BlogMS Weekly Articles Published – 10th November 2008 to 16th November 2008

TechEd Website | RSS Feed
Be a part of the conversation and watch Jason Zander kick start Tech∙Ed EMEA Developers with his keynote presentation. Jason discusses what the team is doing as the leader of the Visual Studio division at Microsoft to make a developer's job easier with Visual Studio 2010, the next release of the market leading Visual Studio toolkit, and provides extensive examples with Visual Studio 2010 demonstrations.

Jason Zander's Keynote at Tech·Ed EMEA Developers - 12-Nov-2008

Microsoft Online Services

Office Live Workspaces Website | RSS Feed
More from EDUCAUSE - 13-Nov-2008

Microsoft Press Pass

Press Pass Press Releases Website | RSS Feed
Latest Microsoft Innovations Help Developers Build Better Applications, Faster - 10-Nov-2008
Microsoft and the USO Mark Second Annual A Salute to Our Troops - 10-Nov-2008
Sun Microsystems to Distribute Microsoft Live Search-Powered Toolbar as Part of Java Runtime Environment - 10-Nov-2008
Transition From Broadcast to Connected TV Gathers Momentum as Microsoft Mediaroom-Powered Services Surpasses 2 Million Subscribers - 11-Nov-2008
MSN Money Launches Educational Webisodes to Help Protect Military Service Members From Financial Fraud - 11-Nov-2008
Microsoft Announces General Availability of Windows Small Business Server 2008 and Windows Essential Business Server 2008 - 12-Nov-2008
Sabi and Microsoft Launch Unique Interactive Drawing and Education Game for Children - 13-Nov-2008
Microsoft Introduces Updated Windows Live Services - 13-Nov-2008
Simon Leung Appointed as Microsoft Corporate Vice President, Chairman and CEO of Microsoft Greater China Region - 13-Nov-2008
Media Alert: Zune Hosts Latin Artists at Exclusive Venue in Houston to Celebrate 2008 Latin Grammy Awards Show - 13-Nov-2008
Microsoft Offers 0 Percent Financing to New Microsoft Dynamics ERP and Microsoft Dynamics CRM Customers - 13-Nov-2008
Microsoft Office Live Small Business and Marketing Expert John Jantsch Team Up to Offer Tips for Using Social Media to Grow a Small Business - 13-Nov-2008
Games for Windows — LIVE Levels Up PC Gamers With New In-Game Display, Marketplace and Upcoming Premium Downloadable Content - 13-Nov-2008
Microsoft Live Search cashback Showing Traction With Advertisers and Consumers - 13-Nov-2008
Media Alert: Microsoft Showcases Immersive User Interfaces, Online Banking Technologies and Interactive Collaboration Tools at BAI Retail Delivery Conference & Expo - 14-Nov-2008

Press Pass Top Stories Website | RSS Feed
Partner Contributions Essential for New Line of Small and Midsize Business Servers - 12-Nov-2008
Innovation Through Intellectual Property (IP) Collaboration: Microsoft and Sabi Team Up to Make Learning Fun - 13-Nov-2008
New Microsoft Store Opens Virtual Doors - 14-Nov-2008

Networking and Remote Access

DHCP Windows Enterprise Networking Group Website | RSS Feed
Interested in participating in the Beta program? - 11-Nov-2008
Interesting in taking a test drive of the new features? - 11-Nov-2008

Microsoft Enterprise Networking Website | RSS Feed
The effect of TCP Chimney offload on viewing network traffic - 14-Nov-2008

Network Access Protection Website | RSS Feed
"How Windows Update Client and NAP Client View Important Updates" post - 13-Nov-2008
"Nortel and Microsoft Present Secure Network Access 2.0" Webcast on Tuesday - 14-Nov-2008
"How Microsoft does IT: Managing Network Access Protection" TechNet WebCast now available - 14-Nov-2008

Network Monitor Website | RSS Feed
Customizing the User Interface - 13-Nov-2008

Office Suite

Office Access Website | RSS Feed
Previewing a Temporary SELECT Query - 14-Nov-2008
Application Development During Uncertain Times - 15-Nov-2008

Office for Mac Website | RSS Feed
The Ways and Means of a Program Manager in the Macintosh Business Unit - 10-Nov-2008

Office Outlook Website | RSS Feed
Living in Outlook: Message Templates - 10-Nov-2008

Office Outlook Mobile Website | RSS Feed
Patch Tuesday: WM 6.1 SMTP fix released! - 12-Nov-2008

Office Project Website | RSS Feed
PM Boot Camp: Up to speed with Project 2007 - 12-Nov-2008

Office Sustained Engineering Website | RSS Feed
November 2008 Update Release - 10-Nov-2008

Partner Resources

Microsoft on Independent Software Vendors ISVs Website | RSS Feed
Q&A with Blue Star Infotech’s Senior Solution Architect - 12-Nov-2008
Missed the PDC? Catch the Content LIVE at an MSDN Developer Conference Near You! - 13-Nov-2008

Product Support

Hotfix Support The Hot Blog Website | RSS Feed
Nov. 3 - Nov. 9 Hot-Fix KB articles Weekly Release - Windows Legacy Products - 10-Nov-2008
Nov. 4 - Nov. 10 Hot-Fix KB articles Weekly Release - Windows 6.0 - 11-Nov-2008
Nov. 5 - Nov. 12 Hot-Fix KB articles Weekly Release - Developer - 13-Nov-2008
Nov. 6 - Nov. 12 Hot-Fix KB articles Weekly Release - SQL Server - 13-Nov-2008
Nov. 7 - Nov. 13 Hot-Fix KB articles Weekly Release - Messaging Server - 14-Nov-2008

SysInternals Website | RSS Feed
Updates: ZoomIt v2.2, AccessChk v4.22 - 12-Nov-2008

Security

Microsoft Connected Information Security Group Website | RSS Feed
An Update on Some Upcoming Free Tools - 13-Nov-2008

Microsoft Malware Protection Center Website | RSS Feed
Win32/FakeSecSen - A Nasty Piece of Work - 13-Nov-2008
Crush, Crumble and Chomsky! - 15-Nov-2008

Microsoft Security Response Center MSRC Website | RSS Feed
November 2008 Bulletin Release - 11-Nov-2008
MS08-068 and SMBRelay - 12-Nov-2008
Security Bulletin Webcast Questions and Answers - November 2008 - 14-Nov-2008

MSRC Ecosystem Strategy Website | RSS Feed
One Month Analysis: Exploitability Index - 13-Nov-2008

Security Bulletins Advisories Website | RSS Feed
Microsoft Security Advisory (956391): Cumulative Security Update of ActiveX Kill Bits - 11/12/2008 - 12-Nov-2008

Security Bulletins Comprehensive Website | RSS Feed
Microsoft Security Bulletin Summary for November 2008 - 11-Nov-2008
MS08-069 – Critical: Vulnerabilities in Microsoft XML Core Services Could Allow Remote Code Execution (955218) - Version:1.0 - 11-Nov-2008
MS08-068 – Important: Vulnerability in SMB Could Allow Remote Code Execution (957097) - Version:1.0 - 11-Nov-2008

Security Vulnerability Research and Defense Website | RSS Feed
MS08-068: SMB credential reflection defense - 11-Nov-2008

The Security Development Lifecycle Website | RSS Feed
SDL Announcements at TechEd EMEA - 10-Nov-2008
MSDN Security Issue Articles - 13-Nov-2008

Security Products Forefront

Forefront Client Security Website | RSS Feed
Client pods….. - 14-Nov-2008

Forefront Threat Management Gateway ISA Server Website | RSS Feed
Web requests from an ISA-local web application may receive unexpected authentication prompts. - 11-Nov-2008

Server and Infrastructure

Active Directory Services Website | RSS Feed
New KB Articles 11/2-11/9 - 10-Nov-2008
DFSR Does Not Replicate Temporary Files - 11-Nov-2008
Understanding How to Read a Userenv Log – Part 1 - 11-Nov-2008
Understanding How to Read a Userenv Log – Part 2 - 11-Nov-2008
So You Want to Upgrade to Windows 2008 Domain Controllers (ADPREP) - 11-Nov-2008
Configuring an Authoritative Time Server with Group Policy Using WMI Filtering - 13-Nov-2008
Forced Demotion of a Windows Server 2008 Core Domain Controller - 14-Nov-2008
Using Network Monitor 3 to Troubleshoot a Domain Join Failure Caused by a Black Hole Router - 14-Nov-2008
Follow up on lag sites... sort of. - 15-Nov-2008

Advanced Windows Debugging and Troubleshooting Website | RSS Feed
Debug Fundamentals Exercise 1: Reverse engineer a function - 13-Nov-2008

Clustering and High Availability Website | RSS Feed
What is the purpose of the “Repair Active Directory Object” option? - 13-Nov-2008

Essential Business Server Website | RSS Feed
Get more involved with the launch of EBS at the Windows Essential Server Solutions Virtual Tradeshow that includes both Webcasts and Exhibits - 10-Nov-2008
Just in case you can't wait two days for RTM bits - 10-Nov-2008
Join Us Tomorrow for the Webcast Launch of Essential Business Server 2008 and Small Business Server 2008! - 11-Nov-2008
Windows Essential Business Server 2008 trial software is available - 12-Nov-2008
Follow EBS_2008 on twitter - 12-Nov-2008
WESS Launch: Announcing General Availablity of EBS 2008 and SBS 2008 - 12-Nov-2008
WESS Team (EBS & SBS) Answering Questions at the Virtual Tradeshow - 12-Nov-2008
David Fabritius, Technical Product Manager for EBS and SBS - 12-Nov-2008
Launch+1 - 13-Nov-2008
EBS 2008 Launch Success - 13-Nov-2008

IIS and ASP dot NET Support Website | RSS Feed
Time vs. Time-Taken fields in IIS logging - 13-Nov-2008
IIS7 – ASP.NET on Windows Server 2008 Server Core R2 - 16-Nov-2008

Platforms Performance Website | RSS Feed
WMIDiag.vbs and the Missing WMI Files - 11-Nov-2008
Why doesn’t my WMI Script return any information? - 14-Nov-2008

Small Business Server SBS Website | RSS Feed
Join Us Tomorrow for the Webcast Launch of Small Business Server 2008 and Essential Business Server 2008! - 11-Nov-2008
WESS Launch: Announcing General Availablity of SBS 2008 and EBS 2008 - 12-Nov-2008
Introducing Server Storage Management in SBS 2008 - 12-Nov-2008
SBS 2008 Launch Success - 13-Nov-2008
How SBS 2008 Configures Your SPF Record - 14-Nov-2008

Storage Website | RSS Feed
Storage tip: Getting more info into your storage reports - 10-Nov-2008
What is new in DPM 2007 Service Pack 1 - check out this EDGE video - 12-Nov-2008

Windows Server Division Website | RSS Feed
WESS Launch: Announcing the availability of SBS 2008 and EBS 2008 today to customers worldwide - 12-Nov-2008
URL Rewriter RTW and More IIS Extension Updates - 13-Nov-2008
Windows Server Solutions Launch Success - 13-Nov-2008

SharePoint Groove Search

Groove Support Website | RSS Feed
Understanding and troubleshooting the SharePoint Files tool in Groove 2007 - 10-Nov-2008

SharePoint Designer Website | RSS Feed
SPD Licensing 101 - 14-Nov-2008

SharePoint Products and Technologies Website | RSS Feed
Introducing the Microsoft Certified Master and Certified Architect for SharePoint - 10-Nov-2008
Visual Studio 2010 Tools for SharePoint Announced at TechEd EMEA Developers 2008 - 10-Nov-2008
Microsoft User Research Group Looking for SharePoint Users - 10-Nov-2008
Announcing SPDisposeCheck tool for SharePoint Developers - 12-Nov-2008
How We Did It – Automating Service Requests using InfoPath Forms Services - 14-Nov-2008

SQL and Business Intelligence

ProClarity Website | RSS Feed
Errors connecting ProClarity Professional to SSAS over a domain/forest trust - 11-Nov-2008
Parameterization with ProClarity Analytics Server (6.1 and later) - 13-Nov-2008

SQL Performance Engineering Website | RSS Feed
SQL Server is Movin' On Up! - 10-Nov-2008

SQL Server Development Customer Advisory Website | RSS Feed
SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services Performance Guide now available - 14-Nov-2008

SQL Server Express Website | RSS Feed
Getting SQL Server 2008 Express on a DVD - 10-Nov-2008

SQL Server User Education Website | RSS Feed
Videos for Data Mining Add-Ins for Office 2007 - 10-Nov-2008

Systems Management

System Center Website | RSS Feed
What is new in DPM 2007 Service Pack 1 -- check out this EDGE video - 10-Nov-2008

System Center Data Protection Manager DPM Website | RSS Feed
What is new in DPM 2007 Service Pack 1 -- check out this EDGE video - 10-Nov-2008
If you are a Microsoft Partner ... you can be a DPM HERO - 13-Nov-2008

System Center Manageability Website | RSS Feed
OpsMgr 2007: The AD and DHCP Management Packs have been updated - 10-Nov-2008
New and updated Knowledge Base articles for 11-2 through 11-8 - 11-Nov-2008
OpsMgr 2007: Registry keys to control the refresh of the admin console - 11-Nov-2008
ConfigMgr 2007: OSD Task Sequence Fails with Unspecified error 80004005 and SETUPACT.LOG indicates invalid product key - 12-Nov-2008
OpsMgr 2007: How to create an Alert rule based on an Event description - 12-Nov-2008
OpsMgr 2007: Rule does not appear while creating custom Event View - 13-Nov-2008
SMS 2003: Monthly Recurring Advertisement Schedule incorrectly skips the month of November - 13-Nov-2008
The database discovery scripts (DiscoverSQL200*DB.vbs) fail on SQL servers with DBs larger than 32GB in the 6.0.6441.0 version of the SQL MP - 14-Nov-2008

System Center Operations Manager Website | RSS Feed
The database discovery scripts (DiscoverSQL200*DB.vbs) fail on SQL servers with DBs larger than 32GB in the 6.0.6441.0 version of the SQL MP - 13-Nov-2008

Unified Communications

Microsoft Exchange Website | RSS Feed
Good Morning Exchange community! - 10-Nov-2008
How to Configure Certificate Based Authentication for OWA - Part II - 12-Nov-2008
Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Launch - 13-Nov-2008

Office Communications Server Website | RSS Feed
OCS 2007 Sizing guidelines for SQL - 11-Nov-2008
Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Launch - 13-Nov-2008

Virtualization

SoftGrid Website | RSS Feed
Interview with Paul Schnell, CTO of AppDNA - 11-Nov-2008
New Knowledge Base articles for 11-2 through 11-8 - 11-Nov-2008
SQL Server 2005 Express is NOT supported for use with SoftGrid/App-V Virtual Application Servers in a production environment - 12-Nov-2008
Warning 25017. The installation Program could not create the Active Directory marker object for the server - 12-Nov-2008
App-V: Client immediately enters Disconnected Operation mode on startup - 13-Nov-2008
App-V: "Can't find services.exe" error after clicking Start Monitoring - 13-Nov-2008
App-V client refresh results in error code: xxxxxx-xxxxxx2A-0000274D - 13-Nov-2008
The App-V Ping Tool - 14-Nov-2008

Terminal Services Website | RSS Feed
Introducing Live Mesh Remote Desktop: Part 1 - 13-Nov-2008

Windows Virtualization Website | RSS Feed
Visual Studio 2010 lab management uses virtualization - 12-Nov-2008

Web and Development

Application Consulting and Engineering ACE Website | RSS Feed
Vulnerabilities in Web Applications due to improper use of Crypto – Part 1 - 13-Nov-2008

Expression Blend and Design Website | RSS Feed
PDC 2008 Session – Microsoft Expression Blend: Tips and Tricks - 13-Nov-2008

Internet Explorer Website | RSS Feed
November Chat with the IE Team on Thursday - 11-Nov-2008

Visual Basic Website | RSS Feed
TechEd Barcelona: Session Materials (Lisa Feigenbaum) - 10-Nov-2008
Community Interview with Doug Rothaus (Beth Massi) - 11-Nov-2008
Where are the Windows "SDK tools"? Where is ildasm? (Lucian Wischik) - 15-Nov-2008

Visual C++ Website | RSS Feed
POGO - 12-Nov-2008
Channel9: Amit Mohindra - VS2010 CTP “10 is the new 6”, - 14-Nov-2008

Visual Studio Code Analysis Website | RSS Feed
Fun with Code Analysis Rule Sets - 12-Nov-2008

Visual Studio Extensibility Website | RSS Feed
DSL Tools Lab is now on Code Gallery - 10-Nov-2008

Visual Web Developer Website | RSS Feed
Checkout Tip#13 to Tip#23 on our Tips and Tricks blog - 13-Nov-2008

Web Deployment Website | RSS Feed
The MSDeploy SQL Database Provider (dbFullSql) - 10-Nov-2008

Windows Presentation Foundation WPF SDK Website | RSS Feed
WPF Designer Hotfix is posted - 10-Nov-2008

XNA Games Development Website | RSS Feed
Creators Club Communiqué 08 - 12-Nov-2008
New XNA Game Studio 3.0 Samples! - 14-Nov-2008

Windows Azure Cloud Computing

Azure Cloud Computing Tools Website | RSS Feed
ASP.Net MVC Sample on Windows Azure with Providers - 10-Nov-2008
Azure community links... - 12-Nov-2008
Getting Log Files from Windows Azure - 12-Nov-2008
Created a Windows Azure Links page... - 13-Nov-2008

Azure dotNET Services Website | RSS Feed
Retiring labs.biztalk.net - 12-Nov-2008

Azure Live Services Website | RSS Feed
Windows Azure Integration with Windows Live ID, Active Directory and OpenID - 12-Nov-2008
Live Search API v2.0 Beta Released - 13-Nov-2008
Live Framework: New Team Blog, Downloads - 14-Nov-2008

Windows Live

Live Messenger Website | RSS Feed
Windows Live announcement and video - 13-Nov-2008

Live QnA Website | RSS Feed
T Time with Nana - 12-Nov-2008

Live Search Website | RSS Feed
Looking forward to PubCon 2008 - 10-Nov-2008
Sun shines on the MSN Toolbar - 11-Nov-2008
The next step in search - 13-Nov-2008
Six months in, Live Search cashback is cashing in - 13-Nov-2008
Browsing for videos hits prime time - 14-Nov-2008

Live Sky Drive Website | RSS Feed
Our next update - 13-Nov-2008

Live Spaces Website | RSS Feed
Photo Album: November 12 - 13-Nov-2008
Exciting updates to Windows Live are coming soon - 13-Nov-2008

Photosynth Website | RSS Feed
Challenge: Facial Reconstruction with Photosynth... - 12-Nov-2008

BlogMS Weekly Articles Published – 10th November 2008 to 16th November 2008

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