Visual Studio Uninstallation tool

The VS Beta and CTP uninstall tool has been updated and is now available at:

http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=47598

Please make sure you run this before installing any future version of Visual Studio 2005 (including the released version). Hopefully this works with only 2005 Previous versions.

First Post from Mail

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Adding Leading zeros - TSQL

The way to add 0 (zeros) to the left hand side of your number in T-SQL by

replace(space(2-len(co_num))+rtrim(convert(char(2), co_num)),' ','0') ,

where co_num is numeric data type

An evening with Andrew Lees

It is really a great evening with Andrew Lees. The fun part of this evening is, I never realized that I don’t have an invitation for this session till I reached the registration desk. Registration desk validated my credentials and confirmed me that I don’t have an invitation, but they let me in after taking my credentials.

By the time I went in Lee just started his session. I found my self in a place comfortably and started understanding what Lee is presenting. The entire presentation is about Microsoft products and the road map for the next 2 years.

It is good know a little deeper about that from the people who make decisions.Few highlights from the presentation are…

1) Security Vulnerabilities in Database as well as WebServer when compared to others

The table for the database vulnerabilities are ...

For Windows Server 2003 and SQL Server
High - 27
Other - 36

For RedHat and MySql are
High - 41
Other - 75

For RedHat and Oracle are
High - 73 (Unbreakable ?)
Other - 134

If these details are for database, it is interesting to note that the server system has much more facts to astonish …

The table for the Web Server Role vulnerabilities are ...

For Windows Server 2003
High - 33
Other - 19

For RedHat - Minimum
High - 48
Other - 84

For RedHat - Default
High - 77
Other - 97

Apart of these, “Windows costs 13-14% less to patch”… is the comment by lead companies in the industry. That doesn’t sound great?

3 More New divisions

3 More (New) divisions in Microsoft

According to Steve Ballmer, on 20th Sep 2005, Microsoft introduced 3 new Business groups are introduced for the better performance and speed of execution. The three new business units are titled as…

1) Microsoft Platform Products & Services Division
2) Microsoft Business Division
3) Microsoft Entertainment & Devices Division

To read more about what these divisions do, click here

Anyhow, that’s a good sign to learn that Microsoft is growing.

Posting from Word

This is the post from MS Word. How simple is this… did you ever tried this?

I did for the first time, how is this?

Tweak Vista website

The titles is weird for me... but this site is really cool for the tips on Windows Vista.

Read couple of tips, seems there is a loop whole in Microsoft.

What do you say?

ASP.NET Architecture

Hi,

I found a good article on ASP.NET Architecture. Click here to open that article.

The way the article goes, is really damn intresting.

Thanks to Rick Strahl, it is a good work

Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer

Today, accedentally got to know about this tool... damn cool tool to scan your system towards all kinds of security. I liked the way of presenting the results for the security misconfigurations.

This report not only tells me about what is not configured properly, and also about "how to correct" and "where to find the respective downloads".

You don't believe if i mention that, i spent hrs to find some download on download.microsoft.com. This tool is cool for me to scan all the computers in our office, simply sitting from a single location.

Did you try this? Click here to download and try on your location.

I suggest you try this...

Malicious Software Removal Tool from Microsoft

Did you tried this tool? This tool as the name says, removes any kind of Malicious softwares from your PC. I couldn't trusted that in the begin, then when i run that tool online, then i got to know how many programs are running on my PC with out my notice.

I recomend every one to use this. You can download this from Mircrosoft website.

Do it now...

4th UG Meet

It's great to conduct the 4th UG Meet with out any hurdle(s). An apprication from the group moderator is posted at the group.

BTW did you see that? Click here to read that.

And here to visit the group

Focus IT Therapy for Best Effects

Before i read this article, i'm confused with the title.

But after reading, i felt that the title for the article makes sense.

BTW did you read that?

Microsoft ISV Community Days - Visual Studio 2005, SQL Server 2005

Today, i got a mail on the Microsoft ISV Community Days - Visual Studio 2005, SQL Server 2005.

There is going to be an event at Le Meridien, 28 Sankey Road, on 20th Sep 2005. If you want to be there, register yourself by calling 2521 9852 / 53 or writing a mail to isvms@erfolgcs.com

I'll be there... are you?

Windows Server System Reference Architecture (WSSRA)

Though this article is published on March 31, 2005, is a good article that every IT Professional should read and have a back. A short description about this is quoted as...

"Windows Server System™ Reference Architecture (WSSRA) is a documentation set that helps organizations design and deploy Microsoft® technologies to create the most integrated, standardized, and optimized Windows Server System platform..."

So, it is a must read for every ITPro

Did you read this?

Home Computer 2004

Do you belive that this image could be of a Home computer?

This is an image taken 50yrs ago

How is this?

Windows Server 2003 R2

The test version of Windows Server 2003 R2, supports both 64-bit and x86 systems. This also bundles with the improved interoperability with Unix

To learn more about that, click here