Orin Thomas will be presenting on Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1) Improvements. This demo heavy session will cover what's new, what has changed and the benefits that Windows Vista and SP1 bring to your organization. SP1 focuses on the major reliability...

Amazing and true! My kids have been using a fairly crappy machine to do their homework on - by todays standards anyway. Its an older AMD 3000+ proc with 1.5GB RAM and wait for it....two tiny PATA harddrives of 20GB and 40GB. Recently these drives have...

A few customers have asked me this one. Traffic considerations are important as placing the Network Policy Server (NPS) on the other end of a WAN link to your switch or wireless access point could pose significant design issues should you either have...

My direct colleague Jeff Alexander and our chief security officer here in Australia, Peter Watson together did a podcast with ITRadio's Patrick Gray while at AusCERT recently. Jeff talked all about one of my favourite technologies, Network Access Protection...

So I always like to hear war stories about people playing with our latest stuff. This week I got to hear about Matt Duggan who works for Transurban and was wanting to put Windows Server 2008 and Hyper-V RC1 on his Mac. Not just any Mac. This baby has...

I've not really kept this one much of a secret. Anyone who talks to me regularly will know this already - but I guess I better announce it officially. I'm leaving Microsoft Australia like so many others from Australia to join Microsoft Corporation in...

Today I posted a short and sharp screencast just showing the differences in Vista RTM to Vista SP1 in UAC prompting. We have worked hard in making sure that the original intent of system integrity is preserved though sometimes excessive prompting was...

I read this article from Angus today with much amusement. Apparently Vista is more insecure than Windows 2000. I found this really very funny. Why? The number of virus infections found by a virus vendor does not necessarily equal poor security. In...

Yesterday I published a new screencast to the new TechNet Edge site at http://edge.technet.com . Here's the blurb below that I put with it. Its interesting that people seem to think that Vista under performs in every area of the system which is quite...

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