Cliff Hobbs is a UK-based systems management consultant who specialises in the various systems management tools covered by his website FAQShop.com such as Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager (ConfigMgr) and Systems Management Server (SMS).Having worked with SMS since 1998 Cliff has gained extensive experience of designing, deploying, and supporting large enterprise-wide systems management solutions on behalf of companies such as EDS, 1E and Getronics.In recognition of his contribution to the Systems Management community Microsoft awarded Cliff the Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award for SMS in January 2004 which has been re-awarded in all subsequent years.Having grown up with the PC from the days of the IBM AT and PC-DOS 3.3, he has an extensive knowledge of several operating systems and applications gained through his present and past employment with companies such as EDS, Du Pont, Abbey National and Getronics, amongst others.The prime goal of FAQShop.com is to help people use Systems Management technology to make their lives easier - not for technology to control their lives which is reflected in this site's mission statement:
'Ensuring you get the best of IT'.
One of the most useful set of RSS Feeds I use to keep up-to-date with what is happening in Microsoft is their “Most Recent KBs for <product>” one’s. Now for some BIZARRE reason I don’t yet understand I’ve lost my subscriptions to a whole bunch of RSS feeds including these (I thought my Inbox was a bit TOO quiet). After a bit of Googling I managed to find the page on Microsoft’s website that shows their RSS feeds (http://www.microsoft.com/rss/ViewSearchResults.aspx?ln=en-US&ss=most+recent+kbs&sl=en-US).
Now to save you having to wade through thousands and thousands of results here’s a list for the products I’ve re-subscribed to and I hope you’ll find useful (and also in the future if any of us lose our subscriptions we can just hop back on here to grab the links). If there are any you think I should add let me know and I’ll update the list below.
In alphabetical order:
Most Recent KBs for Application Virtualization http://support.microsoft.com/common/rss.aspx?rssid=12357&ln=en-us
Most Recent KBs for Application Virtualization for Windows Desktops http://support.microsoft.com/common/rss.aspx?rssid=12352&ln=en-us
Most Recent KBs for Engyro Product Connectors for System Center Operations Manager 2007 http://support.microsoft.com/common/rss.aspx?rssid=13053&ln=en-us
Most Recent KBs for Forefront Client Security http://support.microsoft.com/common/rss.aspx?rssid=12632&ln=en-us
Most Recent KBs for Internet Information Services 6.0 http://support.microsoft.com/common/rss.aspx?rssid=2097&ln=en-us
Most Recent KBs for Operations Manager (MOM) 2005 http://support.microsoft.com/common/rss.aspx?rssid=2548&ln=en-us
Most Recent KBs for SQL Server 2000 http://support.microsoft.com/common/rss.aspx?rssid=2852&ln=en-us
Most Recent KBs for SQL Server 2005 http://support.microsoft.com/common/rss.aspx?rssid=2855&ln=en-us
Most Recent KBs for SQL Server 2008 http://support.microsoft.com/common/rss.aspx?rssid=13165
Most Recent KBs for System Center Configuration Manager http://support.microsoft.com/common/rss.aspx?rssid=1060&ln=en-us
Most Recent KBs for System Center Data Protection Manager http://support.microsoft.com/common/rss.aspx?rssid=9765&ln=en-us
Most Recent KBs for System Center Essentials 2007 http://support.microsoft.com/common/rss.aspx?rssid=12684&ln=en-us
Most Recent KBs for System Center Operations Manager http://support.microsoft.com/common/rss.aspx?rssid=945&ln=en-us
Most Recent KBs for System Center Operations Manager 2007 http://support.microsoft.com/common/rss.aspx?rssid=12584&ln=en-us&msid=59cf5099e3ec7e4783245f4f18f39cdf
Most Recent KBs for System Center Virtual Machine Manager http://support.microsoft.com/common/rss.aspx?rssid=13859&ln=en-us
Most Recent KBs for System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 http://support.microsoft.com/common/rss.aspx?rssid=13776&ln=en-us
Most Recent KBs for Systems Management Server 2003 http://support.microsoft.com/common/rss.aspx?rssid=2890&ln=en-us
Most Recent KBs for Windows Server Update Services http://support.microsoft.com/common/rss.aspx?rssid=10844&ln=en-us
Most Recent KBs for Windows Server Update Services 2.0 http://support.microsoft.com/common/rss.aspx?rssid=9518&ln=en-us
Most Recent KBs for Windows Update http://support.microsoft.com/common/rss.aspx?rssid=6527&ln=en-us