For the past several weeks there have been a lot of issues with the GDN RSS Service. I just got a new build installed a little while ago, and it looks like those issues have been resolved. If you're not already subscribed, I host an aggregate RSS feed of all the GDN blogs at
http://www.briandesmond.com/gotdotnetrss/GotDotNetRSSService.aspx.
I wanted to print out a table form of some data I copied out of SQL EM and into Word. EM just sends text and column headings, so, it looks pretty dissheveled. However, if you select all the data in Word, and then press the Table toolbar button, Word will intelligently recognize the columns and make a nice table.
I can only confirm this on Word 2003 - can anyone confirm it on Word 97/2000/XP?
I wrote an article on my personal/tech blog about how to build a domain controller for use in a disconnected development lab. This is also relevant for .Net if you're building an Active Directory connected app, so, here's the beginning of the article and a link:
“I answered a question with regards to Active Directories today whose answer is very complex compared to NT4. On NT4 if you wanted to build a dev lab, you'd make a BDC, disconnect it from the production network, move it to the lab, promote to PDC, and then delete the BDC account on the production network.
On an Active Directory, this procedure is comparatively complex! This scenario is a pretty common question, I imagine, so here goes the step-by-step...“
http://www.briandesmond.com/blog/posts/251.aspx