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Study Group

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The link to the Ottawa Windows Server User Group – Study Group is here.

Trika mentioned on her blog we’ve been running a study group for a year and half. Brad and Garth started the group with 70-290 then we moved on to 291 then 294. Now we’ve decided to jump to the new certifications for this session covering 70-620. We have yet to decide on what to cover in the new year winter session. A few of us on the side might go back and cover 70-293 and 297.

As Trika mentioned we did some tweaking from the 294 session to this session and I think it has helped us engage the participants and make the session run a little smoother.

The  OWSUG supports the 70-620 study group and they also support some smaller study groups happening by providing forum space.

We also want to give a big thanks to CTE Solutions who allow us to use their space to hold our study sessions.

Did You Know? – Password Hint in Vista

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Did you know you can put your password in as the password hint. Was working with David on some material for Monday’s presentation at OWSUG Study group and he noticed that as your password hint you can put in the password. Handy if you forget your password, not so great if you don’t want someone else getting it. This only works in a non-domain environment.

2505 new update Synchronized

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That was the message last Wednesday from WSUS. 2505 updates is a lot so I was wondering if maybe a new class or program was added to the updates. Nope, upon further investigation is was ATI Radeon driver updates for Vista.

There was discussion of this in the microsoft.public.windows.server.update_services newsgroup and in the WSUS blog at http://blogs.technet.com/wsus/archive/2007/09/07/ati-radeon-graphic-card-updates-3892.aspx