Posted Saturday, 06 October 2007 by Michael Khanin
One of the most exciting new features of Windows Server 2008Server Core machine. is its ability to install as a
A Server Core installation provides a minimal environment for running specific server roles, which reduces the maintenance and management requirements and the attack surface for those server roles. A server running a Server Core installation supports the following server roles:
- Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS)
- Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services (AD LDS)
- DHCP Server
- DNS Server
- File Services
- Print Services
- Streaming Media Services
- Windows Virtualization
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Posted Saturday, 06 October 2007 by Michael Khanin
FileMenu Tools lets customize the context menu of the Windows Explorer. It lets configure the following aspects:
* Add some build-in utilities in order to do operations over files and folders.
* Add customized commands which let run external applications, copy/move to a specific folder or delete specific file types.
* Configure the "Send to..." submenu.
* Enable/disable the commands which are added by other applications to the context menu.
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Posted Friday, 05 October 2007 by Michael Khanin
Almost a year ago, we released Internet Explorer 7 for Windows XP. Since then, IE7 is well on its way to becoming the most used browser in the world, and we’ve seen lots of evidence that IE7 makes it safer and easier to accomplish everyday tasks online. For example, the built-in Phishing Filter has protected consumers from known phishing web sites an average of 900,000 times per week. IE7 is the first – and still the only – browser with native support for Extended Validation SSL Certificates that help prevent online fraud. (Of course, tabbed browsing, QuickTabs, shrink-to-fit printing, an easily customizable search box, CSS improvements, and some add-ons are all good things too.)
Because Microsoft takes its commitment to help protect the entire Windows ecosystem seriously, we’re updating the IE7 installation experience to make it available as broadly as possible to all Windows users. With today’s “Installation and Availability Update,” Internet Explorer 7 installation will no longer require Windows Genuine Advantage validation and will be available to all Windows XP users. If you are not already running IE7, you can get it now from the Internet Explorer home page on Microsoft.com, get a customized version from a third-party site, or, if you haven’t already received it via Automatic Updates, this version will be delivered to you as we described previously. If you are already running IE7, you will not be offered IE7 again by Automatic Updates.
Additionally, we’ve made minor changes to IE7 for Windows XP based on customer feedback:
- The menu bar is now visible by default.
- The Internet Explorer 7 online tour has updated how-to’s. Also, the “first-run” experience includes a new overview.
- We’ve included a new MSI installer that simplifies deployment for IT administrators in enterprises. Learn more about it here.
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Posted Friday, 05 October 2007 by Michael Khanin
Windows Live Messenger is the next-generation MSN Messenger. It has everything you already love about Messenger—your contact list, emoticons, and instant access to your friends via text, voice, and video—plus new ways to connect and share photos and documents effortlessly. As always, it's free to download Messenger and use most of its features.
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Posted Friday, 05 October 2007 by Michael Khanin
The Internet Explorer 7 Readiness Toolkit provides an easy way for any audience that is involved in the development, test, deployment or support of Web sites, extensions, and/or applications to prepare for Internet Explorer 7. The Toolkit provides the following:
• Updated! Testing guidance and tips for isolating and identifying a particular compatibility problem.
• Updated! Improved navigation to help find information.
• Pointer to the latest publicly available build of Internet Explorer 7.
• Developer Checklist including new features and changes of interest to application and Web developers should be aware of.
• Tools for development and testing.
• Links to resources, technical articles, and helpful blog posts.
• Various methods for providing feedback to Microsoft.
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Posted Wednesday, 03 October 2007 by Michael Khanin
Your next laptop could have a continuous power battery that lasts for 30 years without a single recharge thanks to work being funded by the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory. The breakthrough betavoltaic power cells are constructed from semiconductors and use radioisotopes as the energy source. As the radioactive material decays it emits beta particles that transform into electric power capable of fueling an electrical device like a laptop for years.
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Posted Wednesday, 03 October 2007 by Michael Khanin
With the Active Directory Topology Diagrammer tool, you can read your Active Directory structure through Microsoft ActiveX® Data Objects (ADO). The Active Directory Topology Diagrammer tool automates Microft Office Visio to draw a diagram of the Active Directory Domain topology, your Active Directory Site topology, your OU structure or your current Exchange 200X Server Organization. With the Active Directory Topology Diagrammer tool, you can also draw partial Information from your Active Directory, like only one Domain or one site. The objects are linked together, and arranged in a reasonable layout that you can later interactively work withthe objects in Microsoft Office Visio.
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Posted Tuesday, 02 October 2007 by Michael Khanin
Active Directory (AD) will shut down the Windows 2000 Server system if it runs out of space. If you’re very low on hard disk space you can add a new hard drive and move AD files to it.
Keep in mind before you actually move any of the AD files, you need to create a backup. After you create a backup, follow these steps:
- Restart Windows 2000 Domain Controller in the Directory Services Restore mode.
- Log on as the local administrator with the password you specified when you installed AD.
- Open the command prompt and run Ntdsutil.
- At the Ntdsutil prompt, type files and press [Enter].
- Type move DB to x:\path, where x:\path represents the full path to the directory that will hold the AD database.
- To exit, type quit and press [Enter] twice.
To move transactional log files, in step five, type move logs to x:\path instead of move DB to x:\path.
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Posted Monday, 01 October 2007 by Michael Khanin
Important Updates are available on Windows Update and on Microsoft Update that enable Windows to correctly apply the changes for daylight saving time (DST) 2007 and later. After these updates are applied, Windows correctly calculates the current offsets from UTC time to local time on the computer when DST occurs. The offsets include the offsets for the base APIs and for the networking time-related APIs.
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Posted Saturday, 29 September 2007 by Michael Khanin
Before we get started with the installation of Exchange 2007 it is recommended to run the latest version of Exchange Best Practice Analyzer tools now, and choose Exchange 2007 readiness check, in my case, the tool gave me the following report:
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Posted Saturday, 29 September 2007 by Michael Khanin
Mueed Al-Enzi sent us an email about a series of posts he wrote on transitioning from Exchagne 2000 to 2007. What was interesting about his article was that his Exchange 2000 server was also his DC and was on Windows 2000. He had a lot more work to do than normal but since this is a common setup we decided to accept it and post it here.
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Posted Saturday, 29 September 2007 by Michael Khanin
The Internet Connectivity Evaluation Tool checks your Internet router to see if it supports certain technologies. You can use this tool on a PC running either the Windows Vista or Windows XP operating system. If you're planning to run Windows Vista, this tool can verify whether your existing Internet router supports advanced features, such as improved download speeds and face-to-face collaboration using Windows Meeting Space.
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Posted Saturday, 29 September 2007 by Michael Khanin
Listed below are the links for the download pages for each of the individual installation packages:
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Posted Saturday, 29 September 2007 by Michael Khanin
In a few short words, it’s all about working less to produce more, but applied to Office Automation. Do you have a clear definition of productivity?
Whatever you may think, it would only seem logical that current Office Automation Software is attempting to achieve perfection in helping us work less to produce more.
Perhaps so.
However, putting aside all that wonderful technology transforming our documents which are then transmitted to our collaborators so quickly, only to be filed away even more quickly, that a Desktop Search – to be done using the latest search program – becomes inevitably necessary to find them, what do you really think of productivity?
What are we supposed to think of…
- time and money spent for training?
- gratitude and timeless skills?
- time invested in document upkeep to adapt them to the latest version of your software?
- time spent solving portability problems to exchange or access your documents using different versions of a same computer program?
Have you tried to calculate all the time spent trying to figure out your increase in productivity?
If it goes without saying that Innovation in Office Automation Software is of interest, we still need to distinguish the useful from the futile and to have a choice.
[Translator’s note.] As Neil Peart once said, “If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice!”
English translation of the French article “Soyez Productif(ve)s !” by Andrew Kovacs, Ph. D.
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