Posts Tagged ‘microsoft’

Firefox turns off WPF plugin

I was greeting with an interesting dialog box when I got back to my computer just now: I did some digging and it turns out that WPF did have a vulnerability, but it was patched a couple of days ago. Firefox, however, has no way of knowing if you’re running...

Failure at Microsoft.crm.setup.common.registerasyncserviceAction

What’s in an error message? A timeout by any other name would sound as sweet? Well, not really. My Microsoft Dynamics CRM v4.0 was failing with this error: Failure at Microsoft.crm.setup.common.registerasyncserviceAction And was claiming a timeout failure starting it up. There seem to be a number of posts around the...

Ordinal issue with msi.dll ?

Here’s a good reminder to everyone to try and keep their software updated. Last week I tried installing Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 on a virtual machine, just so that our team can have a play with it and kept running into this error: The ordinal 242 could not be located...

Microsoft .Net Framework 3.5 violates FireFox

My latest Windows Update run just downloaded an update to Microsoft‘s .Net Framework 3.5. Here are the details of the update: Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 is a full cumulative update that contains many new features building incrementally upon .NET Framework 2.0, 3.0, 3.5 and includes cumulative services...

Amazon to offer Windows services on EC2

Interesting post on the Amazon Web Services blog who have announced their intention to host Windows instances in their elastic computing cloud (EC2). Here’s what they say: You will be able to use Amazon EC2 to host highly scalable ASP.NET sites, high performance computing (HPC) clusters, media transcoders, SQL Server,...

Microsoft tries the “Tesco strategy”

It seems like everyone and his dog has some sort of loyalty scheme nowadays. You can collect points when you shop in your local supermarket, when you take a trip in a plane and now, even when you Microsoft‘s Live Search. It’s a scheme called SearchPerks and is designed to...

Downloading new Microsoft software

There’s been a new “wave” of beta software coming out from Microsoft today. According to Liveside you can download the new set of Live applications (called Wave 3) which include: Messenger v9 Windows Live Movie Maker (this looks cool) Mail with Calendar synchronisation Writer Photo Gallery Family Safety Outlook Connector...

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