If you like to build batch files to automate cleanup on your computer, you’ll probably want to include at least one of these commands in your batch script. You can automate any one of the functions on the Internet Explorer 7 Delete Browsing History dialog. Here’s the dialog that you are probably used to seeing:
How To Create Certificates Valid For More Than The Default Validity Period – Step By Step Instructions
In order to create a certificate that is valid for longer than the default validity period defined in the Windows Server CA templates, there are three things which determine the validity period: The remaining lifetime of the issuing CA server The value specified in the certificate template The value specified in the CA server registry
Tools for Virtualization and System Center
Check out these direct download links to a bunch of highly usable tools that can make your life easier: Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit Infrastructure Planning and Design Guides Microsoft Deployment 2008 Toolkit Offline Virtual Machine Servicing Tool Sharepoint Monitoring Toolkit Service Level Dashboard Management Pack Security Compliance Management Toolkit
My Presentation on Windows 2008 Security
Windows 2008 has a lot new security features like CNG, RODC, ASLR, Windows Auditing, Windows Defender, Security Center, Service Hardening, Bitlocker, NAP, UAC. If you are interested on learning more about them and what is different from Windows 2003XP to Windows 2008Vista you are welcome to check a session I gave at Microsoft Israel. Windows
Data Protection Manager SP1
SP 1 for System Center Data Protection Manager 2007 will be available on December 8th 2008. Along with the roll up update this release enhances many of the core features of DPM 2007. The key among them being Protection of Hyper-V? virtualization platforms Enhanced SQL Server 2008 protection Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows
How to save user credentials for non-domain Communicator 2007 users
If you?re running Communicator 2007 in a domain environment you can enable automatic login via the proper DNS SRV record. Non-domain users need to configure via their registry the Communicator 2007?s setting to enable saving their user credentials. The setting are: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREPoliciesMicrosoftCommunicator “SavePassword”=dword:00000001 REG_DWORD = SavePassword You can set it You can configure this policy
Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit 3.2 RTM Version Now Available!
MAP is a scalable and agent-less assessment platform designed to make it easier for you to adopt the latest Microsoft technologies. In this version, MAP has expanded its assessment capabilities to include SQL Server 2008, Forefront/NAP, and Microsoft Online Services migration, as well as providing a Power Savings assessment to help you "go green." In
SCOM 2007 On-Demand Webcasts
How Microsoft IT Implements System Center Operations Manager 2007 (Level 300) http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?culture=en-US&EventID=1032322478&CountryCode=US Assure the Availability and Performance of Your SharePoint Environments (Level 300) http://msevents.microsoft.com/cui/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032368298&EventCategory=4&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US Client Monitoring with System Center Operations Manager 2007 (Level 300) http://msevents.microsoft.com/cui/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032348673&EventCategory=4&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US Client Monitoring with System Center Operations Manager 2007 (Level 200) http://msevents.microsoft.com/cui/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032341228&EventCategory=4&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US Client Monitoring with System Center Operations Manager 2007 (Level
SCOM 2007 Useful Links
Main Downloads page (catalog, documentation) http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/opsmgr/bb498232.aspx Operations Manager Product Team Blog: http://blogs.technet.com/momteam SystemCenterForum.org http://www.systemcenterforum.org System Center Content Search (Vista gadget) http://gallery.live.com/liveItemDetail.aspx?li=49e26ad0-113d-4f3d-a711-57f6530c75d9 System Center Operations Manager Blog Search: http://search.live.com/macros/microsoft_user_assistance/sc_operations_manager_blogs Event Flow Diagram http://blogs.technet.com/momteam/archive/2007/10/30/event-alerts-perf-data-flow-in-opsmgr-2007.aspx DWDATARP.exe (For setting Data Retention policies in the Warehouse) http://blogs.technet.com/momteam/archive/2008/05/14/data-warehouse-data-retention-policy-dwdatarp-exe.aspx End-To-End Task test: http://www.systemcenterforum.org/testing-end-to-end-notification-in-opsmgr-or-essentials-2007-mp/ Targeting Best Practices Poster: http://download.microsoft.com/download/f/a/7/fa73e146-ab8a-4002-9311-bfe69a570d28/BestPractices_Rule_Monitor_REV_110607.pdf Best practices to use
Active Directory Migration Tool v3.1 has been released
The Active Directory Migration Tool version 3.1 (ADMT v3.1) simplifies the process of migrating objects and restructuring tasks in an Active Directory? Domain Service (AD DS) environment. You can use ADMT v3.1 to migrate users, groups, and computers between AD DS domains in different forests (inter-forest migration) or between AD DS domains in the same
