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How low can you go? Some people are trying to find out... This is crazy... 128 MB? I don't even have a computer with that little memory right now.

Windows 7, A New Low | Larry Larsen | Channel 10

Hey, this was me… I was the last entry for doing the charting. Way Cool… Thanks Scripting Guys, it was fun.

Hey, Scripting Guy! Blog : Hey, Scripting Guy! Event 4 *Solutions* from Expert Commentators (Beginner and Advanced; the high jump)

Now this is a redesign. It has been out for awhile, but I had not really blogged about it. As you can see SharePoint is a very flexible web platform

Microsoft SharePoint Team Blog : How We Did It: SharePoint.Microsoft.com

See.. sometimes they do right things… And they did not even mention XBox or Tablet or Surface…

Microsoft is Getting Things Right This Time

Microsoft is Getting Things Right This Time

This is too bad. Understandable, but too bad.

However still I would promote WiX everywhere and to every developer. In fact I spend time fixing people’s scripts every time.

Visual Studio will not ship the WiX toolset, contributes only. - RobMensching.com /Blog

We had a discussion on this topic awhile back and moving sites to the root of a site collection can bring trouble from testing done.

Stefan Goßner : Limitations of STSADM -o export/import related to publishing sites

In working with a customer we ran into this issue from MOSS Content Deployment. This is a good one to keep in your back pocket if you disable file compression as Stefan discusses in his blog entry.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa560610.aspx 

Durgaprasad Gorti's WebLog : Only one usage of each socket address (protocol/network address/port) is normally permitted

Now its time to upgrade my Zune....

Zune HD will feature a HD Radio receiver, HD video out capabilities, an OLED screen with multi touch, and an internet browser.

Zune Insider

Awesome… now we can copy ACLs between files. Next we need to be able to get a “ADD-Acl” which I guess should not be much harder than the example Jeffrey showed below.

I spent a few minutes and wrote Copy-Acl.  I hope you enjoy it.  I’ve also attached it as a file to this blog. 

Enjoy!

Jeffrey Snover [MSFT]
Distinguished Engineer
Visit the Windows PowerShell Team blog at:    http://blogs.msdn.com/PowerShell

Windows PowerShell Blog : Copy-Acl

Using the Certmgr tool you can manage certificates through the command line. Unfortunately it is not part of a default Windows install. It is part of the SDK and .NET Framework as well.

certmgr [/add | /del | /put] [options] [/s[/r registryLocation]] [sourceStorename] [/s[/r registryLocation]] [destinationStorename]

Certificate Manager Tool (Certmgr.exe)

This is AWESOME news… Moonlight thanks to the Mono group is progressing well. Keep it up guys…

After a loving incubation period, the Moonlight 2.0 preview, an open source implementation of Microsoft's Silverlight for Linux has been released

First Moonlight 2.0 Preview is Out - Miguel de Icaza

These are some good tutorial videos on Silverlight.

http://silverlight.net/Learn/videocat.aspx?cat=9 

Videos : The Official Microsoft Silverlight Site

This MSDN page maps the User Interface of Active Directory to the attributes behind the scenes.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms677286(VS.85).aspx

Windows XP Mode is specifically designed to help small-business users to run their Windows XP applications on their Windows 7 desktop.

• Windows XP Mode is available for Windows 7 Professional, Windows 7 Ultimate and Windows 7 Enterprise customers.
• Windows XP Mode combines Windows Virtual PC and a pre-installed virtual Windows XP environment to allow users run many older applications.
• Windows Virtual PC will enable users to launch virtual applications seamlessly from the Windows 7 Start menu.
• Windows Virtual PC includes support for USB devices and is based on a new core that includes multi-threading support.

The part in red above is the MOST Awesome…

How MED-V v2 Helps You Manage Windows XP Mode - Windows for your Business - The Windows Blog

While PowerShell does not have direct commandlets for working with SNMP, it does work with WMI which can incorporate SNMP.

• http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa393621%28VS.85%29.aspx
• http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc770487.aspx
• http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb742612.aspx