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Random Collection of Links – 11/4/2008
I refuse to post anything regarding the election, so here are some interesting (or may not so interesting) links. Ask the Directory Services Team : Troubleshooting KCC Event Log Errors Ask the Core Team : How to Debug Kernel Mode Blue Screen Crashes (for Read More...
Microsoft Essential Business Server on Technet
Just logged into Technet today to get a ISO, and saw that EBS is now in Technet. Now only if I had enough machines to try it out with. Read More...
Get PC Serial Number via PowerShell
This is a pretty cool one liner that is of tremendous help. You can get the serial number of most PCs via PowerShell remotely. This includes Dell service tags. Command: Get-WMIObject -Class "Win32_BIOS" -Computer computername | select SerialNumber Example: Read More...
Getting Mailbox Size for Multiple Users on Exchange 2007
Recently, while doing a migration between Exchange 2007 servers, I needed to find out the size of the mailboxes so I could distribute the transfer load to off hours. PowerShell to the rescue. There is a lot to this one liner, but you can customize it Read More...
Interesting Links – 8/21/2008
The Old New Thing : The implementation of iterators in C# and its consequences (part 3) Notes from a dark corner : Technical Communities Portal and finding Microsoft blogs Aaron Margosis' "Non-Admin" WebLog : The Return of PrivBar (x86 and x64) Read More...
Windows 7 gets it’s first blog
Jon DeVann and Steven Sinofsky started the Engineering Windows 7 Blog. http://blogs.msdn.com/e7/default.aspx This is awesome! Except, I am still just getting completely used to Vista for everything. Oh well. Read More...
Interesting Links – 8/14/2008
Ask the Directory Services Team : MCS Talks Infrastructure Architecture joeware - never stop exploring… » Blog Archive » UpToDateness Vector (UTDV) Ask the Performance Team : Two Minute Drill: Enabling Print Queue Logging Ask the Directory Services Team Read More...
Visual Studio 2008 SP1 and .NET 3.5 SP1 Available
Visual Studio 2008 Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Download Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Read Me .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 Download (Web Installer) .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 Release Notes (Web Installer) .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 Download (Full Version) Read More...
Windows SBS 2008 Technical Library
The Windows Small Business Server 2008 Technical Library is available on Technet. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc527559.aspx Enjoy! Read More...
Interesting Links – 8/8/2008
You Had Me At EHLO... : Understanding Exchange 2007 Memory Usage and its use of the Paging File SeanDaniel.com - Small Business Server and Other Technology: Curious about the SBS 2008 migration process? Ask the Core Team : KMS 1.1 For Windows Server 2003 Read More...
SQL Server 2008 Released to Technet
I was downloading another ISO today, and realized that SQL Server 2008 was among the items you can download. SQL Server 2008 Developer SQL Server 2008 Web SQL Server 2008 Workgroup SQL Server 2008 Standard SQL Server 2008 Enterprise Cool! Read More...
The Last Hope Talks Released
If you are like me and didn’t get the chance to go to The Last Hope (The conference put on by 2600 Magazine.), you can now download the talks in .MP3 format. http://www.thelasthope.org/talks.html I am a huge fan of 2600 and have been reading it for years. Read More...
Interesting Links – 7/31/2008
Network Access Protection (NAP) : Combining NAP enforcement methods The Storage Team at Microsoft - File Cabinet Blog : Robocopy /MIR switch – mirroring file permissions Network Access Protection (NAP) : Whatever happens off-enterprise may not stay off-enterprise! Read More...
Random PowerShell Cmdlet Fun
I wanted to see what additional PowerShell cmdlet’s I had installed on my computer. I found out that get-pssnapin does the job! Just run the following in your PowerShell window: get-pssnapin –registered You should get an out put like this: PS C:\tools> Read More...
Interesting Links – 7/25/2008
You Had Me At EHLO... : Where does the time go? -519 Jet_errLogSequenceEnd Microsoft Advanced Windows Debugging and Troubleshooting : Data Execution Protection in action Ask the Core Team : Publishing the Hyper-V Management Interface using Terminal Services Read More...
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