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Friday, May 30, 2008 4:30 AM

Evalu'08

I just ran into the following contest on a banner ad of all places... It looks like if you try out any of our current line of products (Windows Server 2008, Visual Studio 2008, DPM, and the like), you are entered to win some killer prizes! https://www.microsoft.com/Infrastructure/Evalu08/
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Monday, March 17, 2008 4:45 PM

Automating Software Updates for Offline Virtual Machines

This white paper provides guidance and script samples for integrating System Center Configuration Manager 2007 and Virtual Machine Manager 2007 to provide automated software updates for virtual machines stored in a VMM library (offline). By automating
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Saturday, March 01, 2008 12:45 AM

Maintaining SharePoint's SQL Backend

Many of Microsoft's enterprise-level applications use SQL Server on the back end to host data, content, etc. CRM, Operations Manager, Sharepoint... You get the idea. While many companies have Database Administrators (DBA's) to manage their business-critical
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Saturday, February 23, 2008 5:42 PM

Would you like a video with that?

Some useful videos to accompany the release of Service Pack 1 for Operations Manager 2007 ... (or you can pick up the Eval version here ) Learn from the experts how to use the many features of Operations Manager 2007 Service Pack 1 (SP1) as well as address
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Wednesday, February 06, 2008 3:57 AM

The Microsoft Download Center fairy has been busy!!!

Some highlights... Windows Media Services 2008 for Windows Server 2008 This software is an optional supplement to Windows Server 2008. In Windows Server 2008, the Streaming Media Services role (which includes the latest version of Windows Media Services)
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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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Saturday, December 01, 2007 6:32 PM

How much iron do I need?

Photographers get to call their lenses "glass", so server engineers can get away with calling their servers "iron" :). Quite often on the internal discussion lists, I see questions along the lines of "my customer is going to implement Exchange 2007 in
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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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Wednesday, October 31, 2007 9:55 PM

System Center: Control the Network, Control the Empire!

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Tuesday, October 09, 2007 2:14 PM

Protecting Exchange 2007 with Data Protection Manager 2007 - Walkthrough

Time for part two of my DPM 2007 Series ( Part 1 showed installation ), Protecting Exchange 2007 with DPM 2007... Let's Go! Let's start with required reading, and then I'll walk through the process with screenshots: System Center Data Protection Manager
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Sunday, October 07, 2007 12:48 AM

Installing Data Protection Manager 2007 - walkthrough

Data Protection Manager (hereafter DPM) is an awesome addition to the System Center suite of management products. While DPM 2006 worked well for backing up file servers, DPM 2007 now handles: Blending continuous data protection with traditional tape backup
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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 8:20 PM

System Center Remote Operations Manager – Rapid Deployment Program

All right… I'm going to go all market-y on you here. I know there is not a ton of information out there on the new System Center Remote Operations Manager offering for Managed Services Providers (MSP's), but the marketing team is hard at work on that.
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Friday, June 22, 2007 10:22 PM

System Center Essentials 30/500

System Center Essentials is one of the coolest and most useful programs coming out of Microsoft this year. SCE is targeted at small and midmarket businesses that want some of the monitoring, software distribution, and reporting capabilities as our enterprise
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Wednesday, June 20, 2007 12:28 AM

Operations Manager Design Guide and Virtual Labs

The Design Guide has been released and is available via the documentation link on TechNet http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/opsmgr/bb498235.aspx Or directly http://download.microsoft.com/download/7/4/d/74deff5e-449f-4a6b-91dd-ffbc117869a2/OpsMgr2007_DesignGuid.doc
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