July 2005 - Angus Logan

RE: Compact Your VHD Files

[Via Heath Stewart ] Many times it's necessary to debug solutions on other machines so that you don't corrupt your developer machine, because of different platform requirements, or to attach a debugger without changing the state of the machine. Testing...

Published Sun, Jul 31 2005 11:41 PM by anguslogan

Filed under: Virtual Server & Virtual PC

Awesome Vista Feature: Network Presentations - What about LiveMeeting?

I got my Vista Beta 1 box run up and started to have a poke around One of the neat features I saw is Network Presentations --> But what is going to happen with Live Meeting - because once I get enough clients running this, or if there is a Windows XP...

Published Sun, Jul 31 2005 8:42 PM by anguslogan

RE: PDC05 Keynote announcements

Awesome! [Via PDC Team @ MSDN Blogs ] We're very pleased to announce that Bill Gates will be opening PDC05 on Tuesday, September 13th. We're also very happy to announce that Jim Allchin will also be keynoting on Tuesday. and that additional keynotes will...

Published Sun, Jul 31 2005 3:27 PM by anguslogan

Throwing out NewsGator for Outlook and going back to RSS Bandit

I've started to get really annoyed with NewsGator for Outlook using up all of my available resources and making Outlook unusable for the first 5 minutes of operation. When I boot my laptop I need to start Outlook; then open Outlook Web Access to check...

Published Sun, Jul 31 2005 3:24 PM by anguslogan

Office for Information Workers

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Published Sun, Jul 31 2005 3:20 PM by anguslogan

Filed under: SharePoint Portal Server

Windows Vista - Deployment Overview

[Via Last 20 Uploads on Only4Gurus.com ] Windows Vista brings significant innovations and technologies to make deploying desktops easier than it has ever been. Find out more about the new capabilities, tools and best practices along with a demo of Microsoft...

Published Sun, Jul 31 2005 3:19 PM by anguslogan

SPS User Adoption Tip

[Via Getting Things Done With MCMS, SharePoint, WSS, InfoPath & IBF ] As much as you can make SPS attractive and useful to end users, launching IE is not always the first thing a user chooses to do. I would say that most users, like myself, probably...

Published Sun, Jul 31 2005 3:13 PM by anguslogan

Ouch - Playing with too many Betas has been cruel to my External Hard Drive!

Published Fri, Jul 29 2005 9:07 AM by anguslogan

Microsoft Australia/New Zealand is now a US$1.19b company

Awesome – Go Hard ANZ! Via ASPSurvival Via ITNews.com.au By Byron Connolly, CRN, 28 July 2005 15:45 AEST Microsoft’s Australia and New Zealand operation contributed around US$1.19 billion, or three percent, of the software giant’s global...

Published Fri, Jul 29 2005 8:49 AM by anguslogan

Standards and CSS in IE

Via Chris Wilson on the IE Team Blog I’m very happy that we’ve shipped IE 7 beta 1. I wanted to make it clear that we know Beta 1 makes little progress for web developers in improving our standards support, particularly in our CSS implementation...

Published Fri, Jul 29 2005 7:22 AM by anguslogan

BizTalk 2006 Wss Adapter questions

SWEET! Via Adrian Hamza These are some of the questions raised by early users of the WSS adapter. I assumed that people didn't want to see their names listed here, so I took the liberty and removed all the names and also rephrased some of the questions...

Published Fri, Jul 29 2005 5:51 AM by anguslogan

Check it out

Via Thom Robbins Very cool DVD – well worth checking out http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/extend/partnerdvd/ Contains over 75 tools, components and languages from Visual Studio Industry Partners. These full version and evaluation products can help...

Published Fri, Jul 29 2005 5:49 AM by anguslogan

Screenshots Of New BizTalk Server 2006 Components

Via Richard Seroter Ok, as promised, here's a quick screenshot look at some of the BizTalk Server 2006 improvements that should catch your eye. Figure 1 When you open up a BizTalk project in Visual Studio, the "Add Items" menu has changed a bit, and includes...

Published Fri, Jul 29 2005 5:20 AM by anguslogan

Windows Vista Beta 1 Now Available

I’m in the Longhorn beta in a ‘pending’ status on Connect.microsoft.com but I can download the Vista bits – Weird! Either way – check out the Vista beta 1. Via Dan Fernandez's Blog Windows Vista Beta 1 is now available! MSDN...

Published Tue, Jul 26 2005 10:05 PM by anguslogan

Build your webparts with NAnt

Published Tue, Jul 26 2005 9:49 PM by anguslogan

Play by the Rules or Don't Play at All!

Stefan has written a bunch of great articles which should put the fear into you if you are: 1) accessing Databases directly for products 2) Using undocumented/unsupported API's 3) running on unsupported architectures. Check out this one: http://blogs...

Published Tue, Jul 26 2005 10:54 AM by anguslogan

Filed under: Content Management Server

Tech Ed NZ - SOLD OUT

Via Darryl Burling If you were looking forward to going to Tech Ed but were procrastinating - you've missed out! Thats right! We've sold out of our 2000 Tech Ed 2005 tickets in Auckland! We've still got four weeks to go too! If you are really desperate...

Published Tue, Jul 26 2005 6:18 AM by anguslogan

Where in the World was Dr. Neil?

This is soooo cool! I wonder if it auto uploads his position as at midnight? Via Dr. Neil's Adventures: The HiTech Hobo So you want to know where I have been this year, well here is the answer: WhereWasDrNeil?

Published Mon, Jul 25 2005 9:28 AM by anguslogan

BizTalk 2006 Beta Program Now Open to the Public

YAY! I’m in Beta-ville; Virtual Server SP1 Office 2003 SP2 Windows Vista Beta (Aparently starting 3 August 2005) MCMS /SPS vNext Beta (just kidding). Via David Boschman [Via Stephen W. Thomas ] BizTalk Server 2006 Beta is now available for public...

Published Sun, Jul 24 2005 9:31 AM by anguslogan

Windows Vista Wallpaper

I had the Windows Vista background on my desktop and second monitor all day – and everyone walking past called me a dork! Infact, I got more comments from the Vista wallpaper than the Springfield is for Gay Lovers of Marriage wallpaper. Via Bink.nu You...

Published Sun, Jul 24 2005 9:19 AM by anguslogan