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About a month ago, Microsoft announced the release of Lync for Mac. If you have access to TechNet or MSDN you likely have access to download this tool. Among the benefits of the tool, being able to connect to Office 365. Exciting news, yet for some odd reason it was a battle if you had [ READ MORE ]
This is a quick post … after a lot of challenges with a recent deployment of BizTalk Server 2009, it is important to keep the following very much in mind. BizTalk Server 2009 and SQL Server 2008 R2 are not the best match, work with SQL Server 2008 with SP1. .NET 4.0 has the ability [ READ MORE ]
Recently I have been doing quite a bit of testing on different means to deploy the Azure SDKs and such. After a very successful couple of systems, I started running into issues last night. Here is the problem, if I go to the Windows Azure Website, and go to Develop, then click on the SDK [ READ MORE ]
August for some reason has been the busiest month I recall in a while. It has had a good doze of the products I love to work with, and it has given me the opportunity to get into one more, Azure. There has been BizTalk Server, SharePoint, SQL Server and Team Foundation Server and the [ READ MORE ]
Visual Studio 2010 Productivity Power Tools Update If you installed the Productivity Power Tools as soon as they came out about a month ago, when you open VS 2010 the next time, it will notify you that there have been some updates to some extensions. Now, to update the extensions, you will go to the [ READ MORE ]
In about 3 weeks, specifically August 11-13 we will be already going strong with SharePoint Saturday The Conference in Washington, DC. Are you registered? Have you made your plans? This is a great opportunity to get together with many of the SharePoint names that produce outstanding solutions, amazing books and overall give great guidance. Join [ READ MORE ]
With the release of the “September – 2010” TFS 2010 Power Tools, came an addition to the Team Foundation Server Administration Console. This addition is the Team Foundation Backups Tree item. The tool is used to create backup plans and to work with it you run through a wizard, just like you would in configuring [ READ MORE ]
Virtualization and “the Cloud” have gained visibility over the last 5 years (at least). Diving into Hyper-V requires dedication and a very good understanding of what goes on with the different layers that need to interact. In browsing through the TechNet Wiki, I ran into the Hyper-V Survival Guide. Here is the link to the [ READ MORE ]
A while back I decided to get back to speaking engagements and such. For the most part I had kept that to some local User Groups and some conferences like TechEd. I decided to sign up for the INETA Speaker program. Well my first gig came through. I will be speaking at the SharePoint Users [ READ MORE ]
On June 27th Microsoft released Service Pack 1 for Microsoft Office. The download can be found at: http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=26622 As always, with any installation of a hotfix or service pack, become informed on what the changes/improvements are so you are prepared in the event of mitigation steps being needed. The information for the Service Pack can [ READ MORE ]
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