I have an Internet calendar (.ics) that I will sync with my office 365 account.
In the outlook desktop app, I can easily add an internet calendar with username and password, and I have the ability to edit the sync interval (1 min) - working fine.
My problem is now, I can't see this calendar on my Smartphone.
Adding this calendar in outlook.com (also in the cloud) doesn't work because MS only allows public ics calendar (why MS why?).
I can copy the internet calendar in outlook desktop app to my "own calendar" but then I have only a snapshot not the sync internet calendar...
Is there a solution for my problem? I can't publish the calendar without password and username...
Cloud-based syncing services: Web apps like Dropbox, Apple's iCloud, and Microsoft's Live Mesh synchronize folder(s) among your devices while saving copies of the shared folders online. Changes made to files in that folder from one device automatically get updated on the others. You can also enable file sharing, use a mobile phone to access the files, and in some apps, open the files on the website.
Desktop applications: If you're not comfortable with your files being stored online, you can install software that synchronizes files locally or over a private network. Shareware and freeware file-syncing applications include GoodSync, Microsoft's SyncToy, and SyncBack. Besides offering more robust options for file syncing (keeping multiple versions of replaced files, setting a schedule for syncing compressing or encrypting files, etc.), these programs also typically allow you to sync with external drives, FTP sites, and servers. Take a closer look at these and other syncing apps in a roundup of the best file syncing apps.
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Within our network infrastructure we utilize a 2007 Exchange Server for our domain.
Today I was faced with a situation where a user who has MS Office 2010 x64 and utilized Outlook 2010 called me and stated that her "Saved Items" inbox was missing. I remoted into her system and sure enough one of her mailboxes was not present.
It's easy enough to "fix" this by just adding the data file again which is located on a network share F:..\mailxxx.pst
This user has multiple mailboxes as a way to view her archived data.
Located in this shared folder there are additional .pst files that remained accessible to the user.
This appears to happen randomly and has happened at least one other time to this same user, and one time to a separate user who also has data on this same share.
Thoughts?
Microsoft does not support PST files on a network drive. This is a recipe for a disaster.
We've transitioning from Rackspace dedicated boxes to a completely cloud Azure environment. Production servers and development and as an MS shop we're going to be using Visual Studio Team Services. As an MS ISV partner we have a bunch of MSDN seats so our developers are all going to have an MSDN w/ VS Premium account which we'll use with Team Services/TFS. We're replicating our production web server on a virtual machine but after some refactoring will eventually move to an Azure website.
My question is about when users leave the company. Right now we have everyone log into a development server using RDP. They develop on that server. When someone is gone we shut their access off to that server.
With Team Services when the user opens up a project do they automatically get the entire project downloaded to their local development environment/machine? If someone leaves the company is there a process using VSO that secures that code and removes it from them or makes it inaccessible? Any way to lock it down when we need to? I can't seem to find a procedure to do this.
To add or remove someone from the account, go to the Users hub on the home page for your account. If you remove a user from it, that user will no longer be able to access your account.
When users connect to your account, they'll need to take some action to get source code. That would be cloning in the case of using Git or creating a workspace and running get for TFVC.
If the user has source code, for example, on a machine, there is no way to remotely remove it. They won't be able to get updates, etc., but there's nothing running on the computer that would be able to erase the code the user has already obtained.
All source code sharing i know allow zipping up or browsing the local repository. Including VS Team Services.
Daniel Mann is correct . Developing on shared servers via RDP is terrible for productivity due to development being graphics and disk intensive, often requiring admin rights and reboots / crashes, debugging triggers system interrupts, out of memory loops are fun on a shared machine ie they stuff everybody else around. (Even with RDP you can copy and paste or map a network drive locally or upload to the net )
If your doing critical stuff the ONLY thing that really works is physically bring them in to non internet connected machine /network with USB disabled. However these mechanisms especially denying internet will half productivity.
This is why most organizations rely on legal contracts. On a 2M project is it worth making it a 4M project? There are cases where this is required normally around national security /CIA / Defence but not for IP, there are better / trickier ways.
Pretty much all binaries are reverse engineer-able with little effort if you really want to. obfuscation does very little.
Protecting user files with File History talks about File History, which is basically a continuous backup for Windows 8. The blog discusses File History in depth, and also discusses how to integrate SkyDrive.
I want to programmatically disable backup of certain files. The files live on another server, and there's no need to back them up locally or put them on someone else's cloud. The blog and related articles doe not talk about opt'ing out of the service for application data.
How does one programmatically: (1) disable local file backups; and (2) disable cloud based backups. I'm interested in settings for both Windows 8 (desktop or laptop) and Windows Phone 8.
Related: Both Android and Apple have similar. For Android, we add android:allowBackup and set it to false in AndroidManifest.xml. For Apple, we can use kCFURLIsExcludedFromBackupKey file property or com.apple.MobileBackup extended attribute.
Jeff
In Windows Phone 8, backup and restore settings are controlled by the user through system settings. An app cannot prevent itself from being backed up. However, note that the backup does not store any data associated with third party apps but rather only stores a list of installed apps
So basically you don't need to do anything in your app to prevent local files from being stored on SkyDrive if the user has enabled backup.
In Windows 8 everything can be backed up since an admin user will have full access to his computer files, I don't think you can restrict this. If you have sensitive data you can use DataProtectionProvider to protect it.
Is there anyway to install wp application to the phone directly, Lets say I have a wp application and xap file, I want to put it somewhere on internet and the wp user will get that link and install application to the phone. I dont want to put it to Marketplace and I dont want to deploy it to phone from PC.I want directly get it from internet and install to the machine.Is that possible?
No it is not possible.
Microsoft only wants deployments through the marketplace and for developers they created a way to deploy it from your pc to test stuff. for every other user all the installations have to go through the Marketplace.
The reason they do it this way is that they have control on which apps are being published for the platform and they will test all the applications submitted to the marketplace. If you could download apps while skipping the marketplace they can't do the testing etc.
If you want to do beta-testing of your Application with a specified group of user
there is a special way. Its integrated within the marketplace, but your app wont be available to the public. Read this article about it.
Only developer unlocked phones can deploy XAP files in that manner. For others they have to download it from Marketplace, no other options are available.
But for hobbyists , there is Chevron. This will allow you to side load apps .
You can can find several links explaining about ChevronWP7 over the internet.
My Windows Phone app doesn't have a service hosted but I would like to give the user an option to download/backup all the information(Just say note taking app) to another device or PC. How can we do that? Email attachment is an option but is there any other way?
Realistically you need to be looking at creating your own service/server for this if you want to do it now. DropBox (or similar) may be an option but it requires the users to already have an account.
Or wait until the Live SDK is available for the phone. (Or apply for the beta)