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Quite a while back I saw that Eric Sloof had figured out how to add his Twitter feed directly into the VI Client. I thought it was clever but didn’t really give it much more thought than that.
Today I decided to take that concept and extend it to systems that you might manage alongside your VI3/vSphere environment. Storage management seemed like the obvious first choice.
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The Citrix Web Interface allows you to publish desktop applications as links on a web page. If only one link is published, such as a “Windows 7 Desktop” link, then users will have to come into the web interface and manually click on the link to launch it. It’s easy however, to update the code on the home page so that the published desktop automatically launches when the user opens the web interface. This shortcut saves users a click and some time, and makes the process more streamlined, especially if there is only one published application.
In an announcement today, World Software Corporation — makers of the Worldox document management system — shared the news that their latest release now supports Office 2010. According to my notes here, this makes them the first DMS vendor in the legal space to officially support integration with Office 2010.
There are a few caveats. At this point, only 32-bit Office 2010 is supported. No word yet on 64-bit support, but they say it’s coming. You also need to be running the latest version, Worldox GX2, and you should contact Worldox support to download the updated integration files.
I had the privilege of attending Microsoft TechEd North America 2010 last week in New Orleans, LA and wanted to share a few confirmed new features of Exchange 2010 SP1 (due out later this year but no firm ETA). The overall theme of this year’s TechEd was centered around, not surprisingly, cloud computing. Specifically, Microsoft emphasized their mature Exchange Online offering but also stressed the growth of Windows Azure (Microsoft’s hosted services platform) and hosted SQL services. The demonstrations of what Windows Azure and hosted SQL could do were extremely interesting and solidified Microsoft’s vision of being “all in” (according to keynote speaker Bob Muglia) with cloud computing.
Regarding Exchange 2010 SP1, a few of the Exchange sessions I attended had specific focus on SP1 and most of the others mentioned how different aspects of Exchange would change with SP1. I discuss a number of my favorite changes/additions associated with SP1 below but please note that there are many more new features. Please refer to the MS Exchange Team blog post on SP1 for more information.
After running into a couple issues with the iManage IDOL 8.5 SP1 release in our production environment, I was able to complete the index build using the 8.5 SP1 P1 release that was released last week. Our initial errors were found in our Content Engine logs referring to a lack of free disk space, even though we had successfully had our IDOL 8.5 (pre-SP1) index on the same volume earlier. In any case, I added some space and then recrawled using 8.5 SP1 P1. I’ve read some similar reports on user forums, so if you have a smaller volume for your IDOL indexer, just keep this in mind.
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Clients complain about the multiplicity of law firm extranets, all different but not better, and the nuisance of maintaining passwords for each one. Can a group of firms collaborate to steer development of a tool useful to all, to build the “extranet as FedEx”— a common facility that many firms and their clients can use, in the interests of both economy and convenience? Is it true that firms compete on the quality of content, not the shape of envelopes?
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In Outlook 2003, 2007, and 2010, reminder windows pop up in Outlook, but they do not steal the focus if you are working in another program. For example, if you currently working in Word or Internet Explorer, you won’t see a reminder window if one pops up, since you’re not in Outlook.
In previous versions of Windows, this wasn’t as big of a deal because you would still see the reminder window in the task bar. So even though you didn’t see the actual window, you would see the tab for it flashing on the taskbar.
In Windows 7 however, the default grouping of same-application windows, makes is much harder to see when a reminder window pops up. For example, the image below shows a second Outlook window, which is actually a reminder window.
For quite a while there has been confusion over how VMware’s Transparent Page Sharing (TPS) feature works with vSphere 4 running on Nehalem (or other modern) processors. Many people were noticing that it appeared that TPS was not actually working anymore and looked for ways to fix the problem.
In my recent post on the effects of ASLR in vSphere the comments turned into a discussion about TPS on modern processors. And there are countless posts about this issue on the VMTN forums where folks are looking for a fix. In reality nothing is broken and there is no need to fix the issue.
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In SharePoint 2007, menus in some master pages opened behind page content and Flash animations. However, there was an easy fix which was to just locate the css style for the dynamic menus, and change the “z-index” property to a high number. This same fix does not work in 2010 however, and to make matters worse, the menus on the default master page in 2010 always open behind Flash videos. (The built-in Silverlight web part in 2010 does not have this problem, but I suspect there are still many people who will have home pages with Flash content.)
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When upgrading from SharePoint 2007 to 2010, you’ll need to upgrade your master pages (if they’re customized) to take advantage of the new features in 2010, such as the ribbon. The first question is to decide if you want to keep the current master page and add all the new controls in, or to start with a new 2010 master page and customize that. We decided to start with a new master page based on the 2010 master page, v4.master, and customize that. Here’s some resources I found useful when creating the new custom master page for our site.
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