Kurt Roggen writes "When installing the AGPM 3.0 Server, there are two options when choosing the AGPM Service account: LocalSystem or a domain user account used to run the service....For the AGPM Service to work properly with “Least Privileges”, assign following privileges, rights and/or group membership to the AGPM service account:"

Mauro Cardarelli writes "What if we created a Promotions list that had a couple of fields, 'Image URL' and 'Redirection URL'? We could create a DVWP...that shows the image and sets the redirection. This way, when the promotion changes the business user simply needs to edit a list. You can repurpose this for many pages...include expiration dates and/or scrolling promotions...the snippet"

Brian Harry writes "..new Troubleshooting Installation of Team Foundation Server guide. If you are having a problem installing TFS, this is a good resource to check out..."

Ben Armstrong writes "People have been asking for a while for a way to add a virtual machine configuration file (.XML) directly to an instance of Hyper-V without first needing to export and import it. Some key things that I want to point out about this approach:"

Guy Barrette writes "The Microsoft Regional Directors have posted their 2009 predictions. You can read them here:"

Scott Golightly writes "IT budgets and salaries will be impacted...Online advertising will be hit especially hard...The amount of data being collected is not going down so companies should be investing in BI and data mining...conflicted about whether companies will perceive an economic benefit to cloud computing..."

Guy Barrette writes "...You should drop ASP.NET and start using Silverlight right now...With Dublin coming up with the Framework 4.0, it makes no sense to purchase and invest in BizTalk anymore...Dublin will be widely used right away to help host WCF apps. BizTalk will not die and some people will get burned by trying to replace BizTalk with Dublin in a scenario where the use of BizTalk would have make more sense. FUD will run loose..."

Anko Duizer writes "The most interesting trend of 2009 will be cloud computing. Due to the financial crisis all over the globe...idea you only pay for what you use is very attractive...The trend of social networking, which has started already off-course, will grow...Besides the software process the software developer and architect needs to do more with less...Do no stop learning, listening, reading..."

Vinod Unny writes "...Hardware/Gadgets become cheaper and more powerful...Hosted Paid Services or Pay-Per-Use Model becomes more popular...Online Storage Balloons Up...Corollary: Optical Media Starts to go away...FOSS vs. Microsoft – the war continues...Microsoft – Losing Ground: Windows Mobile, Internet Explorer...A lot of companies are going to go GREEN..."

Lori MacVittie writes "...python script for brute forcing the HTTP OPTIONS on directories. One of the reasons someone would want this information is because if you're...allowing PUT methods on any directories, someone can upload something nasty and potentially execute an attack. The availability of PUT makes XSS attacks simple even for script kiddies, for example..."

Ken Spencer writes "1) WPF Takes off. The tools for WPF and VS 2009 are awesome. VS 2009, Blend, Power Toys, and and some i am building. 2) Azure takes off. Azure is powerful 3) MS Surface takes off in many places. Surface is awesome....9) Agile programming rules the world..."

Richard Siddaway writes "The ability to administer remote machines was one of the biggest requests for PowerShell v2. As well as the ability to use PowerShell remoting through WSMAN a number of PowerShell cmdlets get direct access to remote machines by having a –ComputerName parameter. Get-WMIObject had this in PowerShell version 1 and the ability has spread. To find out which cmdlets have this paramerter try this..."

Joel Semeniuk writes "SharePoint will go through another revolutionary change...I also predict that Microsoft Mesh will play a much larger role and savvy organizations will think long and hard about coupling a fantastic online experience with a P2P/Offline experience...Azurameshafication: Microsoft Azure offers cloud solutions...100 Gb of Online Storage for the World..."

Barry Gervin writes "Cloud computing is going to be a very long term trend. I think we’ll only see baby steps in 2009 towards this goal...Adobe Air & Silverlight are mainstreaming web deployed and updated rich client desktop apps...avoid the temptation to rewrite any code that won’t see production for 4 months or longer..."

Tim Huckaby writes "...I have made some really bad predictions over the last 25 years in this business. So, it is with a careful and skeptical eye that you should view my predictions for this coming year...As developers and architects, we have been so jaded by impotent browser-based applications...Microsoft Silverlight, WPF and Microsoft Surface are going to push us..."