I LOVE BGInfo as when you're working with several VMs/ remote machines it can provide a wealth of information right there on the desktop so I can see…(read more)
[Downloads] Looking for a Free IP Subnet Calculator?
An IP subnet calculator should be one of the key tools you have in your "SMS/ ConfigMgr" toolkit for those times when you need to calculate a boundary based on a non-standard subnet mask I've always used the free WildPackets one (now renamed…(read more)
[Misc] Microsoft is recruiting for ConfigMgr and OpsMgr Positions
The Management Platforms and Service Delivery (MPSD), within Microsoft are currently recruiting for the following positions: ConfigMgr Client Health Engineer / Senior Service Engineer – https://careers.microsoft.com/JobDetails.aspx?ss=&pg=0&so…(read more)
[MS KBs] New KB Articles At Microsoft 18 Oct 2010 – Weekly Summary
.NET Framework 2.0 2436257 Updates for the .NET Framework 2.0 SP2 and for the .NET Framework 3.0 SP2 may chain-install other updates Expression Web 2445851 Information about the SuperPreview feature in Expression Web 4.0 Forefront Client Security 2394439…(read more)
[Misc] Formatting lost when pasting into Windows Live Writer
OK this one was a bit of a head scratcher for me. I installed a VM on my Mac and inside this installed Windows 7 and Windows Live Writer as I've unfortunately been unable to find a native Mac blogging tool as good as Live Writer. Everything was going…(read more)
[Misc] We’re having a boy.
Well my wife and I went to the hospital today for our second scan as we're expecting our first baby in December. I'm delighted to say everything went OK and we're having a baby boy…!!!…(read more)
[Misc] Microsoft Team Blogs – New articles from 22-Mar-2010 to 28-Mar-2010
240 Microsoft Team blogs searched, 101 blogs have new articles. 288 new articles found searching from 22-Mar-2010 to 28-Mar-2010 BlogMS Resource Guides: Directory of Microsoft Team Blogs Free Microsoft Software and Online Services Categories: Consumer…(read more)
[Misc] Microsoft Team Blogs – New articles from 15-Mar-2010 to 21-Mar-2010
240 Microsoft Team blogs searched, 107 blogs have new articles. 279 new articles found searching from 15-Mar-2010 to 21-Mar-2010 BlogMS Resource Guides: Directory of Microsoft Team Blogs Free Microsoft Software and Online Services Categories: Consumer…(read more)
[Misc] Microsoft Team Blogs – New articles from 08-Mar-2010 to 14-Mar-2010
240 Microsoft Team blogs searched, 110 blogs have new articles. 282 new articles found searching from 08-Mar-2010 to 14-Mar-2010 BlogMS Resource Guides: Directory of Microsoft Team Blogs Free Microsoft Software and Online Services Categories: Consumer…(read more)
[Misc] Creating a Firewall Rule to Allow ICMPv4 Echo Requests
This could be one of those really useful snippets to file away somewhere: “You're trying to do some basic troubleshooting on your network and you ping a machine but it doesn't respond. You know its there. Why isn't it responding? It's…(read more)