Microsoft Optimization an Introduction- July 18, 2008 One big focus areas for Microsoft as noted at last weeks MS Partner Conference in Houston is Microsoft Optimization. Renamed from Infrastructure Optimization, MO is clearly something big for MS. Its got its own landing page: http:www.microsoft.comoptimization and theres a growing body of material to support MO. In effect, MO is an attempt by Microsoft at an IT maturity model which assess an organisations IT systems and provides guidance in how to make it better (i.e. to optomise it!). The...http://tfl09.blogspot.com/2008/07/microsoft-optimization.html Reducing Vandalism on Public Wiki Sites- July 18, 2008 Ive been reading an interesting article from the New Your times on Wikipedias experiment to cut down vandalism. The approach is rather simplistic: get the community to check the update for lack of valdalism before the article is made available for general use. Its a bit more complex than that, but basically by making most posts subject to review before&160; general posting, vandals are much less likely to see their work. The hope is the vandals just pack up and move along. Itll be interesting...http://tfl09.blogspot.com/2008/07/reducing-vandalism-on-public-wiki-sites.html Open Geek Goodness from Microsoft- July 16, 2008 Ive been taking some time off the road and have been seriously geeking out with all the protocol information issued by Microsoft at the Open Specification site. There is a HUGE amount of fairly low level information about the file formats used by Microsoft products and various protocols employed byproducts including OCS< Exchange and Office. There are thousands of pages of documentation here. Much of this documentation was produced forby Microsoft thanks to legal requirements. You can...http://tfl09.blogspot.com/2008/07/open-geek-goodness-from-microsoft.html Finding Your External IP address (with PowerShell)- July 16, 2008 For many of us, the IP address of our PC is not a publicly routable one.&160; If I run IPConfig on my workstation, I get something that looks like this: Ethernet adapter Lan1BuiltIn: Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : foobar.net Link-local IPv6 Address . . . . . : fe80::3955:f42b:2d1e:1423%10 IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 10.234.12.123 Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0 Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 10.234.12.100 But if you were to try to ping me,...http://tfl09.blogspot.com/2008/07/finding-your-external-ip-address-with.html Code Formatter for Windows Live Writer- July 5, 2008 As noted in a blog post yesterday, Ive setup a PowerShell script blog. Sadly, the code formatting I was doing manually stunk and was hard to do anyway! So off to Google to discover Steve Dunns - Code Formatter for Windows Live Writer. This is an excellent addin and works very nicely. Its doubly cool that it supports PowerShell. Technorati Tags: Live Writer,PowerShell,code formattinghttp://tfl09.blogspot.com/2008/07/code-formatter-for-windows-live-writer.html The PowerShell Scripts Blog- July 4, 2008 A new blog: PowerShell Scripts. Not much there yet but so far does what it says. Technorati Tags: powershell scriptshttp://tfl09.blogspot.com/2008/07/powershell-scripts-blog.html Windows PowerShell Reference Card- July 4, 2008 Thanks to a posting I saw in the MSDN Wiki, Ive discovered a very neat PowerShell reference card. Written by Bruce Payette this is a most useful reference! Note: Registration is required but is free. Technorati Tags: PowerShell,Bruce Payettehttp://tfl09.blogspot.com/2008/07/windows-powershell-reference-card.html An amusing PowerShell Script- July 3, 2008 Many years ago, when Usenet was in it's heyday, there was a funny Perl script (time.pl) making the rounds that calculated which day it was from September 1992. It was an in joke, and amusing at the time - and I've been meaning to work out how to do it in PowerShell. Well - here is is: time.ps1 based in time.pl from Usenet in days gone by original author unknown $old = system.datetime" 1 September 1992" $now=get-date $diff = ($now-$old).days .http://tfl09.blogspot.com/2008/07/amusing-powershell-script.html FireFox Live Writer Trials and Tribulations- July 3, 2008 With FireFox 3, the old Live Writer add-on no longer works, as I noted last Sunday. I especially liked the way this add-on added an icon to the FireFox tool bar. It's a shame, but as written the add-on does not work. I've since found another tool, Live WriterFox, but it's not quite as nice. But works - well mainly. Oddly, using it to reference my blog, as I did for this post, does not bring up Live Writer. Today, I got a comment on my Sunday post from the Live Writer Team that pointed to a...http://tfl09.blogspot.com/2008/07/firefox-live-writer-trials-and.html FireFox Keyboard Shortcuts- July 3, 2008 If, like me, you use FireFox a lot, then these FireFox Keyboard Shortcuts can be valuable. Shame this web page has a typo (shortctus)! Technorati Tags: firefox,shortcutshttp://tfl09.blogspot.com/2008/07/firefox-keyboard-shortcuts.html |