Guest: Shlomi Fanan

Music: Crying Is Done by Melodrome



Short comparison of the two main databases today using medium and large companies.

Including some new features, strengths and weaknesses.

Guest appearance of Shlomi with “The Database at the Core of Exchange 2007″.

Sigal”s link

"Features,
strengths and weaknesses comparison between MS SQL 2005 (Yukon) and Oracle 10g
databases"



SQL

Download
SQL Server 2008

Sharing Microsoft
SQL server 2005 Database in the LAN network

Download SQL

SQL Backup Checklist

Moving the
Tempdb and Master Database in SQL Server

SQL podcast http://www.sswug.org/sswugradio/

video podcast SQL Server basics

Oracle

Oracle 11g is expected to be released later in 2007

the, major reason for the upgrade appears to be better security features and
compliance management.

The two main features: Audit vault and
Information lifecycle management

Oracle Podcast

Exchange Database

Exchange
Transactions and the Exchange Database Overview

Episode 16

Exchange 2007 overview and Google email migration tool

Join us when we talk about Microsoft Exchange 2007 with our Special guest Shlomi Fanan

Also include listener questions.

Enjoy …

Exchange 2007

Exchange 2007 was Design for 64 bit / 32 bit is a taste

64bit only: there are 32-bit version of Exchange 2007 but only the 64-bit version on Windows Server 2003 x64 will be supported.



SBS: if
you want to incorporate Exchange 2007 into your SBS organization, you
will need to have a standalone 64bit Windows Server 2003 as a member
server in your SBS domain.

Custom Exchange installation

Exchange 2007 rules Video

Upgrade Info
No
In place upgrade – Install New Exchange server, Move Mailboxes and
remove old Exchange 2003 Server / you have to remove the connectors
before you can move the member
Move mailbox can be scheduled
Then you can uninstall the old server (You’ll need the Exchange CD in order to UN install)
You’ll need to Display Routing Group in order to see it

Exchange 2007 Videos

Part 1 - Introduction to all of the new features that will be covered in the reviews (3.5 minutes)
Part 2 - disaster recovery features (13 minutes)
Part 3 - Unified Messaging (12 minutes)
Part 4 - Outlook Web Access 2007 (27 minutes)
Part 5 - Mobility features (13 minutes)
Part 6 - 64-bit technology (11 minutes)
Part 7 - management features (21 minutes)
Part 8 - compliance features (17 minutes)
Part 9 - edge services (6.5 minutes)

Exchange Podcasts:

TechNet Webcast: Exchange Server 2007 Overview (Level 200)

TechNet Webcast: Key Exchange Server 2007 Scenarios (Level 300)

Google

Announced support for the Imap protocol

We are able now to export all of the e-mail account out of any IMAP compatible server



How?

A new email migration tool
by Google, self-service wizard which uses the IMAP protocol to suck all
the e-mail out of an IMAP compatible server like Microsoft’s Exchange
and import it into an organization’s instance

of Google Apps.



After the migration process we should be able to access Gmail's new address book by clicking on "choose from contacts" link.

Articles and podcasts from Zdnet

Thanks Zimbra, Hello Google Apps

More articles: Google BlogSpot



The first question is what substitute do we move to and why?

Why should we consider moving off from Exchange Server to a substitute Server?

All are available today for free of charge.

Otherwise we have to purchase a license from Microsoft, both for the OS and for the Exchange.

Pricing

What is Google Apps? Intro

The biggest problem with the Google Apps service is that it can’t go into an offline mode.

But now that Google has introduced Google Gears

See Migration to Google Apps article for more info

Conclusions

we don’t think google can offer a real alternative for Ms Exchange

Though for small business it can be much chipper solution (up to 30 uses).

But!



Maybe something will change in the near future…

Upcoming episode (17): For all who find the Databases world interesting:

Next episode we will be focusing on “Databases
Exchange Databases

What is a database?

What are the types?

How to choose the correct database for your needs?

Shlomi will be joining us again to talk about the Exchange Databases aspects.

AudioPill Episode 15

Email services, Antivirus &
Firewall Comparison



Which Antivirus product is really
working?

Which Web based Email should you
use?

How can I check if my Firewall is any good?

What is the deal
with Torrentspy?

What is Web Scraping?

Listen to the podcast: Here

For the Hebrew guide: here


For the English guide: here


Song Track: Jagged Love- Melodrome

Check out Tags: Here



News… Torrentspy
Warning!

Begin tracking its users TorrentSpy will be required
to keep server log files detailing its users’ activities while on site,
including IP addresses and torrent files downloaded TorrentSpy has to Spy…


What to do? Browse Anonymously
more...here (BitTorrent
clients: uTorrent,
BitComet).



Antivirus & Firewall Comparison Avira antivirus and Comodo firewall scored the best results in the comparison
and leak tests performed by independent Internet security Matousec and AV-Comparatives Avira Comparatives Test Comodo
Personal
Firewall Analysis Leak-tests

Mail Services -Comparison
Hotmail
Live Vs
Gmail Vs YahooMail The
next-generation editions of Yahoo Mail, Gmail, and Hotmall Webmail
services- Free email comparison Hotmail
Live ,Office
live Currently in beta



Windows Live Hotmail Info, Video,2 sign-up , download
the latest build New version of Outlook
Connector, replaces Outlook express & windows mail on Vista Online E-mail
client, No ads & Free! Looks like Outlook, Offers 2 GB storage Replaces
Outlook express & windows mail on Vista



Microsoft Statistics: According to Microsoft Hotmail have 280 million
users and 47 Million already using Hotmail live. New Features: new version of
outlook connector Competitions on the market: Gmail
& YahooMail
& Office Live Comparison Chart

General Statistics: Windows Live Search saw its searches drop nearly 10
percent from a year ago, while Google’s rose more than 22 percent, according to
figures released this week from Nielsen/NetRatings. Google has 50.8 percent
market share, followed by Yahoo at 23.6 percent and Microsoft with only 8.4
percent.



Google Vs
Microsoft Google
Docs & Spreadsheets vs Microsoft Office Google
Apps

Includes Web-based calendar, e-mail, chat, word processing and spreadsheet
software.

Microsoft has already offline products like” outlook but they are not free
Google Gears offer a browser extension which Microsoft doesn’t.

Google Apps are more lightweights as for the security, web applications will
run JavaScript in a Sandboxie mode
Trust No Program Wikipedia



Other products: zoho Google also has an office suite Zoho Office in their Google
Apps Premier Edition

Video
Demo

zimbra
Overview,

Flash Demo So How will it look
like when Google office goes offline?

Scrybe –Video
demo (Office Apps and a new kind of online/Offline orgnazer).

I’ll say that again: it’s a Web
application, but when you’re not online, it still works.

Other
web-based office products

In Overall
we
prefer Gmail (and Google Apps ) over
all other webmail applications because performance (speed) is consistently
fast, and emails can be tagged making search much more effective.

Web
Scraping is essentially reverse engineering of HTML pages. It can also
be thought of as parsing out chunks of information from a page. Web pages are
coded in HTML, which uses a tree-like structure to represent the information.
The actual data is mingled with layout and rendering information and is not
readily available to a computer. Scrapers are the programs that “know” how to
get the data back from a given HTML page. They work by learning the details of
the particular markup and figuring out where the actual data is. For example,
in the illustration below the scraper extracts URLs from the del.icio.us page.
By applying such a scraper, it is possible to discover what URLs are tagged
with any given tag.

Related topics: Exchange 2007, Silverlight, Silverlight
& co, Online &
Offline Wars, Web-Mail
based services Comparison Drop us a mail at: AudioPill@gmail.com Also
Checkout AudioPill Free Software Download Page Here

Listen to the podcast: Silverlight
Go to main Site: Icast
Guest: Yosi Taguri | Developer & Platform Adoption Group | Microsoft Israel
http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/yosit

New Microsoft 3d picture technology
importing all of your photos to a 3d medial organizer
Use web crawling to complete your views
Requirements: turn on graphics hardware acceleration

When Web Sites Become Web Services?

When the browser become the platform
A platform that allows you to use web-based technologies such as JavaScript etc. on the desktop.
User can interact with the javascript display to edit data or view new data
web browsing with 3D experience
POPfly by Microsoft Silverlight
Microsoft takes on yahoo pipes with new popfly web app
Top Banana: is really amazing video editing software created for Silverlight by Metaliq.
Metaliq demo
It runs in the web browser, cross-platform, developing with Silverlight 1.1. Video
As with Adobe’s Flash (Flex , Apollo), Silverlight will also have development tools for designers and developers to create embedded content.
Download , Overview.

Firefox Cario

Cairo is great for drawing scalable interactive user interfaces, as
well as video overlays, information visualization, maps, graphs and
data driven graphics!

Firefox 3.0
Currently in version 2.0.0.4) Mozilla Firefox Update 2.0.0.
Code Name: “Gran Paradiso“
Look Like this
Improvements to the password manager
provide a wide range of improvements to performance, stability, Protections and security.
Features: Offline Web applications Web Page Tagging, Smart Folders, Saved searches,
Private Browsing: Put Firefox into a temporary state where no information about the
User’s browsing session is stored locally.

Also includes a new graphics rendering engine, codenamed
“Cairo”: a hint that Firefox might be moving into territory owned by
Adobe Flash and being greedily coveted by Microsoft?
Mozilla Foundation CEO Mitchell Baker says running web apps offline is
a top priority for Firefox, and shipping versions already have some of
the capability built in!

Internet Online /Offline Desktop Applications
Lets start with simple example:
iTunes is a classic example of this, with
both an offline component available all the time, and a seamlessly
integrated online component available when connected.

Songbird is an even better solution.
can surf to any website, not just one company’s dedicated store pages.

Google Gear
Articles: zdnet article , API Developer’s Guide , Video
What Is? Gears is a browser extension that will enable people to access their Web applications when working offline.

Current Products: A look at google Reader the
first Gears-enabled program from Google is Reader, which is an RSS
(Really Simple Syndication) feed reader for blogs and news items.

Google Gear
requires: Database: sql lite

LocalWebServer Cache and serve application resources (HTML, JavaScript, images, etc.) locally
WorkerPool Allows web applications to run JavaScript code in the background, without blocking the main page’s script execution.
Under 1 megabyte in size!

API:
The Company intends to work with all web community members to establish
a standard which provides a consistent API for developers for offline
functionality.

Google said Google Gears introduces new JavaScript APIs for data
storage, multi-threading and application caching features, enabling
developers to bring offline capabilities to complex web applications.
It confirmed the technology works with the main browsers on the Windows, Mac and Linux platforms.

Hotmail Live ,Office live
Currently in beta
Windows Live Hotmail Info, Video,2 sign-up , download the latest build
New version of Outlook Connector, replaces Outlook express & windows mail on Vista
Online E-mail client, No ads & Free!
Looks like Outlook, Offers 2 GB storage
Replaces Outlook express & windows mail on Vista

Microsoft Statistics:
According to Microsoft Hotmail have 280 million users and 47 Million already using Hotmail live. New Features: new version of outlook connector
Competitions on the market: Gmail & YahooMail

General Statistics: Windows Live Search saw its
searches drop nearly 10 percent from a year ago, while Google’s rose
more than 22 percent, according to figures released this week from
Nielsen/NetRatings. Google has 50.8 percent market share, followed by
Yahoo at 23.6 percent and Microsoft with only 8.4 percent.

Trust No Program Wikipedia
Google also has an office suite Zoho Office in their Google Apps Premier Edition
Video Demo
So How will it look like when Google office goes offline?

zimbra Zimbra Overview

Episode 8: Time to reinstall

Good news: Vmware workstation 6 & VM Player 2 are now supports Vista
You need to turn UAC off if you’re running on Vista!
Control Panel//User Accounts and click Turn User Account Control on or off

Windows Installation (pre)

Windows Updates Tip
It is dangers to stay without Windows updates even for 1 minuet
So maybe it’s safer to download the updates before you install windows
Make sure you have at least the Windows XP with SP-2 CD or use Autopatcher to download it manually. Howto

Widows Activation
First thing you got to do is make sure
you have all of the widows updates
But before you do that, make sure your Windows is Genie
Validate your copy of Windows is genuine: Mgadiag exe
Yes? /run windows updates
No? /Change to a Genie serial
Change the product key on Windows XP: c:\windows\system32\oobe\msoobe.exe /a
Can also use: ProduKey utility to
display the ProductID and the CD-Key

AudioPill uses Firefox (Click here if you want the Portable Edition)
FireFox add-ons: IE Tab, Speed Test, Tab Effect, NoScript, Torbutton
More Info: Firefox Facts,
Windows Media Player Plugin, Test
Note: If you choose to stay with IE make sure: Article , Browser Article

PC Decrapifier attempts to remove all of the crap on your PC that you never asked for.

Parasite detectors

Security Tips

Web Single Sign - Multi factor authentication
Something physical (card), something you are (fingerprint), something you remember (Pass).
I used to use RoboForm

How to surf the Web & read e-mail safely as an administrator
Basically, you create a shortcut using dropmyrights.exe
pointing to the application you want to run as a limited user. Download DropMyRights.msi here

Useable commands Start, Run:

Set Windows Firewall on /off: netsh firewall set opmode mode = enable

Check listening ports: netstat –a -b
Fport: Identify unknown open ports and their associated applications
SuperScan Port scanner

JkDefrag

What is my IP public Address: Tor Check, showmyip, ipid

GRC: SecurAble Determine Processor Security Features

Online Password Generator (GRC)

Online:
Logmein: 100% FREE to use View Flash Demo

Gotomypc: 30 days trial GoToMeeting

Webex: 14 days trial, quicktour

Remote SSH: putty.exe

Repair & Recover

Windows XP Preinstalled Environment (PE-Builder + XPE Plugin) Howto, Video
Password Renew Must use it under WinPE/BartPE

TTCS OSSWIN CD v1.74: a
collection of over 100 Free/Open
Source software CD Spiceworks : IT management software

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Listen to the podcast: Here
Song Track: Noam Peled: This Time
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Tech Issues: Is Microsoft  dead? Upcoming Microsoft Products:
Vista and Longhorn, Fiji, Vienna , DPM , Hypervisor
Tips: DVI, Online Video Converter
How to login to your Mail using IE/Firefox with different account?
Google Web History..Ho my god
And Zude 

Quick Tips:
Online Video/Audio File Converters:  without the need to download SOFTWARE
http://www2.zamzar.com
http://mux.am/

Upcoming Web 2.0 Product: 5g.com

Zude tool remixes the Web:Switzerland of the social Web, Fifth Generation Systems

combines the virtues of online web application development with a near-real-time test and debug capability.
and with a click-to-host service that — now here's the rub — costs the
developer next to nothing to get into full production

Client Side:
Vista Service Pack 1 (code name Fiji).
Next Window Client: Windows Vienna

Server Side:
Microsoft Windows Server, Code Name: "Longhorn" (Vista is the client).
Longhorn default is 64 bit, 32 bit will have an extension of 32 bit
Download Link for Longhorn:Currently in beta 3, you can download an ISO and install it on your machine.http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver/longhorn/default.mspx

Virtual Technologies: Longhorn will be virtualization-ready
Microsoft's Windows Hypervisor technology, code-named Viridian
Note: Linux vendors embracing hypervisor technology similar to Viridian. 

Hypervisor technology
Open-source virtualization foundation called Xen
A thin hypervisor layer (Low-level software burn on the chip)
It provide a real failover and dynamic resource allocation features you’ll find in an enterprise product