Today Microsoft released a new Search offering - Search Server 2008 Express. This is on top of the recently announced Search Server 2008, and of course Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007."Express? Does this mean, like in so many other products with that moniker, that this is free?"Yep. Free. "So.. it's scaled down, I bet. Probably … Continue reading Search for Free! Search Server 2008 Express Announced
http://silverlight.services.live.com/invoke/30195/BreakfastMPG/iframe.html This time I took my original AVCHD file and rendered it as a high-quality MPEG-2 file before rendering it again for Silverlight using Expression Encoder.It looks a little better in my opinion. Not so many interlacing effects visible. What do you think?
http://silverlight.services.live.com/invoke/30195/Breakfast3/iframe.html HINT: Double-click to show fullscreen.The first test I did (I've removed that post - it's annoying when all these videos start playing all at once in each blog post) rendered it down a little - more like DVD quality than true HD.This later one is a much bigger file, and is true HD 720p … Continue reading HD Silverlight Stream Test 2 – even higher quality
Big news: They're splitting it up."Huh? What do you mean? Are they having one conference for boys, and another for girls?"<sigh> Don't be silly. And anyway, that (unfortunately) would be extremely lopsided. No, I'm talking about now having two separate weeks - one for Developers and the other for IT Professionals.And that's what was announced … Continue reading TechEd 2008 Breaking News: Big changes to TechEd U.S.
"Huh?"For a couple years now I've been singing the praise of "these three little letters that, if you remember nothing else from my presentation, I want you to remember: BDD!" Business Desktop Deployment.BDD is one of many "Solution Accelerators" Microsoft makes available. As the name implies, these are product or area focused tools that help … Continue reading Remember BDD? Well.. forget BDD. Remember MD.
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Hi all!Here I am sitting at home for a few more hours before heading to the airport to get on a plane to Texas to deliver TechNet Events on Tuesday and Thursday. "Texas?! You don't usually cover Texas!"Well, I am pleased to be able to cover some events there now. For those of you who … Continue reading My TechNet Events – October-December 2007
Kevin’s “Save the Day” TechNet ResourcesSpecial HDC 2007 Edition! E-mail Technical Questions: Kevin Remde – Kevin.Remde@microsoft.comKevin’s Blog “Full of I.T.” – Additional Resources and Discussionhttp://blogs.technet.com/kevinremdeFeedback e-mail to my boss: Rich Russell – RichRuss@microsoft.comFuture Live, In-Person Event InformationTechNet (for IT Pros): http://www.technetevents.comMSDN (for Software Developers): http://www.MSDNEvents.comMicrosoft Across America: http://www.microsoft.com/acrossamericaNext Scheduled Area “Microsoft Across America” Events: Watch http://www.technetevents.com/kevinremde … Continue reading Heartland Developer Conference 2007 – Kevin’s Resource Page
One more time, for those who missed it before...RTM = Released to Manufacturing"And what is SCDPM?"SCDPM is System Center Data Protection Manager 2007. It's a new version of the DPM product (first released last year), and contains several incredible improvements. Last week, at a Microsoft Across America team meeting in Phoenix, AZ, I had the … Continue reading Breaking News: SCDPM is RTM!
Kevin’s “Save the Day” TechNet ResourcesEvent Resources – October-December, 2007 E-mail Technical Questions: Kevin Remde – Kevin.Remde@microsoft.comKevin’s Blog “Full of I.T.” – Additional Resources and Discussionhttp://blogs.technet.com/kevinremdeFeedback e-mail to my boss: Rich Russell – richruss@microsoft.comFuture Live, In-Person Event InformationTechNet (for IT Pros): http://www.technetevents.com/kevinremdeMSDN (for Software Developers): http://www.MSDNEvents.comMicrosoft Across America: http://www.microsoft.com/acrossamericaNext Scheduled Area “Microsoft Across America” Events: Watch … Continue reading October-December 2007 – TechNet Event Resources
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