In this interview with Mike Chan, I help clarify when you might want to utilize Forefront Protection for Exchange versus Forefront Online Protection for Exchange – or use both. Most of the video is spent white boarding out how things work between FPE / FOPE and Exchange 2010’s security.

I couldn't find any good search results on how to remove an active partition on a Windows system (and this is not in the disk management GUI) and eventually figured this out on my own, so I thought I'd share. Of course, this is only useful if you have a drive which no longer contains an operating system...

Ever wanted to not have to scroll through endless expansions of bite-sized content on the TechNet library and just download a document of only the content you want instead? I know this has been frustrating for me in the past and when I brought it up to a TechNet manager he said “you can already do this...

There are so many virtualization options available from Microsoft, which one do you use when? We cleared this up in a short interview and addressed how these options might help you remediate your legacy applications over to Windows 7. Also, we just launched the XP to Windows 7 Migration process guide...

When you create a policy with a custom ADMX template which uses a registry key outside of the standard 4 recommended locations (below) and open up your group policy editor using gpedit.msc, the policy will not be listed and you will get no error. The workaround is to use the group policy editor which...

Below is a list of all of the Silverlight 1, 2, and 3 installation switches available and their description. This will be included in the Silverlight Enterprise Deployment guide v2 which I’m writing - to be released soon. In the mean time, here they are for your assistance: The Silverlight install...

I interviewed Kymberlee Price, IE security PM responsible for future research with ClickJacking.  She gives us insight into what research the team is doing in this area as well other great insights into IE security. For a complete breakdown of the contents of the interview, please view this post...

Attend the Internet Explorer 8 FireStarter event on Thursday, March 26th and learn the core of what all IT Pros and Developers need to know about IE 8. You will gain a deeper understanding of the new features, security, deployment best practices, compatibility and migration, and where IE stands with...

Wonder why you can't independently update Internet Explorer 8 on Windows 7? We discuss this and a number of other interesting topics with Jane Maliouta, program manager at Microsoft who is responsible for setup and deployment of IE8. View the detailed breakdown of the topics covered, download the video...

Today Windows Server 2008 and Vista released Service Pack 2 (pre-RTM) through the Customer Preview Program (CPP). MSDN and TechNet subscribers can download the SP2 CPP now, everyone else will have access this Thursday 12/14. What’s pretty interesting is for the first time the same single service pack...

Want an easy way to know if Bing, Yahoo, or Google search will return better quality results? There is an easy way to do this using this site: http://www.mysearchoff.com . It’s great to get simultaneous results from all three engines in a single page. I found this very useful when doing search engine...

Microsoft disclosed Windows Server 2008 R2 today at PDC for the 1st time today. Here is a short summary of some of the new cool features in 2008 R2: Virtualization R2 Hyper-V - client virtualization when used with Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI), improved management via PowerShell 2.0 cmdlets...

I had the chance to interview Mark about the future.. One thing he answers is - do you think we should or need to just scrap the windows code base and start over?  A breakdown of everything which was covered can be found on Edge. Interview with Mark Russinovich: the future of Sysinternals, Security...

The Midori I'm talking about is not an alcohol; it's an "incubation software project" at Microsoft research to try and address the upcoming trends with technology and inherent limitations with the current Windows code base.  For instance, making the operating system more easily and automatically...

As far as I can tell, there isn't anywhere on Microsoft's sites or documentation which state DFS + Bitlocker is supported or works in Windows Server 2008.  The DFSR FAQ mentions DFSR does not work with EFS, but does not mention Bitlocker.  This is the case more than likely due to Bitlocker...

There are a number of enhancements to DNS in Windows Server 2008. There are already some lengthy articles on the features, so in this post I hope to give a quick “why you care” on each of the features and some nuggets of wisdom / insight. Here we go… DNS on Server Core : I see this as a very useful...

With the launch of the 1 st public beta for Forefront Stirling on April 8 th , I thought it would be relevant to do a post this week on it. This release proves that the Stirling vision scenario in my previous blog article is becoming a reality. “Stirling” seems to be thrown around quite a bit and can...

Ok, I had the chance to meet up with the friend, Jeff Toews, who has known Lone Server for about 7-8 years now (yes, he really does exist). Lone Server does indeed exist, however, it probably won't be much longer before he starts to hit the gym (aka upgraded) so he can get some chicks. You can check...

I hope this post will act as a good reference point to be able to quickly understand the good and bad about new AD auditing enhancements and then enable you to dive deeper at will using the links in this article. There’s nothing more exciting than auditing right? Well, check this out and hopefully...

Would you like to learn about or use Windows Server 2008, SQL Server 2008, or the next version of Forefront Edge? If you're based in USA and 'fit the bill', I'll get you an invite to the IT Pro Momentum portal. If you're in Ireland - contact Dave Northey . You can profile a project which uses one of...

I recently found out about some big news inside of Microsoft here. There is something called "Edge" coming out in the future. Unfortunately at this time, I can't really say any more about it - other than it's going to be really sweet! Technorati tags: Microsoft , Edge

This feature is currently known as the “Database Mounting Tool” (DMT), which is better than the previous name of “Data Mining Tool”. Who knows what we’ll end up calling this at RTM, but I like the previous name “Snapshot Viewer” the best so this is what I entitled the post. DMT allows you to quickly...

This guide is intended for any organization who would like to deploy, manage, and troubleshoot Silverlight in their environment. Some of the things you can find in this guide are installation switches, update behavior, value proposition on why to deploy, group policy adm / admx / adml files, and instructions...

That's right it's Stirling, not Sterling like silver. I'll cover the background behind the name perhaps in an interview with the product team. Forefront is categorized into three categories: Client, Server, and Edge. Currently, the client and server forefront products have two separate management...

What does this mean? You'll be able to try out using hypervisor. The biggest advantage of hypervisor is that you can run multiple virtual machines on the base hardware (not on top of the OS). For more information about hypervisor, check out this webcast: http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails...