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Monday, October 31, 2005 8:02 PM

MS.COM Ops Live

If you are interested in understanding how the operations group at Microsoft.com runs the busiest web site in the world (www.microsoft.com) , then you should not miss their week-long series of webcasts.  The topics in this week long view of
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Friday, October 28, 2005 6:45 PM

Beware the Cape...

Rico's post on perf wars is priceless "Huge instant performance wins are more often a sign of problems than they are of greatness."  Now think on another of his posts "in many of these documents you could basically do a mass substitution
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Friday, October 28, 2005 6:30 PM

WMI Code Creator v1.0

Check out WMI Code Creator v1.0. You can query for management information such as the name and version of an operating system, how much free disk space is on a hard drive, or the state of a service. You can also use the tool to execute a method from a
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Friday, October 28, 2005 5:52 PM

Codezone Launch - Imaging Codezone for IT Pros

Codezone has just launched. Kudos to the team. Here's the about blurb: "Codezone connects you with the most valuable resources and technical content available. It’s the best place to find and recommend top-rated groups, meetings, community sites,
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Wednesday, October 26, 2005 8:20 PM

TechNet Magazine Blog

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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Friday, October 21, 2005 6:46 PM

Another Must-have IT Insider Resource

The Exchange team has gone public with a bunch of tasty bits. You can see the Exchange Insider articles they've been running internally for years now on the Exchange TechCenter. For example, have you ever wondered How Outlook, CDO, MAPI, and Providers
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Friday, October 21, 2005 2:28 AM

Two Words...LogParser

Actually that's one word, but I digress. The excellent MSCOM OPS blog has some tips on using LogParser, one of their top ten ops tools. That wiley Prof. Windows has a great column on V2.2 here. The ScriptCenter guys have much goodness to share with
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Friday, October 21, 2005 2:17 AM

Is there a Doctor in the Blogosphere?

Yesh. One of the great benefits Microsoft provides to employees is an online healthcare portal. You can manage perscriptions there, schedule apts, get questions answered - all the digital lifestyle goodness. Now the Healthcare and Life Sciences team team has
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Friday, October 21, 2005 1:57 AM

Save your T&E, Check out ITSSHOWTIME

From the UK: Free videos of TechNet's most popular conference presos at www.microsoft.com/itsshowtime.
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Wednesday, October 19, 2005 5:43 PM

Get in the ProdDev Feedback Loop

Check out the new product develoment customer-collaboration site connect.microsoft.com. Here you can  get involved in the Microsoft development process, connect with Microsoft developers, product managers, and other development team members, and
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Tuesday, October 18, 2005 8:44 PM

View an Interop Webcast - Enter to Win a PMC

Check out the series of interop webcasts, and until November 30, 2005 (according to the rules) you can win a Portable Media Center.
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Tuesday, October 18, 2005 4:15 PM

Corporate Blogs Have Tipped?

According to this article on internetnews.com: "The <BlogOn 2005 Social Media Adoption Survey > poll of corporate marketing and communications professionals found that 55 percent of corporations are blogging, with 91.4 percent of those using them
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Wednesday, October 12, 2005 5:45 AM

Insider's Guide to Ops Tools

You are subscribed to the MSCOM ops blog, right? Then you already saw this nifty tip about Netcap.exe, right?
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