The Industry Insiders

Insight from the heart of the IT industry

Stephen Cummins

Stephen Cummins, runs the blog SPSFAQ and has received the SharePoint MVP (Most Valuable...

Author: Eileen_Brown Date: 07/23/2007

Office Communicator 2007

Dennis has written an excellent article on Office Communications Server 2007 which he's given me...

Author: Eileen_Brown Date: 04/10/2007

More details on Office Communicator Server 2007

Dennis Lundtoft Thomsen It's hardly groundbreaking news that Microsoft is entering the VoIP market,...

Author: Eileen_Brown Date: 04/10/2007

How to extend your Cryptographic Service Provider infrastructure

Adrian has written another enlightening article tackling the often confusing subject of Installing...

Author: Steve Lamb Date: 04/03/2007

Installing New Cryptographic Service Providers

The following article was kindly written by Adrian Beasley General That splendid company Smartcard...

Author: Steve Lamb Date: 04/03/2007

smtp 550: Sender verify failed with incorrect reverse DNS record

Here's an interesting post from Mark Wilson which he's allowed me to reproduce here. Often Exchange...

Author: Eileen_Brown Date: 03/30/2007

Sender verify failed with incorrect reverse DNS record

Mark Wilson What a week! Switching hosting providers, setting up a new content management system for...

Author: Eileen_Brown Date: 03/30/2007

Creating Subject Alternative Name Certificates with Certificate Server

Brian Reid has written an interesting piece about using Powershell to create certificate requests...

Author: Eileen_Brown Date: 03/23/2007

Creating Subject Alternative Name Certificates with Microsoft Certificate Server

Brian Reid A new feature in digital certificates is the Subject Alternative Name property. This...

Author: Eileen_Brown Date: 03/23/2007

Migrating WSUS to a new server without downloading updates

Mark Wilson has written an interesting and comprehensive article on his blog which he's kindly given...

Author: Eileen_Brown Date: 03/15/2007

Migrating WSUS to a new server without downloading all the updates

Mark Wilson I’ve spent the last day or so decommissioning my old domain controller, which also...

Author: Eileen_Brown Date: 03/15/2007

Powershell update

Adrian Beasley has re-issued his Powershell articles. Executing a command line utility and waiting...

Author: James ONeill Date: 03/14/2007

Executing a Command Line Utility from PowerShell, and Waiting for it to Finish

(I am reissuing this article, to incorporate a suggestion from Jeffrey Snover, which makes the...

Author: Steve Lamb Date: 03/12/2007

Powershell Installation

By Adrian Beasley Document Changes The original version of this article was based on PowerShell RC1....

Author: Steve Lamb Date: 03/12/2007

Certificate Server Enterprise Edition and Smart Cards

The following article was kindly written by Adrian Beasley GeneralI have recently installed...

Author: Steve Lamb Date: 03/12/2007

How Easy is it to install Exchange 2007 UM?

I've been in contact with Paul Stringfellow for quite some time. He comments on my blog regularly,...

Author: Eileen_Brown Date: 03/09/2007

Is it easy to install Exchange 2007 UM?

Paul Stringfellow The answer is surprisingly so!!! This document outlines our experiences in...

Author: Eileen_Brown Date: 03/09/2007

Paul Stringfellow

Paul Stringfellow Communications Manager Gardner Systems Plc. Paul is the communications manager and...

Author: Eileen_Brown Date: 03/09/2007

Certificate Server Enterprise Edition and Smart Cards

Adrian Beasley wrote a wonderful article on Certificate Server Enterprise Edition and Smartcards - I...

Author: Steve Lamb Date: 12/11/2006

A Developer’s Brief Introduction To Network Administration (part 3)

In Part 2 Dave McMahon looked at the network building blocks, in the third and final part of this...

Author: James ONeill Date: 09/01/2006

Windows Time and the W32TM service

Nathan has put together a comprehensive and technical article explaining how the Windows Time...

Author: Eileen_Brown Date: 08/30/2006

Nathan Winters

Nathan Winters is a Unified Communications Consultant for Dimension Data; a Microsoft Gold Partner...

Author: Eileen_Brown Date: 08/30/2006

Windows Time and the W32TM service

Nathan Winters IntroductionIn the last few days this issue of time sync in Windows domains has come...

Author: Eileen_Brown Date: 08/29/2006

A Developer’s Brief Introduction To Network Administration (part 3)

The third and final part of Dave McMahon's series is now available

Author: James ONeill Date: 08/24/2006

A Developer’s Brief Introduction To Network Administration (part 2)

Dave McMahon wrote a brief guide, but it's still a long post so we've divided it up. The first part....

Author: James ONeill Date: 08/24/2006

A Developer’s Brief Introduction To Network Administration (part 2)

In part one Dave McMahon looked how developers should acquire the basics of IP networking – an...

Author: James ONeill Date: 08/18/2006

A Developer’s Brief Introduction To Network Administration (part 1)

Introduction Much of the documentation regarding Network Administration often makes the assumption...

Author: James ONeill Date: 08/11/2006

A Developer’s Brief Introduction To Network Administration (part 1)

Dave McMahon wrote a brief guide, but it's still a long post so we've divided it up. The first part...

Author: James ONeill Date: 08/11/2006

Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) Benefits - Why PKI?

Adrian has written a short article enumerating many of the security threats that can be mitigated...

Author: Steve Lamb Date: 06/26/2006

PKI Benefits - Why PKI?

by Adrian J. Beasley The main benefits available from a Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) are as...

Author: Steve Lamb Date: 06/26/2006

Make Sense of Public Key Infrastructure

Adrian has written a wonderful overview of how Public Key Infrastructure words. If you don't know...

Author: Steve Lamb Date: 06/26/2006

Make Sense of Public Key Infrastructure

Public Key Infrastructure Written by Adrian J. Beasley GeneralPublic Key Infrastructure (PKI),...

Author: Steve Lamb Date: 06/26/2006

Adrian J. Beasley

37 years in IT, I have worked as a contractor for the last 25. I have reinvented myself several...

Author: Steve Lamb Date: 06/26/2006

Duplicating Virtual Machines using SysPrep

This article was written by Mark Wilson. One of the joys of virtualisation is the flexibility...

Author: Steve Lamb Date: 05/10/2006

Creating a Mailbox quota report

Mark is a new contributor to the Industry Insiders forum, and has started his contribution with a...

Author: Eileen_Brown Date: 04/06/2006

How to create a Mailbox Quota report

I just spent nearly an hour searching for a quick and dirty report of non-default quota limits...

Author: Eileen_Brown Date: 04/06/2006

Mark J. Lucas

Mark is a Sr. System Administrator at the California Institute of Technology. He's been with Caltech...

Author: Eileen_Brown Date: 04/06/2006

Using the Sender Policy framework with Exchange SP2

Rodney has written a very useful article deatiling how to implement the Sender Policy Framework in...

Author: Eileen_Brown Date: 01/24/2006

Using the Sender Policy framework with Exchange SP2

Sender Policy Framework (SPF) is a type of DNS record created to help stop Spam. A lot of anti-spam...

Author: Eileen_Brown Date: 01/24/2006

The Pro's and Con's of System Lockdown

Rodney Buike has written a thought provoking article about the challenges of locking down production...

Author: Steve Lamb Date: 12/28/2005

The Pro’s and Con’s of System Lockdown

The Pro’s and Con’s of System Lockdown By Rodney Buike Locking down desktops is becoming more and...

Author: Steve Lamb Date: 12/23/2005

Email archiving - problems and solutions

Mark has written a good article about email archiving and different options that you can use to...

Author: Eileen_Brown Date: 12/19/2005

Archiving - has this happened to you?

Mark Arnold - MVP Has this ever happened to you in a small business? Your manager has come rushing...

Author: Eileen_Brown Date: 12/19/2005

Using Automated Deployment Services to deploy Windows XP

Mark has done some excellent investigation into deploying Windows XP using ADS (Automated Deployment...

Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 11/09/2005

Using Automated Deployment Services to deploy Windows XP

I've been trying out some workstation deployment scenarios to see if it is possible to use Microsoft...

Author: John Howard -MSFT Date: 11/09/2005

Free Microsoft Support resources

Blake has compiled an amazing collection of all of the support resources, newsgroups, how to...

Author: Eileen_Brown Date: 10/19/2005

Free Microsoft Support

Blake Handler Free Microsoft SupportAs a Microsoft consultant I’m pleased that practically every...

Author: Eileen_Brown Date: 10/19/2005

Blake Handler

Blake Handler "I’ve been supporting Microsoft products since they introduced MBASIC for S100...

Author: Eileen_Brown Date: 10/19/2005

Windows and Linux interoperability

Jeremy is delivering a Webcast on Windows and Linux interoperability which explains the concepts in...

Author: Eileen_Brown Date: 09/19/2005

What to do in the case of a security compromise

Harlan Carvey has written an interesting article examining misconceptions around incident response -...

Author: Steve Lamb Date: 08/15/2005

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