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BgInfo v4.16, Keep an eye on system info

16 de Abril de 2010 – 10:32

bb897557bginfoen-usmsdn10How many times have you walked up to a system in your office and needed to click through several diagnostic windows to remind yourself of important aspects of its configuration, such as its name, IP address, or operating system version If you manage multiple computers you probably need BGInfo. It automatically displays relevant information about a Windows computer on the desktop’s background, such as the computer name, IP address, service pack version, and more. You can edit any field as well as the font and background colors, and can place it in your startup folder so that it runs every boot, or even configure it to display as the background for the logon screen.

Because BGInfo simply writes a new desktop bitmap and exits you don’t have to worry about it consuming system resources or interfering with other applications.

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Date format in mail merge

14 de Abril de 2010 – 10:36

If you Alt and F9 you will see the MergeFormat Field on your Word document.

If you type \@”dd/MM/yyyy” at the end of the field the date is displayed in that format.

To get the date format you want, you can add a formatting picture switch. In Word:
. select the mergefield;
. press Shift-F9 to expose the field coding. It should look something like {MERGEFIELD MyDate} where ‘MyDate’ is your mergefield’s name;
. delete anything appearing after the mergefield’s name and add ‘\@ “d MMMM yyyy”‘ to the field, as in {MERGEFIELD MyDate \@ “d MMMM yyyy”}. With this switch your date will come out as ‘2 August 2008’. Other possible date formatting switches include:
. \@ “dddd, d MMMM yyyy”;
. \@ “ddd, d MMMM yyyy”;
. \@ “d MMM yyyy”;
. \@ “dd/MMM/yyyy”;
. \@ “d-MM-yy”;
Note: you can swap the d, M, y expressions around, but you must use uppercase ‘M’s for months.
. position the cursor anywhere in this field and press F9 to update it;
. run your mailmerge.

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Resource Description Framework (RDF)

8 de Abril de 2010 – 12:30

RDF is a standard model for data interchange on the Web. RDF has features that facilitate data merging even if the underlying schemas differ, and it specifically supports the evolution of schemas over time without requiring all the data consumers to be changed.

RDF extends the linking structure of the Web to use URIs to name the relationship between things as well as the two ends of the link (this is usually referred to as a “triple”). Using this simple model, it allows structured and semi-structured data to be mixed, exposed, and shared across different applications.

This linking structure forms a directed, labeled graph, where the edges represent the named link between two resources, represented by the graph nodes. This graph view is the easiest possible mental model for RDF and is often used in easy-to-understand visual explanations.

see also:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RDF_Schema

http://www.w3.org/RDF/

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The Next Digital Experience

8 de Abril de 2010 – 2:44

World Economic Forum

http://fora.tv

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HTML5 Forms Are Coming

30 de Março de 2010 – 19:35

HTML forms have been, to date, quite simplistic. We’ve had limited options: the text field, the checkbox, the radio button, the textarea and finally the select drop down. Any complex data like phone numbers, email addresses or dates had to be checked by JavaScript. (And you should always and I mean always do server-side validation of the data.)

The input element works overtime by being rendered completely differently based on the type it’s given—be that a text field, password, checkbox, radio button, and others. Considering my readership, this is all terribly old and boring to you now. I understand.

New Types

Under the HTML5 umbrella, however, forms are getting a makeover. The new input types are:

* search
* tel
* url
* email
* datetime, date, month, week, time, and datetime-local
* number
* range
* color

In the example of an email field, validation could be performed by the browser, without JavaScript, to ensure that an email address was correctly entered. Even more powerful, it could allow autocomplete based on your local address book.

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Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway 2010

30 de Março de 2010 – 12:21

logo-ff-tmg10bForefront Threat Management Gateway 2010, the next generation release of ISA Server 2006, enables business by allowing your employees to safely and productively use the Internet without worrying about malware and other threats. Learn more about Forefront Threat Management Gateway.

Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway 2010 (TMG) allows employees to safely and productively use the Internet for business without worrying about malware and other threats. It provides multiple layers of continuously updated protections – including URL filtering, antimalware inspection, intrusion prevention, application- and network-layer firewall, and HTTP/HTTPS inspection – that are integrated into a unified, easy to manage gateway, reducing the cost and complexity of Web security.

System Requirements

Review this Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway 2010 information to make sure you have the required hardware and software to run the product.

Forefront Threat Management Gateway 2010 Standard Edition
Provided below are the minimum and recommended system configuration requirements to use Forefront Threat Management Gateway 2010 Standard Edition.

System Component Minimum Requirements Recommended Requirements
Operating System Windows Server 2008 SP2 or Windows Server 2008 R2 Windows Server 2008 SP2 or Windows Server 2008 R2
Processor Type 64-bit 64-bit
Processor Cores 2 4
Memory 2 GB 4 GB
Disk Space 2.5 GB of available hard disk space. This is exclusive of hard disk space that you want to use for caching or for temporarily storing files during malware inspection 2.5 GB of available hard disk space. This is exclusive of hard disk space that you want to use for caching or for temporarily storing files during malware inspection
Disks One local hard disk partition that is formatted with the NTFS file system Two local hard disk partition that is formatted with the NTFS file system. One disk for system and TMG logging, and one for caching and malware inspection
Network One network adapter that is compatible with the computer’s operating system, for communication with the Internal network.

An additional network adapter for each network connected to the Forefront TMG server.

 One network adapter that is compatible with the computer’s operating system, for communication with the Internal network.

An additional network adapter for each network connected to the Forefront TMG server.

www.microsoft.com/forefront/edgesecurity/isaserver/en/us/

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ASP.NET Charting Control

29 de Março de 2010 – 16:48

Scott Gu blogged about the the free Microsoft Chart Controls for Microsoft .NET 3.5.

Microsoft recently released a cool new ASP.NET server control – <asp:chart /> – that can be used for free with ASP.NET 3.5 to enable rich browser-based charting scenarios:

Once installed the <asp:chart/> control shows up under the “Data” tab on the Toolbox, and can be easily declared on any ASP.NET page as a standard server control:

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IIS returns HTTP 404 for Office 2007 file downloads

29 de Março de 2010 – 16:36

This is kind of an old issue, but since I mostly work on corporate projects, we’re a bit slow on adopting new versions of anything.
I ran into this issue with Microsoft Word 2007 documents, but the same error will occur with any other file type that isn’t properly configured on the web server.

Symptoms
Microsoft Word 2007 documents return a HTTP 404 error when users attempt to download the documents. The web server uses Microsoft IIS 6.0.

Cause
IIS does not have a wildcard mapping for unknown MIME types and the file type is not known to the web server. This prevents IIS 6.0 to serve the file.

Resolution
To resolve the errors, add the missing MIME types to IIS.
Instructions

1. Open IIS Management Console (via Computer Manager->Services and Applications->Internet Information Service)
2. Right click on “Web Sites”.
3. Choose Properties
4. Activate “HTTP Headers” tab
5. Click “File Types” button in the MIME Map groupbox
6. Click “New Type”
7. Enter the MIME type data from the below table

Associated
Extension		 Content type (MIME)
(remove any spaces below)
docx application/vnd.openxmlformats- officedocument.wordprocessingml.document
pptx application/vnd.openxmlformats- officedocument.presentationml.presentation
xlsx application/vnd.openxmlformats- officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet
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Hyper-V Licensing Explained!

29 de Março de 2010 – 15:36

I’ve spoken to a lot of people who have expressed a lot of confusion about the OS licensing model when virtualizing systems using Hyper-V products.

There are some simple guidelines to observe when planning your Hyper-V infrastructure to take advantage of the licensing models for each edition of Windows Server 2008.

First, a term definition: Microsoft uses the term “OSE” to refer to an operating system environment, either physical or virtual. Also, Microsoft refers to a “processor” in the context of a single processor socket on the motherboard. This calculation is not affected when considering multiple core processors or hyper-threading capabilities on certain processor types.

posted in: http://msmvps.com/blogs/virtualreality

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Antivírus gratuito da Microsoft disponível em português

19 de Março de 2010 – 23:57

A Microsoft Portugal lançou hoje a versão portuguesa do Microsoft Security Essentials, uma solução gratuita de segurança para os computadores pessoais dos utilizadores do sistema operativo Windows.

Este antivírus está disponível a partir de hoje para download gratuito na página do produto e oferece aos utilizadores de tecnologia Microsoft uma protecção contra vírus, spyware e outros tipos de software malicioso, sendo compatível com os sistemas operativos Windows XP, Windows Vista e Windows 7.

security-essentials

homepage: www.microsoft.com/security_essentials

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