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Win32/Conficker.B/Downadup Resolution
First install this patch MS08-067 Then use this to remove it from any infected computers Malicious Software Removal tool History: Win32/Conficker.B --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Background Win32/Conficker.B exploits a vulnerability in the Windows Server service (SVCHOST.EXE) for Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2003, and Windows 2008...
ConfigMgr SDK (final) Released
Microsoft released the ConfigMgr SDK yesterday. You can get the download here . It includes DCM Digest Authoring guide, DCM digest schema, a SUM gadget that gives you current status messages on patches you have deployed, samples on creating admin console extensions, OSD custom task sequences and more. Regards, Anthony Anthony Clendenen | Solutions Engineer | 1E http://configmgr.com © Anthony Clendenen...
Troubleshooting WMI With WMIDiag
If you have never worked with Microsoft PSS, PFE, QFE, MCS, RRE, or any other arm of their professional support staff you may not be aware of the tools that these army of men and women come equipped with to resolve issues. These are often home grown, field developed, custom tools that these same folks have written to help customers and the support staff at Microsoft quickly resolve issues and the WMIDiag...
Virtual PC 2007 Release Candidate Available Now
The next version of Virtual PC is available for download on the Connect site. I downloaded this last night and used it and right away I noticed it was much faster. I had been working with several VPC's all day in VPC 2004 and after uninstalling VPC 2004 and installing 2007 the speed difference was very noticeable. The drag and drop function of being able to move files from your host OS to the guest...
Data Protection Manager 2006 Service Pack 1
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=93b4745c-a10b-44a9-9117-06fc4865b9f4&displaylang=en Brief Description Microsoft® System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM) 2006 Service Pack 1 (SP1) enables you to protect more types of file servers, provides an interface for configuring your Microsoft Update selection, and includes updates previously released as individual hot fixes...
New Downloads From Microsoft - Vista AJAX and Active Directory
Microsoft ASP .NET AJAX v1 Beta ASP.NET AJAX is a set of technologies to add AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript And XML) support to ASP.NET. It consists of a client-side script framework, server controls, and more. AD Forest Recovery – Best practices white paper. This paper is a best-practice recommendation for recovering an Active Directory® directory service forest, if forest-wide failure has...
Microsoft Announces Desktop Optimization Pack
Today it was officially announced that Microsoft will combine the recently acquired tools from Softricity, Winternals, and Desktop Standard into a single package that you can purchase for ~$50 per client. What this package gets you is SoftGrid application virtualization, group policy management/enhancement tools from DesktopStandard, and the remote repair tools from Wintenals. For this price you could...
User Profile Hive Cleanup Service
Do you get those annoying End Now dialog boxes when you are rebooting? Do you see errors in event viewer about the registry not being unloaded? Well now there is a cleanup tool from Microsoft to help eliminate those issues. Original source: Overview The User Profile Hive Cleanup service helps to ensure user sessions are completely terminated when a user logs off. System processes and applications occasionally...
Introducing - Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE)
Original source: Introducing Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE) The Windows Recovery Environment (aka Windows RE aka WinRE) team would use this blog to share information, tricks and tips about WinRE with support professionals and end-users of Windows. We would also like to use this blog to get feedback from the community. So what is WinRE? Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE) is a recovery platform...
Network Montior 3 Open Beta
To enroll in the beta go to connect . Original source: sniffer, Network Monitor, is coming back. Network Monitor 2.1 is included as optional component in every Windows installation but has a severe limitation: it cannot put the network interface in promiscous mode, preventing capture of all packets passing on the cable (to have a full version of Network Monitor 2.1 you have to buy Microsoft System...
Get IE7 to Work on Any Site
This utility will tell sites that you are running IE6 instead of 7 to make sites that do not function with 7 work [better]. I have not started using IE7 yet, but I think I am the only IT person on the planet that hasn’t. I like IE6 with the live tool bar. Original source: Spyware Sucks : IE7: User Agent String Utility Tool V.2 . '> Listen to this article
Software as a Service - Kevin Explains it
Where do I sign up? I saw this at MMS but Kevin makes it a little more clear. Original source: Playing with SoftGrid... As you may or may not know, MSFT acquired a company named Softricity over the summer (www.softricity.com). The acquisition is now complete and we will be announcing the roadmap and integration of this killer technology in the coming months. I feel that this 'app vitalization stuff...
How To Mount a Virtual Hard Drive Locally
Very nice Ben! See below to discover how to mount a VHD by clicking it with Ben’s reg key. Original source: Double clicking on a VHD to mount it Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 Beta 2 includes 'vhdmount' - a tool to allow you to mount a virtual hard disk directly on your host operating system. While vhdmount is provided as a command line tool - a very small amount of work will allow you to mount VHDs...
Get Rid of That Taskbar and Replace it with GroupBar!
GroupBar allows you to arrange or group your taskbar titles into the arrangement that you like. One of the best things about this is there is no installation of this program so there is no chance it will replace some dll. This is from the Microsoft Research group and can be found here or downloaded here . Original source: GroupBar is lightweight desktop tool created by the VIBE group that offers enhanced...
Microsoft Windows User Mode Process Dumper Version 8.1
The User Mode Process Dumper (userdump) dumps any running Win32 processes memory image (including system processes such as csrss.exe, winlogon.exe, services.exe, etc) on the fly, without attaching a debugger, or terminating target processes. Generated dump file can be analyzed or debugged by using the standard debugging tools. The userdump generates dump file by several triggers; Dump by specifying...
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