SCCM R3 chat....

http://edge.technet.com/Media/Whats-New-with-Configuration-Manager-R3-and-vNext/ SCCM R3 being focused on power management, we all already know that... forefront security management being integrated into the console... meh - kind of interesting, but the fact remains that forefront needs to get usable first (which i am hoping 2010 will be) MDT integration updates to build in end user choices (instead of…

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DPM 2010 RTM's

http://blogs.technet.com/systemcenter/archive/2010/04/19/the-right-tools-for-the-job-sce-2010-dpm-2010.aspx ignore sce - but DPM 2010 looks like it has RTM'ed.... hopefully will be available for download in a few days

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Office 2010 RTM

As im sure most people have already seen, office 2010 has gone RTM and will be available to download from technet on april 22nd (apparently) We have a bunch of clients that are waiting for office 2010 to come along so they can go windows 7 and office 2010 in their moves from XP…

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Exchange 2010 SP1 – good stuff

So Exchange 2010 SP1 details got announced the other day over at http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2010/04/07/454533.aspx The most important bit for me being "This includes adding the flexibility to provision a user's Personal Archive to a different mailbox database from their primary mailbox." Which means this feature not only becomes alot more useful, but easier to sell because…

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RDWeb/RDGateway – the nightmare

So i recently went into a small client to setup a single server RDWeb/RDGateway/RD Session host server... "simple enough" i thought... how wrong i was. When having a dedicated RDWeb/RD Gateway and a farm behind it - it all fits together nicely... on a single box, i seemed to need to use SAN certs.... which…

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Internet eh....

The bane of many people in Aus has been tring to get reasonable internet access for many years. I recently swapped over to a naked DSL connection - to rid myself of the telstra menace - and performance has been average to say the least. (My previous service was non-naked on a different line into…

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"Discussion" with Conroy and the Aus internet filter

Radio show "Australia Talks" tonight had a discussion panel style radio program with Stephen Conroy and opponents tonight... the download can be found at http://www.abc.net.au/rn/australiatalks/stories/2010/2835549.htm As ive stated before - anyone with a triple digit IQ knows this is unworkable and just plain stupid... apart from being morally disgusting. So its going to get implemented…

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Top 10 internet filter lies

not badly written this one.... http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/top-ten-internet-filter-lies/ I think most people with a triple digit IQ realise Conroys plan is un-workable and just plain silly - but its good to see its getting some more logical coverage on larger sites (i found this via news.com.au) - and because its written in a non-technical way, maybe some…

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Microsoft announces OCS "14"

I had heard last year that this would drop in April - but it now looks like H2 2010... still, now that its been announced, maybe the very open release date will be met :-) http://blogs.technet.com/microsoft_blog/default.aspx http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/presskits/2010office/imageGallery.aspx As per the pictures, looks like the social connector stuff is a focus with outlook.... seems to be…

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* sigh *

Another example of the cruelest and most deameaning law we (as in most of the world, excluding 4 countires) have, causing suffering and pain for people.... "Woman 'has the right' to starve to death" - http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/03/24/2854546.htm but apparently not the right to make up her own mind to die in a painless fashion at the…

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