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Tuesday, April 22, 2008 4:20 PM

May TechNet magazine is out

...and awesome as always!  Check it out here . Windows Administration: Active Directory Backup and Restore in Windows Server 2008 Windows Server 2008 and the new Windows Server Backup utility bring many changes and welcome enhancements to backing
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Monday, April 21, 2008 5:57 PM

Combining Smart Art Diagrams in Word 2007

One of the coolest features of Office 2007 is SmartArt . It makes it incredibly easy to create great looking diagrams to show a process, cycle, hierarchy, or relationship. During some business planning recently, however, I had the need to actually COMBINE
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Monday, April 21, 2008 5:37 PM

The limits of Active Directory

A few years ago, at my first IT job, my manager told me that there was a server at Microsoft, and all day long it created objects in a test Active Directory Domain.  "This server has been running since Windows Server 2000 was released"
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Sunday, April 20, 2008 7:31 AM

Active Directory Security Best Practices

Because why wouldn't you? Best Practice Guide for Securing Windows Server Active Directory Installations Best Practice Guide for Securing Active Directory Installations and Day-to-Day Operations: Part 1 Best Practice Guide for Securing Active Directory
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Wednesday, April 16, 2008 11:16 PM

MCP Mentor

Just saw the following on Trika's blog .  GREAT opportunity to share your technical/certification knowledge with others!  Signing up right now... Check this out: MCP mentors is a cool new program some people around here are cooking up, through
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Monday, April 14, 2008 3:22 AM

Live Maps, Traffic, and Safari

I am a BIG fan of Live Maps .  Since last fall, they have had a feature that Yahoo and Google are still lacking, and that is driving directions that take traffic into account.  I live to the south of Seattle/Redmond, and there are no fewer than
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Thursday, April 10, 2008 12:53 AM

Whence Shalt I Screencast?

Alright... back from a MUCH needed vacation, some crazy weather (hail in Seattle?), and I have started to recover from the black lung that my kids were nice enough to share with me. My new Samson microphone showed up as well, so I am ready to start recording
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