Mike Poulson's Thoughts on lots of stuff

Getting WDS to listen on more than 1 network adapter

mpoulson — Fri, 16 May 2008 04:03:00 GMT

http://www.mikepoulson.com/archive/2008/05/13/getting-wds-to-listen-on-more-than-1-network-adapter.aspx...(read more)

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

mpoulson — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 08:33:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Managing Microsoft IIS, Active Directory and DNS from .net

mpoulson — Sat, 11 Nov 2006 00:56:00 GMT

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...(read more)

My last post

mpoulson — Sat, 11 Nov 2006 00:50:00 GMT

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...(read more)

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

mpoulson — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 21:26:00 GMT

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...(read more)

RedvsBlue Season 4 DVDs arrived

mpoulson — Sat, 03 Jun 2006 01:57:00 GMT

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...(read more)

ISP Scenario hosting team is Hiring a Full time Operations Administrator

mpoulson — Thu, 01 Jun 2006 00:06:00 GMT

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...(read more)

For the love of god Encrypt your hard drive!

mpoulson — Tue, 23 May 2006 00:58:00 GMT

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...(read more)

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

mpoulson — Fri, 19 May 2006 21:25:00 GMT

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...(read more)

How to speed up those Queries to MicrosoftDNS with WMI

mpoulson — Thu, 11 May 2006 02:30:00 GMT

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...(read more)

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

mpoulson — Tue, 09 May 2006 19:10:00 GMT

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...(read more)

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

mpoulson — Tue, 09 May 2006 18:17:00 GMT

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....(read more)

Hotfix required to get Exchange OWA to work on Vista

mpoulson — Thu, 04 May 2006 05:33:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Limiting what databases users can see in SQL 2k5

mpoulson — Sat, 22 Apr 2006 00:55:00 GMT

http://weblogs.asp.net/hosterposter/archive/2006/03/22/440886.aspx...(read more)

Live Bald Eagle Cam

mpoulson — Tue, 11 Apr 2006 18:16:00 GMT

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....(read more)