Looking into App-V but not yet made the leap?
Now might be the time. App-V now supports 64-bit!
Check out the App-V 4.6 Release Q & A (Springboard series blog).
Another recommended reading is the Lazy Admin blog post about real world experiences with App-V.
Vice president of Microsoft and currently leading the Windows Phone team, Joe Belfiore is the man responsible for the user interfaces of Windows 95, XP and recently known for his work on the Zune platform. Today he revealed a change in the Windows Mobile platform with Windows Phone 7. Applications will be more tightly knit [...]
EZUNIX.org has provided a nice guide for those of us that would like to use the Thunderbird mail client with the notoriously incompatible Exchange 2007 Server.
The guide is even available as a downloadable PDF document.
Also worth mentioning is the fact that Thunderbird 3 now comes with calendar support!
In MS SQL 2000 Management Studio it was possible to directly edit data when performing a query by using the “Open Table -> Query” menu option on a table. Microsoft changed things around for SQL 2005/2008, so that menu option is gone, but it can still be done. Here’s how to do it:
An effective way [...]
Microsoft has released a free e-book entitled “Deploying Windows 7 – Essential Guidance from the Windows 7 Resource Kit and Technet Magazine”.
Written for IT professionals looking to learn more about the most common pitfalls and problems before starting out on the always intriguing task of upgrading the OS of all their corporate systems, or those [...]
Microsoft has released a downloadable version of the good old Windows Help reader for those times when you need to go old school in Windows 7.
You can fetch WinHlp32.exe for Windows 7 by visiting the download page on Microsoft Download Center.
It is simple to install Windows 7 or Vista from a USB stick if you follow this guide. First you need to fulfill the following list of prerequisites, which I have expanded on much more than most guides similar to this one, so that you will be prepared for everything:
A USB stick (aka” USB Flash [...]
If you’re like me, living on the bleeding edge with Windows 7 RC, you might have noticed the watermark in the right-hand corner of your desktop. Such things annoy me a bit, so I went to work (Googled) how to remove it, and found a great solution.
To remove your watermark(s), download this nifty little watermark [...]
Microsoft attempts something different with their new marketing hype of the upcoming Office release 14, also known as Office 2010.
Launching www.office2010themovie.com, we’ re treated to some semi-witty movie trailer-esque videos. While showing us that Microsoft likes to be witty and creative with their marketing, they don’t really reveal much in detail about the new Office [...]