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The lesson here is if you go on vacation for a week, make sure your boss is gone too. Otherwise he will do this to your cubicle: Which just goes to show how important a manager’s time really is, of course. Ah well, at least I got some cookies.
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Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 reached general availability today. The line in our site’s company store was out the door, but we were able to snag some for this nice picture taken from a new Windows Mobile phone. Yeah, I went there too. Win7 and
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I will have my revenge. Oh yes… I will have it. - Ned ‘Angry Garden Gnome’ Pyle
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Hi all. After the recent mandate of CAPTCHA for TechNet blogs, we seem to no longer be getting any comments registering here. If you have a question please use our email form until this is ironed out. Thanks! Ned
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Fourteen years ago today , Windows 95 introduced the world to the Start button and the Taskbar. Most OS's, Microsoft or not, have been loving up on that design ever since. Happy Birthday Windows 95! - Ned 'Feeling Old' Pyle
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Two years ago the AskDS blog was created. A few days later we had our first post . A huge thanks to you for all of your questions, comments, and kind words over the years; we really appreciate them. Ned 'Chuck E. Cheese' Pyle
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Ned here. I don't feel like being particularly technical today, so check out a good chuckle: http://www.codesqueeze.com/the-ultimate-top-25-chuck-norris-the-programmer-jokes/ If you don't know who Chuck Norris is: 1. What is your problem? 2. He is the
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Ned here. The invite finally came through, and AskDS now supports a built-in MS Translation widget. It's linked on the left column (scroll down a bit). Simply select your native language and the blog will magically turn from English to Spanish, German,
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Ned here. If you're having a lazy friday and don't feel like working too hard (don't lie!), take a trip over to: http://www.microsoft.com/click/serverquest/ Come on, you know you want to... - Ned Pyle
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Ned here. A few big pieces of news, in case you've been having a busy week: Netmon 3.3 has been released . You can download from here . Read more about the new features (such as autoscroll, frame commenting, experts, WWAN support, and more) right here
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From one of our MSIT bloggers-in-arms , Brian Puhl: 10 years ago, Microsoft’s largest internal domain was upgraded to Windows 2000 becoming the first production Active Directory, and it’s still going strong… Dn: DC=redmond,DC=corp,DC=microsoft,DC=com
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Ned here. Please take a moment to tell us how we've been doing over the past 18 months, and if you've found AskDS to be useful. The poll has been added to our sidebar on the left, just scroll down a little. It should take you less than 5 seconds to complete.
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Ned here again. There comes a day in nearly every administrator’s life where they will need to boot a domain controller into DS Restore Mode. Whether it’s to perform an authoritative restore or fix database issues , you will need the local administrator
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Ned here again. William Stanek has released a couple of new books through Microsoft Press that any AD administrator will find indespensible: Active Directory Administrator's Pocket Consultant Group Policy Administrator's Pocket Consultant In William's
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Hi, Steve again. I thought I would speak through a series of posts about what knowledge is critical to fulfilling the Windows Server Domain Admin role. This topic carries a ton of breadth and depth knowledge. As a beginning, you have to find out where
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