Archive for August, 2009
Code 7 Competition: It’s your turn to win
30 August 2009
It’s your turn to win
We know you’ve got stellar skills – it’s about time everybody else knew it too.
Code7 is where your ingenious application meets the opportunity to get millions of eyes on your work, plus a trip to PDC09 and some serious cash and much more.
Crank it up
Show the world what you’re working with and take things up a notch when you code to the power of Windows® 7.
Take three minutes to video yourself talking about your application idea for Windows 7 and you could win big.
Best Regards
Bilal Okour
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Code to the Power of Windows 7 and win.
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Code to the Power of Windows 7 and win. The Windows 7 Team would like to officially invite you to participate in an exciting worldwide contest we’re running to recognize and reward applications for Windows 7 that:
Get in it to win it. It’s Your Turn to Win: Enter now to compete to win a trip to Los Angeles, California, USA for Professional Developers Conference 2009. Six finalists will receive $7,777 and one Grand Prize The Code 7 competition is currently open to 7 regional areas including Middl East and Africa (MEA), and our MEA team will provide the 3 finalists from MEA region with a prize of a laptop for each Enter now: Upload your video at www.code7contest.com before 10/10/09. Spread the Word Start announcements in your communities: Attached is the flyer, web banner where you can start communicating the competition to your developer audience via blogs, newsletter, social media, etc. We look forward to seeing the innovation in your application! Technorati Tags: Windows 7 code Contest
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Upgrading my old Macbook
30 August 2009
Last night I replaced the screen (old one was cracked) with a new one from etech parts. It may just be because it is clean, but it looks a lot clearer and brighter than the old one. Since it is lit with a fluorescent, the new screen likely IS brighter. Unfortunately, the power connector for the backlight is hidden deep within the hinge so I had to remove the whole top cover and then put everything back together again - with no leftover screws.
With that done and Apple’s new Snow Leopard OS X 10.6 just out, I installed upgraded it too. Went flawlessly, except that I needed to re-enter my wireless network key. I haven’t checked all my apps yet, but I did hook up Mail to the corporate Exchange server - just a couple of clicks and it seems to work. Best $29 I ever spent on an OS.
The final thing is to get a new battery. It is showing “replace soon” as the status and it runs low very quickly. Still, it has been about three years so I can’t complain too much.
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Friday humor – partners passionate view on Windows 7
29 August 2009This video came out left field and landed in our video bank! OK Australia and New Zealand I realise that it is Saturday already with you. Find out why Windows 7 is important for customers from this partners point of view.
On a personal note I have been using it (the 64 bit version) from the M3 build (pre beta) and would not go back.
See http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-7/
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Announcing the release of the August 2009 Cumulative Update
29 August 2009
Christophe tells me….
We are happy to the announce the release of the August 2009 Cumulative Update (August CU). Cumulative Update (CU) are scheduled every two months, so the next releases will be at the end of October, December, etc. Please note that the August CU does not contain all the fixes from Service Pack 2 (SP2) which was released on 4/48 (more SP2 info here) so you need to install both SP2 and August CU to have all the latest updates (in either order).
See the following for the full article http://blogs.msdn.com/chrisfie/archive/2009/08/27/announcing-the-release-of-the-microsoft-project-and-project-server-2007-august-cumulative-update.aspx
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The making of the water slide video – social media resources for partners
29 August 2009For those who enjoyed the waterslide video, and millions have, I thought you would enjoy some more detail , but before that , hey lets see it one more time.
The background for this investment was how to engage the German student population and raise awareness in the value that Microsoft Project could bring to your everyday project management. http://www.mach-es-machbar.de/english/index.php5
As part of this, planning was conducted using a well known planning tool, see this link for more details http://www.mach-es-machbar.de/english/das-projekt-megawoosh.php5
For partners who are interested in running their own social media marketing see this great content on the Microsoft Partner Portal https://partner.microsoft.com/global/40073318
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Thank you to Dynamics SL for sponsoring the Project Conference
29 August 2009Thank you to the home crew Microsoft Dynamics SL, pulling the Microsoft ERP to Project Server integration story spotlight onto themselves for the Project Conference. Thank you for your sponsorship.
http://www.microsoft.com/dynamics/sl
Microsoft Dynamics® SL is a business-management solution specialized to help project-driven midsize organizations obtain reports and business analysis, while helping increase efficiency, accuracy, and customer satisfaction. By enabling you to automate and streamline projects across company divisions and locations, Microsoft Dynamics SL helps you manage people, projects, and profitability. With powerful Microsoft Dynamics SL solutions for professional services, operations, field services, and construction management, you can be confident that projects are estimated correctly, completed on time, and meet your customer’s requirements.
With Microsoft Dynamics SL and Microsoft Project Server Project Management and Accounting, you can empower your organization’s professional project managers with a flexible, integrated solution tailored to unique business needs. From managing proposal writing to smoothly launching new project and tracking their progress to analyzing opportunity and assessing results, Project Management and Accounting helps keep projects on track and your business thriving
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August CU Released in August
29 August 2009Indeed, we are actually in the month of the August and the August 2009 CU packages for Office, SharePoint and Project Server are already available and the Project and Project Server packages contain…
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Hacking Project Server: Retrieving the Project Server database names using Reflection
29 August 2009Recently, someone in the Project Developer newsgroup (microsoft.public.project.developer) asked how to go about retrieving the names of the Project Server 2007 databases through code. Unfortunately,…
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Project Professional Crashes on connection to Project Server
29 August 2009<Sauvignon Blanc Semillon>
Several weeks ago a customer of mine was getting a fatal error with Project Professional 2007 when connecting to the server. This was only happening on a single machine, and the usual re-installs/repairs didn’t fix a thing. It so happened that the security settings where set to Very High (tools|macro|security), and resetting this to Medium resolved the problem.
Thanks to Corrine – you know who you are – several hours well spent troubleshooting 
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