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Was released the other day. Get it from MS Downloads . Contains some very good examples. One I found particular useful was the Status Filter...

New on MS Download - The IIS Diagnostics Toolkit is a combined release of popular tools used by today's IIS users. These tools include ...

As you might have seen the final version of SP1 for Windows Server 2003 has been released and can be downloaded from here . Others have revi...

To my surprise, Microsoft does not support Exchange in a virtualized environment - not even in their own Virtual Server/PC. Read the support...

According to a mail I received from Mickeysoft today the Release Candidate for Windows Update Services is finally publicly available. New fe...

A little but very useful "lifesaver" that provides a WinPE like environment but with a larger and more extendable featureset via t...

Check out this LiveVault "Institute for Backup Trauma" ad starring John Cleese. Never mind the product – which may or may not be ...

I wanted to be able to extract files directly out of an MSI file. Sometimes, I simply do not want to power up the correct OS version or inst...

As a follow-up to my earlier post on Protecting your administrative permissions , I noticed an update from Aaron explaining how the default ...

I came across a Microsoft KB about a bug in the import management pack process. It seems like only packs sharing common rule groups have the...

I always install Netmon on my servers - just in case I need it - which I often do. Not from an operation perspective, but for debugging and ...

To enable mail receivers to validate that your emails are legitimate, you have to add SIDF. SIDF are a merger between Microsoft’s caller ID ...

On MS Downloads. This solution accelerator helps SMS administrators effectively and efficiently deploy software updates for Dell server hard...

Get it here . Is it a MSP file. The update contains both updates to the server component and the firewall client. Check out the changes in t...

Maybe I should have known more about this years ago - I actually have thought about it - just never investigated it. Nevertheless, you can u...

While creating a script setting up permissions in SMS, I realized that there are some a new kids in town – the manage folder permission and...

Playing around with Virtual Server 2005, I ran into some very slow guest OS’s – some reacted very, very slowly, so here’s a hint: If you are...

An update of the MOM 2005 Management Pack versioned v05.0.2803.0000 was released February 9th. My existing is 2746. You can get it here . Th...

I found the solution to the problem in my earlier post . InCd conflicts with Virtual Server 2005. Uninstalling InCd made the problem go away...

If Microsoft is able to hold the schedule, we need to start considering how managing and running Longhorn applications is going to be. Appli...