Steve's TS2 Insider

Q: (from Grant)

We already have a data center and are active in the SPLA (for a couple years). I am very interested in the System Center DPM hosted off-site backup you mentioned. Can you provide additional information (i.e. best practices, solutions accelerator, etc.) for us to setup the infrastructure for this?

A:

For the Services Provider Use Rights (ServicesProviderUseRights(Worldwide)(English)(January2009)) document.

The following link will provide links to the other resources you are looking for.

https://partner.microsoft.com/US/productssolutions/servers/systemcenter/dataprotectionmanager

Q: (from Eric)

I've had some "anomalies" recently on my Vista machine.  While using Task Manager's "Resource Monitor", the Memory section is showing several "Hard Faults".  I assume this is not a "Page Fault" (causing a memory-disk swap) because I expect there would be thousands (not dozens) over time.  What is a memory "Hard Fault"?

A:

Apparently there are now two types of Page Faults: Hard Faults when the desired page is not in the memory cache and can be found on the hard disk and Soft Faults when the desired page is found elsewhere in memory (ReadyBoost?) I found this information on MSDN at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa964785(VS.85).aspx.

Q: (from Eric)

I had asked about metadata embedded in digital pictures. You described a command-line tool for editing EXIF data. 

1. Could you give me a link to that software?
2. What's the relation between EXIF metadata, and IPTC metadata?  My favorite image editor is XNView (freeware) - which has tools for manipulating IPTC data
3. Which fields of EXIF and/or IPTC metadata can Windows Explorer show?

A:

Here are the links that I’ve found useful in working with EXIF data:

• http://www.w3.org/2003/12/exif provides a list of fields
• http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool is where I found the EXIFTOOL.exe that I use
• http://www.photome.de appears to have an interesting tool but I haven’t checked to see if it can do batch conversions or is as flexible as EXIFTOOL

EXIF vs. IPTC: According to http://pipin.org/community/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=70&Itemid=76 EXIF (EXchangeable Image Format) appears to be technical data about the picture while IPTC (International Press Telecommunications Council) appears to be classic photo credits for professionals. It does disturb me a little that EXIF data may be discarded by some programs.

It appears that Microsoft supports the EXIF standard with Windows Explorer