While it has been nearly three months since I moved from the role as product manager for Windows Server networking to the Exchange Server team , I still get the occasional opportunity to strut my old networking stuff. One such example is a recent article I co-authored with Amith Krishnan (product manager...

Yes. I agree that it took us long enough to get this thing posted since I first mentioned it back in February . Nevertheless, you can now download the kick ass Server and Domain Isolation demo/lab that Microsoft MVP and Virtualization and Security Guru Ronald Beekelaar built for us: Server and Domain...

Our friends over at Broadcom announced on Tuesday (November 6th) a new super cool, 65nm Gigabit Ethernet controller that will incorporate support for Window Vista's IPsec Task Offload functionality! As my boss' boss said in the press release: "Thanks to Broadcom's inclusion of IPsec task offload support...

It's the Saturday following my week here in Kuala Lumpur (aka KL) and TechEd 2007 SEA (aka South East Asia). The week was a good time, and it was great to connect with the local 'softies, MVPs, partners, and of course, the regional customers. I delivered two sessions, both basically repeats of my sessions...

Hot off the presses, we've just published a brand spanking new customer case study about how the City of Sapporo (Japan) implemented a Server and Domain Isolation solution. Here's a link to the case study (which you can also find with several case studies on our our Server and Domain Isolation TechNet...

Day 5 (which was yesterday) was rough one. I'd been fighting a cold for most of my visit here in FLA, and it came back to haunt me during my last session Thursday afternoon. I did a spiel about how you can simplify your Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 based Server and Domain Isolation deployments...

Once more, I'm plagued by horrifically poor bandwidth on the hotel network. After having dinner with Sean (aka Sean v6 ) at the Bahama Breeze , and dodging some hardcore downpours with lots of loud thunder and nearby lightening to boot, I returned to my humble temporary abode to check email, surf for...

So. I started my day out battling a non-late night out based headache ("yeah, right Hameroff" -- no, seriously, I hit the hay around 10:30p) and then confused by the TechEd 2007 shuttle buses. I'll explain the latter more. At 9:30a-ish, I stood in front of my hotel for the #2 shuttle bus to arrive...

Guess what? TechEd 2007 is next week! Yup. And, to help make your TechEd experience even better, my pals over in the Trustworthy Computing Group have launched a brand new " TechEd Security Track 2007 " site off of Microsoft.com. Check it out at: http://www.microsoft.com/security/teched/default.mspx What...

The next few days in the US is Memorial Day weekend, also known as the unofficial start to summer. The means there will be plenty of barbeques, parties, and a Monday off. Well, if you find yourself without something to done during this extended weekend, why not checkout this 90 minute TechNet webcast...

A great thing about reaching the B3 milestone for Windows Server "Longhorn" is all the new (and improved) documentation that we get to publish. One such example is a set of new Network Access Protection (aka NAP) "step-by-step" guides to help you setup and test your favorite NAP scenario. For your perusal...

That's right Windows Server "Longhorn" fans, Beta 3 is ready for your evaluation! Simply visit http://www.microsoft.com/getbeta3 , and you're halfway there to trying out the first major public preview of our next generation of Windows Server. As our press release touts: "[With] Beta 3, customers...

So. Yes. Okay. I'm a Peter Frampton fan. And, when I learned that our planned release of Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2 (SP2) had, well, released today , it made me think of Frampton's " Frampton Comes Alive! " album from 1976. Why? I don't know. Seriously. I did happen to go to Plattsburgh State...

A couple of weeks ago, I had the opportunity to sit down with Karen Forster of Windows IT Pro magazine to record a podcast about a whole slew of things related to our network security solutions (aka policy-driven network access solutions): Keep Unsecured Machines Off Your Network: Microsoft Talks...

One of the biggest pieces of feedback I hear when pitching Server and Domain Isolation to customers (which...btw...is a great first step towards an eventual NAP deployment) is "how will this work with my non-Windows clients?" I don't like to think about interoperability as a binary thing, that is, Server...

Following on to my posting from yesterday , the fine folks over in TechNet have published a Security Viewpoint article I wrote about our new " security client " solution offering. Entitled Simplifying Client Security Without Sacrificing Protection , the article focuses on the three elements of the solution...

In case you haven't noticed, there's a lot of cool news coming out of this week's TechEd IT Forum (NOTE: I can never work out how to stick that '·' thingy between the "Tech" and "Ed") event in Barcelona, Spain. The one that's most relevant to your humble blogger is the announcement of a public beta...

A few months ago, I wrote about the release of the Simple Policy Update for Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP. This enhancement for Windows IPsec helps radically reduce the complexity of Server and Domain Isolation deployments. I can speak from first hand experience, having recently built a new demo...

Last week I delivered two webcasts for the Windows Vista TAP program members on a number of "better together" networking scenarios when you have Windows Vista on the client and Windows Server "Longhorn" on the back end. Here's a link to one of the webcasts we recorded: Better Together: Windows Vista...

We've all heard it before from our parents, teachers, colleagues, friends, et al. There are certain things we shouldn't do (e.g. run with scissors, run by the pool, etc.) because it's just not safe, yet many of us still do these things knowing full well that there could be dire consequences. It should...

I'm just back in the office from a 10 day stint in Malaysia for TechEd SE Asia . It was a great event as well as a fantastic opportunity talk about a number of networking and security solutions that are near and dear to this blogger's heart. While in Kuala Lumpur (or "KL" as I now find myself saying...

There's a lot of great stuff to look forward to in the upcoming Service Pack 2 (SP2) release for Windows Server 2003. Among the long list of updates (see Ward's posting to the Windows Server Division's blog for the complete list) are two personal fav's: the Scalable Networking Pack and the IPsec Simple...

There is no doubt in my mind (nor in the minds of many of our satisfied customers and partners) that IPsec can and does provide an powerful and (yes!) flexible foundation to build networking security solutions on top of. Heck, we've been illustrating that for a number of years now with things like remote...

Checkout these two recent podcasts: Server and Domain Isolation with Fernando Cima (MSFT Brazil) This podcast is from Port 25 which is run by the gang over in Microsoft's Open Software Labs. Fernando is a member of the Security Center of Excellence and one of the developers of a new Server and...

Oliver Rist of InfoWorld is not one to beat around the bush when it comes to technical reviews. He is a straight shooter and this is clear in Rist's recent article on Windows Server "Longhorn" : Longhorn: More than just hype Now, I am very proud of all the great work that is going into our new...