Internet Explorer 7 Update
Posted Friday, 05 October 2007 by Misha Hanin

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.

Toolkit to Disable Automatic Delivery of Internet Explorer 7 The Internet Explorer 7 Blocker Toolkit enables IT Administrators to disable automatic delivery of Internet Explorer 7 as a high-priority update via Automatic Updates and the Windows Update and Microsoft Update sites. 

Update for Internet Explorer 7 for Windows XP (KB928089) This update resolves a performance issue with the Phishing Filter.

Internet Explorer 7 Readiness Toolkit 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.

IEAK 7 RTM Download the Internet Explorer Administration Kit 7

Windows Internet Explorer 7 for Windows 64 bit Client/Server Download the latest version of the world's most popular Web browser.

Windows Internet Explorer 7 for Windows Server 2003 IA64 Download the latest version of the world's most popular Web browser.

Windows Internet Explorer 7 for Windows XP SP2 Download the latest version of the world's most popular Web browser.

Windows Internet Explorer 7 for Windows Server 2003 SP1 or Windows Server 2003 SP2 Download the latest version of the world's most popular Web browser.

ADM files for Internet Explorer 7 for Windows This page provides the Group Policy Administrative Template file for Internet Explorer 7 for Windows.

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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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