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August 2004 - Posts

Free SP2 CDs are starting to arrive

Posted Tuesday, August 31, 2004 3:32 PM by jonathanh
Joe Wilcox of Jupiter Research has previously taken us to task for not doing enough to get SP2 into the hands of consumers. Thankfully, there's a happy ending to the story : Last Thursday I ordered a Windows XP Service Pack 2 disc, mainly to see how long Read More...
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New releases: MOM 2005 evaluation version, and updated management packs

Posted Monday, August 30, 2004 10:50 PM by jonathanh
The quickest way to try out the new MOM 2005 bits is to download the evaluation version . You get a 120-day license, and the ability to upgrade in place to the full MOM 2005. And of course, to take full advantage of MOM 2005's new features, the MOM team Read More...
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Debugging SP2 on the Tablet PC - managed code, tabtip.exe, and procexp

Posted Sunday, August 29, 2004 11:26 PM by jonathanh
If you've got a Tablet PC and you're running SP2 (and you should be!) you might have noticed a couple of processes hanging around called TabTip.exe and TCServer.exe. And right after noticing them, you probably wondered why they seemed to be taking up Read More...
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autoruns, or "What is all this stuff doing on my computer" revisited

Posted Friday, August 27, 2004 1:09 PM by jonathanh
My old post on " What is all this stuff doing on my computer " described how to track down and identify all the processes that start automatically when you log on to Windows. That post continues to get lots of Google traffic, due to a list of all the Read More...
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MOM 2005 release: the aftermath

Posted Thursday, August 26, 2004 10:36 PM by jonathanh
For more news about the RTM of MOM 2005 , go check out Nick MacKechnie's blog . In particular: " Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 Releases to Manufacturing " has dates when customers can get their hands on actual code, plus pointers to the usual marketing Read More...
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How do we educate the analysts?

Posted Thursday, August 26, 2004 2:52 PM by jonathanh
Joe Wilcox of Microsoft Monitor still thinks that people won't download SP2 via dialup , presumably for the same reasons that he gave earlier , i.e. "it's too big to fetch in one chunk". Of course, XP doesn't actually need to download SP2 in one chunk Read More...
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Jittery digitizer on a Toshiba Portege 3500 Tablet PC? Pen stopped working? Try this

Posted Wednesday, August 25, 2004 11:33 PM by jonathanh
I just fixed an annoying problem on my old Toshiba Tablet PC - the pen stopped working. To be precise, when I tried to use it the mouse pointer would flicker madly along the top and left edges of the screen, totally unable to track the real position of Read More...
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MOM 2005 is out!

Posted Wednesday, August 25, 2004 8:26 AM by jonathanh
Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 has just been released to manufacturing - the email went out 10 minutes ago. You can find out more about it right now at http://www.microsoft.com/mom/ , or wait for the inevitable slew of marketing materials :-) Update Read More...
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"SP2 and Broadband Migration"

Posted Tuesday, August 24, 2004 1:29 PM by jonathanh
Microsoft Monitor from Jupiter Research is required reading for any serious Microsoft watcher. Joe Wilcox got the blogging bug early and hard, and often comes up with the story-behind-the-story - stuff about breaking Microsoft news that even I didn't Read More...
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New releases: a webcast series about the upcoming MOM 2005

Posted Monday, August 23, 2004 9:29 PM by jonathanh
The MOM 2005 release date is fast approaching, and they're setting up a series of webcasts for customers to learn more about it. Here's the schedule so far - all times are PST (GMT-8:00). Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 - Sept 2 nd , 9:30am-11:00am. Read More...
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Debugging Problems With Offline Files

Posted Saturday, August 21, 2004 7:46 PM by jonathanh
As promised , I'm returning to the topic of offline files. My previous article resulted in a lot of comments, so the client-side caching team have kindly pointed me at their internal FAQ. It's not yet in a customer-ready form, but I'll try to use it to Read More...
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Recent MOM 2005 posts from blogs.msdn.com

Posted Saturday, August 21, 2004 3:40 PM by jonathanh
The field teams are getting ready for Microsoft Operations Manager 2005: Jan Kiese points to management partner training in the UK on Oct 4-6, and how to register for the MOM 2005 release candidate Jose Barreto de Araujo points to the online MOM 2005 Read More...
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Using SUS to deploy XP SP2

Posted Wednesday, August 18, 2004 6:58 PM by jonathanh
As a followup to Monday's post on using SMS to install XP SP2 , the Software Update Services team have now released guidance on deploying Windows XP Service Pack 2 with SUS . This can dramatically cut the bandwidth requirements for a company and enable Read More...
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New releases: version 2 of the SMS 2003 SDK, and how to install XP SP2 with SMS

Posted Monday, August 16, 2004 9:41 PM by jonathanh
If the TLAs SMS, SDK, WMI, and MMC mean something to you, then version 2 of the software development kit for Systems Management Server could be in your future. It was released just last Thursday - grab it from here . If on the other hand you just want Read More...
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Welcome to Jim Hugunin!

Posted Saturday, August 14, 2004 1:01 AM by jonathanh
Jim Hugunin of IronPython fame (and new Microsoft employee) now has a home on blogs.msdn.com. Check out his first post on Dynamic Languages and the Common Language Runtime . Welcome to the community, Jim! Read More...
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Microsoft blogs, journalism, and anonymity

Posted Thursday, August 12, 2004 1:11 PM by jonathanh
I've just been the victim of some anonymous drive-by journalism from PC Magazine, and it's left a bad taste in my mouth. My post " XP SP2 RTMs! " is getting a lot of traffic, thanks to an article that PC Magazine published yesterday called " WinXP SP2 Read More...
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Blog comment spam sucks - and so do the solutions

Posted Wednesday, August 11, 2004 8:15 PM by jonathanh
The .Text software on blogs.msdn.com has been updated to fight blog comment spam — David Weller has posted an excellent description of the new features . However, as commenters to his blog have pointed out, some of the features could be seen as overkill. Read More...
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New releases: SMS FAQs updated, and next week's SMS webcasts

Posted Wednesday, August 11, 2004 7:41 PM by jonathanh
The SMS FAQs were just updated - these FAQs should be your first port of call for technical questions about Systems Management Server. Also, next week's webcasts in the SMS 2003 Summer Series both take place on Thursday 19th August, although thankfully Read More...
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August's Management Updates - and more SMS and MOM blogs

Posted Friday, August 06, 2004 9:47 PM by jonathanh
Hot on the heels of July's updates , I've published the August MOM and SMS news to the Management Updates blog : Management News - 8/2/04 Microsoft Solutions for Management - Updates and News, 8/2/04 Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) - Updates and News, Read More...
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XP SP2 RTMs!

Posted Friday, August 06, 2004 1:10 PM by jonathanh
Or, in plain English, “ Windows XP Service Pack 2 has been Released To Manufacturing ”. Expect the bits to show up in your auto-update soon - and if you haven't already turned on auto-update, now is a great time to do so! Note that I don't think we're Read More...
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Preview release of Wintellect's PowerCollections for .NET

Posted Thursday, August 05, 2004 10:48 AM by jonathanh
Good news in my inbox from the folks at Wintellect: This month, Wintellect announces the availability of a preview release of its new open source collection class library for .NET 2.0 called Power Collections .NET. ... Wintellect and Microsoft are co-sponsoring Read More...
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New releases: OS deployment feature pack for SMS 2003, more online training for MOM 2005

Posted Monday, August 02, 2004 10:16 PM by jonathanh
The operating system deployment feature pack for SMS 2003 SP1 does just what you'd hope - allow you to create and deploy Windows OS images to lots of client machines, with unattended imaging, backup and restore of user state, and all the replication and Read More...
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