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VTUG is looking for the best online technical content in the world.  Why?  Because our members spend hours upon hours doing research duplicating the research process literally millions of times!  VTUG wants to aggregate the best content on their site so members have a single place to go...

In a recent test, NSS subjected Apple Safari 5, Google Chrome 15-19, Microsoft Internet Explorer 9 and Mozilla Firefox 7-13 to over 3 million test runs against over 84,000 URLs determined to be active and malicious out of a unique sample set of 227,841. · Out of 750,000 test cases per browser, NSS labs...

IT Pro Tech Update 2012 On Wednesday May 2nd 2012, the IT-Pro User Group is hosting Tech Update 2012 an all day FREE event. Come join us for this FREE event and discover the next phase of Information Technology as we discuss Windows 8 in the business environment, Virtualization, Security, Interoperability...

      Mark your calendar for Wednesday May 2, 2012!   Join us for the first annual IT-Pro Tech Update 2012 .   This event will focus on the next phase of information technology with topics including:   virtualization, Windows 8, interoperability, security, and private cloud...

TechNet Radio: IT Time - Private Cloud Security Basics (Part 1) Video: WMV | MP4 | WMV (ZIP) | PSP Audio: WMA | MP3 About This Video In today’s episode Sr. IT Pro Evangelists Blain Barton and Dan Stolts talk candidly about Security concerns and issues many IT Pros and organizations face today when thinking...

SMB-MVP Community Roadshow comes to the Boston area October 20, 2011 from 6:30pm-9:00pm. Secure remote access in a connected SMB world - the next generation of server solutions The world is changing. Anywhere, anytime access for small businesses is here to stay. Be it with new on-premise and...

Key To Almost Infinite Knowledge – Passive Listening… Do you make the time to keep up with technology?  If you are not expanding your knowledge, you are falling behind.  With the job market the way it is, you would be smart to keep learning.  I know we are all busy and doing more now than...

In this very short video, I walk you through the step by step process of opening the 1433 firewall port for SQL Server. I am doing it because I am setting up a new System Center Operations manager server but the procedures would be the same for any other application that uses SQL Server for the database...

Before I get deep into SQL Installation let me tell you where we are starting… I am walking through the installation of SCVMM 2008 R2 SP1 on a new server that I just setup in my demo environment. I want to use SQL Server 2008 R2 for my deployment so I need to set that up as a prerequisite....

Don’t miss the video at the bottom.  It shows a bit of vision for the future Microsoft has and continues to change our world. Microsoft has been innovating for their entire life. Shall we see what the future might hold? Let’s do that but first we need to look at how we got to where we are today...

Forefront is a family (suite) of products that are all focused on security. Together they offer a very comprehensive security solution protecting applications, systems, networks and other assets. Individually they all have there own function and there is some overlap between some of the products that...

Similar to the Windows Server 2008 R2 component poster , the Hyper-V poster is a great visual tool to help in the understanding of the key features and components. It highlights key Hyper-V components including: Architecture Virtual Networking Virtual Machine Snapshots Live Migration ...

      A New Way Of Doing Business :) I am an IT Pro Evangelist in the US East Region (Developer and Platform Evangelism [DPE]).  Starting FY11 (July 2010) we are changing our way of doing business so ITE’s (that’s me) are going to be focusing on specific product areas and I am chartered...

When running Hyper-V you do not need to be at the console to manage your virtualization platform.  In fact, it is strongly recommended that you delegate these rights.  If you let someone login to a server with administrative permissions they basically have the “keys to the kingdom”.  We...

I have had many questions about BitLocker so I thought I would answer them in this blog post. What is BitLocker and Why Should I Care? BitLocker is a Trusted Platform Module (TPM) component that allows you to protect data on hard drives. BitLocker is the name given to the encryption component...

Is your IT Infrastructure fully dedicated to just one technology solution? Chances are you work in a heterogeneous environment that includes a variety of technologies from Microsoft®, Linux, MySQL and Apple. Integration becomes vital in order for your core business applications to maintain business flow...

If you do not have Group Policy Preferences installed see Install Group Policy Preferences . This link tells you how to do it in a 2003 domain. In a 2008 domain it is much easer as all you have to do is enable the feature. See "The Steps" section below if you need a step by step. Our objective is...

It is possible to run Group Policy Preferences on a Windows Server 2003 Domain. This post will step you through the process so you can get it deployed in your organization if you have not yet upgraded your domain to Windows Server 2008. I am a huge fan of Windows Server 2008 so if you have the capability...

Most up to date information on event can be found on the Virtualization Group Website Virtualization Deep Dive Day - Feb 20th 2009 Location: Microsoft Corporation 201 Jones Rd. Sixth Floor - MPR A,B,C Waltham, MA 02451 Directions & Map link Attendee Register HERE! Deep Dive on Virtualization Technology...

At the Windows Server User Group in Waltham MA this week we talked about system tools that IT Pro's use to make their life easier. Many tools were presented by many people. Many of these tools were part of the Sysinternals tool set so I thought I would make a post to organize these tools and give you...

WMS07 - Hyper-V Security and Best Practices You can get the rest of the decks from this event here

Thanks to all those that attended the Las Vegas Windows Connections this week. Here are my decks. WMS02 - Deploying Hyper-V Best Practices WMS03 - Managing WSUS 3.0 WMS06 - Tech Intro to DPM NOTE: WMS07 - Hyper-V Security and Best Practices is not included in this post. See other post for...

Well, I just got back from a 3 city roadshow speaking for Angelbeat ( http://www.angelbeat.com/ ). My presentation was on IE8. I thought I would take a couple minutes to just fill you all in on some of the really cool stuff coming. For those that are on the developer side, (and those that have to pay...