I’m a big fan of Windows Media Center from Microsoft, below I will share my story on how my media center has been configured. I have spent the last couple of months on tuning my media center, so it could be the center of entertainment and TV in the family, as well as reasonable WAF-accepted.
Finally some news from Microsoft about the TechEd Europe. It appears that the expected TechEd in november has been postponed and move back to the summer timeframe. Which means that the next European TechEd will be in June 2012. The date will be June 25-29 and the location is back in Amsterdam. More info on http://www.microsoft.com/europe/teched/default.aspx If you don’t want to miss TechEd this year, Microsoft offers a discount of 200$ on the TechEd US …
A few weeks ago I got interviewed by RunAsRadio, who delivers weekly IT Pro podcasts. The topic for my interview was Federation in Exchange 2010. Information workers frequently need to collaborate with external recipients, vendors, partners, and customers and share their free/busy (also known as calendar availability) and contact information. While federation has been around for a while in Exchange, the 2010 goes into a web services model that allows simple, limited visibility for other …
The Planning Tool for Lync Server 2010 has finally been released, in a final version from Microsoft. The tool provides prescriptive guidance to help you plan and deploy Lync Server 2010. With all the functionality that Lync Server 2010 has to offer, it can be challenging to determine which server roles you need to deploy, what ports to set, what certificates you need, your firewall settings and DNS settings, and planning for mediation servers and …
Awesome release from the IIS team. Now it is possible to do some scripting and automating IIS and web site/app configurations with the Web Platform Installer (WebPI). A command line interface for the WebPI has been released. For everyone who does not know the Microsoft Web Platform Installer 3.0 (Web PI) it is a free tool that makes getting the latest components of the Microsoft Web Platform, including Internet Information Services (IIS), SQL Server Express, …