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Blog Post: TechNet Wiki Pick for the Week: AD FS 2.0 Config DB Migration to SQL

Keith Combs

The AD FS configuration database stores all the configuration data that represents a single instance of AD FS 2.0 (also known as the Federation Service). You can store this configuration data in either a Microsoft SQL Server® database or using the Windows Internal Database. The Windows Internal Database...

on 8 Jun 2010
Blog Post: Exchange Server 2010 RC – now available for download

Keith Combs

Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Release Candidate helps IT Professionals achieve new levels of reliability with greater flexibility, enhanced user experiences, and increased protection for business communications. Flexible and reliable - Exchange Server 2010 gives you the flexibility to tailor your deployment...

on 19 Aug 2009
Blog Post: Interop Road Show Webcast - live this week on 5/6/2009

Keith Combs

On Wednesday May 6th, we’ll be broadcasting the Interop Road Show . Actually it’s going to be a bit of a simulcast. Matt Hester will be in Downers Grove, IL doing a live delivery of the sessions, and we’ll pick up the audio and demonstrations via the magic of Microsoft LiveMeeting. In addition...

on 2 May 2009
Blog Post: The Exchange Team goes on camera

Keith Combs

At TechEd 2008 Harold Wong managed to snag a bunch of the Exchange Team and get some interviews on camera. Harold does a really good job of interviewing them and as you can see he has now posted some of the videos to the edge.technet.com website. To simplify matters a bit, I grabbed the embedded...

on 20 Aug 2008
Blog Post: Windows Group Policy Fundamentals - 14 Part Webcast Series

Keith Combs

Windows Group Policy is a topic that is relatively timeless. For those of you looking for some fundamental information, don't forget the fourteen part series we did a while back. It's a good starting place. We are planning an update to the series so hang tight until then. In the mean time, here are the...

on 5 Apr 2008
Blog Post: Server Unleashed

Keith Combs

on 29 Feb 2008
Blog Post: Updated IEEE 802.11 Wireless LAN Security Whitepaper

Keith Combs

Although wireless LAN networks provide freedom of movement, they also require you to address security issues that are not as prevalent on a private cabling system for a wired LAN technology such as Ethernet. The main security issues are the authentication of wireless clients and the encryption and data...

on 2 Feb 2008
Blog Post: Windows Server 2008 Compare Series kicks off next week

Keith Combs

When you get a moment, checkout the webcasts I'll be doing starting next Wednesday. This is all part of the Windows Server Compare series of screencasts and webcasts coming out. TechNet Webcast: Windows Compare (Part 1 of 6): Reliability in Windows and Linux (Level 200) Wednesday, January 23, 2008...

on 16 Jan 2008
Blog Post: Windows Server 2008 screencast - User Account Control (UAC)

Keith Combs

I know what you're thinking... Isn't UAC just a Windows Vista thing? Nope. Get all the details at Chris Henley's blog post on the subject. Chris is on a rampage and is cranking out a bunch of Windows Server 2008 screencasts. See this one at : http://blogs.technet.com/chenley/archive/2007/08/30/windows...

on 7 Sep 2007
Blog Post: Windows Vista Hardware Assessment webcast now available

Keith Combs

Yesterday Baldwin Ng delivered a nice webcast on the Windows Vista Hardware Assessment v2.0 release. This webcast is now available for on demand viewing so you can watch it with the Live Meeting wrapper. Or download it and watch/listen later at your leisure. Baldwin did a real good job of describing...

on 19 Jul 2007
Blog Post: Windows Server 2008 screencast - Core Read Only DC creation

Keith Combs

If you took a look at my previous Windows Server 2008 screencasts, you'll recall we left off with a Core server that had been activated and joined to our test domain. Sorry for the delay, end-of-year happened. Now things get interesting. This time, we're going to take that member server and convert it...

on 15 Jul 2007
Blog Post: Windows Server 2008 screencast - Server Manager

Keith Combs

The Windows Server 2008 Server Manager is a portal of sorts to the installation, configuration, management and monitoring of the roles and features. Your initial view of those roles and features will be rather empty because of course, you need to install the ones that are germane to your particular server...

on 18 May 2007
Blog Post: Windows Vista Resource Kit - in the wild

Keith Combs

The astute know the Windows Vista Resource Kit is shipping and in the wild. When I arrived at my house Friday, my copy was sitting on the front door step. I'm surprised UPS didn't charge extra for the weight. The resource kit book is huge. 1500+ pages huge. The microsoft.com/mspress area strangely...

on 16 Apr 2007
Blog Post: People, Process and Technology sometimes collide

Keith Combs

I'm the people part of the equation. Recently the process and technology ran right over me and turned me into IT road kill. So what happened? Could it have been avoided? Definitely... Let's set this up by describing my typical work environment. Like many field employees, I am a mobile worker. When I...

on 7 Apr 2007
Blog Post: Get your Daylight Savings Time (DST) answers real time

Keith Combs

Join members of the daylight saving time team who will be online to chat with you about your specific questions February 24 - March 13: 06:00 A.M. – 06:00 P.M. Pacific Time. Join the chatroom at: http://www.microsoft.com/businesssolutions/chatroom.aspx . I logged in a little while ago and it appears...

on 2 Mar 2007
Blog Post: Desktop Deployment Tools - one stop shopping

Keith Combs

Each week for the next couple of months, my team will demonstrate a variety of tools that make operating system and application deployment easier. The demos of course show off how to deploy Windows Vista and Office 2007. However, you can also use the new tools to deploy Windows XP and Office 2003 if...

on 21 Jan 2007
Blog Post: How would you like a complimentary copy of Office Professional 2007?

Keith Combs

Unless you're still partying like it was 1999, you realize it's now the year 2007. A little bit has happened since 1999 and we've been busy producing great products. We're going to give away one of those products at the TechNet events... you might have heard of it... Microsoft® Office Professional 2007...

on 6 Jan 2007
Blog Post: Can your data center handle a hurricane? Ours can

Keith Combs

Usually we discuss hurricane or typhoon force winds in the warm tropical climates of the world. Well, unless you haven't been paying attention, Seattle and surrounding areas got hammered about 24 hours ago and a lot of essential services are still being affected. People got killed and the area will take...

on 16 Dec 2006
Blog Post: Seattle wind storm - webcasts canceled

Keith Combs

FYI, there was a rather serious storm last night in the Pacific Northwest area of the US. As a result, many people are without power and that is having an impact on a variety of services. As I understand it, we won't be delivering the 10 webcasts that were scheduled for today. A lack of power has impacted...

on 15 Dec 2006
Blog Post: The Trifecta is done - Exchange Server 2007 RTMs

Keith Combs

It's an exciting time. First there was Office 2007, then Windows Vista. Now we have released Exchange Server 2007 to our manufacturing process. I'm sure we'll have the RTM bits on the TechNet and MSDN download centers soon for you online subscribers. Hint hint.

on 8 Dec 2006
Blog Post: The Glass is 10% Full

Keith Combs

Do you ever look to the past to see what the future holds? You should. I cut my computer teeth long before most people. My computer heritage goes back to my diapers. Dear Dad was a career IBMer and I was playing with IBM Selectric typewriters and dictaphones long before most people had ever seen Lotus...

on 12 Nov 2006
Blog Post: Guess who's giving away Xbox 360's ???

Keith Combs

Me and my posse , that's who!!! We're going to give away an Xbox 360 to some lucky person at each live TechNet Seminar. I'm still checking on the exact information, but here's what I do know... Starting next week, we'll have one Xbox 360 to give away at each live seminar. You can get a view of all of...

on 29 Oct 2006
Blog Post: VPN Is Dead - here's your new killer app

Keith Combs

One of my favorite features of all time is RPC Over HTTP. Most of you are familiar with it because it allows Outlook to encapsulate RPC calls inside a HTTP packet or frame. That frame must of course travel across the internet to your “Front-End” server or proxy. All of that voodoo just makes...

on 8 Jul 2006
Blog Post: Windows Vista Webcasts - 4/17 through 5/17

Keith Combs

Monday the TechNet Team kicks off some of the really serious stuff around Windows Vista from an IT Pro perspective . I’m going to lead things off with a look at security changes implemented inside the new client operating system. We’ll discuss group policy objects, Windows BitLocker drive...

on 16 Apr 2006
Blog Post: Harold Wong's Most Excellent Exchange Adventure

Keith Combs

Just before Christmas, Harold Wong went on a “most excellent” adventure, dude. Harold delivered a fourteen part webcast series on Exchange Server 2003 . I had the pleasure of helping field many of the questions. As you know, we record the webcasts for on demand playback. However, in the past...

on 25 Feb 2006