As reported by Larry Duncan and Rod Trent , the MOM team are one of the first to adopt the great work that MSDN have done on Product Feedback Center, aka "Ladybug". This site lets Microsoft "close the loop" on bug reporting and product suggestions. You...

A couple of announcements from local user groups: The Pacific Northwest local interest group of the IT Service Management Forum will be meeting at Microsoft on October 26th. The meeting will run from 2:30pm - 6pm, and space is limited to the first...

As Nick MacKechnie notes , the MOM team have released (early!) the resource kit for Microsoft Operations Manager 2005. http://www.microsoft.com/mom/reskit has all the details and a download link, but here's a summary of the contents: Management Pack Toolkit...

I've added three more SMS & MOM bloggers to the growing list on the left - at least, it's on the left if you're reading this from the web page instead of the RSS feed Weblogs @ sms2003.com (Update: moved to windowsadvice.com ) Larry A. Duncan...

It's official - I'm a WikiGnome

“Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.” Gertrude Stein. One of my resolutions this year was to get some help in sipping from the information firehose that is a typical Microsoft inbox, so back in January...

Mark Russinovich and Bryce Cogswell, the guys behind Sysinternals, now have an RSS feed . If you don't know what Sysinternals is, stop reading right now and go to http://www.sysinternals.com . They make administration tools that are so good we reference...

…is that once you've used it you can never go back. For those who missed my earlier review, MaxiVista is a networked virtual display driver that lets you extend your Windows desktop onto the screen of a second computer. What this means is that every...

I've just pushed out another month's worth of Management Updates . Since both MOM 2005 and SMS 2003 SP1 are hot off the presses the marketing team have a lot to work with, so the hard part is keeping up! Here's some good bits that you might have missed...

The comments on " Debugging Problems with Offline Files " were auto-closed after 30 days, but based on email traffic it's worth resurrecting the topic. And yes, the next release of .Text should give me more control over that whole pesky auto-closure thing...

The next Microsoft Management Summit will be held in Las Vegas, April 18th-22nd 2005. That's where you'll be able to hear all the latest news about MOM, SMS, DSI - and hopefully my team's upcoming v1 product :) So set a reminder in your calendar to check...

…users start complaining if a spam gets through. Human beings are incredibly adaptable — we can learn to live with (almost) any change, while only really noticing and complaining about the moment of change itself. User reaction to spam filter effectiveness...