Windows Server Clustering & PCNews

XP, MIIS, SMS, Misc.

XP:

Can you get that app to run on XP, honest you can!

Application Compatibility Testing and Mitigation Guide for Windows XP Service Pack 2

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=9300becf-2dee-4772-add9-ad0eaf89c4a7&displaylang=en

MIIS:

Microsoft Identity Integration Server 2003 Walkthroughs 0- though to be honest, they don't tell the whole MIIS Galsync story. No persmissions are dicussed, they assume you run these as Domain Admin. Who would do that between forests? It's just silly.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=3263e78f-d6cf-4b6b-8b14-9a1b36959cf5&displaylang=en

SMS:

AdminStudio SMS Edition - Hands free SMS admin? Nice!

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=925412e6-5350-455b-a973-fabec35462e5&displaylang=en

Miscellaneous:

PSSDIAG Data Collection Utility fun little toy, but you have to write the data to SQL Server 7/2000.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=5564386a-28c2-4483-8293-76fff67b9eb3&displaylang=en

IT Security archive - couple of PPTs of security stuff. Not bad, but nothing really all that new.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=b2e5f138-8706-4b9d-b0b4-7bcb23497d39&displaylang=en

White Paper: Business Case For Tablet PC - All I want for Christmas is...

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=4f47b606-bd1d-4638-853d-3c1a9736915b&displaylang=en

Hackers use porn to target the Microsoft JPEG hole? Or do they?

A new article claims that Hackers are really smarter then I gave them credit for. They are planting a virus in JPEGs, but only in pornographic ones, so far. Interesting. Could this be a smart Hacker, hitting us where some of use the Internet most? Or could this be the industries way to trying to scare us away from porn by making it ALL contain a virus? For most it would work to, many will stop trusting porn at together. It's a great idea.

http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0928hackeusep.html?fsrc=rss-security

Virus Alert, Server 2003, Exchange, Tablet PC, SQL, Excel, Project, SMS, QuEST, Articles

Virus Alert:

If you been on vacation or just living in a cave, then you may have missed this:

http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,65116,00.html?tw=rss.TEK

it only took 2 weeks. Man, the bad guys are getting faster!

Windows Server 2003:

Using Administrative Template Files with Registry-Based Group Policy - Excellent white paper, I read this one today.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=d44e34ec-b4e2-49a1-9f40-9ed4ba3765df&displaylang=en

Windows Server System Reference Architecture (WSSRA) Overview Documents

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=d44e34ec-b4e2-49a1-9f40-9ed4ba3765df&displaylang=en

Windows XP Remote Desktop Connection software [XPSP2 6.0.2600.0] for any Windows 32 bit OS. If you have XP with SP2, you already have this version.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=80111f21-d48d-426e-96c2-08aa2bd23a49&displaylang=en

Exchange:

Writing Managed Sinks for SMTP and Transport Events

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=0cd7f344-cad6-416e-9bc1-0d7c214e1d0b&displaylang=en

Tablet PC:

Microsoft Physics Illustrator for Tablet PC

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=56347faf-a639-4f3b-9b87-1487fd4b5a53&displaylang=en

SQL Server 2000:

SQL Server 2000 Report Pack for Microsoft Exchange - Looks really good.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=108c2b01-2cc9-4a84-a669-eb22533fa5e2&displaylang=en

SQL Server 2000 Report Pack for Financial Reporting

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=1d416069-ffb1-44d4-a20d-c89a1d5ea791&displaylang=en

Excel:

Excel 2003 Sample: Data Analysis and Business Modeling

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=b01f647e-2df5-414c-8513-f3ad06b63acb&displaylang=en

Project:

Project 2003: Building and Hosting a PDS Web Application

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=e8f9bced-6d3b-4786-99a7-570737a317f6&displaylang=en

SMS:

SMS Client Health Monitoring Tool

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=d5c9de9b-7283-42f2-ba0e-dd35f113d944&displaylang=en

QuEST:

QuEST – Qualified Electronic Signatures Tutorial

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=0b3c55f6-11d4-4f46-8a37-0ba004e14dcf&displaylang=en

Articles:

MSN Ends Hotmail's Free Outlook Access. Gmail is looking better everyday!

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1659201,00.asp

http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0927microtoch.html?fsrc=rss-security

Secure your own network?

http://www.nwfusion.com/edge/columnists/2004/0927bleed.html?fsrc=rss-security

Blackberry get's a blue tooth?

http://www.engadget.com/entry/9265152283983685/

SQL, Office 2003, Articles

SQL Server 2000:

Support Tools Available For Stress Testing & Performance Analysis

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=5691ab53-893a-4aaf-b4a6-9a8bb9669a8b&displaylang=en

Office 2003:

Office 2003 Editions: FrontPage VBA Language Reference (Page Object)

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=846e3034-8545-49fc-b0a2-7d9581c9e178&displaylang=en

Office 2003 Editions: FrontPage VBA Language Reference (Web Object)

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=1d8d97ac-1e92-441a-aa60-3ec55942e322&displaylang=en

Office 2003 Editions: Web Discussions Client VBA Language Reference

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=287860e2-eb45-4ff4-8a5f-8a5fde8b6a63&displaylang=en

Office 2003 Editions: Access VBA Language Reference

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=0447c5a0-5e58-4e69-b90e-c42ec7dbf887&displaylang=en

Office 2003 Editions: Excel VBA Language Reference

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=2204a62e-4877-4563-8e83-4848dda796e4&displaylang=en

Office 2003 Editions: Office Web Components VBA Language Reference

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=1192dea9-cf5c-4dd7-8505-8074745a6d11&displaylang=en

Office 2003 Editions: VBA Language Reference for the Graph Object Model

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=db7ff7ff-1e4b-42ca-bade-1738afb6fad9&displaylang=en

Office 2003 Editions: Outlook VBA Language Reference

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=a1cead80-23e2-456f-8618-4da50cc2c38c&displaylang=en

Articles:

BlackBerry Enterprise Server v4.0 Release Candidate Now Available

http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20040927005541&newsLang=en

Exchange, XP/SMS, Articles

Exchange:

An SMTP connector does not pick up outgoing security settings after you configure it in Exchange Server 2003

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;842122

Routing status information is not propagated correctly to all servers in Exchange 2000 Server or in Exchange Server 2003

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;842026

Microsoft Exchange Server Best Practices Analyzer Tool

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=4f2f1339-cbcd-4d26-9174-f30c10d7ec4c&displaylang=en

XP/SMS:

Deploying Windows XP Service Pack 2 with Systems Management Server

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=09bb686c-b242-4e2d-a8ca-351abc160530&displaylang=en

Articles:

Microsoft files suits against 'bulletproof' Web hosts

http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0923microfiles.html?fsrc=rss-security

Nokia adds anti-virus protection to new smart phone

http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0923nokiaadds.html?fsrc=rss-security

Windows Server 2003, Exchange, SPS, Office, VB Express

Windows Server 2003:

How to rebuild the SYSVOL tree and its content in a domain

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;315457

Exchange:

Exchange Server 2003 Design and Architecture

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=5c76219a-4e30-4b51-a963-4a3896c9bb78&displaylang=en

SPS:

Windows SharePoint Services Software Development Kit (SDK)

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=1c64af62-c2e9-4ca3-a2a0-7d4319980011&displaylang=en

SharePoint Portal Server 2003: IntelliSense XML Files

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=17f00f0d-659a-433c-bf0d-a7628b00fe17&displaylang=en

Office 2003:

Office 2003 Security Update: KB838905. This is the fix that has been in the press a lot lately, hurry to apply this one.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=106bcf99-1ba9-4035-94c5-2a7fa90e5971&displaylang=en

Visual Basic Express:

MSDN TV: Introducing Visual Basic Express, for the developers out there.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=ccd5cfa7-3bc7-4242-9eda-33cc3528290b&displaylang=en

Exchange, XP, SMS, Project Server, Misc...

Exchange:

Exchange Server Best Practices Analyzer Tool

For information about the Microsoft Exchange Server Best Practices 
Analyzer Tool, visit 
http://www.microsoft.com/exchange/downloads/2003/exbpa/default.asp. 
 
To download the Microsoft Exchange Server Best Practices Analyzer Tool 
(English or Japanese), visit 
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=DBAB201F-4BEE-4943-AC22-E2DDBD258DF3 
 
For more information, check out the TechNet Webcast on this tool on Oct. 
7,  2004.  Visit 
http://msevents.microsoft.com/cui/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032259581&Culture=en-US 
to register. 
 
For information directly from one of the developers of the tool, visit the 
Exchange Team Blog, You Had Me At EHLO, at 
http://blogs.msdn.com/exchange/archive/2004/09/16/230738.aspx 
 
XP:

Changes to Functionality in Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2 version 3.0
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=7bd948d7-b791-40b6-8364-685b84158c78&displaylang=en

Troubleshooting Windows Firewall in Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2 version 1.2

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=a7628646-131d-4617-bf68-f0532d8db131&displaylang=en

SMS:

SMS MOM pack

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=55f9e3c4-afed-478e-ae1f-214d5d2ced4b&displaylang=en

Project Server:

Project 2003 Security Update: KB838344

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=9e37b6b0-a028-47ea-8fa1-3705877a2908&displaylang=en

Miscellaneous:

The Antivirus Defense-in-Depth Guide version 2.0

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=f24a8ce3-63a4-45a1-97b6-3fef52f63abb&displaylang=en

Microsoft has a backup and recovery server in the works

http://entmag.com/news/article.asp?editorialsid=6369

17 new Exchange downloads :)

Exchange:

17 tools or downloads today :)

Exchange Server Best Practices Analyzer Tool

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=DBAB201F-4BEE-4943-AC22-E2DDBD258DF3&displaylang=en

Webcast for Exchange BPA Tool

http://msevents.microsoft.com/cui/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032259581&Culture=en-US

Exchange Server Stress and Performance 2003

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=773ae7fd-860f-4755-b04d-1972e38fa4db&displaylang=en

Exchange Server Load Simulator 2003 (LoadSim)

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=92eb2edc-3433-47ca-a5f8-0483c7ddea85&displaylang=en

Exchange Server Badmail Deletion and Archiving

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=782aaf0f-6239-40ad-adda-97863d852ff7&displaylang=en

Exchange Server SMTPDiag Tool

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=bc1881c7-925d-4a29-bd42-71e8563c80a9&displaylang=en

Exchange Server MSSearch Administration Tool

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=46fd5644-bd0d-4cfa-95f8-64ba34bde6a7&displaylang=en

Exchange Server Jetstress Tool

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=94b9810b-670e-433a-b5ef-b47054595e9c&displaylang=en

Exchange Server Domain Rename Fixup (XDR-Fixup)

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=24b47d4a-c4b9-4031-b491-29839148a28c&displaylang=en

Exchange Server Auto Accept Agent

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=3d0884e6-c603-491d-bf57-acf03e046bfe&displaylang=en

Auto Accept Agent Deployment and Administration Guide

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=5eac9a70-699b-495a-a920-82403305226b&displaylang=en

Exchange 2003: All-In-One Tools Download

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=e0f616c6-8fa4-4768-a3ed-cc09aef7b60a&displaylang=en

Exchange Server Mailbox Merge Wizard (ExMerge)

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=429163ec-dcdf-47dc-96da-1c12d67327d5&displaylang=en

What's New in Exchange Server 2003

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=84236bd9-ac54-4113-b037-c04a96a977fd&displaylang=en

Exchange Server 2003 Performance and Scalability Guide

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=62fb1297-4c6b-4d84-84cc-060989f2f305&displaylang=en

Exchange Server 2003 Message Security Guide

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=2305405c-faf1-488a-a856-ad467bb59b26&displaylang=en

Exchange Server 2003 Interoperability and Migration Guide

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=0d197721-4b9f-4b96-8549-cc822bd16071&displaylang=en

Exchange Server 2003 Deployment Guide

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=77b6d819-c7b3-42d1-8fbb-fe6339ffa1ed&displaylang=en

EMC Launches New Solution to Make Microsoft Exchange Server E-Mail Storage Simpler, More Dependable

http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/040921/netu024_1.html

Virtual Server 2005, Exchange, SQL, SMS, XP, Project 2003, IE, Articles, Miscellaneous

Virtual Server 2005:

It's live - and it's affordable. Standard edition is US$499, while EE is
$999.

http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2004/sep04/09-13AvailabilityVS2005PR.asp

Exchange:

You receive a "The bookmark is invalid" error message when you try to connect to a global catalog server that is running Windows 2000 Server in an Exchange Server 2003 or Exchange 2000 Server organization.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;883728

SQL:

SQL Server Health and History Tool (SQLH2) Performance Collector

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=64983af0-7902-427e-9b41-7c2e8fdcc140&displaylang=en

SMS:

Microsoft Systems Management Server 2003 Supported Configurations for Service Pack 1

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=a86246ca-9b37-49f1-a8c5-01a53ba06852&displaylang=en

XP:

Deploying Windows Firewall Settings for Microsoft Windows XP with Service Pack 2

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=4454e0e1-61fa-447a-bdcd-499f73a637d1&displaylang=en

Project 2003:

Project 2003: Project Guide and Custom Views

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=197c909d-22e4-456e-a819-e6d75a8d3dea&displaylang=en

Microsoft Office Project Server 2003 Resource Kit

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=5f467651-4f7c-4aa5-9243-a529b8b49015&displaylang=en

Internet Explorer:

Security Update for Internet Explorer 6 Service Pack 1 (KB833989http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=b0095851-674d-4357-868c-dd75d88405ec&displaylang=en

Articles:

Attacking client security: Our strategy

http://www.nwfusion.com/reviews/2004/0920revattack.html?fsrc=rss-security

Testing Windows XP SP2's role in client security

http://www.nwfusion.com/reviews/2004/0920revxp.html?fsrc=rss-security

Arrest made in Cisco source code theft

http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0917arresmade.html?fsrc=rss-security

http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,117790,pg,1,00.asp

Quote of the day:

There is no patch for stupidity. -- Kevin Mitnick.

Website of the day:

http://www.ratemynetworkdiagram.com/

An very good administrator's haiku (of sorts).

The Internet is down
but I don't frown,
'cuz without fail
I get my mail.

If both go down
I still don't frown,
I have some perks
Term Serv still works.

If that throws a fit
I think I'll quit.
What do you say -
Wanna check my resume?
-Written by - Friend of Dave Shaw

Free stuff, Exchange, SMS, SPS, SSL, history of viruses

Free:

TechNet Virtual labs expanded, With this expansion, six new labs and 22 new modules have been added to the program, covering Exchange Server, Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server, Systems Management Server (SMS) 2003, and more:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/traincert/virtuallab/default.mspx

Exchange:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=c6084d20-9730-4ffc-805d-b957327604c6&displaylang=en

SMS:

Scenarios and Procedures for Microsoft Systems Management Server 2003: Software Distribution and Patch Management

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=32f2bb4c-42f8-4b8d-844f-2553fd78049f&displaylang=en

SPS:

Windows SharePoint Services Sample: Files for the "Working with SharePoint document libraries" Tutorial

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=a3c48482-bcb4-4285-a498-dbaec8daf7a5

Windows SharePoint Services: IntelliSense XML File

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=9f7b5831-6be6-48f8-9f9a-2eb9dc57afad&displaylang=en

SSL:

SSL Diagnostics Version 1.0 (x86)http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=cabea1d0-5a10-41bc-83d4-06c814265282

Info:

The history of viruses. This guy had tons of time on his hands, and we all get to learn something from it :)

http://weblogs.asp.net/oldnewthing/archive/2004/09/16/230388.aspx

SPS, XP, Outlook, Articles

SPS:

Windows SharePoint Services Site Customization Tutorial Files

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=f52a3eb1-01c6-4d9b-989f-bebd9d46451b&displaylang=en

XP:

Windows XP Video Decoder Checkup Utility

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=de1491ac-0ab6-4990-943d-627e6ade9fcb&displaylang=en

Moving files between XP desktops

http://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2004/091304internet.html?fsrc=rss-windows

Outlook 2003:

Update for Outlook 2003: Junk E-mail Filter (KB870765) http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=d8ded71e-89ed-4473-9640-13a2b799564e&displaylang=en

Biometrics:

Of Mice and Biometrics

http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,64934,00.html?tw=rss.TEK

Articles:

Symantec service to fight phishing

http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/091304symantec.html?fsrc=rss-security

McAfee launches managed e-mail service:

http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0913mcafelaunc.html?fsrc=rss-security

MOM pack for Clustering

Microsoft Windows 2000 Server Clusters Management Pack Guide

Just released:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=a0cd4260-bcf5-4572-958c-1c4b7fb6efad&displaylang=en

Windows Server 2003, Exchange, SQL, Office, Biztalk 2004, SMS, NT 4.0/98, & articles

Windows Server 2003:

Group Policy ADM files version 1.1: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=92759d4b-7112-4b6c-ad4a-bbf3802a5c9b&displaylang=en

Update for Windows Server 2003 (KB827214) to fix Exchange 2003 Transport issues: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=85796ed7-112d-4b41-a052-de917bd2b93d&displaylang=en

Exchange:

Having problems with IMF? Is your machine name longer then 15 characters? http://support.microsoft.com/?id=873434

Update for Exchange 2003 http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=56285e94-254b-4684-b37b-63a86132ade8&displaylang=en for the Transports.

Update for Exchange 2003 http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=8bdaf1df-fec1-447f-9677-2204599a71f8&displaylang=en for the Store.

SQL:

SQL PSS reporting tool, free: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;883724

SQL Server Health and History Tool (SQLH2) Reports version 2.0 http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=a4b837c7-a1fa-4f25-840b-fef15e917f18&displaylang=en

Office:

Office 2003 Toolkit: Research Service Development Extras http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=8b0a4427-9cfd-493e-82a7-16f8d88ebdc7&displaylang=en

Office 2003 Document: Overview of Developer Technologies http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=5018e6ff-21f6-448f-861e-bca4ec2a5795&displaylang=en

Biztalk 2004:

BizTalk Server 2004 Product Documentation http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=cdd47461-f4e2-4bc6-b5c2-2018aff2823d&displaylang=en

SMS:

Systems Management Server 2003 Service Pack 1 Installation and Operations Release Notes http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=d1e9c976-e131-4525-b035-dd4f7e460064&displaylang=en

Scenarios and Procedures for Systems Management Server 2003: Planning and Deployment http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=e0644bb4-2336-4254-8a18-9bc180713f7e&displaylang=en

Scenarios and Procedures for Microsoft Systems Management Server 2003: Security http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=3d81b520-a203-4376-a72d-fd34a6c4a44c&displaylang=en

Windows NT 4.0/98:

The Microsoft Windows NT® 4.0 and Windows® 98 Threat Mitigation Guide http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=25a7a093-496b-4f02-9708-076b8322a5b9&displaylang=en

Articles:

Picture passwords? http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid14_gci1000783,00.html

Take lots of notes? http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,117735,pg,1,00.asp

One last note before I leave for Tech Ed Malaysia...

If anyone who reads this is going to Tech Ed, please ping me.

http://www.microsoft.com/malaysia/events/teched/

Or at least stop by the speakers lounge, lots of MVP's and non-MVP's are presenting. Paul Adare, Brian Komar, Ben Smith, Chip Hooper, Joern Wettern, Ronald Beekelaar, Jack Story,  Kimberly Tripp, Stephen Forte, Tim Huckaby, Steve Riley, Jesper Johansson, Craig Martin, just to name a few!

Just look at the faces of these people, too funny!

New web page by Mr. Security!

Yes, it's a page written by Ben Smith of Microsoft fame. You might remember him from such famous books as:

Assessing Network Security: Testing Your Defenses

http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?userid=mHu16X8kkQ&isbn=0735620334&itm=1

and

Microsoft Windows Security Resource Kit

http://www.bookpool.com/.x/kqsnptjari/sm/0735618682

The articles will appear here:

http://www.winntmag.com/Authors/AuthorID/1474/1474.html

Exchange, Office, SPS, SMS, Timeline, Blackberry, New Calculator

Exchange:
Free Chapter of Bill Boswells new Exchange book (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/032122874X/msexchangeblo-20/104-6884777-4123966)
http://searchexchange.techtarget.com/searchExchange/downloads/05.pdf

Office 2003:
Office 2003 Toolkit: Research Service Development Extras
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=8b0a4427-9cfd-493e-82a7-16f8d88ebdc7&displaylang=en

Office 2003 Document: Overview of Developer Technologies
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=5018e6ff-21f6-448f-861e-bca4ec2a5795&displaylang=en

SharePoint Portal Server:
SharePoint Products and Technologies Sample: Creating a Site Context Search Box that Uses Portal Search Results
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=de65eb72-3bb3-4d32-98c2-f2c94458c957&displaylang=en

SMS:
Deploying Microsoft Systems Management Server 2003 in an Environment Without Windows Internet Name Service (WINS)
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=27e553f2-5395-4ea2-aab1-ccdd0b539205&displaylang=en

Blackberry:
Nokia and Blackberry - nice!!!
http://news.com.com/Nokia+gets+a+slice+of+BlackBerry+pie/2100-1039_3-5348469.html?tag=nefd.top

Rim on the Blackberry:
http://www.engadget.com/entry/9276385537449363

Time Warp:
Is your memory ready for a jog?
"May 1981: First mention of Microsoft"
20 Year Usenet Timeline
http://www.google.com/googlegroups/archive_announce_20.html

Free:
New Calculator Plus - this is really cool, converts weights, measurements, and stuff. A must have:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=32b0d059-b53a-4dc9-8265-da47f157c091&displaylang=en

Going offline for a few days...

I am speaking at Tech Ed Malaysia in Kuala Lumpur. So, I will be on a plane for several days and without INTERNET access for a lot of the time. I leave September 9 and get back September 19th.

As the picture says, I will not be screwing off, I will be working. I will post a few times between then, but not everyday :)

Take care and don't miss me too much!

The state of NHL Hockey today

I read a great article today about Hockey. Here is the article: http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Hockey/NHL/2004/09/07/619114.html

The article asks some very good questions:

• What if the Canadian teams played with Europe?
• What if 10 or so American teams folded?
• What if they only players and team and cities left were the ones that loved the game as much as I do?
• Would these be a bad thing?

I don't think any of it would be bad, as long as the hockey was still good. Let's face it, the players make too much money. Most owners are very rich. The ticket prices are way out of reach for most family, parking, food, etc. Outrageous!

Just my two cents...

How to configure Microsoft Distributed Transaction Coordinator on a Windows Server 2003 cluster

Yes the famous 301600 article , revision 14 was recently released:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;301600

There has been much to do over this one. Basically its never a good idea to put more then more application in a group. You can put MSDTC in the Cluster group if you really don't use MSDTC.

What uses MSDTC? SQL Server may have applications that use it. Exchange Server 2003 needs MSDTC to install.

Free Demo, MAC, Exchange, SMS, Live Meeting...

Free or Discounted:

Way COOL!

Microsoft has hands on lab and a virtual Server environment for YOU to play with for free. Yes, you read it correctly, play with MOM, MIIS, AD, 2003, Exchange, ISA 2004, Security and more for an hour at a time. Makes a great lunch hour : Check it out here:

https://microsoft.demoservers.com/OperationalEfficiency/

Step-by-Steps:

Training on IE, Outlook, Windows, and Word (various versions)

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=ffd66071-99cf-494d-844b-c03b35874a9a&displaylang=en

Vue Testing at a %25 discount:

www.vue.com and use this code MSUU4C7E638B (its good pretty much forever).

MAC:

Can iMac users really be this dense? How to pick up and carry your iMac G5:

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=86816

Exchange:

Configure IMF gateway settings per server?

http://blogs.msdn.com/evand/archive/2004/09/05/225916.aspx

Exchange Server 2003 SP1 Recover Mailbox Data Feature

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/exchange/2003/rmd.mspx

FreeDocs in OWA 2003, better then Sharepoint or just different?

http://www.msexchange.org/tutorials/Enabling-Freedocs-access-OWA2003.html

SMS:

Microsoft Systems Management Server 2003 Deployment Readiness Wizard (DRW) Procedures for Resolving Test Failures (White Paper)

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=5e6d85ea-b1f7-4fe3-bffe-1d72bc2d6ba8&displaylang=en

Tools:

Port Reporter (PortRptr.exe). I love this tools, it easy to use and works with most current versions of Windows.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=69ba779b-bae9-4243-b9d6-63e62b4bcd2e&displaylang=en

Live Meeting:

Live Meeting 4.x Add-In for Microsoft PowerPoint

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=0d39e68f-cc1a-4388-ab50-0a7a380f321c&displaylang=en

Oh, and welcome back to work J