Archive for January, 2009

Love v Annoying

January 28, 2009

This is a really great post by Seth Godin and well worth a read.
http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2009/01/love-and-annoyi.html
He talks about products that people will love and so create an excitement and enthusiasm for which will help drive sales. The most obvious at the moment is Apple.
The goal is to create a product that people love. If people love [...]

Good Stuff for Your Toolkit

January 27, 2009

Here is a collection of recent additions that I think are useful to have.
 
Matt Goedtel has done an update on his Extended AP MP.
http://blogs.technet.com/mgoedtel/archive/2009/01/25/updated-improved-extended-active-directory-management-pack.aspx
 

This management pack augments the existing Active Directory management pack by monitoring the following specific components and subsystems that Active Directory relies on, which are not captured in the current version:

Monitor the [...]

Patch List Fix

January 21, 2009

This KB (958253) came through last week when I was on holiday but I noticed it on Daniel’s blog. It fixes the problem with limited space to show the agent patches. When I say fixes it strips away all the information apart from the KB number so a lot more information can be added. It [...]

New Blog with MP Woes

January 20, 2009

Daniele Grandini (he created the “undiscovery” fix for the previous DNS MP) e-mailed me to say that he has now started a blog at
http://nocentdocent.wordpress.com/
And immediately there are posts about problems with the new DNS MP and a corker with the ISA 2006 MP. He has created a test MP that emulates how to do a [...]

Operations Manager in 2008 Review

January 9, 2009

I was going to to this at the end of 2008 but other things got in the way.
The big news was that SP1 was released in February. Not just bug fixes but enhancements with the key one speeding up the console so that it was usable. Still not a speed demon but so much more [...]

AuthorMPs.com is back

January 2, 2009

Steve Wilson of Author MPs is back. Great news as the site provides really useful content. And registration is no longer needed.
http://www.authormps.com/dnn/Default.aspx
Posted 1/1/2009 – Happy New Year
First of all apologies!  As you know I have not added new content to this site for well over a year.  As some of you know I actually left [...]