Interwebs founding father and Google evangelist Vint Cerf has insisted that when you search Google, the company doesn't know who you are. Thursday morning, at a mini-conference in San Francisco, the always entertaining Cerf sat down with Wall Street...
And we finished the install and the "migrate to Windows SBS" is ready to go. Under the hood the FSMO roles have been added to this box and the SBS 2003 is no longer the king of the domain. [Meanwhile I have to take a break to wash my car so...
When I looked at "What's new in System.Xml in .NET 4.0/Visual Studio 2010" with the beta 1 release I presented an example that shows how parsing an XHTML document referencing one of the W3C XHTML 1.0 DTDs can be sped up by using the new...
Saying 'no to patches' reminded me that if you have an SBS 2003 R2 with WSUS on the box and ESPECIALLY if you have a Win2k8 server in the network, go into the source server box and disable the WSUS service there. If you don't, during the install...
Because I checked the box in the answer file to allow me to review each screen, I got stuck with an error that it could not find the source server and to check if the source server name was wrong. Huh? I know that's the right name. I checked all of...
Hola a todos el dia Martes 10/11 estare acompañanado a Mauro Tartaglia uno de nuestros miembros de GLUE en una conferencia Presencial de Exchange 2010. Los esperamos!!. SEMINARIO GRATUITO "Overview de Exchange 2010". Tuesday, November...
I’ve just finished re-reading (I’ve read if for the first time around 2000) this fantastic book which was written by Bjarne Stroustrup , who is the responsible for the design of C++. I haven’t used C++ professionally for over 6 years now! However, I’ve...
Over this weekend I have had to quickly build a Virtual SBS2008 server for one of my clients. I came across an interesting issue which took me a while to figure out, so I am plonking it up here on the blog so that others that may come across the problem...
Before we can move on and take a look at the AdoNetDataContext component, we need to talk about one more topic: creating entities and how it might be integrated with DataContext component. The DataContext exposes a createEntity method which can be used...
In 1997, our company adopted McAfee as an AV standard for all PCs and servers. Even durng these early years for the Internet, they were one of the 1st AV Vendors to use public forums to leverage support costs. I've been a member of these forums for...
Back here http://msmvps.com/blogs/richardsiddaway/archive/2009/11/05/creating-temporary-files.aspx or http://richardsiddaway.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!43CFA46A74CF3E96!2595.entry I showed how to create temporary test files. We can simply create multiple...
Create a migration answer file. Follow the steps on pages 19 through 23 in the Microsoft migration document. Collect the information for the migration answer file. Run the Answer File Tool. When you create a migration answer file, leave the Certificate...
c Optimize Exchange Server and mailboxes. Follow the instructions on pages 16 through 17 in the Microsoft migration document. c Empty the Deleted Items folder. c Archive older mail It can take a long time to migrate large Exchange Server mailboxes. It...
c Raise the functional level of the Active Directory domain and forest. Follow the instructions on pages 12 through 14 in the Microsoft migration document. To be fair this probably should have been done sooner in the steps, but it's still in the prelim...
Just a reminder of all of the key migration resources that I'll be referring to and using during these blog posts/dry run of migation that I'm doing. That first url -- www.sbsmigrationtips.com is actually a key SBS blog post entry that I got lazy...
We're back on our Migration blog post series (hint all of the Migration blog posts are tagged with "Migration" for easy reference). And now we're going to check and make sure our Exchange is ready to go: I. In the source domain, check...
When I moved the SBS 2003 over to the (unsupported) HyperV platform, one of the things I had to do was to uninstall ISA 2004 and take the virtualized box back down to one nic. Just a reminder of the steps I took -- this is from the SBS 2008 migration...
Recently, Silverlight 3 gained the ability to use custom pixel shaders as was already available in WPF. What exactly are custom pixel shaders? A shader is a set of software instructions executed on your computer's Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) that...
I’ve been struggling with this issue for some time. I have a small, simple .NET application I wrote in Visual C# a few months ago – I’ve tentatively titled it “ iFetch ”, because it fetches radio shows from the BBC iPlayer . It really is very little more...
Today we’ll keep looking at the DataContext component and we’ll see how it supports deferred properties. Deferred properties are properties which are lazy loaded as “needed”. Using deferred properties means that the component will try to make a remote...