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Updated PAL Tool 2.3.1 Released

Note: The follow-up can be found here: https://blog.rmilne.ca/archive/2012/07/19/using-pal-template-to-easily-capture-performance-data.aspx

Performance Analysis of Logs - PALClint Huffman Tweeted that he released an updated build of the PAL (Performance Analysis of Logs) tool.

This build contains both fixes and other welcome additional improvements to an ever growing list of templates which is always great to see!

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Updated Exchange 2010 SCOM Management Pack – June 2012

An updated System Centre Operations Manager (SCOM) Management Pack (MP) for Exchange 2010 has been released to the Microsoft download center.  This is build 14.03.0038.004 of the MP.  

Edit 3-9-2012 Updated MP build 14.03.0038.004 released

EDIT 9-8-2012 - Updated MP build 14.03.0038.003 is currently unavailable due to an issue.

EDIT 8-8-2012  - Updated MP build 14.03.0038.003 released. 

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TechEd 2012 Twitter & Streaming Feeds

TechEd 2012 North America is almost here, and Twitter will be a great resource to stay atop of all of the great news and announcements.

You can find a list of TechEd Twitter hashtags and also see the official hashtag  ttp://www.hashtags.org/msTechEd

Hashtags.org MsTechEd

Official TechEd 2012 Twitter account: @TechEd_NA

Related hashtag: #msTechEd

Official Windows Azure Twitter account: @WindowsAzure

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Lenovo Windows 8 Drivers (Beta)

 

Are you evaluating Windows 8? 

Are you running it on a Lenovo machine?  Looking for drivers? 

Lenovo Windows 8 Beta Drivers

Here is a neat page on the Lenovo support site where Windows 8 beta drivers can be downloaded. 

http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/downloads/detail.page?LegacyDocID=WIN8-BETA 

 

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Free E-Book–Introducing Windows Server 2012

Introducing Windows Server 2012 Introducing Windows Server 2012, by Mitch Tulloch, is now ready for your free download!

This is one of the first books on Windows Server 2012 and provides a high level overview of the next generation of Windows!

You can download it here:

PDF  Introducing Windows Server 2012 PDF ebook

EPUB Introducing Windows Server 2012 EPUB ebook

MOBI Introducing Windows Server 2012 MOBI ebook

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SkyDrive Updated Quota And Clients

 

The SkyDrive team have just released the updated SkyDrive and the associated clients for various mobile devices. 

 

 

 

 

I just finished downloading and installing the Windows Phone 7.5 client from the Marketplace.  The settings showed me that I had a total of 7GB of storage space.  What happened to the 25GB of previous space?  This is discussed over on thiRead the rest “SkyDrive Updated Quota And Clients”

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VMLimited – More Out-dated IT Plans Sold From The Back Of A Van

The polyester packing virtualization sales guy from the past is back!  You may have seen Tad in his inaugural video over at VM-Limited.

Tad, VM-Limited Sales Expert

Now the second instalment of his genius is live.  I wish that I could get it on VHS,  Betamax or maybe even VHS 2000 (points for those who remember that format!).  That would be cool Smile

TAD Video Header

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Exchange Services Not Starting Due to Network Location

On some recent Exchange 2010 builds I noticed that sometimes the Exchange services would fail due to a lack of connectivity with Active Directory.    I noticed that the network location had changed from Domain and was listed as Public even though the server had a single connection which was on the internal corporate network.

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A fix was released on this issue and can be downloaded from Microsoft.

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Exchange 2007–Service Pack 3 Is Required

After seeing several posts in the TechNet Exchange forums, where people are posting an overview of their environment as part of the problem statement, it is clear that multiple customers are not maintaining the correct service pack level on their Exchange servers.

I previously blogged about this for Exchange 2010, and this time lets focus on Exchange 2007.

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Windows Server “8” Beta

Now that the Windows Server “8” beta has been released publically there is going to be a lot of excitement over the release’s new features.  This shouldn’t be a surprise unless you have been in a decompression chamber or living under  a rock this week Smile.   Certainly over a million were not, and downloaded Win8 in the first 24 hours.

Download Windows Server "8" Beta

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