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Breaking News: System Center Data Protection Manager 2010 (DPM) Release Candidate – Now Available!

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Jason Buffington announced on his blog that DPM 2010 RC is available for download. Get it HERE. “What is Data Protection Manager?” It’s one of the Microsoft System Center set of tools for Enterprise-class IT Management.  Basically DPM is Microsoft’s solution for data protection (backup, recovery, and archiving).  It works natively with our biggest products (Exchange, … Continue reading Breaking News: System Center Data Protection Manager 2010 (DPM) Release Candidate – Now Available!

Do you like Pizza? What about the Super Bowl?

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http://ieaddons.com/en/search/?search=pizza Both Domino’s Pizza and Papa John’s Pizza have come out with new Web Slices for Internet Explorer 8 in advance of the Super Bowl on Sunday, as this is one of their busiest times of the year.I think every kitchen PC should have those slices on the IE8 Favorites bar.“What’s your favorite pizza, Kevin?”I … Continue reading Do you like Pizza? What about the Super Bowl?

Kevin’s TechNet Event Resources – Feb-Mar 2010

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TechNet Event Slides - http://www.technetevents.com/resources   28%-OFF Special TechNet Plus Direct Subscription Promotion – Yes, save nearly $100  off of a TechNet Plus Direct Subscription! Use Promotion Code TNITE04 (that’s ZERO-4) at http://www.microsoft.com/technet/subscriptionIMPORTANT UPDATE: This promotion and promotion code have expired.Please CLICK HERE for the most current promotion.  E-mail Technical Questions: Kevin Remde – Kevin.Remde@microsoft.comFeedback … Continue reading Kevin’s TechNet Event Resources – Feb-Mar 2010

Trials and Betas… Trials and Betas…

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For those of you looking for something to do today, and are just itching to try out some new software, here is a quick compilation of links to useful downloads of the latest and greatest. Windows 7 Enterprise 90-day Trial - http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/215437506/direct/01/ Download the Windows Server 2008 R2 Trial Software - http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/215437507/direct/01/ Evaluate Forefront Server … Continue reading Trials and Betas… Trials and Betas…

Toolbox for IT – Tools and Community

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This is pretty cool.  There’s a huge online community of IT people growing.  It’s the “Toolbox for IT”.  There are forums, topics, whitepapers, blogging, Wikis… basically an entire Web 2.0 smorgasbord all centered around resources and networking for IT Professionals.Here’s a screen snippet (click to enlarge) of some of the topics – plus you get … Continue reading Toolbox for IT – Tools and Community

BREAKING NEWS: Critical Out-of-Band Security Update Today

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 http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms10-jan.mspxThis is an important one folks.“Who or what software does this impact"?”You can see the full list HERE under the “Affected Software” section.  But in a nutshell it’s every OS from Windows 2000 and later on running Windows Internet Explorer 6 and later.  Yes, it includes Internet Explorer 8.“What’s the exploit?”A maliciously crafted website could … Continue reading BREAKING NEWS: Critical Out-of-Band Security Update Today

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Security: Your choice of browser is very important.

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The advisory from yesterday (1/18/2010) at the Microsoft Security Response Center is a good read for anyone interested in the latest news on known exploits to Internet Explorer.The bad news: For IE 6, “attacks remain targeted to a very limited number of corporations and are only effective against Internet Explorer 6” The good news: “…at … Continue reading Security: Your choice of browser is very important.