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July's Management Updates

Posted Thursday, July 29, 2004 6:23 PM by jonathanh
I've just pushed out July's posts to the Microsoft Management Updates blog : Microsoft Management News - 7/1/04 Systems Management Server (SMS) - Updates & News, 7/1/04 Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) - Updates and News, 7/1/04 Those are the “official” Read More...
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IronPython for .NET released - and it's faster than Python-2.3

Posted Thursday, July 29, 2004 11:05 AM by jonathanh
Some very cool news from Jim Hugunin about IronPython, his port of Python to .NET: He's released it under the CPL It's up to 1.7x faster than Python-2.3 on the pystone benchmark He's joining the Microsoft CLR team to push for more support for dynamic Read More...
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New releases: online training sessions for MOM 2005

Posted Monday, July 26, 2004 11:03 PM by jonathanh
MOM 2005 is coming out Real Soon Now - but they've already created eight 50-minute online lab sessions to introduce its features: Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 Managing Active Directory with MOM 2005 Managing Exchange with MOM 2005 Monitoring SQL Read More...
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What do you map your Tablet PC buttons to?

Posted Monday, July 26, 2004 12:48 PM by jonathanh
All Tablet PCs have extra buttons next to the screen, to give the user non-pen-based input options when in tablet mode. And of course these buttons can be remapped by the user - the question is what to map the buttons to, and why? Here's my current setup Read More...
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How Microsoft uses MOM

Posted Friday, July 23, 2004 4:38 PM by jonathanh
If you haven't been reading the MS.COM operation tools team weblog , you've missed a five-part series of posts on “The Collector Conundrum”. It's a very frank view of MOM from down in the trenches… Part I - “what will we use to Read More...
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v1.0 of the SMS Capacity Planner tool

Posted Monday, July 19, 2004 9:04 PM by jonathanh
The SMS 2003 Capacity Planner is now available for download . This tool takes a lot of the guesswork out of capacity planning for an SMS deployment. And if you didn't already read about it in SMSPerfGuy's blog and hence missed the accompanying webcast Read More...
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"That looks like a GDI leak"

Posted Sunday, July 18, 2004 8:54 PM by jonathanh
After reading KC Lemson's blog entry about her system slowing down due to wisptis.exe leaking GDI objects , I fired up Task Manager and started poking around (click View, Select Columns, and then add "GDI Objects" to follow along). Outlook and my web Read More...
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New releases: MOM to HP connector, and best practices for SMS maintenance

Posted Tuesday, July 13, 2004 11:26 PM by jonathanh
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 Read More...
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Management updates: SMS security paper, MOM 2005 localization, and a DSI webcast

Posted Monday, July 05, 2004 12:13 PM by jonathanh
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 MOM 2005 Read More...
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