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January 2008 - Posts

Thursday, January 24, 2008 5:49 AM

Wrinkled Shirts... a Travel Tip

This post is totally not tech related. Sorry... For some reason, hotels in Europe do not seem to have irons in the room. This is just super when you are on the second leg of a trip, and your clothes are starting to look a lot like this: If I was smart,
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Thursday, January 24, 2008 4:32 AM

Pocket-protector territory

Alright... we're going into serious pocket-protector territory here, but the TCP/IP Registry Values for Microsoft Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 guide is available for download. If you have been just dying to know how to configure the W2K8 TCP/IP
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Thursday, January 24, 2008 4:10 AM

How fast are you?

First saw this over on Jeremy's Blog and had to try it myself... 88 words So... top that !
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Tuesday, January 22, 2008 11:23 AM

Windows Server 2008 Application Compatibility

Some good resources on Windows Server 2008 Application Compatibility over at Venkat's Blog : Microsoft has made several resources and tools available for Solution developers create better solutions that run on Windows Server Operating systems. Some of
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Monday, January 21, 2008 7:28 AM

Happy Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time; the need for mankind to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence. Mankind must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects
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Saturday, January 19, 2008 4:54 AM

Active Directory How-Tos

How do I back up AD? Seize an Operations Manager role? Recover a Domain Controller? Manage SYSVOL? There's a guide for that... Active Directory Product Operations Guide Process: Back up Active Directory Process: Non-authoritative Restore of Active Directory
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Saturday, January 19, 2008 2:25 AM

Authenticate Linux/Unix to Active Directory

If you need guidance on a Microsoft technology, we probably have a Solution Accelerator for that! Today's guide is brought to you by the letter "authentication" . Now... If you operate in a heterogeneous environment, you may one day be tasked with making
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Friday, January 18, 2008 2:44 AM

All the TechNet and MSDN blogs

Seriously. All of them. In a convenient, easy to consume OPML format: http://blogs.technet.com/Opml.aspx http://blogs.msdn.com/opml.aspx
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Friday, January 18, 2008 1:22 AM

Virtual Technet

Good stuff in this month's TechNet magazine...all about System Center and Group Policy. Get it while its hot! System Center Real Control with Virtual Machine Manager 2007 Virtualization allows organizations to consolidate resources and save money. But
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Friday, January 18, 2008 1:02 AM

Working at Microsoft

I wrote my " Why I love working at Microsoft " post nearly a year ago, but Dare Abasanjo (author of RSS Bandit ) has great retrospective of his 5 years at Microsoft, and ends with a graphic from Scott Hanselman's post about joining Microsoft . Not to
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Friday, January 18, 2008 12:52 AM

MCITPing it with W2K8

If you are a certification junkie like me, you have been anxiously awaiting information on the last of the Windows 2008 Certification Exams that replace the venerable MCSE. Information on the Technical Specialist exams has been available for a while,
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Thursday, January 17, 2008 12:01 PM

Managing Hyper-V remotely

Just got this from Jeff on the Windows Virtualization Team : Hyper-V Question of the Day: Q: I’d like to install the Hyper-V MMC on Windows Server 2008 to remotely manage another Hyper-V System. How do I do this? Can I do this on Windows Server 2008 x64
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Wednesday, January 16, 2008 11:18 AM

Windows Server Compare

I see that Keith has some pretty sweet webcasts coming up for all those of you that live in a heterogeneous world. This is all part of the Windows Server Compare series of screencasts and webcasts that are coming out. TechNet Webcast: Windows Compare
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Wednesday, January 16, 2008 2:18 AM

Security Best Practices

By no means a comprehensive list, today's Best Practices are brought to you by the letter " security ". TechNet Security Home Assess Your Environment •The Security Risk Management Discipline module •The Assessing Network Security book •The SANS Security
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Wednesday, January 16, 2008 1:48 AM

Driving in India

I am in India for the next week or so, and it really is quite beautiful here (and much warmer than Seattle)! The panorama below (stitched together with the killer Windows Live Photo Gallery ) shows some features (palm trees and blue skies) not typically
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Wednesday, January 16, 2008 1:09 AM

Windows Server 2008 certifications

Speaking as one to another... (sorry, I don't have any other cool place to show off my Windows 2008 certs and cool button from the Microsoft Certification Logo Builder ), I just heard from Trika that you can sign up for notification as to when the new
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Tuesday, January 15, 2008 8:24 PM

WPF Bootcamp

Awesome collection of training on Windows Presentation Foundation (free of course!). Three whole days worth of recorded sessions, labs, demos, PowerPoints.... http://www.visitmix.com/university/wpf/wpfbootcamp.htm and a ton more training on Silverlight,
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Monday, January 14, 2008 8:18 PM

Top Microsoft Blogs

In case you are interested… I was initially just going to show the top 10, but then you would have missed some of my favorites like Keith Combs , Virtual PC Guy , or the Mac Mojo Blog ! So, without further ado, I give you the top 25 blogs on TechNet and
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Friday, January 11, 2008 5:53 PM

The Seahawks will win this weekend

Assuming Shaun Alexander steps up his game (or they let Maurice Morris spend some more time with the ball), and if Matt Hasselbeck can limit the number of times he throws the ball to Packers ;) GO HAWKS!!! (and now back to your regularly scheduled technical
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Friday, January 11, 2008 5:07 PM

Identity Lifecycle Management

Alright... this is probably not something that you would implement as an IT Pro at a company with 15 employees, but for companies with thousands of employees, Identity Management is very critical.  You have line-of-business applications that depend
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Friday, January 11, 2008 6:17 AM

How do I run my IT shop?

I know, I know... another post with a bunch of links from Sean. You may even scroll past this post to get to the latest Lolcats pic in your newsreader. Here. Here's a cute kitty with a witty caption. Is that good enough? Did you get it out of your system?
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Friday, January 11, 2008 5:05 AM

Free Security Courses

I was just browsing the IT Pro course catalog over at http://www.microsoftelearning.com , and noticed that there are a TON of free courses relating to Security. There are some non-security free courses as well (related to SQL Server 2008, Windows Server
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Thursday, January 10, 2008 5:38 PM

Microsoft on Google

Although I now use live.com as my default search engine (it's searchier!), I just noticed that Google has a Microsoft-specific search. Very cool! http://www.google.com/microsoft.html
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Thursday, January 10, 2008 4:14 PM

Pre-order Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac

I see over on TUAW that Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac is now available for pre-order from Apple and Amazon , with delivery scheduled on January 15th. It really is a sweet release. You'll want to check out the official Product Site and the Mac Mojo blog
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Thursday, January 10, 2008 4:02 PM

Global Meetings

As Microsoft is a global company, it is not uncommon to have meeting scheduled that include participants from a number of different regions. The more time zones that are represented in the call, the harder it is to schedule. Invariably, someone is going
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Thursday, January 10, 2008 2:42 PM

Bill's last day

I know, I know... I'm the last person on the planet to post this link, but it really is funny :) Video: Bill Gates Last Day CES Clip
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Thursday, January 10, 2008 2:21 PM

Books, books, and more books

With the upcoming Windows Server 2008 release, there are a TON of cool books coming out from MSPress. You can always check out the list here ( http://www.microsoft.com/mspress/hop/ ), but the books that will be lining my bookshelf upon release are: MCITP
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Wednesday, January 09, 2008 5:22 AM

Why is my hard drive spinning?

Ever see your hard drive LED chugging away, while there was no apparent activity on your screen?  Apple solves the problem by choosing to not providing a HD LED.  What you don't know can't bug you! My wife, however, asked me to track down the
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Tuesday, January 08, 2008 10:12 PM

What's that service?

Ever wish that someone at Microsoft would write up a list of all the services that come with Windows Server/client?  Perhaps something that lists the executable command line, the account that the service runs under, a description of what the service
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Tuesday, January 08, 2008 9:49 PM

Best Practices

It's always a good thing to stand on the shoulders of giants, and implement technology in a way such that you take advantage of the experience of others.  If only someone collected all of these... er... "Best Practices" into one place! 
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Saturday, January 05, 2008 6:03 PM

SharePoint Extranet Collaboration Toolkit

SharePoint is the hottest thing going at Microsoft.  While Excel is the swiss-army-knife of desktop apps, SharePoint is the do-it-all app on the Server side.  If you are not playing with it already, then you are behind the curve.  Go download
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Saturday, January 05, 2008 5:35 PM

16 New Features in Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1

Most admins are familiar with the process of downloading and applying Service Packs for servers and desktop systems. These downloads, of course, provide hotfixes and security updates that help to keep your systems current. Sometimes, however, a service
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Saturday, January 05, 2008 5:25 PM

Microsoft and Photography

Did you know that Microsoft has a site devoted to professional photography?  Neither did I.  The site actually looks more like something from Apple than a traditional Microsoft site.  Check it out! http://www.microsoft.com/prophoto/default.aspx
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Saturday, January 05, 2008 5:02 PM

Installing Apache 2.2 with SSL/TLS on Windows

Although IIS 7 on the upcoming Windows Server 2008 is absolutely killer, you might be interested in installing Apache (the web server) on top of Windows.  Stranger things have happened... The wizards over at Port 25 (the Open Source Software Lab
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Saturday, January 05, 2008 4:50 PM

Microsoft Scholarship

It's that time again... school will be starting back up again, the sleep deprivation and Top Ramen consumption will ramp back up, and if you don't have some help with the finances, you're bank account will be nice and empty.  Good times!  Fortunately,
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Wednesday, January 02, 2008 6:39 PM

Access Our Internal Knowledge Base

Pretty cool benefit of becoming a Microsoft Certified Professional ... From the MCP Blog : Internal Knowledge Base Access – Folks, this is the benefit that I’m most excited about. It’s time we started treating our MCP community as part of the Microsoft
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Wednesday, January 02, 2008 6:27 PM

The top Active Directory Issues

The Ask the Directory Services Team blog has a great post on the top 50 KB articles used to solve issues in Directory Services support during the first quarter of Microsoft fiscal year 2008 (July 2007 through September 2007). I list the top 10 below,
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Wednesday, January 02, 2008 4:00 PM

SQL Server 2005 Best Practices

There's no shortage of them!!! http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sqlserver/bb331794.aspx Get the real-world guidelines, expert tips, and rock-solid guidance to take your SQL Server implementation to the next level. These SQL Server best practices draw
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Tuesday, January 01, 2008 8:30 AM

This is how 2008 begins, not with a bang but a whimper...

So... the picture below is what the New Years Shindig at the Space Needle is supposed to look like. Except, this year, it was not to be. Right after the inspirational interview with the fireworks engineers, the entire city of Seattle counted down with
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