Jonathan Hardwick

The MOM product connector for HP Network Node Manager has been released - you can find it here . With this connector MOM 2000 SP1 can forward alerts to HP's Network Node Manager product, which is a big win for harried system administrators who don't want...

A few quick updates from management-land: The SMS team have released " Scenarios and Procedures for Microsoft Systems Management Server 2003: Security ", a best-practices paper for securing your SMS environment. The MOM team have localized the...

Like many other Microsoft product-group bloggers, I had today marked down as “absolute drop-dead deadline to finish my annual performance review”. Of course, this really means “start worrying about it last night, and then channel that...

This morning there's been a bunch of Microsofties blogging about the rumor of Bill Gate starting his own blog - first up was Dan Fernandez at 8:11am , followed quickly by Mike Hall at 8:30am , and Korby Parnell at 8:59am . Why the synchronicity? Do we...

So, I've decided that the slashdotting after Dave Massey's Internet Explorer post wasn't enough. The Channel9 wiki pages of customer feedback about Microsoft products need some more traffic :-) This time around we're focusing on Microsoft Office products...

Most of us have way too many bookmarks (favorites) in our web browsers. Bookmarks that we've accumulated over the years, bookmarks that we haven't visited in ages, bookmarks that we jealously hoard from the prying eyes of our friends and co-workers. Well...

I've always hated reading documents formatted for paper on-screen. Until we get 200 dpi LCD screens, there aren't enough pixels to make small print-ready fonts legible without a lot of zooming, at which point navigation becomes a pain. And printing out...

They were held up by a week because of a technical snafu (ok... it turns out I wasn't actually subscribed to the email list), but you can get them over here . For this update I'm not including them on the main blogs.msdn.com feed, to see how small of...

At TechEd itself you missed a free copy of SMS 2003, MOM 2005 Express, and Services for Unix , and at the MOM party you missed... Jessica Simpson ?!? Oh, there was some news about management packs and online demos and such, but really, you should go...

I referred to these two processes tangentially in Microsoft laptop gripes , but based on referrer hits and email they deserve a post of their own. Systems Management Server pushes out patches and keeps your software updated via an agent that's installed...

"Actually, you missed that part. I would apologize on that normally, but what we have here is the first extension of our DSI initiative, Dreary Skies Initiative . Microsoft can now span out dreary skies from Seattle absolutely anyplace. It's all under...

The Microsoft Solutions for Management team have just released their MSM glossary . This puts into one place all of the terminology used in their Operations Framework (MOF) and Solutions Framework (MSF) guides - like the recent capacity planning guide...

Did I mention that my team is hiring? Indy offers the chance to be in on v1 of a Microsoft product, and build it from the ground up! Right now we're looking for two experienced developers and one developer in test to round out our team for the first release...

If you're into MOM and SMS and going to TechEd next week, it looks like Ali Parker's blog is the place to catch up with what's happening - how else would you know to block out Wednesday night for the Rumble in the Jungle party ? And if you make it...

This is belated feedback, after I missed the online chat hosted by TJLau on the redesign of the MOM and SMS web pages. In particular, I'm thinking of the redesigned pages for the SMS Community and MOM Community . Some aspects of the redesign are really...

Contrary to popular Slashdot belief, Microsoft's 50,000+ employees do not operate as a giant hive mind. Sometimes it's hard to keep track of everything we're doing, and the flurries of email that follow any re-org tend to be so verbose that they hinder...

TJLau has started another WEMD blog - he's hoping to give some insights into the product management aspects of MOM, SMS, and all our other stuff for computer management. And I'm hoping that eventually I can turn over the Management Updates blog to him...

Ok, you asked for it, you got it! I've started the Management Updates blog on blogs.msdn.com, and kicked things off with the contents of the latest email from the Management Update Notification Service . Here's the opening post: Based on customer...

Adam Field asked for an RSS feed of the “Management Update Notification Service” that I blogged about previously . The service is currently just an email list that gets one or two emails a month with news from the Microsoft management space: MOM, SMS...

The Microsoft Solutions for Management team have released an updated version of their Capacity Management guide . This puts into one place all of their thinking on current best practices for capacity planning, performance management, and application sizing...

SMSPerfGuy joins the blogging party - welcome! Now I won't have to be point guy all the time :-)

Donning my marketing hat * : We've released the beta of SMS 2003 SP1. This adds security fixes, more functionality, and more client configurations - read about it and download the beta here . The MOM 2000 connectors for HP Openview and Tivoli...

In my previous post I forgot to mention the other big win of having My Documents redirected to a share on a Windows 2003 server - shadow copies . In technical terms this is a periodic volume snapshot service, using copy-on-write to minimize disk space...

I might bitch about eating our own dogfood, but a lot of the time it's actually pretty damn tasty. For example, I can't remember how I ever used a laptop without the combination of folder redirection and offline files. Microsoft's technical support...

Didn't turn on auto-updates? Infected with the Sasser worm? Grab Microsoft's Sasser.A and Sasser.B Worm Removal Tool . Security MVP Harry Waldron seems to have been the first to pick this up . Unfortunately, the Internet Storm Center is already reporting...