More top picks from the week: Microsoft woos developers with Windows Marketplace revenues Despite losing billions, Bill Gates is again the richest guy on Earth Microsoft gets extension in EU antitrust case From our bloggers: Mitchell Ashley: Converging on Microsoft IT Security: Who Watches The Watchers? The situation with D.C.'s IT security is huge mess. Yusuf Acar, acting chief security officer following Vivek Kundra's exit to take the Federal CIO position, is now in the hands of the FBI on bribery charges from an alleged under the table deal with security vendor AITC. Kundra's not been implicated but has taken a leave of absence, presumably until this shakes out and it's clear he wasn't involved. Let's hope Kundra wasn't involved, as that would be a very terrible start for the nation's first top federal CIO. Tyson Kopczynski: Hidden Microsoft Sending an HTML Formatted Email Using PowerShell So, I have been working on building a PowerShell based notification engine for a favorite MSFT product of mine called Certificate Lifecycle Manager (kidding!). Anyhow, I wanted to make the emails pretty (after all, everyone loves pretty emails). To do this, I figured the best method was send out HTML formatted emails. However, I did not want to have the email layout necessarily embedded within my PowerShell code. Kerrie Meyler: Managing Microsoft The 2009 Microsoft Management Summit (MMS) Once again, MMS is being held in Las Vegas at the Venetian Hotel, April 27-May 1. After Microsoft's announcements last year regarding virtualization and monitoring Linux systems using Operations Manager, this year should be include interesting discussions (although whether or not there will be actually flying pigs again remains to be seen). Randy Muller: All About Microsoft Certifications No, Microsoft Exam Prices are NOT Rising Prices for goods and services are rising and this is expected, but as of today's truth, the price for a Microsoft Exam is NOT going to increase. In an article from Michael Domingo he thought that the price for Microsoft exams were going to increase as "the possibility is there, and I believe the folks on the Born to Learn blog hinted around that it might happen"* Alex Lewis: Windows into Silicon Valley The Power of Federation I had a great experience using OCS I wanted to share. I was in a meeting with a client the other day and we got a little off topic.They asked a Cisco VoIP question I didn't immediately know the answer to. However, I did know a few people in Microsoft's UC group that had recently moved over from Cisco. And since my company is federated with Microsoft I could easily see who was online and available. Using Communicator mobile on my phone I pinged one of the former Cisco folks and got an instantaneous answer. That's pretty amazing! Susan Hanley: Essential SharePoint Kindle and the iPod Touch/iPhone: A Match Made in Gadget Heaven Today I would like to rave about the collaboration of two of my favorite gadgets: my iPod Touch and my Amazon Kindle. Hot discussions among Microsoft Subnet readers Dangerous Windows Error Message Errors Heard it at the airport Microsoft Era of 'Take It Or Leave It' Is Over Economy Spotlights H-1B Visa Hiring Debate For Microsoft Fed CIO Vivek Kundra: Google Apps or Office Live? OCS R2 Media Gateway Woes Giveaways: Winners of January and February giveaways Microsoft Subnet is pleased to announce the winners of our giveaways from sponsors New Horizons Computer Learning Centers, Global Knowledge Training and book publishers Pearson Education. One lucky reader will win a Microsoft training course from New Horizons worth up to $2,500. Deadline March 31. See the Microsoft Subnet home page for entry details. Check out Microsoft Subnet’s library for free chapters. |
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