Introducing Open Live Writer – Open Source Fork of Windows Live Writer

Windows Live Writer released as the open source Open Live Writer. It’s a great day for bloggers who have a favorite tool for creating content. Yes I use Windows Live Writer for my blogging and it changed my way of blogging. Today Microsoft announced that Open Live Writer was released and has been contributed to the .NET Foundation. Open Live Writer is an open source application enabling users to author, edit, and publish blog posts. You can download it from http://openlivewriter.org/

 

For more information, you can refer:
– Post from Scott Hanselman @ http://www.hanselman.com/blog/AnnouncingOpenLiveWriterAnOpenSourceForkOfWindowsLiveWriter.aspx.
– Detailed post available at DotNetFoundation @ https://www.dotnetfoundation.org/blog/open-live-writer 

Hope this helps.

Install Windows Live Writer on Windows 10?

I heard from couple of Windows Live Writer users that they can’t install it with new Windows 10 OS. You can refer Stefan’s article on how to install Windows Live Writer on new Windows 10.
You can download the latest Windows Live Writer here (part of Windows Live Essentials).

Hope this helps.

What’s new about upcoming Microsoft Exchange Server 2016?

Have a look at the First look blog about the upcoming Exchange Server 2016 published at Exchange team blog – it talks about Microsoft Exchange Server 2016 & Ignite conference… Interestingly it also points that you’ll be able to watch recordings of all sessions—including the Meet Exchange Server 2016 overview and all the Exchange sessions—on the Web within 48 hours after they happen.

Migration: Exchange Public folders and its future

Public Folders are used in earlier versions of Microsoft Exchange Server to store free/busy data and files. From Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, free/busy data is no longer stored in public folders. It’s recommend that you do not store files in public folders in Exchange 2007. Instead, consider using Microsoft Office SharePoint, or Windows SharePoint Services. Public folders are included and supported in Exchange 2007 and 2010. However, future releases of Microsoft Exchange might not include public folders. You can visit http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2006/02/20/419994.aspx. Also, you can refer MS Exchange team blog have posted the updated public folder guidance for versions of Exchange past Exchange 2007.

So, what are my options?

If you’re building something new, you should look at the requirements and building on the SharePoint Technologies platform:

+ Starting with Exchange 2007, we recommend that applications use the Availability service to provide free/busy data for Exchange mailbox users. Windows SharePoint Services replaces the file sharing functionality that public folders provide. You must redesign applications that use public folders to use Exchange Web Services.
+ Also consider redesigning custom applications as early as possible as future versions of Microsoft Exchange may not contain public folders.
+ In addition to that you can refer the wonderful blogpost by Joel.

Office 15 begins Technical Preview

Are you ready for “Office 15”? Hough, CVP of Office Division announced in his blog that they reached an important milestone: the beginning of “Office 15” Technical Preview program. It also points that the Technical Preview program is already full, but everyone will have the opportunity to try the Office 15 public beta later this summer.

ESE, SQL

Recently I was talking to one of my customer. He was suggesting why MS should consider SQL instead of ESE(Extensible Storage Engine) db. It just remembered the famous old blog post at Exchange team blog – just referenced him the same

Windows Phone 7: Visual Basic for Windows Phone Developer Tools – RTW

If you used CTP of Visual Basic for Windows Phone then today you can download the RTW version of the Visual Basic add-on from VB support for the Windows Phone developer tools. This release enables Visual Basic developers to create, build, release Silverlight applications and games for Windows Phone 7 using the final version of the Windows Phone Developer Tools.

It comes along with the official support for Visual Basic to Windows Phone. Also you can check out new VB versions of our released samples on MSDN.

For more information about this release, check out the following resources:

• The Visual Basic team’s blog
• Soma’s announcement of the release on his blog
• Jason Zander’s blog post on the release

Please note the following:

• This initial release of the Visual Basic add-on for the Windows Phone Developer Tools requires Visual Studio 2010 Professional or higher; Visual Studio 2010 Express for Windows Phone is not supported. If you do not have VS 2010 Pro or higher, you can download a trial version here.

• This release is only for Silverlight projects only; the Visual Basic add on for the Windows Phone Developer Tools does not support projects built on the XNA Framework.
• First install the System Requirements above, including Visual Studio 2010 Professional, Premium, or Ultimate and the Windows Phone Developer Tools RTW. Then click on VBWP7SetupENU.msi from the files in the download section above, to install the necessary components for Visual Basic.

General: Power of blogging

Today I was following the interesting article related to blogging – Power of blogging, I would say, how anyone’s life can be changed. You can read this too “The MBA who quit his job to earn $100,000 doing Excel blogging” @ http://education.in.msn.com/news/article.aspx?cp-documentid=4583472.

Follow Office 365 via…

You can follow the Office 365…
     – using the Facebook http://www.facebook.com/office365
     – using the Twitter http://www.twitter.com/office365
     – using the YouTube https://www.youtube.com/office365
     – visit the blog http://office365.microsoft.com/en-US/online-services.aspx
     – visit the Web http://office365.com

Download fix : Issue with Message size in Outlook 2010 beta

With respect to my previous blog post regarding the message size increase of some e-mails sent from the Microsoft Outlook 2010 Beta, now you got fix from Outlook Product Group blog. The Office team has been hard at work building a fix for this issue, which is available immediately. If you are using the Office 2010 Beta, please take a moment to download this important fix.

Download Outlook 2010 Beta fix for 32-bit Office 2010

Download Outlook 2010 Beta fix for 64-bit Office 2010

What this fix will do? This fix prevents future messages from consuming unnecessary space, but doesn’t resize existing messages. If you reply or forward an existing message that is affected by this bug, it remains enlarged.

In the blog post, it’s nice to hear about the figures regarding the Outlook 2010 beta download/usage – “…although Office 2010 is in Beta and is not final, we are both excited and humbled by the fact that more than 2.5 million people have downloaded and used the Beta. We want to make sure you have a great experience with Office 2010…”

Bravo, way to go!!

Fixed : Issue with Message size in Outlook 2010

Earlier one of my customer reported when he created a simple HTML e-mail using Outlook 2010 beta. It contained a hyperlink and some text with bullet lists, but the size of the message is quite big. He tried with Outlook 2007, the message size was relatively small. It’s researched by Outlook 2010 product team and yesterday we got the updated detailed blog post regarding this, stating it’s fixed in latest Outlook 2010 builds.

Way to go!! Millions Switch to Exchange and SharePoint from Notes

I was reading couple of relevant documents, i noticed this blog post “Millions Switch to Exchange and SharePoint from Notes”. It talks about millions of users switched to Exchange Server and SharePoint from Notes – Really it was amazing to hear. I noticed that, “…In our last fiscal year (July 2008 – June 2009), more than 4.7 million people began the switch to Exchange and SharePoint from Notes.  In today’s economic climate, this is strong testimony to the cost-savings and efficiency gains that companies can get by moving off Notes.  Customers are recognizing that investment, even in tough times, can make them stronger for the long haul….”

Wow, way to go!!