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by Martin Hinshelwood
wssv3sp1-kb936988-x86-fullfile-en-us.exe http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=4191A531-A2E9-45E4-B71E-5B0B17108BD2&displaylang=en#filelist Not realy installing updates, more like unpacking… Ah, the usual fun… Good thin this is on a dev box otherwise I would need to be restarting services out of hours…or just tell my users it was a tempourary …
by Martin Hinshelwood
So far it is exactly the same show as with the WSS update. Installing updates before moving onto the main feature… And it did not ask me to install WSS SP1 this time.. That is another one of those mixed …
by Martin Hinshelwood
I thought I should create this blog as I am going along because I usually forget some critical item that gubs my server if I try it again Jeff Holliday has posted on what has changes with a plethora of …
by Martin Hinshelwood
Well, I was browsing the Microsoft downloads site looking for SP1 for SharePoint and a wee popup asked if I would like to see the http://download.microsoft.com beta… You can view it at http://preview.microsoft.com/downloads/HomePage.aspx and see what you think. My Silverlight …
by Martin Hinshelwood
Over the past year of using the Windows Mobile Device Center on Vista as well as ActiveSync 4.5 I have become increasingly disillusioned with them both and searching for another tool that would do the job better. Why Mobile Device …
by Martin Hinshelwood
I came across this amazing new service which is very similar to ClusterMaps, NeoWORX. It is a bit of a pain in Flash as the system resources required for flash these days seams a little excessive, but I would like …
by Martin Hinshelwood
Well, due to my campaign to get lots of free bandwidth I now have an additional 2.3 GB on top of my initial free 2GB bringing the grand total to 4.3 GB of online storage with Mozy! This is fantastic …
by Martin Hinshelwood
It is fantastic news that GeeksWithBlogs.net and Community Credit have now both said their vows and are now fully integrated with each other. Awww, so cute. A long and happy integration to you both… Now all we need is a …
by Martin Hinshelwood
A few months ago I found a cool site called Community Credit. I did not understand the premise at first, but after seeing the prizes page, I thought, what the heak! Community Credit is the brain child of one David …
by Martin Hinshelwood
All be it it is only popularity, but they are stars non the less… Willy-Peter Schaub brought and update of the Team System Widgets page to my attention and I remembered that I had submitted the TFS Event Handler I …
by Martin Hinshelwood
I am having a look at Microsoft’s Identity Lifecycle Manager 2007 as a solution to our disparate user identity problem. Some of the bigger companies out there have solved this problem, and in many of the smaller companies it just …
by Martin Hinshelwood
Well, I currently have two referrals 🙂 Thanks to Garrett Hoofman and Andrew Stifora who got their fingers out and got backed up! Hopefully the others that have signed up with my referral link will complete a backup as well …
by Martin Hinshelwood
I was looking for an online backup solution and Scott Hanselman provided it for me: Thanks Scott and good luck with all the new stuff :). These days, with all of your…lets call it “stuff” being mostly digital. The photos …
by Martin Hinshelwood
Better late than never, but I attended a MSDN event on Tuesday night in Edinburgh. Although I eagerly signed up for it, I did not expect to learn a lot: Windows SharePoint 3.0 – Martin Parry I am not usually …
by Martin Hinshelwood
Something occured to me after seeing the Family Show application from Vertigo. If you have not seen this application it is definitely worth a look. What I want to achieve would be to display and allow the edit of company …
by Martin Hinshelwood
In my quest to play with test VB 9.0 and it very cool features I created a little application to update Active Directory. I was asked by my boss (Andre) to get some sense of order into Active Directory for …
by Martin Hinshelwood
Well it seems that Microsoft took the generally felt community suggestion and bundles Team Explorer with Visual Studio 2008 team Suit. I don’t know if they did the same with VS2008 Pro or the other version, but it would seem …
by Martin Hinshelwood
I am a little confused by the RTM release of VS2008. I cant find a copy of the Team Explorer RTM or wither it is bundled with Team Suit. This would be a problem if I uninstalled everything only to …
by Martin Hinshelwood
Well, its official. Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5 went RTM this morning…. So I will be spending the next wee while moving to the full release. if I can ever get the MSDN site to load. At the moment …
by Martin Hinshelwood
I decided that I should have a go at this LINQ thing, so as .NET 3.5 will be RTM at the end of the month I am using LINQ and .NET 3.5 in my new Locator project. The Locator project …