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Thursday, June 15, 2006 3:39 PM

>SlicedBread = Your Favorite TechNet Search as RSS Feed

Rejoice that the boffins at TechNet have released a new scoped TechNet search, that includes an RSS feed of your favorite search. How great is that? You scope your search to the products and technologies that are relevant to you, then save
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Monday, June 12, 2006 11:30 AM

Impact of Blogging

Joe Wilcox wrote yesterday on microsoftmonitor.com:  "I would contend that blogs are now Microsoft's major communication vehicle for reaching pretty much everybody. Microsoft partners and competitors--and the news media, for that matter--should
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Wednesday, June 07, 2006 12:55 PM

Home Office Security Checklist

Any day Microsoft publishes a checklist that will make the life of the IT Pro easier is a good day. Good day - please pass on the Home Office Security Checklist to your users, and encourage them to take the steps therein. It will reduce your headaches
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Tuesday, June 06, 2006 8:45 PM

Help Find the Cure for World's Top Diseases

A biochem researcher at the University of Washington here in Seattle has gone public with the inevitable - a new application of the SETI at home idea. WIRED news reports David Baker has so far signed up about 60K people to donate spare PC cycles
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Tuesday, June 06, 2006 11:01 AM

Scripting Guys on the .NET Show on WMI Scripting

Check out the excellent .NET show episode featuring the Scripting Guys on WMI scripting. The script center has a new article on WMI scripting in Vista, as well as great Windows PowerShell scripts. Here is a snip of the transcript to pique your interest:
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Tuesday, May 09, 2006 8:38 AM

You Asked, We Listened

I downloaded the Powershell RC1 and documentation as soon as they came out. I didn't think much about the Passport sign-in required. After all, usually that's just for marketing purposes, right? Turns out, there is a benefit! When the re-release came
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Monday, May 08, 2006 5:53 PM

Xray that iffy site with URL Tracer, block the typo-squatters

Microsoft Research has released one of its Strider tools, URL Tracer.  Security Watch says it "reveals all of the links beneath a given URL. This allows you to see what third-party domains are being linked to from within a given site, possibly links
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Friday, May 05, 2006 5:45 PM

PowerShell Reloaded

Refreshed PowerShell bits are available here. Check out the blog here and Windows PowerShell on TechNet ScriptCenter Official Windows PowerShell Web Site and NewsGroup
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Monday, May 01, 2006 8:08 AM

Tools and Tidbits from MMS

Great paper on using WMI for scripting MOM from Brian Wren's session. SMS 2003 Client Health Monitoring Tool : Client health status calculated from data in the SMS database Real time online/offline status of SMS clients  Summary HTML
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Tuesday, April 25, 2006 9:42 AM

Monad Name Change Announced at MMS

Bub Muglia just announced a change of name for Monad to Windows PowerShell. Get it here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/results.aspx?freetext=Monad And check out the Windows PowerShell team blog: and http://www.leeholmes.com/blog/MonadEvolvesToWindowsPowerShell.aspx
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Wednesday, April 19, 2006 9:07 AM

New Laptop Setup

Setting up a new laptop today, and thought it might be helpful to others if I documented a couple of tools and customizations I always to, because I can;t get my work done without them. Not in order: 1. Install Lookout V 1.2:  lightning-fast search
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Tuesday, April 18, 2006 4:31 PM

Get Your MOM Stressed Out

A colleague recently asked about a stress tool that would let his shop generate multiple events to test their MOM connection throughput to a third party product. The MOM 2005 Reskit has just the thing, it is called the Event Creator.
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Thursday, April 13, 2006 2:06 PM

Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2 Management Pack Live in the DLC

The Virtual Server 2005 R2 Management Pack Guide is live today on TechNet.The Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2 Management Pack is live in the DLC.   This MP enables you to monitor physical computers running the Virtual Server
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Friday, March 31, 2006 8:22 AM

MBSA 1.2 Lives on

CNET reports today that MBSA 1.2.1 will not be retired today as previously announced. The most current version of MBSA is 2.0, but there are core technology and functionality differences between the two versions, and some customers gave feedback they
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Thursday, March 30, 2006 10:40 AM

Handy Tip - New Web Query in Excel

A colleague passed on this tip - very handy. I came across a web page that showed a list of folks that were involved in a particular project. Hey, I thought, I need to invite all those folks to get involved in my project. Hrmm, how am I gonna get
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