I was experiencing the joys of IE7 tonight (multiple 404 errors trying to enter Passport sites after XP SP2 resumes from Standby Mode) and decided to give up and reboot.  After the reboot I hit to Ctrl-Alt-Delete and launched the Task Manager to watch the show. So as I sit patiently watching, my 1.5 GB of [...]

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Microsoft has released 15 ‘Step-by-Step Guides for IT Professionals‘ to assist in deploying or migrating to Windows Vista.  Each whitepaper is available as an individual download in Microsoft Word 2003 .doc format, and WGA is not required to access the downloads. Date Published: 9/11/2006 Document Format:  Microsoft Word Download Size: 118 – 748 KB, or [...]

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Question:  What do you do when Vista RC2 (2.5 GB) is taking over 10 hours to download? Answer: Download the ISO from an international server instead of a USA server and be done in about 90 minutes. Log in to your https://connect.microsoft.com/ account Navigate to the desired ISO and click on the download link When the Microsoft File [...]

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Has a customer ever asked you if CRM 1.2 will run on SBS 2003 R2?  What about Small Business Accounting 2006 on a pre-SP1 SBS box?  Is Vista RC 1 supported in an SBS environment, or is Office 97 supported by WSUS? The answers to these and many other SBS-related questions can be found on [...]

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Today I got my first email with an Office 2007 Word .docx attachment, and since I’m still running Office 2003 on my desktop PC at the office, I couldn’t open it.  So now I have to e-mail Andrew back and ask him to re-save the file in Office 2003 format, right?  Wrong. Title:  Microsoft Office [...]

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The release of the Beta 2 Technical Refresh for the 2007 Microsoft Office system is available. File Name:  office2007b2tr-kb000000-fullfile-en-us.exe Version:  1 Date Published:  9/6/2006 Language:  English Download Size:  494.7 MB  Download URL:  http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=b07a3387-01cf-4bc3-821a-0bb10e7a59fa&DisplayLang=en Microsoft has developed a Technical Refresh with modifications such as improved performance, better product integration, improved collaboration tools as well as general [...]

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