As MS blogs go, this one’s been quite active, and attracted a good number of hits/month. I hope you found it useful.

Thank you all, for your visits and for motivating me to keep sharing.

Best wishes!

My personal blog where I put all my food recipes and other bits of info is at https://kailashkalyani.wordpress.com – I’ll post any updates there from now on.

Just out! Looks like we’ll be rocking our UC business bigtime! Watch out competitors…

https://support.microsoft.com/kb/2543367

A hotfix has been released and you may download it via the support article listed above.

After application, please ensure you see the following in your Date & Time settings.

Original Post:

The Egyptian government announced on Wednesday 20 April 2011 that summer daylight saving time (DST) will be canceled in Egypt. By default, all windows platforms configured with Egypt time zone (GMT+02:00) Cairo will start the DST by the last Thursday of April by adding one hour at 28 April 2011 @ 23:59:59.

In response to that, we’ve immediately initiated the creation of an update (hotfix) to help accommodating this new change.

Due to the very limited lead time provided to us for creating this update, we are being challenged by the hotfix release mandatory testing and packaging procedures. Unfortunately we couldn’t kick off the hotfix creation earlier because such widely impacting updates must be supported by an official government decree.

As a workaround, to deactivate daylight saving settings and avoid adding an hour by the last Thursday of April, the “Automatically Adjust Clock for Daylight Saving” checkbox needs to be unchecked. Automated ways for Windows 2008 R2, Windows 7, Windows XP and Windows 2003 are listed below. Unfortunately, there is no automation in toggling this checkbox in Windows 2008 and Vista, it will need to be done manually.

Please contact your Technical Account Manager for more details, assistance or further inquiries ….

Best regards,

Microsoft Egypt Premier Support Team

Issue:

Windows Daylight Saving Time (DST) Will be canceled in Egypt 

Symptoms:

Your computer's clock may start the daylight saving time (adding 1 hour) on the last Thursday of April at 23:59:59, and it may end the daylight saving time (deducting 1 hour) on the last Thursday of September at 11:59:59 PM.

However, in Egypt, daylight saving time has been canceled, and there is no need to add or deduct this 1 hour.  
The behavior will only occur if the Date/Time Properties settings are set to the following:

•	Time Zone is set to (GMT+02:00) Cairo. -and-
•	The Automatically adjust clock for daylight saving changes check box is selected.

Business Impact:

· Active Directory Replication fails.

· Users will be unable to join / logon to all Active Directory Domains.

· The Global Catalog server is unavailable, and the Exchange services cannot be started.

· Users are not able to access their e-mail as the Exchange Server services are down.

· The Free/busy calendar information will show the old time (One extra hour).

· Calendar appointments will be off by 1 hour.

Resolution:

          Any of following resolution can be used:

· Microsoft Windows7 and Microsoft Windows server 2008 R2

“Automatically adjust clock for daylight saving changes” can be disabled by using a built-in command line utility called Tzutil.exe:

- Tzutil.exe /s “Egypt Standard Time_dstoff”

The above command will clear the DST checkbox. You can run this command in a script file to force the change on all Win7/2k8 R2 machines. It’s recommended that you re-type this command rather than copy/paste from email.

· Microsoft Windows XP and Microsoft Windows Server 2003

“Automatically adjust clock for daylight saving changes” can be disabled by using the below commands with TZChange.exe:

- reg.exe add HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\TimeZoneInformation /f /v DisableAutoDaylightTimeSet /t REG_DWORD /d 1   - TZCHANGE.exe /C "Middle East Standard Time"   - TZCHANGE.exe /C "Egypt Standard Time"

The above command will clear the DST checkbox. You can run this command in a script file to force the change on all Win7/2k8 R2 machines. It’s recommended that you re-type this command rather than copy/paste from email.

· Microsoft Windows Server 2008 / Vista

“Automatically adjust clock for daylight saving changes” checkbox needs to be manually disabled.

Prerequisites

The following list contains prerequisites for this solution:

• Windows XP SP3

• Windows 2003 SP2

• Windows 7 RTM

• Windows 2008 R2

Applies to

• Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 Standard Edition (32-bit x86)

• Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 Enterprise Edition (32-Bit x86)

• Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 Datacenter Edition (32-Bit x86)

• Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 Standard x64 Edition

• Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 Datacenter x64 Edition

• Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Standard x64 Edition

• Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Enterprise x64 Edition

• Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Datacenter x64 Edition

• Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1, when used with:

    Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Standard Edition (32-bit x86)

    Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Enterprise Edition (32-bit x86)

    Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Web Edition

    Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Datacenter Edition (32-bit x86)

    Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Enterprise Edition for Itanium-based Systems

    Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Datacenter Edition for Itanium-Based Systems

• Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2, when used with:

    Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Standard Edition (32-bit x86)

    Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Enterprise Edition (32-bit x86)

    Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Web Edition

    Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Datacenter Edition (32-bit x86)

    Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Standard x64 Edition

    Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Enterprise x64 Edition

    Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Datacenter x64 Edition

    Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Enterprise Edition for Itanium-based Systems

    Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Datacenter Edition for Itanium-Based Systems

    Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 Standard Edition (32-bit x86)

    Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 Enterprise Edition (32-Bit x86)

    Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 Datacenter Edition (32-Bit x86)

    Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 Standard x64 Edition

    Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 Datacenter x64 Edition

    Microsoft Windows XP Professional x64 Edition

• Microsoft Windows XP Tablet PC Edition 2005

• Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005

• Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 3, when used with:

    Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition

    Microsoft Windows XP Professional

• Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2, when used with:

    Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition

    Microsoft Windows XP Professional

• Windows 7 Ultimate

• Windows 7 Enterprise

• Windows 7 Home Premium

• Windows 7 Home Basic

• Windows 7 Starter

• Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit Edition

• Windows 7 Enterprise 64-bit Edition

• Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit Edition

• Windows Server 2008 R2

Windows Server 2008 R2 for Itanium-Based Systems

Windows Server 2008 R2 Datacenter

Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise

Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard

Windows Web Server R2 2008

Thank you,

Microsoft CSS Team

“Lync 2010 - Bandwidth Calculator” has just been published. In addition “Lync Server 2010 - Capacity Calculator” which has been published earlier.

3 other documents that have been recently published on TechNet :

1.Lync Server 2010 Resource Kit (13 April, 2011)

2. Lync Server 2010 Security Guide (13 April, 2011)

3. Lync 2010 Client Virtualization (14 April, 2011)

https://office.microsoft.com/en-us/excel/embed-an-excel-spreadsheet-on-a-web-page-FX102602477.aspx

I’ll try it out right now…

I looked through this to customize what shows up in the window…Learn how to customize your embedded Excel workbook

So firstly to get things viewable, you need to understand 2 things

1. You can have the whole sheet viewable.
2. You can share a specific range of cells.
3. You may share an object (like a chart or pivot table).

I had a bit of a tough time coz I wanted to share a table range and a chart. To share the table name I had to go back to the sheet and ensure that it had a defined name. Name Manager in the formulas tab. Read more here.

Since my chart had a space character and despite trying to rename it in excel, the name wouldn’t change, I had to look up how to refer to the space character (%20) – read more here.

So here are what my tags look like…

<iframeheight="160" src="https://r.office.microsoft.com/r/rlidExcelEmbed?su=1420144883323114991&Fi=SD13B55E3F441015EF!1143&Item=MyChart&AllowInteractivity=False" frameborder="0" width="380" scrolling="no"></iframe>

<iframeheight="160" src="https://r.office.microsoft.com/r/rlidExcelEmbed?su=1420144883323114991&Fi=SD13B55E3F441015EF!1143&Item=Chart%201&AllowInteractivity=False" frameborder="0" width="490" scrolling="no"></iframe>

I had to fiddle with the iframes width and height.

So what have we in this package?

• What's New articles and videos,
• Quick Start Guides,
• Work Smart Guides,
• Short Videos, and
• Training PowerPoint Presentations

How can you use these?

• If you’ve got SharePoint, or another intranet solution, put the videos up on the intranet!

• Use the decks to customize your trainings and as leave behinds
  
• Work Smart pages… things to add to your intranet
  

Good luck!

https://iegallery.com/en/trackingprotectionlists/

These lists can be downloaded from the add-on gallery or you can create your own. The format’s pretty simple.

Here’s a cool post that discusses it in some depth: https://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2010/12/07/ie9-and-privacy-introducing-tracking-protection-v8.aspx

^*All sessions are from 10:00 – 3:00.  Further session information is available at the registration pages. 

Thanks to Kareem Salah for this table

So in basic terms, if you want to build a website with a regular hoster, or if you’d like to actually do some data collection on it, then WebMatrix may be the right thing for you. Take your site, build it at home and then publish it online. And looks like WebMatrix is a platform you can just copy onto the hoster’s site. I guess you’d need .NET hosting enabled. Have a look and let me know!