Bookmarks for February 18th through March 4th

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Top Entrecard droppers of February

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EC is still bring me traffic, and I’m still finding new blogs to follow. Sad to say some of my blogger friends have dropped EC yet they still show as favorites on the EC firefox bar so its easy to visit them well I’m dropping. Here are my top droppers for February.

Thanks for visiting and the drops

Windows 7 RC Expiring Monday

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If you are still running Windows 7 RC (like me), just remember the RC expires on Monday. I’ve been running a backup on my install before I install my black edition from my windows 7 house party. The backup has been running for about 10 hours and its only 40% done! Not sure why its so slow. I’m backing up to a USB 2.0 hard drive, using the built in backup utility. I have 300 GB of data including lots of MP3,photos, and AVI files. But this is taking forever! I Just hope if finishes early tomorrow so I have time to install and configure the RTM.

Once I get the RTM installed I want to be better about doing regularly scheduled backups. I’ love to find something that will backup my files local to a USB drive AND back them up to the cloud ( I hate that term) Anyone know of software that will do that?

 

 

I’ve been really impressed with Windows 7 and we are just starting our testing with it at work.

Anyone have a tablet PC running windows 7? how do you like it. I wait a tablet, but I want a big one. My current notebook is a Dell D820. I want a large screen to right on, I’m not concerned about the weight. I don’t travel that much, but I use lots of paper notepads, I want to try OneNote 2010 with windows 7 and a large tablet. But they seem to just keep making them smaller not larger :(

 

later,jb

Outlook Gets Social with LinkedIn, Facebook, and MySpace

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We are testing Office 2010 at work. I should have it by the end of next week along with windows 7. I’m currently running Office XP with outlook 2003. I was using Xobni, but it seem to eat up RAM and caused outlook to have issues closing. The social features of xobni where nice. But the performance hit wasn’t worth it. I uninstalled it and install windows desktop search. Windows desktop search was just as good if not better than xobni, but I was still missing the social integration. Well it looks like once I get outlook 2010 installed, I’ll be able to test microsoft’s new Outlook social connector, very nice….

In November 2009, we announced both the beta of Microsoft Office 2010 as well as the Outlook Social Connector. The Outlook Social Connector brings together communications history, contact information, and professional and social networking information into the Outlook experience.

We are continuing to deliver on that vision today with two new announcements. First, we’re proud to announce the public beta of LinkedIn for Outlook, which will enable our millions of Office 2010 Beta users to connect the OSC to a public network for the first time. Second, we’re excited to announce partnerships with Facebook — the most popular social Web site in the world, and MySpace — a leading social platform connecting people through expression, content, and culture.

[Continued]

To recap, here is what you can do today to get started with the Outlook Social Connector.

  1. Download the Office 2010 Beta at www.Office.com/beta
  2. Download the latest beta version of the Outlook Social Connector from the Microsoft Download Center.
  3. Get the LinkedIn download for the Outlook Social Connector at www.LinkedIn.com/outlook.
  4. Keep watching the Outlook team blog for availability of the Facebook and MySpace download for the Outlook Social Connector at http://blogs.msdn.com/outlook/.

 

Outlook Gets Social with LinkedIn, Facebook, and MySpace
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Wed, 17 Feb 2010 11:00:00 GMT

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Bookmarks for February 10th through February 17th

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Sharepoint 2010 continued

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I got SharePoint 2010 installed in a 3 tier architecture (1 web,1 app, 1 db)

I’m going to start a series of post on the issues I encounter, and the solutions I find for them.

I found the Microsoft TechNet forums for the SharePoint 2010 beta. I started posting some questions there.

You can also find my SharePoint bookmarks here and I created a twitter list of the sharepoint people I’ve found that are on twitter.

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Bookmarks for February 5th through February 10th

These are my links for February 5th through February 10th:

  • Jie Li’s GeekWorld : Installation Notice for SharePoint 2010 Public Beta – Since SharePoint 2010 has been made available for MSDN/TechNet subscriber public now, here’re some steps you would like to follow to get a successful installation. But keep in mind: This beta is not supported and you CANNOT upgrade the installation to RTM when it’s released. This Beta should only be used for evaluation purpose.
  • SharePoint 2010 Category – Technet sharepoint 2010 forums
  • Global Catalog vs. Infrastructure Master – Directory Services/Active Directory – Q: Is the Infrastructure Master allowed to run on a Domain Controller which also holds the Global Catalog Server?
  • How to migrate the vCenter database to Microsoft SQL Server 2008 – NTPRO.NL – Eric Sloof – If you want to relocate your vCenter database from a local express SQL server to a central Microsoft SQL Server 2008, you can use the SQL Server Import and Export Wizard to copy and transform data between supported data sources and destinations.

    The purpose of the SQL Server Import and Export Wizard is to copy data from a source to a destination. The wizard can also create a destination database and destination tables for you. However, if you have to copy multiple databases or tables, or other kinds of database objects, you should use the Copy Database Wizard instead.

  • Virtual Infrastructure best practices | VMGuru.nl – I choose (a virtual) life! – Lately I keep receiving questions from colleagues regarding virtual infrastructure design using VMware products. So I decided to sum up the best practices I use when designing a new virtual infrastructure. Some of the best practices are based on numbers and calculations but others are pretty obvious. Nevertheless you would be surprised how many environments I’ve encounter were the most basic best practices have NOT been met.

Bookmarks for February 3rd through February 4th

These are my links for February 3rd through February 4th:

  • Shariq Sheikh | Port 389 – - activity of Active Directory and the rest – A really good site about Active Directory
  • Online Password Generator – Password security shouldn't be taken lightly. Security professional will tell you that secure passwords should be difficult to guess and difficult to break using brute force methods. The strongest password is a series of random characters. But this is difficult for humans to remember. What good is a secure password when you can't remember it yourself? We offer a password generator that uses real words mixed with enough random numbers and symbols to be secure.
  • How to succeed with XenDesktop without really trying » ocb – Citrix Community – Working closely with our team of worldwide consultants we have put together a Modularized Reference Architecture for XenDesktop that can be used as a blueprint for architecting successful XenDesktop implementations. This is the real thing. All of the design considerations and methodologies in this document have been proven in the field and verified in the Citrix Solutions Center lab.
  • SharePoint 2010 Better Together with SQL 2008 R2 Database Enhancements Top 10 – SharePoint Joel’s SharePoint Land – I’ve been thinking a lot about the SQL 2008 R2 and SharePoint 2010 better together story and wanted to capture some of what’s been floating around in my head. I haven’t seen enough content and blogs on this stuff and hope that this will help spur more conversations on the topic. Mike Watson has put out a couple of well put together posts on SQL 2008 and SharePoint 2010 in his storage considerations post and on SharePoint 2010 high availability improvements. I also put some thoughts on why SQL 2008 for SharePoint from a while back. With the product team’s announcement of requirements of 64 bit SQL and SQL 2005 and SQL 2008, many are asking questions. Having spent time with SQL 2008, I do see it as a no brainer to skip 2005 or to simply go with the gold and do the right thing from the beginning. A lot of the high availability (mirroring) and security features (transparent data encryption) are in the enterprise version, so be careful to do the right thing. Ironically I did run into
  • You Had Me At EHLO… : Triaging Exchange Performance issues related to Active Directory (AD) Performance (including Networking and DNS performance) – In many organizations the skill sets that administer Exchange, Active Directory (AD), Domain Naming System (DNS), and the network infrastructure are often segregated. Since Exchange is heavily dependent on communication with AD and that communication must traverse the network, the ability for the Exchange Administrator to have a basic understanding of how each of these components can be troubleshot is useful. Furthermore, often times the DNS, network, and AD administrators are not familiar with how Exchange is dependent on their services and thus are not fully prepared to help an Exchange administrator isolate production issues. As such, by the end of this it is hoped that there will be enough information to allow the Exchange, DNS, network, and AD administrators to each collect the data necessary to identify the majority of the issues.

Sharepoint 2010 videos

Here’s a few videos from TechNet about SharePoint 2010

Virtualization of SharePoint 2010 Farm Architecture

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Overview and What’s New for SharePoint 2010 IT Pros

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I successfully got SharePoint 2010 installed yesterday. I’ll write up my experiences on the install process soon.

Right now I’m trying to get the “mysite” working correctly. Enjoy the videos

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Bookmarks for February 2nd through February 3rd

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