tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-69172519728638591962024-03-04T20:26:09.602-08:00when I Re-ViewYou're on Jibran Jamshad's blog ....Jibran Jamshadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09454787771914337707noreply@blogger.comBlogger29125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6917251972863859196.post-26217391128544815112010-07-27T08:42:00.000-07:002010-07-27T08:44:29.555-07:00I am not out yet !!!Guys - I am not out from the Blogging Spcace however I have moved myself to www.geekdeck.com , follow me there .. rgds JibranJibran Jamshadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09454787771914337707noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6917251972863859196.post-23341179663033913272010-01-31T09:58:00.000-08:002010-01-31T09:59:18.682-08:00Creating WebSlice for BloggerI have shared the way and code on http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/bloggerwebslice Please visit..Jibran Jamshadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09454787771914337707noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6917251972863859196.post-69437764104166866212009-12-14T02:00:00.000-08:002009-12-14T03:33:22.311-08:00where i have been during last few months....From the eye of Camera!!...<br /><br />"Windows 7 Launch for Channel Partners"<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcCyN1x870HrImegPVyTUGZoKvW3mDsbmroyiXEFfYrAXg6Mk0-yQ-s5X9-0EnaxqfatMuzhoXyUY-lnABKt6IYVT4ip7hBkFgpKaewy4O_f7z2v62ZCXkiLtGSQVYRpHAq1b-3oDOBkI/s1600-h/IMG_8598.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 286px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcCyN1x870HrImegPVyTUGZoKvW3mDsbmroyiXEFfYrAXg6Mk0-yQ-s5X9-0EnaxqfatMuzhoXyUY-lnABKt6IYVT4ip7hBkFgpKaewy4O_f7z2v62ZCXkiLtGSQVYRpHAq1b-3oDOBkI/s400/IMG_8598.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5415049230805584594" /></a><br /><br />"Business Intelligence Lab for Partners"<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjW3mhEupYN38Hulx99gbH1zcRHXvox8KfGkGP-LUvOQKBw8mmC4N1Jt5w5KTeLWRH0y4_ed2YJgp_l8IJF1Oa-KbYZkwULijOJt56zNIQZL6x3s7tONg3fXRVVFAuYxVi0vDOZZeD7e0E/s1600-h/SA-BI-Lab-02.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjW3mhEupYN38Hulx99gbH1zcRHXvox8KfGkGP-LUvOQKBw8mmC4N1Jt5w5KTeLWRH0y4_ed2YJgp_l8IJF1Oa-KbYZkwULijOJt56zNIQZL6x3s7tONg3fXRVVFAuYxVi0vDOZZeD7e0E/s400/SA-BI-Lab-02.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5415030927608498322" /></a><br /><br />"Blogger's Corner @ Windows 7, Server 2008 R2, Exchange 2010 Pakistan Launch"<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8MlEXG6jhOAP1RZN7WA3971_Re0A_ts1aIWHMXjiFbL5WokuwfEsAPW_PBs6B8BoabYLL3-X276GsYi2Qq6GKwfZS6-oWRjb2HHsk5_jSRbvnUOtfMyuc25nfBh__5gd-A99l3OK_NZE/s1600-h/BloggersCorner-01.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8MlEXG6jhOAP1RZN7WA3971_Re0A_ts1aIWHMXjiFbL5WokuwfEsAPW_PBs6B8BoabYLL3-X276GsYi2Qq6GKwfZS6-oWRjb2HHsk5_jSRbvnUOtfMyuc25nfBh__5gd-A99l3OK_NZE/s400/BloggersCorner-01.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5415032073155172242" /></a><br /><br />"MSPK Team @ Windows 7, Server 2008 R2, Exchange 2010 Pakistan Launch"<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3zrdICyr-stJEEueRgfZp2pkrJAgreyxu9OfeS-ojgSJ-e_g71nFqKgFuDuaq1lDIPm2RRf_dXHwyzhxS8gFGTAO1qOcl_YjIaS3OGN8ZR8psjrL4rmno0hyS-2LdFjOCX-G42ouFzDY/s1600-h/mspkTeam.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3zrdICyr-stJEEueRgfZp2pkrJAgreyxu9OfeS-ojgSJ-e_g71nFqKgFuDuaq1lDIPm2RRf_dXHwyzhxS8gFGTAO1qOcl_YjIaS3OGN8ZR8psjrL4rmno0hyS-2LdFjOCX-G42ouFzDY/s400/mspkTeam.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5415051253337396626" /></a><br /><br />"Microsoft Community Bootcamp"<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUVEscoV8vZHYbEEcx4r4XdD-2-8Q3WuGB_tAe4Pl1MxwOYHSBO-P5Kz4orOMnEkj4PRQELLzy4MXWrR3n4_JLH8FvNpFNGQeTP5r5UnztQwQbyn9efPM3NrI1EGPP50fsNRTbvbeuv4g/s1600-h/IMG_1774.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUVEscoV8vZHYbEEcx4r4XdD-2-8Q3WuGB_tAe4Pl1MxwOYHSBO-P5Kz4orOMnEkj4PRQELLzy4MXWrR3n4_JLH8FvNpFNGQeTP5r5UnztQwQbyn9efPM3NrI1EGPP50fsNRTbvbeuv4g/s400/IMG_1774.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5415033626976672738" /></a><br /><br />"Microsoft Academic Festival"<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1OtKz2HO2vwF7jmvQQ6V2UOfDPwbxpIH0YoNh-PF2bF5qdhV9U4QcsvbzFRu5yJiTRAsTD2hwSxX9Y2aaVobvZXtoCoH4P-dES_QMtsZ4yDAfYyJdFZPPAWJxFUBWiH7NRmBDdm9Bl5I/s1600-h/IMG_2033.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1OtKz2HO2vwF7jmvQQ6V2UOfDPwbxpIH0YoNh-PF2bF5qdhV9U4QcsvbzFRu5yJiTRAsTD2hwSxX9Y2aaVobvZXtoCoH4P-dES_QMtsZ4yDAfYyJdFZPPAWJxFUBWiH7NRmBDdm9Bl5I/s400/IMG_2033.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5415035671809184226" /></a><br /><br />"Microsoft Academic Festival"<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSazCN9hX0ly3qC0l7fi3XBvYL5-MAjz_MYdsvHpQdmc9AYssLGbhQgRAiaEmGuZjwJ7JvTiSU0qGMPsjMiY-mKk8RZwHeQhlNiV1kfoZnsiFwotMloTGbQ20U3asVrn86GWACG4UZt2o/s1600-h/IMG_2034.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSazCN9hX0ly3qC0l7fi3XBvYL5-MAjz_MYdsvHpQdmc9AYssLGbhQgRAiaEmGuZjwJ7JvTiSU0qGMPsjMiY-mKk8RZwHeQhlNiV1kfoZnsiFwotMloTGbQ20U3asVrn86GWACG4UZt2o/s400/IMG_2034.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5415035842115132850" /></a><br /><br />"Microsoft Consumer Day"<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgumTzCD8BesV3X7ueTE4Uken5qKuI2W_dAgv7VI-UTAy44T7dPq6a1q3m6DwZB5CAHCYRhlfOYf3q930Y4uerSSiFs9uToI3RAde-Kz4JuoH_94QvW3J9BbHAtqzt1xgIx50uQiOFW7CI/s1600-h/IMG_2094.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgumTzCD8BesV3X7ueTE4Uken5qKuI2W_dAgv7VI-UTAy44T7dPq6a1q3m6DwZB5CAHCYRhlfOYf3q930Y4uerSSiFs9uToI3RAde-Kz4JuoH_94QvW3J9BbHAtqzt1xgIx50uQiOFW7CI/s400/IMG_2094.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5415036984628079858" /></a><br /><br />"Microsoft Consumer Day"<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiD0s18CsBeoKSHU_32aTtklTPGM3I-Ot09RsXQUrxtaAFFbOZ3Z_5pjcSo6AzF0KFSrrk0UPuVAMGRoKW-DBKXrq17nLyNEOvoX-LOQ1l-7gycO6YaAf36HckmbsPRmJ9Uqi6lRUgPA5A/s1600-h/IMG_2108.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiD0s18CsBeoKSHU_32aTtklTPGM3I-Ot09RsXQUrxtaAFFbOZ3Z_5pjcSo6AzF0KFSrrk0UPuVAMGRoKW-DBKXrq17nLyNEOvoX-LOQ1l-7gycO6YaAf36HckmbsPRmJ9Uqi6lRUgPA5A/s400/IMG_2108.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5415037705289913026" /></a>Jibran Jamshadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09454787771914337707noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6917251972863859196.post-5548414180938726922009-11-08T09:15:00.000-08:002009-11-09T07:34:10.566-08:00Microsoft Certifications discount vouchersBeing a Microsoft Certified Trainer, i am able to offer discount vouchers provided by Microsoft. So if you intend to appear for any Microsoft exam, i may be able to provide you with a discount voucher for it.<br /><br />Check below the various categories:<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLYNu4ehiuHhgjaLbN-c5kUmkJdPMDoGehsnUli0PoKN0RVajnvvY0lp2siVyZ-0v9lkVC3guo6qfBbhI1Urss2HpflhPdy2-aLqeEnutRWOZX_vjMa-n3pToynIYFnpOVk6U7ZAbg3Mo/s1600-h/25percent.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 259px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLYNu4ehiuHhgjaLbN-c5kUmkJdPMDoGehsnUli0PoKN0RVajnvvY0lp2siVyZ-0v9lkVC3guo6qfBbhI1Urss2HpflhPdy2-aLqeEnutRWOZX_vjMa-n3pToynIYFnpOVk6U7ZAbg3Mo/s400/25percent.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5401784955421809058" /></a><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOFQzIkaJwGeTeyZZPBFFdfEx5dVKq-I_NwRtLwfYav4XJN9djpCAi4jI4PUxh4NbGZ3IgCMV0z6rEkjUFwmUZF2yzJvTLczZAG2aGK3kBS5L1EqBB8-0N4SM4Xti3IJxhaBodJ8NDQms/s1600-h/20per.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 262px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOFQzIkaJwGeTeyZZPBFFdfEx5dVKq-I_NwRtLwfYav4XJN9djpCAi4jI4PUxh4NbGZ3IgCMV0z6rEkjUFwmUZF2yzJvTLczZAG2aGK3kBS5L1EqBB8-0N4SM4Xti3IJxhaBodJ8NDQms/s400/20per.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5401785151916509778" /></a><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTE9fnFrmfWda4vKQ-bq9kRR_5gq2yBwrQ4yfgn4MxnZeAvP2fCrD4xg1KwU-y1eJRptmPWGjLPO8b3AIw20mQPsQosTtGoMCSkKheBwk3QqB30canEwBNIo4YoXu-8_8qQ1KmsIo1xp4/s1600-h/15per.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 260px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTE9fnFrmfWda4vKQ-bq9kRR_5gq2yBwrQ4yfgn4MxnZeAvP2fCrD4xg1KwU-y1eJRptmPWGjLPO8b3AIw20mQPsQosTtGoMCSkKheBwk3QqB30canEwBNIo4YoXu-8_8qQ1KmsIo1xp4/s400/15per.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5401785353662651906" /></a><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWHbvuy6fYsprBwN6dyXUBRPSonGnRdnTuAUIwGGZ9MSRT02qYEiInq6UCaSzL13qcRDdzK7NrqeaZzMNdvPJNTCIYWbvroT7Qtx3qbmH26ajfGjfOIpQs9ByrNeKhBxwv_ffDpAnn5kg/s1600-h/10per.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 258px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWHbvuy6fYsprBwN6dyXUBRPSonGnRdnTuAUIwGGZ9MSRT02qYEiInq6UCaSzL13qcRDdzK7NrqeaZzMNdvPJNTCIYWbvroT7Qtx3qbmH26ajfGjfOIpQs9ByrNeKhBxwv_ffDpAnn5kg/s400/10per.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5401785494282965810"/></a><br /><br />This offer is on a personal and community basis ..Jibran Jamshadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09454787771914337707noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6917251972863859196.post-15699359309529750362009-10-07T22:39:00.000-07:002009-10-07T23:07:43.768-07:00Windows 7 launch, awareness sessions in Pakistan (Academia)Windows 7 is on it's way, currently a lot of You have experienced the Product's RTM and other's will soon on Oct 22nd when it will be launched for everyone! GA. I am really having some good time with the Product, i have been using it since last 7 - 8 months since it's beta and due to great focus on Planning, Customer & Partner feedback and Addressing critical pain points, to me it will the most successful OS on the Planet and would be soon taking over Market Share of all other MS & non - MS Operating Systems.<br /><br />As far it's execution in the academic sector is concerned we have already started and on 6th OCT our first event took place at MAJU - Karachi, as per the guidelines provided to Me by <span style="font-weight:bold;">Naveed Bajwa, DPE Lead & Shoaib Khalil, Marketing Lead</span> many other sessions have been planned in this month few at the MIC under the banner of various UG's and MIC it's self and few at other Uni's like CBM, Bahria, UIT, SSUET etc..<br /><br />For the Audience interested in knowing a few basic things on Windows 7, i am uploading my Presentation on the link below:<br /><br />http://cid-866cd84756fa9077.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/Documents/Windows%207%20Overview.ppsx<br /><br />A few snaps taken at MAJU - Karachi during Windows 7 event..<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiD5TwRqmdPOfPybYjbksneRyIQROkUgSSyhbMwMrsMIVywqtvjiBzFXTxykBDdONrhl1NftQyR3sukFIszgXlzurcm5-5N09E3RoUVatAvtnRlikVapAktiuzAlVL4-c0G-E6LJTC-cJ4/s1600-h/win71.png"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiD5TwRqmdPOfPybYjbksneRyIQROkUgSSyhbMwMrsMIVywqtvjiBzFXTxykBDdONrhl1NftQyR3sukFIszgXlzurcm5-5N09E3RoUVatAvtnRlikVapAktiuzAlVL4-c0G-E6LJTC-cJ4/s400/win71.png" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5390104394164871058" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTbPz6naDx3IDg800dUFAEE5dSO3h5Fhcb5jrQOs69Fp__J-hL2OofnOHTUzye2lO-EGLEGf_dIpph_no5ozTY_nEduMqchsBKB4fWsHjAAzEsJoFmVMTjyvZAO8rfcpLbu5ROdnJDqSQ/s1600-h/win72.png"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTbPz6naDx3IDg800dUFAEE5dSO3h5Fhcb5jrQOs69Fp__J-hL2OofnOHTUzye2lO-EGLEGf_dIpph_no5ozTY_nEduMqchsBKB4fWsHjAAzEsJoFmVMTjyvZAO8rfcpLbu5ROdnJDqSQ/s400/win72.png" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5390103972662917378" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9JHufcu8emYxpXjZAtLhO5JDhU6fe_0A9yqFqgHr3Ntvv8HmtCaMSBA8Vl5vqFGvgi7oU3kSXiuhMZP2BqTvfVBJg2VP9z48_5aZtV_R7TtkTUuVj76dF-cQhuqb4RReUvFKMqhM8DKY/s1600-h/win74.png"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9JHufcu8emYxpXjZAtLhO5JDhU6fe_0A9yqFqgHr3Ntvv8HmtCaMSBA8Vl5vqFGvgi7oU3kSXiuhMZP2BqTvfVBJg2VP9z48_5aZtV_R7TtkTUuVj76dF-cQhuqb4RReUvFKMqhM8DKY/s400/win74.png" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5390104578766226194" /></a>Jibran Jamshadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09454787771914337707noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6917251972863859196.post-61399008744916754942009-09-22T11:51:00.000-07:002009-09-22T11:53:27.640-07:00Complimentay DreamSpark CodesDreamSpark is a Microsoft Academic initiative specially designed for Students to enable them to download and use various Microsoft Tools for free and offers them much more...<br /><br />To explore the Program kindly visit:<br />https://www.dreamspark.com<br /><br />To apply for the DreamSpark complimentary code kindly visit, http://jibranjamshad.tech.officelive.com/DreamSpark.aspx<br /><br />* Only Students from Pakistan should apply through this portalJibran Jamshadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09454787771914337707noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6917251972863859196.post-74788436412798053482009-09-14T23:07:00.000-07:002009-09-14T23:34:50.707-07:00Secure portable drives (USB) with BitLocker to Go; feature of Windows 7Today, USB drives are probably the most preferred medium of porting and backing Data from a location to another. I don't think so that highlighting their benefits is required over here, everyone of us knows that as everyone of us have them... Now what happens if someone you know takes your USB w/o permission or someone you don't know takes w/o permission.. if the person who has taken the USB is a known one, you will get it back else case you will report it stolen or lost.. So what's the worst that's going to happen you loose your asset of few dollars?? obviously NOT!!! <span style="font-weight:bold;">EVERY ONE OF US IS CONCERNED MORE WITH OUR DATA RATHER THEN THE PORTABLE DRIVE</span>, is true always in the case of a Business!<br /><br />To me a data always has a cost associated to it and you have to pay if someone else get's it..<br /><br />Windows 7 Enterprise comes with a feature known as BitLocker to Go helps you to protect your USB Drivers and System Drives <span style="font-weight:bold;">(Protecting System Drives was even possible with BitLocker in Windows Vista Ultimate, now in Windows 7 Enterprise you can also secure your USBs alongwith Hard Drives)</span> with <span style="font-weight:bold;">Password</span> or through <span style="font-weight:bold;">Smart Card</span> so even if you by chance someone get's hold of your USB they are not able to use it unless providing the Password or Inserting the particular Smart Card.<br /><br />So Now, How does that Happens....<br /><br />1) Insert a USB drive, right-click on it and select the Turn on BitLocker<br /><br />2) BitLocker To Go will begin initializing your USB drive<br /><br />3) Once the initialization process is complete, BitLocker To Go will prompt you to set up a password that you will use to unlock the drive. If you have a smart card, you can use its PIN to unlock the drive<br /><br />4) After you set up a password or use a smart card, BitLocker To Go will prompt you to store a recovery key. You can use the recovery key to unlock your drive in the event that you forget the password or lose your smart card.<br /><br />5) When you create the password and save your recovery key, you’ll be prompted to begin the encryption process<br /><br />6) During the encryption process, you’ll see a standard progress monitor that will keep you apprised of the operation. The amount of time that it will take to complete the process will depend on how large the drive is. As you can see, there is a Pause button that will allow you to temporarily halt the process should you need to perform another task.<br /><br />7) Once the encryption is complete, BitLocker To Go displays a confirmation dialog box and changes the icon associated with the encrypted drive<br /><br />Now when you plug-in this encrypted drive to any Windows 7 PC it will allow you to access data after providing the password.. however on Windows XP or Vista, this program will take control of the USB drive and you have to launch it and enter the password and then you will be able to see the data in read only mode and you can copy files from the USB and can paste it to the target machine..<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">References:<br /></span><br />http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/window-on-windows/?p=1176<br />http://www.microsoft.com/windows/enterprise/products/windows-7/features.aspx#bitlockerJibran Jamshadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09454787771914337707noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6917251972863859196.post-60710505176937344892009-09-14T04:31:00.000-07:002009-09-14T04:53:45.105-07:00Microsoft SearchTogether (Beta)Few days back i came across this wonderful tool from <span style="font-weight:bold;">Microsoft Research</span> which runs on IE7 & later named Search Together.. one thing i will want to highlight is that it not only uses <span style="font-weight:bold;">Live Search</span> as a Search Engine but you can also use <span style="font-weight:bold;">Google</span> and <span style="font-weight:bold;">Yahoo</span>.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">What is SearchTogether?</span><br /><br />Microsoft SearchTogether is a free Internet Explorer plug-in that allows groups of people to collaborate on Web searches.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;"><br />Who can benefit from using SearchTogether?</span><br /><br />SearchTogether can benefit any group of people who are interested in investigating a topic together, such as students working on a group report, colleagues working on a joint project, or friends planning a shared vacation or other social activities. SearchTogether supports both synchronous and asynchronous collaboration styles. <br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Where did SearchTogether come from?</span><br /><br />SearchTogether is a project from Microsoft Research; it is part of Meredith Ringel Morris's research project on collaborative Web search. The original SearchTogether concept was presented in this UIST 2007 paper and video. Thanks to the efforts of developers Piali Choudhury, Matt Maddin, and ThuVan Pham, the original prototype was transformed into an IE plug-in.<br /><br />Do visit the following link to download this IE Pulg-in and start search together with your online friends during your different assignments, projects, tours etc and etc..<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/projects/searchtogether/<br /></span>Jibran Jamshadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09454787771914337707noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6917251972863859196.post-14782742999791441682009-09-11T01:32:00.000-07:002009-09-11T01:46:43.756-07:00Dont's on Social MediaJust now i came across this article, highlighting the impact of social media on their jobs due to their high engagement on social networking websites passing various comments on their co-workers and sharing their job updates with other people & networks..<br /><br />Although this article doesn't mine any thing new, but still highlights the stuff with some live examples of the stuff most of us do on those sites knowing it's consequences probably just for drawing 'social attention'<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">LINK: http://msn.careerbuilder.com/Article/MSN-1953-Workplace-Issues-Social-Media-Pitfalls/?sc_extcmp=JS_1953_spotlight&SiteId=cbmsnsl41953&ArticleID=1953>1=23000&cbRecursionCnt=1&cbsid=4de132a477d24147ba94e086c87dc381-305954193-RM-4</span><br /><br />Few dont's which i liked from this article are follows:<br /><br />Don't announce interviews, raises or new jobs<br /><br />Don't mention your job search if you're still employed<br /><br />Facebook Fired Stories<br /><br />Kimberly Swann, a former employee at Ivell Marketing & Logistics of Clacton, U.K., thought her job was boring -- and she said so on her Facebook page, according to an article in The Daily Telegraph. Swann was called into her manager's office and handed a letter that cited her Facebook comments as the reason for dismissal:<br /><br />"Following your comments made on Facebook about your job and the company we feel it is better that, as you are not happy and do not enjoy your work we end your employment with Ivell Marketing & Logistics with immediate effect."<br /><br />An MSNBC article tells of Kevin Colvin, the legendary young intern who e-mailed his boss, claiming a "family emergency" would keep him out of the office around Halloween. His co-workers (and Facebook friends), however, saw a photo of Colvin dressed as a fairy at a Halloween party time-stamped on the same day of the "emergency." Colvin's boss responded to him with an e-mail CC'd to the entire company, firing him and including the incriminating fairy picture.<br /><br />In March 2009, the same MSNBC article cites Dan Leone, a Philadelphia Eagles stadium employee, who was fired after slamming the football organization for trading a player in this status update:<br /><br />"Dan is [expletive] devastated about Dawkins signing with Denver. . .Dam Eagles R Retarted!![sic]"<br /><br />Two days later, the head of event operations said they needed to talk about his Facebook status; instead, he got the boot.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;"><br />Firstly i don''t like the idea of blaming employers, if you don't like, leave the job and if you have already left,your blaming will bring no good to you! and especially in the case of global brands it depends upon from person to person and we will always find pro and anti groups for a same brand crowded largely!</span>Jibran Jamshadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09454787771914337707noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6917251972863859196.post-54531380236700399992009-09-05T10:55:00.000-07:002009-09-05T11:41:18.710-07:00Agents based Systems, is it real?In today's market, still we look for reasons to justify the software engineering practice! even in a bunch of core IT guys one term which is still anonymous to us is "software agents" or "agent oriented software engineering".. When we say software engineering we are always referring to the Object Oriented aspect of it and think that OOSE (Object Oriented Software Engineering) is the only form and application of software engineering and it is the end...<br /><br />Probably because the books written in 1980's on this domain are still valid in our institutions and we always wait for research and practices to be implemented by vendors and learn and implement them once they are a JOB REQUIREMENT!<br /><br />The story is different in other parts of the world, where the academia comes up with research and aid the vendors to make it a standard and same is going with the software engineering domain.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">There the agents have replaced the objects and object orientation is transformed in to agent oriented domains.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">(The following paras are applicable to those who understand what Object Oriented S/W Eng is)</span><br /><br />So what is a Software Agent?, A Software Agent is a computer program which works toward goals in a dynamic environment (where change is the norm) on behalf of another entity (human or computational), possibly over an extended period of time, without continuous direct supervision or control, and exhibits a significant degree of flexibility and even creativity in how it seeks to transform goals into action tasks..<br /><br />Where as on the other hand, an Object works in a pre-determinant environment and its just their to perform certain actions based upon the encapsulated attributes and interacts with another objects..<br /><br />So Agents are meant to work where environment keeps on changing, they develop a notion of learning based upon their experience but objects don't, moreover agents can provide reasoning (which you have seen in AI) which objects don't.. while execution agents have their own thread of control while objects have a single thread of control in the system. Objects always say a "Yes" and "No" is treated as an ERROR while Agents have the right to say "No" based upon the conditions..<br /><br />Agents are far more liberal and can play a different role in different domains, Objects are invoked while Agents react to the environmental happenings. and many more ... <br /><br />Software Agents can be considered as enhancement over Software Objects as both don't anything about the system they work and works through encapsulation (hiding their data) interacting with surrounding elements.<br /><br />Lot of tools supporting modeling and development through AOSE are available but are yet to be commercial, few years down the road this will be the way Programs for Devices & Machines are going to be written..... (continued....)<br /><br />http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~bimlesh/ametrics/findings/Differences%20between%20objects%20and%20agents.pdf<br /><br />Inspiration from my teacher "Leon Sterling"...Jibran Jamshadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09454787771914337707noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6917251972863859196.post-56749544373509407702009-09-03T22:05:00.001-07:002009-09-03T22:05:41.910-07:00Windows 7 Launch Party<a href="http://www.houseparty.com/windows7">Windows 7 Launch Party</a><br /><p>Windows® 7 is coming, and hosts around the world will be among the first to see it, use it, and share it with their friends. If selected to host, you'll receive a special Signature Edition of Windows® 7 Ultimate and your very own Windows® 7 Party Pack to share with your guests. It's a global Launch Party, and you can be there!...</p><br />Shared via <a href="http://addthis.com">AddThis</a><br />Jibran Jamshadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09454787771914337707noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6917251972863859196.post-59548754077689324582009-09-03T00:16:00.000-07:002009-09-03T00:41:07.247-07:00Microsoft Faculty Connection (complimentary code available)<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQXHAYGwzqPuABQh6Lo-EwCMfWUsgnL9aBQq5TDPCLEt7zykeEkiMSXQYK0EUXuK6B5jsLfslCKsp5aWTA2ALkiyxITETcQymlFf0YBvhr-ugF8VzlHfGLCaEDc5j-ICAMK39VQHL5Qvg/s1600-h/FacultyConnection_Logo.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 196px; height: 78px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQXHAYGwzqPuABQh6Lo-EwCMfWUsgnL9aBQq5TDPCLEt7zykeEkiMSXQYK0EUXuK6B5jsLfslCKsp5aWTA2ALkiyxITETcQymlFf0YBvhr-ugF8VzlHfGLCaEDc5j-ICAMK39VQHL5Qvg/s400/FacultyConnection_Logo.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5377140718250506018" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;"><br />What is Faculty Connection? 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If you don’t have the time or budget to attend, we will make the event content available to you and keep you up to date with what’s going on.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Newslink<br /></span>The Faculty Connection Newslink is an easy way to see what is new from Microsoft in education. Each month we will include new features on the site and recap some the more interesting discussions and submissions.While Faculty Connection is a free resource we have reserved some of the features exclusively for faculty. Become a Faculty Connection Member to take advantage of the full set of materials provided.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Reference - http://www.microsoft.com/education/facultyconnection/articles/articledetails.aspx?cid=57&c1=en-us&c2=0<br /></span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">For Registration: You will be requiring a code, so if you are a faculty and locate in Pakistan then contact me or Naveed Bajwa to get access to the code and register for free and start enjoying the above benefits...<br /></span>Jibran Jamshadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09454787771914337707noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6917251972863859196.post-45612828286494946242009-09-02T01:27:00.000-07:002009-09-02T02:00:25.566-07:00Gmail outage deprives millions of e-mail<meta equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document"><meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 14"><meta name="Originator" content="Microsoft Word 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-moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;"><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/02/current-gmail-outage.html"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: black;">http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/02/current-gmail-outage.html</span></b></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0.1in 0in; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; line-height: 15pt; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;"><a href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-30684_3-10323837-265.html"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: black;">http://news.cnet.com/8301-30684_3-10323837-265.html</span></b></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0.1in 0in; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; line-height: 15pt; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;"> </p><p><span>Google has confirmed its e-mail service GMail was unavailable to the "majority" of its 150 million worldwide users for nearly two hours on Tuesday. The cause of the outage has been identified and the company says problems are unlikely to happen again. </span></p> <p><span>It is not the first time GMail has suffered from an outage. In May a major technical issue affected millions who were unable to use GMail, Google News or its main search engine. Similar outages also occurred in February and March this year.</span></p><p><span>On its official blog Google's Engineering Director David Besbris said, "We know many of you are having trouble accessing Gmail right now - we are too, and we definitely feel your pain," The free GMail service has been ranked as the world's third most popular e-mail program, behind services provided by Microsoft and Yahoo.</span></p><p><span>Users around the globe first experienced problems at 19:45 GMT on Tuesday with both email and chat facilities being affected. According to the company the "widespread outage" lasted about 100 minutes. Google said it took the matter extremely seriously given that many people relied on the service for both personal and professional communications "I'd like to apologize to all of you — today's outage was a Big Deal, and we're treating it as such," said Ben Treynor, Vice President of Engineering and Site Reliability Czar . Following a thorough investigation Google said it was compiling a list of things that needed to be fixed or improved.</span></p><p>One compelling factor to use Hotmail i always see is it's Security, Availability & Reliability.. and that really matters a lot in such situations. If you are using Hotmail you also get a flavor of different addresses such as @live, @hotmail, @msn etc and further the Outlook also functions with Hotmail just after installing Outlook Connector so even if you are not online you can access your downloaded mails and many more benefits which outlook provides you as compared to browser based interface......</p><p>I belief facts mentioned in the link speak more then my blog!</p><p>Explore more: <a href="http://home.live.com/">http://home.live.com/</a></p><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: black;" lang="EN"></span><o:p></o:p> Jibran Jamshadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09454787771914337707noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6917251972863859196.post-37806770649524658302009-08-31T05:52:00.000-07:002009-08-31T06:45:37.871-07:00Designing Prototypes using Sketchflow<img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 183px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 229px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5376118265693975090" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHpW5pkq9DmPGJpcfZxnZ7He170pCR2jQOqvA3XgEINi57xdO-QeM0SiRY5NV_ELnC3zVse88JauxCbl8mx6V2i_KIPV-Z9RpcQieE-_pmnhyphenhyphenMtj8bLt_EMZ8akg4EKGaVxoB7cKr_RUw/s400/US_Prd_Bx_Tilt_L_Expression_Studio_3.png" /> Expression 3 -- > Blend 3; wow! .. Although i didn't got the opportunity to explore a lot of features in it but one thing which i was able to explore is self sufficient to compell you guys to download a 60 days trial version of Blend 3 and experience it. <div><div><div><br /><div>Recently i was in a meeting with two of the Managers at Microsoft regarding the development of a web based portal a lot of work was being done on copy & glass board, at the end i was held responsible to show some initial model / prototype of this portal. Fair enough, i knew what i was supposed to do, i would have unless Naveed Bajwa had asked me, How are you going to show us the model and my reply was "a piece of the art using Visio"..........</div><br /><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5376121260097630562" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgX0bp604MQhUOEkEYJ4snEe2UDE8XosFh72zGjaj8A1rhjjb-pPIftQm2bSH5HZWkHBNHgjzoRVmZLH3G_UL3Dmd39tO7NZz1w-MZwF5uMHoajx9Qj7hNQjM9QAcFxaLbUXsiLZHZGv6o/s400/xBlend1.png" /><br /></div><div><div>Visio & others are a great tools but don't actually target Prototyping and then i came to know that if i was suppose to build some phase1 (RE) diagrams it was perfect, but since i had to show prototypes which are suppose to be the simulation of actual software and need to give a look & feel of reality and have to be interactive and user should be able to provide their feedback on them and ............ so i started exploring Sketchflow Project using Blend 3 as adviced by my senior.<br /></div><div></div><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 391px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 249px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5376118970900558482" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGteJALaJWabVahE2CfDbhxB-ng4LCp64l6rDAvO7Z0OMEVRJfIV2fl7eYuUinTvkuPm9cAICxoFg6UdMMZsdIOnYP2yd-QyzWKSDi4OosUPxV8qMBQKIqK7HXvqwSvuvnD61ekC0Dimk/s400/sketchflow_run12.png" /><br /><div><u>Sketchflow allowed me to do the following:</u></div><br /><div><strong>Developing a site map which cleared the site flow<br /><br /></strong></div><div><strong>UI Screens using, actual controls and drawing tools</strong></div><br /><div><strong>Programming & Scripting the controls & screens</strong></div><br /><div><strong>Interconnecting those screens<br /></strong></div><div><br /><strong>Developing component screens, to be called on other screens</strong></div><br /><div><strong>Running the output in a test player (browser)</strong></div><br /><div><strong>Getting the end user ink feedback on my screens and saving that feedback and sharing internally</strong></div><br /><div><strong>Automatically generating the document of my prototype project</strong></div><br /><br /><div><u>Some helpful searches to get relevent material :)</u></div><br /><div>1) Starter kit of Sketchflow</div><br /><div>2) Sketchflow from Concept to Production Video</div><br /><div>3) Microsoft showcase, Sketchflow part 1 Video</div><br /><div>Link number 1 is a 127 mb starter kit developed by AIG, do explore it....!!</div><br /><div></div><div>Happy Prototyping.!</div><div></div></div></div></div>Jibran Jamshadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09454787771914337707noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6917251972863859196.post-90870207477098640362009-07-14T22:01:00.000-07:002009-07-14T22:35:26.901-07:00IE8, Whats in it for Developers?<div><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 367px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 101px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5358555038692051122" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0_e3pzffvyxuUsoRNe5CkjuMzwwjohqcQc_-vhQ36OD-z1TWrsFhWGc8F1DbUaU809Th21zqir3OWsUkFJIczkj0WSev4pWLsE8xnZ9ASSUR2XNF6qggwvpRm_n1Mql4YKHbIrk5zSjY/s400/ie8logo.gif" />IE 8! wow! fantastic ... not going into the security, performance, UI, UX everyone claims to have these implemented since a decade ... being a developer my major chunk of applications run on Browser be it IE, FF, Chrome, Safari etc etc.. To me since a long time there was a compelling need of a direct interaction between the Developer and the Browser.. to be precise i am referring to the Developer features introduced in IE8. Slices, Accelerators and Visual Search Suggestions. <div> </div><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 188px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5358555939780548818" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilJfqCD5dcZ2AXIVOkSr1RnqLxea7h_QKU_gjGsTymans1SwDTavuvpTJKuT2BhhafbJSyMO6yD_asme7N0ktGC2-Drq49trbpGPw2gu167_ZuGQWkwjy0oSgEJfp7Usc46cljDJ4naHI/s400/IE8_downloadheader.jpg" />The trend of browsing has been changed, go to the IE8 Addon Gallery download a slice, accelerator or search provider and feel the difference.<br /><div><br />Slice as per the name is a small part of the webpage located at your tool bar just click and view the required info without browsing and loading that site. such as we developed a slice for a leading newspaper in pakistan and one can view the latest 'n' news by just clicking on the slice instead going to the actual website.</div><div><br />Accelerator ! wow ! .. lets say what ever terms i don't understand over the web, i go to bing.com, typein there and search them .. but once Microsoft will give me the acclerator for bing.com and even i am on msn.com i will just select that term right click and will search it with bing. my results can be shown in a pop-up on the same page or in a new tab. like this i can have my fav search or definition provider right there on every page i visit over the web.</div><br /><div>Last but not least Search Suggestions, they can just be text or text + visuals, let's say i am an ebay lover now after installing ebay search suggestion i just need to write my desired item in the search box lets say iphone 3g and it is going to query the search suggestion file if it founds the required item it will bring along with the text + visual + description (whatever i provided).. So ebay fans using IE8 are enjoying benefits from it and same goes for a newspaper or tv channel their stories, news can be visually searched using IE8 search suggestion feature.</div><br /><div>In Pakistan we are focusing on its implementation under the guidance of Naveed Bajwa, DPE Lead, MSPK and any queries on this are most welcome. Lot of samples alongwith videos are available on IE8 official website. </div><div><br />Presentation available for download:</div><div><a href="http://cid-866cd84756fa9077.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/Documents/IE8-DevFeatures.pptx">http://cid-866cd84756fa9077.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/Documents/IE8-DevFeatures.pptx</a></div></div>Jibran Jamshadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09454787771914337707noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6917251972863859196.post-48651917290204041072009-07-13T21:40:00.000-07:002009-07-13T22:28:45.247-07:00Team Foundation Server 2008<div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxVwlG5HGbTNiqzaTOlE7oViAp8ZaAO6AK3jpPhaTvk0hgFYt8ByGeO5-pZE_Bzbi2iwzzhaVEg9s4GQm7w_S7-tEot0cs5xXItaylF3DFcHsRWwC75Xc_MUiUNdErt3kvh0eciFB-CAY/s1600-h/vsts.png"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 327px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 156px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5358180730085304546" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxVwlG5HGbTNiqzaTOlE7oViAp8ZaAO6AK3jpPhaTvk0hgFYt8ByGeO5-pZE_Bzbi2iwzzhaVEg9s4GQm7w_S7-tEot0cs5xXItaylF3DFcHsRWwC75Xc_MUiUNdErt3kvh0eciFB-CAY/s400/vsts.png" /></a>This often becomes a little difficult to convenience users to migrate from VSS to TFS as VSS is probably there with us since far more long time and is pretty handy to use, but the problem arises in the following areas:<br /><br />1) Scalability<br />2) Operations & Management<br />3) Recovery<br />4) Extensions<br />5) Performance<br /><br />Many more areas can be added to the above list to prove that TFS is far more ahead then VSS, but how? Firstly if you see it doesn’t talks about only Source Control but it talks about Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) which covers the process straight from writing the very first development document what so ever it may be. VSS was all used to be a code repository and giving one many features to manage code libraries, users, rights, backup, recovery and etc etc. But TFS is certainly a broader picture of the game since it introduces a concept of ALM let’s see what it provides:<br /><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 180px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 178px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5358180894526970290" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFgISjOTJJSPT9kp13q7ueSj2NQqXWr_2B6lEtYiPD5AA4kdRvrCimOBB9kh7W5D4V_xe7ewvp24jQgnSrq-Fso2qT227GH8mbi0H6PtpAbCFujCdezfmdNnGlKwoClWy1bdUvr_wyssI/s400/multipurpose.jpg" />1) Source Control (what VSS was doing)<br />2) Management of Work Items, Bugs, Scenarios etc<br />3) A SharePoint site for every Team Project which focuses on Team Collaboration<br />4) Fast SQL Reporting of Bugs, Remaining Work, Resource Allocation etc<br />5) Proper Management of Development Documents<br />6) Team Build and Release Automation<br />7) And many a more which are there to be explored<br /><br />The point 1 covered what VSS was doing even the source control in TFS is far more advanced and mature as compared to the one we use in VSS with the improved productivity of features like locking, change sets, comparisons and branching.<br /><br />VSS was for small – mid teams but TFS is scalable, VSS Security was Application specific but TFS relies on Windows based security hence the security becomes easy to manage task if you have the AD & proper policies in place, the data stored in VSS was in file system but in TFS it’s in SQL Server which makes reporting, recovery and readability much more enhanced.<br /><br /><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5358182846013107730" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUM3yyoNJpkq4nC_qv36mIgCPDipJK4sIqkM0nfvgq1e4kyRudnAqBQi_o28LLVjTpjV1gMPtDLT-EBkxPIOfUCWKYO2grIOMLCT-a4n9xd3i46-N6xe7BpPXmsDFjohbsY2TNU2OdCZI/s400/IMG_0968.jpg" />TFS is such a strong product was it follows a proper process template, understands different Application Lifecycle roles (PM, Analyst, DBA, Dev etc) and helps everyone to be the part of process further uses the key technologies like SharePoint & SQL Server which are already running in many Data Centers and are not new to IT guys and they can extend & scale the existing functionality of TFS by using its strong API and having in depth understanding of the technologies running at the backend so at the end of the day to me it’s just a scalable tool with front end on SharePoint, VS and backend on SQL Server..<br /><br />There is a lot which is unwritten like its interop behavior where this multipurpose tool has the power to interact with non MS products and heterogeneous platforms.<br />I got the chance to understand this product after attending a few sessions of Naveed Bajwa and then I conducted a couple of seminars on this and a PoC & real time deployment at a Customer location. It is really a fun and worth it exploring & implementing it.<br />I can be contacted for any problems or material required during an part of TFS but only on MS community platform :)<br /></div><div>Again; attached is my presentation given on TFS:http://cid-866cd84756fa9077.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/Documents/TFS.pptx</div></div>Jibran Jamshadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09454787771914337707noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6917251972863859196.post-58221632660577479992009-07-13T02:30:00.001-07:002009-07-13T03:34:26.505-07:00User Experience (UX) at Microsoft<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiK_3JOT3G5GIq7oI_p9AjnIVpUurZCP7Bu1KLj_CGV8D6GRpMBJIRvdVzD_ahqOqEMtzdUOd5dzYAsX6SBEpjCZI1Bx9paUaBdVnf__nI8WHLWIdZdPj4kFceJoaOA9pwgR2EU2mzwhkM/s1600-h/ExpressionStudio2_web.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 97px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 158px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5357888242975826258" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiK_3JOT3G5GIq7oI_p9AjnIVpUurZCP7Bu1KLj_CGV8D6GRpMBJIRvdVzD_ahqOqEMtzdUOd5dzYAsX6SBEpjCZI1Bx9paUaBdVnf__nI8WHLWIdZdPj4kFceJoaOA9pwgR2EU2mzwhkM/s400/ExpressionStudio2_web.jpg" /></a>During April Michael Koster, Designer Marketing Manager, Microsoft CEE HQ visited Pakistan and brought a new concept of "User Experience" into my life, he was supposed to deliver trainings on Expression Studio covering WPF, Silverlight etc but the way he started off with things was really fantastic. I got the chance to grasp this concept from him and was later able to share this within the community..<br /><br /><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 288px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 204px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5357888492323211970" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8f4kxUiD1gh4yoqTkpr4VNi3tcNRq09ljpOJC2XYqo0vtiDolYKoSolI7b7GEdK1mlGHnNglY6w7HMIdSkvXty15iTobLG0BEBq7HtGxxakUY7SJYBzzdRd5qx7Rw8_Iyj3Jr-DVbvtQ/s400/UX5.jpg" />The UX some what tells us that designing great sofware is not only the science but is an art activity too and too often we miss or ignore the Art part of any application or software which ends up increasing User's frustration and the Users claim our application as to be unintutive, ugly and low performance however we have putted in our best of the best which designing and developing them.<br /><br />One thing which we are required to understand being an IT application developer that we often miss the user while developing a craft but the Users don't they really care about it and the "Experience of the User is the Product". If it's good your product is good, if bad then bad.<br /><br />The attached presentation highlights 4 basic elements of the UX which are fucntionality, beauty, affinity and the story which revolves around.<br /><br />Most of the people think while sitting at MS one shouldn't not be taking about the UX i think this is not appropriate our transition from XP to Win 7, from Office 2003 to 2007 the UX has been taken care a lot, which can be proved and seen from the attached presentation.<br /><br />Microsoft Expression Studio is an excellent product facilitating the Designer & Developer workflow, which helps designer & developers to stay in their own world, work with their own tools in their respective way but can easily share their deliverables with each other and can easily integrate their work pieces with other deliverables.<br /><br /><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5357888972368881410" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXPIYhHGSYK4dYb6ZM8Qn2Ef1mb2En6BOJOLQ0IMiMyGA2zShYziG-VcdH_t-n9MSsCCn6iTQhvQaw7CXJf5or-g0JM6q-YQNxWj35_pjjgdeYlOKdEdybnUQ9GwBPzEV9E39ZG8SdqYo/s400/UXpic1.JPG" />I presented on UX & Expression Studio at Sheraton hotel during i guess April end where around 60+ Customer Organizations were present. The main theme of the session was "Microsoft Developer Network" MSDN. Naveed Bajwa, DPE Lead MSPK was the key speaker of this seminar giving a great presentation on Visual Studio Team System 2008 and discussing it's Architecture and Technical aspects where as he was also facilitated by Viqar Madni, Partner Account Manager, MSPK who helped customers to develop a good understanding on licencing and deployment model of VSTS within their organization.<br /><br /><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5357890624846289474" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEji168vqc2KkNJglv7dmaSYzgLidz5F9vW3jYHfexcS-9bljF2QKz80lqwIV2DJOX0pAoVQvs_cqPDgtO9iEheJs5GEjAsFjqHqnrBo3U19VHQdpRy5KwmHhcWAkSUf3DVJqNSdXJ9s2i4/s400/UXpic2.JPG" />My presentation was of around 30 mins in which nearly half of the time was taken developing the base on UX and rest exploring different products under Expression Studio 2. A small live demo on developing a WPF application by a designer and developer was also given to the audience in order to further brush-up the discussion.<br />Presentation: <a href="http://cid-866cd84756fa9077.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/Documents/UX%20Introduction%20and%20Overview.pptx">http://cid-866cd84756fa9077.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/Documents/UX%20Introduction%20and%20Overview.pptx</a>Jibran Jamshadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09454787771914337707noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6917251972863859196.post-38437424628401489292009-07-12T23:26:00.000-07:002009-07-12T23:45:15.496-07:00BI as I see ....<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieno89prcCgaj_nDiDmhwVttJRhRoPf6vQNLQE82874qNh6eXu0LAwGJocf3N54TKKJM8WTcyCX4u5t3pz2SOO0XiEvikxsvxfRwNtfHzTeD1-K-lAKP6aYapTjth8VzJ-_liWDgJOkm8/s1600-h/MicrosoftSQL_2008_Logo.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 83px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5357830987997191122" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieno89prcCgaj_nDiDmhwVttJRhRoPf6vQNLQE82874qNh6eXu0LAwGJocf3N54TKKJM8WTcyCX4u5t3pz2SOO0XiEvikxsvxfRwNtfHzTeD1-K-lAKP6aYapTjth8VzJ-_liWDgJOkm8/s400/MicrosoftSQL_2008_Logo.jpg" /></a> Today Business Intelligence (BI) is considered to be one of those technologies who have got the required acceptability from Vendors and has been implemented as a part of modern data management & warehousing systems. I would not say that this is the most latest technology on which computer programmers are working if i give a compare shot against AOSE; CLP or Semantic Web... but the edge which now a days is being given to BI is not available to the above mentioned and many a more. This is because that this technology is out of schools unlike others and is implemented in all time great products from commercial vendors and is filling the required gap.<br /><br /><div>Countries which are not considered to be the part of 3rd world have computer systems in place atleast since 2 decades and coming at this point they have their Data in TBs or atleast GBs, but in various formats, various locations.</div><br /><div>One might be aware of statistical, mathematical tools and theories to dig and mine information out of the data but it sometimes becomes useless when your data is not:</div><br /><div>1) Integrated</div><br /><div>2) In the required Analysis format</div><br /><div>3) Reportable</div><br /><div>SQL Server 2005 and later versions comes with a BI Studio which helps an enterprise to easily integrate data from various datasources tailor it for DW, perform mining and analysis and then report in the desirable formats.</div><br /><div>I got the chance to conduct a 3 days comprehensive hands on session for one of the Partners attached are the presentations i compiled and delivered during those 3 days and for Hands on Labs i can be contacted directly but would not be able to share here!.<br /></div><br /><div><a href="http://cid-866cd84756fa9077.skydrive.live.com/browse.aspx/Documents/BI%203%20Days">http://cid-866cd84756fa9077.skydrive.live.com/browse.aspx/Documents/BI%203%20Days</a></div><div></div>Jibran Jamshadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09454787771914337707noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6917251972863859196.post-18950242341598804392009-07-02T03:56:00.000-07:002009-07-12T23:22:09.826-07:00Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5<div align="justify"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvD_H4Ytgh3jDnC8a4Fo_EnQX5hU9bEx3ZTfMVe9NIOrn0AvcCs5qxcvOIYhG_8zWBipFTh4clkHZcgsnnC5pEC6BbUp_uWB54hh9tLapuUKlehuBENRlKVipEuXInCnn-20c3ZHTBbuo/s1600-h/dotnet3.5.bmp"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 238px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 115px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5357825585811619570" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvD_H4Ytgh3jDnC8a4Fo_EnQX5hU9bEx3ZTfMVe9NIOrn0AvcCs5qxcvOIYhG_8zWBipFTh4clkHZcgsnnC5pEC6BbUp_uWB54hh9tLapuUKlehuBENRlKVipEuXInCnn-20c3ZHTBbuo/s400/dotnet3.5.bmp" /></a> During last fiscal year i got the opportunity to communicate with around 20 faculty members from around 8 institutions of Sind region for a 3 days learning get together on .NET Framework 3.5 & Visual Studio 2008. The workshop started from the zero point and covered nearly all the basic concepts of .NET Framework and then jumped on to latest tools and libraries including AJAX, WCF, WPF, Threading etc and etc.<br /><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 358px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 246px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5357825242019743922" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDOAP-fnpetMmFvAjD3ysEMG8xe6eKSKrjEvcMJzGIBFiJ-jIpzoOQVmJDSh8w91jPiZwo3mYZSRF7zHUyPAaVpTiokvfTdgWZ8toijv-xNwRCMYOiI0hI-KHhlv8dUYly4ut3gAu4bmM/s400/AB1.jpg" />Where as the basics is concerned attached is the presentation i delivered during the first half on day 1.<br /><a href="http://cid-866cd84756fa9077.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/Documents/DotNet%20Concepts.ppt">http://cid-866cd84756fa9077.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/Documents/DotNet%20Concepts.ppt</a><br />Any discussion and queries on this are welcome.<br /></div>Jibran Jamshadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09454787771914337707noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6917251972863859196.post-51068128296360266242009-07-02T03:42:00.000-07:002009-07-03T04:08:37.757-07:00SQL Server 2008 (Management Studio)<div align="center"><br /></div><div align="center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdkVHG-p4m_awP9rPvbj57fpAso4Bv8O7K1BkWI7EgZqB1FAqsaHbI1Rp1_QfTe8GkIJLukilaf7p5RCVm0UpVPPjjshEKOXA_xATh79hFz5_qzJkF2rEkChQfGccCJrfg4TAdoSenYOQ/s1600-h/MicrosoftSQL_2008_Logo.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 83px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5354179553582301330" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdkVHG-p4m_awP9rPvbj57fpAso4Bv8O7K1BkWI7EgZqB1FAqsaHbI1Rp1_QfTe8GkIJLukilaf7p5RCVm0UpVPPjjshEKOXA_xATh79hFz5_qzJkF2rEkChQfGccCJrfg4TAdoSenYOQ/s400/MicrosoftSQL_2008_Logo.jpg" /></a><br /><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 267px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 193px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5354180780533862610" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6QimSO1arusRsz651T4nydl9SwWPFTaZpRuC_R99n9acQGyCstN95Ds2niX8Ha71RAKUXL9cAhX0vJYhexWS9SBwSnDZjSXiU-ZHtNLeivh9EE2FjTFlKN29pYgSY8Z3r-5Qu0cD0dTY/s400/AB2.JPG" /></div><p align="center"><span style="font-size:85%;">I conducted 3 days HoL for Faculty on SQL Server 2008 in Dec '08</span></p><span style="font-size:85%;"></span><p align="justify"><br />SQL Sever 2008 comes with a bundle of fearures making the life of developer's and dba's quiet easy, the management studio is aided with some powerful tools and operations by which it becomes much more seucre and managable as compared to ever before. This year few of it's features were deeply discussed during Microsoft Academia in a Box Training and Enterprise TechTalk seminar held at the MIC, i conducted both these events the features under the discussion were Policy Management, Resource Governor, Change Data Capture (CDC), Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) and Management Data Warehouse (MDW) etc.<br /></p><p align="justify"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 260px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 193px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5354179917088708114" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMpaV27Jt5JwmNkFmEo1iJAl7nmHkILB-gXD7jqc0iyMM6KHg_rV_6cDLEya6H0KsRBtXiq_nwWqTPzu4RjHvC0nMopFtSqmBzPcbXA4Jv7aZELwVayK6G9EfRfMJoEhvDwQCFu7mmYFY/s400/AB3.JPG" /> </p><div align="justify"><br />The presentation attached with this note contains very relevant information with respect to Microsoft Data Platform vision and Modern DBs. Further it also targets those users who are currently working on Non MS DB Platform and want to migrate to SQL Server, for them SSMA ( SQL Server Migration Assistant) is the right tool for seamless migration with around 90% + accuracy on an enterprise level DB. As far as my personal experience is concerned it has worked more than 98% + Accuratley while Migrating from Oracle (9i, 10g) to SQL Sever 2005. </div><div align="justify"> </div><div align="justify"> </div><div align="justify"></div><div align="justify"></div><div align="left"></div><div align="center"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 245px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 249px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5354182520420226354" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg64EWHbo24-nr7KheJ8PcOkO_s3zpxLMiYbGWF7v5CYg9vA2kN2oEpGwTXLsHBqXTD8iD-dspFt2OwwUaT2XcvkTZvYoY3x4BDEadGbTNw-YTKVIlrJylOokRr3mxvZo4p1TF4yBPF6nU/s400/SQL08-1.JPG" /><span style="font-size:85%;">Addressing the Developers at Enterprise TechTalk semiar held at MIC </span></div><div align="justify"> </div><div align="justify"><br />Any discussions on any content of this presentation are welcome. </div><div align="justify"><a href="http://cid-866cd84756fa9077.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/Documents/SQL%20Server%202008.pptx">http://cid-866cd84756fa9077.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/Documents/SQL%20Server%202008.pptx</a> (Download Presentation)</div>Jibran Jamshadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09454787771914337707noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6917251972863859196.post-23501826096491287302009-07-02T02:44:00.000-07:002009-07-02T02:55:28.215-07:00SQL Server, always my first choice...Through last 5 years i have been a dedicated resource on MS Platform except one year stay at Melbourne Uni, SQL Server and me have always been remained together whether it be a role of Developer, DBA, Lead or Consultant. At Microsoft i got further exposure of this product and became MCTS for BI Development in last one year i have dozen of SQL Server engagements with Microsoft community out of which mostly took place at MIC. These trainings, seminars have addressed around hundreds of community members inlcuding Students, Academicians, Developers & IT Pros. In my coming blogs i would be uploading some demos and presentations related to my work on SQL Server during last one year which will be covering the roles of BI, Developer & DBA.Jibran Jamshadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09454787771914337707noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6917251972863859196.post-1917326579899838642009-07-02T01:21:00.000-07:002009-07-05T22:56:22.118-07:00Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Seminar held at Microsoft Innovation Center, Pakistan on Jan 15th '08<div align="left"><u><strong>Referenced from MIC Annual Report</strong></u></div><div align="left"><strong><u></u></strong> </div><div align="left"><strong><u></u></strong></div><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 210px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 172px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5355212192391917554" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRjiPhvADyOu4OSgiXrXz7OA-xZu_U-w8VZDWJQDyyyAUdZGTVTq5KcxCG9bIQ6xsIEeEOzDfRNnBiQX864k_s4lnrxVCWHDnGCNn5VxXiKPtWYQipcycjuvrAVpIcqCgEhCV6MAodowc/s400/SQL05-2.jpg" /> <div align="justify">This seminar was exclusively organized for the students from different universities which covered the history and evolution of different versions of SQL Server. The emphasis was on exploring and getting familiar to SQL Server 2005, understanding how it is meant for developers and how can we leverage its rich features and capabilities. The discussion led to a live demo focusing on BI Development Studio and how to use “SSIS” SQL Server Integration Services. Later on there was a small talk on upcoming products & certification. Jibran Jamshad, Technology Consultant MIC - Pakistan was the speaker of this seminar. (Presentation is available for Download) </div><div align="justify"><a href="http://cid-866cd84756fa9077.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/Documents/SQL%20Server%202005.ppt">http://cid-866cd84756fa9077.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/Documents/SQL%20Server%202005.ppt</a></div>Jibran Jamshadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09454787771914337707noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6917251972863859196.post-4154515948152821862009-03-06T03:30:00.001-08:002009-03-06T03:31:30.890-08:00Inspiration ... by Faiz A Faiz<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFh6b_2Vf7SHFrZp59Ni8qL3BlSdeSpeY_RlupoOWFWJTINaudCfjUYMufouTEtLETmDT13i51GouUs3K1lrdIDjo00MCH1eNFV4MkAHNxNC1ZJZ38ZnQBMdNfvHVsmiSLx0x9cKBPD-k/s1600-h/Picture1.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5310035797572422802" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 271px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFh6b_2Vf7SHFrZp59Ni8qL3BlSdeSpeY_RlupoOWFWJTINaudCfjUYMufouTEtLETmDT13i51GouUs3K1lrdIDjo00MCH1eNFV4MkAHNxNC1ZJZ38ZnQBMdNfvHVsmiSLx0x9cKBPD-k/s400/Picture1.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div></div>Jibran Jamshadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09454787771914337707noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6917251972863859196.post-84633895623612626092009-03-06T02:14:00.000-08:002009-03-06T02:58:43.575-08:00Installing SQL Server Compact Edition on Wondows based Mobile device<span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;">Yesterday, i had some fun playing with SQL Server compact edition and installing it to my windows based mobile deivce, simple steps required to perform are:</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;">1) Download SQL Server Compact Edition</span><br /><a href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=85e0c3ce-3fa1-453a-8ce9-af6ca20946c3&displaylang=en"><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;">http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=85e0c3ce-3fa1-453a-8ce9-af6ca20946c3&displaylang=en</span></a><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;">2) Install it to your machine (Simple Installation Process)</span><br /><p><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;">3) Once it is installed, you are required to copy a three cab files to your mobile and install them (Engine & Query Analyzer)<br /><br /></span><a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms171875.aspx"><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;">http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms171875.aspx</span></a><br /><a href="http://www.christec.co.nz/blog/archives/253"><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;">http://www.christec.co.nz/blog/archives/253</span></a><br /><a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms172361.aspx">http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms172361.aspx</a><br /><a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms171773.aspx"><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;">http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms171773.aspx</span></a><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;">4) To connect your mobile device to your PC you need ActiveSync software<br /></span><a href="http://www.microsoft.com/windowsmobile/en-us/help/synchronize/device-synch.mspx"><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;">http://www.microsoft.com/windowsmobile/en-us/help/synchronize/device-synch.mspx</span></a></p><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;">5) On every step do visit the link posted under it.. Good Luck :)</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;">Play with Query Analyzer on your machine, Connect your compact edition from SQL Server Management, BI and Visual Studio environments...</span><br /><a href="http://www.devx.com/MicrosoftISV/Article/34341"><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;">http://www.devx.com/MicrosoftISV/Article/34341</span></a><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;"></span>Jibran Jamshadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09454787771914337707noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6917251972863859196.post-35592317230067679502009-03-03T21:34:00.000-08:002009-03-03T23:02:24.213-08:00Things you need to check while purchasing IMate<span style="font-family:verdana;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-size:85%;">I have been an IMate user since a long time and have used some of their devices, there are a few issues and problems which are common in their platform, hence while purchasing your IMate phone have a look around below points:</span></span><br /><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;">1) It must be running Windows Mobile 6, as there is a huge difference btw the performance of windows mobile 5 & 6.</span><br /><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;">2) Speakers are usually of low quality and the result is poor when you take a call on loud speaker</span><br /><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;">3) Low Battery Life as compared to other mobile phones.</span><br /><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;">4) GPRS hangs after regular intervals and phone service is required to be restarted.</span><br /><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;">5) In Country like Pakistan there is no direct support for IMate and they partner with service providers like UM so once there is a problem, your life is likea Hell ! unless you get in touch directly with their Dubai office for support but that is delivered via service partner.</span><br /><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;">6) The life of screen is not that much again and can give you trouble.</span><br /><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;">7) Guys sitting at UM & IMate are really helpful, if you are able to approach them, i have experience this twice.</span><br /><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;">8) No body agrees to buy your 2nd hand IMate phone.</span><br /><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;">9) Camers quality is not upto the Mark.</span><br /><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;">10) While transferring the objects via bluetooth with any other cell phone you can get some hard time.</span><br /><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;">IMate offers you cheap windows based mobile solutions but the advance features of these phones can start bugging your passion !.....</span><br /><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;">This review has been taken by using IMate JAMA, JAQ3, SPL.....</span>Jibran Jamshadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09454787771914337707noreply@blogger.com0