From the monthly archives:

March 2011

Operation b107 – Rustock Botnet Takedown

March 31, 2011

Just over one year ago, Microsoft- with industry and academic partners- utilized a novel combination of legal and technical actions to take control of the Win32/Waledac botnet as the first action in Project MARS (Microsoft Active Response Strategy).  Today, a similar action has had its legal seal opened allowing us to talk more openly about [...]

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Only 2 days left to save $1000 on PowerShell Deep Dive registration

March 31, 2011

There are still a few seats open for the first ever PowerShell Deep Dive Conference and tomorrow is the last day of cheap registration! In case you haven’t already been doing it, now would be a good time to start camping out in your boss’ office begging him/her for the money and time off. Register [...]

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MDT Debugger 2.0

March 31, 2011

Back in March of last year, I posted the MDT Debugger as a time/stress and frustration saving tool useful for debugging the scripts you develop for use with MDT.  Over the last year, I’ve used the tool in every MDT project that I have worked on, which has given me the opportunity to (very slowly) [...]

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Faces of Gmail: Manu Cornet

March 31, 2011

Posted by Kathleen Chen, Consumer Operations I’m a big theater buff, and I always wonder about all the unseen people hard at work backstage, grabbing props, making sure the microphones work, and moving set pieces. Whether you’re into theater or not, we figured you might be interested in hearing about what goes on “behind the [...]

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How to Perform an Authoritative System State Restore in SBS 2008/2011 Standard

March 31, 2011

[Today's post comes to us courtesy of Shawn Sullivan from Commercial Technical Support] If you have ever been in the situation where you had to recover an Active Directory object that was accidentally deleted within a multiple Domain Controller environment, then you are probably somewhat familiar with the term “authoritative restore” and what it does. [...]

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Announcing the Re-release of Exchange 2007 Service Pack 3 Update Rollup 3 (V2)

March 31, 2011

On March 29th we posted an announcement to the EHLO blog removing Update Rollup 3 for Exchange Server 2007 SP3 due to an issue that could result in database corruption. The Exchange Servicing team has fixed the reported issue with RU3 and is making available a new version of RU3 for our customers, version 08.03.159.002, [...]

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Creepy Stalks Twitter, Foursquare, and Flickr Users by Aggregating GPS Data [Downloads]

March 31, 2011

Windows/Linux: If you’ve ever doubted how much anyone could track you based on information embedded in geolocation services like Foursquare, Twitter, and Flickr, free app Creepy will show you by aggregating GPS coordinates for any user, pointing out their most frequented hangouts on a map. More » Lifehacker: windows

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IE9 Roll Out in Late June

March 31, 2011

Internet Explorer was released to the public earlier on March 14th. Now Microsoft is making plans to download it to Windows users via the update system. Apparently with the 2.3 million downloads that occurred during the first 24 hours, Microsoft now want to be sure that users are aware and using their latest browser. Other [...]

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Like our System Center blogs? Now you have an app for that

March 31, 2011

Ever since Windows Phone 7 was launched late last year there’s been a growing buzz surrounding Microsoft’s new phone OS, and with the recent announcement that the Windows Phone Marketplace had surpassed 10,000 apps in those 4-5 months and was growing fast (now well over 12,000) I took a look said “Hey, why not me [...]

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BuzzFeed’s Jonah Peretti On Why The “Facebook” Media World View Wins

March 31, 2011

View this document on Scribd BuzzFeed and Huffington Post co-founder Jonah Peretti talked at Web 2.0 Expo today about the much misunderstood subject of how to make something go viral (no it’s not all about cats and bacon). Peretti began the talk running through his various early experiments in virality and what they taught him [...]

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