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I have a great story about my travels I would like to share with you. So I travel for Microsoft, I spend an average of 3 business weeks a month on the road. When you travel a lot one thing I have found that is important is to have a good routine. Here
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So here is a nice little tip that is a direct result of sleep deprivation and bad habit. I was working on some C# code that grabs some log files and wraps them up into a cab file and moves them off to a different location. After that it clears the directory
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OK. Let me get this perfectly straight. I am not going to give you a new way to do your passwords like Robert Hensing ( http://blogs.technet.com/robert_hensing/archive/2004/11/12/256648.aspx ) or former Microsoftie Jesper Johansson ( http://blogs.technet.com/jesper_johansson/archive/2005/10/13/410470.aspx
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OK. gripe time. One of my co-workers was asked by a customer, "Can you prevent a local admin from deselecting File and Printer Sharing?" Come to find out, everyone in their domain was a local admin. Here's the problem... I used to get similar questions
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I blogged last week on User Profile troubleshooting and that was one of my biggest pet peeves. Now it is time for my BIGGEST pet peeve. I almost feel bad that I am on entry number 4 of this blog and I can't save this one for later, but I need to hopefully
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One alarming trend I am seeing on customer sites and I saw when I was in PSS was the common troubleshooting step of blowing away a user profile. An end user calls in to the helpdesk because they are having trouble logging on, whether they receive an error
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I spent almost 4 years in Microsoft Product Support Services. I would take calls and fix problems. One nice thing about PSS is that if you worked the night shift, they would give you a salary differential. Being a younger employee and in need of some
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