Sumedha Rubasinghe writes "...A good example can be a temporary test bed for an application your company is developing. Say you are developing some application & want to load test it with some enormous configuration. Obviously your IT department does not have that amount of spare CPU power, machines, etc. Renting out a hosted platform is ideal in this case...."

Michael Stiefel writes "The late Jim Gray did an analysis1 of the economics of distributed computing...1. Put the computation near the data... 2. If you need data from multiple sites, push the processing closer to the data source...The natural conclusion is to do the computation where the data naturally resides...Do what makes sense. Some things will be in the cloud, some things will still be on the desktop."

Tim Sneath writes "...PDC isn’t primarily about shipping technologies. PDC is always a coming out party for the platform of the future...This year, we’ll be announcing a raft of new technologies that will impact every developer who focuses on Microsoft platform, whether your focus is Win32 or .NET, whether you specialize in server, mobile, web or desktop development...two primary themes..."

Nicholas Allen writes "...WCF now specifies a default domain target name in Windows authentication scenarios. When upgrading, the client may see an authentication failure when the following conditions exist...When WSHttpBinding, WS2007HttpBinding, or NetTcpBinding is used with SecurityMode = TransportWithMessageCredential and a client credential type of Windows, clients that previously authenticated to a service by using NTLM will now fail to authenticate..."

Vlad Mazek writes "So with Exchange 2007 the rule size doubled to 64kb, still far short of some demands. Exchange 2007 supports 256kb rules, but how do you enable that?"

Michael Lehman writes "...two focus group sessions at TechEd 2008 in Orlando. If you are interested in S+S Blueprints and/or Software Factories and would like to help Microsoft chart the future direction in either of these areas, please click on the email link and let me know which session you would like join. YOU WILL GET SCHWAG YOU CAN'T GET ANYWHERE ELSE AT TechEd...Thursday June 5, 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM"

Michael Lehman writes "...There will be two new blueprints (and maybe more) to introduce at TechEd and I'd love to connect with developers and architects who have used the existing S+S Blueprints and talk about what you like, don't like and would like to see in future blueprints. Use the email link to contact me to setup a meeting."

Vlad Mazek writes "There are many reasons why Outlook Web Access 2007 will give you the “Service Unavailable” error message, mostly because the mail/public databases are not running, something you will be able to quickly determine from the Event Viewer. However, this one was slightly different. "

Eugenio Pace writes "...we developed a "mock" (but fully functional for LitwareHR's purposes) offline SSDS proxy to enable development independently from the live SSDS service. The offline proxy is included in LitwareHR latest release...Here's what you need to do:"