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• myITforum Daily Newsletter; September 28, 2006

  myITforum Daily Newsletter Daily Newsletter September 28, 2006 The myITforum.com newsletter is delivered Monday-Friday. If you desire to remove yourself from receiving the daily newsletter, see the removal instructions at the bottom of this issue. In this issue, you'll read: The myITforum.com Newsletter is sponsored by 1E: Community Notes myITforum Site Sponsorship Today's Articles 1E - Intelligent Windows Management Today in the Forums Today's Site Downloads Today's Web blog Posts Today's Recent FAQ Items Today's Industry News Today's Job Postings Today's Fun Click The myITforum.com Newsletter is sponsored by 1E: Back to top Community Notes You folks are slowing down on me... Thanks to everyone who has participated in the new FAQ system beta! But, we need more activity. There are a handful of new FAQ items today, shown in the newsletter section. Keep plugging away folks: http://www.myitforum.com/faqs/afmmain.aspx Another, cool thing of note is that we've had an individual sign-on as the expert for Windows Scripting for the new FAQ system. Watch for more information on this. Receive the full myITforum.com Daily Newsletter in your favorite RSS Reader: myITforum.com Daily Newsletter RSS Feed Back to top myITforum Site Sponsorship Read about our sponsors: http://www.myitforum.com/sponsors.asp Back to top Today's Articles SMS 2003, Patch Management Cleaning Out Old ITMU Software Updates by Greg Smith - 9/28/2006 Over time, ITMU-based update packages tend to get bigger and bigger. Here's a handy way to automate the burden of cleaning out the orphaned updates created by superseded security bulletins. Scripting, SMS 2003 By Request Connecting Vbs To An SMS Site Server by Don Hite - 9/28/2006 There are several different ways to connect to an SMS site server using Vbs. Windows Operating System Error Codes by Don Hite - 9/28/2006 Here is a complied list by error code numbers in numeric order of Microsoft operating system error codes in an Excel spreadsheet that you can download to have the list available when need more information about a particular error code. Back to top 1E - Intelligent Windows Management Back to top Today in the Forums SMS 2003 RE: Question about HW Inventory - Add/Remove programs report is missing some updates MOM RE: MOM Notification Workflow Solution Accelerator by Pete Zerger Breaking Virus & Security News RE: New Office and PPT vulnerability & Exploit SMS 2003 Desired Configuration Monitoring (DCM) RE: SMS 2003 DCM Links and Information General Scripting RE: find folder Web Reporting RE: Help creating a report Read the myITforum.com forum posts in your favorite RSS reader using this feed: The myITforum.com forums RSS Feed Back to top Today's Site Downloads No download today If you have scripts, programs, or documents that you have created that you would like to share with your community, upload them today: http://www.myitforum.com/downloads/upload.asp For more information on how to upload, see the following link: http://myitforum.com/cs2/blogs/rtrent/archive/2006/06/24/21490.aspx Back to top Today's Web blog Posts US-CERT Current Activity - Public Exploit Code for Microsoft WebViewFolderIcon ActiveX Control Vulnerability Public Exploit Code for Microsoft WebViewFolderIcon ActiveX Control Vulnerability added September 27, 2006 We are aware of publicly available exploit code for a new, unpatched vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer. The exploit code targets a vulnerability... Read more... Altiris Real-Time System Management 6.2 Hits beta Contact your Altiris representative if you want to be included in this beta. Read more... Read posts from the myITforum.com bloggers using the RSS Feed: The myITforum.com Bloggers RSS Feed Back to top Today's Recent FAQ Items Has anyone noticed that Powershell is not in Vista RC1? Will Microsoft ever offer a HelpDesk type of application for their management products? Does anyone know anything further about this error (0x80041010) and if/how it can be avoided or if I should even be concerned? SMS MP does not install. Are there any "best practices" for running ITMU? Ask your own questions and get answers from myITforum.com experts in the myITforum.com FAQ System. Read the latest FAQ items in your favorite RSS Reader using the following feed: myITforum.com's FAQ System RSS Feed Back to top Today's Industry News New gadgets displayed at DEMOfall show (AP) AP - The best technology is often invisible because it's working efficiently in the background. Fun technology, however, is usually the stuff you can touch and feel. And when it talks and twirls, that's even better. Apple quick with bug fix for latest iTunes - iTWire 123Macmini.com Apple quick with bug fix for latest iTunes iTWire - 49 minutes ago When Apple released iTunes 7.0 a week ago CEO Steve Jobs dubbed it the most significant update of the software so far. It seems to have lived up to that claim, but for the... Intel Touts Quad-Core Advantages - PC Magazine FinFacts Ireland Intel Touts Quad-Core Advantages PC Magazine - 23 minutes ago SAN FRANCISCO—Intel says that, no matter how you slice it, four processors cores are better than two. Intel executives laid out their strategy for migrating from dual-core... Sling Media announces 3 new Slingbox units - ZDNet New York Times Sling Media announces 3 new Slingbox units ZDNet - 1 hour ago I am having a great time at Mobius 2006 here in Boston and listened to Brian tell us that Sling Media will be announcing 3 new devices today. Slingbox gets new siblings CNET... Vodafone launches own-brand low-cost 3G mobile handsets (AFP) AFP - British mobile phone giant Vodafone has launched its first self-branded low-cost third generation (3G) mobile handsets which will be rolled out in Europe from October. Microsoft in the Leaders Quadrant for 2006 E-Mail Security Boundary Magic Quadrant Evaluation based on completeness of vision and ability to execute. Microsoft Corp. is positioned in the “Leaders” quadrant of the 2006 E-Mail Security Boundary Magic Quadrant, published this week by Gartner, Inc. The report evaluates services and products... Microsoft Announces Public Beta Release of System Center Data Protection Manager Version 2 DPM version 2 sets a new standard in Windows continuous data protection. Microsoft Corp. today announced the public beta release of the Microsoft ® System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM) version 2 at the Storage Decisions conference in New York. Intel: Processors to perform 300 percent better by 2010 (Macworld.com) Macworld.com - Speaking at the Intel Developer Forum Wednesday, Intel president and CEO Paul Otellini announced the development of 15 products built on its 45nm silicon manufacturing technology and showcased the experimental 300mm chip. HP used phishing-style e-mail, tracing software to track down leaks (USATODAY.com) USATODAY.com - SAN FRANCISCO - In snooping on a reporter to pinpoint internal news leaks, Hewlett-Packard used high-tech tools common to spammers, phishers, retailers, suspicious employers and investigators. Those tools, including phishing-style e-mail... European rivals turn wary eye on Microsoft - CNET News.com Earthtimes.org European rivals turn wary eye on Microsoft CNET News.com - 2 hours ago With Netscape's fate in mind, small European security firms are trying to gauge Microsoft's impact on their business. European security software makers are closely... HP CEO: Pretexting probe a ‘rogue’ investigation macworld.com “Hewlett-Packard chief executive officer Mark Hurd blamed the scandal that has besieged his company on “a rogue investigation” that got out of hand, in an advance copy of his Congressional testimony released by a House Subcommittee... Lawsuit against AOL threatens search engine cookie store business.guardian.co.uk “AOL is being sued by three American users after details of their internet searches were made available by the US web firm this year. The lawsuit also demands that the company stop maintaining records of what users are looking... Want to read the daily industry news in an RSS feed? Subscribe here: myITforum.com's Daily Industry News Feed Back to top Today's Job Postings Information Security & Business Continuity Analyst - Falls Church, VA Mitretek Systems www.mitretek.org Sr. Internal Info Sys Staff Location: Falls Church, VA Job Code: M160-1670 Responsibilities: The Information Security & Business Continuity Analyst develops and implements Information Systems security, including risk... Director of Business Intelligence - Atlanta The Experience… We aspire to be the best place you have ever worked. If you are passionate about serving others with your talents and if personal growth and career development are important to you, then Intellinet is the place for you to build... BI Consultant for Atlanta The Experience… We aspire to be the best place you have ever worked. If you are passionate about serving others with your talents and if personal growth and career development are important to you, then Intellinet is the place for you to build... SMS Admin NYC Please mention the post when speaking with the recruiter. SMS Engineer Full-time direct-hire, Fortune 1000 company, downtown NYC, ~$85K + bonus. Skills: SMS 2003/2.0; SMS web reports; AD; patch deployment & management; Wise. Michael Milia Xtreme Technologies Windows SMS Admin Will move Very Quick Exclusive! Sacramento, CA SMS Administrator --Will Interview and Hire ASAP! Sacramento, CA. If not interested but refer someone who ends ug getting the job we will give youa $300 referral fee! We are looking for an Microsoft Systems Management Server 2003 (SMS 2003) technical... Receive information about new job postings in your favorite RSS Reader by using the following link: myITforum.com's Job Postings RSS Feed Back to top Today's Fun Click Fall Classes For Men Back to top To remove yourself from this mailing list, click here. Login with your myITforum.com ID, and change your newsletter settings in your myITforum profile. 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• myITforum Daily Newsletter; September 27, 2006

  myITforum Daily Newsletter Daily Newsletter September 27, 2006 The myITforum.com newsletter is delivered Monday-Friday. If you desire to remove yourself from receiving the daily newsletter, see the removal instructions at the bottom of this issue. In this issue, you'll read: The myITforum.com Newsletter is sponsored by 1E: Community Notes myITforum Site Sponsorship Today's Articles 1E - Intelligent Windows Management Today in the Forums Today's Site Downloads Today's Web blog Posts Today's Recent FAQ Items Today's Industry News Today's Job Postings Today's Fun Click Grab the myITforum.com Feeds! The myITforum.com Newsletter is sponsored by 1E: Back to top Community Notes The myITforum.com FAQ System is a HIT! Thanks to everyone who has participated so far! When you look at the new FAQ items in today's newsletter, you'll see what I'm talking about. There's a stack of new FAQ items for you to peruse. Don't forget, we're still in beta and you can help. Drop by the FAQ and ask away: http://www.myitforum.com/faqs/afmmain.aspx You can also grab the RSS feed to the new FAQ to know when new FAQ items are added or old one's are updated: RSS Feed Receive the full myITforum.com Daily Newsletter in your favorite RSS Reader: myITforum.com Daily Newsletter RSS Feed Back to top myITforum Site Sponsorship Read about our sponsors: http://www.myitforum.com/sponsors.asp Back to top Today's Articles SMS 2003, Patch Management The final word on the ITMU 100% CPU issue? by Rod Trent - 9/27/2006 This is from a thread posted to the SMS email discussion list. Scripting, Windows Windows PowerShell RC2 Now Available by Rod Trent - 9/27/2006 Microsoft announces the availability of Microsoft Windows PowerShell RC2, the command line shell and scripting language that helps IT Professionals achieve greater productivity and control of system administration. Windows Mobile CE 6.0 Virtual Launch Event by John Gormly - 9/27/2006 Register today for your chance to win one of six Alpine Blackbird handheld GPS devices. Winners will be selected during the LIVE keynote, broadcast on November 1, 2006 at 8:00am PST. Security, Patch Management, Web Technologies MS06-055: Internet Explorer Patch released out-of-cycle by Harry Waldron - 9/27/2006 Microsoft has released a very important out-of-cycle update for IE 5 and 6 users. All Windows users should check for updates. Back to top 1E - Intelligent Windows Management Back to top Today in the Forums SMS 2003 Desired Configuration Monitoring (DCM) Error on package distribution SMS 2003 RE: Latency & replication Microsoft Office RE: Administrative Office 2003 update does not update mso.dll Active Directory and Group Policy RE: AD Shared Folders MOM MOM Notification Workflow Solution Accelerator by Pete Zerger Breaking Virus & Security News RE: Stration Worm myITforum Bar-and-Grill RE: What you think about this IQ test? Read the myITforum.com forum posts in your favorite RSS reader using this feed: The myITforum.com forums RSS Feed Back to top Today's Site Downloads No download today If you have scripts, programs, or documents that you have created that you would like to share with your community, upload them today: http://www.myitforum.com/downloads/upload.asp For more information on how to upload, see the following link: http://myitforum.com/cs2/blogs/rtrent/archive/2006/06/24/21490.aspx Back to top Today's Web blog Posts VML vulnerability fix released! Microsoft Security Bulletin MS06-055 Vulnerability in Vector Markup Language Could Allow Remote Code Execution (925486) Published: September 26, 2006 Read more... It's cool to get noticed by a worthy org... I received this email today, and wanted to pass along so you, too, can get involved: I came across your posting about "Leaving Microsoft to Change the World" on myitforum.com/cs2/blogs/rtrent, and wanted to pass along thanks from the team here at Room... Read more... Read posts from the myITforum.com bloggers using the RSS Feed: The myITforum.com Bloggers RSS Feed Back to top Today's Recent FAQ Items What books are currently available for MOM 2005? Where can I find the latest Management Packs that are available for Microsoft Operations Manager? Has the ITMU pegging 100% CPU issue been fixed yet? What books are currently available covering SMS 2003? Is there a recent comparison between SMS 2003 and Altiris? Where can I get the SMS NetCrawler Collections from (they are mentioned in the NetCrawler helpfile)? Where can I find the latest version of the Netcrawler tool? What is the Enhanced System Discovery for SMS 2003 or SMS 2.0, and where can I download it from? What is the Enhanced AD User Discovery for SMS 2003 or SMS 2.0, and where can I find it? Where can I download the latest Security Logon Audit Tool aka SLAT for SMS 2.0 and 2003? I'm looking for a guide to start using ITMU from SMS SP2. Does anyone know of good documentation with information for a beginner? Is anyone aware of any changes to remote.exe as part of the SMS 2003 SP2 upgrade? What is the correct, Microsoft approved, way to repair WMI on Windows 2000 and Windows XP? Are there any utilities to diagnose WMI problems? How can I become a myITforum.com columnist? Is there a standard myITforum.com PowerPoint template? How do I get my own Blog? Where can I download the latest version of KiXtart? As a myITforum.com columnist, how do I add tables to my articles? How do I unsubscribe from the myITforum.com Daily Newsletter? As a myITforum.com columnist, the images I upload seem to appear cut-off when displaying in Preview mode. How do I fix this? What is 'UBB code' that is used for submitting articles on myITforum.com? How do I stop receiving emails from posts to the myITforum.com web-based forums? How do I reset the myITforum.com Cookie installed on my computer? Ask your own questions and get answers from myITforum.com experts in the myITforum.com FAQ System. Read the latest FAQ items in your favorite RSS Reader using the following feed: myITforum.com's FAQ System RSS Feed Back to top Today's Industry News The business of network behavior analysis When it comes to network security, what you don’t know can definitely hurt you. BlueNote merges VoIP with Web services BlueNote Networks this week has launched a version of its IP telephony and voice application development package that enables customers to weave Web services into their voice networks. Companies tap cell phones for podcasts (AP) AP - Many people are just getting used to snapping pictures, listening to music, watching videos, sending text messages and getting e-mails over their cell phones. It turns out the phones can handle much more. Windows Deployment Services - get the inside scoop on October 19th In my previous posts I have mentioned that the next generation of Remote Installation Services (RIS) is call Windows Deployment Services (WDS) - an imaged based deployment solution that will be implemented in Windows Server 2003 SP2 and Windows Server... Intel: Quad-Core Is Just the Beginning pcmag.com “SAN FRANCISCO—Quad-core processors are only the beginning of what a revitalized Intel has to offer, the company’s top executives said here Sept. 26. …The quad-core chips themselves will offer up to 70 percent greater performance... Credit firms push to thwart fraud post-gazette.com “MasterCard Inc. and Visa USA Inc. are clamping down on merchants that flout rules aimed at protecting card transactions from fraudsters. In recent weeks, MasterCard has imposed fines on merchants that haven’t met its requirements... Telecoms feel the pretexting heat news.com.com “…A CNET News.com e-mail survey of nine major mobile and landline providers showed that only two, Qwest and Sprint Nextel, would answer a list of questions in order to let customers evaluate the effectiveness of the security measures... Mount ISOs in Vista? Daemon Tools is a "standard-issue" tool that a lot of people use to mount ISO images onto their machines. The download versions that have been available in the past have not worked on Windows Vista. I just noticed last night that the Daemon Tools website... Warner won't let GOP add causes to bill (AP) AP - Republican leaders in the House and Senate were blocked Wednesday by a senior GOP senator in their efforts to add immigration, handgun and Internet gambling measures to a defense bill. Microsoft offers Explorer patch ahead of schedule - Reuters Playfuls.com Microsoft offers Explorer patch ahead of schedule Reuters - 54 minutes ago Microsoft Corp. on Tuesday released a security patch to fix a "critical" hole in its Internet Explorer Web browser that the world's biggest software... Online gambling bill hits snags in Congress (Reuters) Reuters - Efforts to win U.S. congressional passage of a bill to ban most forms of Internet gambling by tacking it onto a must-pass bill hit a roadblock on Tuesday, but aides said Republican backers were exploring other ways to make it law. New York Times Reader I posted in June about the wonderful New York Times reader application, written entirely in WPF. I'm delighted that this is now available for public download . Scott Hanselman calls it WPF's first killer app . Ryan Stewart from ZDNet says it shows off... Google says ISP resolved access problems (AP) AP - Google services were slow or inaccessible to some users of a single Internet service provider Tuesday, the company said. Sophos warns of unofficial IE patch clash vnunet.com “Applying third-party patches to plug a gap before a vendor fixes its software could cause more problems than it solves, a security vendor has warned. “It may cause more conflicts further along the line because it is unpredictable... Want to read the daily industry news in an RSS feed? Subscribe here: myITforum.com's Daily Industry News Feed Back to top Today's Job Postings Information Security & Business Continuity Analyst - Falls Church, VA Mitretek Systems www.mitretek.org Sr. Internal Info Sys Staff Location: Falls Church, VA Job Code: M160-1670 Responsibilities: The Information Security & Business Continuity Analyst develops and implements Information Systems security, including risk... Director of Business Intelligence - Atlanta The Experience… We aspire to be the best place you have ever worked. If you are passionate about serving others with your talents and if personal growth and career development are important to you, then Intellinet is the place for you to build... BI Consultant for Atlanta The Experience… We aspire to be the best place you have ever worked. If you are passionate about serving others with your talents and if personal growth and career development are important to you, then Intellinet is the place for you to build... SMS Admin NYC Please mention the post when speaking with the recruiter. SMS Engineer Full-time direct-hire, Fortune 1000 company, downtown NYC, ~$85K + bonus. Skills: SMS 2003/2.0; SMS web reports; AD; patch deployment & management; Wise. Michael Milia Xtreme Technologies Windows SMS Admin Will move Very Quick Exclusive! Sacramento, CA SMS Administrator --Will Interview and Hire ASAP! Sacramento, CA. If not interested but refer someone who ends ug getting the job we will give youa $300 referral fee! We are looking for an Microsoft Systems Management Server 2003 (SMS 2003) technical... Receive information about new job postings in your favorite RSS Reader by using the following link: myITforum.com's Job Postings RSS Feed Back to top Today's Fun Click For the NASCAR Fans Back to top Grab the myITforum.com Feeds! myITforum.com offers a wide variety of RSS Feeds for the site. You can get your myITforum.com information 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, using your favorite RSS Feed Reader. Feed your brain: http://www.myitforum.com/rssfeed/ Back to top To remove yourself from this mailing list, click here. Login with your myITforum.com ID, and change your newsletter settings in your myITforum profile. Note, that it may take a couple days to have your email address removed or changed in the system. If you don't remember what your myITforum.com ID and password is, please contact Admin@myITforum.com to request this information. Published with Newsletter Ease   Posted Sep 27 2006, 01:21 PM by Anonymous with no comments Filed under: myITforum Daily Newsletter

• myITforum Daily Newsletter; September 26, 2006

  myITforum Daily Newsletter Daily Newsletter September 26, 2006 The myITforum.com newsletter is delivered Monday-Friday. If you desire to remove yourself from receiving the daily newsletter, see the removal instructions at the bottom of this issue. In this issue, you'll read: The myITforum.com Newsletter is sponsored by 1E: Community Notes myITforum Site Sponsorship Today's Articles 1E - Intelligent Windows Management Today in the Forums Today's Site Downloads Today's Web blog Posts Today's Recent FAQ Items Today's Industry News Today's Job Postings Today's Fun Click Grab the myITforum.com Feeds! The myITforum.com Newsletter is sponsored by 1E: Back to top Community Notes myITforum.com's FAQ System Now in Beta! Help Beta test a new myITforum.com feature. Help make myITforum.com a better place by submitting your frequently asked questions to the site and getting an answer from the experts: http://www.myitforum.com/faqs/afmmain.aspx Remember, this feature is in Beta. As we continue the Beta, we welcome all of your feedback. Soon, this feature will be integrated with the rest of the site so that there is flawless interaction. There's already a good number of FAQs created, but we would like to grow this area of the site as large as the rest of myITforum.com. So, submit your questions and watch the knowledge base grow. You can also grab the RSS feed to the new FAQ to know when new FAQ items are added or old one's are updated: RSS Feed Honorary member of the SMS Alliance The SMS Alliance has inducted myITforum.com into the fold as an honorary member. Check out the SMS Alliance web page and our listing there: http://www.sms-alliance.com/flash/myitforum.html Receive the full myITforum.com Daily Newsletter in your favorite RSS Reader: myITforum.com Daily Newsletter RSS Feed Back to top myITforum Site Sponsorship Read about our sponsors: http://www.myitforum.com/sponsors.asp Back to top Today's Articles SMS 2003, Scripting Vbs Script To Repair A Remote SMS Client by Don Hite - 9/26/2006 This script will take a machine name from the input box and force the SMS client repair cycle on the remote machine. Scripting Vbs Script To Change Registered Owner Or Organization Name by Don Hite - 9/26/2006 This Vbs script will prompt you to enter a new Registered Owner name and / or new Registered Organization name for your Windows XP or Windows 2003 server operating system. SQL Server SQL Query To Determine Machines Running A Specified Service by Don Hite - 9/26/2006 Using the SMS SQL database to find those machines that are running a specified service. Windows, Scripting By Request Script To Open And Edit The Boot Ini File by Don Hite - 9/26/2006 By Request Script To Open And Edit The Boot Ini File Back to top 1E - Intelligent Windows Management Back to top Today in the Forums SMS 2003 RE: Rolling out .NET 2.0 requirements Determine Sophos-Antivirus version VB Script RE: Removing computer accounts from the domain? SMS Feature Packs RE: screensaver hanging ZTI process RE: OSD Question SMS 2.0 Decommissioning SMS 2.0 Parent Server Read the myITforum.com forum posts in your favorite RSS reader using this feed: The myITforum.com forums RSS Feed Back to top Today's Site Downloads No download today If you have scripts, programs, or documents that you have created that you would like to share with your community, upload them today: http://www.myitforum.com/downloads/upload.asp For more information on how to upload, see the following link: http://myitforum.com/cs2/blogs/rtrent/archive/2006/06/24/21490.aspx Back to top Today's Web blog Posts Getting Windows 2003 SP1 Admin Tools Under Vista I got a question about getting the admin tools to work with Vista today. I don’t use Vista for this purpose but I thought I would pass it along, as we get closer to the final I know more people will use it to do admin type work. In Vista beta 2... Read more... Roger Zander's SMS Client Spy - RCrumbaker's Web Remote Tools There is most likely a much more elegent way to do this; but here's a way to get Roger Zander's ( http://sourceforge.net/projects/smsclictr ) SMS Client Spy to launch from a button on Ron's page: First, you'll need to install the application... Read more... Read posts from the myITforum.com bloggers using the RSS Feed: The myITforum.com Bloggers RSS Feed Back to top Today's Recent FAQ Items *Updated* Is there documentation available to help justify attendance to the Microsoft Management Summit? What are the current downloads from Microsoft for MOM 2005? How do I set the number of licenses during a silent installation of MOM? What is the SMS Alliance? I've heard that some myITforum.com members have community nicknames. Where can I find these nicknames? Ask your own questions and get answers from myITforum.com experts in the myITforum.com FAQ System. Read the latest FAQ items in your favorite RSS Reader using the following feed: myITforum.com's FAQ System RSS Feed Back to top Today's Industry News Nintendo's Wii on Toys "R" Us hot holiday list (Reuters) Reuters - Toy retailer Toys "R" Us has unveiled its "hot toy" list for the upcoming holiday season, and this year it includes a video game console for the first time -- Nintendo Co. Ltd.'s (7974.OS) Wii. AOL members sue over search data release - Computerworld WWMT AOL members sue over search data release Computerworld - 41 minutes ago September 26, 2006 (IDG News Service) -- Three AOL members have sued the company over its controversial release of member search-engine records, in what their lawyers are billing... IBM bundles products, targets smaller businesses (Reuters) Reuters - International Business Machines Corp. on Tuesday unveiled the first in a new line of product bundles encompassing hardware, software and technical assistance as it looks to increase its sales to small and medium-sized companies. USB memory sticks pose new dangers computerworld.com “The ability to use tiny USB memory sticks to download and walk away with relatively large amounts of data has already made the ubiquitous devices a potent security threat in corporate environments. Now, the emergence of USB flash... DDoS, Slammer Top Six-Month Internet Threats abcnews.go.com “In a semi-annual study released Monday, anti-virus firm Kaspersky Lab reported that distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks were the most common form of Internet attack, while the Slammer.A worm was the most prevalent Internet... Tokyo tastes the future of gaming (USATODAY.com) USATODAY.com - TOKYO - From strobe-lit guitar solos to pink-haired vamps crammed into sequined spandex costumes, the decadent legacy of the video game industry's Electronic Entertainment Expo lived on at the huge Tokyo Game Show. IBM unveils shift in how it sells IT services - Computerworld Computerworld IBM unveils shift in how it sells IT services Computerworld - 1 hour ago September 25, 2006 (Computerworld) -- IBM today announced a major change in the way it will sell its portfolio of IT services and rolled out the first two of more than... Pirillo fixes Windows Vista Fonts Chris Pirillo (Lockergnome): "I’m not happy that Microsoft has added yet another shell font to the mix with Windows Vista: Segoe UI. On its own, Segoe UI is an awesome font - but when it’s slapped up against Tahoma, MS Sans Serif, Microsoft Sans Serif,... No End in Sight: Data Breach Tally Approaches 100 Million macnewsworld.com “The total number of records containing sensitive personal information involved in security breaches over the past two years now stands at 93,754,333, according to the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse. The updated tally includes thousands... Computer Home Users - You’re the Weakest Link! 14wfie.com “A new computer security report shows home users, not corporations, are the weakest link in the security chain. Despite firewalls and antivirus software, hackers are finding new ways to steal your identity.” Want to read the daily industry news in an RSS feed? Subscribe here: myITforum.com's Daily Industry News Feed Back to top Today's Job Postings SMS Admin NYC Please mention the post when speaking with the recruiter. SMS Engineer Full-time direct-hire, Fortune 1000 company, downtown NYC, ~$85K + bonus. Skills: SMS 2003/2.0; SMS web reports; AD; patch deployment & management; Wise. Michael Milia Xtreme Technologies... Receive information about new job postings in your favorite RSS Reader by using the following link: myITforum.com's Job Postings RSS Feed Back to top Today's Fun Click More Useless Trivia Back to top Grab the myITforum.com Feeds! myITforum.com offers a wide variety of RSS Feeds for the site. You can get your myITforum.com information 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, using your favorite RSS Feed Reader. Feed your brain: http://www.myitforum.com/rssfeed/ Back to top To remove yourself from this mailing list, click here. Login with your myITforum.com ID, and change your newsletter settings in your myITforum profile. Note, that it may take a couple days to have your email address removed or changed in the system. If you don't remember what your myITforum.com ID and password is, please contact Admin@myITforum.com to request this information. Published with Newsletter Ease   Posted Sep 26 2006, 01:37 PM by Anonymous with no comments Filed under: myITforum Daily Newsletter

• myITforum Daily Newsletter; September 25, 2006

  myITforum Daily Newsletter Daily Newsletter September 25, 2006 The myITforum.com newsletter is delivered Monday-Friday. If you desire to remove yourself from receiving the daily newsletter, see the removal instructions at the bottom of this issue. In this issue, you'll read: The myITforum.com Newsletter is sponsored by 1E: Community Notes myITforum Site Sponsorship Today's Articles 1E - Intelligent Windows Management Today in the Forums Today's Site Downloads Today's Web blog Posts Today's Recent FAQ Items Today's Industry News Today's Job Postings Today's Fun Click Grab the myITforum.com Feeds! The myITforum.com Newsletter is sponsored by 1E: Back to top Community Notes Launch of the CTSMUG Blog! Welcome to the Central Texas Systems Management User Group (CTSMUG) Blog! We are currently planning our first meeting, and will update this blog with the appropriate information. Check back often! CTSMUG Blog Link myITforum.com's FAQ System Now in Beta! Help Beta test a new myITforum.com feature. Help make myITforum.com a better place by submitting your frequently asked questions to the site and getting an answer from the experts: http://www.myitforum.com/faqs/afmmain.aspx Remember, this feature is in Beta. As we continue the Beta, we welcome all of your feedback. Soon, this feature will be integrated with the rest of the site so that there is flawless interaction. There's already a good number of FAQs created, but we would like to grow this area of the site as large as the rest of myITforum.com. So, submit your questions and watch the knowledge base grow. You can also grab the RSS feed to the new FAQ to know when new FAQ items are added or old one's are updated: RSS Feed Honorary member of the SMS Alliance The SMS Alliance has inducted myITforum.com into the fold as an honorary member. Check out the SMS Alliance web page and our listing there: http://www.sms-alliance.com/flash/myitforum.html Receive the full myITforum.com Daily Newsletter in your favorite RSS Reader: myITforum.com Daily Newsletter RSS Feed Back to top myITforum Site Sponsorship Read about our sponsors: http://www.myitforum.com/sponsors.asp Back to top Today's Articles SMS 2003 SMS Console Version 1.3 out of Beta by Don Hite - 9/25/2006 Stuart Watret and company at Offshore-IT have released the SMS console Tools version 1.3 after a lively beta run. Scripting Listing Files On A Remote Machine by Don Hite - 9/25/2006 To get a listing of all the files in a particular folder on a remote machine is quite easy to accomplish in PowerShell. SQL Server ClearTrace Version 2.0.24 by Don Hite - 9/25/2006 Bill Graziano (SQL Server MVP) has released ClearTrace Version 2.0.24 for SQL server 2000 and 2005. Miscellaneous Mp3tag Universal Tag Editor by Don Hite - 9/25/2006 Mp3tag Universal Tag Editor has support for the following audio formats: Flac, Ape, Mp3, iTunes, Ogg and Wma just to name a few. Hardware and Gadgets, Windows What will Windows Vista Look Like on a TabletPC? by Rod Trent - 9/25/2006 Watch this 3 minute video to see what you can expect from Windows Vista if you use TabletPCs in your organization. Want to read the myITforum.com articles in your favorite RSS reader? Use the following RSS feed: Daily Articles RSS Feed Back to top 1E - Intelligent Windows Management Back to top Today in the Forums SMS 2003 RE: OSD and RIS problem - Cannot Display OS Choices. RE: SAP Patch update via SMS 2003 General Scripting RE: Query to check if a logged on user has admin rights MOM RE: Web part RE: issue "only match alerts generated by rules in the following group" Web Reporting RE: Report NIC drivers Read the myITforum.com forum posts in your favorite RSS reader using this feed: The myITforum.com forums RSS Feed Back to top Today's Site Downloads Distribution Point Migration Utility jgalbreath SMS 2003 9/25/2006 65.5 kb This utility will remove or add packages on an SMS 2003 distribution point. This is very usefull when retiring, adding, or migrating a distribution point. This program requires the Microsoft .NET Framework v2.0. Download... Back to top Today's Web blog Posts New Printer Prints at 10 MPH or 529 lbs per Hour Or maybe it is just 1,000 PPM? It is Sunday, or more commonly referred to as Football day, at least at my house. Of course that pesky church thing gets in the way. Maybe I should donate some equipment to allow them to stream and then I could PIP it! Printing... Read more... Airlines react to more flaming laptops William Shatner, happened to be in Los Angeles International Airport last weekend, when a fellow passenger about to board an United Airlines flight to London, came rushing back and flung to the floor his too-hot-to-handle laptop — an IBM/Lenovo... Read more... Read posts from the myITforum.com bloggers using the RSS Feed: The myITforum.com Bloggers RSS Feed Back to top Today's Recent FAQ Items I am trying to query via SMS which XP Professional PC's have Virtual memory set and what it is set to. Does anyone have an SMS report which can do this? SMS 2003 Web Reporting has a 10,000 line display limit on some of the reports, how do I increase the number to all values found? The upper right of the web report will show "(Number of Records: 10000)" An example of which can be seen by selecting the "Hardware Report on Workstations - All" web report. I have already changed the value in FilterSample.asp so that all reports that have a "values" listing will show all of the values. But how do I get the reports to show all that it finds in the displayed output? SMS 2003 SP1. Thanks! Is there any information available on how to start a User Group? Is there any information available to understand how to run a User Group? How do I submit someone for review for the Microsoft MVP program? Is there documentation available to help justify attendance to the Microsoft Management Summit? Is anyone aware of any changes to remote.exe as part of the SMS 2003 SP2 upgrade? Ask your own questions and get answers from myITforum.com experts in the myITforum.com FAQ System. Read the latest FAQ items in your favorite RSS Reader using the following feed: myITforum.com's FAQ System RSS Feed Back to top Today's Industry News SYSK 204: Windows Vista Resources Want to learn more on what’s new in Windows Vista, how to best leverage the new functionality and the new ways to do things? Below are some sites that I found to be quite useful: Windows Online Help (WOH): http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Windows/en-US/default.mspx Industry Analyst announces Microsoft Dynamics ready for the Enterprise Market A useful follow-up to the Microsoft Dynamics AX launch and Industry Builder initiative announcement at Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference in early July is provided by respected industry analyst Josh Greenbaum in his article, “The Integrators Are Coming.” Architecture Design Question of the Week Here is the scenario... Every day you get a text file with a number of financial records in a fixed length format. Your job is to identify any new or changed records from the previous day and be able to produce an output file in the same format containing 3 Minute View on Vista: Tablet PC Input Panel This screencast covers what all tablet pc users will be using in Windows Vista - the Tablet Input Panel. One of the great features is the way that it is "context sensitive" which means that whichever application you are running, if you need to enter text Circuit City to sell Amp'd cell phones (Reuters) Reuters - Amp'd Mobile Inc. said on Monday that consumer electronics retailer Circuit City Stores Inc. would sell its mobile phones, as start-up wireless service Amp'd expands its distribution. Adobe releases Lightroom beta 4.0 - Pocket-lint.co.uk Computing News Adobe releases Lightroom beta 4.0 Pocket-lint.co.uk - 40 minutes ago 25 September 2006 - Adobe has released a fourth Beta version of its Lightroom RAW workflow software, and has added Photoshop to the title to reinforce the idea that it Are laptops set for a new roll in the enterprise? - Silicon.com Computing News Are laptops set for a new roll in the enterprise? Silicon.com - 21 minutes ago Future commuters could be set to swap opening the morning paper for unfurling a laptop screen as the roll-up laptop takes one more step towards reality. Roll-up Employers give video a thumbs down (USATODAY.com) USATODAY.com - Employees are using technology to make videos of the workplace and post them on well-trafficked Internet sites, creating new legal worries and public relations issues for companies. Intel puts four on the floor - ZDNet Intel puts four on the floor ZDNet - 26 minutes ago Intel's planning its own version of "Quadrophenia" for this week's Intel Developer Forum, except without The Who or any tough, young mods facing off against angry rockers. Intel tips If you see these CEOs on MySpace … usatoday.com “The conventional wisdom is that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. But in the digital age, that’s often not the case for high-profile professionals being targeted on MySpace.com. The social-networking site is filled Top Tips for free Microsoft support and training resources Clare asked Dave and me to reveal some hidden gems that are available from Microsoft for technical support and learning. This was our list of the shiniest gems that we find devs and IT pros don't always know about. I also posted the Best of the Rest as Microsoft Mulls Online Software - Techtree.com The Money Times Microsoft Mulls Online Software Techtree.com - 54 minutes ago According to reports, Microsoft is planning to offer a free Web-based version of its basic Word Processing and Spreadsheet software. Microsoft Considering Free Web-Based Version Home Users, Financial Services Lead Targets in Computer Attacks -- Symantec Symantec's Internet Security Threat Report notes that home users are the most targeted attack sector, accounting for 86 percent of all targeted attacks, followed by financial services businesses.http://www.marketwire.com/mw/release_html_b1?release_id=166134 What's Key in Online Banking? Financial services publisher Online Banking Report released a new, detailed analysis of how online personal finance management features will be incorporated into leading Internet banking services. Banks and credit unions looking to bolster customer retention IPod getting away from the basics - Chicago Tribune Playfuls.com IPod getting away from the basics Chicago Tribune - 33 minutes ago And, yes, competitors who hope to squelch the iPod's market might face a difficult battle. But with new services, including movie downloads, Apple is starting to stray Want to read the daily industry news in an RSS feed? Subscribe here: myITforum.com's Daily Industry News Feed Back to top Today's Job Postings SMS Admin NYC Please mention the post when speaking with the recruiter. SMS Engineer Full-time direct-hire, Fortune 1000 company, downtown NYC, ~$85K + bonus. Skills: SMS 2003/2.0; SMS web reports; AD; patch deployment & management; Wise. Michael Milia Xtreme Technologies... 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• myITforum Daily Newsletter; September 22, 2006

  myITforum Daily Newsletter Daily Newsletter September 22, 2006 The myITforum.com newsletter is delivered Monday-Friday. If you desire to remove yourself from receiving the daily newsletter, see the removal instructions at the bottom of this issue. In this issue, you'll read: The myITforum.com Newsletter is sponsored by 1E: Community Notes myITforum Site Sponsorship Today's Articles 1E - Intelligent Windows Management Today in the Forums Today's Site Downloads Today's Web blog Posts Today's Industry News Today's Job Postings Today's Fun Click Grab the myITforum.com Feeds! The myITforum.com Newsletter is sponsored by 1E: Back to top Community Notes myITforum.com's FAQ System Now in Beta! Help Beta test a new myITforum.com feature. Help make myITforum.com a better place by submitting your frequently asked questions to the site and getting an answer from the experts: http://www.myitforum.com/faqs/afmmain.aspx Remember, this feature is in Beta. As we continue the Beta, we welcome all of your feedback. Soon, this feature will be integrated with the rest of the site so that there is flawless interaction. There's already a good number of FAQs created, but we would like to grow this area of the site as large as the rest of myITforum.com. So, submit your questions and watch the knowledge base grow. You can also grab the RSS feed to the new FAQ to know when new FAQ items are added or old one's are updated: RSS Feed Back to top myITforum Site Sponsorship Read about our sponsors: http://www.myitforum.com/sponsors.asp Back to top Today's Articles NOTE: Instead of standard articles today, we instead fill this space with some common items from the myITforum.com BETA FAQ for testing placement in the newsletter. Feel free to comment if it works, or works poorly. Send all comments to: admin@myITforum.com The latest myITforum.com FAQs: What are the dates for MMS 2007? Is there documentation available to help justify attendance to the Microsoft Management Summit? How can I be notified when the new MMS web site is available? How do I submit someone for review for the Microsoft MVP program? Where can I get access to the Microsoft Virtual Labs? Is there any information available to understand how to run a User Group? Is there any information available on how to start a User Group? I have a list of systems from AD and from deployment server. I want to reconcile the list to come up with a short list of units to investigate further. What are the current Microsoft downloads available for SMS 2003? What are the current downloads from Microsoft for MOM 2005? Back to top 1E - Intelligent Windows Management Back to top Today in the Forums SMS 2003 RE: Client Push SMS Feature Packs RE: OSD, ZTI and VMWare General Scripting RE: Query to check if a logged on user has admin rights Microsoft Office Administrative Office 2003 update does not update mso.dll Web Reporting RE: Report NIC drivers AntiVirus Products and Best Practices RE: Full system scan frequency. Back to top Today's Site Downloads No download today If you have scripts, programs, or documents that you have created that you would like to share with your community, upload them today: http://www.myitforum.com/downloads/upload.asp For more information on how to upload, see the following link: http://myitforum.com/cs2/blogs/rtrent/archive/2006/06/24/21490.aspx Back to top Today's Web blog Posts SANS - Internet Storm Center - More 'sploit code released More 'sploit code released Published: 2006-09-21, Last Updated: 2006-09-21 20:53:26 UTC by Chris Carboni (Version: 3(click to highlight changes) ) Juha-Matti sent a note telling us that exploit code for the Internet Explorer VML Remote Buffer Overflow... Read more... Uhhhh... OK…so I uninstalled Microsoft’s new Expression Web Designer. Guess what? It also uninstalled Microsoft Outlook at the same time! I had to use a Restore Point from last week to get MS Outlook to work correctly again. Beta….. Read more... Back to top Today's Industry News Microsoft mulls free Web-based business software (Reuters) Reuters - Microsoft Corp. said on Thursday it may offer a free, advertising-supported version of its basic word processing and spreadsheet software, in an apparent bid to fend off a nascent challenge from Google Inc. in the business software market. Hand gestures for numbers When I was in Los Angeles for Thanksgiving, I began noticing the hand gestures that accompanied numbers. When people said "six", they often punctuated it by holding out their hand with the thumb and pinky extended, palm towards the speaker. That's because... Things you already know: How do I wait until my dialog box is displayed before doing something? One customer wanted to wait until the dialog box was displayed before displaying its own dialog box. (Personally, I think immediately displaying a doubly-nested dialog box counts as starting off on the wrong foot from a usability standpoint, but let's... Global web celebrations under way news.bbc.co.uk “People around the world are coming together on Friday to celebrate the world wide web. Susan Crawford, the founder of OneWebDay, said she wanted people to reflect on how the web had changed their lives.” William Henry Gates III, 50, worth $53 billion, still the richest Bill Gates, who with an estimated worth of $53 billion took the magazine's top spot for the 13th year in a row, is one of many technologists on the 2006 Forbes list. For the first time, Forbes magazine's list of the 400 richest Americans consists exclusively... MTV Networks to acquire Harmonix (AP) AP - Viacom Inc.'s MTV Networks said Friday it will buy Harmonix Music Systems Inc., a developer of music-themed video games, for $175 million in cash. Facebook in talks to sell itself to Yahoo: paper (Reuters) Reuters - Social-networking Web site Facebook.com is in serious talks to sell itself to Internet media company Yahoo Inc. for an amount that could approach $1 billion, The Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday. May the Source be with you! This looks interesting...self-proclaimed Software Jedi writes an app a day . Some interesting ideas there. Acrobat 8 brings feature parity, says Adobe (Macworld.com) Macworld.com - With the announced release date of Acrobat 8 earlier this week, Adobe introduced one of the most feature equal versions of the product in many years, the company said. Microsoft gets credit for tightening security CodeRed, Nimda and Blaster. These high-profile worms, which exploited flaws in Microsoft's Windows operating system and other applications, made Microsoft the butt of security jokes and forced the company to reexamine its approach to developing secure... U.S. Commerce Department reports loss of 1,137 laptops The U.S. Commerce Department reported that 1,137 laptops have been lost or stolen since 2001, with 249 of them containing some degree of personal data. SEC broadens probe of HP HP has entered into mutual agreements with two former directors caught up in the board spying scandal not to file lawsuits over the dispute. Web Office: Hype or reality? I was really interested to read Richards post on the Web Office of the future and how we've evolved since the olden days of indicidual Word processing packages, spreadsheets, and email clients. I'm using a whole host of Web tools at the moment. Windows... US Senate seeks deal on protecting phone records itnews.com.au “WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The US Senate is trying to reach a deal before recessing next week on a bill that would ban the practice of impersonating someone to get telephone records, aides said on Wednesday, in light of a scandal at Hewlett-Packard... Back to top Today's Job Postings SMS Administrator in IA/IL area Location Rock Island, IL Description Candidate will work as a member of the Enterprise Solutions Team. Primary responsibility will include SMS Administration, Scripting, Configuration Management and Software Deployment. Qualifications The ideal candidate... SMS Administrator Job Openings in Columbus, OH https://statejobs.ohio.gov/applicant/results2.asp?postingID=165696 https://statejobs.ohio.gov/applicant/results2.asp?postingID=166102... Windows System Engineer Englewood, CA Permanent Position Windows System Engineer Job Opportunity in Englewood, CO Permanent Position We are looking for a Windows System Engineer to play a leading role in the design, implementation and administration of Windows based systems. Mincom has a strong commitment to... POSITION OPENING FOR Workstation Design Services Support IN NJ Position Title: Workstation Design Services Support Positions: 3 Location : East Hanover , NJ Duration: 18 months Position Description · Overall job function includes managing of key project initiatives within the team. · Experience with... Back to top Today's Fun Click My Cubicle Back to top Grab the myITforum.com Feeds! myITforum.com offers a wide variety of RSS Feeds for the site. You can get your myITforum.com information 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, using your favorite RSS Feed Reader. Feed your brain: http://www.myitforum.com/rssfeed/ Back to top To remove yourself from this mailing list, click here. Login with your myITforum.com ID, and change your newsletter settings in your myITforum profile. Note, that it may take a couple days to have your email address removed or changed in the system. 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• myITforum Daily Newsletter; September 21, 2006

  myITforum Daily Newsletter Daily Newsletter September 21, 2006 The myITforum.com newsletter is delivered Monday-Friday. If you desire to remove yourself from receiving the daily newsletter, see the removal instructions at the bottom of this issue. In this issue, you'll read: The myITforum.com Newsletter is sponsored by 1E: Community Notes myITforum Site Sponsorship Today's Articles 1E - Intelligent Windows Management Today in the Forums Today's Site Downloads Today's Web blog Posts Today's Industry News Today's Job Postings Today's Fun Click Grab the myITforum.com Feeds! The myITforum.com Newsletter is sponsored by 1E: Back to top Community Notes TechMixer is Tonight, 6-8pm @ McWane Center It's time! The day after tomorrow will bring the region's largest gathering of technology professionals, the TechMixer, presented by Savela Solutions. This event, coordinated by TechBirmingham, remains free to anyone interested in technology thanks to the generosity of our sponsors. Come network with your professional peers, meet vendors, talk to user groups, and enjoy heavy hors d'oeuvres and a cash bar. Read more Back to top myITforum Site Sponsorship Read about our sponsors: http://www.myitforum.com/sponsors.asp Back to top Today's Articles SMS 2003 Little known SMS utilities on SourceForge.net by Rod Trent - 9/21/2006 SourceForge.net has a number of pretty cool SMS utility projects running. Scripting, Hardware and Gadgets PowerShell FAQ: Pull Dell Server Info from WMI with Powershell by Rod Trent - 9/21/2006 How do I get Dell Server information using Windows PowerShell? Patch Management Confirmed problem and an update by Rod Trent - 9/21/2006 Update for Windows 2000 (KB925308). Windows Turn Off UAC in Vista by Anthony Clendenen - 9/21/2006 Do you spend time with Vista? Have you spent time clicking yes trying to run a program Vista? Do you find user account control annoying? Do you know how to turn this off in Vista? Windows Mobile ActiveSync 4.5 Beta 2 released by John Gormly - 9/21/2006 Changes in ActiveSync 4.5 Beta 2 help resolve issues related to setup, partnerships, and connectivity with the PC and Microsoft Exchange. SMS Alliance FLEXnet AdminStudio workshop schedules by Rod Trent - 9/21/2006 Accelerate your software packaging and deployment process with expert training. Our certified instructors will teach you more about FLEXnet AdminStudio than anyone else. Web Technologies Google: OK...call me crazy but... by John Gormly - 9/21/2006 Is Google getting a little carried away or is it just me (ok, it MAY be me)? Ever read the Google Research Blog (http://googleresearch.blogspot.com). It’s a blog that basically lets you keep up with the things that they’re working on. MOM MSKB Watch: How to create a new Console scope in Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 by Rod Trent - 9/21/2006 This article describes how to add a new user to the Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) 2005 local Users group. Back to top 1E - Intelligent Windows Management Back to top Today in the Forums General Scripting New To Site and Scripting SMS 2003 RE: SELECT permission denied on object...SQL help... Active Directory and Group Policy RE: Possible to prevent a group from disabling user accounts? Web Reporting RE: Report NIC drivers Windows PE OSD install CD - Issue with Intel Pro 10/100 VM driver SMS Feature Packs RE: HAL detection during WinPE boot SMS 2003 Desired Configuration Monitoring (DCM) RE: Who is using the actual SMS 2003 DCM? MOM RE: NWSA suddenly fails to process alerts VB Script RE: Set Homefolder permissions for all users Back to top Today's Site Downloads No download today If you have scripts, programs, or documents that you have created that you would like to share with your community, upload them today: http://www.myitforum.com/downloads/upload.asp For more information on how to upload, see the following link: http://myitforum.com/cs2/blogs/rtrent/archive/2006/06/24/21490.aspx Back to top Today's Web blog Posts Mary Jo Dirt to spread her form of sunshine somewhere else Mary Jo Foley: The Exit Interview We’ve covered Mary Jo’s recent fall from grace with the technical community just a bit. Could she have been trying to get fired? Read about them: Mary"Joe Dirt" Foley, reading between the lines again MySpace.com... Read more... Time Warner - Still Waiting for FIOS So in our last episode Time Warner was ordered by the FCC to put the NFL Network back on for subscribers because of the lack of anything more than a 24 hour notice that they were going to turn off their channel. The FCC also made some comments about their... Read more... Back to top Today's Industry News Not Getting Away from It All The cruise ship industry is in its wireless infancy, but already one company, SeaMobile, is moving some ocean liners beyond just Internet cafes at sea. House panel approves electronic surveillance bill A U.S. House of Representatives Committee has approved a controversial bill that would broaden the U.S. government's ability to conduct electronic surveillance on U.S. residents by making it easier for federal law enforcement officials to get court-issued... Time Warner to sell AOL France (AP) AP - Time Warner Inc. said Thursday it agreed to sell AOL France's Internet access business to Neuf Cegetel, a French telecommunications network operator, for about $365 million in cash. Real men of Genius ( otherwise known as Neat Vista tools.. part 1 ) I may never find the time to get to #2 ... but I think Ill start a list of all the things I find in Vista which I think are cool. Starting here. Now, with Vista - in a pinch I can get a userdump of a process ( albeit a mini dump ) with no xtra tools... The Company Meeting Microsoft's annual employee company meeting is today. It is usually a very loud, exciting event with entertainment plus the latest from product VPs, the finance VP, the personel VP, the CEO and Bill Gates. But with as big a group of employees, we are... Report: Hurd knew of planned deception campaign HP CEO Mark Hurd knew of plans for a disinformation campaign designed to find the source of leaks from boardroom discussions, The Washington Post reported Thursday. ReadyBoost USB Devices Reviewed ExtremeTech have written a great article reviewing different USB flash devices and how they get on with ReadyBoost in Windows Vista. "ReadyBoost is a technology built into Windows Vista that caches disk reads onto a flash memory device. It can work with... Motorola unveils phone vending machines (AP) AP - Consumers needing a cell phone or accessories on the run have a new option now that Motorola Inc. has rolled out a series of what the company calls "robotic stores." FAQ: What you should know now about the latest IE bug computerworld.com.au “…Microsoft suggests those using IE 6 for XP Service Pack 2 can protect themselves by disabling binary and script behaviors in the Internet and Local Internet security zones. Those setting are reached through the Tools... ThinkPad Bursts Into Flames at LAX - DailyTech The Age ThinkPad Bursts Into Flames at LAX DailyTech - 1 hour ago In yet another chapter of “The Laptop Battery From Hell,” an IBM ThinkPad did its best Human Torch impression while boarding a flight at LAX. ThinkPad identified as 'flaming' laptop... If you don't trust your administrators, you've already lost Occasionally, a customer will ask for a way they can restrict what the administrator can do. The short answer to this is, "Um, no, that's why they're called 'Administrator'." You can try to set up roadblocks, say, ACL files to revoke access to a file... Visual Basic 2005 Power Packs are available for download Just announced. MSDN landing page is here . "Visual Basic 2005 Power Packs are free Add-Ins, Controls, Components, Tools or Samples for you to use with Visual Basic 2005 to make developing great applications even easier! Microsoft Interop Forms Toolkit... ABI: Dual-Mode Handset Shipments Will Top 300 Million in 2011 - TMCnet ABI: Dual-Mode Handset Shipments Will Top 300 Million in 2011 TMCnet - 59 minutes ago Chalk one up to the potential of fixed-mobile convergence (FMC) technology: in a new report out today, ABI Research predicted that worldwide shipments of dual mode (cellular... Back to top Today's Job Postings SMS Administrator in IA/IL area Location Rock Island, IL Description Candidate will work as a member of the Enterprise Solutions Team. Primary responsibility will include SMS Administration, Scripting, Configuration Management and Software Deployment. Qualifications The ideal candidate... SMS Administrator Job Openings in Columbus, OH https://statejobs.ohio.gov/applicant/results2.asp?postingID=165696 https://statejobs.ohio.gov/applicant/results2.asp?postingID=166102... Windows System Engineer Englewood, CA Permanent Position Windows System Engineer Job Opportunity in Englewood, CO Permanent Position We are looking for a Windows System Engineer to play a leading role in the design, implementation and administration of Windows based systems. Mincom has a strong commitment to... POSITION OPENING FOR Workstation Design Services Support IN NJ Position Title: Workstation Design Services Support Positions: 3 Location : East Hanover , NJ Duration: 18 months Position Description · Overall job function includes managing of key project initiatives within the team. · Experience with... Back to top Today's Fun Click Reincarnation Station Back to top Grab the myITforum.com Feeds! myITforum.com offers a wide variety of RSS Feeds for the site. You can get your myITforum.com information 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, using your favorite RSS Feed Reader. Feed your brain: http://www.myitforum.com/rssfeed/ Back to top To remove yourself from this mailing list, click here. Login with your myITforum.com ID, and change your newsletter settings in your myITforum profile. Note, that it may take a couple days to have your email address removed or changed in the system. If you don't remember what your myITforum.com ID and password is, please contact Admin@myITforum.com to request this information. Published with Newsletter Ease   Posted Sep 21 2006, 05:03 PM by Anonymous with no comments Filed under: myITforum Daily Newsletter

• myITforum Daily Newsletter; September 20, 2006

  myITforum Daily Newsletter Daily Newsletter September 20, 2006 The myITforum.com newsletter is delivered Monday-Friday. If you desire to remove yourself from receiving the daily newsletter, see the removal instructions at the bottom of this issue. In this issue, you'll read: The myITforum.com Newsletter is sponsored by 1E: Community Notes myITforum Site Sponsorship Today's Articles 1E - Intelligent Windows Management Today in the Forums Today's Site Downloads Today's Web blog Posts Today's Industry News Today's Job Postings Today's Fun Click Grab the myITforum.com Feeds! The myITforum.com Newsletter is sponsored by 1E: Back to top Community Notes AZ Systems Management Group We are planning on having our first meeting. This meeting will be held at Microsoft's downtown Phoenix Office: 2929 N Central, suite 1400 on the 21st of September. The meeting will start at 6:00 PM, but BE SURE to arrive well before that time, since you cannot enter the building after 6:00 PM. You can find more details and register for the meeting at the following link: http://www.clicktoattend.com/?id=110934 Back to top myITforum Site Sponsorship Read about our sponsors: http://www.myitforum.com/sponsors.asp Back to top Today's Articles SMS 2003 Understanding SMS 2003 Roaming Concepts by Don Hite - 9/20/2006 Boundaries is a new concept with SMS 2003... Scripting Locating Machines Not Reporting Heartbeat Discovery In The Last Week by Don Hite - 9/20/2006 This SQL query will allow you to find or locate machines in your SMS database that have not reported a Heartbeat discovery record in the last week or seven days. Back to top 1E - Intelligent Windows Management Back to top Today in the Forums SMS 2003 RE: Exchange computers in a Child Primary site Web Reporting help creating "software change" report myITforum Polls RE: ITMU Scans Cause 100% CPU SMS Feature Packs RE: OSD fails InstallShield RE: Package Pushout General Scripting Using perl or VB script for package creation Windows PowerShell Powershell and Amazon S3 Screencast Software Update Services/Windows Update Services RE: Use Beta 2 or 1.0? MOM RE: Cannot open database requested in login 'SystemCenterReporting'. Login fails Back to top Today's Site Downloads No download today If you have scripts, programs, or documents that you have created that you would like to share with your community, upload them today: http://www.myitforum.com/downloads/upload.asp For more information on how to upload, see the following link: http://myitforum.com/cs2/blogs/rtrent/archive/2006/06/24/21490.aspx Back to top Today's Web blog Posts SMS 2003 Desired Configuration Monitoring 2.0 Available for Download SMS 2003 Desired Configuration Monitoring 2.0 get it here . There is a .NET 2.0 version and a .NET 1.1 version so make sure you get the correct version for your server. Original source: Overview Microsoft Systems Management Server (SMS) 2003 Desired Configuration... Read more... SANS - Internet Storm Center - Yet another MSIE 0-day: VRM Yet another MSIE 0-day: VRM (NEW) Published: 2006-09-19, Last Updated: 2006-09-19 14:49:35 UTC by Swa Frantzen (Version: 1) We got multiple readers telling us in they noticed reports about a new MSIE 0-day abusing VRM. This 0-day apears to be different... Read more... Back to top Today's Industry News Reminder: 2006 Reader Survey If you haven't taken the time to complete the reader survey , please help out by doing that this week. I've already gotten some cool ideas from the feedback and it's to your advantage to tell me what you like and don't like. The incoming rate has started... Attacks on RSA RSA has several weaknesses called protocol failures. Protocol failures are not actually an exploit in the RSA algorithm. Instead, a protocol failure occurs when you perform inadvisable actions that give the attacker more information than they would otherwise... Yahoo, Current TV unveil new video service (Reuters) Reuters - Internet media company Yahoo Inc. and Current TV, a television channel founded by former U.S. Vice President Al Gore, on Wednesday said they had teamed up on a Web video service aimed at young adults. News Corp. may start Chinese MySpace (AP) AP - News Corp. chairman Rupert Murdoch says his Chinese-born wife, Wendi Deng, is in China with the company's executives to help launch a Chinese version of its popular MySpace social networking Web site, a newspaper reported Wednesday. HP's Dunn to testify before House on spying scandal (Macworld.com) Macworld.com - Hewlett-Packard Chairman Patricia Dunn will answer questions on the spying scandal that has embroiled her company during a House committee hearing on Capitol Hill next week. TechNet Magazine September Issue Download This month TechNet Magazine presents new solutions to old management problems, and solutions to some new ones as well. Take Windows PE. You may have used it when deploying Windows, but you’ve probably never used it for system repairs. Old problem. New ... Which Microsoft Patches Am I Missing? Finally I have an answer to a question that I get quite regularly. That is: "How can I find out which are the patches that I'm missing" ... now there is a Security Bulletin Search Engine on TechNet that will answer that question and will show you exactly... Building an empire, an Xbox at a time - CNET News.com Spotlighting News Building an empire, an Xbox at a time CNET News.com - 1 hour ago Microsoft Vice President Peter Moore talks about how the company intends to bring a billion people into its gaming empire. In mid-November, both Sony and Nintendo plan... Add Easy Listening To Guilty Pleasures Of Digital Downloads online.wsj.com “…Sure, the Internet has revolutionized the spread of information and all that high-minded stuff, but its combination of reach and anonymity also makes it the greatest enabler of guilty pleasures ever invented. Indulgence is... Federal prosecutor testifies as victim in identity theft case sunherald.com “CHICAGO - A federal prosecutor stood before a judge in Chicago on Tuesday not to represent the government but as the victim of a crime he described as a violation of the “most intimate details” of his life. Assistant U.S. Microsoft Showcases Library of Nearly 110 High-Definition Xbox Games and 1080p support "Blue Dragon” Leads Holiday Lineup of Games; “Pac-Man” World Championship, Xbox 360 HD DVD Player in Japan and 1080p Support for Xbox 360 unveiled. Today at the Tokyo Game Show 2006, Microsoft Corp. delivered information on new and improved entertainment... Google to appeal Brussels copyright ruling expatica.com “BRUSSELS — Internet search machine Google said on Monday it would appeal against the Brussels Court ruling that it operates in breach of copyright laws. The court ruled that Google was breaking the law by including headlines and links... Back to top Today's Job Postings Premier Field Engineer – SMS & MOM Role Purpose To build very successful relationships with customers through the delivery of a high-quality technical engagements in a specific technology area. Delivery of an excellent service is essential to promoting the engineer as the most customer focused offering available. The engagements may be short-term demand-led or longer term engagements with a dedicated customer. Read more... Back to top Today's Fun Click How Spider-man got his moves Back to top Grab the myITforum.com Feeds! myITforum.com offers a wide variety of RSS Feeds for the site. You can get your myITforum.com information 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, using your favorite RSS Feed Reader. Feed your brain: http://www.myitforum.com/rssfeed/ Back to top To remove yourself from this mailing list, click here. Login with your myITforum.com ID, and change your newsletter settings in your myITforum profile. Note, that it may take a couple days to have your email address removed or changed in the system. If you don't remember what your myITforum.com ID and password is, please contact Admin@myITforum.com to request this information. Published with Newsletter Ease   Posted Sep 20 2006, 01:58 PM by Anonymous with no comments Filed under: myITforum Daily Newsletter

• myITforum Daily Newsletter; September 19, 2006

  myITforum Daily Newsletter Daily Newsletter September 19, 2006 The myITforum.com newsletter is delivered Monday-Friday. If you desire to remove yourself from receiving the daily newsletter, see the removal instructions at the bottom of this issue. In this issue, you'll read: The myITforum.com Newsletter is sponsored by 1E: Community Notes myITforum Site Sponsorship Today's Articles 1E - Intelligent Windows Management Today in the Forums Today's Site Downloads Today's Web blog Posts Today's Industry News Today's Job Postings Today's Fun Click Grab the myITforum.com Feeds! The myITforum.com Newsletter is sponsored by 1E: Back to top Community Notes How are you getting your daily industry news? We're culminating a large number of great feeds into the site so you only need one feed for all of your industry news. Try it out... Page: http://myitforum.com/cs2/blogs/roller/default.aspx RSS Feed: http://myitforum.com/cs2/blogs/roller/rss.aspx Back to top myITforum Site Sponsorship Read about our sponsors: http://www.myitforum.com/sponsors.asp Back to top Today's Articles SMS 2003 The Foreword to SMS Recipes by Ed Aldrich - 9/19/2006 This is the content of my introduction to the excellent book "SMS Recipes" by Greg Ramsey and Warren Byle. You can find this book on Amazon.Com. Hopefully, this intro will give you the insight you need to help make your purchase decision. UPDATED: SMS Console Additions V1.3 by Stuart Watret - 9/18/2006 Right Click context tools for the SMS Admin Console in one MSI based EXE. Easy to install, uninstall & distribute. MOM MOM FAQ: Using MOM to monitor via PING by Rod Trent - 9/19/2006 I would like to configure MOM to PING than heartbeat and notify when they go down. How can I configure a MOM rule to routinely ping all of my servers based on a specific sampling rate, and then create an alert and notification to the proper Admin once that server is unavailable? Scripting Delete Machines From SMS And Send The Results To Excel by Don Hite - 9/19/2006 This script will read the machine names from a text file called MachineList.Txt and delete the machine(s) from SMS as well as list the machines Resource ID(s) for the deleted machines. Windows Mobile Is a new Palm device really news? by John Gormly - 9/19/2006 Been trying to catch up on the latest news this morning. Seems lots of these mobile news sites are reporting “new” Palm devices. Is that really news? Back to top 1E - Intelligent Windows Management Back to top Today in the Forums SMS 2003 RE: SMS 2003 Web Reporting - Remote Tools Page version 3.21 HELP! General Scripting RE: find folder SMS Feature Packs RE: Best way to add a reboot at the end of a ZTI build MOM Exchange MP mapi error 2003 sp1 with mom 2005 Exchange Server What is the best way to handle large attachments SMS 2003 Desired Configuration Monitoring (DCM) RE: Who is using the actual SMS 2003 DCM? HP - Compaq hp exam stuff ? Back to top Today's Site Downloads CollectionBasedReports mreavis SMS 2003, SMS Queries, Reports and MOFs 9/19/2006 1.8 kb 3 Collection based reports for Software Files. Since everyone is asking for them, help yourself. Count Computers with a file - collection based; Computers with file, collection and version matching (chained to report above); Computers with out a file, collection based, includes OS, and last SF scan date. Download... Back to top Today's Web blog Posts Latest version of ESD and more... From the SMS email discussion list … ============= Hey Gang, I couldn’t help but notice the posts stating the links on www.systemcentertools.com are broken. So I’ve posted the latest version of ESD to www.systemcentertools.com and changed... Read more... Dragon naturally speaking nine rocks! This is a test of Dragon naturally speaking nine. This post was posted using Dragon Naturally Speaking 9. All these words were dictated. Anthony Clendenen '> Listen to this article... Read more... Back to top Today's Industry News Sprint beefs up wireless security services Sprint Tuesday is expected to announce a new suite of security services for its wireless users that includes authentication, threat protection, and policy enforcement on smart phones from any wireless service provider. Using RSA for Signing Messages A nice property of RSA is that if we swap the role of the encryption and decryption keys, it’s still possible to transmit messages . That’s because the computation (M e ) d mod n is the same as (M d ) e mod n. Typically, messages are encrypted with your... Motorola to acquire Symbol Technologies! Wow! This came out of the blue. From the newswire today it looks like Motorola and Symbol have signed a definitive merger agreement. I hadn't seen this one coming but it looks like it makes sense as Motorola has a great legacy in Radio technology in many... System Center Essentials 2007 beta 2 started Microsoft has begun the second public beta test for its new System Center Essentials 2007, a central management console targeted at small- to medium-sized businesses. Microsoft has had a centralized desktop management offering for some time, Systems Management... IT Showcase: 7x24 Initiative: Driving Productivity at Microsoft This presentation broadly documents the Microsoft IT 7x24 initiative (7 million hours of user productivity over 24 months) and strategy to date. It conveys how technology and IT operations can promote productivity and time savings back to an internal... Buy or renew MSDN Subscriptions directly from Microsoft Stuart the Sales Guy sent me this note today.. ...we finally have a capability to transact directly with Retail customers for new and renewal MSDN and VS business. MSDN Subscriptions: Buy or renew MSDN Subscriptions directly from Microsoft... Do movie downloads click? (USATODAY.com) USATODAY.com - Amazon.com and iTunes have joined the growing number of online venues selling movie files. USA TODAY's Mike Snider clicks through the latest way to get flicks. Data denied cavalierdaily.com “The U.S. Senate is considering legislation to create a database of every student’s educational history that would follow each student from the first day of school to the last day of college. The database is a product of... Should anti-spyware programs remove cookies? blogs.zdnet.com “Spyware expert Ben Edelman has written a great piece on anti-spyware programs and cookies. He tested eleven different anti-spyware programs against cookies from 50 advertising systems and posted detailed results including which... Windows Base Operating System Management Pack for MOM 2005 v 4 Monitors for conditions that adversely affect the availability, reliability, performance, configuration, and security of Windows Server 4.0, 2000, 2003, and 2003 R2 operating systems. The events detected indicate exceptional conditions associated with... Back to top Today's Job Postings Premier Field Engineer – SMS & MOM Role Purpose To build very successful relationships with customers through the delivery of a high-quality technical engagements in a specific technology area. Delivery of an excellent service is essential to promoting the engineer as the most customer focused offering available. The engagements may be short-term demand-led or longer term engagements with a dedicated customer. Read more... Back to top Today's Fun Click Office Dares Back to top Grab the myITforum.com Feeds! myITforum.com offers a wide variety of RSS Feeds for the site. You can get your myITforum.com information 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, using your favorite RSS Feed Reader. Feed your brain: http://www.myitforum.com/rssfeed/ Back to top To remove yourself from this mailing list, click here. Login with your myITforum.com ID, and change your newsletter settings in your myITforum profile. Note, that it may take a couple days to have your email address removed or changed in the system. If you don't remember what your myITforum.com ID and password is, please contact Admin@myITforum.com to request this information. Published with Newsletter Ease   Posted Sep 19 2006, 02:15 PM by Anonymous with no comments Filed under: myITforum Daily Newsletter

• myITforum Daily Newsletter; September 18, 2006

  myITforum Daily Newsletter Daily Newsletter September 18, 2006 The myITforum.com newsletter is delivered Monday-Friday. If you desire to remove yourself from receiving the daily newsletter, see the removal instructions at the bottom of this issue. In this issue, you'll read: The myITforum.com Newsletter is sponsored by 1E: Community Notes myITforum Site Sponsorship Today's Articles Today in the Forums Today's Site Downloads Today's Web blog Posts Today's Industry News Today's Job Postings Today's Fun Click Grab the myITforum.com Feeds! The myITforum.com Newsletter is sponsored by 1E: Back to top Community Notes Stats for New Newsletter Poll Last week we mentioned that we could be planning a couple new newsletters for myITforum.com. One would highlight the most popular happenings on the site for the month, and the other would highlight things you might have missed. The overwhelming majority has selected the one that would cover the most popular items. Vote for most popular: 78% Vote for things you might have missed: 21% You can still vote. Drop by here to cast your vote. Back to top myITforum Site Sponsorship Read about our sponsors: http://www.myitforum.com/sponsors.asp Back to top Today's Articles SMS 2003, SQL Server Preparing SQL Server For SMS 2003 by Don Hite - 9/18/2006 Preparing SQL Server For SMS 2003 Scripting Gathering Basic Computer System Information by Don Hite - 9/18/2006 This PowerShell script will gather and return basic Computer System information. Support Management FREE Subscription To TechNet Magazine by Don Hite - 9/18/2006 Get a FREE Subscription To TechNet Magazine Windows Mobile PocketBible update released by John Gormly - 9/18/2006 Use Pocket Bible on your Pocket PC? PocketBible 3.041 has recently been released. Back to top Today in the Forums SMS 2003 RE: finding site addresses/boundaries issues Active Directory and Group Policy RE: Locking down shared folders AD permissions SMS Feature Packs RE: HELP! Unspecified Error 80040005 Web Reporting RE: Sample Reports for Microsoft Update Compliancy InstallShield RE: Package Pushout MOM RE: monitoring event 531 System Center SCE Beta 2 Back to top Today's Site Downloads AD Domain Sites and Subnets akaplan Scripting, Windows, Active Directory and Group Policy 9/18/2006 3.4 kb This script queries AD for a list of the Site and Subnet(s) for each DC in a domain. Download... Back to top Today's Web blog Posts Bye for now I'm going to be taking a break from posting to this blog for a while as I'm leaving the UK for pastures new in the USA in a couple of weeks. I just wanted to take a moment to thank everyone who contributes to the myITforum SMS mailing list who... Read more... Is a new Palm device really news? Been trying to catch up on the latest news this morning. Seems lots of these mobile news sites are reporting “new” Palm devices. Is that really news? Palm hasn’t updated the OS running on those devices in what? Three, four years? Is... Read more... Back to top Today's Industry News Windows Vista Retailing: All versions On 1 DVD: Color Coded As you may have heard there are going to be a “few” versions of Microsoft Vista when it is finally released. Redmond this week start to lift some of the details for retailers. Some interesting ones to note are that all versions of Vista will be on the... Apple's new iPods priced for profits, not market share (Macworld.com) Macworld.com - Apple’s recent introduction of several new iPods shows the company is looking for better profit margins, not gaining market share, according to researcher Gartner. And the move could boost its rivals. Startup tackles high-performance apps for multicore chips (InfoWorld) InfoWorld - PeakStream, a startup company featuring former executives from Sun Microsystems and VMware, on Monday is set to launch its high-performance application platform that leverages multicore processors. Splitting Messages for RSA For your particular pair of RSA primes, there is a fixed size to the messages that can be encrypted with the product, n, of those primes. During decryption, you will always end up with the smallest positive integer message that satisfies the algorithm. Users who support themselves Ok, so here's the scenario, you're an IT Manager and one of your users has a problem. They don't know how to connect to the wireless network in your office. So what do they do? They ring the IT support desk because they want you to help them. One of your... New fast loading Adobe Acrobat adds web conferencing - iTWire Earthtimes.org New fast loading Adobe Acrobat adds web conferencing iTWire - 1 hour ago The influence of its US$3.4 billion Macromedia acquisition nine months ago shining through, graphics software company Adobe has given its ubiquitous Acrobat reader... NOT missing in action... floating toolbars Working with Beta 2, all my attention tends to be focused on what's new and how it's changing - and usually improving - the way I work. What's harder to spot is the stuff that's gone away, particularly when it's been seamlessly replaced with a new approach. Back to top Today's Job Postings Premier Field Engineer – SMS & MOM Role Purpose To build very successful relationships with customers through the delivery of a high-quality technical engagements in a specific technology area. Delivery of an excellent service is essential to promoting the engineer as the most customer focused offering available. The engagements may be short-term demand-led or longer term engagements with a dedicated customer. Read more... Back to top Today's Fun Click What is a Chav? Back to top Grab the myITforum.com Feeds! myITforum.com offers a wide variety of RSS Feeds for the site. You can get your myITforum.com information 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, using your favorite RSS Feed Reader. Feed your brain: http://www.myitforum.com/rssfeed/ Back to top To remove yourself from this mailing list, click here. Login with your myITforum.com ID, and change your newsletter settings in your myITforum profile. Note, that it may take a couple days to have your email address removed or changed in the system. If you don't remember what your myITforum.com ID and password is, please contact Admin@myITforum.com to request this information. Published with Newsletter Ease   Posted Sep 18 2006, 02:30 PM by Anonymous with no comments Filed under: myITforum Daily Newsletter

• myITforum Daily Newsletter; September 15, 2006

  myITforum Daily Newsletter Daily Newsletter September 15, 2006 The myITforum.com newsletter is delivered Monday-Friday. If you desire to remove yourself from receiving the daily newsletter, see the removal instructions at the bottom of this issue. In this issue, you'll read: The myITforum.com Newsletter is sponsored by 1E: Community Notes myITforum Site Sponsorship Today's Articles Today in the Forums Today's Site Downloads Today's Web blog Posts Today's Industry News Today's Job Postings Today's Fun Click Grab the myITforum.com Feeds! The myITforum.com Newsletter is sponsored by 1E: Back to top Community Notes Nominations now being accepted for the Systems Management Server 2003 Service Pack 3 Enterprise Customer TAP Program Microsoft is looking for customers to participate in the SMS 2003 SP3 TAP program. The following is a description of SMS 2003 SP3: What is in Systems Management Server SP3 Microsoft’s Systems Management Server Service Pack 3 contains support for Windows Vista and Windows ‘Longhorn’ Server. Service Pack 3 will also provide support for ITMU’s use of multiple CAB files while performing scans. Service Pack 3 will also be introducing SMS 2003 Asset Advisor. SMS 2003 Asset Advisor is based off of technology that was recently acquired with the acquisition of Asset Metrix. The Asset Advisor will be adding several new WMI providers on the client machine as well as enabling some SMS_Def.mof changes. These client side changes are necessary to provide SMS with client side information that it needs to run a series of software license management reports. SMS 2003 Asset Advisor will be introducing 35 new drill down reports. These reports will focus on software reporting, hardware reporting and Microsoft license management. The TAP program will not be accepting customers requiring language specific versions of SMS 2003 SP3 at this time. Read the rest... 30% myITforum.com member discount from MANN Publishing If you are hankering to get hold of some new books for your technical library, Mann Publishing is offering a few of their books to you at a 30% discount. There are quite a few that you should be interested in, for things like SMS 2003 and MOM 2005. All you have to do is order using the following (secret) link: http://www.mannpublishing.com/partner.aspx?PID=1433292 Back to top myITforum Site Sponsorship Read about our sponsors: http://www.myitforum.com/sponsors.asp Back to top Today's Articles MOM MOM FAQ: MOM 2005 - Monitor number of instances of a process by Rod Trent - 9/15/2006 I've tried setting up a performance threshold for the process but perfmon treats each thread as a different process. Scripting Making PowerShell Profile Configuration Modifications by Don Hite - 9/15/2006 Making PowerShell Profile Configuration Modifications Back to top Today in the Forums Breaking Virus & Security News RE: Internet Explorer - New unpatched vulnerability and exploits Web Reporting RE: Cannot import Mof file into reporting InstallShield Package Pushout SMS 2003 RE: Inventory and Query Shares? Exchange Server Error Message When You View Public Folders in Exchange System Manager MOM monitoring event 531 VB Script RE: Easy excel script...if your a pro.... Active Directory and Group Policy RE: Query AD for User PW not meeting policy requirements? SMS 2.0 RE: Distribution Point Removal Back to top Today's Site Downloads KiXtart 2010 4.53 Final rodtrent Scripting 9/15/2006 631.9 kb This is the final version of KiXtart 2010 4.53. Download... Back to top Today's Web blog Posts Management Solution : My BDD 2007 Standard Edition Advanced Training Guide Released! Original source: My BDD 2007 Standard Edition Advanced Training Guide Released! I just completed my BDD 2007 Standard Edition Advanced Training Guide. It included Windows Deployment Service, SMS 2003 OSD Update and Office 2007. You can use it as an additional... Read more... Windows XP SP1 - End of support on October 10, 2006 Microsoft will be discontinuing update support for Windows XP SP1 and SP1a effective October 10, 2006 . They will then only support Windows XP SP2 unless they grant an extension . This hasn't been publicized extensively and it's my understanding... Read more... Back to top Today's Industry News Mozilla Firefox 1.0.5.7 - New Security Release Some vulnerabilities have been reported in Mozilla Firefox, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct man-in-the-middle, spoofing, and cro... Universal Music likely to sue YouTube, MySpace - Inquirer Playfuls.com Universal Music likely to sue YouTube, MySpace Inquirer - 33 minutes ago TALKS between Universal Music and the owners of YouTube and MySpace over 'copyright issues' are on the verge of breaking down. Universal Music to File Copyright-Infringement... Top 10 Things to Try with Windows Vista Beta RC1 To get a true taste of what difference Windows Vista can make to your organisation you can put it through its paces by trying out these top 10 things as outlined on the US TechNet site here . Plan an Easier Deployment Improve Security and Compliance Manage... Mozilla’s New Security Chief: Dump Old Code informationweek.com “Window Snyder, whose hiring was announced last week, says she wants to get going. Her first initiative is to reduce the overall risk to Firefox by evaluating where there are unused features and by getting rid of the unused code.” B.C. loses track of computer tapes with citizens’ data itbusiness.ca “The B.C. government and Telus have tightened the way electronic records are handled at a Victoria data centre after computer tapes containing personal information on hundreds of thousands of B.C. residents were discovered missing. Toshiba Readies New HD DVD Players (PC World) PC World - The devices, which will be available soon, will offer better picture quality than earlier models. Cyber crime becoming more organized (Reuters) Reuters - Cyber scams are increasingly being committed by organized crime syndicates out to profit from sophisticated ruses rather than hackers keen to make an online name for themselves, according to a top U.S. official. Microsoft Security Advisory (925444): Vulnerability in the Microsoft DirectAnimation Path ActiveX Control Microsoft is investigating new public reports of vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer on Windows 2000 Service Pack 4, on Windows XP Service Pack 1, and on Windows XP Service Pack 2. Customers who are running Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server... Microsoft Brings the Works Online You might think the folks at Microsoft (MSFT) have bigger fish to fry than a tiny Bay Area startup named ThinkFree. The company, which offers Web-based word-processing and spreadsheet programs, counts about 60,000 active users, none of whom even pay for... Firefox 1.5.0.7 and Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 Released Updated versions of both Firefox and Thunderbird have been released: Firefox: Download: http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/ Update Details: ... Back to top Today's Job Postings Premier Field Engineer – SMS & MOM Role Purpose To build very successful relationships with customers through the delivery of a high-quality technical engagements in a specific technology area. Delivery of an excellent service is essential to promoting the engineer as the most customer focused offering available. The engagements may be short-term demand-led or longer term engagements with a dedicated customer. Read more... Back to top Today's Fun Click Around the World in a Bad Mood Back to top Grab the myITforum.com Feeds! myITforum.com offers a wide variety of RSS Feeds for the site. You can get your myITforum.com information 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, using your favorite RSS Feed Reader. Feed your brain: http://www.myitforum.com/rssfeed/ Back to top To remove yourself from this mailing list, click here. Login with your myITforum.com ID, and change your newsletter settings in your myITforum profile. 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• myITforum Daily Newsletter; September 14, 2006

  myITforum Daily Newsletter Daily Newsletter September 14, 2006 The myITforum.com newsletter is delivered Monday-Friday. If you desire to remove yourself from receiving the daily newsletter, see the removal instructions at the bottom of this issue. In this issue, you'll read: The myITforum.com Newsletter is sponsored by 1E: Community Notes myITforum Site Sponsorship Today's Articles Today in the Forums Today's Site Downloads Today's Web blog Posts Today's Industry News Today's Job Postings Today's Fun Click Grab the myITforum.com Feeds! The myITforum.com Newsletter is sponsored by 1E: Back to top Community Notes Two New SMS Books Worth Taking a Look At Both released by Apress, and both written by myITforum.com community members, you'll want to check into obtaining these books... Pro SMS 2003 (Field Guide) (Paperback) SMS Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach (Paperback) Potential for two new site newsletters We are considering launching a couple new newsletters for myITforum.com. Both would be sent out monthly. One would gather up all the most popular articles and posts during the month, the other would gather up some articles and posts that you might have missed. Please vote for the newsletter option you would prefer to see most: Vote here Back to top myITforum Site Sponsorship Read about our sponsors: http://www.myitforum.com/sponsors.asp Back to top Today's Articles SMS 2003, Scripting Vbs Script To Create and Copy CCR’s Based On A Machine List by Don Hite - 9/14/2006 This Vbs script will take a list of machine names from a text file called MachineList.txt and create CCR files for each of them using the minimum information required to successfully create an NT client configuration request. MOM, System Center System Center Operations Manager 2007 is coming by Andy Dominey - 9/14/2006 As you probably already know, SCOM 2007 is nearing release. RC1 is imminent and Beta 2 is already public. Scripting Executing PS1 Scripts From The PowerShell Command Window by Don Hite - 9/14/2006 There are several ways in which you can run or execute PowerShell scripts from within the PowerShell command window. Patch Management Microsoft KB 922582 by Rod Trent - 9/14/2006 Is anyone planning on deploying this, and if so, do you know the silent install switches for it? Windows Mobile, Web Technologies Windows Live Mobile is now in beta by Rod Trent - 9/14/2006 You can access the beta site on your Windows Mobile device by accessing the following URL... Back to top Today in the Forums SMS 2003 RE: Just a little tricky, Collection excluding a Query SMS Feature Packs RE: HAL detection during WinPE boot Web Reporting Creating web report that integrates a count Altiris Altiris Vs Express metrix SMS 2.0 Finding the value Last Used Date in Add/remove programs General Scripting RE: find folder MOM RE: Cannot open database requested in login 'SystemCenterReporting'. Login fails VB Script Easy excel script...if your a pro.... Breaking Virus & Security News RE: Microsoft Security Updates - August 2006 Back to top Today's Site Downloads SMSExtract xls rodtrent SMS 2.x, SMS 2003 9/14/2006 59.7 kb This Excel Spreadsheet can be used to retrieve information from your SMS Site database. Download... Back to top Today's Web blog Posts BDD 2007 Beta 2 is now available We've been busy adding capabilities into BDD 2007 Beta 2, now available for download. See the full announcement below. -Michael Niehaus BDD 2007 Developer Systems Design Engineer Core Infrastructure Solutions mniehaus@microsoft.com BDD 2007 Beta Updated... Read more... SMS 2003 Certification Contest Winners! The answer to yesterday’s question was A, C, and E. Here are the final scores, this includes anyone that said they wanted to participate, even if they never sent a single response. Alias Total Aaron S. 9 Adrian A. 11 Alex L. 9 Brian M. 19 Dan C.... Read more... Back to top Today's Industry News New battery tech still years away (Reuters) Reuters - Concerns over exploding computer batteries may be heating up, but alternative power sources for portable devices like laptops, music players and cellphones could still be up to 10 years away. Mobile telcos form new body to shape post-3G world (Reuters) Reuters - Seven leading global mobile phone operators said on Thursday they had formed an organization to examine how broadband wireless technology might evolve beyond current 3G standards. Segway recalls scooters for injury risk (AP) AP - Segway Inc. is recalling all 23,500 of the self-balancing scooters it has shipped to date because of a software glitch that can make its wheels unexpectedly reverse direction, causing riders to fall off. Wii Unmasked: Nintendo Reveals Price, Launch Date, Lineup Of Games - MTV.com bit-tech.net Wii Unmasked: Nintendo Reveals Price, Launch Date, Lineup Of Games MTV.com - 36 minutes ago NEW YORK - Nintendo finally dotted the i's on its new Wii video game console Thursday (September 14), announcing the machine's US launch date... Apple rules out iPod movies for Asia (AFP) AFP - Apple Computer's new iTunes movie service will not be available in much of Asia and there is no prospect of its roll-out in the near future, a company spokesman said. CBS wants to buy the next YouTube, not YouTube (Reuters) Reuters - CBS Corp (CBSa.N) is interested in spotting the next big phenomenon in user-generated programming over the Internet, not buying market leader YouTube, Chief Executive Leslie Moonves said on Thursday. WSS 3.0 Beta 2 Known Issues Workflow Unable to start workflows via browser on list item if list item was created and never updated on v2 site. The workaround is to update the list item first, and then you can navigate to workflow.aspx page for the list item. Views You get the following... Security Of Your Bluetooth Devices securitypronews.com “These days, all forms of communication technology face the problem of security and theft of personal details , and ‘bluetooth’ is no exception to these concerns, nor should it be. Most everybody knows by now that... Cybersecurity Holes Found in Mock Attack abcnews.go.com “Fake cyberattackers and hackers largely foiled government and industry attempts to fight back quickly and effectively during a test of computer security systems, the government said Wednesday.” Google Earth integrates multimedia content with locations - iTWire Playfuls.com Google Earth integrates multimedia content with locations iTWire - 1 hour ago Google has announced that it now offers Google Earth virtual travellers multimedia content related to locations that they view on the web using the service. Zune Unveilling Tomorrow ? Techcrunch reports Microsoft is conducting invite only press conversations tomorrow to discuss the rollout of Zune, their new bundled device/music service. Look for updates on TechCrunch and CrunchGear tomorrow AM as the story starts to break. How to enable Publishing features in SharePoint 2007 To use the Web content management features of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, you need to turn on the Publishing feature on a site. You can then brand the site so that it has your corporate look and feel, and you can enable users to edit the... Patch Tuesday omits critical Word fix - Register Earthtimes.org Patch Tuesday omits critical Word fix Register - 1 hour ago September's Patch Tuesday leaves users waiting for a fix to defend against a zero-day exploit in Microsoft Word, targeted by malware authors over recent days. Fixes Re-released... Disk drive turns 50 - Computer Business Review Earthtimes.org Disk drive turns 50 Computer Business Review - 17 minutes ago One of the cornerstone of IT, the commercial magnetic disk drive, is half a century old today or at least it is if it is dated from the public announcement in 1956 of IBM Corp's... Yahoo bets new Mail will call to users - San Jose Mercury News Yahoo bets new Mail will call to users San Jose Mercury News - 2 hours ago if they accept Yahoo's latest offer. Yahoo plans to release a polished version of Yahoo Mail it has been testing for about a year with a limited number of people. Yahoo spruces... Back to top Today's Job Postings Premier Field Engineer – SMS & MOM Role Purpose To build very successful relationships with customers through the delivery of a high-quality technical engagements in a specific technology area. Delivery of an excellent service is essential to promoting the engineer as the most customer focused offering available. The engagements may be short-term demand-led or longer term engagements with a dedicated customer. Read more... Back to top Today's Fun Click If Women Ruled the World Back to top Grab the myITforum.com Feeds! myITforum.com offers a wide variety of RSS Feeds for the site. You can get your myITforum.com information 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, using your favorite RSS Feed Reader. Feed your brain: http://www.myitforum.com/rssfeed/ Back to top To remove yourself from this mailing list, click here. Login with your myITforum.com ID, and change your newsletter settings in your myITforum profile. Note, that it may take a couple days to have your email address removed or changed in the system. If you don't remember what your myITforum.com ID and password is, please contact Admin@myITforum.com to request this information. Published with Newsletter Ease   Posted Sep 14 2006, 01:52 PM by Anonymous with no comments Filed under: myITforum Daily Newsletter

• myITforum Daily Newsletter; September 13, 2006

  myITforum Daily Newsletter Daily Newsletter September 13, 2006 The myITforum.com newsletter is delivered Monday-Friday. If you desire to remove yourself from receiving the daily newsletter, see the removal instructions at the bottom of this issue. In this issue, you'll read: The myITforum.com Newsletter is sponsored by 1E: Community Notes myITforum Site Sponsorship Today's Articles Today in the Forums Today's Site Downloads Today's Web blog Posts Today's Industry News Today's Job Postings Today's Fun Click Grab the myITforum.com Feeds! The myITforum.com Newsletter is sponsored by 1E: Back to top Community Notes Potential for two new site newsletters We are considering launching a couple new newsletters for myITforum.com. Both would be sent out monthly. One would gather up all the most popular articles and posts during the month, the other would gather up some articles and posts that you might have missed. Please vote for the newsletter option you would prefer to see most: Vote here 30% myITforum.com member discount from MANN Publishing If you are hankering to get hold of some new books for your technical library, Mann Publishing is offering a few of their books to you at a 30% discount. There are quite a few that you should be interested in, for things like SMS 2003 and MOM 2005. All you have to do is order using the following (secret) link: http://www.mannpublishing.com/partner.aspx?PID=1433292 Back to top myITforum Site Sponsorship Read about our sponsors: http://www.myitforum.com/sponsors.asp Back to top Today's Articles SMS 2003, Hardware and Gadgets Out of band and on the road… USMT3.0 gets a GUI: Using a GUI to cut down on the USMT learning curve by Andrew King - 9/13/2006 Microsoft USMT's allows IT support staff to easily migrate users data and settings to a new computer, but because it is only a command line tool it has a steep learning curve. The article includes a GUI which will create the command line syntax for you. MOM MOM FAQ: MOM - service monitoring by Rod Trent - 9/13/2006 My boss has strapped me with the task of creating scripts utilizing MOM to monitor the services and their status on all servers. I do not know where to begin, is there something in MOM that already does this? Scripting Configuring PowerShell Execution Policies by Don Hite - 9/13/2006 The PowerShell Execution Policies are like most things in PowerShell Cmdlets. Windows Five (or so) command lines to make you a better admin: faster, stronger, better than you were before. by Andrew King - 9/13/2006 There are five simple command lines every IT admin should know, and know how to execute them both on any machine they happen to sitting in front of, and against any remote machine in their enterprise: [runas], [*.msc -a /computer=],[start iexplore],[AT],[appwiz.cpl]. Sharepoint Sharepoint FAQ: Move database by Rod Trent - 9/13/2006 I have Sharepoint Portal Server 2003. I have two IIS - Webserver, one Index Server and 1 SQLSever in Cluster. Now I have to move my Databases from my SQL server to a new one. Is there any kind of white paper explaining the best way to do it? Back to top Today in the Forums Sharepoint Server RE: Sharepoint reporting MOM RE: MPCert Task? SMS 2003 RE: SMS_AD_SYSTEM_DISCOVERY_AGENT question SMS Feature Packs RE: RIS and WinPE: error 80040001 Web Reporting RE: Newbie needs help w/ downloaded MOF Software Update Services/Windows Update Services Move MSDE DB + Update directory General Scripting RE: editing AD user attribute Certification Contest Day 30 Windows PE RE: HAL detected differently depending on boot media Back to top Today's Site Downloads No download today If you have scripts, programs, or documents that you have created that you would like to share with your community, upload them today: http://www.myitforum.com/downloads/upload.asp For more information on how to upload, see the following link: http://myitforum.com/cs2/blogs/rtrent/archive/2006/06/24/21490.aspx Back to top Today's Web blog Posts My New Cell Phone - Chocolate....Mmmmm Here is SoCal Verizon, by far, has the best coverage and for those who attended MMS this year you probably learned that Cingular/at&t have the worst, T-Mobile works well, Sprint/Nextel is getting better but depending on where you live and work you... Read more... What's wrong with this picture? Checking my Live.com email account today, I noticed something that made me chuckle. There were 37 messages in my inbox and 7 messages in my Junk Mail folder. The funny thing is that ALL 42 messages were actually Spam. When are the free email services... Read more... Back to top Today's Industry News Event on Agile programming, VSTS and Team Foundation Server At the end of September, we will be hosting a free MSDN afternoon event on Developer Tools for Improving Your Software Development Lifecycle Process . The event will be on in both Dublin and Belfast on September 26 th and September 28 th respectively. Yahoo! China sued over software pushing allegations (AFP) AFP - A Beijing software group is suing Yahoo! China in an attempt to stop the company secretly foisting their programmes on to computer users, state press have said. Apple broadens iTunes use with PC-to-TV device (USATODAY.com) USATODAY.com - Aiming to solidify its dominance in digital media, Apple began selling movie downloads from Disney on Tuesday and introduced a device to take music, movies and photos from PCs to the TV. Software Factories First Impression I got this book from Microsoft HR member, Gretchen, who is MS101 coordinator in Redmond. Actually she bought this book for me, for I wanted get an autograph from Jack Greenfield on it. Even though I'm not finished with this book, this book is quite intresting Worm authors receive prison sentences - VNUNet.com Worm authors receive prison sentences VNUNet.com - 37 minutes ago The court sentenced Farid Essebar, a 19-year-old science student, to two years in jail and 22-year-old Achraf Bahloul to one year. Zotob Authors Sentenced in Morocco BetaNews Jail sentence Former youth leader accused of placing camera in camp shower oregonlive.com “LA GRANDE, Ore. (AP) — The youth director at a La Grande church was arrested on invasion of privacy charges, accused of placing a hidden camera in the girls shower at camp, the church pastor said. Jacob Hart, 27, was arraigned Monday Update: IBM Encrypts The Key to Privacy internetnews.com “…IBM today officially announced new encryption technology and services that claim to provide “end-to-end” protection of customer data stored on IBM tape drives. A key part of the solution is the IBM System Storage TiVo makes HD leap, but at a steep price - ZDNet KCRA.com TiVo makes HD leap, but at a steep price ZDNet - 43 minutes ago When the TiVo aficionado and blogger who goes by the handle "MegaZone" was offered a review unit of the new TiVo Series3 high-definition digital video recorder, he didn't Panasonic Extends Rugged NB Line - Techtree.com Computing News Panasonic Extends Rugged NB Line Techtree.com - 1 hour ago Panasonic Computer Solutions has reportedly unveiled three new business-rugged Toughbook notebook computers. The new products include the ultra-portable CF-W5, the tablet PC alternative Sony to launch Blu-ray recorder in Japan by Dec - Reuters.uk Earthtimes.org Sony to launch Blu-ray recorder in Japan by Dec Reuters.uk - 2 hours ago Sony Corp. said on Wednesday it will launch a DVD recorder using Blu-ray technology by the end of the year in Japan, fortifying its lineup of high-definition optical Microsoft to offer Xbox 360 with built-in HD-DVD drive, say makers - DigiTimes Playfuls.com Microsoft to offer Xbox 360 with built-in HD-DVD drive, say makers DigiTimes - 1 hour ago Microsoft has started designing a new-generation of Xbox 360's equipped with an internal HD-DVD drive and is selecting manufacturers in Taiwan to Identity theft on the rise htrnews.com “MANITOWOC — Bob Stauffer has never been a victim of identity theft, but if he ever is, he feels prepared. “I’m ready if it happens,” he said. “I have all my credit card numbers and their phone numbers written down in case my wallet Back to top Today's Job Postings SMS ADMINISTRATOR JOB OPENING IN NJ CONTACT KARRIE AT KARRIE@IRISSOFTINC.COM PLEASE SEND RESUME NO LATER THAN 9/13/06 SMS ADMIN WITH SQL SERVER This person will be an administrator for the Microsoft Systems Management Server product. This person will be responsible for all facets of SMS... Read more... SMS, WISE, MSI FULLTIME OPENING IN NJ This is a fulltime position in Jersey City, NJ Qualified candidates please submit resume to Karrie@irissoftinc.com If you do not have 21 CFR part 11 compliance this is not demanded SMS, MSI and WISE Packaging are the main skills. Read the full job posting&hellip... Read more... Back to top Today's Fun Click Simpson's Zombie Game Back to top Grab the myITforum.com Feeds! myITforum.com offers a wide variety of RSS Feeds for the site. You can get your myITforum.com information 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, using your favorite RSS Feed Reader. Feed your brain: http://www.myitforum.com/rssfeed/ Back to top To remove yourself from this mailing list, click here. Login with your myITforum.com ID, and change your newsletter settings in your myITforum profile. Note, that it may take a couple days to have your email address removed or changed in the system. 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  We are considering launching a couple new newsletters for myITforum.com.  Both would be sent out monthly.  One would gather up all the most popular articles and posts during the month, the other would gather up some articles and posts that you might have missed.  Please vote for the newsletter option you would prefer to see most. Vote here… Posted Sep 13 2006, 01:31 PM by Anonymous with no comments Filed under: myITforum Daily Newsletter

• myITforum Daily Newsletter; September 12, 2006

  myITforum Daily Newsletter Daily Newsletter September 12, 2006 The myITforum.com newsletter is delivered Monday-Friday. If you desire to remove yourself from receiving the daily newsletter, see the removal instructions at the bottom of this issue. In this issue, you'll read: The myITforum.com Newsletter is sponsored by 1E: Community Notes myITforum Site Sponsorship Today's Articles Today in the Forums Today's Site Downloads Today's Web blog Posts Today's Industry News Today's Job Postings Today's Fun Click Grab the myITforum.com Feeds! The myITforum.com Newsletter is sponsored by 1E: Back to top Community Notes 30% myITforum.com member discount from MANN Publishing If you are hankering to get hold of some new books for your technical library, Mann Publishing is offering a few of their books to you at a 30% discount. There are quite a few that you should be interested in, for things like SMS 2003 and MOM 2005. All you have to do is order using the following (secret) link: http://www.mannpublishing.com/partner.aspx?PID=1433292 Back to top myITforum Site Sponsorship Read about our sponsors: http://www.myitforum.com/sponsors.asp Back to top Today's Articles SMS 2003 SMS Site Properties Query by Don Hite - 9/12/2006 The Sites table is where you can find information pertaining to the identification and the status of your SMS site installation. MOM MOM FAQ: Total number of emails by Rod Trent - 9/12/2006 Anyone have a script or know the rule within ExMP to monitor Total number of emails in current queues? Scripting Installing Microsoft Windows PowerShell by Don Hite - 9/12/2006 To install Windows PowerShell follow the instructions below and experience the new face of scripting for yourself. Windows By Request Script To Open The Services Snap-In On A Remote Machine by Don Hite - 9/12/2006 Use this Vbs script to open the Services snap-in on a remote Computer. Microsoft Office Vbs Script To Edit WinWord’s Spelling Checker Custom Dictionary by Don Hite - 9/12/2006 Microsoft Word includes a custom dictionary that keeps a list of words you want to acknowledge as correctly spelled even though Word's default dictionary doesn't recognize them. Back to top Today in the Forums SMS 2003 RE: Failed to resolve IP from WINS or AD myITforum Bar-and-Grill RE: What you think about this IQ test? SMS Feature Packs RE: RIS and WinPE: error 80040001 Job Board RE: What is avg SMS consulting hourly rate in NE Windows PE RE: HAL detected differently depending on boot media Certification Discussion RE: Online Certification Study Groups - hosted by Microsoft and myITforum.com Automated Deployment Services (ADS) RE: GUI for USMT v3 (with some limitation) MOM RE: All Queues Certification Discussion RE: 070-089 Back to top Today's Site Downloads No download today If you have scripts, programs, or documents that you have created that you would like to share with your community, upload them today: http://www.myitforum.com/downloads/upload.asp For more information on how to upload, see the following link: http://myitforum.com/cs2/blogs/rtrent/archive/2006/06/24/21490.aspx Back to top Today's Web blog Posts My son's Q died today Man... ...a birthday present gone haywire. My son's Motorola Q is already ready for a swap. After a bit of research it appears that a horde of others are having similar issues. The horde are blaming Motorola for producing a badly engineered device - it... Read more... Toggle Remote Desktop - Ron Crumbaker's Web Remote tool In our environment, the default on the XP image is to not have Remote Desktop enabled. But then there are always exceptions--we have Kiosk-type workstations in common areas. The techs wanted a way to Toggle Remote Desktop on and off so when they had to... Read more... Back to top Today's Industry News Cingular Intros Nokia E62, A Compact Keyboard Smartphone Reasonably priced communicator-style handset aims to deliver push e-mail and the Web to the masses. New spec targets mobile phone security Efforts to establish security standards for mobile devices were boosted Tuesday with the release of the Mobile Trusted Module specification. Windows will beat Linux threat, say academics Major customers such as governments and large corporations are critical if Linux is ever to knock out the Windows monopoly, according to an upcoming economic study authored by two Harvard faculty members. HP's Dunn to step down in January Patricia Dunn, HP's embattled chairman, will be relieved of those duties after the board's Jan. 18, 2007, meeting, but will continue as a director. Coming soon: Hydrogen-powered BMW - CNN Autochannel (press release) Coming soon: Hydrogen-powered BMW CNN - 21 minutes ago Luxury sedan will burn both hydrogen and gasoline. It will be provided to selected drivers. By Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNNMoney.com staff writer. BMW to Make Hydrogen-Powered... Symantec announces features and release date for Norton security ... - Pocket-lint.co.uk Barron's (subscription) Symantec announces features and release date for Norton security ... Pocket-lint.co.uk - 25 minutes ago 12 September 2006 - Symantec has finally announced the launch date for its upcoming Norton suite of consumer security software... Software Pirate Gets 7 Years in Prison (NewsFactor) NewsFactor - A California man has been sentenced to more than seven years in prison and ordered to pay $5.4 million in restitution for selling pirated software online. PALM TREO 750V REview As a fanatical Windows Mobile supporter - I never thought I'd find myself writing an article about how great a Palm device was! My journey through devices did stop at the Palm stop one time in my past however. Just before I joined Microsoft I had a Palm... Hunting Security Bugs - it's a good book that can help you improve the security of your code Tom Gallagher, Bryan Jeffries and Lawrence Landauer have produced a very useful book that they describe as follows: Learn how to think like an attacker—and identify potential security issues in your software. In this essential guide, security testing... Back to top Today's Job Postings Security Project Manager Needed My client is looking for a experienced Project Manager that can manage Enterprise Security Projects the involve working with CSA, Aventail, and HC II Firewall Improvements. Candidates must also have excellent planning, organizing and communication skills in order to be considered. Read more... Work at Microsoft: SQL PFE Infrastructure in AZ, CA, DC, MA, and CO Primary responsibilities include providing technical and creative solutions for service delivery by visiting customer problems sites, while ensuring customer satisfaction with Microsoft SQL, Networking, BackOffice and Desktop software. The successful... Read More... Work at Microsoft: Premier Field Engineer (Formerly Rapid Response Engineer) Infrastructure/Management Technologies (SMS) Primary responsibilities include providing onsite technical support solutions for customer service delivery and availability, while ensuring satisfaction with Microsoft software on the client and server. The successful candidate will be capable of providing Read More... Back to top Today's Fun Click Did you know that... Back to top Grab the myITforum.com Feeds! myITforum.com offers a wide variety of RSS Feeds for the site. You can get your myITforum.com information 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, using your favorite RSS Feed Reader. Feed your brain: http://www.myitforum.com/rssfeed/ Back to top To remove yourself from this mailing list, click here. Login with your myITforum.com ID, and change your newsletter settings in your myITforum profile. Note, that it may take a couple days to have your email address removed or changed in the system. 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• myITforum Daily Newsletter; September 11, 2006

  myITforum Daily Newsletter Daily Newsletter September 11, 2006 The myITforum.com newsletter is delivered Monday-Friday. If you desire to remove yourself from receiving the daily newsletter, see the removal instructions at the bottom of this issue. In this issue, you'll read: The myITforum.com Newsletter is sponsored by 1E: Community Notes myITforum Site Sponsorship Today's Articles Today in the Forums Today's Site Downloads Today's Web blog Posts Today's Industry News Today's Job Postings Today's Fun Click Grab the myITforum.com Feeds! The myITforum.com Newsletter is sponsored by 1E: Back to top Community Notes The Microsoft folks love us... Here’s some goodness for the myITforum.com crowd. There’s some reformatting to do, but the Microsoft folks have given us access to the vLabs on myITforum.com: http://www.myitforum.com/vlabs/msvlabs.asp 9-11. Five Years After Where were you when you first heard about the events of September 11, 2001? Were you glued to the television screen like I was? I was glued to the television screen in a small hotel restaurant in Berlin, Germany. I was just coming down from my hotel room to give a presentation on SMS Installer and noticed a whole horde of people who were attending the conference crowded into the small restaurant, peering at the television screen. So, I stopped to take a look before heading into the conference room. I was immediately transfixed. Like most, I first thought this was a horrible accident. Then, the second plane hit the second tower, showing that this was an act of terrorism and murder. I had to go. My SMS Installer session was starting. I hustled through the presentation so I could rush back to the television screen to see what had transpired during the hour I was speaking. The days and nights following the incident, I still sat transfixed to the television screen in my hotel room. I was supposed to leave for home the day after my presentation, and then head on to Australia to give another presentation in a few days, but due to the updated security measures I was stranded in Berlin. A week later I was headed home after riding the German rails to Frankfurt. Frankfurt was the only city that had flights back to the United States. 5 years later, I still cannot forget all the events of that day, and the weeks, months, and years that followed. Just like I was transfixed to the television screen, my mind still sees the events just as clearly. Let's take a moment today to remember those lost in the 9-11 tragedy, and have faith that the events following that tragic day will lead us to a better world. 30% myITforum.com member discount from MANN Publishing If you are hankering to get hold of some new books for your technical library, Mann Publishing is offering a few of their books to you at a 30% discount. There are quite a few that you should be interested in, for things like SMS 2003 and MOM 2005. All you have to do is order using the following (secret) link: http://www.mannpublishing.com/partner.aspx?PID=1433292 Back to top myITforum Site Sponsorship Read about our sponsors: http://www.myitforum.com/sponsors.asp Back to top Today's Articles SMS 2003 Protected Distribution Points by Don Hite - 9/11/2006 A Protected Distribution Point has specific boundaries assigned to it that allows you to prevent your advanced clients from connecting to a DP that is on a slow or WAN link. Scripting Accessing WMI Objects With PowerShell by Don Hite - 9/11/2006 Use PowerShell with your current knowledge of WMI SQL Server Codd's 12 Rules For The Relational Model by Don Hite - 9/11/2006 In 1985 Dr. Codd published a list of 12 rules to define a relational database in Computerworld magazine that still stand today as a “Guide” to Relational Database Management Systems (RDBMS) such as Microsoft SQL. Web Technologies Google Web Page Search Engine Tips by Don Hite - 9/11/2006 Google Web Page Search Engine Tips Security Day something or another: Taking the Windows Live OneCare Challenge by Rod Trent - 9/11/2006 I really, really wanted to hate Windows Live OneCare. I really wanted to think that those companies that have been around the security industry, for what seems like eons (in Internet years), would be better and more comprehensive. Back to top Today in the Forums SMS 2003 RE: Copying packages General Scripting RE: Scripting deletion of computer in SMS SMS 2003 Desired Configuration Monitoring (DCM) RE: DCM Collections Exchange Server RE: Troubleshooting delivery problems Back to top Today's Site Downloads No download today If you have scripts, programs, or documents that you have created that you would like to share with your community, upload them today: http://www.myitforum.com/downloads/upload.asp For more information on how to upload, see the following link: http://myitforum.com/cs2/blogs/rtrent/archive/2006/06/24/21490.aspx Back to top Today's Web blog Posts Microsoft PowerShell Links PowerShell Team Blog PowerShell Newsgroup TechNet Script Center PowerShell Page Microsoft Windows server 2003 R2 PowerShell Page... Read more... Here we go -- once again a glutton for punishment Today is the day. I’ve decided to download the replacement to Microsoft FrontPage, Microsoft Expression Web Beta 1 . I’ll let you know how it goes… Hopefully, it’s all I want, plus a box of donuts.... Read more... Back to top Today's Industry News ClearApp, formerly Acsera, unveils app management (InfoWorld) InfoWorld - ClearApp, formerly Acsera, on Tuesday is announcing ClearApp QuickVision 6.0, providing model-based application management for SOA, J2EE environments, and enterprise portals. Factory Development Approaches For some time now I have been looking at defining the EFx factory in formal terms, and noting the challenges with that process. The EFx factory did not start out life as a factory, or on the factory band wagon, and instead it evolved into a software factory... More televisions, laptops make shift to wider screens (USATODAY.com) USATODAY.com - SAN FRANCISCO - Televisions and laptops with wide screens are quickly becoming the standard - making standard-format screens seem awfully square. Researcher IDC predicts that almost 100% of new laptops will be widescreen by 2008. Most flat-panel... Windows Vista Sidebar in Windows XP Some hackers posted a package which makes Windows Vista Sidebar available on Windows XP. You can download it here and see the guides. http://mstn.homedns.org/mstn/asp/news/news_detail.asp?id=3520... HP board to meet again on fate of chairperson thestar.com “SAN FRANCISCO—Hewlett-Packard Co.’s board of directors are to meet again today over the fate of embattled chairperson Patricia Dunn, who is facing calls to resign or be fired for her role in an internal investigation that may... Memory-Tech, Toshiba announce DVD, HD DVD supported disc - Digital Media Asia Computing News Memory-Tech, Toshiba announce DVD, HD DVD supported disc Digital Media Asia - 1 hour ago Memory-Tech and Toshiba have unveiled the latest advance in DVD disc technology: a jointly developed, single-sided, three-layer ROM disc supporting... Samsung issues bullish outlook on - Sydney Morning Herald Playfuls.com Samsung issues bullish outlook on Sydney Morning Herald - 1 hour ago Samsung Electronics Co. on Monday offered a bullish outlook on the global semiconductor industry, with a top executive predicting increased demand for chips used in both... IIS stops handling *.svc requests after installing .Net 3.0 RC1 Hello, I experienced this problem on two machines with Windows XP as OS, so I think other people may also run into this. After uninstalling .Net 3.0 June CTP and all additional components (SDK, VS extensions for .Net 3.0 and WF), then installing .Net... Cisco banking on collaboration tools (InfoWorld) InfoWorld - Triple plays are rare in baseball. But Cisco Systems CEO John Chambers plans to do one better Wednesday by promising to pull off a "quadruple play" in the networking business: incorporating data, voice, video, and mobile capabilities across... WYSINLAWYG (What You See Is No Longer Always What You Get) One way to look at the issues in You say it 'looks good on paper?' It must not be using ClearType.... is to realize that ClearType represents a reversal in the WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) battle that TrueType actually helped Windows win on... CRM in Enterprises and data integration I had the privilege to visit one of our large enterprise customers a few weeks back. The visit was tremendously informative and valuable and we spent two days talking with employees of all levels from sales people and consultants to general managers and... Vodafone to enter fixed-line broadband market (Reuters) Reuters - Mobile phone operator Vodafone Group Plc confirmed on Monday its plan to enter the cut-throat fixed-line broadband Internet market via a deal with the wholesale arm of telecoms firm BT Group Plc... Back to top Today's Job Postings Security Project Manager Needed My client is looking for a experienced Project Manager that can manage Enterprise Security Projects the involve working with CSA, Aventail, and HC II Firewall Improvements. Candidates must also have excellent planning, organizing and communication skills in order to be considered. Read more... Work at Microsoft: SQL PFE Infrastructure in AZ, CA, DC, MA, and CO Primary responsibilities include providing technical and creative solutions for service delivery by visiting customer problems sites, while ensuring customer satisfaction with Microsoft SQL, Networking, BackOffice and Desktop software. The successful... Read More... Work at Microsoft: Premier Field Engineer (Formerly Rapid Response Engineer) Infrastructure/Management Technologies (SMS) Primary responsibilities include providing onsite technical support solutions for customer service delivery and availability, while ensuring satisfaction with Microsoft software on the client and server. The successful candidate will be capable of providing Read More... Back to top Today's Fun Click Soupy George Back to top Grab the myITforum.com Feeds! myITforum.com offers a wide variety of RSS Feeds for the site. You can get your myITforum.com information 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, using your favorite RSS Feed Reader. Feed your brain: http://www.myitforum.com/rssfeed/ Back to top To remove yourself from this mailing list, click here. Login with your myITforum.com ID, and change your newsletter settings in your myITforum profile. Note, that it may take a couple days to have your email address removed or changed in the system. 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