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May 2006 - Posts

Wednesday, May 31, 2006 2:06 PM

ISP Scenario hosting team is Hiring a Full time Operations Administrator

Shoot me mail mpoulson at microsoft dot com with your resume. Full job description: Do you want to be part of a team that helps deliver on the hosting story for Microsoft? We interact with product teams, hosting evangelists, marketing and customers to
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Monday, May 22, 2006 2:58 PM

For the love of god Encrypt your hard drive!

How much more personal information must be stolen or miss placed by companies before people learn to encrypt their data ( http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12916803/ ) . It is NOT hard to do. Windows offers you EFS( http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/winxppro/deploy/cryptfs.mspx
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Friday, May 19, 2006 11:25 AM

How to hard reset a Tornado based Smart Phone (Cingular 2125 or TMobile SDA)

These are the steps to do a hard reset of your HTC tornado/Faraday based Smartphone. When you do this all custom data on the phone will be removed and the default setup will be put in place You have 2 options on doing this. The first way requires you
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Wednesday, May 10, 2006 4:30 PM

How to speed up those Queries to MicrosoftDNS with WMI

So there are many key things to remember when creating your WMI queries make them as specific as you can. For example if you have ~5000 zones on your Microsoft DNS server and you are looking to see if a single record exists in one of those zones the wrong
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Tuesday, May 09, 2006 9:10 AM

DSL testing on campus Part 2 of 2 (the NEW way)

This is part 2 of a 2 part post. Post two: The NEW way of doing DSL on campus About 2 years ago me and a co-worker were approached by 2 teams on campus that had a large number of DSL lines and did not want to pay the fee that Verizon charged. So I came
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Tuesday, May 09, 2006 8:17 AM

DSL testing on campus Part 1 of 2 (the old way)

This is part 1 of a 2 part post. Post one: The OLD way of doing DSL on campus. So for the past few years I have been part of a team that provides DSL access to various test teams on campus. For a company like MSFT testing the "home scenario" is very important.
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Wednesday, May 03, 2006 7:33 PM

Hotfix required to get Exchange OWA to work on Vista

Vista removed some DHTML support that was used in Exchange 2000/2003 OWA. To get it to work correctly you need to update all your exchange servers (frontend and backend) with KB 911829 ( http://support.microsoft.com/kb/911829 ). Once you install this
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