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Poll: Facebook or Google+?
07 July 11 09:18 PM | rodtrent | 1 comment(s)

Quick, simple and to the point, but feel free to leave your comments… Poll- Facebook or Google+-

Filed under: Internet, myITforum.com, Google, Social Networking, Surveys/Polls, Google+, Facebook

The Deployment Guys gets a Facelift
13 June 11 11:37 AM | rodtrent | with no comments

  You may have noticed that we have gone through a facelift here at the Deployment Guys blog – We now have integration to our Twitter and Facebook...

Filed under: Internet, Microsoft Deployment

There’s more than just one System Center “Whitby” beta…
06 June 11 03:10 PM | rodtrent | with no comments

“Whitby” is Microsoft’s “cloud” search app (powered by Bing) for locating information about the various System Center products.  Over time, you’ve...

Filed under: Internet, System Center

Dropbox authentication: insecure by design
13 April 11 07:12 AM | rodtrent | with no comments

  For the past several days I have been focused on understanding the inner workings of several of the popular file synchronization tools with the...

Filed under: Internet, Security, Software

Microsoft’s Rules on IE Virtualization are Confusing and “Crippling”
06 December 10 12:28 PM | rodtrent | with no comments

There’s an interesting article over at TechTarget.com ( IT pros fume over Microsoft's rules against IE virtualization ).  You might remember that...

Filed under: Internet, Windows, Virtualization, Microsoft, Licensing

Microsoft Asks Spoon.Net to Take Internet Explorer Off the Cloud
16 November 10 09:44 PM | rodtrent | with no comments

Spoon is one of those really innovative products/services that has some serious promise in the world of the Cloud.  I was first made aware of Spoon...

Filed under: Internet, Virtualization, Microsoft, Internet Explorer, Cloud Computing

Download details: Microsoft Download Manager
20 May 10 03:36 PM | rodtrent | with no comments

  The Microsoft Download Manager enables you to download files from the Internet in a more reliable and faster way than using a browser alone. Using...

Filed under: Internet, Microsoft

Internet Explorer Cumulative Update Releasing Out-of-Band
29 March 10 03:27 PM | rodtrent | with no comments

  Today we issued our Advanced Notification Service (ANS) to advise customers that we will be releasing security update MS10-018 tomorrow, March 30...

Filed under: Internet, Patch Management, Security, Internet Explorer

Google Dropping Support for IE6
02 February 10 11:05 AM | rodtrent | with no comments

  In order to continue to improve our products and deliver more sophisticated features and performance, we are harnessing some of the latest improvements...

Filed under: Internet, Google

Microsoft Online Services Team Blog : New Sign-In Application and Update Notifications from the Application
25 January 10 03:05 PM | rodtrent | with no comments

  Microsoft Online Services is releasing a new version of the Microsoft Online Services Sign-In application (version 1.0.1423.65). This new version...

Filed under: Internet, Microsoft, Microsoft Online Services

Facebook quizzes result in monthly phone charges…
05 December 09 02:17 PM | rodtrent | with no comments

I learned this the hard way this week, and wanted you all to be aware of a particular scam on Facebook.  After scrutinizing our mobile bill this week...

Filed under: Internet

Is IT Ready for End-User Self-Help Portals?
17 November 09 06:03 PM | rodtrent | with no comments

End-User self-help portals are getting more and more exposure in web articles and industry magazines. This survey is to help Matrix42 understand what you...

Filed under: Internet, Systems Management

Need to send out group voice messages? AbbyMe does a good job for free…
08 September 09 11:01 AM | rodtrent | with no comments

The interface is built on Flash, so its clunky and unresponsive at times, but AbbyMe does a good job.  Since I coach high school soccer, I needed...

Filed under: Internet

Add the IE8 ADM file to available GPOs
28 May 09 06:24 PM | rodtrent | with no comments

This little utility installs the IE8 GPO settings on your domain controller so that the IE8 GPO settings are available for you to populate throughout your...

Filed under: Internet, Internet Explorer, Group Policy, Active Directory, IE8

Following MMS 2009 on Twitter
23 April 09 03:39 PM | rodtrent | with no comments

A bunch of folks have asked me recently about “who” to follow at MMS, and “how” to do it.  I just saw today that Stefan has already taken the time...

Filed under: Community, Internet, MMS 2009, MMS, Twitter