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Monthly Archives: November 2005

Support Site Woes

10-Nov-05

Over the past week, I’ve been creating an internal Exchange best practice/check list document so that we can standardise on how we configure Exchange servers for our clients. This document includes a number of items including information on configuring AV scanners to exclude certain Exchange folders. I thought it best to provide the reader of this [...]

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SQL Server 2005

08-Nov-05

I’ve downloaded and had a look at the SQL Server 2005 Express Edition, which is the replacement for MSDE 2000. I’m no SQL expert or a developer by any stretch of the imagination, but for an IT Pro, SQL Server 2005 has a number of tools that I find interesting:

SQL Server Configuration Manager. This tool [...]

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Event Search

04-Nov-05

Has Microsoft realised the power of EventID.Net? They’ve added an ‘Events and Errors Message Center’ page @ TechNet.
“To perform an advanced search, enter one or more of the following parameters: Event Id, event source, message text, file name. These values can be found in the Event Viewer logs.”
Now all they need to add is [...]

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PDC ‘05 Presentations

01-Nov-05

If you’re a developer (if you are, you’re probably not reading this blog) or know a developer, check out or get the developer to check out the presentations from PDC ‘05. (Some of them are even interesting for IT Pro’s too)
Microsoft Professional Developers Conference 2005

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