Wow – thats impressive – even for government

An employee sent me this link.... http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2013/07/us-government-destroys-170000-of-hardware-in-absurd-effort-to-stop-malware/ Some of our clients would come close..... some of the decisions made are astounding.... but that really is taking a lack of basic understanding (if the story is true) to a new level..... bravo Economic Development Administration, you are the new benchmark.

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MS monitoring agent 2013

http://m.windowsitpro.com/operations-manager/microsoft-releases-monitoring-agent-works-or-without-operations-manager Interesting approach from MS, releasing a SCOM compatible agent that can work either with SCOM or without. Every now and again, MS do something that makes sense..... it can be a bit of a shock.... especially at the moment.

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MS Exams..... how much worse can they get ?

I sat 70-412 this morning, as part of my "exam updating" process that I go through every 3 years or so. I've now passed 30-ish (I think it might be 33) MS exams since 1997, so I think I'm reasonably qualified to talk on the topic. While I agree with many people out there that…

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VMXNet3 drives for PE

So I imagine most of you do your reference builds (and test builds) in virtual machines..... if your running Hyper-V - this "just works"..... Today I had a client who mandated the use of VMXNet3 in their VMware 5.1 environment, instead of E1000 - which we usually ask for (and get) - "that's fine, ill…

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Lync 2010/2013 to Skype

The full guide is here... http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/confirmation.aspx?id=39071 For those of that already have PIC enabled (most of you i would assume).... i found the guide to be a little bit off, in that my existing provider was called "MSN" - not "Messenger" So, my suggestion is to open up your Lync powershell and....... Get-CsPublicProvider note the…

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Direct Access 2012 and Outlook RPC/HTTP

I have a client for whom i recently implemented 2012 Direct Access.... there was a number of teething problems in the implementation - but once its working, DA is actually pretty good. If i could ask the product team for anything in DA 2012 R2, it would be re-introduce wildcard certificate support (it was in…

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HyperV in 2012 R2

Link to Bink article... - http://www.bink.nu/what’s-new-for-hyper-v-in-windows-sever-2012-r2 Some of the stuff in there looks pretty cool.... hopefully the release of VMM2012 R2 will follow this a bit quicker than it did for 2012 Hyper-V.

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SCCM – Install at logoff (or similar)

A few times over my career, ive run into certain situations where an application is always running and does not have a nice method of shutting itself down in order to update or install. An example of this is a data terminal in a police car, or a kiosk run by a government department.... both…

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