Yesterday I discovered a bug in MSN Desktop Search (MDS) and its Outlook integration. I would enter a search term in the MDS toolbar in Outlook and the resulting Explorer window (someone pointed out that MDS uses an Explorer shell extension to display...
Rechte auf Outlook-Ordner wie Kalender lassen sich ganz einfach zentral verwalten. Wie das genau geht, zeige ich in einem Blogcast mit Hilfe eines Tools von PSS sowie einer im Internet frei verfügbaren Applikation....
Die Woche nach Ostern ist TechNet-Webcast-Woche SQL Server 2005! Der Webcast ist Dienstag bis Freitag, jeweils 15:30-16:30 Die Themen: • Dienstag: Hochverfügbarkeit – Peer to Peer Replikation, Mirroring, Snapshots Halb Slides, halb Demos, Anspruch: mittel...
Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I set an Active Directory property to NULL? I tried setting the value to an empty string (“”) but it didn’t work. -- JJ Hey, JJ. You know, it’s not like the Scripting Guys to get philosophical; one of the Scripting Guys, for...
Windows Server Administration Webcast Series Homework BACKUP, RESTORE, and RECOVERY Homework Assignment #7 1. http://blogs.msdn.com/kevinremde Go to my blog , click on the category “TechNet Webcasts”, and view the “Resource Page”...
After nearly 7 years in Product Support Services helping our customers on issues ranging from debugging IIS failures, to identifying performance issues to helping customers with security investigations I have taken on a new challenge and accepted a job...
Speaking of recycled braincells, he also did a post on HTTP header filters (found in the add-ins area of the console) that you can put in to block access to a number of programs you might not want to have running through your firewall. Applications these...
I saw several threads on the Internet earlier this month regarding a change that increases the limits for the the number of contacts which can be present in your MSN Messenger contact list. The change is now official - a couple of days ago, the limit...
Es ist soweit, der Nachfolger der Software Update Services (SUS) - auch als Windows Update Service (WUS) bekannt - ist nun endlich im RC Stadium. Die Produktgruppe hat es sich zudem nicht nehmen lassen den Namen nochmals zu ändern. Das ganze ist jetzt...
I’ve had a request for information from Christian P asking about managing the IMF (intelligent Message Filter) archive folder and what utilities you can use to help you with the task. Yup – IMF can be very useful, but it can also create a large volume...
Es gibt ein neues Tool bei Microsoft zum Download, dass die Limitierung der gleichzeitigen Anmeldungen von Anwendern ermöglicht. Jeff Alexander hat in seinem Blog darüber berichtet - darauf gestossen hat mich der MVP Nils Kaczenski. LimitLogin 1.0 steht...
Busy month so far, so a quickie: head over to Michael Kleef's blog, where he's looking for feedback on the security track and other session planning....
Following a recent Technet session, I was asked where you can download adpref.exe (an Active Directory Performance tool) from. Confession - I didn't know the answer and no amount of searching turned over any stones. It turns out that adperf was an internal...
Sysinternals yesterday released a new version of Rootkit revealer after receiving feedback that people using rootkits were starting to add Rootkit Revealer to the 'root process' to continue to avoid detection. The new version uses a randomly named executable...
If you are reading this PRIOR to the webcast, you should tune in today at 8:00am Pacific Time for the Windows System Resource Manager webcast. You can sign up and attend from this link (It is the first webcast of the day and thus the top link to select.)...
Someone made a more appropriate choice of name (thankfully!) given some of the alternatives which have been on the table over the past few months. The next version of SUS (Software Update Services) will be officially called Windows Server Update Services...
Looks like every enterprise server product group at Microsoft is trying to provide self-paced, hands-on labs via the TechNet Virtual Lab . Now, the SharePoint Portal Server 2003 Virtual Lab is finally available, and -- quoting from its home page -- "it...
I should have posted this previously, so apologies to those who attended my recent session on AD Troubleshooting, Diagnostics and Recovery. Relating to the demonstration for registering and using the AcctInfo.dll to add a new tab to the Active Directory...
I figured, it’s been a while, it’s time for a change. :) As has been mentioned over on the EEC blog , I’ve switched departments. I’ve had a great time in PSS CPR, but am now trying things from the other side of the house. I’m now an engineer for the Enterprise...
Hey, Scripting Guy! I’d like to be able to open an Excel spreadsheet, get all the information off one of the worksheets, and then save that worksheet data to a comma-separated values file. How can I do that? -- SS Hey, SS. You know, you just have to love...
Yesterday I uploaded the 1.1.0 release of the Quota Message Service , which allows you to send custom messages to users who exceed their quota. New to this build - setup improvements, including logging via MSI of setup actions and failures, a fix for...
Im zweiten Blogcast erkläre ich, wie man die Bannermeldung des SMTP-Servers von Windows (den auch Exchange nutzt) so abändert, dass er keine Versionsinformation mehr anzeigt. Der Blogcast hat eine Länge von 3:19 min und steht als Online-Stream zum sofortigen...
Den Test der richtigen DNS-Konfiguration kann man mit vielen Worten beschreiben oder mit einem Blogcast beantworten. Neugierig, was ein Blogcast ist?...
I shall be presenting this first webcast myself and hosting the other two – hope you can join in. 23 March, 10am: TechNet Webcast: Business Intelligence on the Microsoft Platform This webcast is will provide IT Professionals with a complete technical...
Yesterday we released RootkitRevealer v1.30. This release is in direct response to Microsoft Product Support Services (PSS) discovering actual installations of the Hacker Defender rootkit on customer systems that target RootkitRevealer. RootkitRevealer...
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