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Microsoft will once again be unleashing a pack of updates on the next super "Patch Tuesday" on August 12. Details are posted here . So, be prepared brave patchmeisters. And drink heartily beforehand. Angry users and crashed computers don't...
Microsoft's Travis Plunk posted a modified version of Marc Shepard's WSUS SQL script for producing a report of non-compliant computers from the WSUS database. Indeed, this is good stuff and you should give it try. Works whether you're hosting...
Ok, I'm dating myself horribly here. For anyone that figured out that tagline, great. I'll see you in the pudding line at the retirement home. For the rest of you: It was an old cartoon TV advertisement for Tootsie Roll Pops . Oh well. I shall...
In case you don't read the WSUS Team Blog (you should by the way), there is a rather ominous posting regarding the WinVerifyTrust update for WSUS 3.0. To summarize: It will be MAN-DA-TOR-Y. That's right: required. You must pay $200 to pass Go...
This is a 50,000 foot perspective of keeping grounded while looking to employ WSUS for your patch management. Read the Manuals. Yes. RTFM. Nobody does anymore, but the WSUS guides are pretty good. You might even learn something. Be realistic. It is free...
Cecilia Cole has been busy it seems. Not that she is making all these goodies from scratch, but she's definitely working overtime posting info about them for all of us to benefit from. http://blogs.technet.com/wsus/archive/2008/05/20/new-office-sustained...
This morning I thought about posting a mini-review of a few apps I've been using or trying out lately. It will probably suck, but so what. Xobni - Fantastic! A sweet little Outlook add-on that puts a Yahoo!-ish looking indexing and mining tool at...
Thanks to Abhishek for posting a mention of this on his blog . The article he references is posted on the Microsoft TechNet Magazine articles site.Titled " System Center: New Software Update Management Tools ", this article by Steve Rachui gives...
This is pretty cool. Eminentware has released an Extension Pack for WSUS which adds a ton of new features and enhancements to WSUS which most anyone that uses WSUS would agree is worth investigating. I have no personal stake in Eminentware so I'm...
Every time I read somewhere about something that someone is saying is so freaking revolutionary or fantastically "new", but in reality is something that had a life previously, I get upset. I absolutely HATE misinformation. Even the mere appearance of...
I know it's beta. I know it's beta. I know it's beta. I know it's not the final UI it will have when released also. But purely on the functional and behavioral aspects, had to pull the plug on my physical install at least. I'll keep it in my VM test machines...
I finally got to get my hands on an eval of Thinstall and see what it does differently than SoftGrid. It's actually pretty nice. For those of you already familiar with Thinstall, ignore the rest of this post, as it will probably seem dumb and juvenile...
I've been working with SoftGrid for a few weeks now, after my company sent me out to a week-long training class at Microsoft in Redmond. Very cool stuff. All the buzz this year already. "Application Virtualization". Indeed. After years of suffering through...
I have to admit that I feel like I'm standing outside of a swinging party, in the cold, with a half-empty cup of stale beer. I'm employed as a Microsoft/Vmware consultant after all. Not much "cool stuff" to be proud of lately. I suppose it depends on...
I have to wonder what it will be like when Microsoft is no longer the dominant player in the software industry. Nothing lasts forever. Nothing. Certainly business has taught us that well enough. Remember the dynasties of IBM, U.S. Steel, Xerox, and Kodak...