When you configure a particular service to run on a particular server, if the server you chose isn't the local server, SharePoint registers a timer job (an instance of SPServiceInstanceJobDefinition, to be exact) that has a singular purpose - to deserialize...

Filtering profile imports is a much more powerful experience in SharePoint 2010, due in large part to the much more generic and extensible profile import mechanism in place. Those familiar with http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;827754...

Despite constant assertions by my mother to the contrary, computers don't behave randomly, nor are they boxes filled with magic. Even the output of a non-deterministic function can only be thought of conceptually as "random" while we don't understand...