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New Role, New Blog

Posted Wednesday, November 01, 2006 8:08 PM by BruceCowper
It has been a long time on this blog, but I thought I would share with you that I am now the Canadian Security Lead, well my official title is 'Senior Program Manager; Security Initiative' :) This means that I am back and will be blogging on here and Read More...
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Blog Switch (you don't get rid of me that easily)

Posted Sunday, February 26, 2006 1:41 PM by BruceCowper
For all of you wondering if I had disappeared from the planet, you may be pleased to know that I am simply moving blogs. Based on your feedback the Canadian IT Pro team is amalgamating our efforts and our blogs in to two new spaces: The Canadian IT Pro Read More...
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A Huge Thank-You to all!

Posted Tuesday, February 14, 2006 9:32 AM by BruceCowper
It seems like a world ago, but as a follow up from the Vista Beta 1 Install Fest last year, we (and that is everyone that came along) have received a letter from Foodpath in Mississaga, thanking us for the donation. “On behalf of the board of Directors Read More...
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TechNet Build'06 Tour - The Secure Well Managed Infrastructure

Posted Thursday, February 02, 2006 10:20 AM by BruceCowper
If you haven't already heard about it in the TechNet flash , from the blogs and Microsoft TechNet site, we are less than a month from the start of the Build'06 tour Build'06 is aimed at everyone that designs, deploys, secures and maintains networks, from Read More...
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TASK Server 2003 R2 Security

Posted Monday, January 30, 2006 9:13 AM by BruceCowper
Last week I had the pleasure of delivering a session to the TASK which concentrated on Windows Server 2003 R2 Security and Management. For those of you that attended, I hope you found the session useful and it was great to get so many questions and your Read More...
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Inspire Series Workshops

Posted Monday, January 30, 2006 8:57 AM by BruceCowper
If I was to tell you that there is a series of practical, consultant lead workshops covering a range of popular topics, designed to help you deal with real world challenges, produced and delivered by people who live and breath this stuff day in and day Read More...
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Toronto Area Security Klatch event tonight

Posted Wednesday, January 25, 2006 9:35 AM by BruceCowper
As a reminder, the TASK meeting is tonight. I am presenting a session on Windows Server 2003 R2 around security, interoperability and other additions in the latest incarnation of the server operating system. For attendees (on a 1st come 1st serve basis, Read More...
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New Blogs for Canadians

Posted Thursday, January 12, 2006 1:43 PM by BruceCowper
After suggestions from a number of you we have launched a couple of new blogs... Now before you say - we have so many we already read, why more? We have created blogs aimed at groups of people the whole team will be posting to. They are: Canadian IT Pro Read More...
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TechReady in Seattle....

Posted Wednesday, January 11, 2006 4:52 PM by BruceCowper
You may have wondered why I have been a little quiet of late. Well, the reason [beyond actually having a vacation of Christmas and New Year] is that I am currently in Seattle at an internal Microsoft event called TechReady. At this conference, we have Read More...
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Happy New Year!

Posted Monday, January 02, 2006 1:31 PM by BruceCowper
2006 is looking to be one of the most exciting years for the IT Pro Community and we are absolutely pumped about what the year has in store for us! Just to give you a little run down of some of the really cool things to watch out for: TechNet Canada tours: Read More...
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ISA and Antigen Hands On Labs

Posted Friday, December 02, 2005 9:43 AM by BruceCowper
Last week we held a 2 day series of hands-on labs for ISA server and Antigen that convered a huge range of scenarios and practical solutions for security, junk mail filtering and anti-virus. I hope all of you that attended will agree that it was an awesome Read More...
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biometrics - fingerprint access

Posted Tuesday, November 29, 2005 11:44 AM by BruceCowper
I have had the MS fingerprint readers for quite a while now and have found them to be great convenience devices. These consumer units were produced in conjunction with DigitalPersona but are aimed at helping us deal with a challenge we face more and more Read More...
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Regional Weather Station with MSN Direct Weather Data Service

Posted Monday, November 28, 2005 1:22 PM by BruceCowper
For all of the weather watchers out there (and in Canada I think that means all of us...) I have over the summer had the priviledge of testing this little beauty: http://www2.oregonscientific.com/shop/product.asp?cid=2&scid=4&pid=603 http://www.sharperimage.com/us/en/catalog/productdetails/sku__OQ003 Read More...
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Windows Defender (Microsoft Anti Spyware tool)

Posted Sunday, November 27, 2005 1:06 PM by BruceCowper
Further to my last post, for those of you concerned about the Sony DRM rootkit you may be happy to know that the Windows Defender (was the Microsoft Anti Spyware) tool has a signature for dealing with the software. http://blogs.technet.com/antimalware/archive/2005/11/12/414299.aspx Read More...
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root kits

Posted Sunday, November 27, 2005 12:11 PM by BruceCowper
I thought it was about time I jumped on the bandwagon about rootkits in light of the recent challenges the the Sony software. I can imagine that there are many pieces of code out there that have been designed for one purpose or another and unintentially Read More...
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