May all your dreams and goals be fullfilled in 2005.

Volume Shadow Copy Service SDK 7.1 Software development kit for the Volume Shadow Copy Service. Source: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=0b4f56e4-0ccc-4626-826a-ed2c4c95c871

Systems Management Server 2003 OS Deployment Feature Pack - ICP Source: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=6EDF70DA-1733-43A5-9EE4-BC81A2F43016&displaylang=en

http://www.camaroclubsweden.com/upload/news/PHR_Aug2004.jpg Popular Hotrodding Article Quote from the article: "And today, I'm pleased to announce with absolute certainty that it will be back for the 2007 model year." Note: This is a direct quote from an editor of Popular Hotrodding magazine.

http://www.popularhotrodding.com/features/0409phr_camaro/ I got this from Popular Hotrodding...let's only hope that this new Sporty Car will be the Camaro!! Below is a direct quote from the above link: " It had been strongly hinted, and now confirmed, that GM was working on a sporty car for Chevrolet which includes a 5.3-liter V-8 engine, rear-wheel drive, and four-passenger capacity. This vehicle...

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This information was taken off of F-Secure site. Please use the link below to ensure you have the most recent information concerning this knowledge base article. New cabir variant detected. Today we got yet another variant of cabir. The Cabir.J is compiled from the same sources as Cabir.H and is very similar to it. F-Secure Mobile Anti-Virus detects the Cabir.J using generic detection as Cabir.Gen...

KBAlertz is back up and running, so it seems. After months of not sending out any email or RSS Feeds, it looks like they are back up and running. I have grown dependent on KBAlertz, and was feeling a bit behind with new KB Articles released from Microsoft. If you have not checked out the services of KBAlertz, you should look into subscribing. www.KBAlertz.com

This information was taken off of Microsoft's site. Please use the link above to ensure you have the most recent information concerning this knowledge base article. http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;885266 SYMPTOMS After you install a software update that was built by using the Windows Installer version 3.0 SDK (MSI 3.0) on a Systems Management Server (SMS) 2003 Advanced Client...

Remember the days of Windows 1.0? I started on Windows 3.0, but I did get to move around on a Windows 1.01 computer once. http://www.infosatellite.com/news/2001/10/a251001windowshistory_screenshots.html Here are the various screen shots of all the Windows Operating systems Microsoft has released starting with Windows 1.01 up to Windows XP. It was pretty interesting to see how much the software has...

Solution Accelerator for Domain Server Consolidation and Migration: Windows NT 4.0 to Windows Server 2003 The key to consolidating an existing Windows NT Server 4.0 environment is to have a standard process for planning, designing, deploying, and implementing the project. To help you achieve these goals, Microsoft has developed the Solution Accelerator (SA) for Domain Server Consolidation and Migration...

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=51ecb794-d25f-46b6-aa8e-072d91069e1c&DisplayLang=en Overview Management points and server locator points can be configured to perform SQL Server Replication. This adds a new path for network traffic, from the management point or server locator point to another SQL Server database. When you configure a site system to use a different database...

Server Performance Advisor V1.0 Performance diagnostic tool for Windows Server 2003 http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=61a41d78-e4aa-47b9-901b-cf85da075a73&displaylang=en Overview Service Performance Advisor is a server performance diagnostic tool developed to diagnose root causes of performance problems in a Microsoft® Windows Server™ 2003 operating system, particularly performance...

Do your kids want to track Santa tonight? Or do you? http://www.noradsanta.org/ You can go here and track Santa as he travels from place to place. My Son is already tracking him.

http://www.myitforum.com/blog/rcrumbaker/articles/934.aspx Want to add some Character to your Blog?

http://www.myitforum.com/blog/rcrumbaker/articles/935.aspx Want to add some character to your Blog?

Managing Microsoft SQL Server Security with Microsoft Access quote: Summary: This article describes how to manage SQL Server security with Microsoft Access both through the Access user interface and by using the SQL Distributed Management Objects (SQL-DMO) type library from Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA). (36 printed pages. Download available)

12 DAYS OF CHRISTMAS (MORE EDUCATION) There is one Christmas Carol that has always baffled me. What in the world do leaping lords, French hens, swimming swans, and especially the partridge who won't come out of the pear tree have to do with Christmas? Today I found out, thanks to the Internet. From 1558 until 1829, Roman Catholics in England were not permitted to practice their faith openly. Someone...

My wife and I just wanted to wish our friends and family a Merry Christmas. Happy Holidays to you and your family.

Got this from f-secure.com Another new Atak found A new minor variant of the Atak worm was found today (we detect it already). This one also sends fake electronic Christmas cards. Interestingly, it also contains a link to an image mocking the Lycos' "Make Love Not Spam" site...here the image reads "Make Love With Spam": On 17/12/04 At 03:42 PM Source: http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/#00000396

http://www.myitforum.com/blog/dthomson/archive/2004/12/16/813.aspx Let Dan or myself know what you want would like to see us incorportate into the Code Repository.

Paul Thurrott over at WindowsITpro has a great write up on the Microsoft Server Roadmap. He wrote: "Microsoft will deliver a host of server-related technologies over a long period of time, with the first deliverables shipping in early 2005. But the most notable news is that WinFS, the long-awaited storage engine originally scheduled for release with Longhorn, will no longer be included with either...

http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-5491439.html#talkback Will this speed up the next release of Internet Explorer? If there is another version.

Did Yahoo beat Google on the Video Searching Technology? http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,118974,pg,1,RSS,RSS,00.asp

http://news.com.com/Adobe+smoothes+kinks+in+Acrobat/2100-1002_3-5492700.html This blogger hopes Adobe fixes the slowness in Acrobat...I personally think it is one of the slowest software packages out there!!

http://news.com.com/New+CD+copy-lock+technology+nears+market/2100-1027_3-5492395.html Very interesting reading about the new technology. While I was reading, I was thinking to myself..."I wonder how long this will take before it is compromised." Let me know what you think.

I found this on www.f-secure.com Another Christmas greeting virus found A new variant of Atak worm was found on 15th of December 2004. The worm spreads in emails that have a subject "Merry X-Mas!" or "Happy New Year!". Here's an example of how the worm's message looks like: F-Secure Anti-Virus detects Atak.h worm with the 2004-12-15_01 update. On 15/12/04 At 01:37 PM Source: http://www.f-secure.com...

I've released an updated version of the Remote Tools Web Page. http://www.myitforum.com/articles/8/view.asp?id=8137 These instructions create a NEW Virtual Directory. Let me know what you think.

MS04-028 Update Scan Tool Update Scan Tool for SMS to detect updates described in the MS04-028 Microsoft Security Bulletin Source: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=c4745685-9521-4b63-a338-0b3e2dcbf2bb

http://www.microsoft.com/security/bulletins/200412_windows.mspx The Microsoft Windows security updates for December 2004 include several important updates and a critical cumulative update for Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 Service Pack 1 (SP1), a component of Windows. If you have any of the software listed on this page installed on your computer, you should visit the Windows Update Web site to install... More Posts Next page »