Anith Gopal

Database sync might not work if we copy the same database file to all the clients after provisioning it. Recently I came across a very interesting Sync framework issue. The customer had two mobile clients connected to the server .

Today, Microsoft announced a fantastic offer for people using Salesforce.com or Oracle to receive up to $200 per user when they switch over to Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online.  That’s right, up to $200 PER USER!  What that means is, if you are a qualifying organization and you switch 25 seats to Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online, you could receive a check from Microsoft for $5,000.  Switch 100 seats and receive a check from Microsoft for $20,000!  If you are currently an organization that licenses Salesforce.com (Professional, Enterprise, or Ultimate Editions) or Oracle (Siebel CRM or CRM on Demand) and subscribe to at least 15 Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online licenses, you could qualify for this promotion. In kicking off this promotion, Microsoft issued an ‘Open Letter’ to Salesforce.com customers inviting them to switch to Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online and Michael Park, corporate vice president of sales, marketing, and operations, Microsoft Business Solutions encouraged Salesforce.com customers to ask themselves: In this economy, how can I justify paying two to three times more for an enterprise CRM system than I need to?* Having access to the most up-to-date information is critical to my business; why doesn’t Salesforce.com provide real-time access to data and dashboards, refreshed whenever I need it like Microsoft does

Microsoft Visual Studio Team Explorer 2010 codename "Eaglestone" is the beta release of the Eclipse plug-in and cross-platform command-line client for Visual Studio 2010 Team Foundation Server.

The latest “default” download for the Visual Studio 2010 Team Foundation Server Requirements Management Guidance project has three new members, to ensure that by default you get what you expect:   The starter document to guide you through the guidance. In essence it is guidance on the use of guidance A workbook that all of us should carry with us by default … a neat set of checklists

Mark A’Bear is one of our resident ‘amateur’ geeks in the education team. His job isn’t to be a full-time geek, as he’s our Education Partner Manager ( and from my days of working at Microsoft partners, I know he’s pretty good at that )

We have another HPC Pack 2008 family release now live! The MPI Cluster Debugger (with C/C++ project templates) is now available via the Microsoft Download Center. Search for ‘hpc debugger’ or go directly to http://bit.ly/1Fe7Zb . This package integrates the ‘F5’ experience of launching the Visual Studio 2008 MPI Cluster Debugger and your Windows HPC Server 2008 environment, for a better and more integrated debugging experience

After my last post, I got a couple of immediate emails asking for sources of deployment advice for Windows 7. So here’s a brief set of links to resources to read (perhaps wait until term’s over at the end of the week?) How to start a Windows 7 deployment http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd744251(WS.10).aspx Deployment Tech centre (including chance to sign up for beta of new deployment tools) http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/desktopdeployment/default.aspx Deployment training video on Win 7 DISM, from MS Learning: http://www.microsoft.com/learning/_silverlight/learningsnacks/win7/snack07/Default.html And finally, how about signing up for beta programme for the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2010

The WCFProxyGenerator tool on CodePlex has been updated, which is a community contributed tool that generates proxy classes that help manage the lifetimes of the proxy objects. As you might guess from the name the primary way that the proxy class helps manage object lifetimes is to deal with factories and proxies that have encountered a communication exception. You can also get two videos that go along with the tool and help explain proxy management: Managing Proxy Lifetime Exception Handling WCF Proxy It looks like this is still a work in progress so the code has changed somewhat since the videos were made.

Microsoft’s® Demo Showcase Suite is a collection of demonstration resources that includes the new Demo Showcase application for creating your own click-through demos as well as this community site to manage your demos, search for demos, distribute demos you’ve created and stitch different demos together to make your own. Sign in with Windows Live ID and take a look through this site and download the Demo Showcase application to get started creating your own demos that you can share through Silverlight or download as standalone executables http://demoshowcasesuite.com/public/Find.aspx Phil Newman  

My colleague Mark Curphey made available a chapter he wrote for a recently released security book . I had a chance to read his chapter and it’s an absolutely fantastic read with some great thoughts! It’s a must read even if you have even a passing interest in the information security landscape

The Exchange Server 2007 SP1 Help can help you in the day-to-day administration of Exchange. Use this information to guide you through Exchange Server 2007 SP1 features, tasks, and administration procedures. This download contains a standalone version of Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 SP1 Help

Do you want to un-install the components of the .Net Framework 3.5 SP1? Then you need to read this article ( article by Aaron ), in which he described his experience, how to uninstall the components of the .Net Framework 3.5 SP1?