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Email Prioritizer from Microsoft Office Labs

Email Prioritizer is a plug-in for Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 (running on Exchange Server) that helps you manage email overload. This concept test provides a “do not disturb” button that temporarily pauses new email arrival, and prioritizes email with a 0-3 star rating system. We hope this prototype helps you focus on the emails that are most important to you.

Requirements: This prototype requires Outlook 2007 running on Exchange Server.

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Email Prioritizer
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Email Prioritizer from Microsoft Office Labs

Several Microsoft products being supported on non - Microsofts Virtualization Software

A huge list of Microsoft products are now supported on non - Microsoft Virtualization Softwares, given that those Virtualization Softwares get Microsoft certified through Server Virtualization Validation Program (SVVP). The list of these softwares includes Exchange Server, SQL Server and SharePoint Server.

Several Microsoft products being supported on non - Microsofts Virtualization Software

Microsoft Project Code Named “Velocity”

““Velocity” is a distributed in-memory application cache platform for developing scalable, high-performance applications. “Velocity” can be used to cache any CLR object and provides access through simple APIs. The primary goals for “Velocity” are performance, scalability and availability.”

Resources:
Microsoft Project Code Named “Velocity” Overview
Microsoft Project Code Named “Velocity” Team Blog
Microsoft Project Code Named “Velocity” - Forum
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Microsoft Project Code Named “Velocity”

Pex: Automated Exploratory Testing for .NET

Pex (Program EXploration) is an intelligent assistant to the programmer. From a parameterized unit test, it automatically produces a traditional unit test suite with high code coverage. In addition, it suggests to the programmer how to fix the bugs.

Pex generates Unit Tests from hand-written Parameterized Unit Tests through Automated Exploratory Testing based on Dynamic Symbolic Execution.
• Unit Tests: parameterless methods that test a single unit of code
• Parameterized Unit Tests: same as above, but with parameters
• Automated Exploratory Testing: A tool-supported process of running, learning and testing code at the same time
• Dynamic Symbolic Execution: A combination of static analysis and runtime monitoring to compute test inputs.

Channel 9 Video Regarding Pex

Pex: Automated Exploratory Testing for .NET

Clean Windows Vista SP1 Archived Files

Want to clean up a little bit of space on Windows Vista SP1 ? Well here is VSP1CLN tool.

“The Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1) Files Removal Tool (VSP1CLN.exe) can be used to remove the files that are archived after Windows Vista SP1 is applied. Running this tool is optional.

Installing Windows Vista SP1 increases the amount of disk space that is used by the operating system. This space is used to archive files so that SP1 can be uninstalled. Typically, you should run VSP1CLN.exe if you want to reclaim this disk space after applying SP1 and if you will not need to uninstall SP1. ”

Note: You cannot uninstall Windows Vista SP1 later.

Clean Windows Vista SP1 Archived Files