Posted by: kurtsh | August 25, 2005

RELEASE: AVIcode .NET Management Pack Operations Edition for MOM2005

AVIcode .NET Management Pack Operations Edition
Do you have a need to monitor web services?  ASP.NET driven web sites?  .NET applications?  Boy have I got  a MOM2005 Management Pack for you – and it’s free!  (Obviously it requires Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 first and foremost)
 
Targeted to systems’ operators responsible for monitoring system health, AVIcode’s .NET Management Pack Operations Edition provides a consolidated view of all applications featuring simple health status indicators within the MOM 2005 Operator Console.  It also provides quick identification of faulty application components and performance hotspots, as well as manual or automatic routing of alert notifications to the appropriate application support team.
Feature List:
Real-time Error & Bottleneck Detection:
– Provides .NET application health monitoring
– No code modification needed to capture
 – Handled and unhandled exceptions
 – Performance degradation issues
– Monitors for events in
 – ASP.NET applications
 – Web Services
 
Detailed root-cause information
– Collects the complete call stack at the moment of failure
– Reports execution time for calls to OLEDB, ODBC, SQL, Oracle, Web Services, and .NET Remoting
– Consolidates events into alerts based on unique root cause
 
Enterprise Security
– Pushes information to administrators without compromising firewall security
Service Level Agreement Information
– Allows definition of SLA performance threshold settings
 

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Posted by: kurtsh | August 25, 2005

RELEASE: MOM2005 Server Performance Advisor 2.0 Management Pack

Server Performance Advisor 2.0 Management Pack
Microsoft just released a management pack for Microsoft Windows Server 2003, also known as Server Performance Advisor 2.0.  Server Performance Advisor (SPA) 2.0 collects performance data and generates comprehensive diagnostic reports that give you the information you need to analyze problems and develop corrective actions. 

You can download the SPA management pack at:

DOWNLOAD:  http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=82632729-3263-4254-9332-1f51815c55fb&displaylang=en

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Posted by: kurtsh | August 25, 2005

RELEASE: Sharepoint Portal Server 2003 Discovery Kit

The SharePoint Portal Server 2003 Discovery kit – a set of 6 hands-on lab documents – just went live on Microsoft.com at the following location:

SharePoint Portal Server 2003 Discovery Kit

DOWNLOAD: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=03607516-cbec-4724-b4a4-aa7f09304ba5&displaylang=en

 

Please note that there is a lab focusing on how to use the SQL Reporting Pack!  Here’s an excerpt from the download page:

Overview

The SharePoint Portal Server 2003 Discovery Kit includes a series of discovery labs that go beyond learning about a particular component of SharePoint Portal Server 2003 to understanding visional portal site solution, how to deploy Web applications that integrate tightly with the portal site environment, how to use SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services to track and analyze portal site usage, and lastly, how to customize the portal site user interface.

There are 6 labs in the SharePoint Portal Server 2003 Discovery Kit. The lab manuals includes a description of the business scenario that is addressed by the lab, the teaching objectives of the lab, step-by-step instructions, dependencies for each lab and the expected amount of time needed for the lab assuming a basic familiarity with Windows SharePoint Services and limited SharePoint Portal Server 2003 experience.

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Posted by: kurtsh | August 25, 2005

RELEASE: How to enable your copy of “Windows XP Professional N” to be Windows Media enabled

I’m just posting this because this if funny as all heck.  Do you remember how the European Union forced Microsoft to create a "Windows Media-less" version of Microsoft Windows XP Profesionnal?
 
Well, I think by now it’s well known that no one’s actually BUYING the Windows Media-less version of Windows much to the chagrin of the EU that actually thought they were "improving the choices of consumers" by eliminating one of their choices.  (Doesn’t sound very bright does it when you actually write it down in words does it?)
 
So lo and behold, just in case someone actually does buy this thing, we’re provided a special 30MB package that includes all the components necessary to allow 3rd party applications that require Windows Media components to run.  In other words, this package turns WinXPPro "N"… into normal retail WinXPPro.
 
Or something like that.
 
DOWNLOAD: 

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Posted by: kurtsh | August 25, 2005

RELEASE: Outlook 2005 Junk Mail Filter Update for August 2005

This optional update provides the Junk E-mail Filter in Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 with a more current definition of which e-mail messages should be considered junk e-mail. This update was released in August 2005.
 

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Posted by: kurtsh | August 25, 2005

RELEASE: MSN Messenger 7.5

We just released MSN Messenger 7.5!
 
You can now "preset" your online/offline status.
You can now send "voice clips" similar to the walkie talkie feature in some cell phones.
There is now full screen "true" video conversations.
 
 
There’s also a special site with addons for MSN Messenger:

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Posted by: kurtsh | August 25, 2005

VIDEO: NEW Countrywide Tax Services Case Study

Wow!  Countrywide Tax Services’ had their video customer case study published.
 
"The Tax Services subsidiary of  Countrywide Financial Corporation was adding more than 100,000 new mortgage-customer tax records to its database every month—and stressing its AS/400 system capacity. A new AS/400 would be a prohibitive expense and still leave the unit without the flexibility and reliability it wanted. The company chose a solution based on Microsoft Windows Server System, including the Microsoft .NET Framework. The company achieved first-year savings of U.S.$1.7 million—more than 50 percent—and expects annual savings on maintenance of $500,000. The development team got up to speed in one-third the time it would have taken on competitor systems, and continuing development is up to 50 percent faster. As the company takes increasing advantage of Microsoft technologies—for example, adopting Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Enterprise Edition (64-bit)—the solution’s performance continues to climb."
 
Here is the written documentation of Countrywide’s case study:
 
Here are the video streams available of Countrywide’s video case study:
 
Congratulations Tax Services!

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Posted by: kurtsh | August 24, 2005

NEWS: Requirements for Windows Vista posted yesterday

The requirements for Windows Vista were posted just yesterday at this web site:
 
 

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Posted by: kurtsh | August 24, 2005

NEWS: Instant Messaging Viruses abound.

Within the last day, we have learned of a new virus that hit one of our customer sites. Below is some of the initial information we have received regarding that attack.

This virus is spread by clicking on a link that follows a statement, such as “I found your picture on the Internet” http://link – similar to the Bropria and Kelvir viruses you may remember from February this year.

While Microsoft’s stance is for users to always ensure that links are sent by a trusted source, we also stress the importance of our customers’ use/download of Microsoft’s Intelligent IM Filter to add an additional security layer.  In this instance, IIMF would have assisted in blocking the spread of this virus.

Please go to the resources below for more information. 

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Intelligent IM Filter
The Intelligent Instant Message Filter application allows you to configure URL filtering and file transfer control based on the following options.

Enhanced URL Filtering

  • Allow hyperlinks to be sent in any conversation
  • Allow local intranet URLs
  • Block instant messages that contain hyperlinks
  • Allow instant messages that contain hyperlinks, but convert the link to plain text
  • Allow instant messages that contain active hyperlinks

Enhanced File Transfer Control

  • Allow any file transfer request through the server
  • Block file transfer requests for specific file extensions
  • Block ALL file transfer requests

Intelligent IM Filter (Binary version: 5470.79)
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=0ed13372-f3d2-40f0-ba5d-c880359a40f5

Documentation: Deploying Intelligent Instant Message Filter
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=E6B4131A-F3C7-4C56-ACB3-1B6E0C5D73AE

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Posted by: kurtsh | August 24, 2005

NEWS: Pre-order XBox360 at EBGames

XBox360 is pre-orderable at EBGames at this URL:
 
In other news, Halo – the Movie has had some recent "movement":
 

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