August 2006 - Posts
SMS 2003 Certification Question - Day Eighteen
Contest sponsored by Actualtests.com SMS Expert and myITforum.com Don’t forget to stop by our forum , it’s open for discussion! You are the SMS administrator for myITforum.com. The SMS hierarchy consists of one central site, two primary sites, and six secondary sites, they are all installed with SMS 2003 SP1. All clients are Advanced clients. You create an advertisement to install a new...
My Son's Blog on Windows Live Spaces
Check it out here . Original source: darkblade's space . '> Listen to this article
Updated Device Management Feature Pack Now Available
Get it here . Original source: Updated SMS 2003 Device Management Feature Pack Now Available The updated SMS 2003 Device Management Feature Pack (DMFP) is now available at: http://www.microsoft.com/smserver/downloads/2003/dmfp.mspx. The feature pack now allows SMS 2003 to manage mobile devices running Windows Mobile 5.0 and Windows Mobile Pocket PC Phone Edition 5.0. The updated DMFP ICP, release note...
SMS 2003 Certification Question - Day Seventeen
Contest sponsored by Actualtests.com SMS Expert and myITforum.com Don’t forget to stop by our forum , it’s open for discussion! You are the SMS administrator for myITforum.com. The SMS hierarchy consists of a central site, a single primary site, and one child site (3 servers total). All clients are advanced clients and all servers have all roles enabled. You want to give the Help Desk staff...
Motorola Q Firmware and Software Updates Now Available for Download - Gizmodo
Original source: Motorola is finally attempting a cure for its balky Motorola Q's crashtastic performance issues, offering firmware and software updates for download. Unfortunately if you want to update your Q, all the content you've loaded onto it will be deleted. We just downloaded the firmware update and it's 42.7MB, and on that same page there is a 10MB software update as well. It's about time...
myITforum.com : File Extensions used by SMS
In doing some research tonight on question 13 and collection eval inbox I came across this and it is a great resource. Thanks Ed! Original source: File Extensions used by SMS By: Ed Aldrich Posted On: 8/5/2005 File Extensions used by SMS (from BORK Appendix A; Table A.1) EXT Description .adc Adds a collection to Coll Evaluator .box Folders that hold files until an SMS component moves or processes them...
SMS 2003 Certification Question - Day Sixteen
Contest sponsored by Actualtests.com SMS Expert and myITforum.com Don’t forget to stop by our forum , it’s open for discussion! Please check your email regarding question 13, the answer and scores have been amended! You are the SMS administrator for myITforum .com. Your SMS 2003 hierarchy consists of a central site and a primary child site. You move a computer from the child site to the...
Question 13
There is a debate going on in the forums regarding this question. Please chime in to express your opinion. Please reconsider your answer to Q13. My answer agrees with two of your three parts, but not with the third part. Your answer: C, D, E. My answer: B, C, D. Specifically, we agree on C (Inventry.box--misspelled in the question) and D (Dataldr.box). However, where I proposed B (Sinv.box) as the...
SMS 2003 Certification Question - Day Fifteen
Contest sponsored by Actualtests.com SMS Expert and myITforum.com Don’t forget to stop by our forum , it’s open for discussion! You are the SMS administrator for myITforum .com. Your SMS hierarchy consists of a single SMS 2003 SP1 site. myITforum acquires a company that has a single office with an Active Directory domain and a single SMS 2.0 SP4 site. You create a two-way trust relationship...
And then there was one....
There is only one person that still has a perfect score in the cert contest. Stay tuned and find out very shortly who it is. '> Listen to this article
Intel Core 2 Duo vs. Core Duo
See I have not been wasting your time with all my Intel posts about the new CPU’s. Even those who love it when they get to kick a giant like Intel in the head can’t find anything to complain about…save your pennies. Original source: So what's the big deal with these latest Intel Core 2 Duo processors, anyway? Well, the Merom chips introduced today take the higher power and efficiency...
Core 2 Duo mobile launches due Monday - Engadget
Original source: Core 2 Duo mobile launches due Monday Posted Aug 26th 2006 7:43PM by Ryan Block Filed under: Laptops Well, it's officially late August, meaning that the bit of buffer between Intel's Core 2 Duo desktop and mobile launches should be over any day now. Word on the street is Monday's locked and loaded for a barrage laptop releases with their latest powerhouse dual core mobile processor...
More on eEye, Rod, ITMU, and WSUScan.cab
A long time ago I learned some very important rules of email, which also apply to blogging. Never, ever, ever, think that anything you write will not be read by your manager, director, head of HR, CIO, President, CEO, Board, wife, friends, customers, future customers, future hiring manager (Hello again!), children, those who don’t care for you, peers, NSA - you get the idea. Also never assume...
SMS 2003 Certification Question - Day Fourteen
Test questions sponsored by Actualtests.com SMS Expert and myITforum.com Don’t forget to stop by our forum , it’s open for discussion! You are the SMS administrator for myITforum .com. Your network consists of a single Active Directory domain. myITforum is planning to implement SMS 2003 SP1. You are analyzing business requirements to decide on the number of SMS sites and the hierarchy....
Rod and eEye Square Off
Interesting read if you missed it on patchmanagement. Marc an eEye often find themselves the object of ridicule, deserved or not their reputation in the security arena carries a lot of weight but is also viewed as grey hat, at best. My personal and business experience with eEye was not what I would call professional either. Several years ago when we were looking into a patch scanner/installer one product...
Microsoft Changes the WSUSScan.cab File
To make the WSUSScan file smaller they are getting rid of unsupported products. “… Microsoft is reducing the size of the WSUSScan.cab file by removing security updates for unsupported platforms, superseded security updates, and tools that are no longer needed.” Read it here . Changes to the WSUSScan.cab file View products that this article applies to. function loadTOCNode(){} Article...
SMS 2003 Certification Question - Day Thirteen
Test questions sponsored by Actualtests.com SMS Expert and myITforum.com Don’t forget to stop by our forum , it’s open for discussion! You are the SMS administrator for myITforum .com. The SMS 2003 site hierarchy consists of a single primary site. The site contains both Advanced Clients and Legacy Clients. Hardware and software inventory run on a daily basis. When you open Resource Explorer...
SMS 2003 Certification Question - Day Twelve
Contest sponsored by Actualtests.com SMS Expert and myITforum.com Don’t forget to stop by our forum , it’s open for discussion! You are the SMS administrator for myITforum .com. You are responsible for implementing the backup and recovery strategy for your site. The SMS backup maintenance task is configured to run daily. You store the set of scripts created to help manage your site in a...
Enterprise Architect - UML Design Tools and UML CASE tools for software development
If you mange software development you know how important documentation can be on a large project. And you know how Use Case diagrams and Class diagrams can be critical during your planning and analysis and you also know how long it can take to create these. Enterprise Architect is your new best friend…Drag and drop, this will make your documentation process a breeze! A single license is only...
Elevations Are Now Blocked in the User's Logon Path
Original source: Elevations Are Now Blocked in the User's Logon Path Hi, Jim Hong, Program Manager on UAC, here again to tell you about a new change in the UAC user experience coming in RC1. Applications that start when the user logs on and that require elevation are now blocked in the logon path. Without blocking applications from prompting for elevation in the user's logon path, both standard users...
Download details: Group Policy Settings Reference
You can get a look at what group policies are going to be available in Vista from the Microsoft Download Center. To give you a frame of reference there are 1671 polices in 2003 SP1, Vista Beta 2 has 2450. Get it here . Original source: Group Policy Settings Reference Windows Vista Beta 2 Brief Description This spreadsheet lists the policy settings for computer and user configurations included in the...
This Dell 2950 is Smoking Fast!!!
A few months ago I posted an article on how Intel was poised to take the lead back in the speed race. What I didn’t mention was I had been briefed by Intel a few months before and they laid down so very heavy claims, percentages were mentioned that you don’t hear often from a vendor, claims were made that cause you to do a double take at their Power Point slide. Dell was also in on this...
Microsoft Security Bulletin MS06-042 Updated Today
Original source: Microsoft Security Bulletin MS06-042 Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer (918899) Published: August 8, 2006 | Updated: August 24, 2006 Microsoft Security Bulletin MS06-042: Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer (918899) . '> Listen to this article
SMS 2003 Certification Question - Day Eleven
Contest sponsored by Actualtests.com SMS Expert and myITforum.com Don’t forget to stop by our forum , it’s open for discussion! You are the SMS administrator for myITforum .com. The SMS 2003 site hierarchy consists of a single primary site named Site1. You are responsible for monitoring client status. You discover that 20 clients are not reporting SMS data in a timely fashion. You need...
Spyware Sucks : Internet Explorer 7 Release Candidate 1 has been released
Original source: Internet Explorer 7 Release Candidate 1 has been released That's right gals and guys.. go and get it (scroll past the graphics.. more info to come) http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/default.mspx Dave mentions it as well: http://blogs.msdn.com/dmassy/archive/2006/08/24/717521.aspx Ok, so the download itself isn't live at time of writing ... give it an hour or so: Important points...
Unlock work internet or risk losing staff - Pleeeeaze
Come on…What did they serve for breakfast at TechEd? Original source: Unlock work internet or risk losing staff: Microsoft 23 August 2006 | Dan Warne | Windows, Internet, High Fibre Jobseekers will think twice about employers who lock down work internet access, a senior Microsoft executive said today. “These kids are saying: forget it! I don’t want to work with you. I don’t...
SMS 2003 Certification Question - Day Ten
Contest sponsored by Actualtests.com SMS Expert and myITforum.com Don’t forget to stop by our forum , it’s open for discussion! You are the SMS administrator for myITforum .com. The SMS hierarchy consists of a primary central site and two primary child sites below the central site. There are two secondary child sites below each primary child site. The SMS Backup Task is enabled to run once...
Securing the Local Administrator Account
There are a number of articles on how to secure the local administrator account on Windows computers and most of the have the same advice, rename it, make the password very strong, etc. But I was asked this question a few days ago and after doing some reading and research I don’t really care for this approach. I think I prefer the idea of setting a very strong password, using a tool that generates...
Bink.nu | Microsoft Released Windows Desktop Search 3.0 Beta 2
If you use the Office 2007 Beta this will be a very welcome update as it includes the desktop search, which the first beta did not. Original source: The search engine in WDS 3.0 is a Microsoft Windows service that is also used by programs such as Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 and Microsoft Office OneNote 2007. You can use this search engine to index a program's content and to obtain instant results...
SMS 2003 Certification Question - Day Nine
Contest sponsored by Actualtests.com SMS Expert and myITforum.com I am sorry for the late post but I was unavailable until now. Also there are three people who still have a perfect score not just two, Reed is also perfect so far. If you want to discuss the contest or players we now have a forum on myITforum.com, you can check it out here . You are the new SMS administrator for myITForum .com. The SMS...
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