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Microsoft My Phone (Beta)

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Currently My Phone (Beta) is live (only for windows mobile v6).

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You can install an app on your Mobile Phone by going to http://myphone.microsoft.com/install.
You will then be offered to download the installation file.

After install you will get an application named “My Phone”.
You will need an live id to sign up. After filling in your credentials it start to sign in and configure your My Phone service.

After you synced, you can access your photo’s, video’s and music on your My Phone Page. You could also access your calendar, tasks and contacts if you don’t sync with an exchange server.

Keep in mind that it could be that you’re cell phone provider won’t be that happy, when you’re gonna sync 4 gig’s of music files :-)

Windows 7: RDP Platform Improvements

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Some things in RDP that will be improved in Windows 7:

  • Aero Experience
    like translucent effects, previews
  • Direct 2D & Direct 3d 10.1
  • True MultiMon Support
  • RDP Core Performance Improvements
  • Multimedia: Media Foundation
    Running Audio and Video smoothly
  • Multimedia: DirectShow
  • 40% gain in bandwidth reduction

I’ve seen a demo where they played a video (1080p), the audio was a little behind on the video (but not irritating slow), the video was really smooth and the processor load on the server was only 1%.
Want to see it for yourself? Check out this link, @ 22min. it is playing the video, and @ 23min, it plays the HD movie.

My opinion: impressive, I know some company’s who really could use it.

UCVUG live

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Yesterday a new website went live: The Unified Communications Virtual User Group.

Unified Communications will be the main focus of this user group. How to implement UC, discussions about it and sessions with external experts by use of Live Meeting and Communicator.

One thing I found really interesting to see is the demonstration of Unified Communications (OCS 2007 R2) and Exact Software.

Sharepoint 2007 & WSS ServicePack 2 release date

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According to this site, servicepack 2 for Sharepoint 2007 and WSS 3 should be available on april 28th.

Some changes / improvements:

  • An STSADM command line that scans your server farm to establish whether it is ready for upgrade to the next version of SharePoint and provides feedback and best practice recommendations on your current environment.

  • SP2 offers support for a broader range of Web browsers.

  • Substantial improvements to Forms-based authentication.

  • Windows Server 2008 SP2 and Windows Server R2 will be supported on their release.

    • Excel Services

    • SP2 makes it easier to configure Excel Web Access Web Parts on new sites.

    • Several rendering, calculation, and security issues have been resolved.

    • Some display issues have been addressed.

    • Improved compatibility with Mozilla Firefox browsers

    Outlook 2007 Hotfix package

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    I just found this one today:

    the Outlook 2007 hotfix package (Outlook.msp): February 24, 2009

    This package should fix some issue’s in outlook. One thing it is promising is that Outlook will be much more responsive (see this link, this should be in this package).

    I requested the hotfix by clicking on the link above the article. When I installed it, the first time Outlook starts it will spawn a dialog stating that it’s preparing outlook. After I restarted Outlook again, I noticed a speed increase in adding a new calendar item (something that would take a long time in my “pre-hotfix” configuration).