Last week while I was visiting with a group of the Microsoft SBS MVPs here on campus, the question came up of, “What media do we use to install the previous version of Windows if a client wants to use the downgrade rights associated with their OEM Windows license?”  As a follow-up to that conversation that ensued afterwards, I told them I would.. more »

Last year we released a powertoy for the Remote Tools Framework. Now, with the SP1 release, we have released the real product. The Remote Tools Framework allows you to write remote tools (think Remote System Information) quickly and easily. A Remote Tool is now a plug-in, distributed as a The new Remote Tools Shell is the entry point to running the .. more »

Breakpoints) before executing this sample. Here is the complete sample that shows the various breakpoint operations: // PlatformBuilder and Visual Studio namespaces The caption to use in message boxes "PB - Breakpoint Operations Sample" // Get the break point property object and set the Function Name property to where you want the breakpoint // G.. more »

In my last several blog posts, I’ve used a lot of words to tell you why I think the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack (MDOP) is a great way to optimize Windows 7 deployment. I’ve provided links along the way, of course, but I really haven’t...(read more).. more »

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Hi, as I type this post while flying over the country, it just amazes me how far we have come from the days of original computing machines. There is something surreal in being able to blog from an aircraft at 37,000 feet. I will be at TechEd in New Orleans starting this Monday Jun 7, 2010. We are really excited with the content that we have .. more »

Hi - by now you might have read there's 17,000 of us attending VMworld in San Francisco. Huge crowds, just as . Lots of energy and excitement as you can imagine. This post is designed to bring some of the show to you, assuming you're not attending and queuing up to a session 45 mins before the start. The expo hall started Monday. The attendees who .. more »

When you try to connect to a Virtual Machine (VM) from the System Center Virtual Machine Manager console you may get the following error: This can occur if you have performed an authoritative restoration on the Users container in the Active Directory directory service.  When this is done the version number of the KRBTGT account increases which is a.. more »

Here's a great post our very own Michael Michael posted today that talks about an issue you may run into when using System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 trying to migrate a virtual machine from one cluster to another: If you have two Hyper-V failover clusters managed by VMM 2008 R2, it is possible that you can't migrate over the network (LAN .. more »

This is a simple trick that is a little hard to discover but can be very useful. Let’s say you are working an incident and you want to see the affected user’s configuration items (computers, etc.) or maybe you want to see if he currently has an other open active incidents that might be related to this one. Ideally this information would be no clic.. more »

Pratibha Mallya, one of the developers on the System Center Data Access Service team has just posted a new blog post on the System Center Platform Blog about how to use some of the more advanced capabilities of the ObjectQueryOptions class.  This is useful information to know when you are getting large data sets and you want to retrieve the o.. more »

System.ServiceModel.CommunicationObjectFaultedException: The communication object, System.ServiceModel.Channels.ServiceChannel, cannot be used for communication because it is in the Faulted state. In some instances the console will open but the exeption will be thrown when trying to select any node.  Operations Manager consoles hosted on remote w.. more »

Please find below direct links to DPM2010 storage calculators Exchange "http://download.microsoft.com/download/8/5/1/851E02E6-4CCA-4846-83C5-3C92C8114899/DPM_2010_Storage_Calculator_for_Exchange_2010.xlsx" Hyper-V.. more »

0); } } } } } } For a comparison, the compression built into an on-premise SQL Server is transparent to the application and benefits much wider range of types like all the way to larger types because it scopes to the row to the page. In other words it can use the repetition dictionary in compression across all the columns in the page. You can read .. more »

Today we are pleased to announce the availability of the Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit (EMET) version 2.0. click here to download the tool For those who may be unfamiliar with the tool, EMET provides users with the ability to deploy security mitigation technologies to arbitrary applications. This helps prevent vulnerabilities in those .. more »

A new rogue has started making its appearance from compromised websites: . We received a sample (70be8ca73142922fd78acf2aafa9f141a977f15a) and a URL and began our investigation. Let us say from the beginning that the guys behind this rogue like to copy The similarity between the fake warning pages is so accurate that it can trick even highly .. more »

Regression Forests for Efficient Anatomy Detection and Localization in CT Studies.. more »

Recently, Deep Belief Networks (DBNs) have been proposed for phone recognition and were found to achieve highly competitive performance. In the original DBNs, only frame-level information was used for training DBN weights while it has been known for long that sequential or full-sequence information can be helpful in improving speech recognition .. more »

Hi! Governance is a critical topic for SharePoint Server 2010, and I know you’ve all been waiting for us to get content out there about it. We have some progress to share from our work this summer. What’s new in governance content: – describes the three areas of governance for SharePoint Server 2010 and highlights some questions to ask while determ.. more »

Cars, ammo, jetpacks and more. These are the things that make you go boom! “Crackdown 2” makes an explosive return with the title’s first Game Add-on, “Toy Box,” available on Xbox LIVE Marketplace starting today. With two content packs that will satisfy every thrill seeker, Microsoft Game Studios and Ruffian Games are rewarding all “Crackdown.. more »

I posted over on the Project Administration blog - http://blogs.technet.com/b/projectadministration/archive/2010/09/02/microsoft-project-server-and-sharepoint-2007-and-2010-august-cu-2010-are-live.aspx but the basic info for Microsoft Office Project Server 2007, Microsoft Office Project 2007, Microsoft Project Server 2010 and Microsoft Project 2010 .. more »