On Wednesday, Nov 2, I presented an technical overview of the Network Access Protection (NAP) technology to the Seattle Windows Networking User Group . We talked about the purpose of NAP, the different NAP enforcement methods, and then dove into the architecture and components of NAP, demonstrating autoremediation...

The Test Lab Guide: Demonstrate Remote Access VPNs ( http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/test-lab-guide-demonstrate-remote-access-vpns.aspx ) is now available. This community-authored Test Lab Guide (TLG) in the TechNet Wiki uses the Base Configuration TLG and the Routing and...

Talk about your opportunity to NETWORK! Members of the WSiX Network writing team are coming to Microsoft Tech Ed North America 2010 to demonstrate some of our ideas and upcoming work and to talk to you about the future of documentation for Windows Server. We’re hard at work planning the next...

On Wednesday, April 7, I presented a summary of updates that were made to the Domain Name System (DNS) client with Windows 7 to the Seattle Windows Networking User Group . We discussed a change to DNS devolution behavior that affects Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2, and previous operating systems...

The 2010 MVP Global Summit ended last Friday on a beautiful spring day here in the Seattle area. It was great to meet some new MVPs such as Mark Minasi , a prolific IT pro writer, and see some familiar faces, such as Ed Horley and Jennelle Crothers . Ed and Jennelle joined a Windows Server documentation...

The 2010 MVP Global Summit the week of Feb 16-19 provides an opportunity for Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals (MVPs) to meet with their counterparts in Microsoft product teams. This year, I will be presenting a DirectAccess breakout session and co-presenting a side session that describes the...

On Wednesday, I presented DirectAccess to the Seattle Windows Networking User Group . This was essentially an updated version of the DirectAccess information that I presented at the TechNet Firestarter Event . Thanks to copious amounts of Mountain Dew and pizza, it was a good presentation with lots of...

Lured by free pizza (and the chance to lay a firm technical foundation for an upcoming presentation on DirectAccess), I once again assailed the Seattle Windows Networking User Group with a fusillade of technical information, this time on the purpose and protocol details of the IPv6 transition technologies...

By teammate Brit Weston and I recently gave presentations to the Seattle Windows Networking User Group (free pizza will make me do crazy things like this :>). I presented a lecture on wireless and 802.1X-authenticated wired security technologies (802.1X, EAP, WPA, and WPA2) and Brit showed a demo...

In a previous post , I listed all of the Windows Networking blogs. To keep track of all of the official Microsoft product team blogs, see BlogMS - Official Microsoft Team Blogs at http://blogs.technet.com/blogms/ . This blog is a central location that tracks resources and activity across all Microsoft...

Hey Windows networking fans! Members of the WSUAN writing team are coming to Microsoft Tech Ed North America 2009 to demonstrate our Best Practices Analyzer content , show the Better-When-Connected documentation experience, show how your comments and ratings on TechNet and MSDN content pages result...

I was fortunate to be involved in helping Microsoft product teams put together a series of presentations for networking-focused Microsoft Most Valued Professionals (MVPs) at the MVP Global Summit 2009 here in Seattle and Redmond. Although there was no official Networking track for MVPs, we had good attendance...