Harry Waldron writes "...NMAP 4.75 Released...A new version of this EXCELLENT network scanning tool is available for security and network administrators..."

System Center Forum writes "The Easy Way - This may work for the view you want to open. If it doesn’t, you’ll have to use the more involved way...The more involved way - This should always work for any view, but it’s more complicated to setup..."

Hal Rottenberg writes "...If you want to hack on it, just click on the PoshCode link below the script listing and update it in place. Here is an example showing the obvious benefits of turning screen output into an object:"

System Center Forum writes "Anyone who’s configured certificate authenticate has felt the pain of this process....MS has releasedl…Certificate Generation Wizard....Here are some bits about CertGenWizard and a link to where you can get it "

Sudhir writes "simple demo of how BizTalk RFID and System Center Operations Manager work together to provide a solution to monitor your physical world. "

Greg Low writes "...You create a subscription to a report, using tokens for parameters, set the subscription to happen in the past and then execute it using this proc in a scheduled Agent job. The different approach I've taken is: 1. I've provided the ability to deal with a parameter list rather than a single parameter. 2. I found that the ntext columns actually only contained simple xml..."

System Center Forum writes "Here is a File Sytems Management Pack that includes stateful monitoring for several items and includes custom object classes for monitored folders and shares, as well as a lovely diagram view."

Justin Zarb writes "...we updated the version of the Management Server and Desktop Client that we have available over on the Connect site...The new build number for each component is 4.5.0.1308. What’s changed?..."

System Center Forum writes "enumerate the object classes present in your Operations Manager 2007 environment...it’s equally simple to take this example one step further to enumerate the discovered instances of a given object class. Using a similar one-liner to the previous tip, we can use get-monitoringclass cmdlet to retrieve a list of the discovered object classes, like so"

System Center Forum writes "This is a must-read for anyone wishing to validate their Operations Manager 2007 design....the guide is focused on design and planning - no implementation or operational procedures covered. "

System Center Forum writes "a collection of several of the original and known functional maintenance mode scripts, utilities and MPs. "

System Center Forum writes "Grouping objects dynamically is a common request I hear, and grouping hard drives based on drive letter and host computer name the most common amongst those. Here is the best way to perform this grouping based on my experience. I have provided screenshots of the dynamic grouping interface and resulting."

Eric Ligman writes "Microsoft® Task Market is a new Technology Preview site that lets people with tasks find people with the know-how to do them – saving time, and improving the end product....Task Market Solvers create profiles of their skills to help Posters assign tasks to Solvers with the right skill sets...Posters can award and pay several solvers for task...Check out the working tech preview at... and let us know what you think."

Ronni Pedersen writes "....I have seen similar session at both TechEd IT Forum in Barcelona and at MMS in San Diego last year, so my expectations were not that high… Shame on me… Both sessions were fantastic. Not only did he managed give allot of useful tips on OS deployment, Task Sequences and User State Migration, both he also managed to talk about level 300-400 content in a “non-sleepy way”… Great Job!"

Nathan Lasnoski writes "I attended an overview review of the Data Protection Manager product to get a better idea of what the future of the product contains and how it fits into an overall enterprise backup strategy. I had reviewed past versions of the product and was interested to see if it had reached a level of maturity that would allow it to fit the customers we work with. In particular, I was interested to see how the DPM product fit into a Hyper-V virtualization strategy..."