30 November 2010 0 Comments

WordPress 3.0.2

WordPress 3.0.2 is available and is a mandatory security update for all previous WordPress versions. Haiku has become traditional: Fixed on day zero One-click update makes you safe This used to be hard This maintenance release fixes a moderate security issue that could allow a malicious Author-level user to gain further access to the site, addresses a handful of bugs, and provides some additional security enhancements. Big thanks to Vladimir Kolesnikov for detailed and responsible disclosure of the security issue! Download 3.0.2 or update automatically from the Dashboard > Updates menu in your site’s admin area

1 April 2010 0 Comments

Having issues finding matches in Modern Warfare 2?

We’ve heard the feedback that some of you are having a hard time finding games in matchmaking with MW2 since Tuesday’s update.  If those of you with this problem can answer a few questions it’ll help us get to the bottom of things.   Please leave a comment and answer the following questions:   1.

30 March 2010 0 Comments

Understanding RAID for SQL Server – Part 1

Choosing the right number of hard drives and the correct RAID (redundant array of independent disks) configuration when you design your database server can save you a lot of time. If you make a mistake, changing the RAID configuration and moving the database to correct any problems on a deployed server will cause long downtimes and consume IT resources. In fact, we have known people who have purchased new servers in order to mitigate the downtime of deploying a new disk subsystem

10 March 2010 0 Comments

Improvements to Security Only Crawl in SharePoint 2010

If you’re not sure what security only crawl is, please see some of my earlier post on this subject. It’s much easier to troubleshoot security only crawls now that we have included Security Updates category within the crawl log in SharePoint 2010! For example, now I can easily spot the incremental crawl at 11:03 AM was a security only crawl:     Just wanted to point this out and provide a heads-up that some of the advanced troubleshooting techniques from the past can now be avoided.   Thanks Colin for supplying the pic

2 March 2010 0 Comments

Hostable editor keyboard shortcuts

In my previous post about keyboard shortcuts , I promised a summary of the hostable editor shortcuts. I waited on purpose until after the RC build to make this post. There were a couple of reasons for holding off: we changed the way WF designer shortcuts were scoped, and a bunch of shortcuts were broken in beta 2 and fixed in RC.

2 March 2010 0 Comments

RTC Materials – New and Updated

Dear Partner Letting you know of some new materials around Role Tailored Client Making Role Centers Work for You (New) View this recording of a presentation of how to make the Role Centers work for you. It is a technical presentation about Role Centers in Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 and how you perform the key development tasks related to Role Centers.

27 February 2010 0 Comments

Я тебя чувствую: использование платформы Sensor в Windows 7

Итак, мы вернулись. После длительного перерыва пришло время написать о замечательных новых API, используемые Windows 7 для определения местоположения и расширения возможностей приложений. Я еще должен две статьи о панели задач Windows 7, чтобы завершить серию публикаций, но платформа Sensor and Location слишком хороша, чтобы оставлять ее напоследок.

27 February 2010 0 Comments

SharePoint 2010 Profile Picture Property 101

I recently had a couple of questions around the (oob) profile picture property and thought it would be good to share a couple of things I discovered with it. As you may already know, a User Profile Service Application contains a manage user properties page in which you can map properties to/from Active Directory or other external directory server.

5 February 2010 0 Comments

An Introduction to the WinForm samples in the All-In-One Framework

  Introduction This article introduces some common Windows Forms scenarios. The samples are from the All-In-One Framework, and it is only a portion of the All-In-One Framework

22 January 2010 0 Comments

End-to-end expression editing feature deck

Hi, today I gave a talk to our support team about the expression editing feature. Since this is all public facing information, I thought I would post the deck.

8 January 2010 0 Comments

Demonstração de aplicação utilizando Microsoft Dynamics CRM 5.0 e Windows Azure

  Pessoal,   Antes de mais nada, Feliz 2010 para todos! Há algumas semanas, foi publicado um vídeo demonstrando uma aplicação fictícia de uma empresa de telefonia utilizando a escalabilidade do Microsoft Azure para fornecer uma aplicação de portal de serviços para o usuário final, a qual é integrada ao módulo de serviços do Microsoft Dynamics CRM 5.0.

4 January 2010 0 Comments

Workaround for Start-Transcript on native processes

Introduction Recently, we came across an interesting bug that had been around for awhile ( http://connect.microsoft.com/PowerShell/feedback/ViewFeedback.aspx?FeedbackID=315875 ).