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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/utility/FeedStylesheets/atom.xsl" media="screen"?><feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xml:lang="en-US"><title type="html">Mike Poulson's Thoughts on lots of stuff</title><subtitle type="html" /><id>http://blogs.msdn.com/mpoulson/atom.xml</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/mpoulson/default.aspx" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/mpoulson/atom.xml" /><generator uri="http://communityserver.org" version="2.1.61025.2">Community Server</generator><updated>2006-04-11T08:16:00Z</updated><entry><title>Getting WDS to listen on more than 1 network adapter</title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/mpoulson/archive/2008/05/15/getting-wds-to-listen-on-more-than-1-network-adapter.aspx" /><id>http://blogs.msdn.com/mpoulson/archive/2008/05/15/getting-wds-to-listen-on-more-than-1-network-adapter.aspx</id><published>2008-05-16T04:03:00Z</published><updated>2008-05-16T04:03:00Z</updated><content type="html">http://www.mikepoulson.com/archive/2008/05/13/getting-wds-to-listen-on-more-than-1-network-adapter.aspx...(&lt;a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/mpoulson/archive/2008/05/15/getting-wds-to-listen-on-more-than-1-network-adapter.aspx"&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=8510445" width="1" height="1"&gt;</content><author><name>mpoulson</name><uri>http://blogs.msdn.com/members/mpoulson.aspx</uri></author></entry><entry><title>Blog moved to new home http://www.mikepoulson.com </title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/mpoulson/archive/2008/02/06/blog-moved-to-new-home-http-www-mikepoulson-com.aspx" /><id>http://blogs.msdn.com/mpoulson/archive/2008/02/06/blog-moved-to-new-home-http-www-mikepoulson-com.aspx</id><published>2008-02-07T08:33:00Z</published><updated>2008-02-07T08:33:00Z</updated><content type="html">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...(&lt;a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/mpoulson/archive/2008/02/06/blog-moved-to-new-home-http-www-mikepoulson-com.aspx"&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=7506600" width="1" height="1"&gt;</content><author><name>mpoulson</name><uri>http://blogs.msdn.com/members/mpoulson.aspx</uri></author></entry><entry><title>Managing Microsoft IIS, Active Directory and DNS from .net</title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/mpoulson/archive/2006/11/10/managing-microsoft-iis-active-directory-and-dns-from-net.aspx" /><id>http://blogs.msdn.com/mpoulson/archive/2006/11/10/managing-microsoft-iis-active-directory-and-dns-from-net.aspx</id><published>2006-11-11T00:56:00Z</published><updated>2006-11-11T00:56:00Z</updated><content type="html">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 as a sample on how to do the work. It is not intended to be used in production! http://www.mikepoulson.com/code/web.zip - ADSI management of IIS 6 Sites and AppPools http://www.mikepoulson.com/code/DNS.zip - WMI management of Microsoft DNS Zones...(&lt;a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/mpoulson/archive/2006/11/10/managing-microsoft-iis-active-directory-and-dns-from-net.aspx"&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=1055852" width="1" height="1"&gt;</content><author><name>mpoulson</name><uri>http://blogs.msdn.com/members/mpoulson.aspx</uri></author></entry><entry><title>My last post</title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/mpoulson/archive/2006/11/10/my-last-post.aspx" /><id>http://blogs.msdn.com/mpoulson/archive/2006/11/10/my-last-post.aspx</id><published>2006-11-11T00:50:00Z</published><updated>2006-11-11T00:50:00Z</updated><content type="html">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...(&lt;a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/mpoulson/archive/2006/11/10/my-last-post.aspx"&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=1055676" width="1" height="1"&gt;</content><author><name>mpoulson</name><uri>http://blogs.msdn.com/members/mpoulson.aspx</uri></author></entry><entry><title>Media Center 2005 and the DirecTV D11 Set-top-Box (getting IR to work) v2</title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/mpoulson/archive/2006/09/21/765049.aspx" /><link rel="enclosure" type="application/x-zip-compressed" length="50479" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/mpoulson/attachment/765049.ashx" /><id>http://blogs.msdn.com/mpoulson/archive/2006/09/21/765049.aspx</id><published>2006-09-21T21:26:00Z</published><updated>2006-09-21T21:26:00Z</updated><content type="html">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 random GUID for your tuner. For my tuner the path to the key is under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Media Center\Service\Video\Tuners\{A799A800-A46D-11D0-A18C-00A02401DCD4}\{6DD37A97-7981-4CEC-ACDE-A5F1624E5714}\UserSettings...(&lt;a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/mpoulson/archive/2006/09/21/765049.aspx"&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=765049" width="1" height="1"&gt;</content><author><name>mpoulson</name><uri>http://blogs.msdn.com/members/mpoulson.aspx</uri></author></entry><entry><title>RedvsBlue Season 4 DVDs arrived </title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/mpoulson/archive/2006/06/02/615317.aspx" /><id>http://blogs.msdn.com/mpoulson/archive/2006/06/02/615317.aspx</id><published>2006-06-03T01:57:00Z</published><updated>2006-06-03T01:57:00Z</updated><content type="html">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 who do not know what Red vs Blue is please go to their site at http://www.redvsblue.com and download some videos....(&lt;a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/mpoulson/archive/2006/06/02/615317.aspx"&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=615317" width="1" height="1"&gt;</content><author><name>mpoulson</name><uri>http://blogs.msdn.com/members/mpoulson.aspx</uri></author><category term="Other" scheme="http://blogs.msdn.com/mpoulson/archive/tags/Other/default.aspx" /></entry><entry><title>ISP Scenario hosting team is Hiring a Full time Operations Administrator</title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/mpoulson/archive/2006/05/31/612250.aspx" /><id>http://blogs.msdn.com/mpoulson/archive/2006/05/31/612250.aspx</id><published>2006-06-01T00:06:00Z</published><updated>2006-06-01T00:06:00Z</updated><content type="html">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 provide internal hosting services. Driving feedback into Microsoft products like IIS, ASP.NET, SharePoint, SQL and more. If you want to be part of a well-integrated, diverse, and highly collaborative team that values hard work, respect, and strong motivation…...(&lt;a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/mpoulson/archive/2006/05/31/612250.aspx"&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=612250" width="1" height="1"&gt;</content><author><name>mpoulson</name><uri>http://blogs.msdn.com/members/mpoulson.aspx</uri></author></entry><entry><title>For the love of god Encrypt your hard drive!</title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/mpoulson/archive/2006/05/22/604157.aspx" /><id>http://blogs.msdn.com/mpoulson/archive/2006/05/22/604157.aspx</id><published>2006-05-23T00:58:00Z</published><updated>2006-05-23T00:58:00Z</updated><content type="html">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 ) and new BitLocker in windows Vista ( http://www.microsoft.com/technet/windowsvista/library/c61f2a12-8ae6-4957-b031-97b4d762cf31.mspx ) I was very shocked to see that companies like law firms do not encrypt their data...(&lt;a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/mpoulson/archive/2006/05/22/604157.aspx"&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=604157" width="1" height="1"&gt;</content><author><name>mpoulson</name><uri>http://blogs.msdn.com/members/mpoulson.aspx</uri></author></entry><entry><title>How to hard reset a Tornado based Smart Phone (Cingular 2125 or TMobile SDA)</title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/mpoulson/archive/2006/05/19/602031.aspx" /><id>http://blogs.msdn.com/mpoulson/archive/2006/05/19/602031.aspx</id><published>2006-05-19T21:25:00Z</published><updated>2006-05-19T21:25:00Z</updated><content type="html">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 to be able to boot the phone and get to the start menu. The second is if you cannot do this (ie forgot PIN or will not boot all the way). First way: Start -&amp;gt; Accessories -&amp;gt; Clear Storage Second way: Remove Battery Replace battery Hold down right...(&lt;a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/mpoulson/archive/2006/05/19/602031.aspx"&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=602031" width="1" height="1"&gt;</content><author><name>mpoulson</name><uri>http://blogs.msdn.com/members/mpoulson.aspx</uri></author><category term="SmartPhones" scheme="http://blogs.msdn.com/mpoulson/archive/tags/SmartPhones/default.aspx" /></entry><entry><title>How to speed up those Queries to MicrosoftDNS with WMI</title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/mpoulson/archive/2006/05/10/594950.aspx" /><id>http://blogs.msdn.com/mpoulson/archive/2006/05/10/594950.aspx</id><published>2006-05-11T02:30:00Z</published><updated>2006-05-11T02:30:00Z</updated><content type="html">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 query could take 1 min+ to complete. Why? If you do a query like Select * from MicrosoftDNS_AType where ownername="www.mydomain.com" it is going to take a while. Because you did not specify where to look for this record it is going to look in the...(&lt;a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/mpoulson/archive/2006/05/10/594950.aspx"&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=594950" width="1" height="1"&gt;</content><author><name>mpoulson</name><uri>http://blogs.msdn.com/members/mpoulson.aspx</uri></author></entry><entry><title>DSL testing on campus Part 2 of 2 (the NEW way)</title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/mpoulson/archive/2006/05/09/593722.aspx" /><id>http://blogs.msdn.com/mpoulson/archive/2006/05/09/593722.aspx</id><published>2006-05-09T19:10:00Z</published><updated>2006-05-09T19:10:00Z</updated><content type="html">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 up with the new way. **Brief info on how DSL works (from a telco like Qwest)** You have a DSL modem This modem links via the phone line to a device called a DSLAM (Digital Subscriber line access Multiplexer) The DSLAM then linked to the ATM or Frame-Relay...(&lt;a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/mpoulson/archive/2006/05/09/593722.aspx"&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=593722" width="1" height="1"&gt;</content><author><name>mpoulson</name><uri>http://blogs.msdn.com/members/mpoulson.aspx</uri></author><category term="ISP" scheme="http://blogs.msdn.com/mpoulson/archive/tags/ISP/default.aspx" /><category term="Networking" scheme="http://blogs.msdn.com/mpoulson/archive/tags/Networking/default.aspx" /></entry><entry><title>DSL testing on campus Part 1 of 2 (the old way)</title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/mpoulson/archive/2006/05/09/593713.aspx" /><id>http://blogs.msdn.com/mpoulson/archive/2006/05/09/593713.aspx</id><published>2006-05-09T18:17:00Z</published><updated>2006-05-09T18:17:00Z</updated><content type="html">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. So to do that test teams pulled in DSL lines from Verizon or Qwest. They had two ways of connecting to the internet once they line was provided by the telco. They would use MSFT as the ISP or the Telco (Verizon online). Some teams used MSFT...(&lt;a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/mpoulson/archive/2006/05/09/593713.aspx"&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=593713" width="1" height="1"&gt;</content><author><name>mpoulson</name><uri>http://blogs.msdn.com/members/mpoulson.aspx</uri></author><category term="ISP" scheme="http://blogs.msdn.com/mpoulson/archive/tags/ISP/default.aspx" /><category term="Networking" scheme="http://blogs.msdn.com/mpoulson/archive/tags/Networking/default.aspx" /><category term="Security" scheme="http://blogs.msdn.com/mpoulson/archive/tags/Security/default.aspx" /></entry><entry><title>Hotfix required to get Exchange OWA to work on Vista</title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/mpoulson/archive/2006/05/03/589585.aspx" /><id>http://blogs.msdn.com/mpoulson/archive/2006/05/03/589585.aspx</id><published>2006-05-04T05:33:00Z</published><updated>2006-05-04T05:33:00Z</updated><content type="html">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 update you will be able to do more with OWA and IE7. Enjoy...(&lt;a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/mpoulson/archive/2006/05/03/589585.aspx"&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=589585" width="1" height="1"&gt;</content><author><name>mpoulson</name><uri>http://blogs.msdn.com/members/mpoulson.aspx</uri></author></entry><entry><title>Limiting what databases users can see in SQL 2k5</title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/mpoulson/archive/2006/04/21/581017.aspx" /><id>http://blogs.msdn.com/mpoulson/archive/2006/04/21/581017.aspx</id><published>2006-04-22T00:55:00Z</published><updated>2006-04-22T00:55:00Z</updated><content type="html">http://weblogs.asp.net/hosterposter/archive/2006/03/22/440886.aspx...(&lt;a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/mpoulson/archive/2006/04/21/581017.aspx"&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=581017" width="1" height="1"&gt;</content><author><name>mpoulson</name><uri>http://blogs.msdn.com/members/mpoulson.aspx</uri></author></entry><entry><title>Live Bald Eagle Cam</title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/mpoulson/archive/2006/04/11/573401.aspx" /><id>http://blogs.msdn.com/mpoulson/archive/2006/04/11/573401.aspx</id><published>2006-04-11T18:16:00Z</published><updated>2006-04-11T18:16:00Z</updated><content type="html">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. You can watch the eagles at http://www.infotecbusinesssystems.com/wildlife/default.asp Enjoy!...(&lt;a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/mpoulson/archive/2006/04/11/573401.aspx"&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=573401" width="1" height="1"&gt;</content><author><name>mpoulson</name><uri>http://blogs.msdn.com/members/mpoulson.aspx</uri></author></entry></feed>