Kent J. Chen's WebLog

• Week in Microsoft: Windows 7 SP1 and Windows Live 4.0 rumors [via ars technica]
  what happened this week in Microsoft, here are a list of them, Windows 7, Windows Live Wave 4, Microsoft Office Accounting, Patch Tuesday, Job Cuts, and Microsoft Business Productivity Online Suite.
• Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Administrator’s Pocket Consultant book [via Microsoft Press]
  the book is designed to be a concise and compulsively usable resource for Exchange Server 2010 administrators. This is the readable resource guide that you’ll want on your desk at all times. The book covers everything you need to perform

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• Neowin’s top 5 Windows 7 Features [via Neowin]
  no surprise here, they are Libraries, Aero Peek, Jumplists, Superbar, and Aero Snap, listed in descend order.
• What if you never backed up your exchange server again? [via TheEmailADMIN]
  introduced an new killer High Availability feature in Exchange Server 2010, called the Database Availability Group (DAG).
• 7 perfect legal ways to get Windows 7 cheap [via ZDNet by Ed Bott]
• 7 VPN services to anonymize your P2P/Torrent Traffic [via How To Hide Your IP]
  a good list of services for those who often use VPN for their P2P downloading.

Quote shared by CopyBlogger, about the relationship between any content creator and the people they hope to connect with:

When talented people write badly it’s generally for one of two reasons:

Either they’re blinded by an idea they feel compelled to prove or they’re driven by an emotion they must express.

When talented people write well, it is generally for this reason:

They’re moved by a desire to touch the audience.

~Robert McKee

Good touch.

According to Twitter Blog:

We’ve just activated a feature called retweet on a very small percentage of accounts in order to see how it works in the wild. Retweet is a button that makes forwarding a particularly interesting tweet to all your followers very easy.

Yes, finally Twitter decided to roll out this long-waited feature, a feature that should have been around since day 1. I am just fortunate that one of my twitter account @windows7hacker was selected as one of these beta tester, so I was able to see what this feature looks like and…

Will be posting more short posts like this later on to collect some of the good stuff I read online.

• Windows 7 sales exceed Vista sales by 234% [via Window 7 Team Blog]
• Announcing the launch of Remote Desktop Services Script Center to ease management [via Remote Desktop Services (Terminal Services) Team blog]

• Top 10 reasons to use Windows Home Server in your SOHO [via Windows Home Server Blog]
• William Stanek: Windows 7: Inside Track, Part 5 “Migrations with Windows Easy Transfer” [via Microsoft Press]

Finally, it’s done. Being a long time fan of this glorious game, I have no doubt that this will be one of those movies that I am sure I won’t miss. Not sure if there will be episode II, III, or more but let’s just see how it goes this one first.

It was back to 1990 or 1991 when I first played this game on a computer that doesn’t even have Windows. Yes, the very first version of Price of Persia is on MS-Dos. I still remember it was a timer set to only 90 minutes…

Twitter ditched TinyURL for bit.ly as its default URL shortening provider a few months back, which basically put TinyURL to a very difficult position to survive and throw tr.im out of the business. I had been wondering why Twitter made the change because all in all, it’s just a service that shortens the URL and redirect them to the right place. Why does it all matter? I just didn’t quite understand up until now after I have been using it quite extensively for a while.

It’s not like bit.ly has a shorter domain than TinyURL.com. Otherwise,…

I had a SMTP server failure early this morning, which reminded me to review how this basic SMTP service that come with IIS 6.0 on Windows Server 2003 works. There is a blog post up on Remote Server Support that explains quite well and clear how SMTP service in Windows 2003 works and what its folder structure looks like. I am going to just be a copy-cat and quoting them below as a reference to myself and anyone who might be interested, in case the original post disappeared one day.

IIS SMTP Service Folder Structure

The Mailroot…

One of the areas in Windows Server 2008 R2 that has been improved quite dramatically is Remote Desktop Services, formally called Terminal Services. It’s playing a new role in Server 2008 to provide an extensible platform for Virtual Desktop Infrastructure.

In order to fully utilize all features existing in this new Remote Desktop Services, you will need an updated version of RDP client. Windows 7 already has the latest version built in and Microsoft has just released version 7 of RDP client for both Vista and XP.

So what the new features were added to…

Windows 7 is out, and I love it. If you haven’t known, I am a huge fun of it, right from the beta days. Both my laptop and work computer are still on RC and I use them both every single day. My work computer even had been running Windows 7 non-stop for over 62 days without a single crash. So if you haven’t even tried, I urge you do so, sooner than later.

And if you are already thinking of jumping into it, you are much luckier than me because now you can have a complete…