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'.
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979352 Microsoft Security Advisory: Vulnerability in Internet Explorer could allow remote code execution
201282 MOM 2005 Reports have incorrect date values on the X-axis
977840 Description of the Office Outlook 2003 Junk E-mail Filter update: January 12, 2010
977839 Description of the Office Outlook 2007 Junk E-mail Filter update: January 12, 2010
977231 A canceled meeting is displayed unexpectedly in a manager's calendar in Office Outlook 2007
977444 Cumulative update package 9 for SQL Server 2008
200819 Issues to consider when changing the default value of network packet size for SQL server connections
977443 Cumulative update package 6 for SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 1
201169 Updating a SQL Server 2008 cluster may fail on Cluster_IsOnlineIfClustered rule when using WSUS.
977813 A version of Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Express that supports the .NET Framework 4 Beta 2 is available at Microsoft Download Center
201413 SQL Server 2008 setup may fail with "Setup Failure in SetupActionName: " error message
975374 FIX: The check phase of the WMI service fails when you set up a SQL Server 2008 cluster
978250 FIX: Deadlocks may occur when you run multiple jobs concurrently to rebuild indexes offline in SQL Server 2008
976991 FIX: The LogReader agent unexpectedly consumes all CPU resources when the agent handles a failed connection in a SQL Server 2008 transactional replication
978301 FIX: All CPU resources are used when you use Connector for SAP BI in an SSIS 2008 package
977097 FIX: Error message when you make a DDL change to an IDENTITY column and then synchronize the change to the subscriber in SQL Server 2008: "Incorrect syntax near the keyword 'IDENTITY' (Source: MSSQLServer, Error Number: 156)"
978190 FIX: You receive error message 8630 when you run a query on a SQL Server 2008 server that is under memory pressure
978108 FIX: Some nTEXT, NTEXT, or IMAGE data whose size is not greater than 80 bytes cannot be replicated correctly in a transactional replication after you upgrade SQL Server 2000 to SQL Server 2008
977076 FIX: Error message when you run an ALTER INDEX statement on a table that has CDC enabled in SQL Server 2008: "Msg 22983: The unique index on source table is used by Change Data Capture"
976316 FIX: You receive error message 8672 when you run a MERGE statement in SQL Server 2008
977889 FIX: Error message when you try to run an SSIS 2008 package that contains a Flat File source and a text qualifier uses some special characters that are not supported by the W3C XML language specification: "An invalid character was found in text content"
975058 FIX: Connector 1.0 for SAP BI throws an exception when data is being loaded in parallel in a SSIS 2008 package
978020 FIX: Only the first 2000 characters are returned by the fn_get_audit_file() function when you use it to obtain the information of an audit file in SQL Server 2008
978629 FIX: Error message when you use the system_health Extended Event session to capture a deadlock graph in SQL Server 2008: "Msg 9436: XML parsing: line 54, character 12, end tag does not match start tag"
978504 FIX: An insert operation fails when you insert data from one database into another database when the destination database contains a user-defined data type in SQL Server 2008
974901 MXDW crashes when you run Print Driver Stress Test in Windows Vista SP2 or Windows Server 2008 SP2
972270 MS10-001: Vulnerability in the Embedded OpenType Font Engine could allow remote code execution
978909 The wrong fonts appear in Web pages, in printed Word documents, or in printed PowerPoint presentations after you install security update 961371
978258 USB devices that are connected to a computer may not work after the computer is idle for more than one hour Windows 7 or in Windows Server 2008 R2
977392 Error message when you press CTRL+SHIFT+F3 to enter audit mode from the OOBE Wizard in Windows 7 or in Windows Server 2008 R2
977692 The Lsass.exe process exits unexpectedly on a domain controller that is running Windows Server 2008 R2 after a password is synchronized in Identity Management for Unix (IDMU)
977132 Error message when you click the "Control whether Narrator starts when I log on" link in the "Microsoft Narrator" dialog box during the setup process of Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2