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You would think that http://www.microsoft.com/technet would have the SQL Server 2005 books, right? GONG!!! Nope. So where do you get the goods? Well, this gets you into the age old debate about the audience for the product. Is...
In response to our valued customers who are excited about the prospects of virtualizing workloads, we are doing even more to reduce the barriers to adopting Microsoft Virtual Server. The new pricing takes effect December 1st, 2005. Please feel free to...
Microsoft has quietly released a very nice add on product for SMS 2003 called Desired Configuration Monitoring. This will let you establish a baseline platform and then verify that your systems meet that baseline. This is an awesome addition...
Hello and welcome to the Windows Core File Services team blog. I'm Jill Zoeller, the Community PM for our group. Part of my job is to help our product team get more involved with customers, and this blog aimed at IT Pros (along with our developer blog)...
If you have a large MOM environment, you might want to have the SQL Reporting server separate from your MOM Reporting and the Reporting Database. In order to do this you must install MOM Reporting on the same server as the Reporting database. ...
"Civilization, after all, is but a thin layer of civility stretched across the passions of the human heart."
I have this reputation as the Egypt guy. I've been interested in ancient Egypt since I was a kid. My home is filled with Egyptiana and my office...
The Exchange Solution Reviewed Program – Storage (ESRP) is a Microsoft Exchange Server program designed to facilitate third party storage testing and solution publishing for Exchange Server. The program combines a storage testing harness (Jetstress)...
The Windows Desktop Search (WDS) Administration Guide is now live. WDS allows your users to search their computer about as fast and as easily as they search the Web. The Desktop Search results window includes rich Windows Explorer...
Configuration errors drive security vulnerabilites, support costs, and downtime. Fix this with the new SMS 2003 Desired Configuration Monitoring (DCM) solution. DCM is a powerful solution to maintain a consistent configuration across all server roles...
Jesper has launched a site to promote his book (written with Steve) Protect Your Windows Network here. Here's a teaser to get you to go look.
THINK ABOUT IT...
Consider, for instance, next time you go through an airport security check, who would...
Ewan ...
We got asked a few questions today about Sender ID and Sender/Connection filtering in Exchange 2003. There have been some changes in how Exchange 2003 SP2 handles inbound email - specifically around filtering out bogus connections which come...
The show has begun! We kicked off our tour in London at the home of BSG today. Many thanks to the audience for their great feedback, questions and support. Tomorrow we'll be in London again, this time at the Microsoft London office in Soho. Many...
If you haven’t seen this yet, you really need to. It’s fantastic!
And if you don’t speak Korean, it’s okay. The text of the video is printed below the video....
Microsoft Systems Management Server (SMS) 2003 Desired Configuration Monitoring (DCM)This solution enables IT professionals to easily define desired configuration settings across multiple hardware and software configuration sources and detect...
The last couple of weeks have been so hectic. But hectic in a good way!
We launched SQL Server 2005, Visual Studio 2005 and BizTalk Server 2006 in Dublin on November 10th to a sell out crowd - standing room only as we had 550 people attend! ...
SQL Server 2005 Tidbit 036
Credit for this one goes to Chris Avis, who had this asked of him in an event recently…
“With ‘instant file initialization’, what is it really doing?”
Here’s a document that describes it well.
From the document:
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Hej!Då var man tillbaka i Sverige igen efter IT Forum i Barcelona. Vill tipsa om att vi nu släppt Windows Desktop Search för nedladdning på webben. Den söker igenom filer på datorn, dina mejl, kalenderbokningar, favoriter, gamla chat-konversationer osv...
I've just got out from a meeting and after a colleague happened to display their calendar on the projector noticed something which (for me at least) is really dead useful. I never knew you could display more than one timezone on your Outlook calendar...
Vorige Woche war ich auf dem Microsoft IT Forum in Barcelona (endlich ein wenig Wärme!) und habe 2 Sessions gehalten: Meine SQL Server BI Demo und einen Chalk Talk über Verschlüsselung in SQL Server 2005 mit Rafal Lukawiecki und Maciej Pilecki. Das war...
There's an excellent security awareness video that was produced on behalf of the Dutch Government for their highly successful National Security Awareness day - it's good IMHO as the content is highly visual, colourful and thought provoking....
Today saw a major step in the evolution of my humble blog: a question!, from Eric:
I have seen others use the NOT NULL DEFAULT "" and insist it is better that NULLS. One of the main reasons they give is that a NULL value cannot be indexed, and therefore...
Pour avoir plus d'informations à ce sujet, vous pouvez aller ici : http://www.microsoft.com/france/sql/sql2005/achetez/default.mspx
Ou bien contacter votre commercial ou votre revendeur préféré ! ...
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I'm often asked what the best practice is for running Exchange not just around the technology but also around the business process. Recently we released the Exchange Service Management Guide to help you implement process and team best practices...
Being a security guy I see the world in black and white. People are either good or bad. Technical security means are either secure or not. We are either underpaid, or we are in marketing.
No, seriously, nothing is that black and white. Take SMB Message...