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Now Available to MSDN Subscribers: Visual Studio 2005, SQL Server 2005

Its here at last!!!!!!

(via MSDN)

Now Available to MSDN Subscribers: Visual Studio 2005, SQL Server 2005
The final versions of Visual Studio 2005 and SQL Server 2005 are now at manufacturing; MSDN subscribers can download these products immediately. Redistributable packages, including the .NET Framework, are also now publicly available.   

del.icio.us - share your bookmarks online

From playing with Flock I've discovered del.icio.us, a cool service that lets you post, tag, aggregate and filter all your web favorites online!

Now I can share my bookmarks between my home and work PC and the rest of the world (and they're RSS enabled). It even tells you how popular a link is by how many other people have linked to the same URL. Apparently the service is pre-Alpha and there's a lot of cool stuff in the works for these guys, so check them out.

My del.icio.us links

Flock - New Mozilla based browser

Thought I'd check out a new Mozilla based browser under development. Flock looks to be doing some quite interesting things i.e. building a lot of the new ideas gaining popularity on the web into the browser, including del.icio.us online bookmarks, flickr images, RSS feed discovery and caching as well as history searching, blogging, and of course, tabbed browsing.

Download the Flock Developer Preview binaries or source for Windows, Mac OSX or Linux here

Darwin posts our MSFT SQL Support Case

Darwin, a Microsoft Developer Support Engineer from Sydney, Australia has started a blog here: Darwin's Idle Times and posted the resolution to our PSS Support case here: Kerberos Delegation to SQL Server.
SQL Server and Kerberos authentication seems to be a tricky issue when things go wrong. With the problem Darwin describes, we had 2 SQL/Developer consultants, a first-level MS Support Engineer as well as ourselves unable to find the fault.

Well done Darwin for sorting this out for us, and for taking the next step and blogging about it!

As Darwin describes, the following MS White paper is the ultimate guide to troubleshooting kerberos delegation: Troubleshooting Kerberos delegation in Windows 2000 and Windows Server 2003, and the way to find the offending SPN in our case was to use the following LDIFDE tool query: ldifde -f ldif.txt -j c:\ -d -l serviceprincipalname -r (serviceprincipalname=MSSQL*)

Free MCMS eBook Downloads

(via Jawad Khan)

Here are few useful online free books listed on MSDN that will get you started with Microsoft Content Management Server before you do your own investment and buy a MCMS 2002 Book or take an official MOC Training.

Note these books are not meant for beginners though. For beginners I will still Recommend the Book Building Websites with Microsoft Content Management Server as per my post here earlier.You can get good deal on this book from Amazon and other online book sellers.

(1) Building, Deploying, and Maintaining Intranet Sites for the Enterprise

           Chapter 1. Setup
           Chapter 2. Examining OTGWeb's Network Architecture
           Chapter 3. Day-to-Day Operations
           Chapter 4. Building OTGWeb with Best Practices
           Chapter 5. Final Thoughts

This book discusses how a small team within the Operations and Technology Group (OTG) at Microsoft uses Microsoft Content Management Server (MCMS) 2002 to build, deploy, and maintain OTGWeb, an internal Microsoft site. OTG uses OTGWeb to provide information and tools to keep Microsoft employees informed and productive. OTGWeb is, as far as we know, the largest intranet site running MCMS today.

(2) Integration Techniques and Strategies for Internet Business

• Using the MCMS .NET-based managed APIs
• Using the MCMS COM-based Site Deployment API
• Creating user controls and dialog boxes within the Web Author
• Creating custom placeholder controls in Microsoft Visual Studio® .NET
• Creating components that communicate with each external system

In Integration Techniques and Strategies for Internet Business, we'll examine a variety of integration options available to you when designing your Web sites. The methodology we present is simple, secure, and extendable. We take the WoodgroveNet sample site which shipped as a sample with MCMS 2002 and build integration components to show integration with search engines, workflow engines, authentication systems, and other software.

(3) Performance Planning and Deployment with Content Management Server 2002

• Explains performance planning for MCMS 2002
• Demonstrates capacity planning with transaction cost analysis for MCMS 2002
• Provides detailed instructions and best practices for installing a sample MCMS 2002 deployment that can be scaled out to meet your needs.
• Provides troubleshooting information and answers to frequently asked questions for getting the best from your MCMS 2002 site.

This Book shows you how to plan your MCMS 2002 deployment to maximize performance, how to estimate site capacity with transaction cost analysis, and provides best practices and instructions for installing an MCMS 2002, 13-computer, 3-tier, sample, secure deployment that can easily be scaled out to meet the needs of your enterprise. Additionally, it provides troubleshooting tips and answers frequently asked questions about installing and using MCMS 2002