Yearly Archives: 2005

Technet Magazine

IT Culture, System Admin
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Perhaps I've been under a rock lately but there appears to be an online Technet Magazine and its available in both HTML and help (.chm) format for portability. And oh, it is worth the read, for example check out SharePoint … Continue reading

SBS Show #6: SBS PSS Crew shows you how to troubleshoot SBS

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Mark Stanfill and Peter Gallagher from Microsoft SBS Product Support Services joined us this weekend to share some of their SBS support skills. We talked about basic troubleshooting, performance as well as leveraging PSS for your business whether you’re a … Continue reading

Firefox 1.5 is now available, on the heels of IE exploit

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Talk about impecable timing, Firefox 1.5 has been released in the wild and its available from Firefox FTP site and many mirror sites. If you’re lazy in USA and on Windows XP here is the direct link and the release … Continue reading

Exchange 2003 SP2 Faster Reboots

Exchange
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Leave it to Microsoft to brag about how fast a server can reboot. 🙂 Joke aside, this doesn't seem to be news at all but it has come in my inbox about 50 times over the past few days so … Continue reading

Exchange IMF bi-weekly updates start in December

Exchange
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I talked about the IMF going to bi-weekly upgrades with Exchange 2003 SP2 and here is the update from the man that was brave enough to kick them around at Barcelona's IT Forum this year: "Microsoft has informed me that … Continue reading

SBS Show #6 Taped

SBS Show
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.. and wow did we have a lot of fun. Peter Galagher and Mark Stanfill from Inside SBS joined us and braindumped their support know-how. Thats the best way I can describe it. It is by far the most fun … Continue reading

The week ahead

Events, Misc
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Ought to be a busy week coming up. In addition to the PSS show that is coming up this week I'm set to release a number of new documents as well as a new "service" based on something that has … Continue reading

Vladville giving Thanks

Podcast
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Well its Thanksgiving and a very important turn for Vladville the blog. This is post number 200 and the blog is about to cross into its 4th month of existance. So far I've averaged 31,000 sessions per month and managed … Continue reading

Beatrice’s New Book Is Out

IT Culture, System Admin
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And yes, thats me right next to Harry. I had dinner with Beatrice and Harry about a month ago and I was quite happy that they decided to put me right next to Harry. I'm not sure exactly what I … Continue reading

A day in a life of a sysadmin

Misc, System Admin
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Well, it could be worse… I could be a network admin… Did a huge presentation on Linux for our group, in the usual Vlad style – from concept, through installation all the way to the catch. Everyone seemed to like … Continue reading