Being a consultant means that I always have to write bucket-loads of documentation, and the documents tend to be rather long and include plenty of images.  Writing a 50 page document is not uncommon, not because I like to waffle (believe me, I don’t),...

Pierre Cauchois , responsable des relations techniques chez Microsoft, dévoile dans les grandes lignes ce que l’on pourra retrouver lors des TechDays 2010 pour le parcours Mobilité et Systèmes Embarqués . A noter que nous vous diffuserons une vidéo complémentaire...

(originally posted on blogs.msdn.com/cdndevs by Joey DeVilla) When people in Toronto and area refer to “The Big Apple”, we’re usually not talking about New York, but the Big Apple in Coburg, Ontario . It’s one of the must-visit stops on that stretch of...

When using the "Capture Network Settings" task in a Configuration Manager 2007 (SCCM 2007) OSD Task Sequence on a PC that has teamed NICs, not all of the settings of the NIC may be captured properly.  This mainly applies to DNS and WINS...

The November content package is ready to be downloaded! It contains SharePoint videos and some guides from Microsoft’s Worksmart team – this is the content that we use at Microsoft. Since there are a lot of videos in this download, it is larger than usual....

(originally posted on blogs.msdn.com/cdndevs by Joey DeVilla) Here’s the blogging setup I’m using from within the Ford Flex as we drive to Montreal: my laptop with a Rogers stick and carte blanche to use as much bandwidth as I need to continually post...

Office 2010 provides new features and improvements that help IT administrators configure, validate, deploy, and protect their Office installations. The following sections discuss changes in these areas: · Licensing and volume activation · Office 2010...

In general, if you have an AD-related issue the following logs are useful: Event logs from the affected machine(s) Component-specific debug logs from the affected machine(s) (Netlogon logs, Userenv logs, IIS logs, etc.) Network traces taken while the...

If you are a Twitter fan, be sure to follow us at http://twitter.com/MS_Forefront ! Our own John "JG" Chirapurath, senior director in the MSFT Identity and Security Business Group, is leading the Forefront Tweet charge in his typically pithy way. Come...

I often get asked where someone can find a comprehensive list of Security tools from Microsoft.  Many tools which may be used by an administrator are not the same set of tools used by a developer or a consumer, but its nice to have a comprehensive...

There is an interesting IT Pro content development over  in KBs. When I go to a KB that does not apply to my current OS, I get this: This is frequent scenario for IT Pros because security best practice is to NOT browse the web from your server. So,...

In a recent blog posted on 18th November we talked about the significant threat that AV rogues had posed for our users this year. Besides the prevalent rogues covered by the MSRT, the following is a longer list of AV rogues detected by Microsoft AV products...

Developers – You’re in for a treat. We’ve added even more courses to the DevDrive Sweepstakes . Remember, the more you take, the more you’re entered to win a trip to the Bob Bondurant School of High Performance Driving or a Sirius/XM Plus satellite radio...

Hrozby Internetu s sebou přinášejí útoky cílené na uživatele a jejich počítače. Nejnovější verze aplikace Windows® Internet Explorer®, kterou studie NSS Labs označila jako nejbezpečnější prohlížeč, nabízí vestavěnou ochranu před útoky typu phishing a...

Après le site officiel et le compte Twitter , c’est au tour du blog de connaitre un sérieux lifting et d’adopter le look & feel des TechDays 2010. On espère que ça vous plait ! Des petites corrections auront lieu ça et là au fil des jours à venir,...

Comme tous les ans, nous vous proposons de décorer votre blog ou votre fond d’écran avec des petits goodies. Cette année n’échappe pas à la règle :) Téléchargez les vignettes, le fond d’écran ou la signature e-mail des TechDays 2010...

From the Microsoft Malware Protection Center Blog : Almost a year ago , we started a project designed to monitor incoming attacks against a normal user on a day-to-day basis. We presented you with details about the geographical area from where the attacks...

Patrick Guimonet qui faisait parti de mon équipe (spécialiste SQL Server & SharePoint & GreenIT) et qui vient de quitter Microsoft vient d’ouvrir son nouveau blog . A bookmarker pour les fans de SharePoint !!! L’adresse de son nouveau blog : http://blogs.codes-sources.com/patricg/default.aspx...

Here’s a question for you…what’s the link between tuna, and Hyper-V? Before anyone jumps in with a fishy-joke, the connection is MWBrands, who own, among other things, the John West tuna brand.  MWBrands is an organisation of 5000+ employees, and,...

TechNet Magazine is relaunching its popular Tip of the Day feature, starting with a look at the best tips and tricks for Windows 7. Now we want to hear from you. Have a special workaround, tweak, or fix you’d like to contribute to the TechNet Magazine...

There is a lot of noise in the SharePoint world post SharePoint Conference 2009 and PDC.  I’m getting hammered for requests regarding briefings and overviews of the product so I thought I should just make my slides available.  Check it out!...

(originally posted on blogs.msdn.com/cdndevs by Joey DeVilla) Damir at the wheel, looking for an opening on the Don Valley Parkway. I’m blogging and tweeting from the road today! My coworker Damir Bersinic (IT Pro Evangelist) and I have been loaned a...

Want to install Windows 7 on a system, but leave the previous Windows installation in place? Follow these easy steps to create a multiboot system for Windows 7 ....

In the first ever Hosting Days Event organized in India, two leading Hosters of the country: Reliance Data Center and Netmagic Solutions announced their respective cloud computing offerings leveraging the Dynamic Data Center Toolkit. Reliance Data Center...

My colleague Graham Watson has a secured a number of senior folk based in Redmond to do some on-line chats – which we’ve styled as fireside chats. Although the map on the side of this blog tells me I have readers in the Southern Hemisphere, but here in...