homage to Banksy

stevecla01 — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 13:18:43 GMT

During my strenuous workout in the gym this morning (I kid you not) I watched a music video and was struck by this image in the middle of it. Surely an homage to Bansky’s Love Is In The Air?

Anyway, cool video by 30 Seconds to Mars

Nur noch für kurze Zeit: Windows 7 zum Vorteilspreis für Studierende

pkirchner — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 13:11:30 GMT

Sie sind an einer deutschen Hochschule immatrikuliert und besitzen eine gültige Hochschul-E-Mail-Adresse? Dann sollten Sie jetzt das Vorzugsangebot für Studierende nutzen: Sichern Sie sich jetzt Windows 7 Home Premium als Download-Version für nur 35 Euro (UVP). Zögern Sie nicht - dieses Angebot gilt nur noch für kurze Zeit.

Weitere Infos dazu hier: http://store.digitalriver.com/store/mswpde/de_DE/DisplayHomePage

Οδηγός αποτελεσματικής φόρτωσης δεδομένων

nikosangr — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 13:10:27 GMT

Καθώς η αποτελεσματική φόρτωση δεδομένων (data loading) αποτελεί ένα σημαντικό παράγοντα στην υλοποίηση ενός data warehouse (DW), ήθελα να σας ενημερώσω για το ακόλουθο white paper το οποίο δημοσιεύθηκε από την Microsoft. Σε αυτό το έγγραφο θα βρείτε λεπτομερείς πληροφορίες για τις διάφορες τεχνικές φόρτωσης δεδομένων στον SQL Server. Στο έγγραφο καλύπτονται τόσο οι διαθέσιμες τεχνικές όσο και μεθοδολογίες για performance tuning και βελτιστοποίηση της διαδικασίας μαζικής φόρτωσης δεδομένων.

Brad Smith on the Cloud in the 21st century

Eric Nelson — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 13:09:36 GMT

Note: Cross posted from IUpdateable from Eric Nelson.
Permalink

Something a little different. No mentions of web roles, nodes or queues – but interesting nevertheless.

Brad Smith gave Microsoft’s vision of cloud computing devoted to the economic success of Europe. The event was organized by E!Sharp in the Auditorium of the Museum of Art and History, in Brussels, on January 26th. Brad Smith is Senior Vice President and General Counsel of Microsoft Corporation.

Brad gives a strong steer on our commitment to (amongst other things):

First class Interop
Supporting Open Source in the Cloud – he includes a discussion of the work by Domino Pizza to use Azure

Plus plenty of reality checks on Cloud and why it is something governments, organisations and individuals need to embrace. Ultimately a lot of it is about confidence.

The four challenges the industry needs to address with the help of government are:

Connectivity – we need high speed reliable connectivity. Governments need to focus on enabling this for their citizens
Single Market – harmonisation across geographies. We need to recognise that data is now regularly moving across geographies. Need to recognise a “consumer in Italy, stores email in Ireland, managed by a US company”
Privacy - “Do people still care?”. Brad - “Absolutely”. The “right to choose” who sees your information.
Security – laws and enforcement against digital crimes. Cooperation across geographies. Principals that companies must adhere to.

A lot of his focus was on the need for the European Union to look at the above rather than member states if Cloud is to be adopted widely.

FAIL (the browser should render some flash content,not this)

I often get asked “Is Microsoft serious about Cloud Computing given its history on the desktop?”. I think the answer is pretty clear from this presentation. (Oh and the answer is a big Yes!)

Brad Smith on the Cloud in the 21st century

Eric Nelson — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 13:09:31 GMT

Note: Cross posted from IUpdateable from Eric Nelson.
Permalink

Something a little different. No mentions of web roles, nodes or queues – but interesting nevertheless.

Brad gives a strong steer on our commitment to (amongst other things):

First class Interop
Supporting Open Source in the Cloud – he includes a discussion of the work by Domino Pizza to use Azure

Plus plenty of reality checks on Cloud and why it is something governments, organisations and individuals need to embrace. Ultimately a lot of it is about confidence.

The four challenges the industry needs to address with the help of government are:

Connectivity – we need high speed reliable connectivity. Governments need to focus on enabling this for their citizens
Single Market – harmonisation across geographies. We need to recognise that data is now regularly moving across geographies. Need to recognise a “consumer in Italy, stores email in Ireland, managed by a US company”
Privacy - “Do people still care?”. Brad - “Absolutely”. The “right to choose” who sees your information.
Security – laws and enforcement against digital crimes. Cooperation across geographies. Principals that companies must adhere to.

A lot of his focus was on the need for the European Union to look at the above rather than member states if Cloud is to be adopted widely.

FAIL (the browser should render some flash content,not this)

I often get asked “Is Microsoft serious about Cloud Computing given its history on the desktop?”. I think the answer is pretty clear from this presentation. (Oh and the answer is a big Yes!)

Windows 7 Release Candidate läuft bald ab!

pkirchner — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 13:08:19 GMT

Wie bereits angekündigt läuft der Release Candidate (RC) von Windows 7 am 1. Juni 2010 ab. Schon vorher geht es aber ab dem 15. Februar los mit Benachrichtigungen von Windows 7 RC. An dieser Stelle daher noch einmal der Hinweis, vor dem Ablaufdatum entweder auf die Vollversion von Windows 7 zu wechseln oder sich eine frühere Version von Windows zu installieren.

Detailinformationen zu den einzelnen Phasen bis zum 1. Juni 2010 und dem daraus resultierendem Verhalten von Windows 7 erfahren Sie in diesem Blog-Beitrag.

Χρησιμοποιώντας τον SQL Server για την δημιουργία μιας Hub-and-Spoke Enterprise Data Warehouse Αρχιτεκτονικής

nikosangr — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 13:02:45 GMT

Η κλιμάκωση και η αποτελεσματική, από πλευράς κόστους, υλοποίηση ενός Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) είναι ένας σημαντικός στόχος για πολλούς μεγάλους οργανισμούς. Υπάρχουν τρεις (3) κοινές προσεγγίσεις που περιλαμβάνουν τον όρο EDW: η ‘μονολιθική’ προσέγγιση, η προσέγγιση των αποκεντρωμένων (decentralized) συλλογών data marts και οι προσπάθειες υλοποίησης μιας hub-and-spoke αρχιτεκτονικής, η οποία συνδυάζει τις δύο προηγούμενες. Με την απόκτηση της DATAllegro και την αναμενόμενη έκδοση του SQL Server 2008 R2, το project με κωδικό “Madison”, η Microsoft είναι έτοιμη να διαθέσει μια μοναδική και επιτακτική λύση για Massively Parallel Processing (MPP) DW η οποία συνδυάζει τα καλύτερα χαρακτηριστικά των EDW και αποκεντρωμένων data marts. Η αρχιτεκτονική του Madison DW θα περιέχει υψηλή ταχύτητα και παράλληλες μεταβιβάσεις (transfer) μεταξύ άλλων Madison ή SQL Server 2008 βάσεων, παρέχοντας την βάση για την επίλυση ενός από το πιο ακανθώδη προβλήματα σε large-scale data warehousing.

Για περισσότερες πληροφορίες διαβάστε αυτό το άρθρο.

Windows Azure Tools 1.1

Nicholas Allen — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 13:00:00 GMT

The latest Windows Azure tools and SDK release actually came out two weeks ago but requires either Visual Studio 2008 or Visual Studio 2010 RC, which you couldn't get until today. This SDK release also marked the commercial launch of Windows Azure. Some of the improvements are to better support durable storage, diagnostics, and of course integration with Visual Studio 2010.

Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio 1.1 (February 2010)

You can also browse the samples and documentation for this release.

Come raccogliere tutte le informazioni necessarie per aprire un caso di Supporto Tecnico

dgano — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:45:50 GMT

Se avete già aperto chiamate di suppoto tecnico con il Team di CRM siete sicuramente a conoscenza che una delle prime richieste effettuate dai tecnici di supporto sono i file di configrazione del vostro ambiente.
Questo articolo vi aiuterà a preparare tutte le informazioni necessarie al fine di renderle direttamente disponibili all’interno del caso stesso.

CRM Server

Al fine di avere una panoramica generale del vostro ambiente CRM (configurazione del sistema, livello di aggiornamento, ecc.) è necessario scaricare ogni volta l'ultima versione del CRMDiagTool4 al seguente link: http://blogs.msdn.com/benlec/pages/microsoft-crm-support-tools-download-page.aspx

1) scaricare il file ed estrarlo localmente (non eseguirlo da una cartella condivisa: potrebbe entrare in errore)

2) selezionare "Dynamics CRM Server" dal menù a tendina

3) cliccare il pulsante Create File

4) allegate il file generato al caso che creerete

CRM Client - Auto fix diagnostics

1) sul client andate su Start – All Programs – Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 – Diagnostics.

2) cliccate su Run Diagnostics

3) una volta completato salvate il file e allegatelo al caso aperto

4) infine, se possibile, cliccate Fix All al fine di fissare automaticamente eventuali errori.

CRM Client - Diagnostica

1) assicuratevi che Outlook sia aperto

2) andate su Start – All Programs – Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 – Diagnostics

3) selezionare Support Mode

4) selezionare Advanced Troubleshooting

5) cliccare Create File ed allegare il file generato al caso

CRM Router

Scaricare ogni volta l'ultima versione del CRMDiagTool4 al seguente link: http://blogs.msdn.com/benlec/pages/microsoft-crm-support-tools-download-page.aspx

1) scaricare il file ed estrarlo localmente (non eseguirlo da una cartella condivisa: potrebbe entrare in errore)

2) selezionare "Dynamics CRM Router" dal menù a tendina

3) cliccare il pulsante Create File

4) allegate il file generato al caso che creerete

SQL Reporting Services (SRS) - Informazioni

Scaricare ogni volta l'ultima versione del CRMDiagTool4 al seguente link: http://blogs.msdn.com/benlec/pages/microsoft-crm-support-tools-download-page.aspx

1) scaricare il file ed estrarlo localmente (non eseguirlo da una cartella condivisa: potrebbe entrare in errore)

2) selezionare "SQL Reporting Services" dal menù a tendina

3) selezionare la versione di SQL Reporting Server installata ed eventualmente l’istanza necessaria

4) cliccare il pulsante Create File

5) allegate il file generato al caso che creerete

SQL Reporting Server (SRS) Log files

1) riprodurre l’errore

2) inviare il di log file appena generato dalla seguente cartella:

C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\<MSSQL.X>\Reporting Services\LogFiles

ISS Log file

Se il tipo di problema rilevato è di authenticazione (esempio: HTTP status 401: Unauthorized) può essere molto utile avere i log file di ISS con relativa configurazione che possono essere recuperati utilizzando il seguente tool:

http://blogs.msdn.com/carloc/pages/idevdatacollector.aspx

Diego Ganora

Quick update on videos being migrated to Microsoft Azure storage

lcash — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:06:15 GMT

Just a quick update as I posted last week on the display of videos on the blog. I’ve had a lot of emails on getting access to the videos. I guess when something is not available you notice the need. So the videos are being migrated to Microsoft Azure.

What does that mean to you ? Nothing really for the end user of the content. But a few people have ask me in the past and I posted a note on how I was doing the videos. So if you are interested here is a series of articles that explains how you can use Azure and Microsoft Expression Encoder 3 to host and store your videos for display as Silverlight on your web sites.

http://blogs.msdn.com/david_sayed/archive/2010/01/07/setting-up-windows-azure-for-video-storage.aspx

http://blogs.msdn.com/david_sayed/archive/2010/01/07/creating-and-publishing-a-silverlight-video-to-windows-azure.aspx

http://blogs.msdn.com/david_sayed/archive/2010/01/07/embedding-a-silverlight-video-in-a-blog.aspx

Microsoft Azure is a very cool technology indeed. Storage for videos is nice but if you are a techy then the SQL Data services and application service hosting is very interesting. I’ve noticed folks in the AX world experimenting the Azure and services integration to Dynamics AX.

It will take a while to re-post all the videos over the next few days. If you have something you need then they are posted to partnersource and working LIFO I’ll update the links on the blog.

Cheers

Lachlan

(Original post at http://blogs.msdn.com/lcash)

Top 10 ICT Money Saving Tips – 13 – Save your old computers

Rayfl — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 11:49:56 GMT

Part thirteen of the series of Top 10 ICT Money Saving Tips for schools, based on my BETT 2010 presentation.
Good news, my counting was hopeless, and my Top 10 tips actually contain 14 Top ICT Money Saving Tips. So there’s one more to come after this one

Last summer, I wrote a blog post called “What does Windows 7 run on?”, which took a very early look at what computers people were running Windows 7 on. And the answer appeared to be that it coped with older hardware much better than previous versions of Windows. (Like me, I’m sure you’ll remember the days when a new version of Windows meant you needed to upgrade your own computer too).

And a little later in June, PC World created an article with the headline “Windows 7 Hits a New Low”, which made exactly the same point (my heart sank when I saw the headline, until I read the article and realised it was actually being positive about Windows 7).

So the message was clear – Windows 7 was going to allow you to sweep up lots of older equipment and get it all onto the same version of Windows. Something that’s a big win for a network maanger

Then the forums on thewindowsclub.com got going, and started dragging old computers out of cupboards to have a go at installing Windows 7. My favourite is the one that started the whole thread off – a Pentium 2 266MHz processor with 128MB of RAM had somehow managed to run it, with a Windows Experience Index of 1.0 (I guess it got 1 because the scale didn’t start at zero!).

Now, there is a minimum specification for Windows 7 system requirements, which is 1 GHz processor, 1 GB of RAM and at least 16 GB of hard disk, and I can’t recommend you straying below that. But it certainly seems to be the case that with Windows 7 you are likely to be able to use quite a lot of your older equipment in school.

The management time saved by having every computer on the same version of Windows, combined with some of the ways Windows 7 saves energy, means that there a few good reasons to think about making the move sooner rather than later.

And there’s money to be saved by not having to buy new computers, as well as reducing your power bill, and saving your time.

Index to the whole series of Money Saving Tips on this blog

Cross-posting wpisów, polskie agregaty blogów i newsów

danieb — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 11:48:00 GMT

Zauważyłem, że jak grzyby po deszczu pojawiają się nowe, polskie inicjatywy związane z agregacją wpisów z blogów i innych źródeł informacji dotyczące .NET i Microsoftu.

Społeczność jest aktywna i bardzo mi się to podoba. Od razu mówię (w nawiązaniu również do pewnej zaległej korespondencji), nie musicie się mnie pytać, jeśli potrzebujecie przekopiować zajawkę wpisu z tego bloga i umieścicie ją na swoim agregacie (takim jak dotnetomaniak.pl chociażby).

Warunek jest jeden, zaznaczycie informację o autorze i link do źródła, gdzie można przeczytać całość.
Jeśli uwzględniając powyższy warunek, jakiś wpis na tym blogu jest dla was interesujący, go for it.

Mam tylko dżentelmeńską prośbę, aby to było robione z głową. Dam wam zły, dawno ścięty przykład (http://komputery.w.polsce.biz/43-kanal.html). Takie automaty to zło. Śmiecą tylko internet i ufam, że nie o to chodzi.

Druga sprawa to porada dotycząca samych agregatów. Nie klonujcie siebie i proponujcie realne nowe wartości w stosunku do ulubionego readera RSS i subiektywnego wyboru źródeł każdego czytelnika blogów. Subiektywność tutaj jest szalenie istotna. Każdy lubi coś innego, a przynajmniej napewno różnimy się w szczegółach. Ryzyko największe w tych agregatach i ich formule jest takie, że zrobicie serwis dla siebie (Jana Kowalskiego), a nie dla szerokiego gremium. W efekcie może być kolejny martwy byt.

Jeśli szukacie inspiracji co do ciekawej, stosunkowo nowej formuły w internecie, której kompletnie jeszcze nie widzę w Polsce to polecam parę poniższych stron jak:

www.techmeme.com www.tweetmeme.com

http://www.icerocket.com/popular/posts czy też Buzz na stronie Icerocket.

Idea jest taka, żeby nie tylko sortować informacje po dacie i promować ciekawe, ale i świeże informacje, ale także aby szukać faktycznego źródła tej informacji, a followerów sprowadzać do usenetowej formuły dyskusji. Nie ukrywajmy, skoro dużą część informacji pozyskujemy z blogów (a blogerzy sami są jeszcze bardziej na to podatni) to w wielu kluczowych sprawach Ci co piszą piszą w ramach inspiracji innymi wpisami. Mając w wątkowym układzie paczkę paru takich wpisów i announcementu czy artykułu w prasie, który potencjalnie wszystkich zainspirował i to po polsku.. marzenie, ale to moje.. prywatne :)

Jak ktoś zrobi taką stronę ala techmeme.com z polskimi informacjami o Microsoft i .NET to ma u mnie duże kudosy i zasłuży na prezent :)

Dennis Howlett on Sage X3 and lack of SAAS

ukdynamics — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 11:42:12 GMT

interesting post from Dennis around Sage X3, definitely worth a look

http://blogs.zdnet.com/Howlett/?p=1696

Posted By Fee Nolan

Dennis Howlett on Sage X3 and lack of SAAS

ukdynamics — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 11:41:48 GMT

interesting post from Dennis around Sage X3, definitely worth a look

http://blogs.zdnet.com/Howlett/?p=1696

Posted By Fee Nolan

Internet Safety made easy by Internet Explorer 8 and CEOP

KristenW — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 11:37:59 GMT

In honour of Safer Internet Day yesterday, Microsoft and CEOP (Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre) launched the “Click Clever, Click Safe, Click CEOP” internet browser, part of Internet Explorer 8.

Once installed, the browser puts a CEOP button on the Internet Explorer 8 toolbar. When a parent clicks this button, they can access free internet safety advice, report abuse or seek further help if they need it.

More information and a free download of the browser can be found at this link: http://www.ceop.gov.uk/ie8/

The BBC picked up the story of the browser yesterday, and early feedback has been positive already. Give it a try and let us know what you think.

In addition, we’ve also released a guide for parents that helps them keep their children safe online. The guide can be downloaded for free from Microsoft’s web site HERE.

Add this to the presentation and materials we provided in a blog last month – for schools to offer internet safety workshops for parents, and it’s a complete package for your schools, fellow teachers and parents.

Installing the Welsh Windows 7 LIP – Step by Step Guide

robmar — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 11:35:38 GMT

Following on from yesterdays announcement of the availability of the Welsh Windows 7 Language Interface Pack I have publish a quick step by step guide for how to install it:

How to install the Welsh Windows 7 Language Interface Pack

In the article I cover:

Pre installation recommendations
A simple step-by-step guide on how to install the LIP with screenshots
A list of other articles you might be interested in

Do let me know what you think of it here or in the feedback section at the bottom of the article.

Rob

PS this article is probably applicable to all LIPs from step 3 down, although there may be some differences in pre-requisites.

Technorati Tags: Welsh,Language Interface Packs

Problemas con SMTP cuando ASP.NET no se ejecuta con full trust

alvar — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 11:24:08 GMT

Cuando se ejecuta ASP.NET en entornos de confianza (Code Access Security) alto y medio, las clases SMTPClient de ASP.NET 2.0 y superior no son capaces de enviar correos electrónicos si el puerto del servidor SMTP no es 25.

Esto no es inmediato leyendo la documentación, pero podemos obtener la siguiente tabla de la visión general de ASP.NET Code Access Security (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/87x8e4d1.aspx) :

Permiso	Completo	Alto	Medio	Bajo	Mínimo
SmtpPermission	Unrestricted	Connect	Connect	No permission	No permission

Una vez vemos que la diferencia entre completo y alto (nivel de confianza) es que uno tiene el permiso para “conectar” y otro no, intentemos averiguar cuál es el significado de “conectar” y cuál es la diferencia con “unrestricted”. Para ello navegamos a la definición de SmtpPermission y descubrimos que Connect es parte de la enumeración SmtpAccess:

Member name	Description
None	No access to an SMTP host
Connect	Connection to an SMTP host on the default port (port 25)
ConnectToUnrestrictedPort	Connection to an SMTP host on any port

Hemos averiguado qué es lo que diferencia el nivel de confianza Completo y el nivel Alto y Medio y es la posibilidad de conectarse a todos los puertos alternativos en los que se puede publicar un servidor SMTP.

En entornos muy restrictivos (o de hosting), se puede crear una política de seguridad personalizada, tal y como describe Rick Strahl en su blog (SmtpClient in Medium Trust - Rick Strahl's Web Log):

<IPermission class="SmtpPermission"            
version="1"            
Unrestricted="true" />

Gracias a Rick por la solución alternativa.

Espero que os sirva de ayuda,

Álvar García

Referencias:

ASP.NET Code Access Security (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/87x8e4d1.aspx)
<mailSettings> Element (Network Settings) (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/w355a94k(VS.80).aspx)
SmtpClient in Medium Trust - Rick Strahl's Web Log

Sharing Success – Highlighting Microsoft Dynamics ERP Partner Press Releases

ukdynamics — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 11:23:24 GMT

We are pleased to announce a pilot program called “Sharing Success” for our Microsoft Dynamics ERP partners. This program has been designed to help highlight and promote key customer wins by our Microsoft Dynamics ERP partners.

To view further details around the Pilot take a look at the following PartnerSource Link

Posted By Fee Nolan