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Last week, I blogged that members of the Windows Technical Beta Program would not be receiving a complimentary copy of Windows 7. Normally I hate to be wrong but in this case, I’m stoked that I am.
To show our appreciation, members of the invitation-only Windows 7 Technical Beta Program will be eligible for a free, final copy of Windows 7 Ultimate. For more information on how to take advantage of this, refer to Paul’s post in the .Beta_Program newsgroup for details.
Showing Our Thanks to Windows 7 Beta Testers…. - Windows 7 Team Blog - The Windows Blog
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Multicast OS deployments fail with a hash value error when the Windows OS WIM file size is larger than 4 GB in System Center Configuration Manager 2007
Multicast OS deployments fail with a hash value error when the Windows OS WIM file size is larger than 4 GB in System Center Configuration Manager 2007
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Installing Visual Studio on Vista
Visual Studio setup attempts to install .NET Framework 2.0 but fails if the 2.0 Framework is already installed on the machine. On a Vista machine, this will fail because the 2.0 Framework is already is built into the operating system.
To correct this issue you can edit the unattend .ini file to prevent VS unattended setup from attempting to install .NET Framework 2.0.
- Remove these lines: "gfn_mid framework", "gfn_mid framework ia64", and "gfn_mid framework amd64" from the following sections:
[PreInstallOrder]
[InstallOrder]
[PostInstallOrder] - Change “InstallActionInteger=5” to “InstallActionInteger=1” in the following sections:
[gfn_mid framework]
InstallActionInteger=1
[gfn_mid framework ia64]
InstallActionInteger=1
[gfn_mid framework amd64]
InstallActionInteger=1
Enterprise Network Deployment Readme
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SOLUTIONACCELERATORS are free tools and guidance created by Microsoft to help IT Professionals with the use of Microsoft products and technologies.
Your answers will help direct Microsoft investments in Solution Accelerators.
This survey contains less than thirty questions and should take less than ten minutes to complete.
SOLUTIONACCELERATORS Satisfaction Survey - Zoomerang Online Surveys
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In a bit of a break from our normal System Center topics, today we thought we’d share the exciting news that earlier today it was announced within Microsoft that Brad Anderson has been promoted to corporate vice president, Management and Services Division (MSD). We know that many of you know Brad through videos and posts on the System Center blog or interaction with him at events such as the annual Microsoft Management Summit conference and have come to appreciate his knowledge of the IT management space and customer environments.
Nexus SC: The System Center Team Blog : Brad Anderson promoted to Corporate Vice President of Management and Services Division
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The SqlMonitoring tool makes it possible to monitor SQL 2000, 2005, 2008 environments and send alerts to a central database (SQL 2008). A client can be used to view the alerts en perform actions on them. This tool is a good alternative if you do not have the budget or infrastructure for tools like SCOM.
SqlMonitoring Tool - Home
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You can send a txt message to anyone who can receive txt messages on their phone or smartphone using your favorite email client – you just need to know the remote phone number along with the provider gateway information.
Here’s a few:
Verizon: 10digitphonenumber@vtext.com
AT&T: 10digitphonenumber@txt.att.net
Sprint: 10digitphonenumber@messaging.sprintpcs.com
T-Mobile: 10digitphonenumber@tmomail.net
Nextel: 10digitphonenumber@messaging.nextel.com
Cingular: 10digitphonenumber@cingularme.com
Virgin Mobile: 10digitphonenumber@vmobl.com
Alltel: 10digitphonenumber@message.alltel.com
CellularOne: 10digitphonenumber@mobile.celloneusa.com
Omnipoint: 10digitphonenumber@omnipointpcs.com
Qwest: 10digitphonenumber@qwestmp.com
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I saw an issue recently where an update to the server’s AV caused the Exchange Information Store service not to start. It was first identified when the server was rebooted for some other reason, and the service would not start automatically. There were strange errors like: 0(0x0), which really didn’t tell me much. After a bit of sleuthing I found that the VirusScan portion of Exchange was causing the service to actually time-out when starting. Renaming the VirusScan key solved the problem to allow email to start flowing again. If you’re out of options trying to figure out why a store will not mount and the service will not start, give this fix a shot. It could get you back up and running.
To do this, find this key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\MSExchangeIS\VirusScan
Rename, “VirusScan” to something different like “NotVirusScan” or something so that Exchange doesn’t see the key when the Information Store service is started.