http://www.msblog.org Tue, 09 Jun 2009 10:15:22 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The leaders have put together for the very first time, topics that were heavily requested by our communities. If this is successful, you can look forward to more of such 'Technology Updates' in the upcoming months. So, make a date with us! We hope to meet and get to know ... http://www.msblog.org/2009/06/09/devintown-technology-update-by-microsoft-mvps/ Microsoft announced this week that it will begin providing on-demand access to the full versions of retail video games. That means titles like BioShock (6 Ggigabytes) and Mass Effect (7 GB) can be downloaded through the Xbox Live online gaming service, which has more than 17 million members. The growth of these type of bandwidth-draining services has ... http://www.msblog.org/2009/06/05/why-microsoft-built-its-own-cdn/ Microsoft, in a mysterious move, have offered anyone with a valid shipping address in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom, a free TechNet Professional subscription. As Neowin points out, it may well not be for absolutely everyone, but it does appear to be so. Confirmation will be needed from ... http://www.msblog.org/2009/06/03/free-technet-professional-subscription-us-canada-uk/ On 11th May, 2009, Microsoft launched TechEd 2009 in that morning in Los Angeles by announcing that Windows 7 would ship before the end of the year. "Microsoft is committed to ensuring that IT professionals and developers continue to have the platform and technologies to drive maximum value and business results. ... http://www.msblog.org/2009/06/02/tech-ed-2009-microsoft-announces-updated-windows-7-ship-date/ Hi there, Wow 2 Blog posts within a week...whats up with that? Regardless of this miracle Microsoft just let the guys on the SP2 Beta that its RTM'ed and available for download-Here's an excerpt of what they said to us: Hello SP2 Beta testers...The following message was released...   Today we are proud to ... http://www.msblog.org/2009/04/30/windows-vistaserver-sp2-rtm/ Wow long time no post... Today whilst opening up the default MSN homepage in I.E I was stunned to find that it had been hacked by "Peace Crew". I asked Nathan Mercer at MSFT what the story was and apparently the Hijackers stole the DNS entry from their registrar and redirected. Windows Server ... http://www.msblog.org/2009/04/21/msn-nz-hacked/ Hey All!! Do you want to get certified, but it's too expensive? I have great news for you! From now till  April 31st, you can get a 10% discount off Microsoft certification exams. To get the 10% discount, just follow the easy steps below: 1. Go to http://www.learnandcertify.com/ 2. Use the voucher code: ... http://www.msblog.org/2009/04/03/need-to-be-microsoft-certified-fret-not-heres-your-discount-voucher/ Hey there, A short blog post - But check out the list of Win 7 Secrets over at Tim Sneaths MSDN blog... Its deff worth a read!!! (Little secrets built into Win 7 that increase productivity and make it a more easier/powerful tool to use :) .  ) http://blogs.msdn.com/tims/archive/2009/01/12/the-bumper-list-of-windows-7-secrets.aspx http://www.msblog.org/2009/01/13/the-bumper-list-of-windows-7-secrets/ After 3 years of absence in Kuala Lumpur, TechNET MSDN Technology Summit is back! This event will be taking place in Kuala Lumpur Convention Center (Malaysia) on the 15th January 2009. For the very first time, we'll showing a 2 hour Microsoft client and server platform demo-relay and *drum roll* a ... http://www.msblog.org/2008/12/12/technet-msdn-technology-summit-is-coming-to-kuala-lumpur/ ELITE is proud to present you with Hands On Lab sessions on Microsoft technologies! The focus of doing hands on labs are to educate participants of various Microsoft technologies out there, and giving them hands on sessions to familiarize them with the technologies and features. Our first session of Hands On ... http://www.msblog.org/2008/11/30/announcing-hands-on-lab-sessions-by-elite-an-overview-of-hyper-v-scvmm/ Edit*: The beta for CoD WAW has now cloed - however the following information still does apply to some users of the RTM game. I know this isn’t really related to Microsoft in any way but the public beta for Call of duty World At War has just come out and ... http://www.msblog.org/2008/11/01/call-of-duty-world-at-war-errors-d3dx9_37dll-unhandled-exception/ Windows® Azure is a cloud services operating system that serves as the development, service hosting and service management environment for the Azure Services Platform. Windows Azure provides developers with on-demand compute and storage to host, scale, and manage Web applications on the Internet through Microsoft® data centers. To build these applications ... http://www.msblog.org/2008/10/31/windows-azure-services/ There is a new logo for .NET now, so it is change from into The following are the blog from the .NET Team about the new logo.   Why did we do it? We needed a logo that was in sync with the key values that we want .NET to stand for: consistency, robustness ... http://www.msblog.org/2008/10/27/embrace-the-new-net-logo/ People who are registered in the Imagine Cup I.T Challenge-this starts tonight/today [10/10/2008] (In a Few hours actually) Wish me luck! Quiz Date Day GMT PDT (-7) EU (+1) China (+8) #1A 10/10/2008 Fri 3:00 PM 8:00 AM 4:00 PM 11:00 PM #1B 10/25/2008 Sat 10:00 PM 3:00 PM 11:00 PM 6:00 AM Quiz Date Day GMT PST (-8) EU (+1) China (+8) #2A 11/6/2008 Thu 8:00 AM 12:00 AM 9:00 AM 4:00 PM #2B 11/23/2008 Sun 4:00 PM 8:00 AM 5:00 PM 12:00 AM #3A 12/9/2008 Tue 8:00 PM 12:00 PM 9:00 PM 4:00 AM #3B 12/20/2008 Sat 8:00 AM 12:00 AM 9:00 AM 4:00 PM #4A 1/14/2009 Wed 10:00 ... http://www.msblog.org/2008/10/10/it-challenge-tonighttoday/ Browsing through the blogosphere today I realised that no one has really mentioned the beginning of the 2009 Imagine cup that's run by Microsoft consecutively every year. Imagine cup started back in 2003 when it made its debut in Brazil. From there it wen to Japan, India, Korea and France (last ... http://www.msblog.org/2008/10/10/imagine-cup-2009-get-amongst/ Microsoft opened up the kimono today on Press Pass. The next release of Visual Studio is Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4.0. In addition, if you go down the page here, you find some juicy goodness: "Better Together – Visual Studio Team System Development Edition and Database Edition In recognition of the ... http://www.msblog.org/2008/10/02/data-dude-team-dev-are-now-one-plus-its-now-visual-studio-2010/ We’re excited to release IE8 Beta 2 today for public download. You can find it at http://www.microsoft.com/ie8. Please try it out! You’ll find versions for 32- and 64-bit editions of Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, and Windows Server 2008. In addition to English, IE8 Beta 2 is available in ... http://www.msblog.org/2008/08/28/internet-explorer-8-beta-2-has-been-released/ Bitlocker was introduced when Vista was in the works, and Bitlocker became one of Microsoft's key feature in pushing Windows Vista to the corporate customers. For the people who doesn't know what Bitlocker is: Bitlocker is a drive encryption technology by Microsoft. Unlike EFS (Encrypted File System) which is a file ... http://www.msblog.org/2008/07/10/security-folks-out-there-free-alternative-to-bitlocker/ I was exporting the settings for Microsoft Office Communications Server today, using the command line tool LCSCMD.exe. The output was: Executing "Export Configuration" Executing "Validate File" Executing "Establish WMI Connections" Check the log file "C:\DOCUME~1\ADMINI~1.OCS\LOCALS~1\Temp\export[2008_07_09][15_39_26].html" for details. ERROR (0x80041010): On opening the log file, I was presented with the following helpful unhelpful log file.  (click to enlarge) Thanks to ... http://www.msblog.org/2008/07/09/exporting-settings-from-microsoft-office-communications-server-gives-error-0x80041010/ Hi Reader, Today is in-fact MSBLOG's third birthday-Where have the years gone? It seems that I write this post every year on this very date and reminisce of past times. The sad fact of the matter is that everyone has moved on now it seems. Here's what some of the best people I have known ... http://www.msblog.org/2008/07/01/happy-birthday-msblog/