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Monday, May 19, 2008 5:41 AM

Security within Microsoft's own IT department

In case you are curious what it is like to be in charge of Security for IT at Microsoft, you get to deal with an environment where there are: Approximately 100,000 intrusion attempts each month. Approximately 1 million infected or malicious e-mail messages
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Thursday, May 15, 2008 7:49 AM

SharePoint - Searchier!

It looks like we have posted nearly 17 hours of training videos for enterprise search on TechNet. The presentations provide details about key enterprise search capabilities in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. Module 1: Workshop Overview Module
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Thursday, May 15, 2008 6:48 AM

Group Policy Documentation Survival Guide

The latest version of the links below can be found here , or download a PDF version here . Don't ask me where they got that US-Army-looking-font in the PDF... it probably wouldn't have been my first choice ;) Group Policy Documentation Essentials These
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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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Friday, February 01, 2008 9:49 PM

February TechNet Magazine is out

And it is all about SharePoint and OCS baby! http://www.microsoft.com/technet/technetmag/ Sharepoint A Smart Approach to Gathering Data in the Enterprise Information is one of the most important assets in an enterprise. But it can be a challenge to manage
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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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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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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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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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Saturday, November 10, 2007 10:41 PM

Microsoft Deployment Released!

Unified Tools and Guidance for Desktop and Server Deployment Automation. Download it today! We are pleased to announce the official release of the Microsoft Deployment Solution Accelerator! Microsoft Deployment is the next version of Business Desktop
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Tuesday, October 02, 2007 6:15 PM

Map Active Directory in Visio

I see that we released the Microsoft Active Directory Topology Diagrammer today. I'm working from home today, so I can't run it in AD and attach a screenshot, but this should be helpful for documenting your AD infrastructure. According to the product
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Thursday, August 23, 2007 6:27 AM

Virtual Server HTTP 500 Error

There's probably a KB article about this, but I know the first time I ran into the problem above, it took me forever to find the solution, so I thought I would share it with you. If you install Virtual Server 2005 R2 (or SP1), and then Remote-Desktop
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Sunday, July 22, 2007 7:23 AM

A Book to Buy

No... not Harry Potter. Judging by my trip to Costco today, every living human being on the planet has already bought a copy ;) If you run (or plan to run) Microsoft Operations Manager , there are two books you must have in your library: Essential Microsoft
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Saturday, July 21, 2007 8:06 PM

Windows Server 2008 Feature Posters

I know... everyone else has already covered this... These two posters, originally published in the July 2007 issue of TechNet Magazine , provide a strong visual tool to aide in the understanding of various features and components of Windows Server 2008.
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Tuesday, April 17, 2007 12:11 AM

Is There a Guide for That?

So you have just been tasked with setting up Active Directory, or creating a Backup Plan, or setting up a PKI infrastructure for your company. There's no need to start from scratch!!! We've already done the heavy lifting for you: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/solutionaccelerators/wssra/raguide/default.mspx
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