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March 2008 - Posts

Making Terminal Services Sexy with Silverlight

Naren Wicaksono from Microsoft Indonesia built a Silverlight demo which provides a highly graphical front end to Terminal Services ( and gets around some other issues ). He also integrated Bluetooth support into the client so that he could control his Read More...
Posted Monday, March 24, 2008 10:49 PM by neilhut | 2 Comments

Windows Server 2008 SP1

On a daily basis I am still getting question from customers about the version numbers on Windows Server 2008. Here is a screen shot from my server and you can see that it states that it is "Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 1". So what is going Read More...
Posted Friday, March 21, 2008 8:55 PM by neilhut | 1 Comments

Special Announcement

  The EDGE guys have a survey coming to get feedback on the site. To announce this, Adam and David did a short spoof video which is really funny. Seems to be a cross between Max Headroom , Nightly News and the late show. Check it out . Special Announcement Read More...
Posted Thursday, March 20, 2008 5:31 PM by neilhut | 1 Comments
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At Home With Charlie Kindel - MORE ON HOME SERVER - INCLUDING THE PUCK SERVER!!!

We wanted to get a little more information about how Home Server is progressing. Adam went right to the source, GM Charlie Kindel, and asked him to talk about what's in Home Server. Things like automatic nightly backups of all the machines on your home Read More...
Posted Friday, March 14, 2008 4:53 AM by neilhut | 0 Comments

Developer Security Best Practice on Windows

Paul from the UK has put together an excellent (but quite long) document which summarizes the core security best practices and checklists when building applications on the Microsoft platform. He calls it the " The Developer Highway Code ". For Read More...
Posted Tuesday, March 11, 2008 5:30 PM by neilhut | 1 Comments

iSCSI with Suzanne and Shiv from the Storage Team

So we have been talking a lot iSCSI as we think that this is a really cool technology for people that want a really inexpensive solution for building a flexible storage solution in their data center. Adam ( that guy is everywhere ) interviewed Suzanne Read More...
Posted Thursday, March 06, 2008 10:21 AM by neilhut | 1 Comments

Microsoft Announces SQLServer Data Services ( SSDS). Structured Storage in the Cloud

People seem to have got overly excited about what we are going to announce at Mix. Nicholas Carr posts Rumor: Microsoft about to unveil web-apps strategy and Robert on “Wait until you see what Ray Ozzie is doing” . The fact is that we have Read More...
Posted Wednesday, March 05, 2008 6:56 PM by neilhut | 5 Comments

Microsoft Apps Go ON-LINE For Small Businesses

Today Microsoft announced that it is going to allow access to hosted versions of its software to all companies starting later this year. The first products will be Exchange Server 2007 (mail), Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Office Live Meeting, for Read More...
Posted Monday, March 03, 2008 4:33 PM by neilhut | 1 Comments
 
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