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Knowing When You Have a Broken IT Environment
If you're storing documents in shares on file servers *and* in Sharepoint (or whatever portal product you have), you have a broken environment. If you have some computers patched automatically, and others not, you have a broken environment. If you...
5 Group Policy Myths
1 - Group Policy is Hype Hype comes from people. Technology doesn't hype itself. Group Policy is serious stuff. It's not rocket science when you get down to what it's doing and how it works. Sure, there's some intricate processing being...
Windows Server 2008 Event Subscriptions and Lego Blocks
Confused by the title? No problem. Most of my titles are confusing, even to me, and I write them. I've often said that Microsoft has led the way on making platform plumbing that works. Sure, there's no shortage of platform API's for Linux...
Where's Dave?
Some have wondered where I've been (virtually speaking). Most of my time is now consumed with commuting and family chores while at home. I still blog mindlessly about more benign issues when I can, on my other blog. After I was riffed from my systems...
MOF 4.0 Released
Microsoft announced the release of the Microsoft Operations Framework 4.0 on TechNet. Check out the MOF Online Community also. As it says on their web site: Microsoft® Operations Framework (MOF) 4.0 delivers practical guidance for everyday IT practices...