Outside The Cube : May 2006

MOM: DFS Replication Service Management Pack - monitors DFSR in WS03/R2 - now available...

Posted Wednesday, May 31, 2006 3:07 PM by scarbone

"The DFS Replication service MOM Management Pack (English) that monitors the DFSR service in Windows Server 2003 R2 is available for download at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=651E7C4A-484B-4AA2-9FBF-F3538075B9E8&displaylang=en Read More...

Gaming...

Posted Wednesday, May 31, 2006 8:39 AM by scarbone

I'm a big fan of The Longest Journey, so it doesn't surprise me that I'm enjoying DreamFall: The Longest Journey - picks up a decade or so after the original - just starting to get into it... Looking forward to Half-Life 2: Episode One hitting Valve's Read More...

Hardware: Acer announces Ferrari 5000...

Posted Wednesday, May 31, 2006 8:21 AM by scarbone

Anyone who knows me, knows they'll have to pry my Acer Ferrari 3400 out of my cold DEAD hands (currently running XP/x86 as my safe OS, and Vista Ultimate x64 Beta 2 as test)... Either that, or get me one of the newly announced Ferrari 5000 s. Specs for Read More...

Windows Vista: Tom's Hardware - 500 Hour Test of Tomorrow's Windows Vista...

Posted Wednesday, May 31, 2006 8:16 AM by scarbone

Extremely thorough Vista review (as always) from Tom's Hardware... http://www.tomshardware.com/2006/05/31/windows_vista/ Read More...

Hardware: MS keyboard and mouse for Macs...

Posted Wednesday, May 31, 2006 8:12 AM by scarbone

http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2006/may06/05-30WLDforMacPR.mspx Read More...

Microsoft Locale Builder...

Posted Tuesday, May 30, 2006 8:55 AM by scarbone

This is pretty cool... "As Microsoft expands into more and more markets, scaling and tailoring products to meet global needs becomes a serious challenge. Microsoft Windows Vista currently supports more than 200 locales (100+ languages), and yet this covers Read More...

Windows Vista Application Compatibility at Microsoft...

Posted Tuesday, May 30, 2006 8:36 AM by scarbone

Download Technical Case Study and PowerPoint Presentation Application Compatibility Testing for Windows Vista Form Factor: Technical Case Study and PowerPoint Presentation Published: 5/22/06 Overview on the Windows Vista Application Compatibility Testing Read More...

Windows Vista Security Whitepaper...

Posted Friday, May 26, 2006 2:34 PM by scarbone

Worth a read - http://download.microsoft.com/download/c/2/9/c2935f83-1a10-4e4a-a137-c1db829637f5/windowsvistasecuritywp.doc Read More...

Windows Automated Installation Kit...

Posted Thursday, May 25, 2006 9:45 AM by scarbone

More info per Michael Kleef... WAIK rocks! Read More...

Book of Windows Vista...

Posted Wednesday, May 24, 2006 6:24 PM by scarbone

Keith Combs points to the Book of Windows Vista in this post to his blog (available in Word DOC format)... Read More...

Hello Word…

Posted Tuesday, May 23, 2006 2:37 PM by scarbone

Is this thing on? First blog posting through Word 2007… Read More...

Office 2007 Beta 2 available for download...

Posted Tuesday, May 23, 2006 12:20 PM by scarbone

...at http://www.microsoft.com/office/preview/beta/getthebeta.mspx . Read More...

Windows Vista Beta 2 on it's way...

Posted Tuesday, May 23, 2006 12:05 PM by scarbone

...keep your eyes peeled for Build 5384.4 - watch the WinHEC webcasts and make sure you've signed up to participate in the beta at http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/beta/preregister.mspx . Read More...

Windows Server Virtualization makes an appearance tomorrow (this morning, actually) at WinHEC...

Posted Tuesday, May 23, 2006 1:19 AM by scarbone

Check out the Bill Gates keynote at http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/winhec/default.mspx to see it in action... Read More...

Softricity acquisition...

Posted Monday, May 22, 2006 2:40 PM by scarbone

http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2006/may06/05-22Virtualization.mspx Intent to acquire Softricity, Inc : Softricity’s application virtualization and streaming technologies provide application compatibility and accelerate corporate desktop transitions Read More...

MS acquires Whale Communications (security ISV)...

Posted Thursday, May 18, 2006 1:32 PM by scarbone

Will be interesting to see how this acquisition fits into the overall product portfolio... http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2006/may06/05-18WhaleCommunicationsPR.mspx Read More...

TechEd Bloggers...

Posted Wednesday, May 17, 2006 5:27 PM by scarbone

http://techedbloggers.net/Feed.rss Read More...

Windows Media Player 11 beta...

Posted Wednesday, May 17, 2006 9:37 AM by scarbone

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/player/11/default.aspx Read More...

Active Directory Federation Services Tech Center

Posted Tuesday, May 16, 2006 7:52 PM by scarbone

This page is designed to help you connect with resources and documentation for Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS) in Windows Server 2003 R2. ADFS extends the ability to use single-sign-on (SSO) functionality that is available within a single Read More...

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