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How to beat the 25-post limit of blogs.msdn.com

Posted Monday, November 29, 2004 7:38 PM by jonathanh
A couple days ago I complained that the RSS feed of blogs.msdn.com is capped at 25 posts. William Luu left a comment that inspired me to find the following solution: Go to bloglines.com and set up an account. Add a subscription to http://blogs.msdn.com/MainFeed.aspx Read More...
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More SMS and MOM resources

Posted Sunday, November 28, 2004 12:54 PM by jonathanh
Eileen Brown has burst onto blogs.msdn.com with a torrent of SMS and MOM content – check out her Systems Management Software category . And if you’re not subscribed to MVP Rod Trent’s blog , you’ve missed out on these stories over the past month: The Read More...
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Downloaded the Windows Update Services beta? Try the WUS wiki!

Posted Sunday, November 28, 2004 1:15 PM by jonathanh
This deserves a post of its own because it’s so cool. One thing I missed in my announcements from IT Forum 2004 is that you can now get a free download of WUS (Windows Update Services) as part of the beta open evaluation program. Naturally this has the Read More...
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Where's a syndicated feed of blogs.msdn.com without the 25-item limit?

Posted Friday, November 26, 2004 5:41 PM by jonathanh
The main RSS feed of blogs.msdn.com currently seems to be capped at 25 items. With over a thousand blogs, this means that anyone whose aggregator isn’t polling every couple of hours will miss items. My stop-gap “solution” is to leave a separate instance Read More...
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SMS & MOM news from IT Forum 2004

Posted Wednesday, November 24, 2004 3:30 PM by jonathanh
It’s been a while since I’ve posted any SMS & MOM news, so it’s time to catch up on all of our announcements from IT Forum 2004 in Copenhagen last week. All of these downloads are free! The SMS 2003 OS Deployment Feature Pack is Read More...
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Diagnosing laptop hangs - and using a tablet pc because I WANT to

Posted Tuesday, November 23, 2004 10:00 PM by jonathanh
The solution to my hanging tablet pc turns out to be a simple case of "don't change the defaults, stupid". While using the Toshiba Portge 3500 at home, I had been experimenting with decreasing the wifi speed from 11 Mbps to 2 Mbps in an effort to increase Read More...
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“It’s the weirdest thing, but my thumbs are tired.”

Posted Saturday, November 20, 2004 12:21 PM by jonathanh
No sooner did I mention Blogjet than Dmitry Chestnykh announced a new version . So if you're looking for a great WYSIWYG blogging tool, go grab the beta of version 1.2 from his downloads page . And this post isn't really about Halo 2 multiplayer tactics, Read More...
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Using a tablet pc because you HAVE to (or, life is too short for 3 minute tasks)

Posted Thursday, November 18, 2004 10:06 PM by jonathanh
Laptop woes have been conspiring recently to keep me from blogging. Initially it was just a couple of keys on my tablet pc that seemed to need several hits to register. The next day, however, the whole keyboard was dead. Worse yet, our tech support guys Read More...
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Best. Halo 2. Game. Ever. (Until the next one)

Posted Wednesday, November 10, 2004 12:28 AM by jonathanh
This was one of those games where you immediately realize, based on long and hard-won knowledge, that you should quit right afterwards. Because that's as good as you're gonna get all night, and if you play even ONE MORE ROUND, you'll be there for hours Read More...
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SMS and MOM news

Posted Tuesday, November 02, 2004 1:26 PM by jonathanh
With the beginning of a new month, I've posted another round of "official" (aka marketing) announcements to the Management Updates blog. Here's a quick overview of some of the new stuff that hasn't previously appeared here: MOM 2005 Exchange Server Management Read More...
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