November 2011 - Posts

Change Password vs. Reset Password-Week 42 by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

You can find this week’s video here . The differences between change password and reset password are not well known. This week's video walks through the differences and shows them in action. Tune in to find out more about password management. It wasn...
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Great SEO article by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

I ran across a great SEO article via Twitter, the link is here http://www.seomoz.org/blog/what-every-seo-should-know-about-iis There was a comment I wanted to add a few ideas, I tried to format the comment, however it didn’t format to cleanly so I thought...

Calling All UK Developers: FREE Six Weeks of Windows Azure Program Kicks Off January 23, 2012 by Windows Azure

Microsoft UK Windows Azure Evangelists Eric Nelson and David Gristwood are pulling together what promises to be a great way for UK companies to really dig deep into Windows Azure . Starting January 23, 2012 they will offer Six Weeks of Windows Azure Read...
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The SQL Server ODBC Driver for Linux is Available! by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

The first beta release of the SQL Server ODBC Driver for Linux is available for download! As announced in October , the “Multiplatform Team” (a.k.a. the “MPlat Team”) has released a preview version of a driver that will provide...
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New Bundling and Minification Support (ASP.NET 4.5 Series) by ScottGu's Blog

This is the sixth in a series of blog posts I'm doing on ASP.NET 4.5. The next release of .NET and Visual Studio include a ton of great new features and capabilities.  With ASP.NET 4.5 you'll see a bunch of really nice improvements with both...
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Guide to Freeing up Disk Space under Windows 7 by Scott Hanselman

This is an " updated for Windows 7 " version of my popular original article Guide to Freeing up Disk Space under Windows Vista . I've got a 256 gig C: drive, but noticed that in the last week or so I'd had only 20 gigs free. Not cool...
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How to change the location of your iPhone backup and iTunes MobileSync Backup folder by Scott Hanselman

My C:\Users\Scott\AppData\Roaming\Apple Computer\MobileSync was almost 25 gigs and on a 256 gig hard drive, that's 10% and that's tight. I wanted to move it but there's no officially support way. Here's a way. It's totally not supported...
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Reducing JavaScript Code Using jsRender Templates in HTML5 Applications by Dan Wahlin's WebLog

Back in November of 2010 I wrote a post titled Reducing Code using jQuery Templates that demonstrated how jQuery Templates could be used to reduce significant amounts of JavaScript code. Although the topics and code discussed in that post are still valid...
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URL Rewrite city.domain.com to domain.com/city by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

An IIS 7.x URL Rewrite question that comes up often is how to redirect something.domain.com to domain.com/city. Here’s an example URL Rewrite rule to accomplish that: < rule name ="CName to URL" stopProcessing ="true" > <...
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The Rock Paper Azure Challenge is Back by Windows Azure

Do you remember how to play the childhood game, Rock, Paper, Scissors? Are you a Windows Azure developer in the US? If so, then be sure to take the Rock, Paper, Azure Challenge for your chance at prizes and bragging rights. In this online game, based...
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​New Webcast Series Explores SQL Azure Data Sync by Windows Azure

A new series of webcasts about SQL Azure Data Sync are now available on Channel 9 . These webcasts provide in-depth coverage and detailed demos of service capabilities and enterprise-to-cloud and cloud-to-cloud scenarios. Three webcasts are currently...
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Windows Azure Storage: A Highly Available Cloud Storage Service with Strong Consistency by Windows Azure

We recently published a paper describing the internal details of Windows Azure Storage at the 23 rd ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP) . The paper can be found here . The conference also posted a video of the talk here . The slides are...
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Imagine Cup 2012 Challenges Students to Change the World with Windows Azure by Windows Azure

Microsoft created the Imagine Cup 10 years ago with the idea that students can and will change the world. This worldwide competition brings together the best and brightest technology students from more than 100 countries to apply their creativity and...
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Line Numbering in Notepad-Week 41 by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

You can find this week’s video here . Notepad is so simple, yet so useful. Yet, at times the "Go To" appears to break and doesn't work as expected. This week's video is short and sweet. Learn about line numbering in notepad. One of my...
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The Importance of the File Format for Adaptive Streaming by The Official Microsoft IIS Site

When it comes to adaptive bit rate streaming over HTTP, file format really does matter. The Fragmented MP4 (fMP4) file format, first used by Microsoft, is the basis of IIS Smooth Streaming, Adobe HTTP Dynamic Streaming, and two industry streaming standards...
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