Microsoft have provided a Visio 2010 Add-In to enable Disk Space Monitoring, it provides a graphical view of free space available on selected computers. To populate the Visio diagram it can either be populated from an Excel spreadsheet or System Center Operations Manager. Once all the desired computers have been contacted, the information is [...]
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Active Directory Explorer v1.4 – Now Available
June 25, 2010
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Microsoft have released version 1.4 of the Sysinternals tool ”Active Directory Explorer “. AD Explorer is an advanced Active Directory (AD) viewer and editor. You can use AD Explorer to easily navigate an AD database, define favorite locations, view object properties and attributes without having to open dialog boxes, edit permissions, view an object’s schema, and [...]
Read moreOffice 2010 Resource Kit (Deployment).
May 4, 2010
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If you are the an IT professional who is looking for information on how to plan, implement and maintain Microsoft Office 2010 installations then this publication will help. Microsoft have made available this download which provides how-to information on the recommended steps to execute specific deployment tasks, such as customising the installation; installing the Microsoft Office 2010 [...]
Read moreHow to get Microsoft Podcasts on to your iPod (easily).
May 4, 2010
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I am one of those people that loves technology and I always like to keep my knowledge up to date. One way I “used” to stay informed, was with Microsoft’s Podcasts on iTunes; but this content was getting a little stale and did not appear to be updated very often. One day when I was not looking for [...]
Read moreExchange 2010 – Offline Help Download.
April 16, 2010
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Microsoft have made available an Exchange 2010 offline helpfile (CHM format), it makes interesting reading, discussing the steps that must be taken in a migration or transition project to Exchange 2010 from either Exchange 2003 or Exchange 2007. Contents: Download Note: The download file is a self extracting ZIP file, if after extracting the CHM file, you cannot [...]
Read moreMicrosoft Infrastructure Planning and Design Solution Accelerators – Updated.
April 15, 2010
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The Microsoft Infrastructure Planning and Design (IPD) guides are a series of documents that used to be known as the Windows Server System Reference Architecture. The IPD guides help clarify and streamline design processes for Microsoft infrastructure technologies, each guide addresses a specific infrastructure technology or scenario. All IPD guides share a common structure: 1. [...]
Read moreActive Directory Issues and looking for a helping hand?
April 6, 2010
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If you are looking connect with fellow Active Directory administrators, architects or perhaps the people that design the product, then I would strongly urge you to check out Tony Murray’s ActiveDir.org mailing list. The list which started back in January 2001 provides a forum for discussing various aspects of Microsoft’s Active Directory technology. Tony Murray has provided [...]
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Active Directory: Designing, Deploying, and Running Active Directory
