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I was complaining (more or less) several weeks ago about the amount of work it was going to take to upgrade my MCSE to the latest version. The good news is I went and did the Windows end of things and now I'm apparently an "MCITP: Enterprise Administrator".
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Many have found it difficult to establish a VPN connection on Windows Mobile 5. There are quite a few blog posts out there with instructions, but none are really that complete. Before you can establish a connection from your mobile device, you need to
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I hope this helps someone because it totally freaked me out this evening. I rebooted this evening, the first reboot since March, in fact, and blue-screened (BSOD) upon startup. At this point I was in a blue screen "loop" with the ominous message "INTERNAL_POWER_ERROR"
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I have had ongoing problems getting various tests to work using my installation of VS2008 Team Suite. Initially, I had a problem running unit tests (see here), then sometime after that, I had other niggling issues with code coverage and had to copy assemblies
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So I have an MCSE: Messaging 2003. Took something like 7 or 8 tests to get that way back when and it's still good. Being the good consultant that I am I decided I'd figure out what I need to do to get whatever the new equivelants are on Windows 2008 and
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I have QuickTime installed on my PC. I just noticed that Apple is now trying to get users to download Safari using their Apple Software Update software. It's checked by default but as you can see from the photo below, I decided not to install it. It's
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Mike Volodarsky has put up a nice article about VS2008 and IIS 7.0 together. Check it out: http://learn.iis.net/page.aspx/387/using-visual-studio-2008-with-iis-70/ Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it! Share
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All code and no play makes me a dull boy I'm told (mainly by my wife) so I've been getting back into song writing and recording a little over the past few months as time permits. I recently finished up a new song called Story of Your Life that was recorded
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All code and no play makes me a dull boy I'm told (mainly by my wife) so I've been getting back into song writing and recording a little over the past few months as time permits. I recently finished up a new song called Story of Your Life that was
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Ok, maybe this has already been blogged about in various places, but I am going to list my steps that were required for me to get Visual Studio 2008 to install properly under Vista. My previous situation was: Had Installed VS2008 Release Candidate I tried
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My eighty-ninth podcast is up . In this episode, I chat with Larry Osterman , the man who makes Windows go "ding", about his two-plus decades working for Microsoft. We chat about sound, Vista, Security and generally geek out. I really enjoyed this show
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Warning: Rant to follow: Ok, I know Outlook 2007 is a complicated piece of software. I know its gone through a whole series of revisions. Could I make a better piece of software? Well I'd like to think so, but the people at Microsoft are smart people
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If you're getting... "HTTP Error 404.17 - Not Found - The requested content appears to be script and will not be served by the static file handler." ...on Vista while trying to get PHP working under IIS7 with the standard ISAPI "php5isapi.dll" ask yourself,
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Here is a screen shot of the only available options screen for my audio device on Vista. It just happens to be an "Advanced" options screen. Hate to see the simplified one.... Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! |
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I was answering a post in the newsgroups about a developer wanting to run IIS SMTP on Vista. This feature is NOT included in Vista. The person was frustrated they couldn't test their email code. This post is meant to provide a couple examples tested on
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