Rod Trent's MyITForum web site posts this morning that Microsoft is recognizing a known issue with detection for last Tuesday's MS07-009 patch.

From his blog...

"...I wanted to call your attention to a minor issue around detection with today’s updates. Specifically, there’s a minor issue around detection and MS07-009. Windows 2000 SP4 customers who have applied this security update and then perform a scan using MBSA, SMS2003 with the ITMU, or WSUS will get a report back erroneously saying that all languages were applied rather than just the language versions that were applied."

Check out the full post at:

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Exchange 2007 includes some interesting pre-requisites:

- 64-bit. AMD 64 bit is supported but not the Itanium 64-bit
- Must also have PowerShell installed (this is a separate install)
- All other pre-requisites come with Server R2. If you have Server R2 64-bit installed and PowerShell you'll be ready for the install.
- Schema Master must be at R2

LOTS more info down there...

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I'm attending the Office/Vista/Exchange Launch event in Denver today and am taking some time to LiveBlog a few things from the event. In the bowels of this huge convention center, there's nothing to speak of in terms of wireless, but my new Sprint card means you get a (slow) connection anywhere.

So far, we're discussing Microsoft's Business Desktop Deployment (BDD) tools and the steps for deploying Vista desktops and packages over the top of Vista. A couple of interesting things learned so far:

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Today's post is our first Windows Server Community podcast! In this podcast, I'll be introducing myself ("Hello. Nice to meech'a.") as well as discussing some of the changes to Group Policy that we now have to understand with the introduction of Windows Vista.

In this podcast, we'll talk about how to create a Group Policy Central Store in your Active Directory's SYSVOL. We'll talk at a high level about the changes to the ADM file format, moving from an INI file format to an XML file format. And, we'll talk about one freeware tool in particular released by Microsoft that'll help you migrate your custom ADM files to the new ADMX file format.

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In 2005 the federal government pass the US Energy Policy Act of 2005 that changed the dates on Daylight Savings time in an attempt to provide more daylight time and reduce the costs of energy. It's a great thing if you hate the long darkness of winter, but it's a bad thing if you administer Windows operating systems that are out of the mainstream support with Microsoft.

For users of Windows 2000 and below, making the DST change was going to involve some clever hacking becuase the much-needed patches from Microsoft weren't likely to arrive...

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Microsoft's tools for imaging are great and come at a great cost -- free. But, their one biggest limitation that usually drives people to 3rd party solutions is the limitation on the number of hosts you can image at once -- one.

According to Keith Combs' TechNet blog, there are a bunch of other new goodies as well to support the multicast feature.

Check out the "more info" for more info.

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If you're either a Symantec customer or an Altiris customer, you've probably been following the news about their possible merger. Last week, Symantec announced the buyout was official. According to the press release...

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VMware and it's parent company EMC have seen revenue growth in triple digits every year for at least the last two years. In VMware's ninth year of operaton, they've decided to go IPO. So, if you're the type to play the market, get in on the ground floor.

Check out the announcement below the fold.

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