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Microsoft® My Phone

nimdasis — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 20:21:27 +0000

Back up phone information to a password-protected web site Microsoft My Phone syncs information on your mobile phone to a storage space on a web site hosted by Microsoft. If your phone is lost or stolen, or if you upgrade to a new phone, you can easily restore the contacts, calendar appointments, photos, and other information that you stored on My Phone to a compatible new or replacement phone. Most phones that run the Windows Mobile 6 operating system are compatible with My Phone service.
Access and update your contacts and appointments on the web Microsoft My Phone enables you to view and manage phone information by using a web browser. In your web account, you can add, edit, and delete contacts and calendar appointments, and the changes will appear on your phone the next time that you sync.
Share photos with friends and family Microsoft My Phone makes it easy to view photos on your computer that were taken with your camera phone. From your web account, you can save photos to your computer or can e-mail them to family and friends.

How much does the Microsoft My Phone service cost? Microsoft does not charge a fee for the My Phone service at this time. But the data plan you have with your mobile operator may require you to pay data-transfer charges when you use the service. If you are unsure of your plan coverage, please contact your mobile operator.
What information can I back up on Microsoft My Phone? The first time that you run the My Phone application on your mobile phone, you will be asked to accept or change the recommended settings. Recommended settings will synchronize contacts, calendar appointments, tasks, photos, videos, text messages, music, and documents between your phone and your My Phone web account. However:
- If you have an active connection with Microsoft Exchange server (which is frequently used for corporate e-mail), My Phone will not synchronize your contacts, calendar appointments, or tasks.
- If you have Windows Live installed on your phone, it will synchronize your Windows Live contacts with the Windows Live web site, and My Phone will synchronize your other contacts to your account on the My Phone web site.
- If you have an external memory card and selected My Phone’s recommended settings, information on the external memory card will not be synchronized.
- If you store contacts on the SIM card provided by your mobile operator, My Phone will not synchronize these contacts.
- If you have any documents stored outside the My Documents folder on your phone, My Phone will not synchronize these documents.
How much data can I back up? Your Microsoft My Phone account gives you 200 MB of free storage on the Microsoft My Phone web site. If a synchronization would result in exceeding this limit, you will receive an error message on your phone and your account on the My Phone web site will only include information received prior to reaching this limit. Any files in excess of this limit will not be saved.
Does Microsoft My Phone back up my phone information automatically? If you accept the recommended settings, Microsoft My Phone will automatically synchronize information between your mobile phone and your Microsoft My Phone web account once per day between 11:00 P.M. and 5:00 A.M., except when your phone cannot connect to your default data network – for example, when your phone is turned off, out of range, or roaming. You can also back up your data manually at any time by selecting Sync in the Microsoft My Phone application on your phone.
Will Microsoft My Phone work on my mobile phone? Currently, Microsoft My Phone works only on phones that run the Windows Mobile 6+ operating system. This includes phones from many different manufacturers and mobile operators. To check which version of Windows Mobile your phone is using, click Start > Settings > About on your phone.
What if I’ve already lost my mobile phone? If you lost your mobile phone before you began using the Microsoft My Phone service (for instance, if you installed the software but did not perform a sync operation), you cannot use Microsoft My Phone to restore the information that you lost. But if you used My Phone on your old mobile phone, download and install Microsoft My Phone on your new mobile phone and sign in to the Microsoft My Phone application on your phone using the same Windows Live ID that you previously used. Then, by synchronizing manually or waiting for the next automatic synchronization, all information that you

Source http://www.microsoft.com/windowsmobile/myphone/moreinfo.aspx

The top 10 free VMware tools of 2008

nimdasis — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 22:07:59 +0000

IT budgeting is a pain point for IT administrators. But given today’s global economic crisis, reduced IT budgets and staffing cutbacks, it’s worth considering free virtualization management tools that can do the job almost as well as more expensive commercial applications.

Free E-book about Windows Server 2008 Core

nimdasis — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 21:47:03 +0000

You can download via this link https://profile.microsoft.com/RegSysProfileCenter/wizard.aspx?wizid=64e768bd-626b-4846-ad76-1e73aff52a60&lcid=1033 the free E-book about Windows Server 2008 Core “Administrators Guide”.

Just sign in with your liveID en enjoy

An introduction to scripting VI using Perl or Powershell

nimdasis — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 07:27:31 +0000

David Deeths posted a blog on VMware Communities with the VMworld labs of Perl and scripting.

Hello, my name is David Deeths and I’m a new contributor to the VMware Developer Blog. I wanted to share with the community the scripting lab we put together for VMworld 2008. This is a great introduction to scripting with the VI Toolkits in Perl or PowerShell. The PowerShell version doesn’t require any programming or scripting experience at all.

The labs will help you get started with scripting VMware Infrastructure to enable automation, extensibility, and integration with existing tools. When we ran this at VMworld, we had about 600 attendees and it was so popular some students camped out in line to attend the lab a second time. We had so many folks request a way to share this with their teams that we decided to publish the whole thing for the community.

The lab is available in two versions: one shows how to use the VI Perl Toolkit and the other shows how to use the PowerShell-based VI Toolkit (for Windows). The attached files contain the manuals for both versions of the lab and the exercises for both versions of the lab.

The lab takes 2-3 hours to complete (not including the time to set the environment up first), but is conveniently split into 20 minute exercises. You’ll walk away with a better understanding of VMware Infrastructure, resources for using the toolkits, and a variety of useful scripts for performing common administrative tasks. The exercises cover triggering tasks, examining VM attributes, performing actions on VMs, and exporting performance data.

My team for the lab was phenomenal, and I want to thank Doug Baer, Shridhar Deuskar, Lisa Guinn, Terry Lyons, Aaron Miller, Alket Memushaj, Owen Thomas, Brian Watrous, and Alton Yu for building this exceptional lab.

If you don’t have gear to try this out on or if you want more lab opportunities, a similar lab is in the works for VMworld EMEA (Cannes, February 24-26). For Technology Exchange (Orlando, April 14-17), we’re looking into doing a lab focused more on professional-developers that covers the VI SDK using Java and C#.

Continue at source: http://communities.vmware.com/blogs/DeveloperCenter/2009/01/14/an-introduction-to-scripting-vi-using-perl-or-powershell

Exchange 14 Video

nimdasis — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 10:50:46 +0000

We’ve been hard at work on Exchange 14 (E14) for a few years now, and although we’ve shared a lot of details and code with customers on our TAP & Live@edu programs, we haven’t been too chatty publicly. That’s going to be changing over the coming months, starting with this first introductory video[1] with myself and Jim Lucey, the product manager for Exchange Labs, to talk a little bit about some of the work we’ve been doing.

One of the biggest things that’s different in E14 is that we started from day 1 two years ago with the goal of building a product on a single codebase that could be deployed in the way Exchange has been for over a decade in on-premise environments, as well as also be deployed in a service environment and scale to (eventually) hundreds of millions of users.

Putty Connection Manager

nimdasis — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 20:00:27 +0000

I think PuTTY is one of the best open-source utilities, hardly any day goes by without me using this terminal. The only thing I miss is that you can have one PuTTY session per window – Of course, you can always right-click in the top window which gives you the option to open another PuTTY terminal.

A while ago I read about PuTTY Connection Manager, this is the solution when you manage more than one putty session in a window. PuTTY Connection Manager is still in alpha but is working pretty stable. You have to create a database when you can store all your sessions and open the PuTTY or telnet session in tabs.

When you run Windows as normal user, you have to change NTFS security for your account so it has change rights on the folder “C:\Program Files\PuTTY Connection Manager” and you can store the PuTTY Connection Manager database.

Link http://puttycm.free.fr

Advanced Event Viewer

nimdasis — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 08:01:12 +0000

Advanced Event Viewer allows you to view all the Event logs of all your servers in a single view. The program is easy to install and easy to use. It works without agents or database server making it the ultimate event viewer for your network.

http://www.advancedeventviewer.com/

Happy New Year

nimdasis — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 15:15:22 +0000

A happy 2009, may it be joyous and prosperous!

Default Passwords

nimdasis — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 21:44:12 +0000

Last night I visited a friend to help him secure his wireless router. The admin account of this router had a password but my friend did not remember it. A reset to factory defaults fixed the issue. I did not feel like downloading the usermanual of 9 MB, instead I visited the following sites:

From above mentioned sites I coud find the admin password for this perticular router. Once before these sites helped to log into a NashuaTec printer/copier.

Merry Christmans

nimdasis — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 20:58:53 +0000

A merry Crhistmas to everyone, I hope you enjoy your holidays. Take care and all the best.