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myITforum Daily Newsletter
Daily Newsletter
December 11, 2006
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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 and Views
Today's Job Postings
IT's Potential Realized
Today's Fun Click
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Community Notes
Help your fellow geeks and help myITforum.com
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Paul Thomsen's MMS SWAG Bag History
Paul works for the IT group at Microsoft. He's the SMS Admin at Microsoft, and a long-time speaker at MMS and other conferences. Paul put together a neat representation of MMS history in picture and prose covering the bags of MMS. He suggested that he also has other "history" topics that he'll contribute later on. Review the history of the MMS SWAG Bag:
http://www.myitforum.com/myITWiki/MMS+Swag+Bags.ashx
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Today's Articles
SMS 2003
About SMS 2003 and Windows Vista
by Rod Trent - 12/11/2006
If you want to know the specifics about SMS 2003's support for Windows Vista, Greg Ramsey posted this information to the SMS discussion list.
Networking, Security
nmap 4.20 release - Free network testing tool
by Harry Waldron - 12/11/2006
nmap is an excellent network penetration testing tool that I've used in the past to evaluate security vulnerabilities.
Security
By popular demand: The myITforum Security email discussion list
by Rod Trent - 12/11/2006
A lot of folks thought it would be a good idea to inject the good old myITforum.com community spirit into an email list based on the IT Security industry.
Miscellaneous
Help your fellow geeks and help myITforum.com
by Rod Trent - 12/11/2006
Everyone loves this time of year. It’s the season of geek-giving. Geeks love books for Christmas. Does your favorite geek have the latest books on SMS 2003 or Microsoft Operations Manager?
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1E - Intelligent Windows Management
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Today in the Forums
SMS Feature Packs
RE: ITMU and Office Updates
SMS 2003
RE: Uninstall Trend Office Scan Client
RE: SMS Status Messages not displaying properly
RE: Reset logs
RE: Error 1003
Breaking Virus & Security News
RE: Another 0-Day Exploit: Microsoft Word Vulnerability 2
Web Reporting
RE: I need a report that will list all computers with memory size etc.
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Today's Site Downloads
Creating Collections in SMS2003 rodtrent SMS 2003 12/11/2006 2.3 mb
From Sandra Ferrara. Creating Collections in SMS2003.
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Today's Web blog Posts
Microsoft Word - Second new vulnerability and exploit
This new threat is not circulating extensively yet and updating to the latest levels of AV (plus always being careful with suspicious attachments) will help mitigate this new exposure. Microsoft Word - Second new vulnerability and exploit http://www.incidents.org/diary.php?storyid=1925...
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New Unpatched Word Vulnerability - At least 3 trojans circulating on limited basis
As noted in F-Secure's Web Log: http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/archive-122006.html#00001045 QUOTE : The Word vulnerability are detected as Trojan-Downloader.Win32.Cryptic.ec, Trojan-Downloader.Win32.Cryptic.f and Trojan-Downloader.Win32.Tiny.y...
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Today's myITforum.com Reading Room Selection
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Today's FAQ Items
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Today's Industry News and Views
Eclipse clears developer clutter (InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - The Eclipse Foundation, with an open source technology release on Monday, hopes to alleviate developers of clutter.
TROUBLEShooting VISTA Windows Mobile device Center
Looking at my post on Vista Windows Mobile Device Center (WMDC) there are a huge number of comments/posts relating to technical issues trying to synchronise with Vista. To hopefully help out 99.999% of people I wanted to post the key steps to getting
Wikipedia founder remakes Web publishing economics (Reuters)
Reuters - Free software is about to get freer.
Police wiretaps can turn dormant mobile phones into live bugs
nj.com “…The FBI converted the Nextel cell phones of two alleged New York mobsters into “roving bugs” — microphones that relayed conversations when the phones seemed to be inactive, according to recent court documents.”
Wii and PS3 launch games to be banned in Germany?
itwire.com.au “Proposed legislation introduced this week could see the banning of all violent video games in a popular reaction to recent school shootings. No Call of Duty 3, Resistance: Fall of Man or Gears of War for Germanic gamers.”
Some see red over gray-market goods (USATODAY.com)
USATODAY.com - SAN FRANCISCO - Spot an amazing deal on a digital music player, camera or other electronic product online this holiday?
Former exec has second software life (USATODAY.com)
USATODAY.com - FOSTER CITY, Calif. - Even in Silicon Valley, 65-year-old Leonard Liu is a rare breed of entrepreneur. The former IBM executive was born and raised in China and Taiwan, and educated at Princeton University.
Cingular goes 'big' with ads in fourth quarter (USATODAY.com)
USATODAY.com - NEW YORK - Cellphones are among the most popular tech toys for holiday gifts, with carriers making about 30% of sales in the fourth quarter.
Dogfooding File Size distribution
One of my customers was asking how well we handled large files at which point, i pointed him to our Dogfooding numbers. Unfortunately these post don’t contain file sizes and dropped Brian a piece of mail asking for the size distribution (Where else but
GRAW 2 announced! - bit-tech.net
XboxSolution GRAW 2 announced! bit-tech.net - 1 hour ago We've only a few morsels to enjoy at the moment but GRAW 2 is still visually stunning. A couple of days ago Ubisoft announced that Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2 is being developed for 360,
Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Released to Manufacturing!
On Friday December 8 th , The Exchange team here at Microsoft released Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 to manufacturing! Referred to as RTM, the Released to Manufacturing milestone concludes the highly successful beta program and is the point at which
Firing rules when removing InfoPath controls
The build-in support InfoPath offers for rules can be used to generate a relatively large and powerful set of conditions that trigger the rule action. There are some scenarios though were the default options available through the condition builder may
IBM touts Flash-killer - Techworld.com
Inquirer IBM touts Flash-killer Techworld.com - 23 minutes ago By Chris Mellor, Techworld. IBM has built a prototype storage device with two partners that they claim is 500 times faster than Flash. IBM and partners develop new memory chip material International
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Today's Job Postings
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IT's Potential Realized
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Today's Fun Click
1164 Morning Glory Circle
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