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Wednesday, February 14, 2007 5:21 PM

DST patch for your smartphone

New instructions for patching your mobile devices for DST are out here . Including: Windows Mobile users who do not connect to their PC For users that do not connect to PCs, there is an update file (CAB) available to make this update. (Note: there are
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Wednesday, February 14, 2007 11:50 AM

SCT is changing its name

The next version of the most excellent Shared Computer Toolkit for Windows XP (did we mention it is provided at no charge?) The new name will be Windows Steady State, due out early summer. SteadyState makes it easy for people managing shared computers
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Wednesday, January 31, 2007 10:48 AM

Patch your smartphone for DST 2007

KB 923953 " How to configure daylight saving time for the United States and Canada in 2007 and in subsequent years on Windows Mobile-based devices " *helps* you patch up your smartphone to deal with the upcoming DST change. WARNING: the fix is a reghack,
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Wednesday, January 31, 2007 9:08 AM

PowerShell: the DMZ of Interop

Windows PowerShell is shaping up to be the technology around which IT Pros from *nix and Windows worlds meet and build community (virtualization will be another, IMO). Check out Bill's post on PowerShell on Port25 . Some nifty links there, such as: Interview
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Tuesday, January 23, 2007 2:41 PM

VM Optimization

You may have read that you can improve the performance of most VMs by using SCSI instead of IDE disks. All well and good, but, uh, where are the instructions on how to do that if you already created the VM with IDE drives? Thanks to Nelson, the instructions
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Sunday, January 21, 2007 3:04 PM

Free Windows Server Virtualization Calculator

The new *free* Windows Server Virtualization Calculator helps you forecast licencing costs for your virtualization initiative. Budget those bits! The Calculator helps you estimate license costs in two ways: you can enter the number of servers by processor
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Tuesday, January 16, 2007 8:47 AM

If a picture is worth 1K words, how many words is a blogcast/screencast worth?

If you could make the choice for all IT Pros for Microsoft enterprise management products, would you choose: 1) traditional text-based help on the box 2) traditional tex-based help on the box supplemented with blogcasts/screencasts (see below for examples)
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Tuesday, January 09, 2007 12:18 PM

How to uninstall IE 7 from XP SP2

I install and uninstall a lot of software on my laptop in the course of my work. Sometimes, stuff happens, and I can't be sure what the problem might be. Standard advice from support in these case is "pave it" meaning uninstall and reinstall the app to
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Tuesday, January 09, 2007 9:51 AM

Lifetime Learning

MIT posts courseware on the web - FREE - http://ocw.mit.edu/index.html " By the end of this year, the contents of all 1,800 courses taught at one of the world's most prestigious universities will be available online to anyone in the world, anywhere in
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Thursday, November 09, 2006 11:29 AM

Filemon and Regmon No More, Long Live Procmon

I am working on content for a troubleshooting guide for System Center Virtual Machine Manager . Windows Sysinternals has launched on Technet, and the new site includes some invaluable TS tools. For example, Process Monitor 1.0 , an advanced monitoring
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Wednesday, November 08, 2006 1:24 PM

Free VHDs

In case you missed everyone screaming it earlier this week, Microsoft has sweetened the deal for those of you interested in Virtualization by making free VHDs available. Taking System Center Virtual Machine Manager Beta 1 for a test drive just got a whole
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Tuesday, November 07, 2006 3:47 PM

Translating VBScript to Windows PowerShell

Windows PowerShell week has started. If you haven't signed up for the webcasts, you should run, not walk to the signup page . Completed casts are available on-demand - for example, yesterday's Day 1 intro cast , and QnA transcript. But wait, there's more.
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Wednesday, November 01, 2006 3:41 PM

How Microsoft IT Does Patch Management

My old team - IT Showcase - packages up great information for IT Pros on how IT works at Microsoft. For the latest on how Microsoft IT does patch management, see: The latest PPT presentation and the earlier SMS PPT . And/Or you can read the 1 pager .
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Friday, October 27, 2006 2:21 PM

Improve Virtual Server Networking

Check out the Microsoft Scalable Networking Pack (KB912222) for ways to improve the networking performance of certain workloads and configurations in your virtual server environment. Caveats: 1) you must have supported HW - the KB states "This feature
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Friday, October 27, 2006 1:48 PM

Trouble installing .NET Framework 2.0

Virtual Machine Manager requires .NET Framework 2.0. If you have trouble installing .NFW 2.0, you may find this KB Article helpful: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/908077/en-us?spid=8291&sid=global The most common fix BTW is: Unregister and then reregister
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