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Want to know what’s up with Appdeploy.com?
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Rod Trent at myITforum.com
Bob Kelly indicates that the site should be back up, but it is still moving slow today. So, additional technical issues are being worked on. However, you can now “follow” what is going on with Appdeploy.com by following the updates on Twitter: ...
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Community
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Internet
Betanews.com comes up blank when using IE8 Beta 2
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Rod Trent at myITforum.com
Try accessing Betanews.com in IE8 Beta 2 and you’ll see a completely blank page. Incidentally, if you use Maxthon (which uses the IE8 rendering engine), Betanews.com works fine… Betanews.com works fine when you place IE8 Beta 2 in compatibility mode....
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Internet Explorer
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IE8
RSS Feed links in MS Outlook work, but give errors after installing IE8 Beta 2
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Rod Trent at myITforum.com
After installing IE8 Beta 2, I receive a similar message as show below on each and every link inside a RSS feed in Microsoft Outlook. After a quick test, this error seems to be caused by Maxthon running as the default browser. When I use IE8 as...
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RSS
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Internet Explorer
Maxthon needs an update to work with IE8 Beta 2
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Rod Trent at myITforum.com
After installing IE8 Beta 2, I found that Maxthon no longer works. But, there’s a post in the Maxthon forums with a link to a Maxthon update that allows it to work with the new beta. http://forum.maxthon.com/viewthread.php?tid=73817 Read More.....
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Internet
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Software
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Internet Explorer
Windows Live Translator
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Rod Trent at myITforum.com
I didn’t realize until after installing IE8 that Windows Live has a translator engine… http://www.windowslivetranslator.com/ Read More...
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Windows Live
Will IE8 Beta 2 make me want to stop using Maxthon?
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Rod Trent at myITforum.com
Let’s see. Installing Beta 2 now. Read More...
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Internet Explorer
Update on Appdeploy.com
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Rod Trent at myITforum.com
For those looking for Appdeploy.com and wondering if the site has simply disappeared – The folks at Appdeploy.com are working through some technical issues today. Considering that the KBOX is somehow tied into the Appdeploy.com web site, I suspect this...
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Internet
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Software Management
LinkedIn to add discussions to their new Groups function
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Rod Trent at myITforum.com
This Friday, we will be adding several much-requested features to your group: Discussion forums: Simple discussion spaces for you and your members. (You can turn discussions off in your management control panel if you like.) Enhanced roster: Searchable...
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Internet
Power IT Down Day - August 27, 2008
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Rod Trent at myITforum.com
Are you doing this? HP, Intel and Citrix have joined forces in a commitment to save energy, but we need your help. On August 27, power down your computer, monitor, and printer at the end of the day. We'll calculate the number of people who Power IT...
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Green
Support policy for Microsoft SQL Server products that are running on a virtual machine in a Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V environment
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Rod Trent at myITforum.com
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Microsoft supports and provides technical help to customers who run SQL Server 2008 on a virtual machine in a Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V environment except for certain configurations that are documented in the Hardware and Software...
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Virtualization
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SQL Server
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Hyper-V
My Facebook Virtualization Launch Invite
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Rod Trent at myITforum.com
The Virtualization crew at Microsoft is working overtime shooting invites to people on Facebook. Event Info Host: Microsoft Type: Meetings - Informational Meeting Network: Global Time and Place Date: Monday, September 8, 2008 Time: 8:00am - 6:30pm...
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Virtualization
ConfigMgr/SMS Spyware query and report gets its own Wiki page
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Rod Trent at myITforum.com
This report and query is sought after time-and-again, so we’ve posted it to the myITforum.com Wiki pages. This way it can always be found, and also anyone can add to it with a Wiki account. Feel free to add known Spyware to the current query...
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System Center
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Systems Management
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ConfigMgr 2007
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SMS 2003
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myITforum.com
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Wiki
NEASMSUG Meeting in September 3rd (next week!)!
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Rod Trent at myITforum.com
New England Area SMS User Group Meeting: Meeting date is Wednesday, September 3 (next week) at 6:30 in Waltham. Details posted to the web! PLEASE do not forget to register to allow us to have a proper headcount. We’ve locked in Steve Kaczmarek and his...
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User Groups
MS Word 2007 to PDF works great
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Rod Trent at myITforum.com
You don’t have to invest in a crazy PDF printer application just to push your MS Word docs to simple Acrobat files. I needed to do this today and found that he add-on from Microsoft worked great in my situation. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads...
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Office
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Adobe
NetIQ says we’re all pretty stupid when it comes to virtualization
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Rod Trent at myITforum.com
http://www.myitforum.com/absolutenm/templates/IndustryNews.aspx?articleid=5548&zoneid=71 Read More...
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Virtualization
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Vendors
Network problems attributed to WinPE loading and then automatically rebooting
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Rod Trent at myITforum.com
Here's another great OSD related tip from Frank Rojas, a Senior Support Engineer in our Charlotte, NC office: http://blogs.technet.com/smsandmom/archive/2008/08/26/configmgr-2007-osd-deployment-errors-out-within-a-few-seconds-after-winpe-loads-and...
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System Center
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Microsoft Deployment
Optimizing your ever-growing WIM files
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Rod Trent at myITforum.com
Daniel Oxley shows a way to shrink your WIM files: http://blogs.technet.com/deploymentguys/archive/2008/08/26/non-shrinking-wim-files.aspx Read More...
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System Center
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Microsoft Deployment
Creating custom events you can then pickup in OpsMgr or ConfigMgr
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Rod Trent at myITforum.com
The Eventcreate utility Read More...
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System Center
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OpsMgr 2007
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ConfigMgr 2007
The roadmap for Microsoft's System Center family of systems management products
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Rod Trent at myITforum.com
http://www.directionsonmicrosoft.com/sample/DOMIS/update/2008/06jun/0608smpr_illo.htm Read More...
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System Center
Appdeploy.com down?
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Rod Trent at myITforum.com
I haven’t been able to get to Appdeploy.com today. www.appdeploy.com I’ve emailed the owner at KACE. Read More...
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Internet
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