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I always disable power management as well as "green" features in the bios. I also stay away from any component which has "green" features. They are not made for servers. They throttle down power and affect performance. Of course if you run a server that has constant activity then the power saving features will never kick in so they won't hurt performance.

How did you setup ftp? You have to use IIS 6 manager to manage FTP sites. Install it using server manager and then try to reconfig the ftp site.

Set appropriate permissions for each user. Allow what you want and disallow what you don't want them to access.

Microsoft is getting more active in tweaking Kinect and Avatar Kinect to make them more attractive to business users. Source: All About Microsoft

Given there’s still a year (give or take) until Windows 8 launches, what is Microsoft’s game plan to keep the bottom from dropping out of the Windows PC market? Source: All About Microsoft

It looks like you don't have remote connections set in the mysql configuration.

Microsoft is on its way to becoming a three-headed cash cow, with the Windows, Business (Office) and Server and Tools units all feeding the Redmondian beast. Source: All About Microsoft

I hear from quite a few readers that they think Windows 7 tablets are the cat’s meow. But it looks like more people than not agree with me that those tablets are just not what the majority find palatable. Source: All About Microsoft

Microsoft is allowing developers writing applications targeting the Windows Phone ‘Mango’ operating system update to submit their applications for approval starting in August. Source: All About Microsoft

Microsoft took a step to make it easier for social gamers to target Azure by releasing an alpha version of a Windows Azure Toolkit for Social Games. Source: All About Microsoft

It’s Microsoft MGX week. The sales rhetoric is no doubt running thick, but the usual leaked tidbits have been nothing to tweet home about. Source: All About Microsoft

Users of Microsoft’s Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS) suite are reporting on July 19 yet another “service disruption” — one that sounds very much like the June 22 one that affected a number of users of Microsoft’s cloud service. Source: All About Microsoft

One of the biggest, if not the biggest, shortcomings of Windows 7 as a tablet operating system is the fact that it is not touch-centric it is still designed first and foremost for keyboard/mouse input. Microsoft plans to remedy this with Windows 8. But that’s hardly the only touch-centric technology it has in the hopper. Last week, [...] Source: All About Microsoft

Microsoft is building a “digital learning archive,” which may be akin to its HealthVault electronic-medical records system. Source: All About Microsoft

I use hmail server and xmail server on my servers. I also have Exchange setup on the corporate network.

Microsoft execs have been talking up Avatar Kinect — the ability to conduct virtual meetings among avatars using the Kinect sensor — for months. Finally, the release date for the technology seems close at hand. Source: All About Microsoft

Make sure on the server that you have rdp settings set to allow both secure and insecure connections. XP can not connect if it's only set to secure connections.

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Microsoft has postponed its usual fall Mediaroom IPTV Technical Conference until some time in early 2012. Does the delay mean Orapa is behind schedule? Source: All About Microsoft

With Google phasing out its Google Health electronic-records service, Microsoft is wooing Google Health users and developers to move their data and applications over to Microsoft’s HealthVault alternative. Source: All About Microsoft

Microsoft plans to share more information on its “Roslyn” compiler-as-a-service (CaaS) project during its annual Microsoft Research Faculty Summit this week. Source: All About Microsoft

Amitabh Srivastava, the former head of Microsoft’s Server and Cloud Division, has resurfaced at EMC, the parent company of one of Microsoft’s foremost rivals. Source: All About Microsoft

If you’re a Windows watcher, circle this date on your calendar: April 10, 2012. That’s the date when mainstream support for Windows Vista officially ends. And it cannot come soon enough for Microsoft, whose public image was badly damaged by the massively unliked Vista. If the rumors about a possible Windows 8 release in April 2012 are true, it will be an almost perfect changing of the guard. But vanquishing the ghost of Windows Vista is the easy challenge for Microsoft. Windows XP is still hanging around on stage, bumping into scenery and generally interfering with Microsoft’s careful messaging about all the cool and useful stuff it’s doing today. I thought about that date as I watched the keynote addresses from this week’s Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference in Los Angeles. Some of the people I follow on Twitter were disappointed that Microsoft didn’t divulge more details about Windows 8 or even publicly release a platform preview. Source: Ed Bott's Microsoft Report

Microsoft officials showed off on July 12 at the company’s Worldwide Partner Conference a first public glimpse of its coming Windows Server 8 operating system. Windows Server 8, the server complement of Windows 8 client, is on the same development track and path as Windows 8 client. If we Microsoft watchers are right, both Windows 8 client and server should be out in 2012, possibly in the first half of the year. Microsoft is touting Windows Server 8 as a key private-cloud building block, which means virtualization will be critical to the next release. Microsoft demonstrated only one of what officials said would be several of more than 100 new features coming in the next version of Windows Server: The next version of its Hyper-V hypervisor. Specifically, the Softies showed off what they are calling Hyper-V Replica. In a demonstration from Jeff Woolsey, the Principal Program Manager Lead for Windows Server Virtualization, noted that Microsoft has heard from its customers that it needed to provide more virtual processor support. He said the new Hyper-V will support more than 16 virtual processors per machine. Source: All About Microsoft

Microsoft is making available for download the first release a new piece of cloud analytics technology developed by its eXtreme Computing Group that is known as Project Daytona. Source: All About Microsoft