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MOM: Summary Reporting Pack...

Posted Monday, October 31, 2005 9:14 PM by scarbone
The MOM Team is pleased to announce the MOM 2005 Summary Reporting Pack - English The MOM 2005 Summary Reporting Pack extends the MOM data warehouse to provide long term reports on performance metrics and alerts based on weekly and daily summarization Read More...
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Exchange, MOM, SLAs, and Halo 2...

Posted Monday, October 31, 2005 6:57 PM by scarbone
SLAs? Necessary but boring - always wanted a tool like MOM that can pump data automatically to something like the SLA Scorecard Solution - so I can get back to Halo 2 ;-) Managing Exchange Service Levels with the SLA Scorecard Solution Accelerator (Level Read More...
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Active Directory: Schema Modification Anyone?

Posted Monday, October 31, 2005 6:53 PM by scarbone
If I had a dime for every time I've been asked by a rightfully nervous admin about modifying the AD schema, well... I'd have a lot of dimes ;-) Here's a good article on how Microsoft manages our AD schema... Structured Active Directory Schema Management Read More...
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TheWorkingNetwork...

Posted Monday, October 31, 2005 6:40 PM by scarbone
This should prove interesting... http://theworkingnetwork.com/blogs/blog/Default.aspx Read More...
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MIIS Capacity Planning Guide Now Available...

Posted Tuesday, October 25, 2005 3:13 PM by scarbone
This guide describes how different hardware configuration options affect the performance of a server hosting MIIS 2003. Performance tests were completed using various hardware configurations and this whitepaper presents a compilation of the results along Read More...
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XBOX.com - Updated in Anticipation of XBOX 360...

Posted Tuesday, October 25, 2005 9:56 AM by scarbone
http://www.xbox.com - apparently XBOX Live was upgraded last night too... Read More...
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System Center Reporting Manager 2005 beta refreshed with SQL 2005 suport...

Posted Tuesday, October 25, 2005 8:19 AM by scarbone
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserversystem/systemcenter/evaluation/overview/reporting/beta.mspx System Center Reporting Manager 2005 (Beta) delivers a rich platform for enterprise analysis of management data so that IT administrators, managers, and Read More...
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System Center Capacity Manager 2006 Beta Refresh Posted...

Posted Tuesday, October 25, 2005 8:17 AM by scarbone
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=B68C06A5-8949-4A3F-9685-21228DBE8A0E&displaylang=en Overview Microsoft System Center Capacity Planner 2006 (BETA Refresh) delivers state of the art easy-to-use modeling technology to bring unprecedented Read More...
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MSH: Guided Tour...

Posted Monday, October 24, 2005 4:32 PM by scarbone
http://arstechnica.com/guides/other/msh.ars "This is a moderately technical overview and it contains content that may be difficult for nonprogrammers to grasp, so those of you that don't have a background in software development may want to skip around Read More...
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XP: Security Guide Updated

Posted Friday, October 21, 2005 8:00 PM by scarbone
This version of the Windows XP Security Guide was updated to provide additional security guidance for: · Maintaining different levels of security and control on Windows XP client computers. · Securing Windows XP client computers that are not members of Read More...
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Search Result Clustering...

Posted Thursday, October 13, 2005 12:09 AM by scarbone
http://rwsm.directtaps.net/ MSRA SRC Toolbar is a tool for searching web with the Search Result Clustering (SRC) technique, which is developed at Web Search and Mining Group in MSR, Asia. It on-the-fly clusters a certain search engine's search results Read More...
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BizTalk 2006: Beta bits available...

Posted Tuesday, October 11, 2005 9:18 AM by scarbone
How to get BTS2006 Beta 1: 1. Log into https://beta.microsoft.com using your Microsoft ® Passport Network Account. 2. Click on “Sign in as Guest” and use the Guest ID “BizTalkBetaTeam” 3. On the top navigation under "Enrolled Betas" navigate through "BizTalk Read More...
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SCCP 2006: Beta Bits Available...

Posted Tuesday, October 11, 2005 9:10 AM by scarbone
System Center Capacity Planner 2006 bits available at http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserversystem/systemcenter/evaluation/capacity/default.mspx . Microsoft System Center Capacity Planner 2006 (Beta) helps size and plan deployments of Microsoft Exchange Read More...
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SCRM: Beta Bits Available...

Posted Tuesday, October 11, 2005 8:55 AM by scarbone
The System Center Reporting Manager 2005 Beta is now available for download at http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserversystem/systemcenter/evaluation/overview/reporting/beta.mspx . To obtain System Center Reporting Manager 2005 (Beta): 1. Go to the Microsoft Read More...
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"Self-Managing Dynamic Systems" stuff...

Posted Monday, October 10, 2005 1:13 PM by scarbone
Ties in to the previous virtualization announcement... You'll be hearing more from MS on SMDS in the future ;-) Updates to the Dynamic Systems Initiative, Virtual Server, and Windows Server System web sites went live with morning in sync with Microsoft's Read More...
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Windows Server System: Licensing Changes

Posted Monday, October 10, 2005 12:25 PM by scarbone
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2005/oct05/10-10virtualizationlicensing.mspx First, we are licensing by running instance, which is to say the number of images, installations and/or copies of the original software stored on a local or storage Read More...
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Microsoft Client Protection...

Posted Thursday, October 06, 2005 12:02 PM by scarbone
Microsoft today announced Microsoft Client Protection, a new security product that protects business desktops, laptops and file servers from emerging threats such as spyware and rootkits, as well as viruses and other traditional attacks. Microsoft Client Read More...
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Active Directory Migration Tool v3 ships (finally)...

Posted Wednesday, October 05, 2005 8:55 AM by scarbone
Active Directory Migration Tool v3 http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=6F86937B-533A-466D-A8E8-AFF85AD3D212&displaylang=en ADMT is the strategic offering from Microsoft that assists you in solving technical and business problems Read More...
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Data Protection Manager Eval Download...

Posted Wednesday, October 05, 2005 8:53 AM by scarbone
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserversystem/dpm/evaluation/sysreqs.mspx DPM can protect stand-alone file servers only; clustered file servers cannot be protected. Protected file servers can have only one of the following two operating systems installed: Read More...
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Halo Movie Exec Producer Announced...

Posted Wednesday, October 05, 2005 8:40 AM by scarbone
Could be the first movie-based-on-a-game to not completely suck... http://news.spong.com/detail/news.asp?prid=9182&cb=0.7541577 Read More...
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Office 12: UI/UX...

Posted Saturday, October 01, 2005 10:24 PM by scarbone
Scobleizer has a video of a demo of the new O12 UI... http://channel9.msdn.com/showpost.aspx?postid=114720 Read More...
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Office 12: Native PDF support...

Posted Saturday, October 01, 2005 10:20 PM by scarbone
'bout time... http://blogs.msdn.com/brian_jones/archive/2005/10/01/476067.aspx Read More...
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