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Thursday, May 15, 2008 6:03 PM

Getting WDS to listen on more than 1 network adapter

http://www.mikepoulson.com/archive/2008/05/13/getting-wds-to-listen-on-more-than-1-network-adapter.aspx
Posted by mpoulson | 1 Comments
Wednesday, February 06, 2008 9:33 PM

Blog moved to new home http://www.mikepoulson.com

Well I am back at Microsoft. :) I will start posting new things but it will be at http://www.mikepoulson.com not here (blogs.msdn.com) unless I think it is super cool. Mike
Posted by mpoulson | 1 Comments
Friday, November 10, 2006 1:56 PM

Managing Microsoft IIS, Active Directory and DNS from .net

Today I am posting sample code on how to manage IIS 6 and Active directory using ADSI in VB.NET. And managing DNS (creating zones, records and enumeration) using WMI in VB.NET. There are four separate projects. This code is posted as-is! It is to be used
Posted by mpoulson | 0 Comments
Friday, November 10, 2006 1:50 PM

My last post

Today is my last day at Microsoft. In an attempt to save time by not crossing the 520 bridge I am taking a job at a company in Seattle. I will continue to post future items at http://www.exmsftblog.com/blogs/mpoulson
Posted by mpoulson | 1 Comments
Thursday, September 21, 2006 11:26 AM

Media Center 2005 and the DirecTV D11 Set-top-Box (getting IR to work) v2

I have had lots of people ping me for additional help on my original post at http://blogs.msdn.com/mpoulson/archive/2006/03/09/548255.aspx . So here are some updates. The path that has the STBCode key will not be the same for everyone. MCE generates a
Posted by mpoulson | 2 Comments

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Friday, June 02, 2006 3:57 PM

RedvsBlue Season 4 DVDs arrived

Today out of the blue I got a DHL box delivered to me that contained a few copies of redvsblue Season 4 ( http://www.redvsblue.com ). My team does some work for the redvsblue people so it was quite nice to get free copies of the shows. For those of you
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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
Posted by mpoulson | 1 Comments
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
Posted by mpoulson | 1 Comments
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
Posted by mpoulson | 2 Comments
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
Posted by mpoulson | 1 Comments
Friday, April 21, 2006 2:55 PM

Limiting what databases users can see in SQL 2k5

http://weblogs.asp.net/hosterposter/archive/2006/03/22/440886.aspx
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Tuesday, April 11, 2006 8:16 AM

Live Bald Eagle Cam

So up in Canada (one of the best places on earth) there are 2 Bald Eagles with 2 eggs. There is a project that put a very high quality web cam up to watch the nest. As of yesterday my team assisted in providing this project some additional bandwidth.
Posted by mpoulson | 2 Comments
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