The Configuration Manager 2007 Help File Update Wizard can be used to update the locally installed help file used by the Configuration Manager console or to install a stand-alone version of the latest available Configuration Manager 2007 Documentation...
This download consists of a Hyper-V-based virtual hard disk image that contains a pre-installed demonstration version of Microsoft® Forefront (TM) Identity Manager (FIM) 2010 RC1. The image includes all components needed to experience the full...
One of my friends sends an email message to me telling me about their great new job and letting me know that they have a new email address. I dutifully update my Outlook Address book and fix the address.
Five unanswered emails later, I realize that I have been sending email to the WRONG email address. Even though I fixed my Outlook Address book, the Outlook Most Recently Used (MRU) list still has the OLD email address. What's to be done?
Then Beth Massi shared with me an Outlook tip that I want to pass along: You can delete items from the MRU in Outlook!
Say I am typing in John's name:
If I am not watching closely, I will send it to the wrong address again (nowhere.com).
To prevent this mistake:
- Highlight the incorrect address.
- Press the Del key.
The unwanted MRU entry is then deleted.
Enjoy!
The only updates at this time that get installed when you say 'yes' do that update screen as SBS 2008 gets installed are security updates. There are no installer updates offered up at this time. There are no installer only updates that I've seen period.
If there were such updates, I'd tell you to say yes to that window. But there is none at this time. And in fact in the release notes, there's a known issue where you'll get a bogus error message at the end of the install due to the fact that it couldn't properly get patches installed during that process.
So let's review why I say no:
1. There are no installer fixes included (at least at this time)
2. They are only security patches.
3. They take a long time to download.
4. They introduce risk during a time that you need to reduce risk.
On the Get important updates page of the Install Windows Small Business Server 2008 Wizard, if you choose Go online and get the most recent installation updates (recommended) and then click Next, the Installation finished page appears and informs you that the wizard encountered some non-critical issues. If you click View installation issues, the wizard displays the error “One or more updates cannot be installed.”
To resolve this issue, make sure that the server is connected to the Internet, and then do one of the following:
· Download software updates immediately
· Configure software update settings to approve updates automatically
To connect to the Internet
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1. Open the Windows SBS Console.
2. On the Home page, click Connect to the Internet.
3. Follow the instructions in the wizard.
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To download updates immediately
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1. Click Start, point to All Programs, and then click either Windows Update or Microsoft Update.
2. Follow the onscreen instructions to download and install the available updates.
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To configure software update settings
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1. Open the Windows SBS Console.
2. On the navigation bar, click Security.
3. Click the Updates tab, and then, in the task pane, click Change the software update settings.
4. On the Server Updates and Client Updates tabs, choose from the following four update options:
· High. All updates and service packs are automatically approved for installation.
· Medium. All security, critical, and definition updates are automatically approved for installation.
· Low. All security and definition updates are automatically approved for installation.
· None. No updates are automatically approved for installation.
5. On the Schedule tab, choose how and when to update your servers and client computers.
6. On the Included Computers tab, choose the computer names and update groups that you want to include in updates. You can also change the update group to which individual computers belong.
7. Click OK to apply the changes.
8. To synchronize your software update settings immediately, in the tasks pane of the Windows SBS Console Updates tab, click Synchronize now.
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I wasn’t particularly happy with the script for getting change events on the filesystemwatcher we discussed last time. As a quick recap we ended up with this
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| Get-Event -SourceIdentifier "File System Changed" | where {($_.EventIdentifier % 2) -eq 1} | foreach {
"{0}, {1}, {2}" -f $_.SourceIdentifier, $_.SourceEventArgs.FullPath, $_.TimeGenerated
} |
Which depends on the correct identification of the order in which events are issued. That seemed like too much manual intervention. It was too late last night to solve so I had another look today and came up with this
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| Get-Event -SourceIdentifier "File System Changed" | Group TimeGenerated | where {$_.Count-eq 2} |
foreach {$time = $_.Name; Get-Event | where {$_.TimeGenerated.ToString() -eq $time}| select -First 1} |
use get-event with the correct source identifier. We then group on timegenerated. File Changes will generate two change records per event so we select where the count is 2. Pass those into a foreach and retrieve the events matching that time. We select the first one of each pair to only access a single record. One neat line of PowerShell does it all.
Operations Manager se met au 'Green Computing'.
Microsoft a publié un pack d'administration 'Power zgManagement Pack' pour Windows Server 2008 R2. L'objectif est de donner de la visibilité sur la consommation énergétique des serveurs.
Ce pack d'administration est destiné à Windows Server 2008 R2 et nécessite Operations Manager 2007 R2.
Téléchargement : Windows Power Management Pack for System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 v 6.0.6735.0.
After a boring cab drive to the airport, I had an even more boring flight to Berlin. And that is exactly how I want all my flights to be. I don’t want it to be the thrilling and exciting near-death experience I had once, flying to Nice.
I arrived in Berlin safe and sound, and took a cab to the hotel. Sadly, the hotel is not near the conference center, on account of there not being any hotels nearby. The hotel is 2 short train rides away. It’s really easy to find. And of course, to those that know me it will come as no surprise that it took several tries for me to arrive at he correct location.
What sucks most is that a) my flight got rescheduled sometime ago (leaving 1 hour later than expected), delayed for half an hour, and the event agenda got re-shuffled since I booked. As a result, I missed 2 sessions. Because for some silly reason, someone decided that the keynote should be at the end of the day instead of the beginning.
Had I known this in advance, I’d have left for Berlin yesterday. I didn’t because I wanted an extra day with my wife and kids. Ironic, since they weren’t at home yesterday due to unforeseen circumstances. Next time I’ll just leave on Sunday, taking some extra time to travel.
Whatever. I am typing this while the keynote speech is starting. It’ll probably be an hour and a half filled with mind numbing explanations of why Microsoft technology is the greatest on earth.
I have to say I preferred Barcelona as the venue for tech-ed, for a number of reasons:
1) Walking down the street in November. Berlin: 5 degrees Celsius and rain. Barcelona: 20 degrees Celsius and cloudless skies.
2) Crossing the street from the hotel and being at the event in less than 2 minutes.
3) The venue itself. The messe is a complex of industrial looking buildings, with concrete, asphalt, etc, rather than the aesthetically pleasant looking ICC in Barcelona.
4) additionally, the idea of having 1 big event for developers and IT professionals is less than stellar. Because now, there are only half as much developer sessions as there used to be in Barcelona. Only 1 real C++ session, no large selection of .NET and C# and SQL Server sessions...
Still, I’ve had my first coffee of the day and I am starting to get a feel for the place. Tech-ed is still a good place to be. And if my knowledge of German cuisine is still accurate, the food will be good, plenty, and NOT drowned in olive oil.
CLI324: Windows ‘Lucky’ 7
This session was hosted by Mark Minasi
It was a good session, and basically enumerated the features of 7 that are either new, or changed from Vista or XP.
Mark is a great speaker, and managed to make the time fly while discussing the topics. It was not in depth so I am not going to repeat too much of it here. The things that got me interested most are the ability to image disks into files, like VMWare virtual disks. These disks can be shared, backed up and mounted. Very exiting stuff that would make my life easier, if we ever get to the point where we will actually use 7.
Other cool features are the ability to deploy to USB media, which would presumably allow me to boot from USB disk, as well as the ability to easily perform preconfigured installs.
When talking about Vista and how 7 compares to it, Mark mentioned that one Microsoft developer said ‘We are going to throw Vista under the bus’, comparing it with Windows Miserable Edition. Interestingly, In terms of raw speed, 7 is really not that much better. But when it comes to perceived speed, 7 is the clear winner due to being more responsive, and getting less in the way of what the user wants to do.
The talk was great, and the speaker connected well with the audience.
Sadly, this was the only technical session I will see today. As luck would have it, there is only 1 C++ talk this tech-ed, and I missed it. At least they could have scheduled some boring IT talks in the first 2 sessions but alas.
The actual keynote
The keynote itself so far has the hallmarks or every other keynote I’ve seen so far. A couple of tech delegates got singled out for public humiliation while a couple of IT bigwigs (presumably million dollar customers) sat on stage explaining how good their infrastructure is and how Microsoft helped them to enable it.
Bla bla bla snore.
I don’t want to sound jaded here, or un-appreciative of the fact that my company is letting me attend this event (I am really grateful), but keynote speeches tend to be hype and blubber, void of tech content and generally a waste of time. What was even worse about this keynote is that they didn’t show off anything related to Visual Studio 10. Instead, they demoed Server 2008 Hypervisor and Exchange 2010.
That said, it is interesting to a developer like me that with the newest release of 2008R2 and the System Management Center software, detailed knowledge and understanding of the low level OS guts are no longer absolutely necessary. Between the 2 of them, those applications let admins manage their infrastructure with only a modicum of nitty gritty knowledge. The software goes out of its way to be user friendly.
That is not a bad thing. It just feels weird that you can administer a complex system without having to troll through log files, understand dcom security configuration, and other arcane things.
At least tomorrow I’ll be able to dive deep in technical content, and hopefully start my day with bacon and coffee. At least 2 plates of the former and 2 big cups of the latter.
Wrap-up day 1
The travel was good, the weather not so much.
The windows 7 presentation was good, the keynote not so much.
I had a very good pizza in an Italian restaurant, for only 7 euros. Dirt cheap.
I am now making a schedule of which sessions I want to see, and when to see them. Some of the sessions I’d like to see are scheduled in the same slot, but some of them get repeated throughout the week so I can probably schedule my attendance so that I can see most of the people I want to see.
Forefront Protection 2010 for Exchange Server Management Pack for System Center Operations Manager 2007 v11.0.0324.00 is available to download.
Brief Description
The Management Pack for Forefront Protection 2010 for Exchange Server monitors the availability, security, configuration and performance of an FPE deployment.
Overview
The Management Pack for Forefront Protection 2010 for Exchange Server (FPE) allows you to discover FPE installations and components and to monitor them within System Center Operations Manager 2007. When there is an issue that may impact the availability, configuration, or security of your FPE deployment, Operations Manager uses the management pack to detect the issue, alert you to its existence, and facilitate diagnosis and corrective actions.
Feature Summary:
- Support for Forefront Protection 2010 for Exchange Server (FPE)
- Discovery and monitoring of key FPE services
- Monitoring of product license status
- Monitoring of the availability and configuration of scan jobs
- Monitoring of scan engine and definition updates
- Diagnostic and recovery tasks related to engine updates and service recycling
- Performance views of message scanning rate across scan jobs
- Discovery and monitoring of FPE running with an Exchange CCR cluster
Bonsoir tout le monde,
Etre attentif à ce que votre enfant peut découvrir sur le web est indispensable pour qu'internet reste une source de savoir et de loisirs sûre.
C'est la nouvelle campagne de Microsoft qui nous est proposée au travers d'un parcours personnalisé en 3 étapes afin d'y voir plus clair sur les risques encourus par votre enfant.
Des conseils, des outils. C'est ici...
Bonne soirée.
Patrice.
The Exchange Server 2007 Management Pack for System Center Operations Manager 2007 SP1 v6.0.6741.0 is now available to download.
Brief Description
This Management Pack includes an extensive set of monitoring including synthetic transactions to effectively monitor Exchange 2007 and report on performance, availability, and reliability of its server roles.
Overview
The Exchange Server 2007 Management Pack for Operations Manager 2007 SP1 is designed to monitor Exchange 2007 key health indicators, collect Exchange component-specific performance counters in one central location, and raise alerts for operator intervention as necessary. By detecting, sending alerts, and automatically responding to critical events, this Management Pack helps indicate, correct, and prevent possible service outages or configuration problems, allowing you to proactively manage Exchange servers and identify issues before they become critical. The Management Pack monitors and provides alerts for automatic notification of events indicating service outages, performance degradation, health monitoring, and centralized management.
This Management Pack requires Operations Manager 2007 SP1 or later. Note that there is a separate Management Pack for Exchange 2007 monitoring for Operations Manager 2007 R2.
Feature Summary
- A number of synthetic transactions ensure the Exchange servers are available and responding in a timely manner. The synthetic transactions are maintenance-mode aware, so that if the target of a transaction is in maintenance mode, the source will not run the transaction, and not alert unnecessarily.
- A significant number of rules and monitors that are not actionable or may be noisy are disabled. Note that many of these rules are still in the Management Pack so that you can enable them if necessary.
- Support for monitoring any number of Exchange organizations using a single Operations Manager 2007 management group.
- Full support for Microsoft clustered configurations. For more details, see the Management Pack Guide.
- Discovery of Exchange 2007 server roles is disabled by default, and no Exchange 2007 monitoring is applied by default. This allows you to discover and monitor your servers gradually, as well as tune the Management Pack as you bring more agent-managed Exchange 2007 servers into the Operations Manager environment.
Release History - 11/7/2009 - Original release of English version, version 6.0.6741.0
In an uncertain economy, IT departments can count on two very certain demands: increase productivity and cut costs. When it comes to service management, CFOs, CIOs, and IT managers face the difficult challenge of developing a strategy that is tightly...
Malwarebytes burst the bubble this week and came out accusing IObit of copying their database, thus providing through their IObit Security 360 product the same protection as Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware. The copyright infringement implications led to DMCA serving of the latter to a number of software download websites in US.
Both security vendors have engaged in a war of statements on their respective blogs, stirring up heated discussions among users on their forums. Speculations have been made, opinions expressed, but no official answer to clear all haze has been given. We tried to learn about the sparks that lit the scandal and the elements fueling it.
Before we begin, we'd like to note that, in order to be fair and give everyone involved a chance to express their point of view, we also sent a set of questions to IObit for a similar interview. We have received a short response from one of the company's representatives, making it clear that the vendor had more important software development-related tasks on hand than to continue responding to Malwarebytes' accusations.
From the reply we got, we conclude that IObit's position regarding this issue remains unchanged. The company describes Malwarebytes' claims as mere rumors and its actions as unwarranted attacks.
On the matter of other antivirus vendors possibly making similar accusations in the future as a result of this incident, the IObit spokesperson stressed that the company did not steal signatures from anyone and noted that everyone was encouraged to test their database.
Continue reading in http://news.softpedia.com/news/Malwarebytes-Accuses-IObit-Plays-Dead-126389.shtml
Hat tip: Randy
Enfim estou aqui para comentar o sucesso do Techday 2009 em São Paulo, evento gratuito para profissionais de infraestrutura e desenvolvimento realizado na UNIP entre os dias 03 e 06/11/2009 pelas comunidades MCP Brasil, Canal System Center, Codificando e WinSec. Como representante da comunidade Canal System Center eu quero agradecer ao Vitor Nakano que foi o principal meio para que este evento acontecesse.
Em 4 dias tivemos cerca de 700 visitantes, entre comunidade e alunos da UNIP, estamos satisfeitos com o resultado e já paramos para pensar na próxima data do evento. Por enquanto fiquem com as fotos desta última edição:
Meu muito obrigado para todos os palestrantes, convidados, presentes, influenciadores e aos coordenadores da UNIP Anchieta.
Obrigado pela leitura e até a próxima publicação,
Abraços.
Cleber Marques
Microsoft MVP & MCT | Charter Member: SCVMM & MDOP
Projeto MOF Brasil: Simplificando o Gerenciamento de Serviços de TI
Meu Blog | MOF.com.br | CleberMarques.com | CanalSystemCenter.com.br
Here's a quick tip--if your Silverlight 3 DataForm is not dsplaying an Edit Pencil in the upper right corner, set the DataForm's AutoEdit to false (or if using the Visual Studio or Expression Blend IDE, uncheck the AutoEdit checkbox).
Best Regards,
Kevin McNeish
INETA Speaker
Chief Architect MM .NET Application Framework
www.oakleafsd.com
I just moved my blog to http://interop.blog.de. Please visit me there...
Mein Blog ist umgezogen auf http://interop.blog.de. Dort geht's weiter.
You may see a number of videos and sample code for Silverlight 3 that uses the Bindable attribute to specifying editing features of an entity property when working with the Silverlight DataForm control. However, the Bindable attribute (as well as the System.ComponentModel assembly) were removed from Silverlight with the Silverlight 3 RTM.
Now, if you want to specify if an entity property you are binding to should be readonly, set its Editable attribute like this:
[
Editable(false)]
public DateTime BirthDate { get; set; }
If you want to specify that a user interface control should not be automatically generated for a particular entity property, set its Display attribute like this:
[
Display(AutoGenerateField=false)]
public int EmployeeID { get; set; }
Best Regards,
Kevin McNeish
Chief Architect, MM .NET Application Framework
Oak Leaf Enterprises, Inc.
www.oakleafsd.com
Hi folks,
Exchange Server 2010 RTM has just been released for download at Microsoft download site.
Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 helps IT Professionals achieve new levels of reliability with greater flexibility, enhanced user experiences, and increased protection for business communications.
- Flexible and reliable - Exchange Server 2010 gives you the flexibility to tailor your deployment based on your company's unique needs and a simplified way to keep e-mail continuously available for your users.
- Anywhere access - Exchange Server 2010 helps your users get more done by giving them the freedom to securely access all their communications - e-mail, voice mail, instant messaging, and more - from virtually any platform, Web browser, or device.
- Protection and compliance - Exchange Server 2010 delivers integrated information loss prevention, and compliance tools aimed at helping you simplify the process of protecting your company's communications and meeting regulatory requirements.
This software is intended for evaluation purposes only. You must accept the license terms before you are authorized to use the software. There is no product support for this trial software. You are welcome to participate in the forums to share your trial experiences with others and to ask for advice.
Get it here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=05741f65-2a7b-4070-879f-d74208d6171d&displaylang=en&Hash=p7EU0gyhY4DEbH1Kipa3uP2uqNEJBU6x8oXNokye62E1aoNzVuAdGKn5z%2bpQxA0UMZ9tlXMiGQL%2bhmwYy1%2btbA%3d%3d
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I just wanted to post up some quick thankyous relating to our event last Friday: First to all of those that took time out of their day/ schedules. It was great to see so many people there, talk to many new faces and some regulars as well. Second to Inframon...
Well, this really doesn’t deserve any special attention. Ok, let me put it another way: there’s a lot of work going on behind the scenes, but you shouldn’t have to worry with any of it.
I’ve thought about writing a post on the objects that end up being used by the AdoNetDataContext to propagate changes back to the server, but after some thought, I’ve give up on that idea because I’m not seeing anyone use any of these classes directly (yes, the AdoNetDataContext should do it all for you).
And that’s why I’m wrapping up this series on MS AJAX preview 6. I hope you’ve enjoyed it as much as did…Now, I do need to find another topic to keep me busy looking at new stuff…any ideas?
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