A new MCMS article is live on MSDN: Enabling SSL Protection on MCMS Sites Complete list of all available Articles, Whitepapers and other useful stuff can be found here ....

Das Technologieberater-Team hält auf der CeBIT Technet-Seminare zu vielen Administrationsthemen. Jeden Tag, den ganzen (Messe-)Tag, in zwei Räumen. Ich selbst bin mit "Microsoft SharePoint einrichten und administrieren" täglich um 9:30 und mit "Microsoft...

Der Februar CTP von SQL Server 2005 ist raus und kann auf MSDN und für technische Betatester auf beta.microsoft.com heruntergeladen werden. Ebenfalls verfügbar sind die Express Edition und der zugehörige Express Manager zum allgemeinen Download. Es gibt...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I delete a single registry value? I don’t want to delete the entire registry key, just one value. -- BF Hey, BF. Registry terminology can be a bit confusing, thanks in large part to those of us here at Microsoft (we tend to...

Die meisten Administratoren bieten den Anwendern historisch bedingt gemappte Laufwerksbuchstaben zum Zugriff auf Netzwerkressourcen an. Anstelle der Mappings im Arbeitsplatz kann man über die Netzwerkumgebung aber auch Netzwerkressourcen definieren. Diese...

Aufgrund der Anfragen in meinem letzten Webcast stelle ich an dieser Stelle einmal meine eigene Sicherungsmethode vor. Ich betreibe eine kleine Testumgebung mit einem Small Business Server 2003. Den darin enthaltenen Exchange sowie das gesamte System...

Gestern hatte ich im TechNet Webcast über Backup & Recovery von Exchange Server 2003 gesprochen. Dabei zeigte ich live, wie es mit der »Speichergruppe für die Wiederherstellung« möglich ist, einen Informationsspeicher aus einem Backup heraus in eine temporäre...

For those of you who are looking for an answer to this question, I recommend you to review Network Traffic Statistics on Exchange 2003 results, you'll find this document very useful. Year to year this document is reviewed and updated by Christophe Leroux...

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I never saw this one coming: After playing with the new WindowsXP x64 Opteron-based Sun workstations at tonight's Sun mixer held in honor of the deployment of two racks worth of new SunFire Windows Server 2003 gear, my boss cleaned off his old HP desktop...

In order to beat out Bruce on the POST event blog posts – I have snuck back to the hotel room to get my first words edgewise as to how the Vancouver edition went for the TechNet winter tour 2005. What a city! What an Audience! What a great group of IT...

Through Angus I just got pointed to Blogmap which allows you to see where individual bloggers are geographically located. Would you like to see where I'm located and who else in my area is blogging? Then have a look here:...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I tell how many days there are between two dates? For example, if I have a log file that says an application started on January 1, 2005 and that the application ended today, is there a way to determine how many days the application...

I use this site all of the time for helping me with getting operating systems running on Virtual Server / Virtual PC as some of them require specific configurations and installation steps. http://vpc.visualwin.com/ I would suggest having a look at the...

Did you know that there is a repository on the TechNet site with a whole heap of scripts for controlling Virtual Servers... http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/scripts/vs/default.mspx Well, you do now! Many people have been asking me for scripts...

I can safely say that Victoria has once again laid down the gauntlet for the rest of the cities in the tour. I have to say that I had an amazing time with a fun audience. Thanks to everyone for attending and I certainly look forward to coming back......

I am writing a mega scenario to use as a test for infrastructure architecture. This implies that it covers all the technical aspects of infrastructure. The elements or layers that I have are: 1. Hardware (routers, servers, client devices, storage (SANS...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I create a folder on the Start menu? I want the folder to be named the same as the %username% environment variable. -- SB Hey, SB. As we are wont to do, we’re going to break this question down into subtasks. We’ll explain how...

(When it rains, it pours...) The first Service Pack for Internet Security and Acceleration Server 2004 is now available for download. Get it here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=69c5d85c-5c80-473c-9cb4-60dda75d568d&displaylang=e...

Happy Grouping!! What a great session! I hope you’ll agree that this Part 4 session on Group Management had some real gems in it – even if you thought you already knew it all about groups! Here, as usual, is the “best of” Q&A...

The event is free of charge for you to attend. We'll be touring the UK (well four major cities at least) presenting in depth security session covering ways to mitigate the treats that all of our organisations face every day. The TechNet Security track...

Hi. Patrick O’Rourke here – I am also a Product Manager over in the Windows Server Division. I’m writing because Cactus league isn’t in full bloom yet, and I’m still waiting for Gary and Bob to be fired so I can be interested in the NHL again. I was watching...

On Thursday next week I am presenting at a Technet Evening on Interop and so am putting the talk together. I don’t particularly want to go into a huge amount of detail on each Microsoft Interop product but want to give a structure or architecture for...

A few weeks ago, we asked you for your list of questions about E12 and said we'd pick a few and post answers on the one year anniversary of this blog, February 9th. Well as you can see, I totally missed that date :-) Very sorry about that and I'd be happy...

So now I have had the operation and am a manager I need a way of managing my time and also of giving direction to the people who work for me. As I have said before in my blog I have a very poor memory and attention span (typically 3 items and 30 seconds.....