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MOM 2005 release: the aftermath
For more news about the RTM of MOM 2005, go check out Nick MacKechnie's blog. In...
Author: Jonathan Hardwick Date: 08/26/2004
How do we educate the analysts?
Joe Wilcox of Microsoft Monitor still thinks that people won't download SP2 via dialup, presumably...
Author: Jonathan Hardwick Date: 08/26/2004
Jittery digitizer on a Toshiba Portege 3500 Tablet PC? Pen stopped working? Try this
I just fixed an annoying problem on my old Toshiba Tablet PC - the pen stopped working. To be...
Author: Jonathan Hardwick Date: 08/26/2004
MOM 2005 is out!
Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 has just been released to manufacturing - the email went out 10...
Author: Jonathan Hardwick Date: 08/25/2004
"SP2 and Broadband Migration"
Microsoft Monitor from Jupiter Research is required reading for any serious Microsoft watcher. Joe...
Author: Jonathan Hardwick Date: 08/24/2004
New releases: a webcast series about the upcoming MOM 2005
The MOM 2005 release date is fast approaching, and they're setting up a series of webcasts for...
Author: Jonathan Hardwick Date: 08/23/2004
Recent MOM 2005 posts from blogs.msdn.com
The field teams are getting ready for Microsoft Operations Manager 2005:Jan Kiese points to...
Author: Jonathan Hardwick Date: 08/21/2004
Using SUS to deploy XP SP2
As a followup to Monday's post on using SMS to install XP SP2, the Software Update Services team...
Author: Jonathan Hardwick Date: 08/18/2004
New releases: version 2 of the SMS 2003 SDK, and how to install XP SP2 with SMS
If the TLAs SMS, SDK, WMI, and MMC mean something to you, then version 2 of the software development...
Author: Jonathan Hardwick Date: 08/16/2004
Welcome to Jim Hugunin!
Jim Hugunin of IronPython fame (and new Microsoft employee) now has a home on blogs.msdn.com. Check...
Author: Jonathan Hardwick Date: 08/14/2004
Microsoft blogs, journalism, and anonymity
I've just been the victim of some anonymous drive-by journalism from PC Magazine, and it's left a...
Author: Jonathan Hardwick Date: 08/12/2004
New releases: SMS FAQs updated, and next week's SMS webcasts
The SMS FAQs were just updated - these FAQs should be your first port of call for technical...
Author: Jonathan Hardwick Date: 08/11/2004
August's Management Updates - and more SMS and MOM blogs
Hot on the heels of July's updates, I've published the August MOM and SMS news to the Management...
Author: Jonathan Hardwick Date: 08/06/2004
XP SP2 RTMs!
Or, in plain English, “Windows XP Service Pack 2 has been Released To Manufacturing”. Expect the...
Author: Jonathan Hardwick Date: 08/06/2004
Preview release of Wintellect's PowerCollections for .NET
Good news in my inbox from the folks at Wintellect: This month, Wintellect announces the...
Author: Jonathan Hardwick Date: 08/05/2004
New releases: OS deployment feature pack for SMS 2003, more online training for MOM 2005
The operating system deployment feature pack for SMS 2003 SP1 does just what you'd hope - allow you...
Author: Jonathan Hardwick Date: 08/02/2004
July's Management Updates
I've just pushed out July's posts to the Microsoft Management Updates blog: Microsoft Management...
Author: Jonathan Hardwick Date: 07/29/2004
IronPython for .NET released - and it's faster than Python-2.3
Some very cool news from Jim Hugunin about IronPython, his port of Python to .NET:He's released it...
Author: Jonathan Hardwick Date: 07/29/2004
New releases: online training sessions for MOM 2005
MOM 2005 is coming out Real Soon Now - but they've already created eight 50-minute online lab...
Author: Jonathan Hardwick Date: 07/26/2004
What do you map your Tablet PC buttons to?
All Tablet PCs have extra buttons next to the screen, to give the user non-pen-based input options...
Author: Jonathan Hardwick Date: 07/26/2004
How Microsoft uses MOM
If you haven't been reading the MS.COM operation tools team weblog, you've missed a five-part series...
Author: Jonathan Hardwick Date: 07/23/2004
v1.0 of the SMS Capacity Planner tool
The SMS 2003 Capacity Planner is now available for download. This tool takes a lot of the guesswork...
Author: Jonathan Hardwick Date: 07/20/2004
New releases: MOM to HP connector, and best practices for SMS maintenance
The MOM product connector for HP Network Node Manager has been released - you can find it here. With...
Author: Jonathan Hardwick Date: 07/13/2004
The joys of wireless, or, why I like cloudy days in Seattle
Like many other Microsoft product-group bloggers, I had today marked down as “absolute...
Author: Jonathan Hardwick Date: 06/25/2004
The reason why Microsofties all blog about the same thing at the same time
This morning there's been a bunch of Microsofties blogging about the rumor of Bill Gate starting his...
Author: Jonathan Hardwick Date: 06/25/2004
"Microsoft hopes younger eyes have Office vision"
So, I've decided that the slashdotting after Dave Massey's Internet Explorer post wasn't enough. The...
Author: Jonathan Hardwick Date: 06/21/2004
What you missed at TechEd about MOM and SMS
At TechEd itself you missed a free copy of SMS 2003, MOM 2005 Express, and Services for Unix, and at...
Author: Jonathan Hardwick Date: 05/29/2004
The secret's out - here's what DSI really stands for
"Actually, you missed that part. I would apologize on that normally, but what we have here is the...
Author: Jonathan Hardwick Date: 05/26/2004
The MSM Glossary - the hardest part is using the same language
The Microsoft Solutions for Management team have just released their MSM glossary. This puts into...
Author: Jonathan Hardwick Date: 05/24/2004
The Microsoft Indy team is hiring
Did I mention that my team is hiring? Indy offers the chance to be in on v1 of a Microsoft product,...
Author: Jonathan Hardwick Date: 05/21/2004
MOM and SMS at TechEd
If you're into MOM and SMS and going to TechEd next week, it looks like Ali Parker's blog is the...
Author: Jonathan Hardwick Date: 05/19/2004
They redesigned our community web pages - and I don't think I like it
This is belated feedback, after I missed the online chat hosted by TJLau on the redesign of the MOM...
Author: Jonathan Hardwick Date: 05/17/2004
Microsoft Management Roadmap
Contrary to popular Slashdot belief, Microsoft's 50,000+ employees do not operate as a giant hive...
Author: Jonathan Hardwick Date: 05/15/2004
And then there were three! (SMS & MOM bloggers, that is)
TJLau has started another WEMD blog - he's hoping to give some insights into the product management...
Author: Jonathan Hardwick Date: 05/14/2004
One RSS feed of Management Updates, coming right up
Ok, you asked for it, you got it! I've started the Management Updates blog on blogs.msdn.com, and...
Author: Jonathan Hardwick Date: 05/14/2004
Do you want an RSS feed of Management Updates?
Adam Field asked for an RSS feed of the “Management Update Notification Service” that I blogged...
Author: Jonathan Hardwick Date: 05/11/2004
New on TechNet: guide to Capacity Management
The Microsoft Solutions for Management team have released an updated version of their Capacity...
Author: Jonathan Hardwick Date: 05/09/2004
Welcome to another SMS blogger!
SMSPerfGuy joins the blogging party - welcome! Now I won't have to be point guy all the time :-)
Author: Jonathan Hardwick Date: 05/09/2004
New releases: beta of SMS 2003 SP1, and MOM connectors for Openview and Tivoli
Donning my marketing hat*: We've released the beta of SMS 2003 SP1. This adds security fixes, more...
Author: Jonathan Hardwick Date: 05/06/2004
The other reason to love folder redirection: shadow copies
In my previous post I forgot to mention the other big win of having My Documents redirected to a...
Author: Jonathan Hardwick Date: 05/05/2004
Got Sasser?
Didn't turn on auto-updates? Infected with the Sasser worm? Grab Microsoft's Sasser.A and Sasser.B...
Author: Jonathan Hardwick Date: 05/02/2004