Wednesday, May 19, 2010
Google buys VOIP engine behind Yahoo, AOL, WebEx, Lotus conferencing | ZDNet
Google buys VOIP engine behind Yahoo, AOL, WebEx, Lotus conferencing ZDNet: "Google buys VOIP engine behind Yahoo, AOL, WebEx, Lotus conferencing"
Monday, May 17, 2010
Visio Insights : Introducing Visio Services
Visio Insights : Introducing Visio Services: "Introducing Visio Services"
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
Voicemail: A story of unrealized potential
Brief Description
This whitepaper details the value that Exchange 2010's Unified Messaging capabilities offer to empower your users, reduce cost and manage risk by replacing your voicemail system.
This whitepaper details the value that Exchange 2010's Unified Messaging capabilities offer to empower your users, reduce cost and manage risk by replacing your voicemail system.
Saturday, April 17, 2010
Microsoft SharePoint Team Blog : SharePoint 2010 reaches RTM!
Microsoft SharePoint Team Blog : SharePoint 2010 reaches RTM!: "SharePoint 2010 reaches RTM!"
Friday, April 02, 2010
Saturday, March 27, 2010
Propagation Status - Waiting for Initialization
i had a customer with 19,000 users and 5 server farm with 2 x WFE.
The problem had to do with search. After applying the cumulative patch from Feb, things did not really good.
In the search administration site, under search setting, the Propogation Status showed "Propagation Status - Waiting for Initialization ().
Event ID: 6482 was logged in the event log of the query server with the reason being something like this "Object 66a9ed68-c956-4bb3-af4f-3b9eb257a64e not found".
The waiting for initialization error points to the process of of propogation in a stuck state. So got to restarting the Windows SharePoint Administration services on both the query servers (WFE) and the propogration kick started. This services is found in the Services applet in the Administration tools of the WFE servers.
Before doing anything drastic, understand how search works in a SharePoint farm. Know the services involved, know the process involved and the flow of this services from index to propogation.
March 27, 2010
The problem had to do with search. After applying the cumulative patch from Feb, things did not really good.
In the search administration site, under search setting, the Propogation Status showed "Propagation Status - Waiting for Initialization (
Event ID: 6482 was logged in the event log of the query server with the reason being something like this "Object 66a9ed68-c956-4bb3-af4f-3b9eb257a64e not found".
The waiting for initialization error points to the process of of propogation in a stuck state. So got to restarting the Windows SharePoint Administration services on both the query servers (WFE) and the propogration kick started. This services is found in the Services applet in the Administration tools of the WFE servers.
Before doing anything drastic, understand how search works in a SharePoint farm. Know the services involved, know the process involved and the flow of this services from index to propogation.
March 27, 2010
Friday, February 12, 2010
SQL Server® 2008 R2 November CTP Reporting Services Add-in for Microsoft SharePoint® Technologies 2010
You need this to enable SSRS on SQL Server 2008 R2 to work with SharePoint 2010.
Download details: SQL Server® 2008 R2 November CTP Reporting Services Add-in for Microsoft SharePoint® Technologies 2010: "SQL Server® 2008 R2 November CTP Reporting Services Add-in for Microsoft SharePoint® Technologies 2010"
Download details: SQL Server® 2008 R2 November CTP Reporting Services Add-in for Microsoft SharePoint® Technologies 2010: "SQL Server® 2008 R2 November CTP Reporting Services Add-in for Microsoft SharePoint® Technologies 2010"
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Download details: PHP on Windows Training Kit
"PHP on Windows Training Kit" by Microsoft, available free for download.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=c8498c9b-a85a-4afa-90c0-593d0e4850cb
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=c8498c9b-a85a-4afa-90c0-593d0e4850cb
Saturday, January 30, 2010
Office Communications Server Team Blog : Free Instructor-Led Training for end-users: Introduction to Office Communicator
Office Communications Server Team Blog : Free Instructor-Led Training for end-users: Introduction to Office Communicator: "Free Instructor-Led Training for end-users: Introduction to Office Communicator"
Sunday, January 24, 2010
Download details: Critical BI Platform Whitepaper
Download details: Critical BI Platform Whitepaper: "Critical Business Intelligence Platform for the Agile Enterprise"
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
Sunday, January 17, 2010
German government warns against using MS Explorer
From my friend Mike Veltman
I like the statement made by the spokesman of Microsoft Germany, that this was a specific attack by highly motivated people. Somehow I doubt that other hackers abusing Internet explorer are less motivated. Money always motivates very well.
Russian hackers who want to plunder your accounts are also highly motivated people. So saying that this is a special occasion is a joke.There will always be people who exploit the weaknesses of software for own gain. Whatever these gains would be.But those hackers would focus on Firefox when 95% of the users would use that. So its not only a IE problem. But saying that this is special occasion would will make all security people laugh".
Here is the news at BBC: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8463516.stm
I like the statement made by the spokesman of Microsoft Germany, that this was a specific attack by highly motivated people. Somehow I doubt that other hackers abusing Internet explorer are less motivated. Money always motivates very well.
Russian hackers who want to plunder your accounts are also highly motivated people. So saying that this is a special occasion is a joke.There will always be people who exploit the weaknesses of software for own gain. Whatever these gains would be.But those hackers would focus on Firefox when 95% of the users would use that. So its not only a IE problem. But saying that this is special occasion would will make all security people laugh".
Here is the news at BBC: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8463516.stm
Thursday, January 07, 2010
Virtualboy @ TechNet Edge
Great resources on anything virtual on Windows 2008 R2, be it RDS or Hyper-V, this is the place: VirtualBoy
Windows 7's 'GodMode'
Understanding Windows 7's 'GodMode' Beyond Binary - CNET News: "Understanding Windows 7's 'GodMode'"
Tuesday, January 05, 2010
Avaya Lists 10 Communications Trends for 2010
Avaya Lists 10 Communications Trends for 2010: "Avaya Lists 10 Communications Trends for 2010"
Sunday, January 03, 2010
Plan, Planning, Baseline and something is better than nothing
A well-prepared plan provides the management team with a means to accomplish project objectives and to direct work and assess project status and is critical to the success of the project. Assessing project status requires a baseline project plan from which cost, schedule, and performance status can be compared and change management corrective actions taken, if required.
A plan is nothing more than our best estimate of how a project will be performed. Plans must be modified as a project progresses. The right thing to do is to develop and baseline the deliverables and assumptions and plan to the best of our ability. Imperfect planning is far better than no planning!
A plan is nothing more than our best estimate of how a project will be performed. Plans must be modified as a project progresses. The right thing to do is to develop and baseline the deliverables and assumptions and plan to the best of our ability. Imperfect planning is far better than no planning!
The set of plans required for a project are unique to each project. Use this sequence of plan preparation to ensure inter-plan consistency.
- Baseline the Requirements
- Determine the Technical Approach
Determine major risks - Develop the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), Organizational Breakdown Structure (OBS), Responsibility Assignment Matrix (RAM), and Financial Control Structure
- Identify resource training needs (as part of the project team training plan)
- Identify risks and perform risk assessment and mitigation planning
- Develop the Schedules, Resource Requirements and Cost Estimates
- Update the Resources and Budgets
- Set up the cost management and control approach (as part of the Cost Management & Control Plan)
- Develop the escalation and jeopardy plans
- Define the project status-ing and reporting Approach (as part of the Communications Plan)
- Define project information system and distribution needs (as part of the Project Information System)
To summarize,
Something is better than nothing.
Start with a baseline and update as project progresses. In time, your baseline gets more accurate.
Monday, December 28, 2009
Microsot's FastStart Kit for UC
Did you know about the FastStart Kit from Microsoft on Unified Communications?
This is especially very useful when working on pre-sales with customer, especially in the Architectural Design Sessions (ADS).
Microsoft has developed a number of pre-sales supporting materials with their FastStart kits. This helps the sales/project team to present ADS in light of an individual product capability possessing the most potential for high impact with the client. Some of them are:
Unified Messaging
Security
Voice and Conferencing
These kits provide a great deal of guidance and content that may be heavily leveraged when creating deliverables for an ADS project. Each provides architecture with emphasis on a particular client interest or concern and each contains a comprehensive execution guide, ADS PowerPoint presentation, Discussion Guide, and FAQ document.
Here are some download links:
Unified Communications – Voice and Conferencing FastStart Kit
Unified Communications – Security FastStart Kit
Unified Communications – Unified Messaging FastStart Kit
This is especially very useful when working on pre-sales with customer, especially in the Architectural Design Sessions (ADS).
Microsoft has developed a number of pre-sales supporting materials with their FastStart kits. This helps the sales/project team to present ADS in light of an individual product capability possessing the most potential for high impact with the client. Some of them are:
Unified Messaging
Security
Voice and Conferencing
These kits provide a great deal of guidance and content that may be heavily leveraged when creating deliverables for an ADS project. Each provides architecture with emphasis on a particular client interest or concern and each contains a comprehensive execution guide, ADS PowerPoint presentation, Discussion Guide, and FAQ document.
Here are some download links:
Unified Communications – Voice and Conferencing FastStart Kit
Unified Communications – Security FastStart Kit
Unified Communications – Unified Messaging FastStart Kit
OCS R2 Enhances Unified Communications - Unified Communications Strategies Views - Unified Communications Strategies - Print View
OCS R2 Enhances Unified Communications - Unified Communications Strategies Views - Unified Communications Strategies - Print View: "OCS R2 Enhances Unified Communications"
Sunday, December 27, 2009
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