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Monday, July 25, 2005 6:41 PM

Pull Up Your SOX

This article has some good food for thought on SOX impacts on IT, for example: "There appears to be a prevailing view that SOX is fundamentally a set of regulations that have to be complied with and provided IT Directors and CIOs ‘tick the various boxes’
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Monday, July 18, 2005 6:29 PM

Straight Talk About Your -1018

Read the new paper that tells you how Microsoft IT handles those troublesome Exhange Server -1018 errors.
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Monday, July 18, 2005 6:25 PM

Cert Management - KMS Migration

Read about the new paper telling how Microsoft IT handled migrating encryption certificates originally created in Key Management Service into Windows Server 2003 Certification Authorities.
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Monday, July 18, 2005 5:52 PM

Use Remote Desktop? 'Course You Do - HEADSUP!

There is a potential security issue with RDP - READ THE ADVISORY. While you are there, it is a good idea to check the main page and review the previous advisories.
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Friday, July 15, 2005 12:13 AM

How Microsoft IT Does Messaging

IT Showcase has just published a technical paper on how the internal Microsoft IT org configures SMTP gateways. Check it out: Configuring Exchange SMTP Gateways at Microsoft You may also want to read: Evan's notes on disk sizing and Marcuss' post aggregating
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Wednesday, July 06, 2005 11:29 PM

OneNote Resources

Here are some OneNote resources for training your users: Online Courses  Downloadable PPT courses: Get to Know OneNote Organize Your OneNote Notebook Note Flags and Search Audio and Video Notes Trial version and free OneNote in Education
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Friday, July 01, 2005 4:37 PM

Skill up for Free This Summer

TechNet online courses and clinics provide hands-on learning to help you build the skills you need to keep systems up and running, prepare for certification, or deploy an infrastructure. These courses and clinics are accessible FREE to TechNet Plus subscribers
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Friday, July 01, 2005 3:56 PM

Fake Microsoft security alert includes Trojan patch

Networkworld today notes another spoofed mail disguised as a Microsoft secbul (MS05-039). Be sure to read this article that tells you how to detect a bogus update e-mail, and spread it around to your friends and family to educate them. Also keep an
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Friday, July 01, 2005 3:44 PM

SUS is Dead, Long Live WSUS

Jason Leznek, senior product manager in Microsoft's Windows and Enterprise Management division, is quoted today in eWeek "There have been more WSUS downloads in the first month of release than SUS's downloads in its first year." Read the WSUS Deployment
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Friday, July 01, 2005 4:21 AM

Download Center Gets Chummy

The new download center has launched with cool new (really helpful) features to save IT Pros time - like the "affinity" download suggestions. For example, DL the anti-spyware beta, and at the bottom of the page you can learn that: Others who downloaded
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