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November 2008 - Posts

Desktop Search and Indexing – File Types

I have to admit that we don’t get too many calls on Desktop Search. However, the calls we usually get revolve around rebuilding the index and adding locations. Recently however, we had a customer ask us how to modify the file types properties for Indexing. Read More...
Posted Friday, November 21, 2008 6:00 AM by CC Hameed | 1 Comments
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Disabling Unnecessary Services? A Word to the Wise

Back when I was a Systems Administrator, one of my roles was to review the system configuration for a server prior to its implementation in the production environment.  We had a fairly streamlined process for server deployment – including scripts Read More...
Posted Tuesday, November 18, 2008 6:00 AM by CC Hameed | 7 Comments

Why doesn’t my WMI Script return any information?

That’s right – more WMI adventures.  Today we’re going to take a look at a problem that we recently encountered with a customer whose WMI script did not return any Event Log information – but the Event Logs themselves were functioning with no apparent Read More...
Posted Friday, November 14, 2008 6:00 AM by CC Hameed | 0 Comments
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WMIDiag.vbs and the Missing WMI Files

Last year, we discussed using the WMI Diagnosis Utility in a post on Basic WMI Testing .  We’ve certainly noticed that more than a few of our customers are running the utility before contacting us, which certainly helps us in our troubleshooting.  Read More...
Posted Tuesday, November 11, 2008 6:00 AM by CC Hameed | 4 Comments
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Announcing the Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit v3.2

If you are in the midst of your IT migration, or just getting started with your planning but you’re not 100% sure what systems are in your environment, nor what applications have been deployed, then take heart – help is here!  This week, the Solution Read More...
Posted Friday, November 07, 2008 6:00 AM by CC Hameed | 0 Comments
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Windows 7 is coming!

If you were one of the attendees at the Microsoft Professional Developer’s Conference (PDC) in Los Angeles last week, then you walked away with the Milestone 3 (M3) build of Windows 7.  The M3 build isn’t even a full Beta build – it’s pre-Beta ! Read More...
Posted Tuesday, November 04, 2008 6:00 AM by CC Hameed | 0 Comments
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