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The My TechNet Security tour is officially underway with the first stop in Winnipeg complete. As you are aware if you've ever attended an event we always have time for Q&A at the end of the day and there were a lot of good questions. All were answered
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I was catching up on my RSS reading and noticed a post by my fellow IT Pro Advisor, Ruth Morton , on the Canadian IT Managers blog . It seems that the time is nearing, time for another round of DST "fun". She posted some great links which I'll share here...
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You haven't heard much from my side of the blogsphere lately - I have been heads down working on completing the reference network infrastructure that Rod and I will be using in the upcoming Future of your Server Room tour. Someday I should share our framework
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Fear, uncertainty and doubt, aka FUD, we all know it, we all hear it and no one is immune to it. Cutting through the FUD is often difficult and the information, although public, in most cases takes time to sift through. One of the more prevalent arenas
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Gim Muthukumarana (Toronto, Ontario) Using WSS 3.0 without Active Directory The other night I attended a meeting of the Toronto Chapter of CIPS . Before the meeting got started I got into a conversation with Gim Muthukumarana from Iserve Technology Consulting
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5 sessions later - Barnaby and I on stage for the second time in two years, we delivered the content - Ottawa seemed to be pleased and we had a lot of fun.We're going to be going through the feedback and evaluation forms as well as comparing notes after
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Dave Lewis (Oshawa, Ontario - IT Pro) Windows Server 2003 R2, PMC and PSS An IT Pro in Oshawa Ontario wanted to share an experience he had with Product Support Services recently. I encouraged him to do so as all to often we let things get in the way of
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Simon Collier (Edmonton, Alberta, IT Pro) Windows Server 2003 R2 and DFS During the Edmonton stop of the Vista/Office/MOSS 2007 launch tour I met Simon Collier. Simon wanted to share some learnings he aquired with his implementation of Windows Server
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A lot of you have been asking for pre-configured VHDs so that you can test some of the latest Microsoft technologies. We get tons of requests for the VHDs we use when we are on tour, but due to licensing issues (i.e. the Core I|O VHDs were built with
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A while back I posted about the licensing changes around Virtual Server 2005 R2 and Windows Server 2003 R2 EE and DE . During the Core I|O Tour '06 this was something we mentioned a lot as well. As a refresher, if you buy Windows Server 2003 R2 EE you
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Robocopy is one of my top ten tools I have been using for years. I often recommend it to people asking how to migrate fileservers, copy files over the network, pretty much anytime you need to copy more than a few files. Now robocopy is pretty powerful
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As we head into a deluge of product RTMs in the next weeks (no I don't know the date for Vista RTM) I saw that Windows Defender has RTM'd. Windows Defender has been in beta for quite a while now, but testing has been completed and Microsoft's Anti-spyware
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A little while ago I wrote a post on how Rick convinced me to run Vista as a standard user . Vista sure makes this easy but Colin Harford has written a nice guest blog post on how he is able to run as a standard user on XP. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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So IE7 for XP and 2003 shipped the otherday and will be pushed out via Windows Update in the future. IE7 for English clients will be available for WSUS server synchronization from Microsoft Update starting Wednesday, November 1, 2006. This release will
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I have been using IE7 on XP for a long time now. In fact the beta and RC releases where one of the first things I installed on my own PCs when I needed to rebuild them. Over time I got used to the new layout, and now I am hooked on the tabs, the integrated
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