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It was recently reported that Microsoft is partnering with OpenText to make SharePoint 2010 DOD 5015.02 compliant. This is huge because the lack of compliance is one of the last barriers that are preventing companies (especially those in the public sector) from adopting SharePoint 2010 as its records management solution. Here’s the link to the…
The Exchange Control Panel (ECP) was designed to allow administrators and users the ability to perform common management tasks within Exchange 2010 without installing any Management Tools. This is a great option that the Exchange team included with Exchange 2010. With Exchange 2010 RTM, it was not possible to log into the ECP unless the…
Read the original post here on TechNet. Here is a summary. [Today’s post is from Brian Huneycutt] The Configuration Manager Sustained Engineering and Customer Support and Services teams are investigating an issue where the Install Software Updates action will hang indefinitely on Windows 7 clients. When this happens, the task sequence Installation Progress dialog displays…
GAL Segmentation has not been supported in Exchange 2010. Just announced on the Exchange Team Blog, GAL Segmentation will now be supported in SP2 for Exchange 2010 which is scheduled in the second half of 2011. A few snippets from the above referenced link: In order to provide transparency in these early stages of development,…
Below is an example of an email FEP 2010 will email when a virus is encountered.
| Forefront Endpoint Protection has detected malware on a computer in your organization. |
| Detection time (UTC): 1/28/2011 5:15:18 PM |
| Computer name: WINDOWS71.adam.local |
| Malware name: Virus:DOS/EICAR_Test_File |
| To view more information about malware activity in your organization, run a Computer List Report. |
| Note: No additional Malware Detection alerts will be generated for this computer for the next 24 hours. |
Microsoft SharePoint has earned a very strong reputation as the enterprise-level document management tool of choice for organizations of all sizes. By some accounts, more than 17,000 organizations use SharePoint today in some capacity. It is in the area of records management, however, where companies are sometimes wary of using the product. I understand this…
A colleague of mine told me recently about Razor, the view engine for ASP.NET MVC 3, and upon researching it and using it in a test project, I almost instantly came to compare it to NHaml since I’ve been using HAML for several years doing rails on the side. What I found is that though…
Event Overview Talk TechNet is all about discussing topics and trends in the world of IT Professionals. In this show we’ll have guest Jason Sandys. Jason is a Microsoft MVP and SME on the management product System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM). Jason is a Senior Lead Consultant for Catapult Systems and blogs about infrastructure topics. …
Fellow ConfigMgr MVP Greg Ramsey has a nice post he just published on injecting drivers from USB during OSD. Here’s a snippet: ConfigMgr OSD does a great job of injecting drivers ‘on the fly’ into your OS Deployment process. For example, you can create task sequence steps with conditional statements to apply drivers for…
The FEP BPA includes checks to scan both Forefront Endpoint Protection (FEP) and Configuration Manager for configuration problems, missing dependencies, incorrect settings, or other issues that could adversely affect the health of your FEP installation. Download and install The Microsoft Baseline Configuration Analyzer Version 2.0 (MBCA). http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=206778 MBCA requires Windows PowerShell 2.0. It’s included…