I should have keep quite about blog spam this morning because I'm getting more spam on my blog today then I have in a few months. This round was "No doubt, it's one of the most interesting sites I've been at. " posted by someone named Viagra. Oh well...It is gone now.

RSS Workshop - a Tutorial A site that has just about everything you need to read to "create, validate, parse, publish, and syndicate" your own RSS News Channel.

Scobleizer - Microsoft Geek Blogger » The Worldbank blog does RSS the best I wonder what he liked about this RSS?? Don't get me wrong, it looks good...but what makes this (in his eyes) the best?

VBA Beginner's Corner - Someone to Watch over you. An overview of some of the VBA debugging features for beginners.

Today I noticed I had some more blog spam. It was posted by ???? Does anyone know what ???? means? I can't wait for the move to Community Server blogs!!

After installation of Windows XP Service Pack 2, a balloon window is displayed every time a print job is sent to a networked printer informing the user that the job has been spooled succesfully. You may wish to disable this option. To disable the network print notification balloon windows in Windows XP SP2: Use a registry editing tool to navigate to the following key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Printers\Settings...

Happy Halloween everyone. Please be safe while you are out Trick or Treating with your families. Also, today is my wife's birthday!! Happy Birthday Martha!!

Well, the end of the Saga will be released on DVD tomorrow November 1, 2005. I will be rushing out and buying my copy tomorrow. I wonder how many *other* DVDs will come out for Episode III later? I want to get the box set of the first 3 films when it comes out and I also want to get the box set of the whole saga when it comes out. Currently I have the Original Box Set of the Star Wars Trilogy, the...

Virtual PC Guy's WebLog : Detecting Microsoft virtual machines Ben (the Virtual PC Guy) has a great script (shown below) to help detect a Virtual Machine. Dim Manufacturer strComputer = "." Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:" _ & "{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\" & strComputer & "\root\cimv2") Set colItems = objWMIService.ExecQuery("Select * from Win32_BaseBoard") For Each objItem...

On Microsoft Publisher and more Save as XPS in Office “12”, I sure hope this is the PDF Killer!!

For the ones that are under Daylight Savings Time, don't forget to set your clocks back on Sunday Morning at 2:00 am (or before you go to bed Saturday Night)

Microsoft SQL Server: SQL Server 2005 Features Comparison Microsoft has redesigned the SQL Server 2005 product family to better meet the needs of each customer segment with four new editions: Express, Workgroup, Standard, and Enterprise. So which one do you need to buy?

Support policy for Exchange Server 2003 running on hardware virtualization software This KB will discuss the Support Policy for running Exchange 2003 on a Virtual Server. Support policy for Exchange Server 2003 Microsoft supports Exchange Server 2003 running on hardware virtualization software (virtual machines) only when all the following conditions are true: • The hardware virtualization operating...

John Howard has another addition to the series on Infrastructure Essentials. Part 19: Infrastructure essentials Blogcast - RPC/HTTP for Outlook & Exchange - Completing internal config Series Index: 0 . Network configuration and series background. 1 . Getting started 2 . ISA Server configuration to allow basic web browsing capability 3 . ISA Firewall Client basic configuration 4 . ISA Firewall Client...

John Howard has another addition to the series on Infrastructure Essentials. Part 18: Infrastructure essentials Blogcast - RPC/HTTP for Outlook & Exchange - Initial Setup Series Index: 0 . Network configuration and series background. 1 . Getting started 2 . ISA Server configuration to allow basic web browsing capability 3 . ISA Firewall Client basic configuration 4 . ISA Firewall Client auto-detection...

You Had Me At EHLO... : Top 11 Hidden Features in Outlook Web Access for Exchange 2003 Top 11 Hidden Features in Outlook Web Access for Exchange 2003 OWA supports hotkeys! Putting an = in front of the e-mail alias that you are trying to resolve when composing a mail will automatically resolve it to any exact matches. Drag n’ drop works between the folder tree view and the message list view in your...

Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 Training and Events Upcoming Webcasts • Understanding Windows Hypervisor and Virtualization in Windows Vista Thursday, November 10, 2005, 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM (GMT–8:00) This webcast provides a technical overview of the Microsoft Windows hypervisor, a technology that allows more than one operating system to run on the same computer and that is planned for release with Microsoft...

AMD desktop PC-use CPU market share exceeds 20% in 3Q AMD desktop PC-use CPU market share exceeds 20% in 3Q

I got this from http://blogs.msdn.com/managementupdates/archive/2005/09/25/473805.aspx Systems Management Server - Updates & News, September 2005 The SMS 2003 SP2 (Beta) Program Is Open For Enrollment Evaluate Systems Management Server 2003 SP 2 (Beta) which is a rollup of hotfixes and new functionality to increase system manageability, security, reliability, and performance. SP2 provides a more...

One or more site objects may be missing after you expand a site hierarchy node in a remote System Management Server 2003 Administrator Console 908478 ... One or more site objects may be missing after you expand a site hierarchy node in a remote System Management Server 2003 Administrator Console

The Exchange Team's Blog: You Had Me At EHLO... : On ActiveSync and our partners Ed Hott, the Director of Business Development for Microsoft Exchange with primary responsibility for the Exchange ActiveSync licensing protocol. There have been a few questions recently around our work with partners in licensing the ActiveSynch protocol so I want to provide some information that I hope will clear things...

Major Nelson.com is reporting the first Xbox 360 on Xbox Live... Nice!!

Download details: Windows XP Security Guide The Windows XP Security Guide has been updated to provide specific recommendations about how to harden computers that run Windows XP with Service Pack 2 (SP2) in three distinct environments: Enterprise Client (EC). Client computers in this environment are located in an Active Directory directory service domain. Stand-Alone (SA). Client computers in this environment...

Eileen Brown's WebLog : Inventory tool for Dell updates - mandatory re-install She states " This does require a re-installation of the scan tool package from here... Note that after an upgrade, the Distribution Points for the Dell Updates Sync program (ITDUSync.exe) need to be updated with a new version of the package source to ensure that the sync host is running the latest bits. Existing packages...

Download details: Systems Management Server 2003 Inventory Tool for Dell Update SMS 2003 Inventory Tool for Dell Updates is an add-on to SMS 2003 Service Pack 1 (SP1) that enables customers to use the SMS 2003 Software Update Management feature to update their Dell servers. Customers will be able to deploy BIOS, firmware, and driver updates to their Dell servers using the same process that they use...

Fabrice Meillon Blog's : Citrix Management Pack for MOM 2005 Citrix Management Pack for MOM 2005 The Citrix Management Pack for MOM is available to Citrix Subscription Advantage™ members, who can download it from the Citrix Secure Portal at www.citrix.com/mycitrix .

Michael Swanson's Blog : PDC05 Sessions Online Great offer to watch all the 209 breakout sessions, panels, and symposia are now available online .

Systems Management Server 2003 895477 A computer that is running Windows Server 2003 or Systems Management Server 2003 may stop responding

Doombot.B Doombot.B is a mass-mailer with IRC bot capabilities. It is very similair to original Mytob family of worms, combining functionality of Mydoom and IRC bot. The infected messages comes with subjects like "Notice of account limitation", "Email Account Suspension" or "Security Measures". Attachement filenames are for example "password.pif" or "email-details.exe". http://europe.f-secure.com/v...

Are you ready for the best conference of the year? The MMS is by far the best conference to go if you are looking for Microsoft Management Solutions, aka SMS, MOM, etc. www.mms2006.com myITforum.com, Inc. is ALWAYS heavily represented by its members along with Microsoft. If you are interested in speaking at this conference, then keep an eye on www.mms2006.com site or the blogs on myITforum.com and... More Posts Next page »