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June 2006 - Posts

Powershell Execution Policy on Vista

Posted Tuesday, June 27, 2006 4:29 PM by tmintner
If you have downloaded and used RC1 of Powershell you will see that the Execution Policy is set to restricted by default. This essentially means that scripts do not function by default within Powershell. Although this is a great security feature that Read More...
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Powershell Books

Posted Tuesday, June 27, 2006 4:02 PM by tmintner
If you are into printed books there are a couple of really good Powershell books that you should check out. O"Reilly has a great book simply titled Monad. This book was originally written on one of the beta versions of Powershell but if you purchase the Read More...
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Please upload your MOM Reports!

Posted Tuesday, June 27, 2006 3:41 PM by tmintner
Rod Trent has created an upload area for MOM 2005 reports and Management Packs. I know that creating custom reports can often be challenging to a non DBA so if you have taken the time to create custom reports please share them with the Management Community. Read More...
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Sample Powershell Active Directory Phonebook Script

Posted Monday, June 26, 2006 3:43 PM by tmintner
I have been learning the syntax of Powershell so I thought I would write a simple little script to search Active Directory for the mobile phone numbers of my co-workers. This script will accept an input of lastname and even take wildcard characters so Read More...
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Powershell command to see what’s installed

Posted Saturday, June 24, 2006 3:00 PM by tmintner
Here is a quick little Powershell script that I find useful to see what I have installed on my system. This will return the installed program and the date that it was installed: get-wmiobject -class "win32reg_addremoveprograms" -namespace "root\cimv2" Read More...
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LUA for Windows XP?

Posted Wednesday, June 21, 2006 4:36 PM by tmintner
One of the more interesting features of Windows Vista is that it limits control of an administrative account so that you have to provide credentials or confirm an action that requires administrative privileges. If you are not a local administrator then Read More...
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BDD 2007 Beta 1 now available on Connect

Posted Wednesday, June 21, 2006 3:30 PM by tmintner
Now Available: BDD 2007 Beta 1 for Windows Vista and the 2007 Microsoft Office System The Microsoft Solutions for Infrastructure & Management (MSIM) team is pleased to announce the Beta release of the Microsoft Solution Accelerator for Business Desktop Read More...
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Learning PowerShell

Posted Saturday, June 17, 2006 5:20 PM by tmintner
If you are involved with scripting at all you have probably heard about Powershell. Powershell is formerly known as MONAD. I will be posting some sample scripts here in the future but before reading those you should become familiar with some of the great Read More...
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My Blogging Manifesto

Posted Saturday, June 17, 2006 10:46 AM by tmintner
Since Robert Scoble announced that he was leaving Microsoft, I have done a lot of reading and thinking about his philosophy on blogging. Scoble states that you should blog about your passion and what drove you to create the blog in the first place. After Read More...
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SMS 2003 OSD Feature Pack Update Release Candidate released to the web

Posted Thursday, June 15, 2006 4:17 PM by tmintner
The update to the SMS 2003 OSD Feature Pack has been released to connect.microsoft.com. Feel free to start downloading and testing! Read More...
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BDD Webcast from Teched

Posted Thursday, June 15, 2006 11:11 AM by tmintner
If you weren’t fortunate enough to go to Teched, you can still watch the session presented by Michael Niehaus on deploying Vista and the Office 2007 System with BDD Vista. Here is the link to the Livemeeting presentation: http://msevents.microsoft.com/cui/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032301258&EventCategory=4&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US Read More...
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SMS 2003 OSD Feature Pack Update for Vista Open Beta

Posted Thursday, June 15, 2006 12:45 AM by tmintner
Wow that is a long title..Anyway, the update for the SMS 2003 OSD that will support the native Vista WIM file format is now open as a public beta. To get access to the beta sign into Connect ( http://connect.microsoft.com ) and click on Available Connections. Read More...
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SMS 2003 R2 is now available

Posted Thursday, June 15, 2006 12:38 AM by tmintner
In case you haven’t heard, SMS 2003 R2 is now available for customers with either Software Assurance or an Enterprise Agreement. If you would like to evaluate the new features of R2 check out the following link: http://www.microsoft.com/smserver/evaluation/2003/r2.mspx Read More...
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I love my Moto Q phone

Posted Thursday, June 15, 2006 12:34 AM by tmintner
Well last Friday I took the plunge and bought a Motorola Q and switched to Verizon. I have been hooked on it since. In fact, I served on jury duty this past Monday and Tuesday and was checking and responding to emails while waiting on the lawyers. The Read More...
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