Ben’s Blog

Microsoft announced that "Windows SteadyState will be phased out effective December 31, 2010. Microsoft will no longer support Windows SteadyState after June 30, 2011. After June 30, 2011, support will be limited to the resources that are listed under the Related Resources section, in this article," said Microsoft in KB2390706. "Windows SteadyState helps you keep [...]

A major part of our transition at work from a Novell Netware backend to Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 involved provisioning user accounts in Active Directory and fleshing out all the individual accounts with profile paths and home directories.  Fortunately we didn’t have to create the accounts, as we had been running Novell Identity Manager [...]

There is an awesome new feature coming in Outlook 2010 call the Outlook Social Connector (a.k.a. People Pane) that allows you to view all the recent relevant status updates and emails from that person. This feature also enables third parties (i.e. Facebook, Twitter & Linkedin) to make connectors so that the view can contain information [...]

So for all those people asking …    here is the ankle x-ray post surgery. Yes, the screws are still in there… Ben.

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