MSMVPS.COM

And indeed...exactly 7 days after you DCpromo down your old SBS 2003....

bradley — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 04:56:00 GMT

And indeed...exactly 7 days after you DCpromo down your old SBS 2003....

it shuts down....

EVENT # 485427 EVENT LOG System EVENT TYPE Error

SOURCE SBCore EVENT ID 1001 COMPUTERNAME DOMAIN DATE / TIME 12/8/2009 12:13:57 AM MESSAGE The server was shut down because it did not comply with the EULA. For more information, contact Microsoft.

Do your homework before upgrading

bradley — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 04:09:00 GMT

Ever have one of those moments where you read something and you assumed that something would support something from the get go and it doesn't?

Just to prove once again, do your homework before upgrading.

http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2009/12/09/453486.aspx

This is the earliest customers have been able to deploy BlackBerry smartphones with a new Exchange release - ever. Customers who rely on BES as an important part of their messaging and collaboration infrastructure have told us that more rapid support for RIM's solution is critical to them.

With all due respect, one doesn't roll out technology until it does supports the technology that is business critical. Mobile phones these days ARE business critical and thus always make sure you can find solutions/support platforms as you update.

Security Alerts - December 2009

qbernard — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 03:36:00 GMT

Recently, Microsoft released the December security bulletin , and one of the critical rated bulletin ( MS09-071 ) is related to IIS (Integrated Windows Authentication). Meant to blog about this earlier but Nazim from IIS team beat me to it :) Been seeing lot of discussions online and patch management related mailing list. So in short, if you are seeing issue on W2k3 IIS 6 after applying the fix via KB973919 , you need to repatch SP2 as described in KB2009746 ....(read more)

Desktop virtualization

bradley — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 01:14:00 GMT

Server virtualization... desktop virtualization... so are you seeing the new buzzy stuff about desktop virtualization?

http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2009/1228/technology-virtualization-vmware-wyse.html

Now the interesting thing is while the licensing of all of this may be confusing at best and confusing at worst, it is possible for even small businesses to begin to think about virtualized desktops and thin clients and what not.

Brian Harry's comments about my post "No public VS 2010 Beta 3 or release"

carlosq — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 23:10:00 GMT

Brian Harry, Microsoft Technical Fellow and Product Unit Manager for Team Foundation Server (TFS) has commented about my last post "No public VS 2010 Beta 3 or release". (Brian is making a huge effort in transparency about the performance problems of VS 2010 Beta 2 and the work to get them fixed for RTM)

I reproduce his comments here:

"I don't know Quan but I can say definitively that this is not an official Microsoft communication. I've remarked before (on my blog) that when you have an organization of 2,000 - 3,000 people, you have to assume random stuff happens. Said another way "Don't believe everything you read" :)

1) We've had an RC on the books from the beginning. We are investigating the possibility of making it a public release. We didn't originally for that but the Beta 2 feedback has made us rethink it. We will ensure that there is time to incorporate customer feedback. Quan wrote this a while ago and, to be honest, I'm not sure we had reached that conclusion yet.

2) We haven't decided what we are going to call the public release yet. We've discussed both "Release Candidate" and "Beta 3". I responded to one comment on this post: http://blogs.msdn.com/bharry/archive/2009/12/05/anatomy-of-a-performance-problem.aspx with some thoughts on this. Regardless of what we call it, we will be looking for customer feedback/validation and will allot time to get it before releasing.

3) March 22 is NOT the release date. It never was. March 22 is the marketing launch date. We generally don't announce RTM dates ahead of time but we do communicate launch dates. Sometimes RTM happens before the launch, sometimes after. I think it's fair to say that we are targeting an RTM in the general timeframe or we wouldn't have set the launch date there but there are many considerations that go into launch dates - lining up with other events, hollidays, venue availability, ... Further, it would make no sense for us to have set a final RTM date before getting Beta 2 feedback. We always say "we'll ship the product when it's ready".

Am I the official Microsoft spokesman on this topic, well, um, no. However, I will say that I'm in all of the discussions about when we'll ship, how do we know, what prereleases will we do, etc, etc. And those who do actually own the "official responsibility" know I'm writing about it and are keeping quiet. Maintaining plausable deniability, I think :)

If you want to learn more, please visit my blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/bharry. I'm passionate about shipping a great developer tool and partnering with all of you to accomplish it. I'm always listening and open for feedback. Nothing I like more than a productive debate.

Thanks for listening,

Brian"

It's great that Microsoft is considering another public release before RTM. I know it would be to validate the performance fixes after Beta 2, not because add-ins are broken in the current Beta 2. I am fortunate enough to get the private Limited CTPs (LCTPs) after Beta 2 but I am under a Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA) so I can't blog about their fixes, workarounds or new problems as I did with the public Beta 1 and Beta 2 in the last months to help others, and my new Microsoft Connect bug reports are now private to Microsoft too. But other developers of add-ins would benefit from that public release, and working add-ins could finally be made available to end users for testing before VS 2010 gets RTM. I wouldn't have any hope of getting fixes in the automation model between that public release and RTM, though.

Clarification about WCF RIA Services

NunoGodinho — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 22:33:31 GMT

A lot as been said about “.NET RIA Services” now called “WCF RIA Services”, and much more about this name change, since many people doesn’t look at RIA Services like a real WCF Services with all their power, but that isn’t quite true since WCF RIA Services use the same bases as WCF but just make the work a little bit easier for us in terms of the “plumbing/low level development” part.

One of the Product Team members, in this case Saurabh Pant in his blog talked about this and why the change, and clarifies the WCF inside WCF RIA Services in this blog post. He also talks about the motivation of this alignment between the WCF and the RIA Services Team, and in this blogs post the .NET Connected Framework Team explain the entire ecosystem for WCF and in which WCF RIA Services is part of. Check the following picture to know more about this ecosystem that has technologies like:

WCF Core Services

The most commonly known WCF implementation

WCF WebHttp/AJAX Services

The RESTful WCF service implementation

WCF Data Services

The previously known ADO.NET Data Services are now also using WCF for all the communication

WCF Workflow Services

Workflows that are exposed and interact as WCF Services

WCF RIA Services

The previously know .NET RIA Services that now use the WCF communication capabilities in order to provide more power to the developer and at the same time, easier development and less “plumbing”

Hope this helps clarify a little better the WCF part of the WCF RIA Services and their place in the entire WCF ecosystem.

Ressourcen zu DirectAccess

rauscher — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 21:36:39 GMT

Wie beim Treffen der Forefront User Group heute Abend versprochen, hier die Portalseite bei Microsoft zum Thema DirectAccess:

TechNet: Networking and Access Technologies - DirectAccess

Wir werden versuchen bei einem der nächsten beiden Treffen dazu einen Vortrag zu ermöglichen.

Viele Grüße
Dieter

--
Dieter Rauscher
MVP Forefront

Render modes

arno — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 21:20:00 GMT

Today I have added some more options to ModelConverterX, this time different render modes for the preview. Before you could only render the object as it would show in FS, but now you also have the option to only show the faces (no textures) or to show a wireframe view of the object. I some cases these different render modes might help to figure out what is going on with your model.

As you might have noticed I am trying to fix some of the open issues with ModelConverterX, so that I can release another stable version. Apart from a few items the list for version 1.1 is empty now, so after that I will focus more on the gPoly tool.

Add a column to an Access Table

RichardSiddaway — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 17:36:44 GMT

Now we have created our Table we can start adding columns

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          function New-AccessColumn {               
[CmdletBinding()]               
param (               
    [System.Data.OleDb.OleDbConnection]$connection,               
    [string]$table,               
    [switch]$notnull,               
              
    [parameter(ParameterSetName="datetime")]                
    [string]$dtname,               
              
    [parameter(ParameterSetName="unique")]                
    [string]$uniquename,               
              
    [parameter(ParameterSetName="binary")]                
    [string]$binname,               
              
    [parameter(ParameterSetName="bit")]                
    [string]$bitname,               
              
    [parameter(ParameterSetName="tinyinteger")]                
    [string]$tnyintname,               
              
    [parameter(ParameterSetName="smallinteger")]                
    [string]$smlintname,               
                 
    [parameter(ParameterSetName="integer")]                
    [string]$intname,               
              
              
    [parameter(ParameterSetName="double")]                 
    [string]$dblname,               
              
    [parameter(ParameterSetName="real")]                
    [string]$realname,               
              
    [parameter(ParameterSetName="float")]                
    [string]$floatname,               
                  
    [parameter(ParameterSetName="decimal")]                
    [string]$decname,               
                  
    [parameter(ParameterSetName="money")]                
    [string]$mnyname,               
                  
    [parameter(ParameterSetName="char")]                
    [string]$charname,               
                  
    [parameter(ParameterSetName="text")]                
    [string]$textname,               
              
    [parameter(ParameterSetName="image")]                
    [string]$imgname,               
                  
    [parameter(ParameterSetName="char")]               
    [parameter(ParameterSetName="text")]                
    [int]$size = 10               
)                  
    switch ($psCmdlet.ParameterSetName){               
        datetime     {$sql = "ALTER TABLE $table ADD COLUMN $dtname DATETIME" }                
              
        binary       {$sql = "ALTER TABLE $table ADD COLUMN $binname BINARY" }                
        bit          {$sql = "ALTER TABLE $table ADD COLUMN $bitname BIT" }                
                      
        unique       {$sql = "ALTER TABLE $table ADD COLUMN $uniquename UNIQUEIDENTIFIER" }                
              
        tinyinteger  {$sql = "ALTER TABLE $table ADD COLUMN $tnyintname TINYINT" }                
        smallinteger {$sql = "ALTER TABLE $table ADD COLUMN $smlintname SMALLINT" }                
        integer      {$sql = "ALTER TABLE $table ADD COLUMN $intname INTEGER" }                
              
        double       {$sql = "ALTER TABLE $table ADD COLUMN $dblname DOUBLE" }                
        float        {$sql = "ALTER TABLE $table ADD COLUMN $floatname FLOAT" }                
        real         {$sql = "ALTER TABLE $table ADD COLUMN $realname REAL" }                
        decimal      {$sql = "ALTER TABLE $table ADD COLUMN $decname DECIMAL" }                
        money        {$sql = "ALTER TABLE $table ADD COLUMN $mnyname MONEY" }                
                      
        char         {$sql = "ALTER TABLE $table ADD COLUMN $charname CHARACTER($size)" }               
        text         {$sql = "ALTER TABLE $table ADD COLUMN $textname TEXT($size)" }               
        image        {$sql = "ALTER TABLE $table ADD COLUMN $imgname IMAGE" }                               
                              
    }               
    if ($notnull) {$sql = $sql + " NOT NULL"}               
                  
    Write-Debug $sql               
    $cmd = New-Object System.Data.OleDb.OleDbCommand($sql, $connection)               
    $cmd.ExecuteNonQuery()               
} 
       
 

The first set of parameters define the connection and table name. The $notnull parameter adds the NOT NULL statement to the SQL we create. This forces us to add a value for the column when we insert a row. These parameters are not part of a parameter set – this means they work with all parameter sets.

Parameter sets are used in this function to make the data types mutually exclusive – i.e. one call to Add-AccessColumn can add one column of one, and only one, data type. The size parameter applies to character and text data types so is a member of both parameter sets.

The parameter set is used in a switch statement to create the SQL to add a column of the correct type. If the $notnull switch is set we add the appropriate commands to the SQL.

With advanced functions in PowerShell v2 we get the ability to use the common parameters so I can use

New-AccessColumn -connection $db -table $table -dtname Mydate2 –notnull -Debug

and the Write-Debug statements will be triggered. In this case I get a dump of the SQL I have created. The function finishes by executing the SQL against the database as we have seen before.

As an example of using the function

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$table = "NewTable2"               
New-AccessTable -table $table -connection $db               
              
New-AccessColumn -connection $db -table $table -dtname Mydate               
New-AccessColumn -connection $db -table $table -dtname Mydate2 -notnull                
              
New-AccessColumn -connection $db -table $table -uniquename MyUnique               
New-AccessColumn -connection $db -table $table -uniquename MyUnique2 -notnull               
              
New-AccessColumn -connection $db -table $table -binname MyBinary               
New-AccessColumn -connection $db -table $table -bitname MyBit               
New-AccessColumn -connection $db -table $table -binname MyBinary2 -notnull               
New-AccessColumn -connection $db -table $table -bitname MyBit2 -notnull               
              
New-AccessColumn -connection $db -table $table -tnyintname MyTiny               
New-AccessColumn -connection $db -table $table -smlintname MySmall               
New-AccessColumn -connection $db -table $table -intname MyInt               
              
New-AccessColumn -connection $db -table $table -tnyintname MyTiny2 -notnull               
New-AccessColumn -connection $db -table $table -smlintname MySmall2 -notnull               
New-AccessColumn -connection $db -table $table -intname MyInt2 -notnull               
              
New-AccessColumn -connection $db -table $table -dblname MyDouble               
New-AccessColumn -connection $db -table $table -realname MyReal               
New-AccessColumn -connection $db -table $table -floatname MyFloat               
New-AccessColumn -connection $db -table $table -decname MyDecimal               
New-AccessColumn -connection $db -table $table -mnyname MyMoney               
              
New-AccessColumn -connection $db -table $table -dblname MyDouble2 -notnull               
New-AccessColumn -connection $db -table $table -realname MyReal2 -notnull               
New-AccessColumn -connection $db -table $table -floatname MyFloat2 -notnull               
New-AccessColumn -connection $db -table $table -decname MyDecimal2 -notnull               
New-AccessColumn -connection $db -table $table -mnyname MyMoney2 -notnull               
              
New-AccessColumn -connection $db -table $table -charname MyChar               
New-AccessColumn -connection $db -table $table -charname MyChar2 -size 20               
New-AccessColumn -connection $db -table $table -charname MyChar3 -size 20 -notnull               
              
New-AccessColumn -connection $db -table $table -textname MyText               
New-AccessColumn -connection $db -table $table -textname MyText2 -size 20               
New-AccessColumn -connection $db -table $table -textname MyText3 -size 20 -notnull               
              
New-AccessColumn -connection $db -table $table -imgname MyImg                
New-AccessColumn -connection $db -table $table -imgname MyImg2  -notnull               
              
Close-AccessDatabase $db 
       
 

Producing this becomes easy when using cut and paste within an editor.

Next we will look at removing columns and tables

Technorati Tags: PowerShell,Office 2010,Access,Add column

C’est Noël avec Microsoft® Word 2007 et Avery®

Patrice BONNEFOY — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 17:16:22 GMT

Salut à tous, Dans sa dernière lettre d’actualités “Office”, Microsoft®, par la voix de Jean-Christophe PITIÉ, Directeur produits Office system, nous fait part d’une information intéressante sur les produits AVERY . Pour préparer dès maintenant vos cartes de Noël et étiquettes cadeaux avec les produits Avery®, vous pouvez télécharger l'assistant ou sa mise à jour pour Microsoft® Word téléchargeable gratuitement. Et si rester au fait de l’actualité informatique Microsoft® est vous primordial,...(read more)

New Access Table

RichardSiddaway — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 17:10:51 GMT

I have already presented a function to create a new access table but I wasn’t very happy with it because we had to supply the full table creation SQL script.

I have altered that function so it creates an empty table. We can then use the Add-AccessColumn function to add columns. This also means I have a function to add columns to a table as and when I need them.

The function to create a table becomes

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param (               
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    [System.Data.OleDb.OleDbConnection]$connection               
)               
    $sql = " CREATE TABLE $table"               
    $cmd = New-Object System.Data.OleDb.OleDbCommand($sql, $connection)               
    $cmd.ExecuteNonQuery()               
} 
       
 

Our parameters become the connection and a table name. I don’t check that the table name exists – that will be a future refinement. We then issue a simple CREATE TABLE command.

Technorati Tags: PowerShell,Office 2010,Access,Create Table

Facebook - New privacy announcements

Harry Waldron — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 15:50:00 GMT

Facebook has announced the folling privacy and security improvements:

Facebook - New privacy announcements
http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?storyid=7726
http://www.facebook.com/press/releases.php?p=133917
http://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=196629387130

Message from the founder Mark Zuckerberg
http://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=190423927130

QUOTE: Setting a new standard in user control, Facebook announced today that it is calling on its more than 350 million users to review and update their privacy settings—a first among major Internet services. In addition, Facebook will be rolling out easy-to-use tools to empower people to personalize control over their information—based on what the content is, why they are sharing it, when, and the audience they seek to reach.

* Adding Control For Each Item
* Simplified Privacy Settings
* Help In Choosing Settings
* Expanded Privacy Education

Microsoft Virtual Business Cards para MCPs

lfranco — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 13:11:06 GMT

Como ya sabéis, el pasado Junio Microsoft decidió terminar con los paquetes de bienvenida (también llamados Welcome kits). Se supone que los motivos son ecológicos y no tienen nada que ver con el ahorro de costes, pero en estos tiempos de crisis... uhm... no se, no se :-)

La cuestión es que existe un nuevo servicio para todos los MCP gracias al cual uno se puede crear su propia tarjeta de visita, y compartirla con el resto de la comunidad.

Al igual que David, al principio pensé que era una chorrada, pero la verdad es que el resultado es una chulada :-)

Os dejo una muestra en diversos formatos:

HTML:

Java Script (mira en My Certifications):

Imagen:

Saludos,

** crossposting desde el blog de Lluís Franco en geeks.ms **

BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES) and Microsoft Exchange Server 2010

Thomas K.H. Bittner — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 11:45:17 GMT

Microsoft recognized that many customers rely on BlackBerry Servers. This is why they collaborated already closely with RIM to add BlackBerry Support to Exchange Server 2010.

BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES) is now fully supported on Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 and BlackBerry Technical Support Services are readily available.

In order to enable full support, this updates are required:

All three of these updates are available to customers of Exchange Server 2010 and BlackBerry Enterprise Server v.5.0 with Service Pack 1 at no cost. BlackBerry Enterprise Server v5.0 Service Pack 1 and Maintenance Release 1 can be found here: http://www.blackberry.com/support/downloads

Additional information on the solution requirements, preparing the BlackBerry environment for Microsoft Exchange Server2010, can be found on the BlackBerry site here.

Exchange Server 2010 Roll-up 1 also includes other minor updates to areas including calendaring, OWA, and transport. You can read more about Exchange Server 2010 RU1 here.

Exchange, SharePoint and SQL on Hyper-V and NetApp

Thomas K.H. Bittner — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 11:07:31 GMT

A Technical Report has been released, which is a detailed Solution Guide for Microsoft Exchange, SQL, SharePoint Server mixed workload running within the Virtual Machines hosted on Microsoft Hypervisor (Hyper-V) and the NetApp MetroCluster environment.

The architectural solution details provided in this Technical Report is extremely helpful to customers which showcases the simplicity of a robust infrastructure with Windows Hyper-V 2008 R2 in a virtual environment with NetApp storage. It provides the ability to maintain High Availability for both the computing and storage resources between the Primary and Secondary sites and a complete Disaster Recovery in the event of the loss of a complete site. This infrastructure also offers the ability to dynamically move an environment’s complete operation between the Primary and Secondary sites to minimize disruption during scheduled maintenance events.

The report also focuses on various failure scenarios and the value of deploying Windows Server 2008 R2, Hyper-V Live Migration, and NetApp MetroCluster to recover from these failures. Each failure scenario simulates real-world operational failures and real disasters. The expected outcome and actual results are described in terms of NetApp MetroCluster product operation and the resulting behavior of Hyper-V servers and virtual machines (VMs).

Read Technical Report here

ALT.NET Hispano VAN (reunión virtual): Aplicaciones modulares con Prism

lopez — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 10:49:14 GMT

Este sábado 12 de diciembre, 19 GMT (4 de la tarde aquí en Buenos Aires) de nuevo tenemos VAN (Reunión virtual, des-conferencia) organizada por la comunidad de ALT.NET Hispano.

(Más información sobre cómo asistir a la reunión virtual, software necesario, enlaces:

http://altnet-hispano.pbworks.com/Descripcion-de-Reuniones

)

Esta vez el tema será Prism (Composite Application Guidance para Windows Presentation Foundation y Silverlight). La introducción estará a cargo del bueno de @juliandominguez, que nos comenta en la lista de ALT.NET Hispano:

La idea de este próximo sábado es presentar sobre Prism (o Composite Application Guidance for WPF and Silverlight para los que prefieren el nombre real pero aburrido).

¿Qué es Prism de patterns & practices y qué desafíos resuelve?

¿Qué beneficios les brinda a arquitectos, desarrolladores y a la interacción con diseñadores?

En esta sesión mostraré cómo Prism nos ayuda a trabajar en equipos distribuidos, no distribuidos, grandes o pequeños, con requerimientos cambiantes, aplicando conceptos como TDD y patrones de UI como Model View ViewModel (MVVM). También voy a mostrar cómo nos ayuda a reusar código que funcione en WPF y en Silverlight.

Vamos a estar viendo los beneficios que nos trae Prism a la hora de construir una aplicación compuesta, como así también en qué (lio?) nos metemos cuando queremos usar Prism en una aplicación que no lo amerita.

Espero que les resulte muy interesante a quienes no conocen Prism y tienen pensado empezar un proyecto en WPF o Silverlight.

Sé que normalmente las VAN suelen ser a las 18:00 GMT, pero debido a mi horario (actualmente estoy en Redmond), preferiría que sea las 19:00 GMT. Esto sería el sábado 12/12.

Así que la reunión será este sábado a las 19GMT (no a las 18GMT como otras veces).

Mi colección de enlaces sobre Prism:

http://delicious.com/ajlopez/prism

Otros interesantes:

http://delicious.com/ajlopez/mef
http://delicious.com/ajlopez/mvvm
http://delicious.com/ajlopez/silverlight
http://delicious.com/ajlopez/wpf

(especialmente si agregan examples o tutorial, como http://delicious.com/ajlopez/mef+example)

Si es la primera vez que topan con el término VAN, les recuerdo:

Si no conocen qué es una reunión VAN, pueden consultar VAN meetings. Para ver cómo se desarrolla una VAN de ALT.NET Hispano, y qué software necesitan para asistir, ver Descripcion-de-Reuniones-VAN. Pueden ver el historial de anteriores reuniones VAN (visiten las que dieron, por ejemplo, sobre NHibernate, WPF y demás) (yo participé en VAN sobre Scrum y en otra sobre generación de código). También pueden suscribirse para proponer nuevos temas, y colaborar con la comunidad. Si no pueden asistir a ésta VAN, seguramente quedará publicada más adelante, con video incluido.

Nos leemos!

Angel “Java” Lopez
http://www.ajlopez.com
http://twitter.com/ajlopez

Descargar archivos desde un FTP en .NET - How to Download files from FTP using .NET

peplluis — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 10:45:00 GMT

Existe una inquietud por parte de muchas personas desde la aparición de .NET, en tanto a como descargar archivos utilizando una aplicación de escritorio desde un servidor FTP.

El propósito de este ejemplo es demostrar como descargar simultáneamente archivos de un directorio raíz en un ftp, evidentemente con algunas limitaciones como por ejemplo navegar en los directorios del mismo. Me gustara compartir esta aplicación para que la ejecutéis según os interese, intentare adaptar todas las sugerencias que me hagáis llegar y finalmente poder publicar el proyecto (o eso espero) para compartirlo con todos vosotros.

Podéis descomprimir y ejecutar él ‘.exe’ en cualquier maquina con Vista o 7, si necesitáis el instalador no dudéis en solicitármelo, pero con en principio cualquier equipo con el Framework 3.5 sirve.

Espero vuestros comentarios.
(C) Pep Lluis 2009 :-)

Always receive some comments from people asking ‘How to Download files from FTP using .NET”, the best way to answer this, is develop a very easy & simple sample using last version of framework, first I will share this app to free run and I will adapt all yours suggestions, finally share the project with source code (… or I hope so).

You can run with no setup in windows vista or 7, please ask if you need setup for deployment.

Please don’t forget run and send your suggestions.
Best!!
Pep Lluis,

Puedes descargarte el ejecutable haciendo clic en : FTPClient

Advertencia y Aclaración.
Está claro que os facilito este articulo por vuestra insistencia, esta aplicación solo utiliza dos librerías : System.Net, System.IO y no almacena ningún tipo de información introducida por nombres o credenciales intercambiadas por el usuario, debo rechazar categóricamente cualquier responsabilidad por el uso de la información así como la aplicación aquí contenida, cualquier uso de la misma o de la información de este artículo y su alcance es estrictamente responsabilidad del lector, aunque como siempre estaré encantado de recibir vuestros comentarios.

Warning: It is clear that this article is delivered for the insistence of some readers, this application uses only two libraries: System.NET, System.IO, does not store any information introduced by names or exchanged by the user credentials, I categorically reject any responsibility for the use of information as well as the application contained here, any use of it or the information in this article and its scope is strictly responsibility of the reader, although as I am always happy to receive your comments.

El Registro: Editándolo

juansa — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 10:40:03 GMT

Primero nos aseguramos que no hay nada que nos prohíba manipular el registro y que podemos añadir, eliminar o renombrar llaves y valores.

Regedit nos muestra en pantalla un editor distinto dependiendo del tipo de valor:

El editor de cadena nos servirá en los tipos REG_SZ y REG_EXPAND_SZ, el DWORD para REG_DWORD, el binario para valores REG_BINARY, y el multi-string para los REG_MULTI_SZ.

Para cambiar un valor, Editar, Modificar y escribir el nuevo valor dentro de la casilla correspondiente. Cuando cambiamos un valor éste se aplica de inmediato, aunque no signifique que Windows u otro programa incorporen el cambio. De hecho, hay cambios que hasta que el sistema o programa no se reinicien no se cargarán.

Lo normal es realizar una copia de seguridad antes de modificar cualquier valor, no estamos libres de errores, para eso somos humanos.

Añadir llaves o valores

Podemos crear llaves y valores sólo si sabemos lo que estamos haciendo:

Seleccionamos la llave donde añadir
clic derecho, elegimos Nuevo
Seleccionamos el tipo de valor
Le damos un nombre y lo editamos para introducir el valor/es que deseamos.

Borrar llaves o valores

Deberíamos exportar aquéllas llaves/valores que vamos a eliminar, por seguridad.

Clic derecho sobre el valor/llave y Eliminar

Renombrar llaves o valores

Clic en la llave/valor y renombrarlo. También podemos seleccionar con clic derecho la opción Cambiar nombre.

Another cool nudge: maintaining the selection of an element when using paging

luisabreu — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 10:24:42 GMT

This is one of those simple things which really improves the use of controls like GridView and ListView. ASP.NET 4.0 adds the EnablePersistedSelection property to the GridView and ListView controls. To support this feature, the control ended up adding a new field (_persistedDataKey) which is saved in the control state of the control. Notice that what is persisted is the key that uniquely identifies the selected item (and not its position in the rows displayed by the grid.

When the grid needs to create its rows, it will update the SelectedIndex (and other associated props) by checking the data key of each item it is rendering against the value persisted in the _persisteDataKey field. What this means is that when you change the page and go to a new one that doesn’t have the previous selected item, you’ll end up getting –1 for the SelectedIndex property. I guess this isn’t really the behavior you’d expect, but I’m assuming that it wasn’t changed so that it was backward compatible with previous versions (or it might end up breaking existing code). To recover the current selected item you’ll have to use the new SelectedPersistedKey property (which returns a DataKey object associated with the item that has been selected).

And that’s it for now. Keep tuned for more on ASP.NET.

MCP Virtual Business Card

Cleber Marques — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 09:57:00 GMT

Para quem quiser utilizar um sistema de cartões de visita, legal e gratuito, oferecido pela Microsoft esta é uma boa oportunidade. No site mcpvirtualbusinesscard.com você pode criar um cartão personalizado, vale a pena testar, a chamada do site é:

Demonstrate your technology expertise and skills while expressing your virtual personality by creating your own, unique virtual business card and profile page to highlight your Microsoft certifications

Obrigado pela leitura e até a próxima publicação,

Abraços.

Cleber Marques

Microsoft MVP & MCT | Charter Member: SCVMM & MDOP
Projeto MOF Brasil: Simplificando o Gerenciamento de Serviços de TI
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Microsoft Security Bulletin Minor Revisions - December 9, 2009

Don — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 09:15:00 GMT

Issued: December 9, 2009

Summary

The following bulletins have undergone a minor revision increment.
Please see the appropriate bulletin for more details.

* MS09-073 - Important
* MS09-072 - Critical
* MS09-071 - Critical
* MS09-070 - Important
* MS09-058 - Important
* MS08-037 - Important

Bulletin Information:

* MS09-073 - Important

- http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms09-073.mspx
- Reason for Revision: V1.1 (December 9, 2009): Removed a redundant
entry for the Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack from the
non-affected software table. Also corrected several
deployment reference tables to clarify that in some cases,
this update does not require a restart. This is an
informational change only.
- Originally posted: December 8, 2009
- Updated: December 9, 2009
- Bulletin Severity Rating: Important
- Version: 1.1

* MS09-072 - Critical

- http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms09-072.mspx
- Reason for Revision: V1.1 (December 9, 2009): Corrected a
reference to Microsoft Knowledge Base Article 976749 in the
section, Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) Related to This
Security Update. Also corrected, in the Security Update
Deployment section, the registry key for verification of the
update for Internet Explorer 7 for all supported x64-based
editions of Windows XP.
- Originally posted: December 8, 2009
- Updated: December 9, 2009
- Bulletin Severity Rating: Critical
- Version: 1.1

* MS09-071 - Critical

- http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms09-071.mspx
- Reason for Revision: V1.1 (December 9, 2009): Added an entry to
the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) Related to This Security
Update section to explain this revision. This is an
informational change only.
- Originally posted: December 8, 2009
- Updated: December 9, 2009
- Bulletin Severity Rating: Critical
- Version: 1.1

* MS09-070 - Important

- http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms09-070.mspx
- Reason for Revision: V1.1 (December 9, 2009): Corrected the SMS
2.0 and SMS 2003 with SUIT entries for Windows Server 2003
x64 Edition Service Pack 2 in the SMS table. This is an
information change only.
- Originally posted: December 8, 2009
- Updated: December 9, 2009
- Bulletin Severity Rating: Important
- Version: 1.1

* MS09-058 - Important

- http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms09-058.mspx
- Reason for Revision: V1.1 (December 9, 2009): Added a link to
Microsoft Knowledge Base Article 971486 under Known Issues in
the Executive Summary.
- Originally posted: October 13, 2009
- Updated: December 9, 2009
- Bulletin Severity Rating: Important
- Version: 1.1

* MS08-037 - Important

- http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms08-037.mspx
- Reason for Revision: V3.1 (December 9, 2009): Corrected the
registry key verification and removal information in the
reference table for the DNS client on Microsoft Windows 2000
Service Pack 4 (KB951748). This is an informational change only.
- Originally posted: July 8, 2008
- Updated: December 9, 2009
- Bulletin Severity Rating: Important
- Version: 3.1

[MS Security] Bulletin Minor Revisions - Issued: December 9, 2009

Cliff Hobbs at myITforum.com — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 09:11:24 GMT

Summary The following bulletins have undergone a minor revision increment. Please see the appropriate bulletin for more details. * MS09-073 - Important * MS09-072 - Critical * MS09-071 - Critical * MS09-070 - Important Read More......(read more)

Microsoft Exchange 2010 Rollup 1 ist verfügbar

Wstein — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 08:13:00 GMT

Bereits wenige Wochen nach dem Erscheinen der RTM-Version von Exchange 2010 bringt Microsoft das erste Rollup-Packet heraus. Den KB-Artikel mit dem darin enhaltenen Download-Link findet ihr an folgender Stelle:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/976573

Happy Patching

Viele Grüße

Walter Steinsdorfer

BlackBerry Enterprise Server und Exchange Server 2010 – jetzt supported

rauscher — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 08:08:46 GMT

Ab sofort wird eine BES-Installation in einer Exchange Server 2010-Umgebung unterstützt. Dazu sind drei Updates erforderlich:

Bevor das MR1 installiert werden kann, muss natürlich zuerst das Service Pack 1 für den BES 5.0 drauf, sofern das noch nicht geschehen ist.

Weitere Informationen:

Viele Grüße
Dieter

--
Dieter Rauscher
MVP Forefront

Exchange Server 2010 Update Rollup 1 verfuegbar

rauscher — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 07:59:47 GMT

Für den Exchange Server 2010 ist das erste Update Rollup verfügbar.

Weitere Informationen:

Viele Grüße
Dieter

--
Dieter Rauscher
MVP Forefront

Internet Information Services 6.0 may not function correctly after installing KB973917

bradley — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 06:44:00 GMT

Watch out for the Extended Authentication update issue...

Internet Information Services 6.0 may not function correctly after installing KB973917

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2009746

Consider the following scenario. You have an Internet Information Services (IIS) 6.0 web server running on Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2. The Microsoft update KB973917 gets installed on the server. After installing KB973917, the IIS 6.0 application pools cannot start up successfully.

Previous to the installation of the KB973917 update, one or more of the core IIS .dll files were not at the correct file version. Specifically, the earlier installation of Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2 on the server did not complete successfully, leaving some of the IIS .dlls at the Service Pack 1 level while bringing others up to the Service Pack 2 level. The IIS services had been able to run successfully even with that file mismatch in place. However, the installation of the KB973917 update exposes this pre-existing file mismatch environment to the degree that IIS is now unable to function properly.

To resolve this problem, reinstall Service Pack 2 for Windows Server 2003 on the web server. This will bring all IIS 6.0 components up to the correct file versions, and will maintain the installation of the KB973917 update. Reinstalling the KB973917 update should not be necessary.

Exchange Server 2010 RU1 and BES supportability

Anderson Patricio — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 01:34:27 GMT

Hi Folks,

RU 1 was released ( http://support.microsoft.com/kb/976573) and BES is also fully supported on Exchange Server 2010.

Cheers,
Anderson Patricio

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Microsoft and Research in Motion announce full BES support for Exchange 2010

Exchangepedia Blog — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Did you know there's a SBS 2008 app catalog?

bradley — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 22:11:00 GMT

http://www.microsoft.com/sbs/en/us/catalog.aspx

Found out from Dana today that there's a SBS 2008 officially supported applications catalog that lists those vendors that specifically support SBS 2008.

Scorpion Software AuthAnvil

AuthAnvil enhances the security and productivity of remote access through identity assurance and strong two-factor authentication for Windows Essential Server Solutions.

Windows Small Business Server 2008 Supporting Applications

Many independent software vendors (ISVs) are supporting Windows Small Business Server 2008 (SBS 2008), across a wide variety of applications that are critical to small businesses. In addition to the solutions listed here, SBS 2008 will run any applications certified on Windows Server 2008 listed here: http://www.windowsservercatalog.com/.

InstallShield LE for Visual Studio 2010 (Beta) now available

stefan — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 21:24:57 GMT

As reported before, Visual Studio 2010 (currently in beta) includes an "InstallShield 2010" project template in the "Setup and Deployment" category. Back then the link didn't work, but now it's live. From the "InstallShield Limited Edition for Microsoft Visual Studio 2010" page you can now download a setup package. Registration is required before you can start the download, and my standard Flexera privacy caveat applies: Anyone who knows your e-mail address can retrieve the other information you entered in this form, like your real name, phone number, company name, city and country.

According to the download page: "InstallShield Limited Edition for Visual Studio 2010 replaces the functionality provided by the Visual Studio Installer tool. It provides a subset of the world-class functionality found in our more advanced InstallShield editions.". Note that installing InstallShield LE doesn't remove the Visual Studio Installer (VSI) project type, but it offers an alternative.

Now the interesting question is what subset of the full InstallShield functionality is included in the Limited Edition, and what has been removed? I haven't seen this officially documented, so here are the most notable differences I found so far. (In this screen shot of Solution Explorer you can see the disabled views marked with a lock symbol)

You are limited to one InstallShield project type, probably the equivalent to "Basic MSI". Other project types like Merge Module, InstallScript or Smart Device are not included.
You cannot customize the Feature structure of your setup. So you are limited to one feature, similar to VSI.
There are no localization options. Multi language setups are only supported in the Premier edition of InstallShield.
Text File Changes and XML File Changes views are disabled.
SQL Scripts and COM registration are unavailable.
Billboards and Support Files can't be specified.
Dependency Scanners are not included (but it's always better to know your runtime dependencies than having a machine trying to guess)
The Patch Design view is also been locked.

While some more important and some less important functionality has been disabled in the Limited Edition, InstallShield LE still offers some advantages compared to Visual Studio Installer:

Prerequiste installation to pre-install packages like the .NET Framework or Internet Explorer 8.
INI File Changes and Environment Variables views.
IIS configuration view.
More dialogs to chose from, but only limited customization options (similar to InstallShield Express).
Slightly more custom action scheduling options, but by far not equivalent to the full InstallShield version. Essentially you can call a custom action at the beginning or at the end of the UI sequence, or in the Execute sequence after RegisterProduct. In VSI you can't insert custom actions in the UI sequence at all.
More customization options for Major Upgrades (in the "Upgrade Paths" view)

Like in the full InstallShield version, the "Update Notifications" view enables you to register your product with FlexNet Connect to send automatic updates to your customers. However this requires a FlexNet Connect account which is sold separately.

InstallShield LE has a wizard to import VSI projects.

To summarize, it looks like InstallShield LE has been tailored to be a replacement for Visual Studio Installer, only adding a limited amount of extra functionality. The big advantage is that you can move to the more powerful InstallShield editions whenever you need the full functionality, without having to start over, and that you are already familiar with the InstallShield user interface. Ideally, the upgrade would simply remove some lock icons from the list of editors in Solution Explorer.