Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 is a great choice for customers who want a basic and simplified virtualization solution for consolidating servers as well as for development and test environments. Hyper-V Server 2008 only offers the most basic of virtualization features, making it ideal for: Test and Development Basic Server Consolidation Branch Office Consolidation Hosted Desktop […]
Continue readingTeam Foundation Server Power Tools – October ’08 Release Sneak Peek
Microsoft should have called it Team Foundation Server Power Tools – Best Release Ever, the features they’ve included in this up coming release really hit the mark. There are 3 major new components to the October Power Tools release: Team Members – A new node has been added to the Team Explorer called "Team […]
Continue readingNational Do Not Call List (DNCL) / Liste nationale de numéros de télécommunication exclus (LNNTE)
You can now register your phone numbers to stop those telemarketing calls from bothering you at all hours. You can register here: http://www.lnnte-dncl.gc.ca/ The site must be quite popular as I was only able to register two phone numbers……and then the site went down. I wonder if they could have used Visual Studio Team System […]
Continue readingMicrosoft Tech·Days Canada 2008
Tech·Days: The rich learning experience of Tech·Ed, without the travel. You’ve probably heard of Tech·Ed, the annual technology education and networking conference on Microsoft-based technologies. Perhaps you’ve even attended. Now, we’re happy to help save you the time and expense of travel by bringing the Tech·Ed experience to your city with Tech·Days 2008. Check […]
Continue readingVisual Studio Team System Developer Edition/Database Edition being combined!
As posted on Brian Harry’s blog today: Microsoft will be combining the Team Development product and the Team Database product into a single Team Development product (essentially giving you 2 for the price of 1). That change will be in effect go into effect on 10/1/08 (the day after tomorrow). This is a huge announcement […]
Continue readingUsing a SharePoint Content Type to merge data into a Word 2007 Document
I was recently tasked with the job of replacing a K2.NET 2003 Workflow that used some Word Automation to merge some data together and produce a document. The C# code that did the automation ran on a x32 SharePoint 2007 Server but did not function whatsoever on the x64 platform, and besides server-side automation is […]
Continue readingUsing Team Foundation Server to Develop Custom SharePoint Products and Technologies Applications
A whitepaper has been published about using Team Foundation Server to support your SharePoint Application Development Activities. Technorati Tags: Team Foundation Server, SharePoint Server 2007
Continue readingCodePlex now supports SVN!
Support for Subversion is here. No extra software is required all you do is connect to your project using the following URL: https://<projectname>.svn.codeplex.com/svn Read more about it over at the CodePlex Weblog! Technorati Tags: CodePlex, TortoiseSVN, Subversion
Continue readingSCVMM 2008 Beta::.. Another Successful P2V
I have been using the SCVMM 2008 Beta for quite a few months now and attempted to do another Physical to Virtual but this time with a Vista machine. The SCVMM computer and the Vista desktop are on the same domain and initially when I started the process the agent install on the Vista machine […]
Continue readingSharePoint 2007 and working with users stored in Membership Providers
I recently had a requirement where a user had to be added to a group as part of a SharePoint 2007 Workflow but the users accounts were stored in a SQLMembershipProvider and LDAPMembershipProvider as opposed to a Windows Domain. The trick is you have to append the name of your provider to the users login […]
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