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Home - Community Launch 2008 On the 17th of May, the Singapore Professional's .NET user group, the Singapore Windows User Group and Singapore SQL Server user group are coming together to have their own community launch of Windows Server 2008, Visual Studio 2008 and SQL Server 2008. I love these launches because you get the opportunity to chat to people who …
Some might say this is a pretty outlandish statement to make, but we recently did some work with a local customer by the name of Virtual Maps that developed and maintains local Singaporean travel portal StreetDirectory.com, to test their popular web applications in Windows Server 2008. The built-in support of FastCGI enables PHP applications to run efficiently on Windows …
Dennis has done it, he has finished his technical opus... If you want to learn how to get this up and running his article is awesome, its step by step and really easy to follow. Check it out here, http://windowsmvp.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!80195647FE07388F!485.entry?wa=wsignin1.0. As Dennis said, we would love to see if others are doing something similar and see how others …
These last two weeks have been busy with announcements, and I have not had a chance to talk about any of them. So Ill be brief... For Enterprise Search we just announced two new products, Search Server 2008 and Server Server 2008 Express. Search Server is a great step in helping customers locate information in the enterprise. I can tell you in all honesty, having search …
Social engineering is a very real problem in today's enterprise world. To get an understanding of what Social Engineering is, check out the following video. As they say the chain is only as strongest as the weakest link, so we can all do our part to ensure that we don't become the weakest link, and be mindful of these types of attacks. For more information on Social …
I was very lucky to get invited along to the 2nd PHP user group in Singapore by my good colleague Chris Ismael, where he presented to a packed room of PHP enthusiasts. At the event, Chris did an awesome presentation on how you could leverage many of the Microsoft, such as the Live Services, like Messenger, and Virtual Earth. At the end we have the opportunity to present the …
I am excited about the work we are doing in contributing back to the Open Source community here at Microsoft. Our work on getting PHP to not only run, but run exceptionally well on Window …
There is sometimes so much information to digest that you miss these announcements, so I am a bit late to the party, but this is awesome none the less. Announced at the Microsoft Management Summit 2008 in Las Vegas was the new functionality for System Center Operations Manager 2007 enabled through a technology called Cross Platform Extensions Beta. This feature enables …
Episode 2 of our ANWYCDFYSBWYSCDFY, on Hyper-V. This video is more of a discussion about what Dennis is doing in the Microsoft Singapore Innovation Center to take advantage of Hyper-V being released as a part of Windows Server 2008. No demo content here, but more an explanation of the benefits that can be realized by the customer. I think I might follow up with a short …
When it doesn’t rain it pours as they say… Two blogs within 5 ten minutes. Now I have not had the chance to go to PDC for a while, but if you are a developer then this is an awesome con …
Hi All, Exciting stuff on the wires, the update to Windows Server 2008 with the RTM code for Hyper-V is now available. This is what Dennis and I were talking about in our last video. I hope to find some time to do another video showing how to setup Hyper-V and get some good ole fashion Virtualization going :-). Anyway, got Windows Server 2008? Download Hyper-V now …
I challenged Dennis Chung (my counterpart in the security bytes video, and one of the smartest guys I know when it comes to IT) recently to see what kind of usage scenarios we could use Windows Server 2008 Core. For those of you who are unaware of what Server Core is, it is an installation type for Windows Server 2008 that provides a minimal environment for running specific …
Now I know this is directly following on from the previous blog, but this site is also cool. Spawned off from the Office Labs site, Community Clips is an area that enables users to create and share clips on how they use Office and what tips they can share... Community Clips
Technorati Tags: Security,Security Bytes As our IT environments continually grow in size both on the client and server side, patch management becomes a more complex task. While at Microsoft we try to ensure that we release patches on a predictable schedule so you can test for compatibility, the process of rolling out those patches can be a complex one. This was echoed in …
Code to Live: Dancing in the Moonlight with Miguel de Icaza The interview is a bit old, but has just been published. Miguel de Icaza talks about Moonlight and how it came about. Thanks to Josh Holmes for posting it.
Microsoft recently released its Security Intelligence Report Version 4 on April 22 at the Infosecurity Europe event in London. This is no light reading folks, its a big report about 104 pages long, but there are some really interesting facts inside... Malicious Software Removal Tool (MSRT) data shows that the infection rate for Windows Vista–based computers is …
Totally non-work related, although it does involve Windows Mobile... Guitar Hero III for Windows Mobile. THIS IS AWESOME!!! I love the Guitar Hero series and am constantly playing it at home, my wife is also a big fan and is one of the only games she will consistently play, well that and Puzzle Fighter, apparently Halo 3 doesn't excite her... don't know what's wrong with …
Ok, so I admit it, I can play games, but am pretty lame at creating them... Here is my first attempt ever! This is built using Popfly Game Creator, its not new news by any means, but if you have not seen this then check it out, its very cool for anyone who wants to try their hand at games development for the very first time. This took me about 20 mins to get up and …
So some colleagues stopped me in the hallway and asked if I could solve the following brain teaser, I wanted to share with you and see how quickly someone gets it. Ok so here is the equation... 5 + 5 + 5 = 550 What you are allowed to do is place a single line in to the equation to make it correct, and you cannot put the line through the equals sign to say that the equation …
Interesting article from Network World on the Top 5 security menace predictions of for 2008. In order Bot Evolution Web Threats (Aimed not only at unsuspecting visitors to social networking sites, such as MySpace, but any type of site or corporate web page) Mobile Threats Virtual Worlds (Think Second Life, World of Warcraft, Lineage etc....) Upcoming US …
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