Good isn't it?

Microsoft finally released Messenger TV in 20 countries: Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, Germany, Indonesia, Italy, India, Malasia, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Philipinnes, Russia, Singapore, Spain, Sweden and United Kingdom.

This means that in many countries of the world, besides Portugal, there are also many other countries like Japan and United States out.

Still the service may be found in many languages and the portuguese is present (but the brazilian-portuguese).

So you can visualize this serviço and use it, click here or add the contact MessengerTV@live.com.

Are you having difficulties in downloading updates from WSUS and need to improve efficiency?

Just use the one the commands below that is more suitable to you.

1.
Click Start, click Run, type one of the following commands, and then click OK.
If you are using WSUS 2.0 with a MSDE or WMSDE database that was created by a default WSUS installation, type the following command:

%programfiles%\Update Services\tools\osql\osql.exe -S %Computername%\WSUS -E -b -n -Q "USE SUSDB update tbConfigurationC set BitsDownloadPriorityForeground=1"

If you configured WSUS 2.0 to use an existing installation of Microsoft SQL Server, type the following command:

%programfiles%\Update Services\tools\osql\osql.exe" -S %Computername% -E -b -n -Q "USE SUSDB update tbConfigurationC set BitsDownloadPriorityForeground=1"

If you are using WSUS 3.0 with a Windows Internal Database that was created by a default WSUS installation, type the following command:

%programfiles%\Update Services\Setup\ExecuteSQL.exe -S %Computername%\MICROSOFT##SSEE -d "SUSDB" -Q "update tbConfigurationC set BitsDownloadPriorityForeground=1"

If you configured WSUS 3.0 to use an existing installation of SQL Server, type the following command:

%programfiles%\Update Services\Setup\ExecuteSQL.exe" -S %Computername% -d "SUSDB" -Q "update tbConfigurationC set BitsDownloadPriorityForeground=1"

2.
Restart the Update Services service. To do this, follow these steps:

a.
Click Start, click Run, type services.msc, and then click OK.

b.
In the Services dialog box, right-click Update Services, and then click Restart.

School District Uses Virtualization to 'Kid-Proof' 10,000 Student PCs

You can read an excerpt of the article here:

The small IT staff of the Kent School District in Kent, Wash., has discovered a way to nearly kid-proof the thousands of notebook PCs it’s phasing in for all grade levels.

The district uses the notebooks simply as a repository for groups of applications that are virtualized using the Microsoft Application Virtualization software (formerly SoftGrid). Each application is packaged with Microsoft’s virtual runtime, stored on a server, and then downloaded to a notebook or desktop PC when a student logs on and clicks the corresponding icon. On a notebook, the package runs in a protective virtual “bubble,” instead of actually being installed on the PC.

That means district IT staff largely avoid the plague of application conflicts, changes, DLL snafus, and all the other software-based problems that are routine for large laptop deployments. Because the PCs share a common, standard Windows XP software image, spares can be stored at every school. If a student’s laptop stops working for any reason, he or she can swap it for a spare, fire it up, download the virtualized application set and get back to work.

Sidestepping the typical hardware and software support burden is critical to the district’s ambitious goal of equipping all students in grades 7-12 with a laptop PC that could be taken home. But to truly realize the notebook’s potential, district officials realized they also had to revamp the curriculum to make use of it, and train and support teachers to exploit both. The expanded laptop program got under way with an extensive pilot in September 2005.

Click to see: Diagram of Kent Schools use of virtualization

Currently there are about 10,000 computers for 27,000 students in 40 buildings spread over 72 square miles just south of Seattle. Of those machines, 3,000 are notebooks, the rest desktops. The district will be adding up to 2,500 notebooks per year until it reaches the target goal of 15,000 for the upper grades, says Thuan Nguyen, the district’s director of information technology. All are currently running Windows XP, but the district will be shifting to Vista in 2009.

Do you want to make a game and don't know where to start? Take a look at the new Popfly Game Creator! It's a new module to create casual games on Silverlight, starting from scratch to the 18 available templates. The system is complete and good enough though it's in a starting phase. Take a look at:

www.popfly.com

More at John Montgomery's blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/johnmont/archive/2008/04/30/the-new-popfly-game-creator.aspx

Watch some videos by Adam Nathan, showing how to create a game from scratch. 

Create a new game!

Some games with almost any code

Letter from Steve Balmer to Jerry Wang: http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2008/may08/05-03letter.mspx

The question, what's next?

1. What you need:

a) Your need a Memory Stick Pro Duo formatted by your PSP (with at least 512MB). Some full length movies can take up a lot of memory space so aim to get as much memory as you can afford.

b) Computer or Laptop (An average pc or laptop will do)

c) USB cable, preferably USB 2.0

d) Some MP4 movies or films to put on your PSP device (You can get these from your own DVD collection or you can download from the internet. There are many movie download sites online.)

2. Getting started:

Connect your computer to your PSP using the USB cable and press the 'X' on your PSP. Your computer will recognise the new connection and assign it a new removable drive. If this is the first time you're connecting your pc to your PSP your pc may first install some new drivers to support the connection.

3. Prepare your movies

If you already have the movies on your pc, put them in one folder where you can easily find them. If you don't already have the Mp4 movies you can download them from the internet. Make sure they are all in MP4 format. There are a number of mp4 movie converters that you can find online. Some are free. Go to any search engine and do a search for mp4 movie converters.

4. Copy the movies and put them on your PSP.

On your computer, browse to the removable USB drive corresponding to your PSP and navigate to the PSP folder. Create a folder called 'MP_ROOT' and inside that folder create another folder and name it '100MNV01'. This is the folder where you'll put your mp4 movie files. Now copy the movie files from your computer to the '100MN01' folder on your PSP. The mp4 movie files should be named in the format 'M4V00000.MP4' where 00000 can be any number. For example, M4V00001.MP4 or M4V00012.MP4 are fine but M4VJAMESBOND12.MP4 and MyBestMovie.MP4 are not.

5. Watch the Movies on your PSP

First disconnect your PSP from your computer. Then on your PSP navigate to your 100MNV01 folder and select it to display all the movies that you have copied to your PSP. You can now select and watch any mp4 movie you want on your PSP.