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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 t he 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 Microsoft.com
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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 of “performance”
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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
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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, blogs,
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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
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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 also
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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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