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Tuesday, April 25, 2006 11:42 AM

System Center on Technet

System Center has a new site on TechNet. Get the goods on: System Center Reporting Manager 2006 System Center Capacity Planner 2006 System Center "Service Desk" System Center Essentials Systems Management Server 2003 Microsoft Operations
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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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Thursday, April 20, 2006 6:27 PM

Jasonic Rituals

Interesting new book: The Jasons, is reviewed in Wired. I'm gonna try to pick this one up for the plane ride to MMS tomorrow. Any club that included Freeman Dyson, Murray Gell-Mann,  Edward Teller and Hans Bethe is one that interests me.
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Thursday, April 20, 2006 2:30 PM

Online All-In? Go To Jail in Washington State

Washington state legislature recently passed SB 6613 - 2005-06 prohibiting internet gambling. As of June 7, 2006, if you are all-in online playing poker for money, you are a Class-C felon. Interesting. The fiscal note says "The agency does not believe
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Thursday, April 20, 2006 1:58 PM

Win a trip to TechEd

Tech-Ed 2006 Webcasts: Power to the Pros Attend a pre Tech-Ed webcast by May 12 and you could win one of five free passes to Tech-Ed 2006 in Boston.
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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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Saturday, April 08, 2006 2:30 PM

What would Pareto Do?

Brian forwarded some info from Wikipedia on the Pareto principle  - we were talking about UX issues. 80/20 is NOT about picking low-hanging fruit: The 80/20 rule is often used but frequently misunderstood. The 80/20 rule means that, in most
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Friday, April 07, 2006 9:33 AM

As Above, So Below

By now you have heard (since everyone has been screaming their heads off about it) that virtual server is going to be important to your IT operations, and, oh BTW did we mention it is free? As IT infrastructure goes, so goes the world of gaming (some
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Friday, April 07, 2006 8:59 AM

DSI Analyst Report

The PressPass site has a new link to an analyst report on DSI: Microsoft's DSI Strategy: Clearer Vision, but End State Is Years Away From Fulfillment (Gartner, Feb. 8, 2006) Gartner’s analysis of Microsoft’s Dynamic Systems Initiative. Interesting
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Wednesday, April 05, 2006 12:46 PM

Management Wants Your Feedback (MOM, DPM, SMS)

The Windows Enterprise Management (WEMD) documentation teams are conducting a survey to evaluate how well our documentation meets IT Pro needs, and how we can improve your satisfaction with our content for Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM),
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Wednesday, April 05, 2006 7:02 AM

Phish Hooks Study

This BBC article claims in a recent study 40% of users failed to spot phony bank phishing websites. The most sophisticated site caught out 90% of the 22 people participating. Here's their advice for you users to avoid getting hooked:
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Tuesday, April 04, 2006 11:15 AM

Support for Linux VM additions

Unless you subscribe only to one or two obscure TechNet blogs, you have heard that Virtual Server EE is now free, and supports Linux VMs. Read this KB to understand how support works.
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Monday, April 03, 2006 8:26 AM

Button, button, how do I find my CD on the network?

Ever gone to the place where you keep your CDs and found one of them missing? Here's a script that will locate a CD somewhere on the network. The scripting center also released a very handy script to Convert a Virtual Drive from Dynamic to Fixed.
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