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Minimizing PowerShell Windows while executing

Okay, I realize it has been a really long time since I last posted anything… Essentially my role...

Author: Bruce Cowper - Microsoft Date: 01/26/2015

Querying Windows 8 Application Manifests for NFC launching

Recently I embarked on a supposedly simple challenge to determine if I could use Near Field...

Author: Bruce Cowper - Microsoft Date: 07/03/2013

Capturing and Restoring a Windows 8 Start Screen Tile Lineup

Ever wondered how you take a snapshot of the layout of the tiles on a Windows 8 Start Screen and...

Author: Bruce Cowper - Microsoft Date: 06/04/2013

Recovering a multiboot system after a drive failure

Okay, this is I am sure a topic that has been covered many, many times. However, it took me a few...

Author: Bruce Cowper - Microsoft Date: 06/03/2013

Webcast: Code Red to Zbot: 10 Years of Tech, Researchers and Threat Evolution

For those of you that joined us at RSA this year in San Francisco, you may have taking in the...

Author: Bruce Cowper - Microsoft Date: 05/25/2012

The Road to CSUN

Okay, I admit it… I had no real idea going in to a conversation today what the CSUN conference was....

Author: Bruce Cowper - Microsoft Date: 03/21/2012

Microsoft PhotoDNA Technology Helping Law Enforcement Fight Child Pornography

Having worked with Law Enforcement around the world for many years, there is always a huge demand...

Author: Bruce Cowper - Microsoft Date: 03/21/2012

Mouse Without Borders and Windows 8 Consumer Preview

I have blogged about using Mouse Without Borders before, but today after installing the Windows 8...

Author: Bruce Cowper - Microsoft Date: 03/06/2012

Creating a Windows 8 Bootable USB flash drive

Now I am back from the RSA Conference, I have a few moments to put the Windows 8 Consumer Preview on...

Author: Bruce Cowper - Microsoft Date: 03/06/2012

Trust in Computing Research

Yesterday in Scott Charney’s RSA 2012 keynote, he made reference to a statistic stating that...

Author: Bruce Cowper - Microsoft Date: 02/29/2012

RSA Conference 2012

Whether you here at the RSA Conference 2012 in San Francisco, CA or not, you might be interested to...

Author: Bruce Cowper - Microsoft Date: 02/28/2012

Cloud Security Alliance Summit 2012

For those of you who were unable to join in this morning at the Cloud Security Alliance Summit 2012,...

Author: Bruce Cowper - Microsoft Date: 02/27/2012

A Truly Magic Mouse

I have now been using the application for a little over a week and I can honestly say that it has...

Author: Bruce Cowper - Microsoft Date: 01/30/2012

Converting to WHS 2011 Part 4 – Add-ins

As part of my journey to install Windows Home Server 2011 on my HP MediaSmart EX470 server, I have...

Author: Bruce Cowper - Microsoft Date: 11/22/2011

Converting to WHS 2011 Part 3 – Performance

In the previous posts in this topic, I have referenced migrating my  HP MediaSmart Server...

Author: Bruce Cowper - Microsoft Date: 11/22/2011

Converting to WHS 2011 Part 2 – Storage

  In my last post, I rebuilt my HP MediaSmart EX470 Server with Windows Home Server (WHS) 2011....

Author: Bruce Cowper - Microsoft Date: 11/02/2011

Converting to Windows Home Server 2011

Thinking about migrating to Windows Home Server (WHS) 2011? Using an HP MediaSmart Server (EX470 or...

Author: Bruce Cowper - Microsoft Date: 10/30/2011

Browse with Confidence and help Kids be safe online.

I don’t often do this, but I have an ask of everyone… If you have a Facebook account, here is a way...

Author: Bruce Cowper - Microsoft Date: 05/14/2010

Ottawa Area Security Klatch Meeting – May 18th 2010: Mariposa 'The Life Story'

Join the Ottawa Area Security Klatch (OASK.ca) on Tuesday May 18th for our discussion on Mariposa...

Author: Bruce Cowper - Microsoft Date: 05/12/2010

HTCIA Ottawa Training: Comprehensive Risk Management, Education and Awareness Through “The Harmonized Threat Risk Assessment Methodology”

Hi Folks… if you are in Ottawa on the 27th May and looking for training on Risk Management / Threat...

Author: Bruce Cowper - Microsoft Date: 05/12/2010

Virtual Machine Servicing Tool 3.0 – Now in Beta Release!

Ever wondered how you can patch your off-line VM’s? A while ago we released a free tool called the...

Author: Bruce Cowper - Microsoft Date: 04/30/2010

Hyper-V R2 videos

While presenting at the HP, Teramach and Microsoft Business Continuity event yesterday I was asked a...

Author: Bruce Cowper - Microsoft Date: 04/30/2010

MSRC on Twitter

I do tweet on occasion but if you have met me, you will know that I am verbose and so I find working...

Author: Bruce Cowper - Microsoft Date: 04/12/2010

Moving Virtual Machines from one host to another on Hyper-V

As you all know, without SCVMM, moving VMs manually (for example when doing an upgrade of a server...

Author: Bruce Cowper - Microsoft Date: 04/09/2010

Student Deals – Office Ultimate 2007 for $64?

Okay now I have your attention… I wanted to share some resources with you for students.. We have...

Author: Bruce Cowper - Microsoft Date: 04/09/2010

Disaster Recovery and High Availability – Software or Hardware? – Joint HP / Microsoft Event.

AKA: What will happen to your data if the Sasquatch attacks? I rarely post about this type of event...

Author: Bruce Cowper - Microsoft Date: 04/07/2010

Virtualization Performance Resources

Note: I have to confess up front that I cannot take credit for this list, but it was recently...

Author: Bruce Cowper - Microsoft Date: 03/23/2010

Virtualization Case Studies…

Over the last few weeks,  I have had numerous requests from folks asking about case studies....

Author: Bruce Cowper - Microsoft Date: 03/23/2010

XPMode on machines that don’t support Hardware Virtualization

If you have played around with XPMode on Windows 7, then you will know that you needed support for...

Author: Bruce Cowper - Microsoft Date: 03/22/2010

Hack and Defend workshops back in town!

Are you interesting in understanding how some of the common attack vectors actually work? If you...

Author: Bruce Cowper - Microsoft Date: 03/19/2010

Hyper-V Virtual Hard Disk Performance

For best performance, should I use dynamic or fixed disks, how about differencing or raw disks and...

Author: Bruce Cowper - Microsoft Date: 03/18/2010

Network Configuration for Live Migration Guide released.

Since we added Live migration to Server 2008 R2 and Hyper-V R2 Server, I have had numerous requests...

Author: Bruce Cowper - Microsoft Date: 03/09/2010

Understanding Microsoft Virtualization R2 Solutions

The R2’s are out the door with the release of Hyper-V R2, SCVMM R2 and MDOP R2.  As with the...

Author: Bruce Cowper - Microsoft Date: 02/19/2010

Free e-book on Microsoft Virtualization (until end Feb 2010)

Now I have you attention… This is a question I get asked on a regular basis: “Microsoft has a broad...

Author: Bruce Cowper - Microsoft Date: 02/17/2010

Security Intelligence Report (SIR) V7

For those of you following my semi annual updates on what is happening in the Windows world to do...

Author: Bruce Cowper - Microsoft Date: 11/02/2009

Last Chance for Security Education Conference Toronto - SecTor

In case you haven't bought your ticket yet, you can still go to www.sector.ca and register for the...

Author: Bruce Cowper - Microsoft Date: 09/23/2009

System Center Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) 2008 R2 has Released to Manufacturing – EVALS AVAILABLE

For those of you who have been awaiting this moment, we have announced the RTM for SCVMM 2008 R2…...

Author: Bruce Cowper - Microsoft Date: 09/17/2009

Virtualization Webcast with Forrester and Microsoft

As many of you may know, I am currently filling the role of Virtualization Lead at Microsoft Canada,...

Author: Bruce Cowper - Microsoft Date: 08/25/2009

SecTor Announces speaker line-up

With a little over a month to go until my favourite Canadian Security conference, the guys at SecTor...

Author: Bruce Cowper - Microsoft Date: 08/25/2009

Security Bulletins for the Regular IT Guy Podcasts

One of the pieces of feedback I have been given for a while is that despite the changes we have made...

Author: Bruce Cowper - Microsoft Date: 03/11/2009

BIO for Bruce Cowper – Chief Security Advisor, Microsoft Canada Co.

Bruce Cowper Chief Security Advisor Microsoft Canada Co. As the Chief Security Advisor for Microsoft...

Author: Bruce Cowper - Microsoft Date: 02/23/2009

Security Education Conference Toronto

Amazingly enough, that time of the year has arrived again and SecTor (www.sector.ca) is almost upon...

Author: Bruce Cowper - Microsoft Date: 09/11/2008

New Role, New Blog

It has been a long time on this blog, but I thought I would share with you that I am now the...

Author: Bruce Cowper - Microsoft Date: 11/01/2006

Blog Switch (you don't get rid of me that easily)

For all of you wondering if I had disappeared from the planet, you may be pleased to know that I am...

Author: Bruce Cowper - Microsoft Date: 02/26/2006

A Huge Thank-You to all!

It seems like a world ago, but as a follow up from the Vista Beta 1 Install Fest last year, we (and...

Author: Bruce Cowper - Microsoft Date: 02/14/2006

TechNet Build'06 Tour - The Secure Well Managed Infrastructure

If you haven't already heard about it in the TechNet flash, from the blogs and Microsoft TechNet...

Author: Bruce Cowper - Microsoft Date: 02/02/2006

TASK Server 2003 R2 Security

Last week I had the pleasure of delivering a session to the TASK which concentrated on Windows...

Author: Bruce Cowper - Microsoft Date: 01/30/2006

Inspire Series Workshops

If I was to tell you that there is a series of practical, consultant lead workshops covering a range...

Author: Bruce Cowper - Microsoft Date: 01/30/2006

Toronto Area Security Klatch event tonight

As a reminder, the TASK meeting is tonight. I am presenting a session on Windows Server 2003 R2...

Author: Bruce Cowper - Microsoft Date: 01/25/2006

New Blogs for Canadians

After suggestions from a number of you we have launched a couple of new blogs... Now before you say...

Author: Bruce Cowper - Microsoft Date: 01/12/2006

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