November 2009 - Under The Stairs - Powershell.com – Powershell Scripts, Tips and Resources

PowerShell Plus 3.1 Beta

With PowerShell V2 now released, those nice folks over at Idera have released a Beta of their upcoming 3.1 version of this popular PowerShell tool. You can see more information, and snag a copy of the beta, over at the PowerShell.Com site! Personally...

Published Sat, Nov 28 2009 2:20 PM by Under The Stairs

PowerShell – WMI presentation tonight

he things I agree to do… A good MVP buddy of mine has asked me to speak tonight to his PowerShell user group. The title of the talk is WMI and PowerShell. I’m aiming at the basics but will go into a bit of detail. Plus there’s demos. If you want...

Published Wed, Nov 18 2009 4:18 PM by Under The Stairs

PowerGui.Org’s PowerPack Challenge – Closing Sooon

PowerGUI.org is holding the PowerPack Challenge contest. Basically, the idea is that you create a PowerGUI add-on (admin console for a particular platform you manage based on PowerShell cmdlets/scrips), and then submit it to the site. By entering...

Published Thu, Nov 12 2009 10:17 AM by Under The Stairs

Leaving Global Knowledge for Pastures New

Many of you will already know this, but I am shortly leaving Global Knowledge. After 3+ years of working for GK’s EMEA group, I have been made redundant and will be out of the company by the end of November or thereabouts. The redundancy process is swift...

Published Fri, Nov 06 2009 11:12 AM by Under The Stairs

OCS R2 Training Materials

Microsoft has released an OCS R2 learning Portal – you can find this at: http://www.microsoft.com/learning/ocs2007/r2/default.mspx . It contains some training resources for OCS R2. However, the page is both already out of date, and is short on links...

Published Tue, Nov 03 2009 4:54 AM by Under The Stairs

Filed under: training, OCS, OCS R2

Disk to VHD – Another Cool Tool from the Sysinternals Guys

Mark Russinovich and Bryce Cogswell have released yet another cool tool – Disk2VHD (version 1.21) which you can download from here . As it turns out, I’m looking to convert one of my physical boxes to a VM – I use the system rarely but don’t want to chuck...

Published Mon, Nov 02 2009 7:52 AM by Under The Stairs

Filed under: Sysinternals, Virtualisation, Disk2VHD, VHD

OCS 2007 R2 Documentation

If you are working with Microsoft’s Office Communications Server 2007 product, you may know about the great documentation produced by the product team. This documentation has been updated to cover the R2 release that hit the streets earlier this year...

Published Mon, Nov 02 2009 4:52 AM by Under The Stairs

250K Visitors To This Blog!

I started this blog in May 2003. Just over 5 years ago, I added a traffic counter, and started keeping more detailed traffic counts. Over the weekend, the hit count got to 250,000 – or a quarter of a million visitors! Not as much traffic as some blogs...

Published Mon, Nov 02 2009 3:56 AM by Under The Stairs

Connecting OCS To Other PIC Suppliers

Office Communications Server 2007 implements a feature called Public Internet Connectivity (PIC). Basically, PIC enables you to federate with AOL, Yahoo and MSN/Live Messenger. Thus a user using an AOL IM client can connect and use IM with someone inside...

Published Sun, Nov 01 2009 1:36 PM by Under The Stairs

Filed under: Jabber, XMPP, Google Talk, OCS 2007 R2

What happened the post counts on the MSDN and TechNet Wikis?

I’m a fairly heavy contributor to the MSDN and TechNet Wikis - also known as MSDN and TechNet Community Content. I started posting there pretty much ever since Microsoft setup this feature a couple of years ago. My contribution has included over 10,000...

Published Sun, Nov 01 2009 4:05 AM by Under The Stairs

Filed under: MSDN, TechNet, MSDN Wiki, Technet Wiki, Community Content, Technet Libraray, Wiki

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