Windows Live Messenger 8.1 Download
Posted Friday, 05 October 2007 by Misha Hanin
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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Update - Internet Explorer 7 Readiness Toolkit
Posted Friday, 05 October 2007 by Misha Hanin

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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Scientists Invent 30 Year Continuous Power Laptop Battery!
Posted Wednesday, 03 October 2007 by Misha Hanin
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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Microsoft Active Directory Topology Diagrammer
Posted Wednesday, 03 October 2007 by Misha Hanin
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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Move Active Directory Database (DB)
Posted Tuesday, 02 October 2007 by Misha Hanin

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:

  1. Restart Windows 2000 Domain Controller in the Directory Services Restore mode.
  2. Log on as the local administrator with the password you specified when you installed AD.
  3. Open the command prompt and run Ntdsutil.
  4. At the Ntdsutil prompt, type files and press [Enter].
  5. Type move DB to x:\path, where x:\path represents the full path to the directory that will hold the AD database.
  6. 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.

 
2007 time zone update for Windows XP and Windows Server 2003
Posted Monday, 01 October 2007 by Misha Hanin
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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Transitioning from Exchange 2000 to 2007 (Part 2)
Posted Saturday, 29 September 2007 by Misha Hanin
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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Transitioning from Exchange 2000 to 2007 (Part 1)
Posted Saturday, 29 September 2007 by Misha Hanin
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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Internet Connectivity Evaluation Tool
Posted Saturday, 29 September 2007 by Misha Hanin
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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FTP7 for Windows Server 2008 RC0 is released!
Posted Saturday, 29 September 2007 by Misha Hanin

Listed below are the links for the download pages for each of the individual installation packages:

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Be Productive!
Posted Saturday, 29 September 2007 by Misha Hanin

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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Office vs Sun OpenOffice.org: a few shortcuts ...
Posted Saturday, 29 September 2007 by Misha Hanin

Sometimes, little things can improve productivity. Those things that let you save a little bit of time here and there, a few minutes every day.

Do you remember the Microsoft Office Manager?

That little window that would float around on the screen or that could be left on one of its edges.

Gestionnaire Microsoft Office

Unfortunately, after Microsoft Office 2003 came out, that tool was no longer available.

And yet, it only took one click to launch Word, or even better, to access your scheduling program or an e-mail in Outlook.

The idea was obviously interesting because it can now be found implemented in OpenOffice.org.

Démarrage rapide de OpenOffice.org

Compared to the Microsoft Office Manager, the OpenOffice.org tool may be accessed through a scroll-down menu, but can not be placed on the Desktop. And as for launching a program, it only takes a right click on an icon in the system tray, and then a click on the name of the chosen application.

This feature corresponds more or less to the use of a shortcut installed through the “Add to Start Menu” function in Windows. To launch a Microsoft Office Suite program associated with this type of shortcut, you just need to click on the Start button, and then click on the shortcut.

In both cases, the result is altogether less efficient than what Microsoft Office Manager used to do.

A short question: “How many clicks do you need to make to write a new e-mail?”

English translation of the French article “Microsoft Office vs Sun OpenOffice.org : petits raccourcis ...” byAndrew Kovacs, Ph. D.
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Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1 Shell Help
Posted Thursday, 27 September 2007 by Misha Hanin
The Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Exchange Management Shell Help file helps you use cmdlets in the Exchange Management Shell to perform day-to-day administration of Exchange 2007. You can view help in the Exchange Management Shell by using the Get-Help cmdlet. This Help file applies to the Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1 (SP1) version of Exchange Server 2007
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Windows Server 2008 RC0 is now available for download
Posted Wednesday, 26 September 2007 by Misha Hanin

Windows Server 2008 RC0 can now be downloaded from the TechNet BetaCentral web site.  From here, you enter your Windows Live ID and pick the edition of Windows Server 2008 RC0 you want to test - Datacenter, Enterprise, Standard, Web Edition, or Itanium.  A brief comparison between the Windows Server 2008 editions can be found here.

Once you select the edition you want to test, you will get a product key and a link to download the ISO file that you can burin onto a DVD and install on your test machine.  You can also take the ISO file of the x86 version and using Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 to test in a virtual environment.

Check out additional technical resources at the Windows Server 2008 Technical Library on TechNet.  These will help you get up to speed on Windows Server 2008 a lot quicker.

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Encrypting Additional Drives with BitLocker
Posted Wednesday, 26 September 2007 by Misha Hanin

As you may know, BitLocker Drive Encryption only encrypts the C:\ drive.  If you have additional drives in your PC, or use an external USB hard drive with your notebook, you can't encrypt that drive with BDE.  Officially that is :)

While Vista SP1 will bring support for encrypting the other volumes in your system you can do it today using the command line tool manage-bde.wsf.  Now before we get started I must inform you that this is in now way supported by Microsoft.  I've tried it, it worked for me, but I highly recommend taking a backup of the data before proceeding!

With that out of the way launch the Command Prompt as Administrator and run the following command to encrypt additional drives:

cscript manage-bde.wsf -on X: -recoverykey Y:\ -recoverypassword

In this example X: is the drive you wish to recover and Y: is the drive the recovery key will be saved to.  Remember to backup the recovery key and store it in a secure location.  You can store this key on the C: drive (which is encrypted) and it will make things easier when you need to unlock the drive.

Once that is complete you will need to run a command to "unlock" the drive in order to access the data.  With the drive plugged in run the following command:

cscript manage-bde.wsf -unlock X: -recoverykey C:\WO97N74A-A99A-9923-C798-45FF0139DDE9.BEK

If you lose the key you can unlock the drive with the recovery password with the following command:

cscript manage-bde.wsf -unlock X: -recoverypassword 846295-102210-220394-001294-333982-001923-094856-223451

Too make it easier I suggest creating a batch file and dropping it in the startup folder.

Source: TheLazyAdmin.com 

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