So after a week in US @ MMS I am back in Poland . Here’s a couple of impressions from the Microsoft Management Summit 2006 in San Diego . Technical Side There were some exciting new things announced and presented at the summit. For me the most interesting...

Michael Brundage has written some time ago a very interesting (and also very true in my opinion) article about working at Microsoft: http://www.qbrundage.com/michaelb/pubs/essays/working_at_microsoft.html Enjoy:)

Ever used regular expressions in MOM? You can use this handy little tool to help you verify your syntax: http://www.ultrapico.com/Expresso.htm

Tomek has hinted me with this KB article: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=914034 You can use it to setup monitoring of AD backups (system state backups on domain controllers) with MOM. I have not yet had the time to test it out, but it should be...

With MOM you can automate the following tasks: - check event log free space on MOM agent computers - backup the event logs to a remote share I have attached the 2 scripts I used for this (modified well-known scripts from Scripting Center ). I...

A lot of people have been asking about it… I have been shortly engaged by a customer using Novell ZENworks and wanting to convert to SMS 2003. One of the functionalities in ZEN lacking in SMS is the possibility to immediately force updates onto...

I posted an article on this topic if you are interested: http://blogs.technet.com/alipka/articles/424009.aspx I went through the routine and found no good documentation on this so I thought I'd put it up.

Meet me at the MMS If you are going to the Microsoft Management Summit , you can meet me:) I will be stationed at the Group Policy booth in these times: Slot Day Time WX01 Mon 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM WX11 Tue 1:00 PM - 2:15 PM WX22 Wed 3:30 PM - 4:00 PM WX23...

Today I got an account in Windows Live Mail Beta (FINALLY, after 2 months). Although it is a little early to comment on it, it is hard not to compare it to GMail. GMail’s been around for a long while, evolving all the time. Here are my impressions...

WHAT? This week, Wednesday till Friday, I took part in the MOF – Changing Quadrant training. I already had some background about MOF and IT Operations in general: ¾ Rough knowledge of ITIL (be sure to check a great ITIL overview on Wikipedia ) ...