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Installing Forefront TMG / ISA 2006 on SBS 2008 / EBS 2008

Aug 24th

Posted by Jibran Jamshad in Windows

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Last week much of my time was spent in working out a riddle where we proposed a customer Forefront TMG as a solution for having an Internet gateway, This work used to be pretty much done by ISA 2006 as well, now Forefront TMG 2010 being its successor offer more and variety of features and options, however this post is not intended on comparing the two products. This environment just had to be developed for around 8 people office so it really doesn’t matter either we should go with ISA or TMG. The point was making them save cost and More >

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Download Free Windows Server 2008 R2 e-book

Aug 20th

Posted by Jibran Jamshad in Windows

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Microsoft has offered free Windows Server 2008 R2 e-book available to download from http://www.microsoft.com/learning/en/us/training/windowsserver.aspx you just need to sign-in and grab e-book which covers the following chapters:

Chapter 1 What’s New in Windows Server R2 Chapter 2 Installation and Configuration: Adding R2 to Your World Chapter 3 Hyper-V: Scaling and Migrating Virtual Machines Chapter 4 Remote Desktop Services and VDI: Centralizing Desktop and Application Management Chapter 5 Active Directory: Improving and Automating Identity and Access Chapter 6 The File Services Role Chapter 7 IIS 7.5: Improving the Web Application Platform Chapter 8 DirectAccess and Network Policy Server Chapter 9 Other Features and More >

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Internet Explorer 9 Beta

Aug 3rd

Posted by Nadeem Ahmed in 0thers

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IE9

Internet explorer 9 is expected to be released sometime in September (beta version). Better performance and improved Acid3 test scores are expected.

Microsoft has been delivering developer preview versions of IE9 every eight weeks since the product was announced at MIX10 in March. The product enables developers to use the same CSS, HTML and other web technologies to take advantage of PC hardware. The most recent preview added support for W3C standards including HTML5 <audio>, <video> and <canvas> elements, the Web Open Font Format (WOFF) and many other new and improved capabilities.

The preview has been downloaded by 2 million users and More >

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Windows 7, SharePoint Server 2010 Prerequisites

Jul 2nd

Posted by Jibran Jamshad in MS Office - SharePoint

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Please make sure that you’re running Window 7 Professional or higher and its a 64-bit version

Firstly you need to implement steps given in the following article: http://geekdeck.com/windows-7-x64-sharepoint-2010-error-this-product-requires-windows-server-2008-x64/

Once you have modified the config file, you need to take care of the following and ensure that they should be installed as there are many times when clicking the Install Software Prerequisites option doesn’t work on Windows 7 hence you manually need to take care of the following steps:

  • Microsoft FilterPack 2.0 Beta. (you will find this in your SharePoint setup folder): 
    SetupFolder\PrerequisiteInstallerFiles\FilterPack\FilterPack.msi
  • Microsoft Sync Framework
  • SQL Server Native Client
  • Windows Identity Foundation (Windows6.1-KB974405-x64.msu)
  • Chart Controls
  • SQL Server Analysis More >
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    Windows 7 x64, Sharepoint 2010 error, this product requires Windows Server 2008 (x64)

    Jul 2nd

    Posted by Jibran Jamshad in MS Office - SharePoint

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    Setup in unable to proceed due to the following error(s): This product requires Windows Server 2008 (x64). Correct the issue(s) listed above and re-run setup.

    If you are trying to install SharePoint 2010 on Windows 7 (x64, 64-bit). You might come across this error. Actually this is not an error this is a bug!.

    Fix:

        • Go to the SahrePoint 2010 Setup folder
        • Open config.xml
        • Add the following line before the closing </configuration> tag
    <Setting Id="AllowWindowsClientInstall" Value="True"/>

    Now you’ve modified the config file, you will not see the above error.

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    Dell Studio one 19 Touch Driver

    Jul 1st

    Posted by Jibran Jamshad in 0thers

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    A few days back we happened to purchase Dell Studio one 19 Multi-Touch machines. These machines were by default coming in with Windows 7 Home Premium edition with all the drivers installed. Later we installed Windows 7 Ultimate, automatically all the drivers were picked up but the Touch Driver remain missing finding it out also became a bit difficult on the DELL website as over there this desktop model is not present by its market name. Following steps will take you through downloading this Touch driver.

    1) http://support.dell.com/support/downloads/index.aspx

    2) Click on Choose a Model

    3) Select Desktops

    4) Then Select Studio Desktops from the More >

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    The Story of Touch – As I Touch

    Jun 4th

    Posted by Jibran Jamshad in Apple

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    It’s been no long when touch devices were not very popular and this reality was a dream few years back. Although it’s not like that we didn’t had touch devices and programs providing the touch capability but it was something which was not for everyone.

    Putting the case simple, did every information worker, dentist, student etc had a PC on their desk in 1980’s? No, because it was something which was at that point was restricted to large organizations and IT guys. Because it was not that much personalized, friendly, affordable. Bill Gates came out with a vision that every More >

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    Multi Touch – Top Usage Scenarios Identified

    Jun 2nd

    Posted by Jibran Jamshad in Visual Studio - Team System

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    According to a recent research by Microsoft the following have been identified as Top Customer scenarios for Multi Touch technology:

    Web Browsing: Browsing web pages, Zooming in on  parts of the web page, Snipping sections of web page to paste elsewhere.

    Photos: Flicking through photos in an album, Spreading photos out like you would do on a table, Zooming in and out/ Resizing, Simple editing

    Media: Scrolling through playlists and other Media

    Email & Calendar: Triaging email, dragging and dropping, Moving appointments, Handwriting an email with a stylus, Signing name =more personalized

    Casual Games: Simple games like chess and solitaire that don’t require multiple controllers, children’s learning More >

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    Laptop – Windows 7 recovery from recovery partition without recovery tool

    Jun 2nd

    Posted by Jibran Jamshad in Windows

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    A few days back I came across a scenario where i had to recover my original OS from the Recovery Partition present on my hard disk but i had no recovery tool installed.

    I just followed these basic steps and was able to recover my Windows 7 to the factory condition.

    Step 1: Right-click “My Computer” and click “Manage” Step 2: Go to “Disk Management” Step 3: Right-click the “Drive D / Recovery Partition” and click “Mark Partition as Active” Step 4: Reboot, and press F11(Recovery Hotkey for HP, might be different for yours) as it starts up

    Your OS (Windows XP, Windows More >

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    Multi Touch Gestures Supported in Windows 7

    May 27th

    Posted by Jibran Jamshad in Windows

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    Windows 7 Multi Touch Gestures supports multiple One and Two finger actions these are pre-defined in the Platform and are On by default in Windows 7. So its not only about touching the screen but you need to choose the way in which a user touches the screen while interacting with your application. Check out below the Gestures supported in Windows 7 Multi Touch !

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