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My Top 10 ‘Likes’ for Windows Server 2012

In this post I thought I would highlight some of the features and functionality that has impressed me the most about Windows Server 2012 so far. This list is by no means complete nor listed in any particular order. I would however like to dive a bit deeper into some of these features in future […]

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Tips for customising and managing User Profiles for network-based users

In this article I would like to share a set of steps and tips for managing a standardised profile and how to implement a template that network-based users can use when logging-on to a Windows-based workstation or server. Most of these tips have come from back in Windows NT4.0/2000 era, I think it’s worth sharing these tips as they are still valuable in knowing

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Discontinued: Important Changes to Forefront Product Roadmaps

It was published last week that Microsoft will formally discontinue development of the Forfront product lineup. This will mean that all discontinued Forefront offerings will no longer be available for purchase as of Dec. 1, 2012. Microsoft will continue to provide maintenance and support for the remaining Forefront solutions already deployment through the standard Microsoft support life-cycle. The following Forefront-branded solutions

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How to move a SCVMM 2012 database to another SQL Server

This post is a guide and reminder for myself on how to move or re-locate a Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 database to another SQL Server. I recently needed to do this procedure and found that because the product didn’t offer a direct option to change the database settings or an option to migrate the

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Don’t miss the Windows Server 2012 launch event – …

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Windows Server 2012 RTM

Following on from my post a few minutes ago, it is also exciting to read the Windows Server 2012 released to manufacturing announcement which has also been posted over at the Windows Server team blog. There are so many new features that will be introduced with the release of Windows Server 2012, this release will be

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Windows 8 Metro Interface Start Screen

Windows 8 has reached the RTM milestone

For some, the wait is finally over! The much-anticipated and talked about release of Windows in Microsoft’s history to-date is now at the release to manufacturing (RTM) milestone. I was only discussing with a colleague today that it seemed as though Microsoft was running late by a week to announce the RTM milestone, after making the commitment to

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Unauthorized 401.1 Exception when calling Web Services in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0

This post is a small reminder to myself for the next time I may run into this problem when working with WSS 3.0 Web Services interface. Hopefully it might also save someone else a huge amount of time if they have a similar problem (A lot of time was wasted for me until I finally

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jQuery and ASP.NET AJAX Postbacks or Partial Page Rendering with UpdatePanel’s

Recently I was working on a web application that made use of the new jQuery library for client-side UI enhancements. While being fairly new at working with ASP.NET’s AJAX I felt pretty confident that I would be able to make it all work to my advantage considering I have a good understanding/experience level with ASP.NET

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Top 12 FREE Stock Graphics/Art and Photo Sites for your Design Projects

I love my stock photo sites, they are a handy resource when working on design projects of any size! Here is a article which summarises 12 of the best free websites available at the moment, I already use a few of these but there were some new ones I hadn’t seen before.. so I thought

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