Pretty nice guide on how to prepare for 2006 by Scott.

Scott is right, Acrobat Reader has becoming boring recently and Foxit was a good replacement for me also so far.

Microsoft has just released Windows Server 2003 Security Guide 2.0.

According to The Economic Times, Intel is ready to roll out a new identity.

This is what I was asked just two days ago by a friend and well.. I actually didn't have time answering him: Who is a good programmer?

Merry Christmas to ALL.

EasyIIS v1.7 lets you run multiple website on your Windows XP Pro.

Sams has released another Unleashed this time on Microsoft Small Business Server 2003.
If you are new to the world of Microsoft Small Business Server 2003, Microsoft Small Business Server 2003 Unleashed can provide you with real-world support experience as you get started or explore your upgraded server. Written and reviewed by Small Business Server MVPs, this book provides valuable coverage of Mac and Linux platform integration, as well as the integration of ISA 2004, SharePoint, FrontPage, Exchange, and SQL Server.

Mike Synder showing some screen shots of the new Microsoft CRM 3.0 Mobile features. CRM 3.0 is just what everyone wants in the CRM way...

You can see some more demo of Microsoft Dynamics CRM Server 3.0 here.

Well... Busy year for Microsoft. They have now released Microsoft Commerce Server 2006 Beta 1 which is scheduled for release in early 2006. Find our more . . .

If you are a web designer and want to know the new features in ASP.NET 2.0 for designers, please consider reading this page. Also you can download some ready-to-run design templates here. Via FederalDev.

The Active Directory Migration Tool (ADMT) version 2.0 provides an easy, secure, and fast way to either upgrade from Windows NT Server 4.0 to Windows Server Active Directory service or restructure Windows Server Active Directory domains between forests or within a forest. The tool migrates users, groups, and computers between domains in a way that allows users to have access to their resources and applications at all times. Version 2.0 includes new features, such as password migration, a scripting interface, and a command line interface, that make migrations easier.

DualCor cPC should be the future of mobility. A PDA, a Smartphone and a Tablet PC all got together. Via Stefano.

Here you can access to a live demo of Microsoft CRM Server.

Microsoft Corp. today announced that Technology Marketing Corp.’s (TMC’s) TMC Labs division named Microsoft® Speech Server 2004 R2 as a 2005 Innovation Award winner from Customer Interaction Solutions magazine. Read More . . .

You may search your PC from your mobile device now!

The forthcoming release of Visual Studio Foundation Server will include two methodology templates for the next version of MSF (the Microsoft Solution Framework). These are MSF for Agile Software Development (MSF Agile) and MSF for CMMI Process Improvement (MSF4CMMI). These two templates map MSF 4.0 onto two distinct software development methodologies. Read More . . .

CRM Server 3.0 SDK and other downloads can be found here. Via Michael Rich.

And now... You can check your Gmail account using your Smartphone!

This article will only briefly describe the basics of drag and drop, as it is quite straightforward to implement and there already are a lot of good articles about it. The aim of the article is to describe how image dragging and automatic scrolling while dragging can be implemented in C#.

It looks as Microsoft Dynamics SL 6.5 (was known as Microsoft BS-Solomon) is going to be released...

Nice one by Vlad Mazek on how Google may end Microsoft desktop dominance. But things in my opinion just does not go as we expect...

According to Marcel Dorner post, Exchange 12 beta 1 is released.

Google has now released an API for customizing your Google Homepage.

I was just thinking why there has been no update recently for Junk Filter feature of Outlook and it came out!

Scott Schnoll describing how MSIT achievse 99.99% uptime with Microsoft Exchange Server 2003.

Nice VPC image got together for running Microsoft Dynamics CRM Server 3.0.

You may send a message to encarta@conversagent.com and get your answer from Encarta. Via Bink.nu.

Microsoft plans to team up with Taiwan ODM handset makers and own-brand handset vendors to manufacture sub-US$300 PDA phones in a bid to help the company expand its share of the global OS (operating system) market for mobile devices, according to sources at Taiwan makers and vendors. Read More . . .

An MSDN article on how to convert ASP.NET 1.1 to ASP.NET 2.0.

List of new features of SMS 2003 R2 from SBS Support Blog.

Pretty nice guide on how to restore Default Web Site in IIS if you have deleted it because it was Default :)

Here you can find a listof Microsot SQL Server data types and their .NET eqivalents. Via Tim Huffam.

Michael Zammuto is explaining the development process at Microsoft as well as the status of Windows Workflow Foundation product development.

ASP.NET FAQ : How can I provide a default value for a password TextBox?

The 2006 FIFA World Cup Germany moved a tantalising step closer to reality after the intrigue and excitement of the Final Draw at the Messe in Leipzig tonight. The draw produced some mouthwatering match-ups, not least in Group C where African newcomers Côte d'Ivoire will play two-times winners Argentina, Serbia and Montenegro and the Netherlands in the toughest-looking section. Italy, Ghana, United States and the Czech Republic also present a formidable lineup in Group E. Read More . . .

The bodies of 110 martyrs burned in a plane crash in Southern Tehran in the afternoon of December 6, 2005 are being transferred to Shariat Razavi and Fayyaz Bakhsh hospitals. All those on board a C-130 military transport plane carrying a number of journalists, photographers and militarymen to Bandar Abbas for coverage of a military exercise in the southern Iranian port city were killed.

Thanks to Scott Cate pointing out such a nice function debuging Javascript.

You may read about the new SNARF addon for Outlook here. IMO, it should start getting patters of what you read first, what you flag most and where and from who most emails come to be able to give you a proper result. SNARF should be using Naive Bayes algorithm for clustering messages in the right way. What do you think?

Jon Galloway showing the differences between named pipes and TCP connections in SQL Server 2000.