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Thursday, September 30, 2004 10:15 AM

On PASS Site

Atlast, we find ourselfs on the PASS Site. The Bangalore, Hyd, Pune, Mumbai and Trivandrum SQL Server groups feature there. Have been waiting to see our groups up on that site for quite some time. I am happy, we are PASS recogonized now :). Thanks team
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Wednesday, September 29, 2004 11:41 PM

Administrative Template Files with Registry-Based Group Policy

This white paper explains the concepts, architecture, and implementation details for registry-based Group Policy in Microsoft Windows operating systems. It shows how to create custom Administrative Template (.adm) files and includes a complete reference
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Wednesday, September 29, 2004 2:22 PM

New on ExtremeExperts

Couple of new articles got published. But these are on External sites. Do pass your comments if any: Intro to DTS-Part II Try Catch Block in SQL Server 2005
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Wednesday, September 29, 2004 2:20 PM

GMail to GBrowser

Interestingly I saw this post on eweek about Googles plan to venture into the Browser market too ... Read the complete story here .
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Wednesday, September 29, 2004 11:00 AM

Announcing Security Guidance Hands-On Labs Online

Microsoft Learning is pleased to announce the free, worldwide availability of Hands-On Labs 2811 , Applying Microsoft Security Guidance , at http://www.microsoftelearning.com/security/ . This offering consists of four 90-minute labs that allow students
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Tuesday, September 28, 2004 3:00 PM

PSSDIAG V1.0 released

PSSDiag is a diagnostic data collector for Microsoft SQL Server. It can simultaneously collect Perfmon/Sysmon logs, Profiler traces, event logs, SQLDIAG reports, and detailed blocking information. It is commonly used by Microsoft Product Support Services
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Tuesday, September 28, 2004 10:55 AM

Vanished in thin air

Dont think this is the case :). Have been on the travel for the past weeks and in loads of work. But am back in town and back to blogging the same. Had a great time at Madurai where I had a chance to take a session at TCE for the MSDN @ Campus initiative
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Friday, September 17, 2004 1:34 PM

SAP Connector to Project Server 2003 released

The download includes the components, ASP.NET administration page, source code, and documentation that shows how to install and configure the SAP Connector components. One SAP Connector component synchronizes resource and organization data in Project
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Tuesday, September 14, 2004 12:39 PM

MS announced Virtual Server 2005 Standard and Enterprise Editions

This first version of Microsoft’s Virtual Machine solution for Windows Server 2003 helps customers reduce hardware costs and increase operational efficiency in three key scenarios: automation of software test and development environments; re-hosting
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Friday, September 10, 2004 11:03 AM

Broadband Users in contrast !!!

If you are from US then the news is # of users for usage has tripled in 3 yrs. InfoWorld news states ... And as far as India, there is this thread on what “ we ” consider as broadband and what we get here with the infrastructure. :(. It is
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Thursday, September 09, 2004 5:39 PM

Microsoft Calculator Plus

This “not supported” application can be used for major conversions and most of the operations that the MS Calc can do :). Download it from MSDN Downloads ... Has a blue skin too ...
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Thursday, September 09, 2004 12:54 PM

Microsoft Hotmail from FreeBSD to Microsoft Windows 2000 Technical Case Study

“... During June and July of 2000, the Hotmail site was converted from FreeBSD running Apache Web services to Windows 2000 Server running Microsoft Internet Information Services 5.0. ...” Read it complete ...
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Wednesday, September 08, 2004 12:06 PM

Apple next ...

Apple fixes 15 flaws in Mac OS X “ The patch fixes software flaws that could enable an attacker to crash or freeze the Apache 2 Web server, run software by utilizing Apple's Safari Web browser or expose the password store used by the network. Security
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Tuesday, September 07, 2004 11:11 AM

Longhorn cuts ...

I think there has been a post to the cuts. But I am impressed to what Robert visualizes this to the “why?” aspect of it ... Read it complete in his blog .
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Tuesday, September 07, 2004 11:03 AM

Breaking changes for Framework

Check the complete list at GotDotNet. For 1.0 to 2.0 check it out here .
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Tuesday, September 07, 2004 10:55 AM

Authentication and Access Control Diagnostics 1.0 (AuthDiag)

Authentication and authorization failures are common on Internet Information Services (IIS) platforms. AuthDiag is a tool designed to aid customers in effectively troubleshooting and determining the root cause of the problem.Very interesting and useful
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Tuesday, September 07, 2004 10:53 AM

IISLogs

Software to automatically manage IIS log files, compressing them to save space. Visit this third party software ..
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Tuesday, September 07, 2004 10:26 AM

TEdit.NET

An ASP.NET control for viewing and editing DB tables. Visit here ...
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Monday, September 06, 2004 10:39 AM

New on ExtremeExperts

How to Multiply Column Values in SQL Server ROW_NUMBER in SQL Server 2005 Feel free to pass your comments through the site :).
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Saturday, September 04, 2004 12:31 PM

WinZip E-Mail Attachment Add-On for Outlook

“ The WinZip E-Mail Attachment Add-On for Outlook makes it easy for you to zip (compress) the files that you attach to Microsoft® Outlook e-mail messages. Zipping attachments saves transmission time and disk storage for both the sender and
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Saturday, September 04, 2004 12:25 PM

WinZip 9.0 Service Release 1 (SR-1)

I know most of use use WinZip. Check the latest update on the same .
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Saturday, September 04, 2004 12:23 PM

The Microsoft Office Information Bridge Framework 1.0 Resource Kit – Tools

Get the Downloads from MSDN Downloads site ...
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Saturday, September 04, 2004 12:22 PM

Fuzzy Lookup and Fuzzy Grouping in Data Transformation Services for SQL Server 2005

Good article on MSDN ...
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Saturday, September 04, 2004 12:21 PM

O-Yes OS

<< Removed Content from this web post >> I equally belive that this is a hoax. Apologies for the same ... Please refrain from refering to this content.
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Friday, September 03, 2004 12:09 PM

Download Media Player 10

From MS site Downloads ...
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Friday, September 03, 2004 10:43 AM

Miguel comments on Longhorn

“... My prediction is that Avalon v1 will be a throw-away: it is not really the foundation on which you will build applications: V2 will likely not be backwards compatible, they will have to re-architect bits of it: which means that people will
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Friday, September 03, 2004 10:24 AM

Longhorn cuts delay Microsoft Business Framework

By cutting WinFS from Longhorn and indefinitely delaying the storage system, Microsoft Corp. has also again delayed the Microsoft Business Framework (MBF), a new Windows programming layer that is closely tied to WinFS. Read complete story ...
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Friday, September 03, 2004 10:20 AM

MSN Music Launch

MS Launches the MSN Music Beta Version into the market. More about this at pcmag ...
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Thursday, September 02, 2004 6:41 PM

Its Oracles Turn

Oracle releases delayed security patches ... Who said we are alone :)
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Thursday, September 02, 2004 2:43 PM

Thanks Linux

Its just a blog guys :) ... But this is the heading on one of the Forbes article. Thanks Naresh for the pointer. “... How could "free" Linux cost more than Windows? First of all, Red Hat , the leading Linux distributor, now charges $799 to $2,499
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Thursday, September 02, 2004 10:55 AM

Can you think of a better implementation

on a production server. nice one ...
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