Last week the Terminal Services Team squared off against the EEC crew in a very one-sided dodgeball game at the ProClub in Redmond... I wasn't able to make it, but as I hear things, the score was something like EEC=3, TS=0! Stanley Jones took some video...

As already mentioned two days ago every good website should have an option to search the content of the site. Although MCMS does not ship it's own search engine you can easily integrated 3rd party search engines with MCMS. Especially to integrate with...

Chong Lee and Thomas Mathew -- Technology Specialists here at Microsoft -- are developing a report that you can load into Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 (MOM) to monitor the performance of physical computers that are candidates for virtualization....

Virtual Server Deployment Manager (VSDM) provides a streamlined way to manage and deploy Virtual Machines. Using this tool, regular users (not just administrators) will be able to create and manage their own machines, without impacting other users' machines....

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I display a multi-valued attribute that I get back when using ADO to search Active Directory? -- ES Hey, ES. For the most part Active Directory is a script writer’s paradise; with very few exceptions anything you can do using...

Windows Server System Reference Architecture (WSSRA) Update We are pleased to announce updated WSSRA materials and an enhanced online navigation experience for delivering core IT service guidance, which integrates Microsoft server products into real world...

When you setup an Indigo service in the default way, it is not possible to use anything other than the default constructor for creating your object. There are two ways you can setup a custom object to use as your service instance, the first is to use...

At the Computers Freedom and Privacy Conference here in Seattle, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) announced its Policy Laundering Project. What was most interesting to me was one of the examples of what they used to illustrate the need for their...

That is the quote from Senator Arlen Spector yesterday in federal hearings with LexisNexis and the other data brokers. What is described over and over is the relative unsophistication of the attacks -- how about the unsophistication of the data protections?...

In this article, Dan outlines vital considerations when planning and designing an Active Directory implementation. Dan covers the process end to end - from initial business decisions such as why you are undertaking the implementation, to high level Forest...

Here are some more details on some pre-migration tasks I have implemented in my In-Place Migration strategy for customers migration from NT4 to 2003. This is not meant to be an exhaustive list, but rather a guide on what you should include in your in-place...

Since yesterday a new support policy for Microsoft Virtual Server is available. This policy now outlines that most Window Server software (except the ones from this list ) is now supported in a Microsoft Virtual Server environment. Unfortunatelly Microsoft...

Yesterday was significant for two reasons. Two related announcements were made on microsoft.com regarding the support policy for those of you running microsoft applications in virtual environments. I am asked about this so often, and am frustrated by...

Authoring connector as being shipped in the package allows to publish content from a Word document but it in a not very flexible manner: you can choose to publish a selected part of the document or the whole document to an (Office)HtmlPlaceholder object...

Short note: the list of whitepapers and other resourses has been updated today....

Hey, Scripting Guy! I have a text file that contains a bunch of names. How can I read through that text file and eliminate all the duplicate names? -- MW Hey, MW. We’re assuming you have a text file that looks something like this: Ken Myer Dean Tsaltas...

Title: Course 2288: Using Microsoft® Virtual Server 2005 Course Type: Self-paced course Available Offline: Yes Estimated Time to Complete: 5 hours Description: This course prepares students to migrate legacy applications and consolidate server functions...

The EEC has recently been evaluating iSCSI technology options from some of our vendor partners - Really interesting stuff. We haven't had any requests from customers for this technology yet, but we want to get up to speed on it and gain some operational...

We have just announced the public beta of System Center Data Protection Manager 2006. If you have heard about Disk-Based backup and recovery and want to see for yourself what all the buzz is about, I would urge you to take the beta for a spin: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserversystem/dpm/download/default.mspx...

I use notepad too much. To get to it faster, right-click on the Start Menu, go to Explore. Open SendTo at the bottom and create a new shortcut to Notepad. Then, just right-click on any file and send it to Notepad!...

I had to rename a server but it would take two weeks to get all the clients to point to the new name. If you go to HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\LanmanServer\Parameters and create a Reg_Multi_SZ called OptionalNames then put the server names...

Dont you just love this site.....blogcast after blogcast on a variety of topics!..Exchange, Windows Server 2003...you name it! Check it out!...

In this article, Kim talks about the challenges he faced implementing Blackberry in his organisation. I asked him whether he'd done a bakeoff with the Smartphone and he told me: About the smartphones...no we didn't do a bake off. BB came in as it does...

A reoccurring post I keep seeing on the newsgroups is people asking if they can upgrade the version of IIS on operating systems such as Windows XP. Since windows 2000 every version of the operating system has had its own version of IIS. For example: Windows...

I've been at SPA for the past few days and had planned to blog a bit while here but really there's been really little time to do so! I really had no idea what to expect when I got here, but finally, got my eureka experience of what SPA actually means...