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• myITforum Daily Newsletter; November 30, 2006

  myITforum Daily Newsletter Daily Newsletter November 30, 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 very bottom of this issue. In this issue, you'll read: The myITforum.com Newsletter is brought to you 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 myITforum.com Reading Room Selection Today's FAQ Items Today's Wiki Updates Today's Industry News Today's Job Postings IT's Potential Realized Today's Fun Click The myITforum.com Newsletter is brought to you by 1E: Back to top Community Notes More MMS Wiki Goodness Yesterday, I spent a lot of time updating the content for the Microsoft Management Summit Wiki. This thing is really shaping up. Not only can you find information and tools for the upcoming MMS 2007, but it also talks about the past MMS’s along with hosting a growing bevy of photos and videos from past events. Check it out when you get time: Microsoft Management Summit - Past, Present, Future …but, we still need your input. MMS is probably the best Microsoft conference available. Those that have attended in the past, know that. If you have attended in the past, have photos, stories, anecdotes, comments, testimonials — anything — and you want to share, drop a note to: admin@myITforum.com Yes...we have a Tivoli forum! There has never been a lot of activity in the Tivoli forum over the years, but yes, the forum does exist. I only remember the forum when someone posts there, and that happened today. So, if any of you have Tivoli experience or knowledge, drop by the Tivoli forum to help a peer out: Tivoli Storage Manager and Problem with LTO 3852 Tivoli 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 Rerun User or Usergroup Targeted Mandatory Advertisement by Sherry Kissinger - 11/30/2006 Remotely trigger a re-run of a mandatory, user or usergroup targeted advertisement. Scripting, SMS 2003 Vbs Script To Enumerate A Subnet Range And Determine Which Machines Are SMS Clients by Don Hite - 11/30/2006 Use this Vbs script to enumerate a subnet range or range of IP addresses to determine which machines are or are not SMS clients and send the results to Excel. Networking Microsoft releases Network Monitor v3.0 by Andy Ray - 11/30/2006 Microsoft has publicly released an update to the venerable Network Monitor utility. Read on to find out what has changed and how you can get a copy today. Hardware and Gadgets Regal Theaters battles cell phones by John Gormly - 11/30/2006 Regal Entertainment Group, the largest U.S. movie theater chain, is arming moviegoers with a new gadget that allows them to call in the ushers and remove unruly audience members with the press of a button. MOM Latest version of Availability Reporting Management Pack fixes the 0x80040e37 error by Rod Trent - 11/30/2006 After you install and configure the Microsoft Availability Reporting Management Pack for Microsoft Operations Manager 2005, the ReliabilityAnalysisReporting scheduled task displays a status of 0x80040e37. View today's articles in your favorite RSS Aggregator using our special RSS feed. Back to top 1E - Intelligent Windows Management Back to top Today in the Forums SMS 2003 RE: Secondary Site Server install failing SMS Feature Packs Vista Deployment AntiVirus Products and Best Practices McAfee VirusScan 8.5i Released Tivoli Tivoli Storage Manager and Problem with LTO 3852 MOM RE: Alerting on Dir Permission changes General Scripting RE: script to copy desktop shortcuts to start menu Want to read the forum posts as they happen? Let your RSS Aggregator grab them for you, using this 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 Read what's available today for download from myITforum.com in your favorite RSS Aggregator. Subscribe using this link. Back to top Today's Web blog Posts Altiris and Gartner at odds on Windows Vista acceptance Steve Morton, vice president of product management and marketing for IT consultancy Altiris, echos that sentiment. "I think we'll see an uptake immediately. I don't have a really good sense of how this will compare with XP, but I can definitely say there... Read more... New SMS 2003 KB Articles If you have noticed that your SMS database increases in size after you install SMS 2003 SP2 then this KB article might be for you. If your SMS client cannot discover the site code when the SLP is running on 2003 SP1, then this might be your solution.... Read more... Read posts from the myITforum.com bloggers using the RSS Feed: The myITforum.com Bloggers RSS Feed Back to top Today's myITforum.com Reading Room Selection Back to top Today's FAQ Items Read the FAQ as it happens! Grab the RSS Feed. Back to top Today's Wiki Updates Microsoft Management Summit - Past, Present, Future Windows PowerShell The History of SMS Grab the RSS feed for the myITforum.com Wiki so you can stay up-to-date on Wiki additions and changes automatically: RSS Feed Back to top Today's Industry News Microsoft Dynamics NAV receives high rating A new analysis utilising The Accounting Library , one of the most respected software selection tools serving the needs of midmarket companies, Microsoft Dynamics NAV was determined to be among the top-ranked business management solutions when compared Zune has chance to take iPod market share: survey SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp. may have a chance to take market share from the iPod as a Reuters survey showed 35 percent of those interested in its Zune device would be replacing an existing digital music player. Microsoft, the world's No. McAfee VirusScan 8.5i Released Well McAfee have released their latest corporate offering just in time for Windows Vista. This version of VirusScan is compatible with 32 bit and 64... Launch, Launch, Launch! Ready for a new day? It's here! Today is the day. 30th November 2006. $20Billion of research and development is here, and it really will herald the new world of work by simplifying how people work together, find information, improve business insight, protect and manage content New Vista Training Courses Available This one-day clinic introduces students to Microsoft Windows Vista, including an introduction to security, reliability, performance, manageability, and productivity features and includes Hands on Labs. Terminal Services client v6.0 released This is now available to download for Windows 2003 & XP. There are quite a few new features - more info is over at the terminal services team blog. Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 - Beta 2 available for download This is now available for download from this location. http://www.Microsoft.com/windowsserversystem/virtualserver/downloads/servicepack.mspx This version of Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 - Beta 2 will work with Vista. However a little tweaking needs to be Ready for a new day? The new Microsoft site! In just a few hours, the business launch of Windows Vista will take place at the NASDAQ headquarters. At launch, Micosoft will unveil the new site: http://msnewday.com/ . Check it out! 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 Infrastructure Engineer in Minneapolis, MN Senior Level Wise Packager Irvine, CA 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 IT's Potential Realized Back to top Today's Fun Click American Presidential Oddities Back to top Published with Newsletter Ease   Posted Nov 30 2006, 02:02 PM by newsletter with no comments Filed under: myITforum Daily Newsletter

• myITforum Daily Newsletter; November 29, 2006

  myITforum Daily Newsletter Daily Newsletter November 29, 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 very bottom of this issue. In this issue, you'll read: The myITforum.com Newsletter is brought to you 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 myITforum.com Reading Room Selection Today's FAQ Items Today's Wiki Updates Today's Industry News Today's Job Postings IT's Potential Realized Today's Fun Click The myITforum.com Newsletter is brought to you by 1E: Back to top Community Notes A couple neat things you can participate in We’ve added a couple new pages/sections to the myITforum.com Wiki that you might find interesting. I sure do. The two areas are: 1. The history of SMS, and 2. Microsoft Management Summit (MMS) Here’s how you can participate… For the SMS area, send us your stories about working with SMS in it’s various versions, from 1.x to 2.x, and we’ll post them in the Wiki. These could be from small anecdotes about how version 1.x destroyed your network, to how 2.x was leaps and bounds above earlier versions. Anything you want to say and share, just drop an email about it. For the MMS area, there are a couple things you can do to help. First, we need links to your MMS pictures. If you have MMS pictures posted on the Internet somewhere, drop us a link and we’ll add it to the Wiki page for MMS. The other thing you can do is to send us your MMS stories. MMS is a great place to network with your peers and have a lot of fun, all while learning about Microsoft management products. Send in those stories and we’ll post them to the MMS Wiki for all to read and see. Drop your stories and links to: admin@myITforum.com Thanks ahead of time! What's your favorite section in the Daily Newsletter? Take this poll and help us make the Daily Newsletter better: myITforum Newsletter Poll Marty has been busy! Our new Windows PowerShell forum moderator and Microsoft MVP, Marty List, posted some great resource links for Windows PowerShell yesterday. Check them out: Windows PowerShell links For those that missed it... Ron Crumbaker's book was released on November 1st. I noticed in email threads that some folks may have missed the book's official release. Here's a link to it: SMS 2003 Administrator's Reference: Systems Management Server 2003 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 Annual Patch Status Report - SMS 2003 Web Report by Rod Kruetzfeld - 11/29/2006 I ran across this report from Shaun Cassells; it lists all the updates labeled with a prefix of MS06 and displays their status and percentage compliant clients. This is a great overview report; but I found it was not setup to leverage the data coming from ITMU. Scripting, SMS 2003 VBS Script To Export SMS Web Reports To Microsoft Word by Don Hite - 11/29/2006 This Vbs script will take an SMS site server name and site code from an input box and then enumerate all of the SMS Web Reports on that server. It will then add them to a Microsoft Word document that you can save for future reference. SMS Alliance 1E is one of the 100 fastest growing technology companies in the UK by Rod Trent - 11/29/2006 London, Nov 28th 2006: Announced at the annual Sunday Times Tech Track 100 awards dinner, 1E is one of the 100 fastest growing technology companies in the UK. View today's articles in your favorite RSS Aggregator using our special RSS feed. Back to top 1E - Intelligent Windows Management Back to top Today in the Forums Active Directory and Group Policy Adding Trusted Sites in Group Policy SMS 2003 RE: Anybody using DCM? SMS Feature Packs RE: The “State Restore” phase may not run/ KB903668 CA Unicenter RE: Help me! MOM RE: Mis reporting in MOM when % memory utilization is queried Windows PowerShell Windows PowerShell links myITforum Article Discussions DST article Want to read the forum posts as they happen? Let your RSS Aggregator grab them for you, using this RSS feed. Back to top Today's Site Downloads ADWakeup tiversen Windows, Active Directory and Group Policy 11/29/2006 1 mb New version of ADWakeup (v1.1). ADWakeup uses Wake-On-LAN to power on computers that are registered in Active Directory. You don’t have to manually register computers with their ip and/or mac addresses or even remember the computer name. ADWakeup integrates with Active Directory components to find all the necessary data to power on the computers. Download... Read what's available today for download from myITforum.com in your favorite RSS Aggregator. Subscribe using this link. Back to top Today's Web blog Posts I took the Office 2007 plunge today Well, I did it. I installed Office 2007 today, upgrading from Office 2003. My first take is that the applications are more aesthetically pleasing. Outlook is real purty. But, has anyone who has this installed, noticed that MS Office actually runs slower... Read more... SMS Birth Dates Got this from -> http://blogs.msdn.com/shitanshu/archive/2006/11/29/sms-birthdates-aka-sms-release-dates.aspx I was looking for some info and came to know about SMS birthdates aka SMS release dates so far, and found interesting to share with everyone…... Read more... Read posts from the myITforum.com bloggers using the RSS Feed: The myITforum.com Bloggers RSS Feed Back to top Today's myITforum.com Reading Room Selection Back to top Today's FAQ Items Read the FAQ as it happens! Grab the RSS Feed. Back to top Today's Wiki Updates The History of SMS Systems Management Server 2003 SMS 2003 Advanced Client Troubleshooting ITMU Scan Process SMS 2003 Log Descriptions Windows PowerShell Microsoft Management Summit Grab the RSS feed for the myITforum.com Wiki so you can stay up-to-date on Wiki additions and changes automatically: RSS Feed Back to top Today's Industry News TechNet Virtual Lab: 2007 Microsoft Office System A lot of new contents are available here : http://www.microsoft.com/technet/traincert/virtuallab/office.mspx • 2007 Microsoft Office System: Virtual Lab Express • Virtual Lab Express: Microsoft 2007 Office System Overview • 2007 Microsoft Office System Explaining Vista Editions - the fun way WindowsVistaRetail.com does a really good job of explaining the different editions of Windows Vista. It's so easy to understand which edition you should choose according to which type of user you are. Even Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols who was really confused Microsoft IT shares deployment best practices for WAVE products Through Microsoft IT Showcase, Microsoft IT documents and shares its early adopter experiences, best experiences, and lessons learned from our own deployments of the 2007 Office system , Windows Vista , Exchange Server 2007 , and much more. Through a Technet Magazine December 2006: Exchange 2007 Getting ready to make the move to Exchange 2007? You've come to the right place. This month we'll show you how to prepare for the upgrade, how to write scripts to manage Exchange using the Exchange Management Shell, and how you get the best of anywhere New tool for TFS written by a MVP : TFS Permission Manager 1.0 While there's a good chunk of overlap with the TFSAdmin project on codeplex , it looks like this tool does cover a number of things that TFSAdmin doesn't. If nothing else, it's always good to have at least 2 entries in a space to help push each other Return codes for .NET Framework 3.0 setup A while back, I posted a list of possible return codes for the .NET Framework 2.0 . I recently found out that the setup wrapper for the .NET Framework 3.0 can return a couple of other error codes in certain scenarios, so I wanted to list those here as Compliance and how 2007 Office System can help (New Whitepaper) A new whitepaper has been released which talks about regulatory compliance and how the 2007 Office System can help. Get it from here . Overview This white paper showcases compliance-related features and extensibility opportunities with the 2007 Microsoft Daylight Savings Time changes in 2007 As some may be aware the Energy Policy Act of 2005 mandated that Daylight Savings time would be extended, starting in 2007. Last week a new patch was made available for XP Pro and Windows Server 2003 systems. For XP Embedded systems the Windows Sustained Spam crackdown ordered across Europe networks.silicon.com “Tougher tactics are needed to crack down on spam, according to the European Commission. National authorities should step up their actions to prosecute illegal online activities, the EC said, warning that spammers and spyware-mongers Microsoft to debut Vista operating system for business - Zee News The Decatur Daily Microsoft to debut Vista operating system for business Zee News - 1 hour ago New York, Nov 29: Microsoft will announce availability of business versions of its long-awaited Vista operating system on Thursday, according to analysts invited Battle of the boxes: PlayStation 3 vs Wii - Moneyweb Laptop Logic Battle of the boxes: PlayStation 3 vs Wii Moneyweb - 1 hour ago Test of new game systems finds cheaper, simpler Wii to be more exciting and fun. Even people utterly uninterested in videogames know by now that two new game machines have arrived 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 Infrastructure Engineer in Minneapolis, MN 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 IT's Potential Realized Back to top Today's Fun Click Best Wildlife Photos of 2006 Back to top Published with Newsletter Ease   Posted Nov 29 2006, 03:41 PM by newsletter with no comments Filed under: myITforum Daily Newsletter

• myITforum Daily Newsletter; November 28, 2006

  myITforum Daily Newsletter Daily Newsletter November 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 very bottom of this issue. In this issue, you'll read: The myITforum.com Newsletter is brought to you 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 myITforum.com Reading Room Selection Today's FAQ Items Today's Wiki Updates Today's Industry News Today's Job Postings IT's Potential Realized Today's Fun Click The myITforum.com Newsletter is brought to you by 1E: Back to top Community Notes myITforum.com Wiki News The Wiki content is definitely filling up. Getting the Wiki filled with content has become a fun mission, but there’s a lot still to do. If you have created an account in the past and have yet to start editing and creating content, drop by the Wiki to see where you can help: myITforum.com Wiki main page If you've not created an account yet, anyone and everyone is welcome to participate in creating the myITforum.com repository of great information. Drop out here to create an account today: Create an Account If you have problems creating an account, just drop an email to admin@myITforum.com 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 Those Lazy SMS Properties! by Don Hite - 11/28/2006 Some of the object properties within SMS are lazy. To be more precise they are ‘Lazy Properties’. This simply means that the data exist but it is not exposed to the SMS Query builder or the SMS console. However it can be accessed using WMI or WbemTest. Scripting Vbs Script To Create Directories Using An Excel Spreadsheet by Don Hite - 11/28/2006 This Vbs script will create directory names contained in an Excel spreadsheet. Windows Report a problematic hard disk before it fails - it is possible! by Haim Ziv - 11/28/2006 How many times did you visit your event log just for fun? once a day? once a week? once a month? And how many times did you visit your customer's event log? None?? Hmm.. Hardware and Gadgets Palm Treo 680 by John Gormly - 11/28/2006 I’ve been testing the Palm Treo 680 the last couple of days. So what do I think? View today's articles in your favorite RSS Aggregator using our special RSS feed. Back to top 1E - Intelligent Windows Management Back to top Today in the Forums SMS 2003 RE: Developing Tool for SMS client verification SMS Feature Packs Winpe OSD FP reduce size how to Windows Server Server Monitoring and Reporting Web Reporting RE: Report for the installed software change on a special client Breaking Virus & Security News ISC:bots exploiting the Symantec Client Security and Antivirus escalation of privilege vulnerability Software Update Services/Windows Update Services extra i386 folder on my WSUS server MOM SMTP monitoring question Want to read the forum posts as they happen? Let your RSS Aggregator grab them for you, using this 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 Read what's available today for download from myITforum.com in your favorite RSS Aggregator. Subscribe using this link. Back to top Today's Web blog Posts Building and Deploying Vista from an Image Aaron has put together a great list of resources for building a Vista image. If you have not used Vista, or read about it, the install process as well as how the OS is built is different than XP and prior OS’s. In addition with the new OSD FP/USMT... Read more... Vista to prove more popular than XP - Altiris diss'd by TechWorld.com Ovum software analyst David Mitchell has predicted that up to 15 percent of PC users will move to Vista within the first year. "That would make it the fastest-moving operating system ever," he claimed. However, in recent weeks people have been just as... Read more... Read posts from the myITforum.com bloggers using the RSS Feed: The myITforum.com Bloggers RSS Feed Back to top Today's myITforum.com Reading Room Selection Back to top Today's FAQ Items I am getting an error exit code 7 on my post install for Zero Touch Installation does anyone know what this could be? Read the FAQ as it happens! Grab the RSS Feed. Back to top Today's Wiki Updates Welcome to the myITforum.com Wiki Service SMS 2003 Log Descriptions Windows PowerShell Grab the RSS feed for the myITforum.com Wiki so you can stay up-to-date on Wiki additions and changes automatically: RSS Feed Back to top Today's Industry News Microsoft Game Studios Announce Shadowrun Beta Microsoft Game Studios and FASA Studio have announced that a “Shadowrun” beta program is underway. Currently the beta program is limited to Xbox 360 owners; however, the companies may be expanding the beta in the future to include Windows Vista gamers Microsoft Deletes Fake Xbox Live Accounts Following on from the recent launch of the video marketplace for the Xbox 360, many users who suffer from regional download barriers, simply created fake accounts from outside America. Microsoft have now decided to crack down on the problem by banning Microsoft Launches Distance Learning Initiative New training method allows those who want to take advantage of instructor-led training to do so -- without leaving the office. Microsoft launched on Nov. 14 its Microsoft Official Distance Learning initiative (MODL), a blended learning program that uses OpenSUSE Opens Up to Questions About the Microsoft Deal NewsForge is reporting on the recent IRC meeting that the OpenSUSE team held to answer a few questions about the controversial deal between Novell and Microsoft. The most prominent questions are highlighted and the complete IRC log is available from the World’s Youngest Microsoft Certified Professional Ron Jacobs interviews 11-year old Arfa Karim Randhawa, the “world’s youngest Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP)”. What are your thoughts? Video after the jump. Arfa Karim Randhawa is one of the most mature 11 year old girls you are ever going to meet. Windows Mobile - Work Wherever. Even in a bacon suit Check out the new Windows Mobile Work Wherever site . Some, ummm, interesting videos including a guy wearing a bacon suit. Yep, a bacon suit. He can still do email though which is handy but I'm not sure I'd want to stand next to him on the tube. Someone Verizon Wireless to feature YouTube videos (AP) AP - YouTube videos will be viewable on cell phones for the first time under a deal with Verizon Wireless, which will also allow users to upload videos shot with their camera phones. The Futility of Changing the System Time in the Virtual Machine Bios You may or may not be aware that when you are booting a virtual machine under Virtual PC or Virtual Server you can press the Del key to enter the virtual machines bios. The first configurable option that you'll see in the bios is the System Time and System Windows Vista OS image creation and deployment guide I was looking at some of the Windows Vista information on the main Microsoft site this weekend, and I found an interesting document describing the process for creating and deploying OS images that I wanted to post here. Windows Vista OS setup is built 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 Infrastructure Engineer in Minneapolis, MN 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 IT's Potential Realized Back to top Today's Fun Click Vote for Word of the Year Back to top Published with Newsletter Ease   Posted Nov 28 2006, 03:43 PM by newsletter with no comments Filed under: myITforum Daily Newsletter

• myITforum Daily Newsletter; November 27, 2006

  myITforum Daily Newsletter Daily Newsletter November 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 very bottom of this issue. In this issue, you'll read: The myITforum.com Newsletter is brought to you 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 myITforum.com Reading Room Selection Today's FAQ Items Today's Wiki Updates Today's Industry News Today's Job Postings IT's Potential Realized Today's Fun Click The myITforum.com Newsletter is brought to you by 1E: Back to top Community Notes Welcome Marty List to myITforum.com! Marty List is a Microsoft MVP for the Windows Server area and now the moderator of our Windows PowerShell forum on the site. We want to thank Microsoft for sending Marty our way, and also thank Marty for taking on the responsibility of maintaining the Windows PowerShell forum. Welcome Marty by jumping out to the Windows PowerShell forum and posting some questions about Windows PowerShell: Windows PowerShell forum What's your favorite section in the Daily Newsletter? Take this poll and help us make the Daily Newsletter better: myITforum Newsletter Poll MMS 2007 Content Survey Take the Microsoft MMS 2007 content survey… http://www.mms2007.com/Wizard/content_survey/wp1.aspx P.S. The survey closes on December 8, 2007. Software-Repackaging.com Launched The web site owner posted the launch announcement to the Application Deployment forum over the weekend. I immediately jumped out to the new site and signed-up for a member account to check it out. The site has a nice, clean interface and is based on the Open Source application, Drupal. Drupal is a one-stop application for creating community web sites. The software itself is pretty neat. So, if you're in the market for a good, web-facing content management system, you might want to check the software out. I may download it and check it out myself. Software-Repackaging.com has a few goals that make the potential of the site very interesting. From their ABOUT page: Mission Statement The mission of the Software-Repackaging.com website is to freely share information amongst its visitors and users. Goals: - provide free tutorials about software repackaging and software distribution; - review useful tools on a monthly basis; - provide content for both beginners and experienced software packaging engineers; - allow its users to get involved and publish content; - evolve according to its users' needs and interests. Check out Software-Repackaging.com when you get a chance: http://www.software-repackaging.com/ 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 Taking The Heat Off The SMS Service Account by Don Hite - 11/27/2006 To take the heat off the SMS service account you should have the following accounts created otherwise the SMS service account will manage them. SQL Server Finding All Installed Apps From Add And Remove Programs From A List Of Machines by Don Hite - 11/27/2006 Use the queries below to find the installed applications from the Add and Remove programs (MSI Installed) table for a list of machines. Scripting By Request: Using A Message Box For A Yes Or No Input Response by Don Hite - 11/27/2006 Use this Vbs script to get user input from a Vbs Script. Windows, Networking IP Configuration Command Line Switches by Don Hite - 11/27/2006 Listed here you can see all of the available Ipconfig command line switches available to you for troubleshooting purposes. SMS Installer A SMS Installer feature not to forget by Rod Trent - 11/27/2006 With Windows Vista in the wild, there's a SMS Installer feature that you shouldn't forget about. Patch Management, Windows Windows Time Zone Update - New Daylight Savings Time Rules by Harry Waldron - 11/27/2006 This special update must be manually downloaded and applied (as it's not included in Windows Update). If users don't apply these changes, they'll have to manually change times to accommodate for the new DST rules. Altiris Dell to acquire close to 5% of Altiris by Rod Trent - 11/27/2006 Dell Inc., the world's second-largest personal computer maker, was granted warrants to buy up to 1.46 million shares of Lindon-based Altiris Inc. as part of an agreement between the two companies to jointly develop software. Hardware and Gadgets Cingular updates it's coverage viewer by John Gormly - 11/27/2006 Have a new UMTS capable phone and want to see where it works? You’re in luck. Windows Mobile Windows Mobile continuing to gain market share by John Gormly - 11/27/2006 Windows Mobile grabbed U.S. marketshare to match that of BlackBerry and Palm during the first half of 2006. Security, Windows Mobile Microsoft responds to Windows Mobile 5 Security Concerns by John Gormly - 11/27/2006 Microsoft officials said that Windows Mobile 5.0, the latest iteration of the product, provides users with the right balance of security and usability and does not put data stored on the devices at risk by failing to offer additional encryption. View today's articles in your favorite RSS Aggregator using our special RSS feed. Back to top 1E - Intelligent Windows Management Back to top Today in the Forums SMS 2003 RE: OSD Drivers SMS Feature Packs RE: DVD Based OSD Install - Dynamically Name Machines? Web Reporting Report for the installed software change on a special client MOM Service monitor - script error Application Deployment Software-Repackaging.com - a new site was launched Want to read the forum posts as they happen? Let your RSS Aggregator grab them for you, using this 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 Read what's available today for download from myITforum.com in your favorite RSS Aggregator. Subscribe using this link. Back to top Today's Web blog Posts Windows Time Zone Update - New Daylight Savings Time Rules This update will allow for the Windows XP, 2000, and 2003 versions to include the recently passed DST changes. These changes appear to be included in Vista Gold. This special update must be manually downloaded and applied (as it's not included in Windows... Read more... Altiris illegally using technology, suit says Macrovision Corp., a maker of software to prevent copying of digital music and DVDs, sued Utah's Lindon-based Altiris Inc., claiming it's infringing two patents covering a system for managing product licenses. In a complaint filed Tuesday in federal court... Read more... Dell to acquire close to 5% of Altiris Dell Inc., the world's second-largest personal computer maker, was granted warrants to buy up to 1.46 million shares of Lindon-based Altiris Inc. as part of an agreement between the two companies to jointly develop software. Read more…... Read more... Read posts from the myITforum.com bloggers using the RSS Feed: The myITforum.com Bloggers RSS Feed Back to top Today's myITforum.com Reading Room Selection Back to top Today's FAQ Items Read the FAQ as it happens! Grab the RSS Feed. Back to top Today's Wiki Updates Windows PowerShell Systems Management Server 2003 AntiVirus Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 Systems Center Operations Manager 2007 Grab the RSS feed for the myITforum.com Wiki so you can stay up-to-date on Wiki additions and changes automatically: RSS Feed Back to top Today's Industry News Buying a PC is hard, even more complicated for Vista - San Jose Mercury News Xinhua Buying a PC is hard, even more complicated for Vista San Jose Mercury News - 41 minutes ago By Dean Takahashi. It's never been easy to buy a new personal computer when you don't know exactly how much computing power you're really going Xbox 360 outsells PS3 and Wii? - CVG Online Spotlighting News Xbox 360 outsells PS3 and Wii? CVG Online - 59 minutes ago Monday 27-Nov-2006 10:20 AM Microsoft's console trounces its recently launched next-gen rivals, says, err, Microsoft... The MSN article offers no concrete sales numbers for We’re all on candid camera thestar.com “Before there was YouTube, the Internet video phenomenon that is currently streaming more than 100 million videos each day, there was George Holliday. Holliday was a mere bystander on a Los Angeles street in 1992 when he captured videotape Wittman: Erase personal data on old cell phones tucsoncitizen.com “…You’re certainly conscious of the evils of identity theft so you take the time to delete all your personal info, such as phone numbers, e-mails and old photos. You may even go the extra mile and reformat the phone. Sony and Ericsson tune in for mobile TV - Register Playfuls.com Sony and Ericsson tune in for mobile TV Register - 52 minutes ago By Emmet Ryan, ElectricNews.net ? More by this author. Sony and Ericsson are to expand their partnership beyond cell phones to provide mobile television and broadband services. TFS Power Toys on Vista If you also have problems installing Power Toys on a Vista machine, perhaps Eds post may help ypou along: http://blogs.msdn.com/edhintz/archive/2006/10/24/installing-team-foundation-powertoys-on-vista.aspx Forefront Security for Exchange Server and Forefront Security for SharePoint I'm really exited about the security solution Microsoft is developing. We have now released Forefront Security for both Exchange and SharePoint and recentyl announced the public beta of Forefront security for Clients too. Once all this is released we Free Agent: Talk of the Linux Town - PC World Free Agent: Talk of the Linux Town PC World - 2 hours ago Perspectives on the Microsoft-Novell deal, Sun's Freeing of Java, and hardware support in Linux. For nearly three years, I've resisted the temptation to turn my monthly visit to this soapbox Windows Vista Secrets for Tablet PC? Tim Sneath has been posting a wonderful series of "Windows Vista Secrets" . (The ability to start Quick Launch items with the [Win+<n>] keys has changed my life -- thanks Tim!) I have my own set of tips for Windows Vista -- some secret, some not Start-Ups Try to Plot A Complete Picture washingtonpost.com “Sean Gorman can plot a map of New York bars located in neighborhoods where single, college-educated women live. He can see how bad traffic is on different parts of the Capital Beltway and, if he wanted to, he could find out if The What and Why of CPOs computerworld.com “Five years ago, privacy was a white-hot noun. Global 2,000 organizations were falling all over themselves trying to establish privacy organizations and policies. At that time, security guru Bill Malik, former head of Gartner’s How to Disable Hibernation on Windows Vista Hibernation is a feature introduced in Windows 2000 and later in Windows XP which allows your computer to enter a sort of "deep sleep" mode - your computer's state is preserved, and it uses far less power than if you just put your computer into Standby 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 Senior Network Technician SMS Desktop Systems Analyst Needed in Roseland, NJ 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 IT's Potential Realized Back to top Today's Fun Click 80's Saturday Morning Cartoons Back to top Published with Newsletter Ease   Posted Nov 27 2006, 02:01 PM by newsletter with no comments Filed under: myITforum Daily Newsletter

• myITforum Daily Newsletter; November 21, 2006

  myITforum Daily Newsletter Daily Newsletter November 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 very bottom of this issue. In this issue, you'll read: The myITforum.com Newsletter is brought to you 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 myITforum.com Reading Room Selection Today's FAQ Items Today's Wiki Updates Today's Industry News Today's Job Postings IT's Potential Realized Today's Fun Click The myITforum.com Newsletter is brought to you by 1E: Back to top Community Notes Microsoft Windows PowerShell section on myITforum.com Windows PowerShell 1.0 was just released recently, and frankly, this scripting technology is hot. So hot, in fact, that we've split out the Windows Powershell articles we already have into their own section on myITforum.com. Here’s the new section: http://www.myitforum.com/articles/40/section.asp The section may look a bit bleak right now, but we have a lots of PowerShell stuff to move over from the Scripting section. Look for this area to fill up quickly — not only from what we already have available, but also from new things being added every week. Holiday hours for myITforum.com I just wanted to let everyone know about the holiday hours for myITforum.com over the Thanksgiving holiday. New articles will not release and the daily newsletter will not deliver starting on November 22nd, but all will restart on Monday, November 27th. Everything else will still be alive and kicking, though, such as the web blogs, the Wiki, the FAQ service, the forums, and the email discussion lists. Have a great holiday, everyone! 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, Security Accounts You Can Remove After Moving From Standard To Advanced Security by Don Hite - 11/21/2006 SMS Accounts that can be safely deleted after moving from standard to advanced security Scripting, SMS 2003 Retrieve MP certificate (vbs) by Torsten Meringer - 11/21/2006 Retrieve the management point (MP) certificate with a vbs script. Windows PowerShell Executing PowerShell Scripts From The Run Line Or Sending Their Results To A File by Don Hite - 11/21/2006 You can execute or run your PowerShell .Ps1 scripts from within PowerShell as well as from the Run command as in the example below. Windows, Scripting Kill them softly by Haim Ziv - 11/21/2006 Sometimes you just need to close a running task. I have a VBS that can do it in 10 lines of code. Windows Mobile Voice Command 1.6 released by John Gormly - 11/21/2006 Microsoft has released an upgrade to Voice Command. Version 1.6 has been released and is available at Handango. View today's articles in your favorite RSS Aggregator using our special RSS feed. Back to top 1E - Intelligent Windows Management Back to top Today in the Forums Forum Issues RE: myITforum.com Login Cookies SMS Feature Packs RE: Unable to run ITMU package as OSD SWD Program MOM RE: GUI for putting computers and/or Computer Groups into Maintenance Mode Windows Server RE: All DHCP Server info Breaking Virus & Security News RE: McAfee detected myitforum toolbar as adware / spyware Want to read the forum posts as they happen? Let your RSS Aggregator grab them for you, using this RSS feed. Back to top Today's Site Downloads Query SMS Programs With Dependencies mtaggart SMS 2003, Scripting 11/21/2006 2.2 kb This script uses Powershell and WMI to find and extract information about SMS Programs that are configured with links to(are Dependent on) other SMS Programs. Download... Read what's available today for download from myITforum.com in your favorite RSS Aggregator. Subscribe using this link. Back to top Today's Web blog Posts Fully working MS06-070 POC exploit developed in just 3 hours POC was developed in one hour and a fully functional exploit within 3 hours ... This signifies that sooner is better when it comes to pilot testing and rolling out the updates as quickly as possible in the corporate environment. Fully working MS06-070... Read more... Remotely Enable Admin Shares As discussed recently on the SMS e-mail list at www.myitforum.com , what do you do when systems are in workgroups (not in the domain) with their admin shares enabled. This makes it difficult to install the SMS client as you cannot use the remote push... Read more... Read posts from the myITforum.com bloggers using the RSS Feed: The myITforum.com Bloggers RSS Feed Back to top Today's myITforum.com Reading Room Selection Back to top Today's FAQ Items Read the FAQ as it happens! Grab the RSS Feed. Back to top Today's Wiki Updates Systems Management Server 2003 Windows PowerShell AntiVirus Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 Systems Center Operations Manager 2007 Grab the RSS feed for the myITforum.com Wiki so you can stay up-to-date on Wiki additions and changes automatically: RSS Feed Back to top Today's Industry News MOSS 2007 is out there in the real world – speakTECH’s external website. OMG! A friend of mine, Mike Jarvis (business development extraordinare… we worked together at a .com dev shop) wanted to get back in touch with me so found my email address. I wanted to check out his new company – www.speaktech.com – and I saw the site Microsoft Denies 'Kill Switch' In Office 2007 Reports that Office 2007 will sport an anti-piracy "kill switch" that can disable the upcoming application suite after it's activated are incorrect, a Microsoft executive said Monday. As with previous versions of the productivity bundle, Office 2007 does Microsoft Statement on Novell Agreement Microsoft and Novell provide additional perspective on IP issues in landmark November 2nd agreement. "Microsoft and Novell have agreed to disagree on whether certain open source offerings infringe Microsoft patents and whether certain Microsoft offerings Which Database is More Secure? Oracle vs Microsoft I was quite surprised when a number of folks criticized the data used in the report titled " Microsoft SQL Server Runs the Security Table " from ESG - it was just CVE data! Well, David Litchfield has done some of his own research, and created a report native Vista awesomeness I’ve been asked a few times lately about what’s developers should find cool about Vista besides the .NET Framework 3.0, and I figured I should post my response here too. I can’t say enough good stuff about the native APIs in Vista – we’ve been pretty Powershell Analyzer Are you looking for a good Powershell Text Editor, don't look further. Thanks to David I found this really good Powershell Texteditor. You can always download the latest version from http://www.powershellanalyzer.com/ Save time booting up your computer One of the most frustrating moments of my morning is getting to work and sitting there for 10 minutes while my computer boots up. Most mornings, I can get a cup of coffee and visit coworkers while my computer starts and Outlook, IE, and the other applications OUTLOOK 2007 Mobile Service Now that Office 2007 has RTM'd I've had a few questions from customers asking about the Outlook 2007 Mobile Service. Outlook Mobile Service is a new feature in Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 that you use to create and send text messages as well as multimedia When SVCHOST does you wrong... Over the weekend, maybe late last week sometime, my old(er) HP laptop started giving me a: svchost.exe - Application Error Instruction at "blah blah blah" could not read[write] memory at 0x00000000. With an OK/Cancel button as the only option...and OK Get Started Building Windows Vista Gadgets Alrighty, well I had a couple of opportunities to present on Windows Sidebar Gadgets of recent and as promised I've attached to this posting the working demo and a hands on lab to get you up and running with your own funky Windows Vista Gadget. JavaScript, the underappreciated language I've spent a good part of my career writing compilers, editors, and runtime libraries, so I've formed some fairly strong opinions about what makes a good programming language. Which is why if you'd told me six months ago that I would be programming inJavaScript NYT: The Best Science Show on Television? Excerpt from New York Times Article: The Best Science Show on Television? http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/21/science/21myth.html ALAMEDA, Calif. — “This is where we blow stuff up.” MY COMMENT: We all love The Myth Busters too. Let the real Windows Vista testing begin It's my favorite time of year... nerds know what I'm talking about... It's the time of the year when the grass and weeds stop growing so you don't have to cut the yard, the air conditioner stops running, football and beer is in full swing Inconsistent security standards This relates to the earlier post of " The perimeter isn't what it used to be ", but it is an issue that is deserving of a bit more explanation. How many times have you seen this? Requirements for remote access: AV installed, firewall configured, a bunch Microsoft plays bully boy with Linux legal threats - iTWire Microsoft plays bully boy with Linux legal threats iTWire - 53 minutes ago By Stan Beer. Those who initially thought that Microsoft was extending the olive branch to the Linux community with its recent Novell deal can think again. Novell CEO Rebuffs Microsoft Web Sites Not Liable for Posts by Others - Forbes KNX1070 Web Sites Not Liable for Posts by Others Forbes - 59 minutes ago By JORDAN ROBERTSON 11.20.06, 9:08 PM ET. Web sites that publish inflammatory information written by other parties cannot be sued for libel, the California Supreme Court ruled Monday. 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 Senior Network Technician SMS Desktop Systems Analyst Needed in Roseland, NJ 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 IT's Potential Realized Back to top Today's Fun Click Guess the Logo Back to top Published with Newsletter Ease   Posted Nov 21 2006, 01:28 PM by newsletter with no comments Filed under: myITforum Daily Newsletter

• myITforum Daily Newsletter; November 20, 2006

  myITforum Daily Newsletter Daily Newsletter November 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 very bottom of this issue. In this issue, you'll read: The myITforum.com Newsletter is brought to you 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 myITforum.com Reading Room Selection Today's FAQ Items Today's Wiki Updates Today's Industry News Today's Job Postings IT's Potential Realized Today's Fun Click The myITforum.com Newsletter is brought to you by 1E: Back to top Community Notes Holiday hours for myITforum.com I just wanted to let everyone know about the holiday hours for myITforum.com over the Thanksgiving holiday. New articles will not release and the daily newsletter will not deliver starting on November 22nd, but all will restart on Monday, November 27th. Everything else will still be alive and kicking, though, such as the web blogs, the Wiki, the FAQ service, the forums, and the email discussion lists. Have a great holiday, everyone! 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 How To Upgrade To SMS 2003 SP2 And Windows 2003 SP1 by Anthony Clendenen - 11/20/2006 This contains information that I complied in June of 2006 to plan, test, and complete the upgrades of my SMS servers from Windows 2003 and SMS 2003 SP1 to Windows 2003 SP1 and SMS 2003 SP2. Scripting, Networking By Request Script To Gather Information From An IP Subnet by Don Hite - 11/20/2006 Enumerating all of the machines on a given or specified subnet it really quite easy as shown here. SQL Server How To Execute A View In SQL Server by Don Hite - 11/20/2006 Executing or running Views from SQL is really quite simple and very basic. Miscellaneous FREE Subscription To Redmond Magazine by Don Hite - 11/20/2006 FREE Subscription To Redmond Magazine Windows Windows Vista Shortcut Overlay Remover by Anthony Clendenen - 11/20/2006 Windows Vista Shortcut Overlay Remover, aka FxVisor, allows you to either remove or enable the explorer shortcut overlay arrow that is added to all shortcuts. View today's articles in your favorite RSS Aggregator using our special RSS feed. Back to top 1E - Intelligent Windows Management Back to top Today in the Forums Windows PE RE: Download WinPE 2.0 SMS 2003 RE: AD Client Discovery Job Board RE: Senior Network Technician SMS Feature Packs RE: Unspecified Error:80004005 Want to read the forum posts as they happen? Let your RSS Aggregator grab them for you, using this 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 Read what's available today for download from myITforum.com in your favorite RSS Aggregator. Subscribe using this link. Back to top Today's Web blog Posts Change For the Sake of Change I downloaded Vista from TechNet on Thursday, and just got around to installing it on another partition on my laptop on Saturday. It's running pretty well so far, aside from a strange compatibility warning on login concerning an audio-related utility.... Read more... MS06-071: Temp Folders may be left over after XML Core Services update After the NOV 2006 updates, I had an extra TEMP folder created by MS06-071 (Microsoft XML Core Services) update in the root directory on C: It is an unusually named folder on C: drive. It is safe to delete this leftover folder . A log file named msxml4-KB927978-enu.log... Read more... Read posts from the myITforum.com bloggers using the RSS Feed: The myITforum.com Bloggers RSS Feed Back to top Today's myITforum.com Reading Room Selection Back to top Today's FAQ Items Read the FAQ as it happens! Grab the RSS Feed. Back to top Today's Wiki Updates ITMU Scan - SMSWusHandler Begins - ramseyg FIXWSUS.CMD - ramseyg ITMU Scan Process - ramseyg Inventory Tool for Microsoft Updates - ramseyg Grab the RSS feed for the myITforum.com Wiki so you can stay up-to-date on Wiki additions and changes automatically: RSS Feed Back to top Today's Industry News Wi-Fi ads firm invades Europe from Ireland siliconrepublic.com “A free Wi-Fi hotspot provider that funds its activities through internet advertising has selected Dublin as a base from which it plans to deploy 2,000 wireless hotspots across Europe by the end of next year. This includes 200 It’s Time for a Global Privacy Agreement computerworld.com “Whenever I’ve mentioned to chief privacy officers the idea of having a single set of privacy rules for their companies to abide by worldwide, their response has been unanimous: Bring it on. Why? The legal and technical costs of As far as PC security, Goldilocks got it just right (USATODAY.com) USATODAY.com - SAN FRANCISCO - When Jud Fink decided to protect his PC, he treated it like a glorified science project. With a zeal that would put TV's resident obsessive Monk to shame, Fink evaluated every conceivable software and hardware program Banks pull out the big guns to guard online users (USATODAY.com) USATODAY.com - SAN FRANCISCO - Online banking presents a tantalizing quandary to financial institutions: It is a prime opportunity to snap up potential customers in the lucrative Internet market. But online banking also presents a calculated risk. Financial Sun surprises with GPL for open source Java (InfoWorld) InfoWorld - With wealthy companies increasingly eyeing the advantages of going open source with their proprietary wares these days, the caveats are multiplying around open source promises. Intel bids for rebound with quad-core chips (InfoWorld) InfoWorld - Can there be too much of a good thing? When it comes to Intel’s effort to claw its way out of an earnings hole, the answer is no. Despite a paucity of software that can even use the extra horsepower, the microchip giant last week released Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Beta 2 - Techtree.com Techtree.com Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Beta 2 Techtree.com - 51 minutes ago The company says that RHEL 5, which will be released in early 2007, will provide the latest open source technologies for improved performance, security, and flexibility. Red Two Years In, RFID’s Not The Cure informationweek.com “Drug distributor AmerisourceBergen is launching an RFID test, another step forward for a technology that seems destined for the supply chains of the pharmaceutical industry. Yet distributor Cardinal Health threw cold water on Security Managers Facing More Targeted Attacks computerworld.com “A report on security threats released last week by the SANS Institute provides further evidence that cybercriminals are shifting to more targeted attacks and attempting to exploit zero-day flaws before software vendors patch them. Microsoft Moves Into Desktop, Server Security informationweek.com “Microsoft if muscling into the security market, taking on the likes of CA, McAfee, and Symantec with the Forefront security suite of products it unveiled last week. The new products include anti-virus and anti-spyware for the Report: Plea talks in HP case, new director named arnnet.com.au “Defense and prosecution attorneys in the Hewlett-Packard (HP) spying case are scheduled to meet with the presiding judge Dec. 4 to discuss possible plea bargains, the San Jose Mercury News reported Saturday. California Deputy Attorney 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 Senior Network Technician SMS Desktop Systems Analyst Needed in Roseland, NJ 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 IT's Potential Realized Back to top Today's Fun Click Abbot and Costello updated for our generation Back to top Published with Newsletter Ease   Posted Nov 20 2006, 02:25 PM by newsletter with no comments Filed under: myITforum Daily Newsletter

• myITforum Daily Newsletter; November 17, 2006

  myITforum Daily Newsletter Daily Newsletter November 17, 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 very bottom of this issue. In this issue, you'll read: The myITforum.com Newsletter is brought to you 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 myITforum.com Reading Room Selection Today's FAQ Items Today's Wiki Updates Today's Industry News Today's Job Postings IT's Potential Realized Today's Fun Click The myITforum.com Newsletter is brought to you by 1E: Back to top Community Notes Bringing your forum experience together with the "My" page Here’s some myITforum site “goodness” for you. Did you know there’s a “My Forums” page on the site? It’s pretty neat. It might be something we want to include elsewhere on the site, based on your myITforum member login. I'm still thinking about this, so keep an eye out after we figure out what to do with this. Anyway, if you use the following URL to access the forums (instead of the main forum URL), you get a quick view of your personal forum experience. It gives you a personalize view for things like: private messages, inline Search box, most current threads you are interested in and a quick list of all the forums and threads you are following. http://www.myitforum.com/forums/mypage.asp Stick this in your Internet browser favorites so you can make “quick work” of your time on the site forums. Justification for MMS 2007 With the MMS 2007 web site up and running, and the registration now open, it may be time again for some of you to start honing your negotiation skills with management. Each year, you have to justify your attendance to MMS. It's just the way of things. So, I thought I'd pull out some link to documents that may help cut your time preparing for the long negotiations. The myITforum.com FAQ includes links to several docs you should download, review, and use to ensure your attendance to MMS 2007. Here's the FAQ link: http://www.myitforum.com/faqs/?f=25 More Updates to the myITforum.com Wiki We were busy yesterday! And, we'll probably be busy again today on the Wiki. Check out the new or updated items by visiting the brand new Wiki Section in today's newsletter. 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 Deploy and Monitor Utimaco SafeGuard Easy by Sherry Kissinger - 11/17/2006 Deploy and Monitor Encryption status of hard drive encryption software Utimaco Safeguard Easy Scripting, Security Internet Parasites And Hosts Files And Vbs Scripting Oh My by Don Hite - 11/17/2006 Use the Hosts file to prevent Internet Ads and Banners from popping up on your client machines. Windows Mobile Review: The Cingular 8525 by John Gormly - 11/17/2006 I’ve been using the Cingular 8525 for about a week now. My thoughts? Quite impressive. SMS Alliance Quest Software to Integrate Microsoft Windows PowerShell with Active Directory by Rod Trent - 11/17/2006 Quest Software, Inc. (Nasdaq:QSFT) today announced it will be among the first ISV partners to support Microsoft Windows PowerShell, Microsoft’s next-generation command-line and scripting environment. Hardware and Gadgets My carumba...Palm manufacturer's blow it by John Gormly - 11/17/2006 Did you catch this one? 144,000 Treo 680’s heading to stores had to be returned to the manufacturer for, get this, not connecting the microphones on the phones. View today's articles in your favorite RSS Aggregator using our special RSS feed. Back to top 1E - Intelligent Windows Management Back to top Today in the Forums SMS 2003 RE: ITMU V3 patch complaint status MOM RE: cannot install MOM reporting... SMS Feature Packs RE: Applying OSD to computers multiple times Software Update Services/Windows Update Services RE: WSUS Client Not detecting needed updates AntiVirus Products and Best Practices RE: Symantec Antivirus 10.1.4.4000 causing profile conflicts System Center RE: Remote Control Tools 1E Products RE: SMSWakeUps Want to read the forum posts as they happen? Let your RSS Aggregator grab them for you, using this RSS feed. Back to top Today's Site Downloads Change SQL SA password akaplan Scripting, SQL Server, Security 11/17/2006 4.1 kb Blank SA passwords on SQL databases are a plague. This script lets you add a SA password locally or remotely if you have integrated security enabled and are an admin. I use SQLRecon to look for open SA passwords. You can find it at http://www.specialopssecurity.com/labs/sqlrecon/. Download... Read what's available today for download from myITforum.com in your favorite RSS Aggregator. Subscribe using this link. Back to top Today's Web blog Posts Dang Adobe! Foiled again! Apparently, Adobe has released a new Draconian-style license management technique on their new products… http://www.adobe.com/elicensing/licensemanagement/alm/ Comments on this should be interesting. Basically, whenever you attempt to install an... Read more... What are people saying about Aggreg8? Some are more public than others, but I’m sure there’s a lot of muttering going on, some old-fashioned finger pointing, and some general chuckles. Our own Garth Jones was quote in a recent article: http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/topnews/wpn-60-20061116Aggreg8ASocialNetworkingSiteForITPros.htm... Read more... Read posts from the myITforum.com bloggers using the RSS Feed: The myITforum.com Bloggers RSS Feed Back to top Today's myITforum.com Reading Room Selection Back to top Today's FAQ Items How do I fix a Proxy MP Internal Server Error 500? I accidentally added IE7 to our latest ITMU package and we're not ready for it yet. How do we remove it from the package? Read the FAQ as it happens! Grab the RSS Feed. Back to top Today's Wiki Updates KiXtart Systems Center Configuration Manager 2007 Systems Center Operations Manager 2007 Systems Management Server 2003 SMS 2003 Advanced Client Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 ITMU Scan - ScanWrapper Begins Active Directory Home Group Policy Scripting Home Patching Patching Product Reviews VBScript Windows PowerShell Desired Configuration Monitoring ITMU Scan - SMSWusHandler Begins Grab the RSS feed for the myITforum.com Wiki so you can stay up-to-date on Wiki additions and changes automatically: RSS Feed Back to top Today's Industry News Zune is compatible with Vista, says Microsoft Microsoft has dismissed reports that its just-launched Zune digital media player is not compatible with the forthcoming Windows Vista operating system. Microsoft's Zune website currently only lists Windows XP with Service Pack 2 and Windows XP Media Center TechEd: Wrap up OK, just had my last session and leaving for the airport soon. As always too many cool sessions to choose from, so little time to attend them. I hope you liked the coverage this year. Next event is probably CES 2007. I want to thank Microsoft in the Netherlands Surveys, Polls and Dell Vista Deployment In order to help with anticipated demand, Dell have acquired a British IT firm called ACS who specialise in large scale IT deployments. Apparently they will be used for planning of customer deployments. See the full InfoWorld article here. It's a poignant TechEd: WSUS 3.0, Windows Update Statistics I just been to a Microsoft WSUS 3.0 session which is a great product, be sure to get the Beta2. Cool thing is that SCCM (smsv4) and System Center Essentials are built on WSUS 3.0 technology for distributing updates and other software. You can even make Windows Server 2003 SP2 Release Candidate All the details you'll ever need are here - this seems to a excellent summary and has many useful links. Windows Vista Available Now to TechNet Plus Subscriber Downloads I’m happy to announce that we’ve been able to post Windows Vista sooner to TechNet Plus Subscriber Downloads sooner than expected!! The English x86 & x64 DVD versions are available now. You can visit the site HERE Google, Yahoo, Microsoft Agree On Web Site Mapping Standard The three Internet search leaders have decided to work together to make information easier to find. Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo have jointly agreed to support a single, open protocol to make Web sites more visible to search engines. On Thursday, the Microsoft Plans 'Fresno' Windows Server Appliance Microsoft will take on Linux in the appliance market with an entry-level "Longhorn" Windows Server that will support a small number of users but requires no client access licenses, channel sources say. The planned Windows Server OS appliance, code-named OneNote Mobile going to RTM I just got this information from the OneNote Mobile team about if you were someone who was beta testing OneNote Mobile B2TR on your mobile device: you should remove OneNote Mobile [BETA] before installing the final version of OneNote Mobile. It should 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 Senior Network Technician SMS Desktop Systems Analyst Needed in Roseland, NJ 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 IT's Potential Realized Back to top Today's Fun Click Attack of the Sprouts Back to top Published with Newsletter Ease   Posted Nov 17 2006, 01:37 PM by newsletter with no comments Filed under: myITforum Daily Newsletter

• myITforum Daily Newsletter; November 16, 2006

  myITforum Daily Newsletter Daily Newsletter November 16, 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 very bottom of this issue. In this issue, you'll read: The myITforum.com Newsletter is brought to you 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 myITforum.com Reading Room Selection Today's FAQ Items Today's Industry News Today's Job Postings IT's Potential Realized Today's Fun Click The myITforum.com Newsletter is brought to you by 1E: Back to top Community Notes CA Unicenter on myITforum.com myITforum.com is considered the haven for all things Microsoft and Systems Management. Well — we do have lots of other areas, too, where you can stay with us and still benefit from the thousands of expert admins around the world. Take, for example, the CA Unicenter forum. We’ve had this forum out there for quite some time. From what I understand, CA’s support communities are horrible, so it’s great to see someone who used to visit myITforum.com for SMS 2.0 things, now coming back to energize the CA Unicenter. Why? For a couple reasons: myITforum has the best community and community atmosphere anywhere! myITforum has some of the smartest members in the world participating in the lists, forums, and blogs! myITforum members are the most dedicated, selfless people on the planet! All are welcome! We’re not like one of those “other” communities where if you ask a simple question you get an answer like “read the manual” or “this place isn’t for newbies”. No, myITforum is for everyone. And, that means not just for SMS and MOM folks, but for anyone who has an issue with any product. So, for you folks tasked with working with CA Unicenter, there’s good news on the horizon: lsteinberg is ready to get the ball rolling for CA Unicenter on myITforum. If you use CA Unicenter check out lsteinberg’s latest posts: Unicenter software delivery R11 This could be the beginning of something beautiful!!! And, if you don’t use CA Unicenter, but know someone who does, send them these links to help them find a smart, caring community where they can get their questions answered and their products supported. They’ll be glad you did. Even more myITforum Wiki Goodness Here's the pages that were either created or updated yesterday: ITMU Scan - SMSWusHandler Begins by ramseyg SMS 2003 Log Descriptions by bvandyck SMS 2003 Advanced Client Troubleshooting by ramseyg By the way -- did you know you can contact ANY Wiki editor, just by clicking on their Wiki username? This is a great feature because you can ask for clarification on Wiki topics, and also make suggestions directly to the Wiki editor (if you don't want to edit the Wiki page on your own). As a Wiki editor yourself, you can also use this feature to collaborate with another Wiki editor on any topic your choose! Pretty neat! 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 ITMUv3 WindowsUpdateAgentVersion not reporting via Hardware Inventory by Sherry Kissinger - 11/16/2006 After installing ITMU v3, expected reporting of "WindowsUpdateAgentVersion" via Hardware Inventory does not work as reported in the readme.htm within the ITMUv3 download. Scripting Trickle Feed script update by Shaun Cassells - 11/16/2006 The orginal script uses queries and grabs a random (possibly repeating) number of clients from a source collection. Then adds that query to the destination collection. This works well when you do large number of machines... but does not work so well on smaller groups. SMS Installer Automating removing the Cisco VPN client by Sean McHugh - 11/16/2006 At my company we recently had to upgrade all of our laptop clients to Cisco VPN client version 4.7. Unfortunately the Cisco VPN client will not perform an in-place upgrade, you must first remove any existing Cisco VPN client software... Patch Management, SMS 2003 Patch Reports - November 2006 by Shaun Cassells - 11/16/2006 November 2006 Patching report to use for your SMS 2003 site. Windows, SMS 2003, Scripting Let us check the NTFS stream! by Haim Ziv - 11/16/2006 In our company we are using SMS to distribute updates using a script and not by using a WSUS server. Recently, I found out that people are getting a strange message when SMS is trying to install a new Microsoft Patch with the title: "Open File – Security Warning" Active Directory and Group Policy Group Policy Templates for IE 7 and PowerShell by Anthony Clendenen - 11/16/2006 Group Policy Templates for IE 7 and PowerShell. Microsoft Office Microsoft Office System 2007 available on MSDN for download by Shaun Cassells - 11/16/2006 Microsoft Office System 2007 is now available for download from the MSDN site. Miscellaneous Norman Schulze coverage from IT Forum by Rod Trent - 11/16/2006 Norman posted some great information on the SMS list today, and he agreed to allow it to be posted here. View today's articles in your favorite RSS Aggregator using our special RSS feed. Back to top 1E - Intelligent Windows Management Back to top Today in the Forums SMS Feature Packs RE: Adding Sata-support on an universal image for zti? [Solved] SMS 2003 History vs. Extended History 1E Products RE: SMSWakeUps Active Directory and Group Policy RE: Netpro vs. Quest for AD Recovery/Restore Windows PE WinPE 2004 Virtual Memory Quota Error CA Unicenter This could be the beginning of something beautiful!!! MOM Mis reporting in MOM when % memory utilization is queried Software Update Services/Windows Update Services RE: WSUS Client Not detecting needed updates Breaking Virus & Security News MS06-069 Additional Recommendation -- Install the latest version of Flash System Center Remote Control Tools Windows Workstation RE: File extension block Microsoft Office RE: Adding letter deleting the next one Want to read the forum posts as they happen? Let your RSS Aggregator grab them for you, using this RSS feed. Back to top Today's Site Downloads ADWakeup tiversen Windows, Active Directory and Group Policy 11/16/2006 966.8 kb ADWakeup uses Wake-On-LAN to power on computers that are registered in Active Directory. You don’t have to manually register computers with their ip and/or mac addresses or even remember the computer name. ADWakeup integrates with Active Directory components to find all the necessary data to power on the computers. Download... Read what's available today for download from myITforum.com in your favorite RSS Aggregator. Subscribe using this link. Back to top Today's Web blog Posts Now, this is something I can get behind... Wifi for electricty… Tired of your laptop's battery dying during presentations or bursting into flames? Take heart: scientists are perfecting a new method for transmitting electrical energy from a base station using a technique that resembles a... Read more... Dang Google So, I see that there’s a security issue with WinZip 10 today. I drop out to the WinZip site, download the update, and start the installation. During the installation of the latest revision of WinZip 10, I’m confronted with the following screen... Read more... Read posts from the myITforum.com bloggers using the RSS Feed: The myITforum.com Bloggers RSS Feed Back to top Today's myITforum.com Reading Room Selection Back to top Today's FAQ Items Read the FAQ as it happens! Grab the RSS Feed. Back to top Today's Industry News Exchange Analyzer Tools Success Stories from Microsoft PSS The Microsoft Exchange Analyzer Tools, including Exchange Performance Troubleshooting Analyzer (ExPTA), Exchange Mail Flow Analyzer (ExMFA), Exchange Disaster Recovery Analyzer (ExDRA), are designed and developed to help troubleshooting various problems Vista, Office 2007 and Exchange 2007 Certifications Preview Office, Vista, and Exchange Certifications (Worldwide) Although we're still finalizing details for training and certification after this year's new software is released to market, we know many MCPs would like an idea of what's coming. We've published Kickoff post about MSDN and TechNet futures Hi. I’m Justin Grant, and I’m a product manager for MSDN and TechNet. My new blog will discuss new features we’re planning on MSDN and TechNet, will review some of the research and thinking behind those features, and most importantly I want to get your This could be the beginning of something beautiful!!! Of all the enterprise management products I have ever worked with, I have never seen one with such a poor user forum base than CA Unicenter. Does any... Top hacker targets named software.silicon.com “Microsoft’s Internet Explorer has been named one of the internet’s top 20 hacker targets by a leading security organisation. The SANS Institute also said Microsoft Office and Windows Libraries and Services are some Couple found guilty of stealing personal data computeractive.co.uk “Organisations and companies, unwittingly or not, are buying personal data about consumers which has been illegally obtained, according to the Office of the Information Commissioner (ICO).” Windows PowerShell 1.0 Released to the Web Windows PowerShell 1.0 (previously code named Monad) has been released to the Web . This is a very powerful command line/scripting environment for Windows XP SP2, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista and Longhorn Server. Exchange 2007 will also base its How to use Outlook E-mail Security Administrative Package to Trust Add-in or Other Programs Sometimes, we may want to grant an add-in (custom add-in) or a program (Access, Excel) the permission to access Outlook's data and send email via Outlook. By default, Outlook will prompt a security warning to let the user confirm it is not a virus or Backup and Recovery Best Practices for Windows Server 2003 Server Cluster is a Microsoft technology to provide high availability on Windows platform. Though Server Cluster is very stable, it’s always recommended to have a backup in case any unexpected incidents occur, such as power outage s or storage corruption. The comprehensive technical articles and best practice of Windows Time Microsoft has put together a comprehensive and technical article Windows Time and the W32TM service explaining how the Windows Time service works and how the time on desktop machines is synchronized with the server. There are some best practices that Tons of paper only with a date is printed due to theW32.Looked.AH virus Some shared printers print tons of pages containing only a date unexpectedly. It may be caused by Virus W32.Looked.AH ( rundl132.exe ) . This virus has the following symptoms: a. Shared printers print a lot of pages containing only a date. b. The “rundl132.exe” Windows XP-based computers that were installed by using a Volume License product key might be marked as non-genuine Starting on October 2, 2006 and ending on October 3, 2006, some Microsoft Windows XP-based computers might start to fail the Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) validation process, or the Windows XP-based computers might be reported as being non-genuine. What if the MSDN Forums where based on Live QnA? Just indulge my thought experiment here. This is not a commitment or even a direction, but more of a... "brain fart" if you will. What if the MSDN Forum site, instead of forum like, was more live QnA like? What if we just used Live QnA? If you haven't Inventory Tool for Microsoft Updates (ITMU) Q&A Q: Why is Microsoft releasing an update to ITMU? A: This release is so that ITMU customers are able to utilize the new scan catalog format being released for Windows and Microsoft Update. Q: Why is a new scan catalogue being released? A: Because of the 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 Senior Network Technician SMS Desktop Systems Analyst Needed in Roseland, NJ 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 IT's Potential Realized Back to top Today's Fun Click FPS Glasses Back to top Published with Newsletter Ease   Posted Nov 16 2006, 02:48 PM by newsletter with no comments Filed under: myITforum Daily Newsletter

• myITforum Daily Newsletter; November 15, 2006

  myITforum Daily Newsletter Daily Newsletter November 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 very bottom of this issue. In this issue, you'll read: The myITforum.com Newsletter is brought to you 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 myITforum.com Reading Room Selection Today's FAQ Items Today's Industry News Today's Job Postings IT's Potential Realized Today's Fun Click The myITforum.com Newsletter is brought to you by 1E: Back to top Community Notes Bill Anderson at TechED IT Forum Bill's been a buddy of ours for years, so I thought I'd share this video interview of Bill at TechED IT Forum this week. Bill talks about all things coming for System Center... Watch the video New Wiki Pages to Read Great job folks! The Wiki is up and running! Here's a couple new pages of content you can peruse. There's some great content being added constantly. SMS 2003 Advanced Client Troubleshooting SMS 2003 Advanced Client FIXWSUS.CMD SMS 2003 Log Descriptions P.S. We've added a new Active Directory area to the myITforum.com Wiki. For those that would like to contribute to this area, just drop out to the Wiki and create an account to get started: http://www.myITforum.com/myITWiki And, one last thing on the Wiki. Some of you are having trouble creating an account due to security settings in IE6 and IE7. If you have problems creating a myITforum.com Wiki account, either send an email to admin@myITforum.com, or be patient. We check the new accounts periodically and activate the one's waiting in the queue. 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 HotFix Watch: Remote reporting points, management points, and server locator points no longer function after upgrade to SP2 by Rod Trent - 11/15/2006 After you upgrade the Microsoft Systems Management Server (SMS) 2003 site server to SMS 2003 Service Pack 2 (SP2), remote reporting points, management points, and server locator points no longer function. Scripting Windows PowerShell RTM's! by Rod Trent - 11/15/2006 On Tuesday, November 14, 2007, the keynote at IT Forum announces that Windows PowerShell RTM’s. Patch Management SUS 1.0 Support End of Life is extended by Rod Trent - 11/15/2006 In response to customer feedback, and to provide customers with additional time to migrate off Software Update Services (SUS) 1.0, Microsoft has announced an extension to the end of support date to Tuesday, July 10, 2007. Windows Sysinternals Suite Utilities Free Download by Don Hite - 11/15/2006 I finally got around to downloading the Sysinternals Suite Utilities today that were made available for download by Microsoft on the first of the month. It contains all of the tools as well as help files for the Sysinternals Utilities all rolled up into a single download. Windows Mobile, Small Business Server Deploying Windows Mobile 5.0 with Windows SBS 2003 by John Gormly - 11/15/2006 This white paper provides step-by-step instructions for deploying Microsoft® Windows Mobile® 5.0 powered devices in an IT infrastructure that is based on the Microsoft® Windows® Small Business Server 2003 (Windows SBS) server software. Security Merijn Bellekom Interview - Creator of HiJackThis by Harry Waldron - 11/15/2006 Merijn is one of the heroes in the field of security as CWS Shredder and HiJackThis were among the only tools available to eradicate some of the worst of the spyware out there. Web Technologies, SMS 2003 Adding Mouse Hover Tips to Ron Crumbaker's Web Remote Tool by Brian Leary - 11/15/2006 At our company, we recently added Ron Crumbaker's Web Remote Tool modifications to our SMS Reporting site, and have deployed it to our desktop support teams for managing clients. As mundane as this may seem, the manager for one of these teams requested mouse hover tips on the web tool buttons... MOM, SMS Alliance Quest Software Introduces New Microsoft Operations Manager Monitoring Capability for Active Directory by Rod Trent - 11/15/2006 Today the company announced availability of the Quest Management Pack for ADAM. The new product, available at no charge, extends Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) 2005 to provide proactive performance monitoring and real-time diagnostics with a graphical topology view. View today's articles in your favorite RSS Aggregator using our special RSS feed. Back to top 1E - Intelligent Windows Management Back to top Today in the Forums SMS 2003 RE: Services and their logons required for SMS 2003 SQL Server SQL script for comparing two SQL Server Databases Microsoft Office RE: Adding letter deleting the next one Active Directory and Group Policy Netpro vs. Quest for AD Recovery/Restore VB Script RE: Need additional assistance Windows Vista RE: SMS, MOM tools on Vista RC2? Breaking Virus & Security News Microsoft Security Updates - November 2006 Windows Workstation File extension block Want to read the forum posts as they happen? Let your RSS Aggregator grab them for you, using this 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 Read what's available today for download from myITforum.com in your favorite RSS Aggregator. Subscribe using this link. Back to top Today's Web blog Posts Vista Wallpapers I was doing a quick search on the Google Images for Vista Wallpapers and found two that I thought were worth sharing. I was not sure which one to use as my wallpaper so I grabbed them both. One for my desktop and the other for my laptop. To save the images... Read more... Article: When QA testing fails, the Help Desk suffers Great blog entry reflecting the importance of inviting the Help Desk to the "takeoff" for a new application, rather than the crash landing Article: When QA testing fails, the Help Desk suffers http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/helpdesk/?p=5 Quote: Contrary... Read more... Read posts from the myITforum.com bloggers using the RSS Feed: The myITforum.com Bloggers RSS Feed Back to top Today's myITforum.com Reading Room Selection Back to top Today's FAQ Items Read the FAQ as it happens! Grab the RSS Feed. Back to top Today's Industry News WMI Redistributable Components version 1.0 This download contains the WMI Redistributable Decoupled Provider Subsystem, WQL Parser, and Object Parser. The WMIDCAD.DLL, WBEMDC.DLL, and WMIUTILS.DLL files will be installed in the %windir%/SYSTEM32/WBEM directory and registered accordingly. See also Embezzlement case hits Redmond firm hard ktvz.com “A Terrebonne woman is due back in court Dec. 11 to enter pleas to 32 counts of theft, ID theft and forgery, accused of stealing about $700,000 from a Redmond wood-products company where she worked for four years as a bookkeeper.” Muddling over Server Certifications...MCSE 2000? MCSE 2003? Longhorn Server? At the Microsoft Learning booth yesterday at IT Forum (by the way, if you're in Barcelona and you're reading this, come by our booth in the Ask the Experts session... we somehow have a basket full of tiny cookies with MCP logos on them--really a 'don't Microsoft Learning announces distance learning at TechEd You can check out this Virtual Side interview with our group's general manager, Lutz Ziob, (who, to my discomfiture, is always nice enough to try and speak German with me when we run into each other in the lunchroom...) about Microsoft Learning's new EU sets Nov 23 deadline for Microsoft to hand over software code The European Union has given software giant Microsoft Corp until Thursday Nov 23 to submit the secret protocols of its Windows operating system to rivals or face the prospect of more fines, EU competition commissioner Neelie Kroes said in an interview Microsoft and MetroFi Team Up on Free Wireless Internet in Portland, Ore. Local content and services enhance network for consumers and advertisers. Microsoft Corp. and MetroFi Inc. today announced a strategic alliance to bring locally relevant MSN ® content and services to MetroFi’s advertising-supported, free Wi-Fi network Microsoft Introduces Banking Integration Factory New initiative helps banks more easily integrate software from multiple Microsoft partners. Today at the BAI Retail Delivery Conference & Expo, in an effort to help banks rapidly achieve interoperability among business applications, Microsoft Corp. On Heels of FTC Action, Microsoft Files Suit Against Creators of Spyware-Bearing Celebrity Screen Saver Company applauds effort by FTC to expose alleged spyware ploy. Microsoft Corp. today followed the Federal Trade Commission’s lead in fighting deceptive spyware operations by filing an action against persons allegedly distributing a notorious spyware program Internet Safety Effort Calls on Los Angeles to Get Net Safe Microsoft’s Get Net Safe tour to deliver Internet safety guidance and tools to help secure area residents. Microsoft Corp. today announced that the Get Net Safe tour, designed to help people learn how to become more safe and secure on the Internet, will Cingular Deals BlackJack - Samsung's Q/BlackBerry Killer Compact and slim communicator first Windows Mobile model to support carrier's high-speed UTMS/HSPDA data network; in addition to a number of mobile messaging options, the new Cingular Music service, and streaming video. FCC Okays Successor to Too Late BenQ Pocket PC Phone The P51 succeeds the P50, one of the first keyboard-based WinMob smartphones, which, nonetheless, made it to market two years too late. Zagat To Go Updated to Version 5.0 Wireless edition of popular entertainment guide adds hotel, resort, spa and golf listings to traditional restaurant and nightspot coverage. ViewSonic Introduces Rugged Pocket PC Trio New handhelds targeted at a wide variety of industries. FaceTime adds Web filtering to real-time communication security FaceTime Communications Monday announced a new product designed to let IT managers secure and manage both Web and real-time applications with a single set of policies. Microsoft Highlights Breadth of New Product Offerings Coming to Market at Annual Shareholder Meeting Demonstrates latest advancements from newly released Zune and Windows Live services. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer (R) pauses for a laugh with Chairman Bill Gates at the company’s annual shareholder meeting. Bellevue, Wash., Nov. 14, 2006. 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 MOM Support Resource Required 2 Positions Exchange Admin and Desktop Image Builder Needed in Cleveland Ohio SMS Architect New York 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 IT's Potential Realized Back to top Today's Fun Click The Redneck Life in Pictures Back to top Published with Newsletter Ease   Posted Nov 15 2006, 02:23 PM by newsletter with 1 comment(s) Filed under: myITforum Daily Newsletter

• myITforum Daily Newsletter; November 14, 2006

  myITforum Daily Newsletter Daily Newsletter November 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 very bottom of this issue. In this issue, you'll read: The myITforum.com Newsletter is brought to you 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 myITforum.com Reading Room Selection Today's FAQ Items Today's Industry News Today's Job Postings IT's Potential Realized Today's Fun Click The myITforum.com Newsletter is brought to you by 1E: Back to top Community Notes myITforum Daily Newsletter -- not just for members any more! We’ve taken the wraps off of a new system for the myITforum Daily newsletter, which allows us to offer the daily newsletter to non-members of myITforum.com. In the past, to receive the daily newsletter, you had to go through the myITforum.com membership process. Well, no longer. Each page on the site now contains a small Subscription box on the right-hand side of the page. Send your friends to the site and have them sign-up to receive the most comprehensive newsletter available. In addition, the simple sign-up process, we've not given you an easy way to manage your myITforum.com newsletter subscription. There’s a link that accompanies the new Subscription box that allows you to manage your subscription to the newsletter. You can modify your user data, change your password, retrieve your password, and even unsubscribe using the link. Try it out when you get a chance, by visiting the site and looking to the right side of the pages. This also gives us the ability to add even more, topic-oriented newsletters in the future, should the community require it. 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 Removing and Reinstalling a Secondary Site in SMS 2003 by Anthony Clendenen - 11/14/2006 The removal and reinstallation of a secondary site in SMS 2003 involves essentially five steps. The first step is removing the address from the parent site, the second involves deleting any pending jobs for the site, the third is removing all files, folders, accounts, services, and registry keys... Scripting, SMS 2003 Sending SMS Last Logon User Information To WinWord by Don Hite - 11/14/2006 This Vbs script will prompt you for an SMS site server name and site code and then send the machine name and last logged on user name and domain name to a Microsoft Word document. Patch Management, SMS 2003 ITMU Revision 3 FAQ at Microsoft.com by Rod Trent - 11/14/2006 Want to know everything about the new version 3 release of the ITMU? Microsoft has put together a FAQ document for it. Windows Windows XP installation tips and techniques by Harry Waldron - 11/14/2006 I recently shared some adjustments I usually make with every new install of Windows XP. This includes the following... View today's articles in your favorite RSS Aggregator using our special RSS feed. Back to top 1E - Intelligent Windows Management Back to top Today in the Forums SMS 2003 RE: Management point will not install RE: Stuck Packages: A possible reason why.... Microsoft Office Adding letter deleting the next one SMS Feature Packs RE: Driver Problem - Open File Security Warning Want to read the forum posts as they happen? Let your RSS Aggregator grab them for you, using this RSS feed. Back to top Today's Site Downloads 1Es Nightwatchman Screen Saver rodtrent SMS 2003, Windows, 1E, SMS Alliance 11/13/2006 3.2 mb Download this screen saver from 1E and learn how to save time, power, and the world at the same time. Download... Read what's available today for download from myITforum.com in your favorite RSS Aggregator. Subscribe using this link. Back to top Today's Web blog Posts Dudeworks back on the radar? Apparently so! I received an email tonight asking for ad and sponsorship opportunities available to Dudeworks, which I promptly sent off. If you’re new to this community you may not know about Dudeworks. Dudeworks was probably one of the earliest... Read more... TechCrunch agrees with me...Aggreg8 is a poor first showing... Microsoft Launches Aggreg8: Not Good... Read more... Read posts from the myITforum.com bloggers using the RSS Feed: The myITforum.com Bloggers RSS Feed Back to top Today's myITforum.com Reading Room Selection Back to top Today's FAQ Items Read the FAQ as it happens! Grab the RSS Feed. Back to top Today's Industry News Bill Gates says U.S. education system needs work SEATTLE, Washington (AP) -- Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates said Monday that the U.S. higher education system is the envy of the world but primary and secondary schools are failing to adequately prepare students for college. In an interview with The Zune Hits Shelves Tomorrow Today it was announced that Zune will hit the shelves of over 30,000 retail outlets tomorrow. Two new Zune websites have been made available for your viewing entertainment: http://www.zune.net/ , https://www.zune-arts.net/ . Intel rolls out quad-core processors - Macon Telegraph Playfuls.com Intel rolls out quad-core processors Macon Telegraph - 38 minutes ago AP. SAN JOSE, Calif. - Intel Corp., the world's largest computer chip maker, on Tuesday launched a family of chips with four computing engines inside a single microprocessor. Banks Have Lost Email War to Phishers: Expert banknet360.com “To avoid giving phishers more bait, banks should stop emailing their customers altogether, according to a security expert at Dimension Data Plc, a Johannesburg, South Africa-based information technology services provider.” Sony says PS3 has trouble running older games - CNET News.com Portable Planet Sony says PS3 has trouble running older games CNET News.com - 1 hour ago Company says its new video game console does not run some PlayStation and PlayStation 2 software titles properly. By Reuters. Sony said Tuesday its new video game Sun ‘releases’ Java to the world news.bbc.co.uk “Computer giant Sun Microsystems says it will offer programming language Java to the open source community.” Tech politics: Friends up on Capitol Hill money.cnn.com “Amid all the post-election noise, Democrats haven’t been subtle about their top priorities once they take control of Congress: boost minimum wage, reform Medicare, rescind the 2001 tax cuts, and clean up “the swamp” Government IT leaders feeling more secure computerworld.com “More than half of IT leaders in the U.S. government are more confident about their agencies’ cybersecurity capabilities than they were two years ago, according to a survey released Monday. However, the August phone survey Security Flaw Could Ground Wi-Fi Users internetnews.com “…Another security hole could be wide open the moment you switch on a Wi-Fi enabled laptop, warned a group of security investigators, including the Zeroday Emergency Response Team (ZERT), a security monitoring group loosely 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 MOM Support Resource Required 2 Positions Exchange Admin and Desktop Image Builder Needed in Cleveland Ohio SMS Architect New York 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 IT's Potential Realized Back to top Today's Fun Click National Motor Vehicle License Search Database Back to top Published with Newsletter Ease   Posted Nov 14 2006, 03:55 PM by newsletter with 1 comment(s) Filed under: myITforum Daily Newsletter

• myITforum Daily Newsletter; November 13, 2006

  myITforum Daily Newsletter Daily Newsletter November 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 very bottom of this issue. In this issue, you'll read: The myITforum.com Newsletter is brought to you 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 myITforum.com Reading Room Selection Today's FAQ Items Today's Industry News Today's Job Postings IT's Potential Realized Today's Fun Click The myITforum.com Newsletter is brought to you by 1E: Back to top Community Notes From Don Hite: Open Call For New myITforum Columnists And Contributors Being a columnist or contributor to myITforum is a great way for you to share your tips, tricks, utilities, technical expertise and general knowledge with the SMS user community at large. As a columnist you will have your articles or posts seen and read by the thousands of people who visit the myITforum homepage and those who receive the daily myITforum newsletter. Even if you have a version of a utility, script or article that has already been published myITforum welcomes your take on it. Even though SMS is the primary focus at myITforum the website has expanded greatly over the last few years and is an industry standard when it comes to other Microsoft technologies such as MOM and technologies outside of the Microsoft realm such as Altiris. As a columnist for myITforum your coworkers and others in the industry will also take notice of you and it may also help you with future job promotions or to find a new job altogether. So if you would like to write for myITforum or start your own Blog send a note to Rod at: rodtrent@myITforum.com Below you will find the myITforum article sections available for you to write for. If you do not find a section here that explicitly defines your area of interest or expertise you can file your post under Miscellaneous, Networking or even support management. Article sections: Active Directory and Group Policy, Altiris, Hardware and Gadgets, Macintosh-Apple, Microsoft Office, Miscellaneous, MOM, MSI, Networking, Patch Management, Scripting, Security, SharePoint, Small Business Server, SMS 2.0, SMS 2003, SMS Alliance, SMS Installer, SQL Server, Support Management, System Center, Web Technologies, Windows, Windows Mobile. Thanks... Don Hite 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 The SMS 2003 Advanced Client Management Point Authentication Process by Don Hite - 11/13/2006 The SMS 2003 Advanced Client Management Point Authentication Process MOM, System Center System Center Operations Manager 2007 RC1 Released! by Andy Dominey - 11/13/2006 System Center Operations Manager 2007 is the end-to-end service management solution that is the best choice for Windows because it works seamlessly with Microsoft software and applications. Scripting Locating A Machine Name And Logon User Name For A Specified Serial Number by Don Hite - 11/13/2006 The query below will return the machine name and the last logged on user name for a specified hardware serial number. Windows Windows Server 2003 DNS Cache Pollution by Don Hite - 11/13/2006 Sometimes in a Windows server 2003 domain you may find that when you attempt to resolve a machine name or an internet name you may get an inaccurate response or no response at all. Windows Mobile Building a Business Case for Windows Mobile by John Gormly - 11/13/2006 Need some help in building a business case for deploying Windows Mobile in your organization? Hardware and Gadgets Palm should give in to NTP? by John Gormly - 11/13/2006 Now, what kind of precedent will that set? Should someone like the Justice Department step in and clamp down on NTP? Should some other legal organization do something against NTP? View today's articles in your favorite RSS Aggregator using our special RSS feed. Back to top 1E - Intelligent Windows Management Back to top Today in the Forums SMS 2003 ITMU - QUESTION MOM RE: Trying to restore the ReportServer DB - Help SMS Feature Packs RE: RIS & RAMDISK Windows PE RE: Getting command prompt up during WinPE RAMdisk install ZenWorks Zen Agent Windows Workstation Microsoft replaces Regmon and Filemon AntiVirus Products and Best Practices Symantec Client Security/Antivirus 10.1.5.5000 - Point Patch 1 for Maintenance Release 5 released Windows Vista RE: SMS, MOM tools on Vista RC2? Want to read the forum posts as they happen? Let your RSS Aggregator grab them for you, using this RSS feed. Back to top Today's Site Downloads 1Es Nightwatchman Screen Saver rodtrent SMS 2003, Windows, 1E, SMS Alliance 11/13/2006 3.2 mb Download this screen saver from 1E and learn how to save time, power, and the world at the same time. Download... Read what's available today for download from myITforum.com in your favorite RSS Aggregator. Subscribe using this link. Back to top Today's Web blog Posts BlackBerry Thumb sparks new form of hand massage Thankfully, although I have a Blackberry to support work requirements, I've not developed symptoms so far as I always make my replies when needed short and focused . BlackBerry Thumb sparks new form of hand massage http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2055821,00.asp... Read more... Updating my Acrobat Reader GPO template The Acrobat Reader 6 GPO registry template I put together a few years ago has seen some mileage around the Internet. After getting a short series of emails on it recently, I have decided to give it a re-vamping so it supports Reader 7.0.8. I am adding... Read more... Read posts from the myITforum.com bloggers using the RSS Feed: The myITforum.com Bloggers RSS Feed Back to top Today's myITforum.com Reading Room Selection Back to top Today's FAQ Items I need to move my site to a new server. What are the best methods to accomplish this feat? Read the FAQ as it happens! Grab the RSS Feed. Back to top Today's Industry News Microsoft's "best practice" is causing probs Hi all, We have set up our "Server side" with Microsoft's "best practice" and have not allowed any network shares to be accessed across the netw... Syndicated Live Search being adopted by websites - check out the Register using LiveSearch! Right so ‘The Register’ is not one of those websites that would go down in history as a wonderful advocate 100% of the time around Microsoft technology. However with the news that website owners can now syndicate Windows Live on their sites Sony sold 88,400 PS3s in Japan in 2 days: publisher (Reuters) Reuters - Sony Corp. sold 88,400 units of its PlayStation 3 game console in the first two days after the launch in Japan, leaving most stores without any stock, video game magazine publisher Enterbrain said on Monday. School promotes high-tech tip line chron.com “Sending anonymous e-mail about guns on campus, students with eating disorders and drugs is not snitching — it can be cool. Or so Westfield High School tried to convince students earlier this month when teenage volunteers went classroom Blogs And Wikis Move In As E-Mail Overload Becomes Unbearable informationweek.com “E-mail, the internet’s killer app, is killing productivity. Even for workers who insulate themselves from pitches for porn and pills–up 59% in October from the previous month, according to e-mail management company SharePoint 2007 and workflow! Some good news! MOSS has RTM'd – that means by December 1st week, you should be able to download the release (Final) version a copy from your Volume License subscription! And Arabic is one of the first wave to be released, so look out for that too J Regarding Vista, Office 2007, Exchange 2007 certifications preview (on MCP site) If you have access to the MCP site, you can check out some basics on the upcoming exams and certs that will map to Vista, Office, and Exchange ("will" map because they won't be available for a few months, yet). https://mcp.microsoft.com/mcp/preview.mspx...( Sun to Opensource Java and GPL it Robert Scoble breaks the news http://scobleizer.com/2006/11/12/sun-to-opensource-java-and-gpl-it/ THIS JUST IN (actually, a while ago): Change to SQL2005 Business Intelligence Cert Path Reminder/heads up that the exam path that was originally announced for SQL Server 2005 MCITP: Business Intelligence certification (431 + 446) has now CHANGED to 70-445 and 70-446 --basically with 445 there is now a MCTS certification specific to BI. Criminal And Hackers Take Aim At Smartphones informationweek.com “Smartphones and similar devices increasingly are being used by business professionals to store information, tap into customer accounts, and exchange data with the office. Yet there’s a dark side to this productivity boon Microsoft Office 2007 is available for MSDN and Technet Subscribers Microsoft Office 2007 is available for MSDN and Technet Subscribers! No Vista yet, I heard Wednesday... 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 MOM Support Resource Required 2 Positions Exchange Admin and Desktop Image Builder Needed in Cleveland Ohio SMS Architect New York 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 IT's Potential Realized Back to top Today's Fun Click Rural Advice Back to top Published with Newsletter Ease   Posted Nov 13 2006, 01:11 PM by newsletter with no comments Filed under: myITforum Daily Newsletter

• myITforum Daily Newsletter; November 10, 2006

  myITforum Daily Newsletter Daily Newsletter November 10, 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 very bottom of this issue. In this issue, you'll read: The myITforum.com Newsletter is brought to you 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 myITforum.com Reading Room Selection Today's FAQ Items Today's Industry News Today's Job Postings IT's Potential Realized Today's Fun Click The myITforum.com Newsletter is brought to you by 1E: Back to top Community Notes MMS 2007 Registration is open! You can access the registration system for MMS 2007 here: http://www.mms2007.com/ Also, we've put together a couple polls to get a better feel for MMS 2007. Take a moment to participate: Will you be attending MMS 2007? What content is most important to you and your company to see presented at MMS 2007? And, don't forget about the web-based forum dedicated to MMS discussions. Reconnect with old friends, find out where everyone is meeting to get together, find out what night-spots are available in San Diego, hear if Ed's purse will match his shoes this year, etc.: Microsoft Management Summit Chat New web-based forum for Application Deployment I see this every day where folks are looking for specific guidance on how to deploy a specific application. This new forum is a central point for discussing specific applications for automated deployment. Help build a central repository for application deployment options! Application Deployment forum New Wiki pages to edit myITforum Wiki Editors: Here’s the list of new pages created today for your editing pleasure… Under Security: AntiVirus, Firewall, Patching, Spam, Spyware-Malware Under Scripting: KiXtart, VB Script, Windows PowerShell As editors of the new myITforum.com Wiki system, did you know that there’s a whole style guide you can use? You can use the guide to learn how Wikis work and how to sharpen your Wiki editing skills. Who knows where you might need these skills next… Wiki Editing Help Page Feel free to copy it and save it to your computer or print it out. 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 Toggle SMS 2003 Remote Tools Local Policy - RCrumbaker's Web Remote Tool by Sherry Kissinger - 11/10/2006 If SMS 2003 site-wide Remote Tools setting is enabled, customize your version of Ron Crumbaker's Web Remote Tools 3.21 Console to turn off Remote Tools on a specific computer; or remove the local policy (turn it back on) MSI Incorporating user settings in MSI/MST packages by Mark Mears - 11/10/2006 Certain applications use settings that are unique between users. They maintain the users’ settings in the HKCU registry hive to ensure the settings are present for the user and that the user can maintain those settings at will. A problem develops when SMS 2003 is used for distribution. Windows Mobile Cingular PDA Updates by Brian Tucker - 11/10/2006 Well, it's been announced that Cingular should have two phones added to their line of devices in the near future. Miscellaneous The myITforum Wiki Editor's Guide by Rod Trent - 11/10/2006 As editors of the new myITforum.com Wiki system, did you know that there’s a whole style guide you can use? Scripting, Windows Vbs Scripts To Manage Your Documents History by Don Hite - 11/10/2006 The Recent documents folder on the start menu “Documents” displays a list of documents and files that you have recently used or opened. Here you will find three scripts to help manage your recent documents folder. View today's articles in your favorite RSS Aggregator using our special RSS feed. Back to top 1E - Intelligent Windows Management Back to top Today in the Forums SMS Feature Packs RE: Microsoft Update – Package Settings Windows PE RE: Getting command prompt up during WinPE RAMdisk install Windows Installer - MSI RE: Run .MSI with elevated permissions Windows Server DNS Entries disappear Terminal Server RE: Printing features HP printers Windows Workstation Trying to add Adding sata drivers to mass storage in sysprep.inf SMS 2003 RE: Installing ExE programs with SMS Web Reporting RE: Report - Hardware Breaking Virus & Security News NOV 2006 - Microsoft Security Bulletin Advance Notification General Security Discussions Ten Security Awareness Tips for Users Want to read the forum posts as they happen? Let your RSS Aggregator grab them for you, using this 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 Read what's available today for download from myITforum.com in your favorite RSS Aggregator. Subscribe using this link. Back to top Today's Web blog Posts Advance Notification - November 2006 MSRC Security Bulletin Release Subject: ADVANCE NOTIFICATION - NOVEMBER 2006 MSRC SECURITY BULLETIN RELEASE What is this alert? As part of the monthly security bulletin release cycle, Microsoft provides advance notification to our customers on the number of new security updates being... Read more... Safety and Security Online magazine Here you can download new safety and security publications that are dedicated to helping you protect your computer, yourself, and your family. Download it…... Read more... Read posts from the myITforum.com bloggers using the RSS Feed: The myITforum.com Bloggers RSS Feed Back to top Today's myITforum.com Reading Room Selection Back to top Today's FAQ Items I need to move my site to a new server. What are the best methods to accomplish this feat? Read the FAQ as it happens! Grab the RSS Feed. Back to top Today's Industry News The UAC Compatibility Evaluator and Elevation on Windows Vista The release candidate of the Application Compatibility Toolkit is here, and it's good stuff. I've had to resort to sniffing around with a debugger to find many issues with this one, and it's still improving for the final release! I am particularly impressed Microsoft ready for the music mosh pit? - CNET News.com Earthtimes.org Microsoft ready for the music mosh pit? CNET News.com - 1 hour ago Is the software giant's Zune for those who rock steady, or is it all just a rock 'n' roll fantasy? By Greg Sandoval. reporter's notebook HOLLYWOOD, Calif. Vista winds its way to market - CNET News.com BBC News Vista winds its way to market CNET News.com - 1 hour ago The release of the Windows update to computer makers is just the start of a long process to get it on shelves and in PCs. By Ina Fried. Update: Microsoft Vista Goes Gold ABC News Microsoft Are More Laws Needed To Protect Kids Online? online.wsj.com “The Internet is a fixture in most kids’ lives, but there is broad disagreement over the best way to protect children from things they shouldn’t see online – and what role, if any, new laws should play.” Computers Stolen From American Cancer Society wave3.com “Thieves have ripped off a group dedicated to helping cancer victims. Workers at the American Cancer Society at 7th and Muhammad Ali showed up for work Tuesday morning and realized someone had broken in overnight and stolen most of their Bill would protect identity theft victims thnt.com “Companies could neither deny credit nor cut credit limits for identity theft victims under a Senate-approved bill advanced today by an Assembly committee.” PlayStation 3 launches in Japan - Guardian Unlimited MSNBC PlayStation 3 launches in Japan Guardian Unlimited - 1 hour ago Gamers flocked to stores in Japan today as the long-awaited PlayStation 3 games console finally launched. Sony's latest addition to the massively successful PlayStation family is Get your Windows Live.com ID Since yesterday Windows Live Mail started, first in The Netherlands, so Dutch users could sign up @live.nl addresses. Now there is a hack in the signup procedure so everybody can sign up for live.com or other local live domains. I got bink@live.com Check All the names are taken! I came across this fascinating article online by Dennis Forbes about domain names. It has loads of interesting stats including: All two- and three-letter .com domain names have been taken. 80 per cent of four-letter names have gone The most popular domain World of Warcraft Expansion Soon - Techtree.com Playfuls.com World of Warcraft Expansion Soon Techtree.com - 22 minutes ago The release date for the highly anticipated game, "World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade" has been announced. The game is an expansion to the world's leading subscription-based What the? Google does an Apple and sends out a virus! - iTWire Earthtimes.org What the? Google does an Apple and sends out a virus! iTWire - 35 minutes ago By Alex Zaharov-Reutt. In another rare misstep, Google has unknowingly copied Apple in the worst way possible - by accidentally sending out a virus to some of New Phone Uses Yahoo! Messenger - Techtree.com Networking News New Phone Uses Yahoo! Messenger Techtree.com - 2 hours ago Yahoo! Messenger and Linksys, a division of Cisco Systems, have launched a new dual-mode cordless phone with the flexibility to make and take low-cost Voice over Internet Protocol Exchange 2007 will RTM in December Not to be left out the cold by the recent Office 2007 and Vista RTM announcements, Exchange 2007 is hot on their heels with the announcement that it will RTM in December. So if the launch of Vista wasn't big enough on it's own, we're also launching Office New Congress Faces Technology, Privacy Issues consumeraffairs.com “…The new class has a very heavy workload ahead of it, with everything from the Iraq war to the trillion-dollar deficit jostling for time on the agenda. Not least of these will be issues ranging from protection against 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 MOM Support Resource Required 2 Positions Exchange Admin and Desktop Image Builder Needed in Cleveland Ohio 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 IT's Potential Realized Back to top Today's Fun Click myITforum.com Wants You Visit myITforum Back to top Published with Newsletter Ease   Posted Nov 10 2006, 03:30 PM by newsletter with no comments Filed under: myITforum Daily Newsletter

• myITforum Daily Newsletter; November 09, 2006

  myITforum Daily Newsletter Daily Newsletter November 9, 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 brought to you 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 myITforum.com Reading Room Selection Today's FAQ Items Today's Industry News Today's Job Postings IT's Potential Realized Today's Fun Click The myITforum.com Newsletter is brought to you by 1E: Back to top Community Notes Two Highlighted Polls There's a couple polls we've place in rotation that we'd like to highlight for your input today. When you get some time, visit the follow poll pages and give us your vote. myITforum Site Colors SMS Admin Salaries 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 Book Review - SMS 2003 Administrator's Reference by Sherry Kissinger - 11/9/2006 Another excellent addition to the resources available for the SMS admin. Especially for a new installation or new sms admins, follow chapters 1-13, to get up and running, and then go to Chap 15 and implement his SMS 2003 Web Remote Tools. Scripting, Windows Sending Local Or Remote Service Information To Excel by Don Hite - 11/9/2006 This script will show you how to get the following Services information from a local or remote machine. Active Directory and Group Policy, Scripting Enumerate All Machine Names In Active Directory by Don Hite - 11/9/2006 This Vbs Script will list the machines found in Active Directory (AD) much like a you would find when you select "Computers" from the Active Directory Users and Computers console. Support Management Free .Net 3.0 Courseware by Don Hite - 11/9/2006 If you want a good technical overview of what is new in .NET 3.0 check out the .Net University webpage and download some free courseware including PowerPoint slide decks and labs that cover the four new technologies that ship with .NET 3.0 View today's articles in your favorite RSS Aggregator using our special RSS feed. Back to top 1E - Intelligent Windows Management Back to top Today in the Forums Active Directory and Group Policy RE: Acrobat GP Template SMS Feature Packs RE: BDD 2.5 problems MOM MOM Support Resource Required SMS 2003 RE: ITMU v3 took 20 Minutes to run 5 Patches. Windows Workstation Locking down traveller users. Windows Server RE: Non-Admin user remote start/stop service Breaking Virus & Security News Firefox, Thunderbird and SeaMonkey 1.x. Updates Firefox RE: Firefox 2.0: Recommended Add-Ons Citrix User Connection Want to read the forum posts as they happen? Let your RSS Aggregator grab them for you, using this RSS feed. Back to top Today's Site Downloads Query for Java Platform sferrara SMS Queries, Reports and MOFs 11/9/2006 23.5 kb Returns Machine Name, OS and Version, and java version. Download... Read what's available today for download from myITforum.com in your favorite RSS Aggregator. Subscribe using this link. Back to top Today's Web blog Posts Wikipedia - an email phishing based attack As a follow-up to Donna's great post . You can never trust unsolicited email messages either . F-Secure: Case Wikipedia http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/archive-112006.html#00001015 QUOTE : Some clown is mailing around German language e-mails... Read more... Interesting piece on Wikis... Why Wikis Are Conquering The Enterprise... Read more... Windows Vista - Facts from Windows Vista magazine Facts related to the new Windows Vista operating system: 4000 engineers estimated to have worked on the development of windows vista 50 million approximate lines of code 5 million testers with access to release candidate 1 3.758.096.384 bytes [3.5GB]... Read more... Read posts from the myITforum.com bloggers using the RSS Feed: The myITforum.com Bloggers RSS Feed Back to top Today's myITforum.com Reading Room Selection Back to top Today's FAQ Items I recently joined the site as a member. I am a recruiter that is looking to post my SMS positions. Where on the site would I go to post positions? Read the FAQ as it happens! Grab the RSS Feed. Back to top Today's Industry News Microsoft on schedule to ship consumer Vista editions in January - Pocket-lint.co.uk BBC News Microsoft on schedule to ship consumer Vista editions in January Pocket-lint.co.uk - 38 minutes ago by Amber Maitland. 9 November 2006 - Microsoft is on schedule to release Vista to consumers on 30 January, says Microsoft’s co-president, Jim MySpace becomes hotbed for new Adware scheme tgdaily.com “According to Internet security monitor Websense, an increasing trend is growing on Myspace, the social networking site that has an audience of millions of daily viewers, which involves tricking users into clicking on fake YouTube videos Update: Adobe donates Flash code to Mozilla itnews.com.au “Adobe has donated its ActionScript Virtual Machine code to the Mozilla Foundation, kicking off a new open source project dubbed Tamarin. Tamarin will be a component of SpiderMonkey, the core JavaScript engine for Mozilla’s Firefox Mozilla fixes ‘critical’ flaws news.com.com “Mozilla has released updates for its Firefox browser, Thunderbird e-mail application and the SeaMonkey application suite to fix “critical” security vulnerabilities.” IE6, IE7, IE7+ Vista and Outlook Web Access Ex2003 When you access Microsoft Outlook Web Access by using Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 or a later version of Internet Explorer, you experience one of the following symptoms. http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/91182... Symptom 1 On a computer that The MacBook Chasm shrinks - ZDNet GameSHOUT The MacBook Chasm shrinks ZDNet - 1 hour ago A very short two weeks ago I wrote about the MacBook chasm, the difference in features and benefits between Apple's consumer MacBook and the professional MacBook Pro. Apple Upgrades MacBook Line Skype brandishes better beta (and mad ninja pirate) - Computerworld Networking News Skype brandishes better beta (and mad ninja pirate) Computerworld - 1 hour ago I'm just hangin' on the telephone with IT Blogwatch, in which Skype 3.0 breaks (beta) cover. Not to mention how Chris the ninja pirate went mad... Skype Windows SysInternals ...Has gone live. You can access it here Google denies $500 million lawsuit fund for YouTube - Pocket-lint.co.uk Washington Post Google denies $500 million lawsuit fund for YouTube Pocket-lint.co.uk - 49 minutes ago by Amber Maitland. 9 November 2006 - Google has denied rumours that it has a special fund devoted to paying for YouTube lawsuits because of copyright Microsoft executive affirms Vista is on track for delivery - MarketWatch ZDNet Microsoft executive affirms Vista is on track for delivery MarketWatch - 1 hour ago By Mark Boslet. SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie affirmed that the company's new Vista operating system 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 MOM Support Resource Required 2 Positions Exchange Admin and Desktop Image Builder Needed in Cleveland Ohio 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 IT's Potential Realized Back to top Today's Fun Click Two Quick Funnies 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. 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• myITforum Daily Newsletter; November 8, 2006

  myITforum Daily Newsletter Daily Newsletter November 8, 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 brought to you 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 myITforum.com Reading Room Selection Today's FAQ Items Today's Industry News Today's Job Postings IT's Potential Realized Today's Fun Click The myITforum.com Newsletter is brought to you by 1E: Back to top Community Notes Another new poll If you are using a Wake-on-LAN product with SMS 2003, we'd love to get your input in the latest poll: Participate in the poll And, if you aren't using a WOL product yet, you can watch the results to see what others are using: View the Results Rotating Polls And, in keeping with our promise for more polls...We’ve added a rotating poll feature to myITforum.com. On any page in the main site, you'll find different polls rotating for your polling pleasure. If you refresh the page it will simply cycle through all of the polls available. Keep watching as we add more and more… Cool new stuff on the Wiki Editor jeff_l_huston made some updates to the Wiki yesterday on MIF Files. MIF Files: http://www.myITforum.com/myITWiki/MIF.ashx Program Status MIF: http://www.myITforum.com/myITWiki/Program Status MIF.ashx Remember, this is a Wiki, so feel free to add to what jeff_l_huston has submitted. We've also added a couple additional sections to the Wiki for you to post to. They are: Microsoft Operating System Deployment: http://www.myITforum.com/myITWiki/OSD.ashx Desired Configuration Monitoring: http://www.myITforum.com/myITWiki/DCM.ashx 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, SQL Server Configuring SMS And SQL Server Together To Use Windows Authentication Security by Don Hite - 11/8/2006 Configuring SMS And SQL Server Together To Use Windows Authentication Security. Scripting, Active Directory and Group Policy Vbs Script To Dump Domain User Info To Excel by Don Hite - 11/8/2006 This Vbs script will prompt you for a Domain name to query and retrieve domain account information for all users in the domain. Windows, Web Technologies NET Framework Version 3.0 Released by Don Hite - 11/8/2006 The .NET Framework version 3.0 was officially released and is available for download. Windows Mobile, Security Windows Mobile taking a security beating? by John Gormly - 11/8/2006 If you follow the press on Windows Mobile, you’ve probably caught an article or two about Microsoft’s “glaring weaknesses” on Windows Mobile for not encrypting PIM data. I’ve read all of them, and quite honestly, I think it’s bunk, and I’ll tell you why. Web Technologies Publish your emails to your web blog by Rod Trent - 11/8/2006 The folks that developed our Blogging software, just released a new, cool add-on that works for just about any blogging service: BlogMailr. View today's articles in your favorite RSS Aggregator using our special RSS feed. Back to top 1E - Intelligent Windows Management Back to top Today in the Forums SMS 2003 RE: ITMU 3 setup error SMS Feature Packs RE: RIS & RAMDISK Windows PE RE: How to use HTA in Windows PE ? Windows Installer - MSI RE: Run .MSI with elevated permissions SBS RE: RWW-client desktop connection problem Breaking Virus & Security Lafool.V - Virus that poses as a Document from McAfee Internet Explorer RE: IE7 Group Policies MOM RE: exchange mail flow described SMS 2.0 Property Dialog font too big Want to read the forum posts as they happen? Let your RSS Aggregator grab them for you, using this 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 Read what's available today for download from myITforum.com in your favorite RSS Aggregator. Subscribe using this link. Back to top Today's Web blog Posts Publish your emails to your web blog...free for personal use The folks that developed our Blogging software, just released a new, cool add-on that works for just about any blogging service: BlogMailr . My post just prior to this one was a test of the new BlogMailr service. It works great! If you are a myITforum.com... Read more... Microsoft gleans top 10 basic security errors from help desk calls Users who address these 10 key security principles will enjoy a more protective home or office environment. Computer security is only as strong as it's weakest link and a comprehensive plan of protection is always needed. Microsoft gleans top 10 basic... Read more... Read posts from the myITforum.com bloggers using the RSS Feed: The myITforum.com Bloggers RSS Feed Back to top Today's myITforum.com Reading Room Selection Back to top Today's FAQ Items Does anyone have a query created to list machines, and the version of the Java platform they are running? Read the FAQ as it happens! Grab the RSS Feed. Back to top Today's Industry News Enterprise Project Management Trainings I am happy to announce that registration is now live for the majority of the EPMU training we will deliver this year. A couple things to note from the last communication I sent on this. We have moved out the first training for the Selling and Architecting US Customs to Access your Notebook Data This week several articles hit the wire describing that US Customs is allowed to make you log on to your notebook and access and even copy the data on it. This is basically not new as the police is allowed to screen your notebook if they have a court VHD Test Drive – Learn more If you are an Independent Software Vendor or ISV working with Windows you have most likely heard about the VHD Test Drive by now. The program launched officially on Monday. The program consists of 2 parts: Part 1 is for everyone . Currently everyone can MBSA Offline Mode Update MBSA 2.0.1 is an update to MBSA 2.0 to enable compatibility with the new Windows Update (WU) offline scan file. MBSA version 2.0.1 does not contain any new features but simply enables MBSA to download and read the new file format. In order to run offline Microsoft bankrolls Novell to tune of USD308m - ElectricNews.net FinFacts Ireland Microsoft bankrolls Novell to tune of USD308m ElectricNews.net - 49 minutes ago by The Register. Microsoft is to pay Novell USD240 million for 350,000 subscription coupons of Suse Linux Enterprise Server (SLES), to be released in annual German Court Orders ISP Logs Destroyed At Customers’ Request informationweek.com “Germans have a little more assurance about their privacy now that a court ordered Internet service providers (ISPs) to destroy records of customers’ activities.” Google positioning for move into U.S. radio (Reuters) Reuters - Web search leader Google Inc. is hiring scores of radio sales people and is spending heavily in a bid to expand its position in the $20 billion radio industry. Microsoft Windows Vista Application Compatibility Toolkit 5.0 RC for Download This past weekend the application compatibility team passed a major milestone as they posted the release candidate of the Application Compatibility Toolkit (ACT) 5.0 on the web for download. ACT 5.0 RC is an all in one tool to help IT pros collect, analyze Its starting ......... 2007 Microsoft Office System goes gold! I joined the company five years ago in 2001 and a month later they launched Windows XP. I remember this being a big event both in the news as well as within Microsoft. A number of years have gone by since then and with the launch of Vista, Office and Microsoft enters domain name registration game Microsoft Corp. can now register top-level Internet domains. Last week, the company was added to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) list of accredited domain name registrars, according to domain name service provider Dot and 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 No new jobs today. Review recently posted jobs... 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 IT's Potential Realized Back to top Today's Fun Click Recasting Star Trek 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; November 7, 2006

  myITforum Daily Newsletter Daily Newsletter November 7, 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 brought to you 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 myITforum.com Reading Room Selection Today's FAQ Items Today's Industry News Today's Job Postings IT's Potential Realized Today's Fun Click The myITforum.com Newsletter is brought to you by 1E: Back to top Community Notes 52 Editors and Growing The new myITforum.com Wiki Service needs you! We have 52 editors signed-up already, but we can use a lot more. Get in on the ground-level for helping to create the largest systems management Wiki. I'm excited. 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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 2.0, Hardware and Gadgets Extended the SMS hardware inventory by the monitor serial numbers by Jan Marten - 11/7/2006 EDID is a small and easy to deploy application, that collectes detailed information (e.g. the serial number) of display devices and reports them to Microsoft SMS (Systems Management Server). Scripting, SQL Server Advertisement Status SQL Query by Don Hite - 11/7/2006 This SQL query will provide you with the same results as shown in the advertisement status leaf. Active Directory and Group Policy, Security Group Policy Settings for Windows Defender by Anthony Clendenen - 11/7/2006 On Donna’s SecurityFlash blog she has a link to the Windows Defender group policy settings KB article that came out on November 1st. Microsoft Office Microsoft Office 2007 for Free? by Anthony Clendenen - 11/7/2006 Want to get that Beta 2 tech refresh off your main machine? Windows Mobile Cingular 8525 Announced by John Gormly - 11/7/2006 Cingular has officially “announced” the 8525, but not officially “released” it. What’s that mean? Windows DCOM Errors in Event Viewer - How to Determine the correct DCOM Server by Anthony Clendenen - 11/7/2006 I have seen this several times and been asked about it as well. If you see DCOM errors in event viewer that state they do not have the right permissions... View today's articles in your favorite RSS Aggregator using our special RSS feed. Back to top 1E - Intelligent Windows Management Back to top Today in the Forums SMS 2003 RE: ITMU and 'No Status' SMS Feature Packs OSD - NIC drivers and keyboard layouts Active Directory and Group Policy RE: Acrobat GP Template Web Reporting RE: SMSExpert Local Admins Mif Shift Reports Terminal Server RE: Printing features HP printers Breaking Virus & Security News RE: Month of Kernel Bugs (MOKB) designated for November 2006 Want to read the forum posts as they happen? Let your RSS Aggregator grab them for you, using this 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 Read what's available today for download from myITforum.com in your favorite RSS Aggregator. Subscribe using this link. Back to top Today's Web blog Posts MOKB: Microsoft Windows kernel GDI local privilege escalation So far, HD Moore and his team have crafted POCs for unpatched kernel bugs in Apple OS X, Linux 2.6, FreeBSD 6.1, Solaris 10, and today Windows 2000. MOKB - Home Page http://kernelfun.blogspot.com/ Microsoft Windows kernel GDI local privilege escalation... Read more... Have you seen the new SportsMaps from Microsoft's Live.com? From the web site: Welcome to Sportmaps, where you can view highlights from athletes' lives collected and mapped through the power of Live Search. Visit the landmarks in the lives of these professional football players as you follow them from the playgrounds... Read more... Read posts from the myITforum.com bloggers using the RSS Feed: The myITforum.com Bloggers RSS Feed Back to top Today's myITforum.com Reading Room Selection Back to top Today's FAQ Items I am currently using SMS 2003 console from the Windows 2003 server. How can I install the console on my Windows XP SP2 machine? When generating an alert, I'd like to display computer description instead of computer name both in Operator console and in alert itself. Read the FAQ as it happens! Grab the RSS Feed. Back to top Today's Industry News Office 2007 and .NET framework 3.0 have been RTM'ed .NET Framework 3.0 Microsoft is releasing to manufacturing Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office for the 2007 Microsoft Office System. Developers can build applications around the six major Office applications: Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Visio and MySpace to go to Asia in joint venture (AP) AP - News Corp. and Japan's Softbank Corp. announced plans Tuesday to bring MySpace, the popular Internet social networking site, to Asia. Virtual Billboards I like the way businesses can hire out virtual billboards as advertising space on Virtual Earth - I imagine this medium is going to prove very valuable to advertisers. Check out these examples I found in and around Boston: And Seattle, which also has Blink and you'll miss a release of ASP.NET AJAX Yep, ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 Beta 2 has now released. It's a tad embarrassing as I haven't yet moved to Beta 1 but in my defence I haven't been feeling very well. Hopefully, I'll have a Beta 2 experience later this week... Technorati tags: asp.net , ajax FTC chief warns against ‘unnecessary’ Net rules news.com.com “WASHINGTON–The head of the Federal Trade Commission on Monday voiced reluctance toward adopting consumer protection laws that target technological concerns du jour, saying the “collective voice” of consumers often Microsoft Follows Oracle In Tighter Linux Embrace computerworld.com “…Under its deal with Novell, Microsoft doesn’t plan to sell or support SUSE Linux. Instead, it will recommend the software to Windows users who want to add Linux systems. It will also purchase from Novell and then distribute Movies, TV shows for Xbox 360 users (AFP) AFP - Software giant Microsoft will lanch a service that allows users of its Xbox 360 game console to download and watch movies, television shows and other video content. Bill Gates shares vision for Microsoft Dynamics Munich Germany, 6th November - Bill address the 1st ever EMEA Convergence Event! Gates discussed a leading challenge facing organisations today: how to help companies maximize productivity by helping them bridge “the last mile” between personal productivity Japan's Softbank to launch MySpace Japan (AFP) AFP - MySpace is coming to Japan after Softbank Corp. announced plans to launch a Japanese version of the popular US networking website in a joint venture with media mogul Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. Sony Ericsson buys Symbian UI - Register Sony Ericsson buys Symbian UI Register - 59 minutes ago By Tony Smith ? More by this author. 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