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Thursday, January 26, 2006 5:36 PM

DPM Appliance

I love this company. Think about how much time, money, and wasted employee effort you could save with an appliance that lets you easily and cheaply set up DPM for your environment. Watch the webcast Disk-to-Disk-to-Tape Backup and Recovery with DPM and
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Thursday, January 26, 2006 5:17 PM

Is It Safe?

Imagine Olivier in MARATHON MAN interrogating Dustin Hoffman's character ..."Is it safe?" The Windows Live Safety Center (Beta) launched a few months ago, and provides you with a FREE, frequently updated, on-demand virus scanner which
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Wednesday, January 25, 2006 2:50 PM

Deploying Vista

Check out the IT Pro resources for planning deployment of the next client OS on the Deploying Windows Vista page. To answer that pesky "why?" question, check out these resources.
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Tuesday, January 24, 2006 7:11 PM

How Microsoft IT Does Patch Management Presentation

Successful patch management is crucial to maintaining computer security at any organization. Organizations can learn from the Microsoft IT department’s experience with over 200,000 clients in a challenging environment. Microsoft IT continues to improve
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Monday, January 23, 2006 8:41 PM

Son of RSS Feed Show

Recently gathered these up for a refresh of the Interop and Migration section of TechNet. Might be handy if you are a watcher of one of these products/technologies:   Windows XP Service Pack 2 KB RSS Feed Solution Center
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Friday, January 20, 2006 5:31 PM

It's the RSS Feed Show

Lots of ways to consume and manipulate feeds and BI about the feeds. For example, Scoble reqs everyone should take a periodic core sample of the blogosphere for phrases such as "<my product here> sucks" and examine the results. To do this, see:
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Friday, January 20, 2006 5:27 PM

Linux = SOX Risk?

According to this ADTMag.com article "Many companies using Linux for embedded applications may be unwittingly violating the Linux license and even breaking federal securities laws." The study can be found here.
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Friday, January 20, 2006 4:19 PM

Drive the Future of Microsoft Communities

The Microsoft Communities Team had launched a website to preview (and collect feedback on) a set of hosted applications, Web services, and modular components that will be available to MSCOM Web publishers, Microsoft product teams, online partners,
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Thursday, January 19, 2006 8:34 PM

Inside Microsoft Bloggers

Looking at blogs.technet.com for review time and had to slice the blogs by internal team/org, so thought I would share. MS.COM Ops Security Guidance (MSS) Enterprise Engineering Center  SMS&P TN Webcasts
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Thursday, January 19, 2006 5:43 AM

Interactive Webcast Calendar

Dean writes about the new interactive TechNet webcast calendar. This interactive calendar will quickly help you find live webcasts* that fit your schedule as well as on-demand webcasts to view at your convenience. You can choose your time zone and filter
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Wednesday, January 18, 2006 8:32 PM

MS.COM Ops Team Webcasts

The Operations team at microsoft.com not only runs one of the world's largest, most complex, most visited web properties...often using Microsoft product before they are released to the public (we call this eating our own dogfood) - they share
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Wednesday, January 18, 2006 5:29 AM

R2 makes *NIX Interop Easier - SUA, MSNFS, IdMU

Fabrice has a great post detailing R2 interop features you want to check out first. Here is the interop detail: R2 also comes with three components designed to simplify Unix/Linux interoperability by letting a Windows system pretend to be a *nix system
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Wednesday, January 18, 2006 5:17 AM

Cut your admin time 50% with R2 FSRM

The IT group inside Microsoft uses File Server Resource Manager (FSRM) as a centralized tool for managing file servers located in branch offices and data centers around the world. FSRM, which is found in the Windows Server 2003 R2 system,
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Tuesday, January 17, 2006 9:51 PM

Interop, Ya Don't Stop: JEMS is next

This e-week article quotes Bill Hilf on Microsoft/JEMS interop plans. Bill run's the Linux lab at Microsoft. Now if we could just get Bill or one of the Linux lab rats to blog....
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Tuesday, January 17, 2006 8:32 PM

Upcoming Webcasts: MOM for Exchange, SMS for Security Updates

Some upcoming webcasts that you should take a look at: TechNet Webcast: Best Practices for Security Update Management with Systems Management Server 2003 (Level 200) Wednesday, January 25, 2006 - 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM Pacific Time, John Baker, TechNet
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Friday, January 13, 2006 6:10 PM

How d'Ya Like Me So Far?

TechNet blogs are almost one year old, and it is review time. In looking over the stats, I note: 336 blogs as of 1/12/06. Many are role-based (life of a...consultant/ts/dev). Many are geo-based (Ireland, Norway, France, Canada - EMEA, LATAM), some are
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Thursday, January 12, 2006 9:18 PM

Patch Tuesday in a Box

I love this company. Starting with the Jan 06 secbulls, you can now get Security and critical updates on ISO-9660 CD image files from the Microsoft Download Center. January's is here. How cool is that? Leave comments.
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Thursday, January 12, 2006 9:14 PM

Look, Over There, it's the SharePoint Team Blog

New team blog to check out starting this week, the Sharepoint Team Blog is live with a long Kurt DelBene psot on the roadmap. There is nothing better than advance intel, right? Check it out, read the post, leave comments and get the dialogue going
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Thursday, January 12, 2006 5:09 PM

Patch Tuesday Planner

I love this company. How cool is it that Dugie's posted a spreadsheet that tells you when each patch tuesday falls for the next 2 years so you can schedule lab time for testing? Leave comments.
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Thursday, January 12, 2006 4:42 PM

The Cavalry Has Arrived - WSSRA-VE

Many of the problems in enterprise IT worldwide have a common underlying root causative element - it is way too hard to test and model changes to the production environment BEFORE they are committed. NO MORE. What if you could model your enterprise
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Monday, January 09, 2006 10:32 PM

Drive XP With More Security

Download and make available to all your super-users NOW, you will be glad you did. The Windows XP Common Criteria Guide provides sufficient guidance to allow a non-administrative (e.g. non-privileged) user to securely operate Windows XP Professional and
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Friday, January 06, 2006 11:38 PM

NEW - Windows Server 2003 Security Guide and Threats and Countermeasures Guide

Just in - the updated Windows Server 2003 Security Guide provides specific recommendations about how to harden computers that run Microsoft Windows Server 2003 (SP1) in three distinct enterprise environments—one in which older operating systems
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Friday, January 06, 2006 6:52 PM

More TN Blogs Year End Thoughts

Rate of growth in CY 2005 for technet blogs for IT Pros - 300% Rate of growth in CY 2005 for msdn blogs for developers - 340% Is that success? Earlier in the year, we discussed success metrics in the microsoft blogging community. One thing we can
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Friday, January 06, 2006 5:36 PM

Low Tech Subscription HiJack - MSJ

"Criminal mastermind" is often a oxymoron. A new bunch of scam-artists are sending snail-mail subscription solicitations to a magazine name hijacked from a defunct Microsoft publication. Read the details on Stephen Toub's blog.  
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Thursday, January 05, 2006 9:00 PM

List the Full Contents of the Internet Explorer History Folder

Recently, an IT Pro wrote in looking for help in finding what web pages were visited by a user on a remote machine. Some sort of security audit perhaps? There is an nifty new scriptcenter resource to help with this. This script gets the URL and date/time
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Thursday, January 05, 2006 7:37 PM

WMF Patch for MS06-001 - Get It Now

See the advisory just released  (912840 Vulnerability in Graphics Rendering Engine Could Allow Remote Code Execution) for information on how to get your WMF security update before patch Tuesday (1/10). The vulnerability is listed as critical
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Thursday, January 05, 2006 7:23 PM

2005 = 99.83 % availability for one of the Web's Largest Websites - How???

Want to know how the Ops team for one of the web's largest website manages 2005 availability of 99.83 % while eating dogfood hand-over-fist (like betas for IIs 7.0, .Net 2.0, Longhorn server, 64 bit)? Read the ms.com ops team blog and find out.
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Thursday, January 05, 2006 6:35 PM

New TN Mag - Disable Admin Account

Jesper has a great article on why you should disable the admin account on your machine. TechNet Magazine has a blog – they are looking to start a conversation with IT Pros about what you want in a magazine. Do you want to tell them? Check them out
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Tuesday, January 03, 2006 5:46 PM

ISA team joins blogosphere

The ISA team has started a TN blog. They have asked for feedback and opened the dialogue. Head on over and let them know what issues you want to see there (content filtering to protect against certain types of security exploits, for example?)
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