Okay, okay. It's been a long while. I have no excuses. Well, at least good excuses. I was on vacation last week. Then there was the ramp-up to the vacation the weeks before. Before that there was this really good TV show on. My dog ate my Internet? No...

I'm back (er, yet again) from another blogging hiatus, and figured I'd share with you a little news around what we're doing in Windows Server 2008 with regards to Scalable Networking . Here's the news: our pals over at Intel recently launched a bunch...

Well, I'm back from my blogging hiatus post-TechEd, etc. I only hope my loyal readers haven't found more interesting things in the far reaches of the Internetterweb to fill the void I have left over the last few months. I know things like Live Earth and...

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...

I'm back, healthy and attempting to catch up from TechEd 2007. While it was a killer time down in Orlando, there was plenty of good stuff piled up on my desk (and in my inbox) on my return to Redmond. One of those items on the "good stuff" pile, was a...

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...

So, I've talked a lot about this white paper that the Tolly Group published in my Networking Session on Tuesday. Well, it is now up and ready for download from our TechNet Networking site ! Here's the direct link: Enhanced Network Performance with Microsoft...

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...

Technically it is day 4 for me, but I had a little trouble posting yesterday evening since just about all the bandwidth in my hotel was consumed. I ran the handy Speakeasy Speed Test a bunch of times and it was barely making it over 300 Kbps on the download...

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...

Greetings from sunny (and humid) Orlando, Florida ! This year's TechEd confab takes place in the somewhat " Giger-esque " looking Orange County Convention Center (known on the mean streets of, well, International Drive as "The O.C.C.C." -- which is not...

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...

As I've mentioned in the past...my buds down the hall in the Forefront team have one killer (no pun intended) advertising campaign in effect that features a number of different comedic ways to deal with potential office attackers . If you've visited http...

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...

Just a week after we unveiled the official product name for what was once called Windows Server Code Name "Longhorn", one of our loyal MVPs published a book on Windows Server 2008 : Mitch Tulloch has been working on this book with the gang over here on...

May. What a crazy month! What is it that they say? "May comes in with a joint launch for Forefront and System Center , and goes out with a Windows Server 2008 demo for a BillG keynote at WinHEC in LA" Maybe I'm confusing the old adage about the month...

Did you know that you can use a targeted IPsec -based Isolation solution to help reduce the risk of unauthorized access to your Key Management Service (KMS) Servers? Yup. It's true. This is a great example of using " Server Isolation " as a means to add...

Okay, that was a little bit sensational, if not an outright fib. What's no joke is a newly published joint white paper Juniper Networks and Microsoft have co-developed to talk about deploying end-to-end IPv6 scenarios. Heck, we felt that whole end-to...

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...

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...

This ain't no joke. It's the global launch of Forefront and System Center , and it's a little less than two weeks away. What? You don't already have your calendars marked for May 2nd? You haven't booked your flight to the land of 90210 ? Well, here's...

Great news networking fans, we've doubled the number of of Windows Server "Longhorn" focused TechNet forums focused on networking related workloads and features. In addition to the Platform Networking forum launched a number of months back, we really...

Last week, Alacritech (one of our Scalable Networking partners ) made a pretty big announcement around expanded support for our TCP Chimney Offload architecture : "Alacritech Unveils Industry's Most Advanced Family of Microsoft TCP Chimney Offload Compatible...

I find it both interesting and exciting to see all the continued industry buzz around the whole network access control space ( read: the long list of acronyms like Microsoft NAP (MNAP), Cisco NAC (CNAC), TCG's TNC (TNC), et al). Perhaps one of the interesting...

Yuppers, it's been a little while since we last met. I've been heads down on a number of work related and personal projects (like moving into a new house -- yikes!). Anyhow...here's a little Monday afternoon humor brought you by my colleagues on the Microsoft...