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This Saturday, 19th December 2009; we will conduct our regular user group meeting for 3 hours. We are having Gaurav Dharsania who will be conducting session on "Blackberry". There is lot to learn in this informative session. It is not only about the device but also about the messaging and communication and the power of mobility hidden what an IT Professional can do. Details are as below:-

Date: 19th Dec, 2009
Time: 3 pm - 6 pm
Venue: Microsoft Corporation
Training Room: Juniper and Oak

What will be covered?

* Introduction To BlackBerry Enterprise Server Software Architecture
* Overview
* Introduction to the BlackBerry Wireless Architecture
* BlackBerry Enterprise Server Software Architecture
* Establishing a connection - Handheld to BES
* Overview of the encryption process
* Establishing a new users identity
* Wireless Enterprise Activation
* Installation of BlackBerry Enterprise Server for Microsoft Exchange
* Overview of Architecture
* Pre-requisites for Install
* Deciding on the best deployment options for your organisation
* Firewall configuration
* Installation procedure
* Configuring an external SQL Server
* Configuring BlackBerry Enterprise Server
* Enterprise wide configuration
* Configuring individual BES servers
* Configuring individual or groups of users
* Creating global filters
* Configuring PIM synchronisation properties
* Configuring email options
* Wireless PIM synchronisation
* Configure user properties
* Firewall configuration
* Installing a stand-alone router service
* Configuring BES to use the new router service
* Configuring BlackBerry Attachment Service
* Performance considerations
* Installing a stand-alone attachment server
* Configuring BES to use the new attachment server
* Configuring the attachment server properties for optimum performance
* Troubleshooting rendering issues using the test rendering process
* Supporting BlackBerry Enterprise Server
* Message flow
* Troubleshoot messaging issues with BlackBerry Enterprise Server logs
* Troubleshooting PIM synchronisation
* Using IT Policies
* Securing Handheld devices
* Setting Owner Information
* Controlling Handheld Services
* Preventing Carrier WAP browsing
* Using the BlackBerry Mobile Data Service*
* Overview of BlackBerry MDS
* What you can access wirelessly
* Enabling the BlackBerry Mobile Data Service Push Server
* Configuring BlackBerry Mobile Data Service properties


Please note that this session is open for all and hence you can also invite your friends, colleagues, relatives, or any one you know who is an IT Professional and will be interested in this session.

So friends register yourself here: Register

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With Windows Live Movie Maker, you can quickly go from just watching movies to making your own great-looking home movies and sharing them with your family and friends.

Windows Live Movie Maker is part of Windows Live Essentials and might already be installed on your computer. To see if Windows Live Movie Maker is already installed, click the Start button Picture of the Start button, type Windows Live Movie Maker, and see if it appears in the list of results. If it doesn't, you can download and install it for free from the Windows Live Movie Maker website.



Step 1: Get videos and photos onto your computer
First, you need to import the videos and photos that you want to use in your movie from a device onto your computer. (If the photos and videos are already on your computer, you're ready for step two.)

Here are two popular ways to get photos and videos onto your computer:

* Import photos and video files from a digital camera, video camera, or mobile phone. Connect your device to your computer using a USB cable, and then import the photos and videos.

* Import video directly from your digital video (DV) camera. This is what you’d do if you taped your family vacation and wanted to get the footage onto your computer and edit out unwanted parts.

Step 2: Start editing
After you’ve got your files on your computer, you're ready to start editing.

Add videos and photos to your project in Windows Live Movie Maker. The photos and videos appear on the storyboard automatically. Now's a good time to add music, too. Everything that appears on the storyboard will be in your final movie. To add videos and photos, on the Home tab, in the Add group, click Add videos and photos.

Trim and arrange items on the storyboard. Next, trim videos on the storyboard to hide any parts of videos that you don’t want to show in your final movie. You can also move items from one spot to another by dragging them or split videos into two. To trim a video, go to the part of the video that you want to show in your movie, and then, under Video Tools, on the Edit tab, in the Editing group, click Set start point or Set end point (depending on if you want the video to start or stop showing at that point in it).

Step 3: Add transitions, effects, and text

Now, it’s time to take your movie to the next level by adding special, personal touches, such as transitions, effects, and text.

Transitions. To make your movie look nice when one video or photo ends and another begins to play, add transitions between photos, videos, and titles on the storyboard. There are more than sixty different transitions in Windows Live Movie Maker to choose from, so play around and use the transitions that look nice to you. To add a transition, click the photo or video you want to add a transition between, and then, on the Animations tab, in the Transitions group, click a transition.

Pan and zoom and other visual effects. You might want to add some special effects to videos and photos on the storyboard that’ll give your movie the appearance you want. For example, add one of the Black and White effects to photos and videos to give your movie an old-time or more dramatic look. If you want to show a close-up of one of the stars in your movie, add a pan and zoom effect to the photo. Remember, you can use multiple effects and your own creativity to get the look you want for your movie. To add a visual effect to a selected photo or video, on the Visual Effects tab, in the Effects group, click the effect that you want to apply.

Titles, captions, and credits. You can add a title at the beginning of your movie that tells people a little bit about it, such as when, where, and what happened. If you have a specific video or photo you want to describe in your own words, add a caption. And, finally, don’t forget to add credits at the end of your movie to tell the world who created and starred in it (just like you see in movie theaters and on DVDs). To add a title, caption, or credits, on the Home tab, in the Add group, click one of the text options, and then enter the text you want.

You can preview your project at any time by clicking the Play button under the preview monitor in Windows Live Movie Maker.



Step 4: Publish your movie and share it with other people

When you’re happy with your project, you’re ready to save it as a movie and share it with friends, family, or the whole world, if you want. You can share your movie in a variety of ways—including publishing it on a website (such as YouTube), burning it to a DVD to watch on TV (if your computer is running one on of the following editions of Windows: Windows 7 Home Premium, Windows 7 Professional, Windows 7 Enterprise, Windows 7 Ultimate, Windows Vista Home Premium, or Windows Vista Ultimate edition), or by sending it in e‑mail or in an instant message later on. You can also save your movie on your computer and then use a media player, such as Windows Media Player, to watch it on your computer.

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Have you ever deleted a file or folder from the desktop and emptied the recycle bin only to realise, seconds later, that you deleted the wrong one? Or have you ever edited a document, saved it, and then wanted to undo those changes?

Open Windows XP Backup

Windows XP includes its own backup program, although you may need to do some digging to find it. You can also take your pick of third-party programs (listed at the end of this column) that add bells and whistles you won't find in the basic Windows XP Backup utility.

If you use Windows XP Professional, the Windows Backup utility (Ntbackup.exe) should be ready for use. If you use Windows XP Home Edition, you'll need to follow these steps to install the utility:

1. Insert your Windows XP CD into the drive and, if necessary, double-click the
CD icon in My Computer.

2.On the Welcome to Microsoft Windows XP screen, click Perform Additional Tasks.

3.Click Browse this CD.

4.In Windows Explorer, double-click the ValueAdd folder, then Msft, and then
Ntbackup.

5.Double-click Ntbackup.msi to install the Backup utility.

For more information, see How to Install Backup in Windows XP Home Edition.

With that chore out of the way, you're ready to begin backing up. By default, the Backup utility uses a wizard that makes the process straightforward. To start Backup:

1.Click Start, point to All Programs, point to Accessories, point to System Tools,
and then click Backup to start the wizard.

2.Click Next to skip past the opening page, choose Back up files and settings from
the second page, and then click Next. You should see the page shown in Figure 1,
which represents your first decision point.



Decide What to Back Up

You might be tempted to click All information on this computer so that you can back up every bit of data on your computer. Think twice before choosing this option, however.For most people, the My documents and settings option is a better choice. This selection preserves your data files (including e-mail messages and address books) and the personal settings stored in the Windows Registry.


If several people use your computer—as might be the case on a shared family PC—select Everyone's documents and settings. This option backs up personal files and preferences for every user with an account on the computer.

If you know that you have data files stored outside your profile, click Let me choose what to back up. This option takes you to the Items to Back Up





Decide Where to Store Your Backup Files

Instead, your best bet is to click Browse and choose any of the following locations:

•Your computer's hard disk. The ideal backup location is a separate partition from
the one you're backing up. If your hard disk is partitioned into drive C and drive
D and your data is on drive C, you can safely back up to drive D.

•A Zip drive or other removable media. At 100-250MB per disk, this is an option if
you don't have multiple gigabytes to back up. Unfortunately, the Windows Backup
utility can't save files directly to a CD-RW drive.

•A shared network drive. You're limited only by the amount of free space on the
network share.

•An external hard disk drive. USB and IEEE 1394 or FireWire drives have dropped in
price lately. Consider getting a 40 GB or larger drive and dedicating it for use as
a backup device.



Set a Schedule—and Stick to It

If you're disciplined enough, you can repeat the above steps once each week and perform regular backups when you're ready. If you'd rather not count on remembering to perform this crucial task, however, set up an automatic backup schedule for Windows. When you get to the final page of the Backup Wizard , don't click Finish. Instead, click the Advanced button, and click Next to open the When to Back Up page. Choose Later, and then click Set Schedule to open the Schedule Job

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Ever wanted to change the Microsoft Windows Volume Licensing product key, here are some simple steps to perform.

1. Click Start, and then click Run.
2. In the Open box, type regedit, and then click OK.
3. In the left pane, locate and then click the following registry key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\WindowsNT\Current Version\WPAEvents
4. In the right pane, right-click OOBETimer, and then click Modify.
5. Change at least one digit of this value to deactivate Windows. Remember to make a note of the current value & changes you have done. To avoid issue just append 11 at the end of the value.
6. Click Start, and then click Run.
7. In the Open box, type the following command, and then click OK.
%systemroot%\system32\oobe\msoobe.exe /a
8. Click Yes, I want to telephone a customer service representative to activate Windows, and then click Next.
9. Click Change Product key.
10. Type the new product key in the New key boxes, and then click Update. Windows XP Professional SP2 VLK
XXXXX-XXXXX- XXXXX- XXXXX- XXXXX
11. If you are returned to the previous window, click Remind me later, and come to main window.
12. Now start from step 1 & revert back to the old value you updated in step 5. Delete 11 you appended in step 5.
13. Repeat steps 6 and 7 to verify that Windows is activated. You receive the following message:
Windows is already activated. Click OK to exit.
14. Click OK.
15. Restart the computer.

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Just as it backported technologies specific of Windows 7 to Windows Vista, Microsoft is also making available bits and pieces of Windows Server 2008 R2 (Windows 7 Server) for customers running Windows Server 2008. Released to web at the end of October 2009, the Platform Update for Windows Vista was accompanied by the Platform Update for Windows Server 2008. Microsoft is serving the Platform Updates for both Vista and Windows Server 2008 automatically through its Windows Update infrastructure, and customers that want to integrate technologies from Windows 7 and Windows server 2008 R2 into their predecessors, only need to open the download pipes and make sure that automatic updates are turned on.

“Following the tremendously successful launch of Windows Server 2008 R2, a lot of software developers are eager to begin writing applications and drivers that take advantage of some of its new technologies,” noted Justin Graham, senior product manager, Windows Server. “To help developers transitioning to Windows Server 2008 R2, Microsoft is proud to announce the release to Web (RTW) of the Platform Update for Windows Server 2008. This set of runtime libraries makes it easy for developers to target Windows Server 2008 R2 without sacrificing their customer base running Windows Server 2008.”


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There are third-party applications that offer parents the option to monitor and control child activities on the computer, but Windows 7, just as its precursor, comes with parental control capabilities by default. From the account of computer administrator, users can turn on Parental Controls and ensure that the settings defined will be enforced for the specific accounts used by children on the same machine. Of course, parents will have to make sure that children only use the accounts created for them, and that they do not have access to the administrator account, or the privileges that come with it, for that matter.

As you can see from the screenshot included below, there are various settings which can be tweaked. Windows 7 customers will be able to set Time Limits, specify which games can and cannot be played on the computer, and even allow or block an application.



“You can use Parental Controls to help manage how your children use the computer. For example, you can set limits on the hours that your children can use the computer, the types of games they can play, and the programs they can run,” Microsoft explained. “When Parental Controls blocks access to a game or program, a notification is displayed that the program has been blocked. Your child can click a link in the notification to request permission for access to that game or program. You can allow access by entering your account information.”

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Redmond-based software giant Microsoft is already known to plan to come to the market with a new flavor of Office Mobile, and it seems that the software giant might deliver an insight into the upcoming version as soon as the TechEd Europe conference will kick off in Berlin. Office Mobile 2010 is one of the versions of Office 2010 that the company has in store for users, besides the Office 2010 client and the Office Web Apps.

Most of you should be already familiar with the fact that Office Mobile is the variant of Office that can be used on Windows Mobile-based handsets, with the latest iteration of the application having been launched in the wild back in 2007. Those who have Office Mobile on their devices can enjoy support for Word, Excel and PowerPoint files, as well as a version of the OneNote note-taking application.

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