Jonathan Hardwick
Improving the performance of Visual Studio
Blogging up the management hierarchy
My “grand-manager” Brad Anderson has started a blog on myITforum. Although it’s...
Author: Jonathan Hardwick Date: 12/15/2004
Why is MSN Desktop Search so slow at indexing my disk? And other tips...
A quick follow-up to four points, since "Dogfooding MSN Desktop Search" seems to be getting a lot of...
Author: Jonathan Hardwick Date: 12/13/2004
Tuesday at CMG 2004 - "A Performance Process Maturity Model"
My favorite talk at CMG yesterday was “A Performance Process Maturity Model”, given by Michael...
Author: Jonathan Hardwick Date: 12/08/2004
Why we need process, not just tools
In case you missed this story when it hit the headlines last month, one of the UK’s major...
Author: Jonathan Hardwick Date: 12/08/2004
Where to get this week's SMS and MOM news
As I said, I’m going to start leaving it to Rod Trent and Eileen Brown to handle the weekly...
Author: Jonathan Hardwick Date: 12/07/2004
Blogging from CMG 2004 - and the perks of industrial conferences
If you can only attend one conference each year about capacity planning and performance modeling,...
Author: Jonathan Hardwick Date: 12/06/2004
Winding down the SMS & MOM content on this blog, ramping up Indy instead
Back when I started out, I was the only blogger in the WEMD organization, and I took it upon myself...
Author: Jonathan Hardwick Date: 12/06/2004
Monthly update on SMS & MOM
I’ve posted another month’s worth of marketing prose over at the Management Updates...
Author: Jonathan Hardwick Date: 12/05/2004
Why does "Enable offline files" uncheck itself after a reboot?
After my two previous posts on debugging offline files, I’ve had four requests via comments and...
Author: Jonathan Hardwick Date: 12/02/2004
How to beat the 25-post limit of blogs.msdn.com
A couple days ago I complained that the RSS feed of blogs.msdn.com is capped at 25 posts. William...
Author: Jonathan Hardwick Date: 11/29/2004
More SMS and MOM resources
Eileen Brown has burst onto blogs.msdn.com with a torrent of SMS and MOM content – check out her...
Author: Jonathan Hardwick Date: 11/28/2004
Downloaded the Windows Update Services beta? Try the WUS wiki!
This deserves a post of its own because it’s so cool. One thing I missed in my announcements from IT...
Author: Jonathan Hardwick Date: 11/28/2004
Where's a syndicated feed of blogs.msdn.com without the 25-item limit?
The main RSS feed of blogs.msdn.com currently seems to be capped at 25 items. With over a thousand...
Author: Jonathan Hardwick Date: 11/26/2004
SMS & MOM news from IT Forum 2004
It’s been a while since I’ve posted any SMS & MOM news, so it’s time to catch...
Author: Jonathan Hardwick Date: 11/24/2004
“It’s the weirdest thing, but my thumbs are tired.”
No sooner did I mention Blogjet than Dmitry Chestnykh announced a new version. So if you're looking...
Author: Jonathan Hardwick Date: 11/20/2004
SMS and MOM news
With the beginning of a new month, I've posted another round of "official" (aka marketing)...
Author: Jonathan Hardwick Date: 11/02/2004
MOM gets Ladybug! (or - how to report bugs and request features in MOM)
As reported by Larry Duncan and Rod Trent, the MOM team are one of the first to adopt the great work...
Author: Jonathan Hardwick Date: 10/26/2004
Local user groups for SMS and MOM
A couple of announcements from local user groups: The Pacific Northwest local interest group of the...
Author: Jonathan Hardwick Date: 10/19/2004
MOM 2005 Resource Kit released (because admins need Power Toys too)
As Nick MacKechnie notes, the MOM team have released (early!) the resource kit for Microsoft...
Author: Jonathan Hardwick Date: 10/14/2004
A few more SMS and MOM blogs
I've added three more SMS & MOM bloggers to the growing list on the left - at least, it's on the...
Author: Jonathan Hardwick Date: 10/11/2004
Uh oh
It's official - I'm a WikiGnome
Author: Jonathan Hardwick Date: 10/11/2004
Review of FranklinCovey's PlanPlus
“Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.”Gertrude Stein....
Author: Jonathan Hardwick Date: 10/10/2004
Sysinternals blog - required reading for every Windows administrator
Mark Russinovich and Bryce Cogswell, the guys behind Sysinternals, now have an RSS feed. If you...
Author: Jonathan Hardwick Date: 10/09/2004
The problem with MaxiVista…
…is that once you've used it you can never go back. For those who missed my earlier review,...
Author: Jonathan Hardwick Date: 10/07/2004
SMS & MOM news
I've just pushed out another month's worth of Management Updates. Since both MOM 2005 and SMS 2003...
Author: Jonathan Hardwick Date: 10/06/2004
Save the date - MMS 2005 will be in Vegas from April 22nd-25th
The next Microsoft Management Summit will be held in Las Vegas, April 18th-22nd 2005. That's where...
Author: Jonathan Hardwick Date: 10/05/2004
You know you've got a good spam filter when…
…users start complaining if a spam gets through. Human beings are incredibly adaptable — we can...
Author: Jonathan Hardwick Date: 10/05/2004
Jumpstarting the SMS and MOM communities
I'm now officially on the hook to start the community around our upcoming product (that's what...
Author: Jonathan Hardwick Date: 09/28/2004
OneNote part 2: organizing your information
When it comes to organizing your notes, OneNote is all about freedom - you can put information...
Author: Jonathan Hardwick Date: 09/23/2004
Buy MOM 2005 online
Ok, I think this could be a first for one of our server products - you can now buy MOM 2005...
Author: Jonathan Hardwick Date: 09/21/2004
SMS 2003 SP1 released
Service Pack 1 for Systems Management Server 2003 has made it out of beta, and is now available for...
Author: Jonathan Hardwick Date: 09/14/2004
Virtual Server 2005 released - with a very cool tag line
For the huge positive impact that it's going to have on developers and administrators everywhere,...
Author: Jonathan Hardwick Date: 09/14/2004
OneNote part 1: making your own toolbars
This is the first in a series of loveletters, I mean blog posts, about how I use OneNote. No,...
Author: Jonathan Hardwick Date: 09/12/2004
Wildlife on the Microsoft campus
I just caught some movement out of the corner of my eye, and noticed a rabbit hopping around in the...
Author: Jonathan Hardwick Date: 09/08/2004
New releases for MOM 2005 and SMS 2003
More good stuff following on from the launch of Microsoft Operations Manager 2005: There'll be a...
Author: Jonathan Hardwick Date: 09/08/2004
Updated FAQ on SUS and WUS license requirements
The SUS* and WUS* team have updated their FAQ based on customer feedback about licensing issues....
Author: Jonathan Hardwick Date: 09/01/2004
Free SP2 CDs are starting to arrive
Joe Wilcox of Jupiter Research has previously taken us to task for not doing enough to get SP2 into...
Author: Jonathan Hardwick Date: 08/31/2004
New releases: MOM 2005 evaluation version, and updated management packs
The quickest way to try out the new MOM 2005 bits is to download the evaluation version. You get a...
Author: Jonathan Hardwick Date: 08/31/2004
autoruns, or "What is all this stuff doing on my computer" revisited
My old post on "What is all this stuff doing on my computer" described how to track down and...
Author: Jonathan Hardwick Date: 08/27/2004