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October 2004 - Posts

MOM gets Ladybug! (or - how to report bugs and request features in MOM)

Posted Tuesday, October 26, 2004 9:10 PM by jonathanh
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 Read More...
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Local user groups for SMS and MOM

Posted Monday, October 18, 2004 9:55 PM by jonathanh
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 75 Read More...
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MOM 2005 Resource Kit released (because admins need Power Toys too)

Posted Thursday, October 14, 2004 3:51 PM by jonathanh
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: Read More...
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A few more SMS and MOM blogs

Posted Monday, October 11, 2004 9:27 PM by jonathanh
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 ( RSS Read More...
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Uh oh

Posted Monday, October 11, 2004 11:11 AM by jonathanh
It's official - I'm a WikiGnome Read More...
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Review of FranklinCovey's PlanPlus

Posted Saturday, October 09, 2004 10:13 PM by jonathanh
“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 I Read More...
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Sysinternals blog - required reading for every Windows administrator

Posted Saturday, October 09, 2004 5:11 PM by jonathanh
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 Read More...
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The problem with MaxiVista…

Posted Thursday, October 07, 2004 9:27 PM by jonathanh
…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 morning Read More...
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SMS & MOM news

Posted Wednesday, October 06, 2004 9:37 PM by jonathanh
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: Read More...
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Revenge of "debugging problems with offline files"

Posted Wednesday, October 06, 2004 6:21 PM by jonathanh
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… Read More...
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Save the date - MMS 2005 will be in Vegas from April 22nd-25th

Posted Tuesday, October 05, 2004 3:16 PM by jonathanh
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 Read More...
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You know you've got a good spam filter when…

Posted Tuesday, October 05, 2004 11:01 AM by jonathanh
…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 Read More...
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