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How to make Adobe Reader 7.0 load faster

Posted Wednesday, December 22, 2004 3:58 PM by jonathanh
Like most other techies, whenever I install Adobe’s Acrobat Reader I also uninstall most of the pointless plugins, to speed up its dog-slow startup process. If you want to learn more about speeding up Adobe Reader 6.0, just ask Tim or Chris or Greg or Read More...
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New MSN Search wiki on Channel 9

Posted Wednesday, December 22, 2004 10:54 AM by jonathanh
Check out the new wiki pages that the MSN Search team have created on Channel 9 ! This is a one-stop community information resource for everything and anything to do with MSN Search – the web search engine , the desktop search tool , bug reports, feature Read More...
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Welcome James Morey to the SMS & MOM blogging scene!

Posted Tuesday, December 21, 2004 5:32 PM by jonathanh
Ok, first I said that you really only needed to subscribe to Eileen Brown and Rod Trent for all of your SMS and MOM needs. Then my bosses’ boss started blogging , and it would be foolhardy of me to tell you to ignore him! Now James Morey has arrived Read More...
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Do you prefer single-click or double-click behavior for system tray icons?

Posted Sunday, December 19, 2004 5:45 PM by jonathanh
Many Windows client applications can iconify themselves to the system tray instead of taking up an entry on your taskbar. I love this feature for apps that I keep around all day, because it means that I always know where to find them — they're in the Read More...
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Blogging up the management hierarchy

Posted Wednesday, December 15, 2004 7:49 PM by jonathanh
My “grand-manager” Brad Anderson has started a blog on myITforum. Although it’s really half a blog, since he’s sharing it with Bill Anderson. And of course he hasn’t actually posted anything yet . But these are minor quibbles Read More...
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Why is MSN Desktop Search so slow at indexing my disk? And other tips...

Posted Monday, December 13, 2004 7:57 PM by jonathanh
A quick follow-up to four points, since " Dogfooding MSN Desktop Search " seems to be getting a lot of attention. First, Joe Wilcox of Jupiter Research is disappointed with the initial indexing speed of desktop search, because it took 2.5 hours to index Read More...
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Dogfooding MSN Desktop Search - tips and tricks

Posted Monday, December 13, 2004 12:28 PM by jonathanh
The new MSN Desktop Search tool represents the combined efforts of several different search teams within Microsoft, some of which have shown their tools externally (e.g. MSR’s Stuff I’ve Seen ), and all of which have had their own internal beta programs. Read More...
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More problems with Offline Files

Posted Thursday, December 09, 2004 6:38 PM by jonathanh
Answering your individual emails about offline files is a thankless task, since (a) I’m not tech support, so you’re not going to get any kind of “official” response, (b) I don’t scale out, so other readers of this blog won’t benefit from any pearls of Read More...
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Tuesday at CMG 2004 - "A Performance Process Maturity Model"

Posted Wednesday, December 08, 2004 4:09 PM by jonathanh
My favorite talk at CMG yesterday was “A Performance Process Maturity Model”, given by Michael Maddox of MCI. You've probably already heard of the Capability Maturity Model (CMM), which is used extensively in the software industry to measure the “quality” Read More...
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Why we need process, not just tools

Posted Wednesday, December 08, 2004 9:33 AM by jonathanh
In case you missed this story when it hit the headlines last month, one of the UK’s major government departments lost the use of most of its desktop PCs for nearly a week. Now we’re seeing more details on the causes of the outage: EDS has Read More...
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Where to get this week's SMS and MOM news

Posted Tuesday, December 07, 2004 11:19 AM by jonathanh
As I said , I’m going to start leaving it to Rod Trent and Eileen Brown to handle the weekly news about MOM and SMS. So go visit Rod to learn about: Registration for MMS 2005 (April 18 th -22 nd 2005 at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas!) Vintela’s Read More...
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Blogging from CMG 2004 - and the perks of industrial conferences

Posted Monday, December 06, 2004 10:00 PM by jonathanh
If you can only attend one conference each year about capacity planning and performance modeling, the Computer Measurement’s Group week-long event is probably the one to choose. And so I’ll be blogging from CMG 2004 in Las Vegas for the next Read More...
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Winding down the SMS & MOM content on this blog, ramping up Indy instead

Posted Sunday, December 05, 2004 10:12 PM by jonathanh
Back when I started out , I was the only blogger in the WEMD organization, and I took it upon myself to post our weekly news , as well as the monthly “Management Updates” newsletters. Now there are nine other blogs in the SMS & MOM category on the Read More...
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Monthly update on SMS & MOM

Posted Sunday, December 05, 2004 6:16 PM by jonathanh
I’ve posted another month’s worth of marketing prose over at the Management Updates blog , but hopefully you’ve already seen most of these announcements before: SMS SMS 2003 OS Deployment Feature Pack SMS 2003 Device Management Feature Read More...
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Why does "Enable offline files" uncheck itself after a reboot?

Posted Thursday, December 02, 2004 5:58 PM by jonathanh
After my two previous posts on debugging offline files, I’ve had four requests via comments and email, all saying pretty much the same thing: “why do offline files stop working after I restart my computer?” The most visible symptom is that the “Enable Read More...
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MSN Spaces: Shiny. SHINY.

Posted Thursday, December 02, 2004 12:14 AM by jonathanh
Unless you’ve been living under a rock tonight, you already know that MSN Spaces just launched. I’ve started a personal space, but for now I’ll keep all the technical content right here - it’s just too damn shiny over there… Read More...
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