This was such a big hit last year that they’re doing it again. Starting in Montreal on May 21, 2010, the bus rolls on down south and a little bit west, eventually ending up in New Orleans on June 5, just in time for TechEd North America. Stops along the way will give you an … Continue reading Get on the bus, Gus!
(RTM = Released to Manufacturing) Holy cow.. what an incredible few days it’s been. Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 hit RTM just three days ago, and today we have two more products “shipped”: System Center Essentials 2010 and System Center Data Protection Manager 2010. For SCE 2010 and SCDPM 2010 details, check out the Nexus … Continue reading More RTMs: System Center Essentials 2010 and System Center Data Protection Manager 2010!
So you’re running SCCM to its full potential. You’re doing operating system deployments, software rollouts, updates, inventory… and you want a simple web dashboard to have a quick and easy view of the status of all of these items.“It’s like you read my mind!”Yeah, I’m good like that. Anyway.. now you have a Solution Accelerator … Continue reading RELEASE: System Center Configuration Manager DASHBOARD
The Microsoft Desktop Player is now live and in Beta. “What does it do?”Using either your browser (It’s a Silverlight application) or an installed desktop application, you can easily and contextually find webcast recordings, podcast recordings, whitepapers, etc. So, let’s say you’re interested in SharePoint 2010..“But I’m not.”Let’s just say you are, okay? You do … Continue reading INTRODUCING: Microsoft Desktop Player – Find Technical Content and Useful Microsoft Resources Easily
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Today a security update is being released out-of-band to address a known and recently exploited vulnerability in Internet Explorer 6 and Internet Explorer 7. (See the MSRC Blog for more information about the advanced notification.) “The vulnerability used in these attacks, along with workarounds, is described in Microsoft Security Advisory 981374. The out-of-band security bulletin … Continue reading Breaking News: Out-of-Band Security Update released today (March 30, 2010) for IE6 and IE7
I don’t know what it is yet, but I hear it’s going to be important.At 9:00am PST today, the “Desktop Virtualization Hour” site will have a live broadcast/webcast, where I’m told there will be some exciting news around Desktop Virtualization. I’ll watch, and report back here with an update when I have the details. Stay … Continue reading Breaking News: Some Big Desktop Virtualization Announcements
WAG = Windows Administrator GroupsLast week I decided to try something new, and it’s catching on in a big way. I wanted to create a new set of user groups for IT Administrators who primarily work with MIcrosoft Windows-based infrastructures. So I came up with the acronym WAG. I’m also a recent big fan of … Continue reading WAG – It’s like Bacon Flavored Dog Treats for the IT Professional
A couple of new tools are available for those of you either in the planning stages of an Exchange 2010 deployment, or looking to verify the configuration of your Exchange organization’s configuration:Exchange Pre-Deployment Analyzer - Brief DescriptionThe Exchange Pre-Deployment Analyzer performs an overall topology readiness scan of your environment and provides you with a list … Continue reading RTW: Exchange Pre-Deployment Analyzer and the Exchange Baseline Configuration Analyzer 2.0
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