Michael Niehaus at myITForum.com

Congratulations to this year's MVPs

The full list of Microsoft MVPs was posted today at http://www.microsoft.com/communities/MVP/MVP.mspx.  There are some familiar names in this year's list:

Ed Aldrich
Larry Duncan
John Hann
Cliff Hobbs
Benoit Lanlard
Rory McCaw
Brian Rogers
Richard Threlkeld
Rod Trent

Congratulations to all.

A source for Q&A on USMT 2.6

If you have started working with USMT 2.6 to migrate user settings and personality and have questions, you may want to check out the http://www.usmt26.com web site.  This new site is operated by some of the developers who worked on USMT 2.6.  Since it is a new site, there's not much there yet, but be sure to post questions to the forums.

RSS access to newsgroups via Google

Can't get enough about SMS?  Addicted to RSS feeds?  Well, you can satify both needs using Google's RSS feeds for newsgroups.  For example, the following URL is the feed for the “microsoft.public.sms.tools“ newsgroup:

http://groups-beta.google.com/group/microsoft.public.sms.tools/feed/msgs.xml

For other groups, substitute the group name in the above URL, set up the feeds using your favorite RSS reader, and you're set.

Curious about what newsgroups are out there?  Here are a few that may be of interest:

microsoft.public.sms.admin
microsoft.public.sms.installer
microsoft.public.sms.inventory
microsoft.public.sms.misc
microsoft.public.sms.setup
microsoft.public.sms.sitecomm
microsoft.public.sms.software_updates
microsoft.public.sms.swdist
microsoft.public.sms.tools

There are also some foreign language groups:

microsoft.public.de.sms (German)
microsoft.public.fr.sms (French)
microsoft.public.nl.sms (Dutch, I think)
microsoft.public.tr.sms (Turkish)

Many of the people responding to questions in these newsgroups are from the SMS product team: developers, testers, etc.