betaYes indeed… your PC can be more secure and healthy.The Windows Live Safety Center is a place where anyone can quickly tune up their PC. There are three “Service Centers” where you can Protect Clean up and Tune upyour PC. There is also an online community forming there as well.NOTE: This is a service still in … Continue reading Windows Live Safety Center is… LIVE!
SQL Server 2005 Tidbit 033The following question was asked at a Recent “Best of SQL Server 2005 Launch” TechNet Event in Kansas City (Overland Park Kansas, actually. Had a lovely time there, thank you! …and although it was a bit of a dive, the Karaoke at the Red Balloon was a lot of fun!)“I heard … Continue reading SQL Server 2005 Tidbit 033
SQL Server 2005 Tidbit 032“I want to program against and/or use table and database configuration information. Is there a way to access the metadata associated with those? Could I add my own metadata or comments into that area?”This gentleman was looking for manipulating and using hidden information. He suggested that if it wasn’t available, it … Continue reading SQL Server 2005 Tidbit 032
SQL Server 2005 Tidbit 031We got 31 flavors of tidbits for ya…“I’d like some more information on the requirements for online defragmentation and indexing.”Well, first of all… The new online index operations are only available in the Enterprise edition of SQL Server 2005. The SQL Server 2005 Books Online has a great section on the … Continue reading SQL Server 2005 Tidbit 031
SQL Server 2005 Tidbit 03030 tidbits. The bit “3 oh”. Our list is not a young list anymore.This tidbit as a result of really good questions (aka questions I didn’t have a sufficient answer for or that I wanted to research more thoroughly) at our TechNet Events in Chattanooga and Knoxville, Tennessee. (Which reminds me… … Continue reading SQL Server 2005 Tidbit 030
SQL Server 2005 Tidbit 029Another tidbit? It’s been awhile! FAR too long. My apologies.This tidbit is about a new flexible security feature in SQL Server 2005: SQL Server Agent Proxies.In the past, if you wanted a job to have access to some secured subsystem, you had to basically give that job rights as the sa … Continue reading SQL Server 2005 Tidbit 029
Yes indeed… It has been announced that Windows AntiSpyware… Is to be now and forevermore called Windows Defender Will be included in Windows Vista Will start showing up with updates via Microsoft Updates, and WSUS (Windows Server Update Services) in a new classification called “Definition Updates”.This is VERY good news. The AntiSpyware beta is being … Continue reading Windows AntiSpyware now officially called “Windows Defender”
Microsoft took a big step into the Software Services world today, with some major announcements.Here’s the Press Release on the subject…To summarize – we announced a number of new, free online services. Some are still in the planning stages, and others are ready for you to try out. Click the picture above, or this link, … Continue reading Announcing: Windows Live (TM)
Yep. I blame myself.If Windows Vista heads to OEMs on July 25th, 2006, then I’m responsible. I, like many Microsoft employees, am running new Windows Vista builds whenever I get the chance. And I’m submitting bugs as I find them. Heck… most of the time I’m submitting bugs I don’t even KNOW I’m submitting bugs. … Continue reading Windows Vista to RTM in July?
I was browsing the TechNet web site for solutions to a couple of great WSUS questions I received in e-mail, when a search result caught my eye:“End to End Update Management – How Windows Vista Reduces the Pain of Update Management”Here’s the paper’s “executive summary”:“This white paper describes how the Microsoft Windows operating system Windows … Continue reading “Windows Vista Reduces the PAIN of Update Management”? I’m not gonna wait for Windows Vista!
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