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Just found out about this, haven’t had a chance to look at it. Trying to recover from vacation still. 🙂   http://blogs.technet.com/b/askds/archive/2012/08/23/ad-replication-status-tool-is-live.aspx     joe Rating 4.00 out of 5

Not that I need anything else on my plate at the moment with all of the busy-ness of summer but the chapter drafts for Active Directory 5E has hit my inbox and I am told need to be reviewed by August 20th. So good news on the progress on AD5E, boo on its timing. 😉 […]

http://paraguin.com/2012/01/18/the-mac-mini-vmware-esxi-5-server-part-3-follow-up/ Rating 3.00 out of 5

http://www.nczonline.net/blog/2012/06/12/the-care-and-feeding-of-software-engineers-or-why-engineers-are-grumpy/   I think much of it applies to Systems Engineers who are tasked with "building" IT infrastructure and  Application Infrastructure as well as Admins who write scripts[1] for others as well. Some of the quotable pieces I liked: "Cards on the table, software engineers generally have a reputation for being arrogant, disagreeable, and moody. […]

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/microsoft_press/archive/2012/05/04/free-ebooks-great-content-from-microsoft-press-that-won-t-cost-you-a-penny.aspx Rating 3.00 out of 5

Tech Ed presentation by our (or at least my) good friend Deano. http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechEd/NorthAmerica/2012/SIA205   I haven’t made it all the way through the presentation yet, I choked a bit when he said virtual DCs were completely safe in Windows Server 2012. That is one of those things that comes back and haunts you as famous […]

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The new utility I wrote that I mentioned in my previous post http://blog.joeware.net/2012/06/05/2508/, MachinePwd, has been released. You can find it in the usual place I keep all of the utilities which is here –> http://www.joeware.net/freetools or you can go directly to the MachinePwd utility page which is here –> http://www.joeware.net/freetools/tools/machinepwd   Quick Summary of […]

I noticed that my laptop’s Media Player library wasn’t properly updating so I went through the self help process and it was completely useless, told me the DB was corrupt but didn’t fix it. I finally found a post that helped me correct it. I share it here both so I can find it easier […]

Ever see that message before? How about on a machine that was previously working just perfectly? It’s anything but [OK]. You can usually think of some different verbiage that should be in the button under that message… Especially when the machine has special software on it that takes offense when you remove a machine from […]