Well its time for a first again! Recently my British colleagues have pipped me in the blogging stakes and the new trend of blogcasting. Well now its my turn! I have some hosting space now and I'm using Windows Media Services 9 series to stream the content...

If you had questions WRT the sessions I did at Melbourne's Security Summit....post them here! I did the SMS and MOM session aswell as the Identity Management session.

Joe posted a question with regards to a couple of us using a different visual theme at the Summit than the default Windows XP blue toolbar etc. The answer is that Windows XP Media Centre's recent release sported a new visual theme called "Royale" and...

Amazing! Brisbane has a higher attendance at the Security Summit than Melbourne and Sydney! We even have people flying up from Sydney to attend for those that missed out on the event there! Anyhow, as usual, if you attended my sessions at the Security...

As I promised, heres the placeholder for the Security Summit for Adelaide. If theres any questions you wanted to ask but didnt, post them here...! Ill answer them all here in due course.

Jeff and I (along with many others) are on the Microsoft Security Summit presenting in six cities. Jeff’s doing a session on “ Defense in Depth against malicious software ” and I’m doing “ Managing a Windows Server 2003 Environment...

If you attended my two Canberra based sessions at the Microsoft Security Summit and have questions that you wanted to ask, post them as a comment against this blog post. They come through to me personally as the site is moderated and you can let me know...

Cristian Croitoru asked: MIIS 2003 can be installed (AFAIK) only on Enterprise version of W2K3; apparently Service Pack was supposed to enable installation on the standard server (why on earth there was a restriction at the beginning I would not have...

Rob Asked: "...We are deploying a few SIP Servers in client sites to eliminate attack vectors from external instant messenger issues. I know that Microsoft has deployed this technology extensively across all of its branches, however I question how this...

Paul Kougi asked: "...I was wondering if it was possible to use bits downloading (with the BITS software pushed out) on an NT4 PC using the legacy client?..." BITS is only supported on Windows 2000 and higher. There are two clients, the Legacy client...

Cristian also asked: "...When you configure it via GPO to update from your local WUS or SUS all the options become greyed out, which is fine.. However, I would appreciate a button with a Update from WUS/SUS now! in that area, this will help me a lot...