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SoftGrid and Viridian Planning Guides

From virtualization.info, Microsoft has made available pre-release guides for planning and design for SoftGrid Application Virtualization and Windows Server Virtualization.

SharePoint; But wait, there’s more!

SharePoint sometimes is heralded as the solution to many organizational issues in unstructured data. The truth is, SharePoint can do a great number of things for your organization, even straight out of the box. As Patrick Tisseghem points out on his blog, SharePoint is often times the start of the solution to issues, but not the end.

So far, in our use, I haven't found a place where some simple .NET code, with the excellent platform that SharePoint provides, unable to solve many of the simple data and workflow issues facing small and medium companies.

Xbox Live Vista Gadget & More!

I happen to enjoy the sidebar in Windows Vista. It provides an at-a-glance look at some of the most frequently looked at items on my desktop. Here is a list of my must-have Windows Vista Sidebar gadgets.

• Xbox Friends Watch: A new silverlight based gadget showing the status of up to five of your favorite Xbox Live friends.
• Digital Dutch Clock: an update to the Vista sidebar clock with adjustable titles, date, seconds, minutes, and digital readout.
• System Center Operations Manager gadget: For SCOM 2007, this configurable sample of a gadget will give you the quick look at your infrastructure.
• Windows Live Traffic Gadget (download down now): a realtime look out the window on the traffic status for most of the major cities in the US.

Exchange 2007 Update Rollup 5

Available on October 25, Update Rollup 5 for Exchange Server 2007 is now available.

• Download Link
• List of Fixes

Windows Vista Update

Straight from Microsoft KB 941649, the Windows Vista compatibility, reliability, and stability of Windows Vista update. Install this and get a nice little jump on SP1.

This update improves the compatibility, reliability, and stability of Windows Vista. This update includes the following improvements:

• It extends the battery life for mobile devices.
• It improves the stability of portable computers and of desktop computers that use an uninterruptable power supply (UPS).
• It improves the reliability of Windows Vista when you open the menu of a startup application.
• It improves the stability of Internet Explorer when you open a Web page.
• It improves the stability of wireless network services.
• It shortens the startup time of Windows Vista by using a better timing structure.
• It shortens the recovery time after Windows Vista experiences a period of inactivity.
• It shortens the recovery time when you try to exit the Photos screen saver.
• It improves the stability of Windows PowerShell.

This update also resolves the following issues in Windows Vista:

• A compatibility issue that affects some third-party antivirus software applications.
• A reliability issue that occurs when a Windows Vista-based computer uses certain network driver configurations.

Download at the KB 941649 article.