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Your ERP, CRM and LOB should look like this!

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Just came back from Krabi today and the first thing that caught my eye when I open up Live.com homepage for the 1st time since 5 days is a sample ERP applications that make practical use of Windows Presentation Foundation framework without just snapping just another colossal.

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The Lawson M3 Smart Client

Look at it, it is a familar interface like our normal Windows Form app but it gives end users a fresh feel which I think they will be happy to open and use everyday. And if you want to integrate this into Office task panes as a WPF add in, you can do so easily with VSTO 2008 as I mentioned here.

By the way, should you try to get away by saying there is no ‘design’ guy in your team/ company, a company called reuxables is making one of their WPF theme available free in the form of a .dll file. Download it here.

Going off for holidays

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This is my last post before I go off for my Chinese New Year holiday. Today is the last day of the lunar pig year and tomorrow over 1 billion Chinese over the world will welcome the new lunar rat year. Gong Xi Fatt Chai (wishes you prosperity) to my readers. :)

On the mean time Vista SP1 is out but it will only be available to the public around beginning of March. Windows Server 2008 is also out and is downloadable by MSDN subscriber. Funny thing is as of yesterday I only see the ISO download and not the product key. Maybe you got to use it on trial mode first. Having said that, there are reports leaked outside saying the kernel version of Vista SP1 and Windows Server 2008 is now in sync at 6.0.6001. Vista pre-SP1 was running on 6.0.6000. http://apcmag.com/7960/microsoft_replaces_the_vista_kernel_in_SP1

But overall the purpose of Vista SP1 is to increase performance and improves stability, I hope those will be enough to lure users to upgrade. For me, I hope SP1 will improve my Crysis game play.  :)

Another Internet cable cut are reported near UAE, making it the forth one over the week. Possibility of Internet traffic rerouting and thus causing slowness over here in Malaysia is visible to a certain extend.

http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/05/fourth-undersea-cable-cut-near-uae-suspicions-rise/

2 OBA RAPs VHD available for download

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The OBA team has made Loan Origination and Public Service E-forms OBA RAP Virtual Hard Disk (VHD) available for download at http://connect.microsoft.com

 If you are in South East Asia region want to find out more about these OBA RAPs, do come to TechEd SEA 2007 and attend the follow sessions.

Office System & Messaging Track

  1. Microsoft Sharepoint Products & Technologies 2007: Administrative Architecture & Planning for Deployment, Part 1
  2. Microsoft Sharepoint Products & Technologies 2007: Administrative Architecture & Planning for Deployment, Part 2
  3. SharePoint Governance & Information Architecture Guidance
  4. Building Apps with MOSS 2007 Excel Services
  5. Reporting solutions in Office 2007 and SharePoint 2007
  6. Doc Management in SharePoint 2007
  7. Integrate LOB with SharePoint Business Data Catalog

Architecture Track

  1. Office as a Platform Architecture?

Developer Track

  1. Developing Real World OBA
  2. Open XML Architecture and Benefits
  3. Anatomy of OBA
  4. Workflow in real world

Windows Server 2008 Core unattended installation answer file

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You cannot run the AD installation wizard with Windows Server 2008 Core, the only way to do it is using an answer. The documentation is a not detail enough at the moment for newbie to write a answer file from scratch. I had to look for documentation from Windows Server 2003 and Windows 2000 Server to get it right. So here I am posting my version for installing a fresh forest.

[DCInstall]
InstallDNS=Yes
Password=<administrator’s password>
RebootOnCompletion=No
ReplicaOrNewDomain=Domain
NewDomainDNSName=<specify you own domain name, i.e. contoso.com>
ForestLevel=2
DomainLevel=2
NewDomain=Forest
SafeModeAdminPassword=<password for restoration>

Save it in a text file and at the command prompt type:

dcpromo /answer:<location of answer file>

Setup Information Rights Management in 2007 Office System

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With the new feature of InfoPath and Word 2007 to be used as a form exchange, it is important to have some kind of rights restriction on the form. Using IRM with Windows Rights Management Server, system admin to create rights templates to manage documents’ rights across the company.

Information Rights Management in the 2007 Microsoft Office system
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/help/HA101029181033.aspx

Planning for Information Rights Management in the Office 2007 system
http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library/92a8dc04-47c7-4946-83ee-4c0ecaff440a1033.mspx?mfr=true

Enabling Information Protection in Microsoft Office 2003 with Rights Management Services and Information Rights Management
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/office/office2003/maintain/rmsirm.mspx

Provide custom Information Rights Management rights policy templates in Office 2007
http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library/fbd209b7-d960-4b19-b2f1-f128fed18e3e1033.mspx?mfr=true