Well I made the move to Office 2007 to enjoy some of the new functionality and I definitely (at least initially) took a productivity hit having to learn where everything has been moved to. That however was expected to some degree. What wasn't expected was the significant performance degradation that I am struggling with in Outlook 2007.

 

Granted, I have a large PST file on my notebook as it acts as a repository for client information, project information and a number of other things but my system, a new Dell XPS M1720 with an Intel Dual Core CPU and 4, yes four GBs of RAM slows to a crawl if not completely freezes when I click Send/Receive.

 

I have been investigating this issue to determine whether this issue is exclusive to me or if other people are seeing the same type of performance issues and it appears I am not alone.

 

Check out....

 

If anyone has any ideas on how to improve the performance of Outlook 2007, I would welcome the suggestions!

It's all about the lights!!

 

So, I just received my new Dell M1710 XPS notebook and what a

system!! The RPM on the drive should be higher in my opinion based

on the specs in the system but c'est la vie. As it's marketed as a

game system and I am not a gamer, the one interesting feature is

the external lights which are red and really annoying by default.

 

Well after mentioning this to a colleague (Garth Jones) at a

training event last week, he referred me to

http://www.brodwall.com/johannes/blog/2006/02/20/dell-xps-vanity-lights-blink/

where you can download a great little program

(xps_led_control.exe) to either change the color of the lights or

turn them off completely.

 

To turn them off completely run: xps_led_control.exe -all 0

 

Hope this helps!!

A new version of the AD MP is available for download. This updated version of the AD MP addresses several issues in the original AD MP that shipped with RC2 including:

- AD Topology Discovery

- Discovery of DCs with non-US locales

- Discovery of Windows Server 2000 DCs

 

Read the README file in the package prior to installing.

 

To download this updated MP, go to: http://connect.microsoft.com/SystemCenter 

If you are looking for a great TechNet article on MOM 2005, check out John Hann's article on Monitoring Active Directory with MOM 2005 at http://www.microsoft.com/technet/technetmag/issues/2007/02/Monitoring/default.aspx.

 

Have fun, learn MOM!!

 

Looking for great training on MOM 2005, check out the MOM Bootcamp.

If you are interested in learning more about monitoring distributed applications with Operations Manager 2007, then check out Justin Incarnato's presentation on TechNet... http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/mom/opsmgr/webcasts.mspx

 

Have fun, learn Ops Mgr!

 

Looking for a great class to get yourself and your clients up to speed quickly on MOM 2005 or Operations Manager 2007? Check out our MOM 2005 bootcamp coming to a city near you.

Do you work with Windows XP Embedded software? Would you like to monitor those devices with MOM 2005 SP1? Well, now you can. Check out.... KB 929869 "Availability of the Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 SP1 Agent Prerequisite Component for Windows XP Embedded software package"

 

You Microsoft Windows XP Embedded clients will have to have Service Pack 2 and Feature Pack 2007 installed and you will have to be using Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 SP1. The software update enables support for running the Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 Service Pack 1 (SP1) agent and XP Embedded SP2 Feature Pack 2007 systems.

 

To obtain the Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 SP1 Agent Prerequisite Component for Windows XP Embedded, visit the following Microsoft Web site: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=c0c45297-2faa-4685-ade5-3a17dd6592f5&DisplayLang=en

 

This software package lets you add the specific prerequisite agent components to the Windows XP Embedded Target Designer.

To obtain an evaluation version of this feature pack, visit the following Microsoft Web site: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=9BDF1DEA-A37E-4D25-83DF-AABBAA78914F&displaylang=en

 

Have fun, learn MOM!

 

Looking for a great class to get yourself and your clients up to speed quickly on MOM 2005 or Operations Manager 2007? Check out our MOM 2005 bootcamp coming to a city near you.

Well, if you have been trying to configure Active Directory integration with Ops Mgr 2007 by reading through the RC2 scenarios docs then you have likely run into similar issues to what I have run into.

 

I have posted some additional, detailed steps at http://www.infrontconsulting.com/resources.htm in the doc AD_OpsMgr2007.pdf that I hope you find useful.

 

Have fun learn Ops Mgr!!