One of the little known facts about MSE is that it can be used as an antivirus solution on Windows 2008 R2 Server. I use Windows 2008 R2 Datacenter as my workstation OS and I have been looking around for a good antivirus solution to be used with my OS and tried out many of the free antivirus softwares and none of them would even get installed on the ......

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It’s been more than a month since SharePoint 2010 RTMed. And a lot of people have downloaded and set up their very own SharePoint 2010 development rigs. And quite a few people have written blogs about setting up good development environments, there is even an MSDN article on it. Two of the blogs worth noting are from MVPs Sahil Malik and Wictor Wilén. ......

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For those who are familiar with the VirtualPC, vmWare and VirtualBox environments will be quite irritated to find out, in Hyper-V, there is no direct way to share files from the Host machine to the Virtualized guest environment. This is a good thing from a CIO perspective because there’s excellent isolation for the virtualized environments this way, ......

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If you want to run a 64 bit virtual machine on a 32 bit host you have two options 1. VMWare Server (or a Workstation version that supports 64bit guests) 2. Sun Virtual box Though 64 bit guests on 32 bit hosts is possible, it requires that you are running x64 (not ia64) hardware. All the new Intel processors are 64 bit compatible (if you have T5200/T550 ......

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If you get the following error, while running the SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard: Internet Information Services is not installed. You must have Internet Information Services installed in order to use the SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard In order to resolve this, Open Server Manager, go to Roles and ......

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When you try to install MOSS 2007 on Windows 2008 R2, if you are using an installation media that is older than SP2, you would get the following error, saying that “This program is blocked due to compatibility issues” All is not lost though, all you need to do is to slip stream the SP2 updates to the MOSS 2007 Setup. Here’s a nice how to on how to do ......

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December 2009 Cumulative Updates are available for download for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0. Cumulative Updates will now always be available at the Update Center For additional download information and detailed descriptions of the December 2009 Cumulative Update visit the Updates Resource Center for SharePoint ......

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When we started WCFing in my current project, the first challenge that we had was to get the WCF Services to impersonate the callers, I had burned a lot of mid night oil trying to figure out the right configuration that would make this happen. Till that time I had not gone through the WCF Security Guidance on CodePlex. The Guidance turned out to be ......

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Two three days back I was searching for some information on the net, and I came across Tim Huffman's blog on GWB. I have been planning to start my technology blog for quite some time now, and after seeing Tim's blog I did not have any doubt as to where to host my blog! And yes.. after creating this post, I don't have any doubt as to why this site is ......

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