Control IT costs in difficult times More now than ever, companies are under intense pressure to reduce costs while increasing efficiencies. Whether it’s reducing overall IT budgets or determining automated ways to deploy, track, and manage, the need for a better managed IT infrastructure is present and growing. An optimized desktop can help you save money in the short term and the long term. Short-term cost savings Short-term savings are benefits generally seen in a minimal length of time (less than

For most organizations, e-mail messaging has become an increasingly important mode of communication. However, not all organizations use the same type of messaging systems. In this blog post, we will see the format of e-mail message and some of the common messaging formats used. Format of an e-mail message Internet e-mail messages follow the format standards that are defined in RFC 2822. A message is made up of header fields and a body. The header fields are collectively named the "header"

Its been over 2 years since I joined Microsoft after completing my Bachelors. I have been seeing geeks, enthusiasts and passionates blogging. It is an unexplored world for me and hence thought of giving it a try. Hope to continue blogging. What I will be blogging? Mainly about Manual Testing and Codeduitest feature as part of Dev10 or other stuff which I feel is interesting to be shared.

Rieccomi.. oggi un post “informativo”. Taskbar Notification area Icons Settings. Windows Vista ha introdotto alcune novità nella User Interface rimaste poi anche in Windows 7. Una di queste è la nuova TaskBar Notification Area. Ci sono le icone della Network, dell’Audio e del Windows Solutions Center, e poi il pulsante per visualizzare le icone nascoste. Premendo Customize, appare il pannello di customizzazione delle icone: Per ogni icona è ora possibile stabilire il comportamento che quella dovrà

With such a plethora of definitions, options and understandings of the broad IT term ‘cloud’ we’ve just launched a new worldwide site to bring our offerings together – with information laid out in simple terms with content categorised by role. www.microsoft.com/cloudservices

Salve a tutti! Nel nostro lavoro quotidiano, utilizziamo diversi strumenti, Windbg , Process Explorer , Process Monitor , che ci permettono di capire cosa sta succedendo nel sistema operativo in un dato momento, permettendoci di individuare la ragione del problema che stiamo affrontando. Volevo introdurre con questo post il Process Monitor . Mark Russinovich, autore e creatore del tool insieme a Bryce Cogswell, nel suo blog presenta ogni tanto dei problemi che ha risolto con l’utiilzzo di questo

The Visual Studio Team has been releasing a series of Channel 9 interviews and demos on the new SharePoint tools in Visual Studio 2010. Please check them out and give us your feedback! Overview of SharePoint Development in Visual Studio 2010 Importing SharePoint Solution Packages (WSP) into Visual Studio 2010 SharePoint Feature and Package Designers in Visual Studio 2010 Using the SharePoint Business Data Connectivity Designer in Visual Studio 2010

You might wonder why a big silence on this blog, I must admit that I was too busy to blog. Now, also working on a few IE related issues – on javascript, ActiveX, CSS, etc. You might find a few blogs related to those technologies as well, so I’m going to cover the most of the Microsoft’s web technology stack, both server, and the client side. Stay tuned, more later! You can follow me on twitter @ rakkimk

We just made a significant announcement on Azure, our cloud computing platform at the so-called PDC event. Read all about it: http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2009/nov09/11-17pdc1pr.mspx More on Azure: www.azure.com

This is the final diary style post on my trip to the Microsoft Dynamics GP Technical Conference 2009. Hopefully you have enjoyed reading about the events of the trip. As far as I am concerned it was a great success. The conference, my sessions, the meetings and the socialising with partners and Microsoft staff all added up to make a fantastic but tiring trip. I started my journey at 11:30 when I checked out and left the Ramada hotel. My first flight left Fargo at 13:00 arrived an hour later in Minneapolis/St