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Stay home, authorities tell drivers in northern U.S.

Richard Dixon — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 01:13:15 GMT

Drivers across the country were warned Saturday to stay off roads and hunker down indoors as more heavy snow and blizzard conditions are forecast for much of the northern part of the U.S. At least one death has been attributed to the storms, which have...(read more)

Virtual Machines found stuck with status "Starting" in Hyper-V- / workaround

Richard Dixon — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 10:54:15 GMT

Recently I found some of my virtual machines stuck in a starting state. When I right click on the VMs that's stuck in the starting state, I only receive the following options: Connect...; Settings...; Rename... and Help. (screen shot below). I was...(read more)

Protect against Virtual Machines with Network Access Protection

Richard Dixon — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 18:57:15 GMT

It's up on us again, MMS 2009 and I'm going to try and be there to talk about how you can enable and configure your environment to protect your network with Network Access Protection against virtual machines on virtual private networks that have...(read more)

Best Practice for SHV placement

Richard Dixon — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 22:07:45 GMT

System Health Validator Placement System Health Validator Placement I'm writing this post in response to some Configuration Manager 2007 Network Access Protection questions I received during the MMS 2008 conference. " Where to place the System...(read more)

Download R2 Beta for ConfigMgr 2007

Richard Dixon — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 14:24:13 GMT

If you have access to Microsoft Connect , get R2 for System Center Configuration Manager 2007 SP1. Its out and you and get a hand on preview of some of the feature R2 will bring. Download not from Microsoft Connect ....(read more)

The Official System Center Configuration Manager Home Page

Richard Dixon — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 14:12:40 GMT

Some how I stumbled on a web page I never seen been for, which is cool. The official home page for System Center Configuration Manager. As you'll notice on the front page that it does not say 2007. most likely because the site is not dedicated to...(read more)

How to Configure ISA SSL Bridging for System Center Configuration Manager Internet-Based Client Management – the real story…

Richard Dixon — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 16:11:55 GMT

I see links all over about this new piece of documentation released. But, there’s a really good story here that I think a lot of us are missing. This is a great story about how Microsoft listens and reacts to community feedback – at least the documentation...(read more)

Microsoft migrates MSDN and TechNet on Hyper-V virtual machines

Richard Dixon — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 16:07:20 GMT

Friday, May 23, 2008 | 5 Comments | For a prospect customer there's nothing better than a real-world implementation to realize the potential or a certain technology. And this is very true in an almost unexplored technology like virtualization. Microsoft...(read more)

Some MMS 2007 Pictures.

Richard Dixon — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 03:54:00 GMT

Here's some pictures from my visit to MMS 2007 in San Diego. Click the picture to see more....(read more)

System Health Validator Placement

Richard Dixon — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 17:20:18 GMT

System Health Validator Placement I'm writing this post in response to some Configuration Manager 2007 Network Access Protection questions I received during the MMS 2008 conference. " Where to place the System Health Validator Point Role (SHV...(read more)

How to Add domain accounts to Local Administrators Group using GPO

Richard Dixon — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 21:55:55 GMT

There are a lot of questions in newsgroups, forums etc. about how to use Restricted Groups in the right way so I wanted to post a how-to for people to read. Finding Restricted Groups is easy but it only works in a domain with Active Directory so trying...(read more)

Inside Microsoft's $550 Million Mega Data Centers

Richard Dixon — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 16:07:14 GMT

Though the building alone covers a whopping 11 acres, you can't even see Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT )'s new $550 million data center in the hills west of San Antonio until you're practically on top of it. But by that point, you can hardly see anything...(read more)

Microsoft touts Longhorn security

Richard Dixon — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 15:40:00 GMT

The company says that a better firewall, IPv6 support, better onboard encryption, and network access protection make Windows Server 2008's security a primary selling point. Microsoft is pushing the improved security of its Windows Server 2008 software...(read more)

Microsoft Unveils OS For Portable Navigation Devices

Richard Dixon — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 07:58:58 GMT

Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT ) on Monday introduced its first operating system designed for manufacturers of handheld portable navigation devices. Windows Embedded NavReady 2009, which is based on Windows Embedded CE, includes technologies for connecting PNDs...(read more)

Using System Center Configuration Manager 2007 to Extend Network Health

Richard Dixon — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 23:56:49 GMT

New customer/partner-ready content from Microsoft IT Microsoft IT Showcase is pleased to announce the publication of Using Configuration Manager 2007 to Extend Software Update Compliance Across Networks , which discusses how Microsoft IT uses Microsoft...(read more)