IBM release a draft version of the IBM Director 5.10 redbook You can read it at IBM.
A new version of ADMT became available today at Microsoft. I hope they fixed a few things. Download it at Microsoft.
Bink wrote : As a surprise to me Microsoft released Office 2003 SP2 yesterday, I installed it right away via Microsoft Update. I couldn't find any release notes or "what's new" documents. So I started looking in Outlook. I found a new feature in the Junk mail options: anti-phishing.
From Windows Server division WebLog My name is Adam Bogobowicz and I am a Product Manager for Window SharePoint Services. I am happy to share with you that today my product is getting more mature, simpler to deploy, and gains support for our latest technologies. If you played with our Windows Server R2 Beta or RC0 code, you must have noted a new server role. Yes! Windows SharePoint Services will be shipping with R2 and you will no longer need a trip to http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/technologies/sharepoint/default.mspx to download the bits. Now, if you do not mind visiting the download center, you can upgrade your server today with the latest WSS Service Pack 2. This latest WSS Service Pack will help
IBM announced today the availability of IBM Director 5.10. (well in fact it will be available only in October)
Read the press release at IBM.
We posted a new build of Monad today. It's available through the Microsoft Download Center. This means no NDA (which betaplace had) and no need to download the whole WinFX SDK. And, it's Beta 2, a newer build than both of those. Improvements include COM support, which was in a long time ago but was out of Beta 1. You can download x86 and x64 versions. Source : www.proudlyserving.com
Blink wrote : MSN is offering to host universities' student email accounts, provide messenger functionality and blogging/e-folio capability via spaces at no charge to the university.To me, this is a really compelling story because it means that as a university there would be no storage, management or support costs involved in managing students email. Read the complete article
Well, happened to me when deploying sysprep images with Virtual PC. No fix yet.
Read the articile on Technet.
Shared computers are commonly found in schools, libraries, Internet and gaming cafés, community centers, and other locations. Often, staff members who lack technical training are asked to manage shared computers in addition to their primary responsibilities. Managing shared computers can be difficult, time-consuming, and expensive. Unrestricted, users can change the desktop appearance, reconfigure system settings, and introduce spyware, viruses, and other harmful programs. Fixing damaged shared computers costs significant time and effort. User privacy is also an issue. Shared computers often use shared accounts where Internet history, online documents, and cached Web pages are available from one person to the next. The Microsoft Shared Computer Toolkit for Windows XP provides a simple and effective way to defend shared
Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 (SP1) modifies NTLM network authentication behavior. After you install Windows Server 2003 SP1, domain users can use their old password to access the network for one hour after the password is changed. Existing components that are designed to use Kerberos for authentication are not affected by this change. Read the complete technote at Microsoft
This Wiki site is created and maintained by WSUS user community to share advice, information and guidance about WSUS. Look at http://www.wsuswiki.com/.
This topic discusses how to migrate the WSUS database (SUSDB) from an MSDE or WMSDE instance (which is installed during WSUS Setup) to a full version of Microsoft SQL Server 2000. Read the complete document at WSUS Wiki
Control what attachments Outlook has deemed to be unsafe and be free to open any attachment you like. You can also add to the default list of blocked attachment types. Controlling the safe and blocked attachments has never been easier. Includes the full and complete list of what Outlook will block by default. (Outlook 2000, XP, 2003 or greater) Download this tool from the author.
Extended maintenance mode functionality for cluster physical disk resources in Windows Server 2003
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This article describes an update to the maintenance mode feature for cluster physical disk resources in Microsoft Windows Server 2003. This update provides extended functionality when you use maintenance mode to perform administrative and maintenance tasks in a clustered environment. Read the complete article at Microsoft.
From InfoWorld : Google has added to its menu of search alternatives the option to search through the ever-popular online journals called Web logs, or blogs. The new search service, which went live on Wednesday, is in test, or beta, form, and can be accessed through a variety of Web addresses, including http://www.google.com/blogsearch and http://search.blogger.com/.
Ward Ralston wrote at Windows Server Division Weblog We have received overwhelming customer and partner feedback requesting that Virtual Server 2005 be part of MSDN. We have listened, and as such, effective today Virtual Server 2005 Standard Edition will be available as part of MSDN Enterprise, and Universal and the future Premium subscriptions. Remember though......like other MSDN products, subscriptions are limited to single-user licensees for design, development, test, and demonstration purposes only.
Software for forwarding SMTP server connections to the correct SMTP server, made for people traveling with a laptop, connecting to different networks. Get it here
The Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) is the service processor found in many IBM xSeries and BladeCenter servers. This technote provides links to the latest firmware, drivers and utilities for use on supported servers and operating systems. The operating systems covered here are Windows, Linux, and NetWare.This technote also includes links to the required IBM Director patches if you plan to manage these service processors from IBM Director. Read the RedBook Technote at IBM
Comprehensive guidance on the major tasks involved in administering and troubleshooting Microsoft Windows Server Update Services (WSUS), including synchronization and managing computers and computer groups, as well as viewing, approving, testing, and storing updates, and running reports.Get it at www.microsoft.com
When one of the Scripting Guys was a system administrator, he spent a large portion of his time working on "empowering users" (which was really just a polite way of saying that he spent a large portion of his time trying to figure out how users could administer themselves, giving him more time to play Doom). As the IT world becomes bigger and more complex, the idea of sharing the administrative burden becomes more enticing. For example, wouldn't it be great if you could give a user the ability to update certain attributes in Active Directory, but without making that user a full-fledged domain administrator? Boy, do we have good news for you .... Read all about it
Draft Redbook, last updated: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 Covers the xSeries 460, xSeries 366 and xSeries 260 Learn the technical details of these high-performance servers How to configure, install and manage the servers The IBM eServer X3 Architecutre servers are the new third-generation Enterprise X-Architecture servers from IBM.
Read it at IBM
