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December 2006 - Posts

WGA check breaks IE7.0 unattended installation

Posted Thursday, December 14, 2006 8:38 AM by gbs
Symptom: ======== During the installation of Internet Explorer 7.0, one must go through the Windows Genuine Advantage check. The Internet Explorer 7.0 installation is going to try and update the validation status of your system and this is going to cause Read More...
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DHCP Reservation Manager - A tool to manage reservations

Posted Thursday, December 14, 2006 8:34 AM by gbs
Reservations are a critical feature in the DHCP server. Reservations are generally used for centralized static IP address assignment for critical machines. This way the IP address of the critical machines which serves critical functions in the network Read More...
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Windows Vista- TCP Auto Tuning

Posted Thursday, December 14, 2006 8:32 AM by gbs
Recently, the MS PSS team received some reports regarding issues happening on the Windows Vista computers located in a domain. The typical symptom sounds like: -Indefinite delay (hang) when opening the Certificate Services snap-in -Slow (sometimes no) Read More...
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Using ADRestore tool to restore deleted objects

Posted Thursday, December 14, 2006 8:23 AM by gbs
Have ever encountered the following scenarios? User accounts, groups, computers, OUs or other objects in domain accidentally deleted. No system state backup available for authoritative restoration. No other DC's available. When an object is deleted from Read More...
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The ADM file for Internet Explorer 7.0 is released

Posted Thursday, December 14, 2006 8:12 AM by gbs
The Group Policy team has published installation packages that distribute ADM files (below) for use with Windows XP SP2 and Windows Server 2003 SP1. Administrative Templates for Internet Explorer 7 for Windows Download from: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=77998 Read More...
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Support life cycle for Microsoft Software Update Services 1.0

Posted Thursday, December 14, 2006 8:11 AM by gbs
In response to customer feedback, and in order to give customers more time to migrate off SUS 1.0, Microsoft has extended support to Tuesday, July 10, 2007. Microsoft will no longer support SUS 1.0 after this date. SUS 1.0 will no longer synchronize new Read More...
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Server Clusters: Storage Best Practices for Windows 2000 and Windows Server 2003

Posted Thursday, December 14, 2006 7:59 AM by gbs
Storage configuration is the key part of a successful cluster deployment. This white paper introduce the storage types, storage features in Windows 2003, hardware based storage, storage tools and services, backup and restore, storage management and the Read More...
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Remote Desktop Connection 6.0 is available now

Posted Thursday, December 14, 2006 7:53 AM by gbs
Remote Desktop Connection 6.0 client helps you use the new Terminal Services features. These features are introduced in Windows Vista and in the Microsoft Windows Server Code Name “Longhorn" operating system from a computer that is either running Microsoft Read More...
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How to Prevent/Troubleshoot “Calendar items missing” issue

Posted Thursday, December 14, 2006 7:52 AM by gbs
In Outlook 2003, some customers may meet the “Calendar items missing” issue. There are several factors that can cause this problem and therefore, the whole troubleshooting process may be time consuming. At this stage, we’d like to provide some tips to Read More...
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Exchange Server 2007 Deployment: 10 Tips When Installing

Posted Thursday, December 14, 2006 7:51 AM by gbs
With Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, deployment is easier than it's ever been. However, there are still a few things you should know before you install Exchange Server 2007. The following article presents the top 10 issues that our very first Exchange Read More...
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Exchange Server 2007 and 2000/2003 systems management co-existence

Posted Thursday, December 14, 2006 7:48 AM by gbs
Exchange Server 2007 can be installed into an existing Exchange 2000/2003 (hereafter called Exchange 2003, except where there's something particular about Exchange 2000) organization as one step in the migration process. Once Exchange 2007 has been introduced Read More...
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Announcing RTM of SMS 2003 R2 International Version

Posted Thursday, December 14, 2006 7:44 AM by gbs
Adding support for French, German, and Japanese, SMS 2003 R2 International Version has been released to manufacturing. SMS 2003 R2 brings additional functionality to SMS 2003 including system vulnerability assessments and 3rd party/custom updating. Inventory Read More...
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