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April 2006 - Posts

Deep Dive Active Directory Event - Microsoft, Dublin

I’m currently sitting here in the front row of what I think has to be the most technical event TechNet Ireland has run this year. John and Sally sure have done a great job of engaging with the audience at a 300-400 technical level. Wow I think John Read More...
Posted Thursday, April 27, 2006 5:22 PM by colmt | 1 Comments

Get a second shot at Microsoft exams (for free)

You can get a free second shot at any Microsoft exam by registering for the second shot offer before you take any exam. With the offer you’ll receive a promotion code that is good for one free second shot at the same exam in case you don't pass Read More...
Posted Thursday, April 27, 2006 5:09 PM by colmt | 1 Comments

An Insiders View of MMS 2006 (Microsoft's Management Summit)

My colleague Dave Northey is over in San Diego at MMS 2006 all week. He's really blogging up a storm giving us all a great insiders view of what Microsoft are doing now and planning for in the future in the Management space. You can check out his blog Read More...
Posted Thursday, April 27, 2006 3:27 PM by colmt | 0 Comments

MOM 2005 SP1 support for SQL 2005

Quite a number of people were asking me after the recent SQL event on March 1st in Dublin whether or not MOM would support SQL 2005 and if so when. Well I've just heard that a knowledge base article has just announced that there is now MOM 2005 SP1 support Read More...
Posted Wednesday, April 26, 2006 2:10 PM by colmt | 0 Comments

TechNet Subscriptions - Eval vers of all MS Software, betas, phone support incidents..

I've been meaning to blog about this for some time now. A couple of weeks ago the price of TechNet subscriptions was reduced to make it accessible to more people. From talking to people in the field I now realise that most IT professionals don't realise Read More...
Posted Monday, April 24, 2006 10:58 AM by colmt | 0 Comments

Microsoft's Virtual Server is Free and Supports Linux

I’m glad to see that Microsoft is listening to its customers who have been telling us for some time now that it wasn’t “on” to only support Windows on Virtual Server. Well now (as of Monday April 3 rd ), MS have announced that Read More...
Posted Wednesday, April 05, 2006 2:04 PM by colmt | 0 Comments

Configuring MOM 2005 to Manage Non-Windows Systems (by Darren Dillon)

A common misconception many people have about MOM 2005 is that it will only monitor Microsoft environments. This is not the case – and the good news is that it is really easy to configure MOM to monitor systems such as routers, firewalls, Unix servers Read More...
Posted Tuesday, April 04, 2006 4:44 PM by colmt | 2 Comments
 
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