ActiveSync 3.8 is now available for download Of course, the official download page doesn't say anything about being supported under Windows Server 2003 (my main laptop OS), but it does work without any of the workarounds such as those I blogged about...

Please use this web log as a community forum to discuss your questions, comments and best-practices related to VPN, Dial-up and Routing technology on Microsoft Windows clients and servers. var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl."...

As promised, here's the last blogcast installment walking through a VSMT migration of an NT4 server into a virtual machine running under Microsoft Virtual Server 2005. This blogcast walks through deploying the disk image into the blank VM and seeing the...

Just in case you haven't heard it a billion times already (if you have - sorry, but I think this is worth covering again) - we just released the first beta of our upcoming Anti-Spyware product. The interface is pleasant enough, and it caught a bunch of...

A friend put me on to this the other day: Microsoft has released a free beta download of our new Windows AntiSpyware application . I ran it on a couple of machines at work and at home and it detected nothing, but on my daughter's PC, it found several...

You can attach each virtual machine running under the same instance of Virtual Server to a separate physical network and also isolate the virtual machine network traffic from the host, as follows: On the network adapters (NICs) to which you will attach...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I share a folder on a remote computer? -- RS Hey, RS. One of the great things about WMI is the fact that - with one or two fairly obscure exceptions - anything you can do on the local computer you can also do on a remote computer....

This tool has been available for a couple of months but I only found out about it yesterday; I was reading some stuff about SQL Server 2005 and found a reference to say this tool will be supported in SQL 2k5. Realising such downloads have sometimes escaped...

In February, Microsoft Australia again runs its national security summit in most states. Three tracks of content, 24 sessions covering Development, SQL 2005, Exchange SPAM filtering, Identity Management, Operations Management, Security Risk Management....the...

From the desk of Peter Meister: We successfully put out another version of this document. This version includes the following changes: § Added new sections: Access-based Directory Enumeration, Active Directory, ADPrep.exe, DCDiag.exe, Ntdsutil.exe, Security...

It was brought to my attention that following the steps listed in KB327000 ( http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=327000 ), which applies to Exchange 2000 and 2003, to assign a user "Send As" permission as another user did not appear to work. I too tried...

Dont you just love this?! Real time protection, auto updates....awesome stuff.... http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/spyware/software/default.mspx...

Now that you're wondering what a headline like that is doing on a Microsoft site, let me explain. I joined Microsoft in Nov 2004 after working for both a large Database vendor and an Enterprise Linux vendor. Now that I have been here for a couple of months...

I'm "virtually" (no pun intended) at the end in the series of blog entries walking you through a VSMT migration of an NT4 server into a virtual machine running under Microsoft Virtual Server 2005. If you've missed out so far: Part one can be viewed here...

Please note that while this process worked for my team, I am not implying that this is a best practice. Instead I am simply documenting our experiences with this exercise. I guess the first thing that you should do is read or listen to Managing by Values...

I use this quick-tip frequently to determine if I'm a local administrator. The trouble with some tips is that you just know them, they're so simple so you don't bother to tell people as you're under the assumption they "must have known that". This exact...

HP is delivering a live Webinar on January 14, 2005 on Virtual Machine Management. Here's the description from HP: "Learn the advantages of virtual machine technology and understand how the Virtual Machine Management Pack allows you to manage and control...

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With everyone back from vacation, my project has kicked into high gear. I've not been as good as I should be on posting, but things are a little crazy. I will fill you in on a training session that I am going to tomorrow. It is called "Cross-group Collaboration"...

John Howard has posted a series of blogcasts (e.g., video clips published on a blog) that walk you through the process of using VSMT to migrate a Windows NT 4.0 server into a virtual machine running under Virtual Server 2005. You can find them on his...

Michael Swanson beat me to it blogging about the availability of the beta code - if you've not already seen it I recommend checking out his article for an excellent overview. The beta code itself can be freely downloaded from here . Our internal testing...

An entire week of webcasts can be registered for at the ISA event site "Whether you plan to upgrade to Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server 2004 or want to learn how to get the most from your current ISA deployment, this week of technical webcasts...

You might want to bookmark this one, a single resource with lots of information. Before you "run" and upgrade system to Windows 2003 domain there are some considerations to take: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;%5BLN%5D;555040&SD=tec...

Experiencing this? When you try to install/uninstall some application/s, you may get warning messages like: "The Windows Installer Service could not be accessed" "Windows Installer Service couldn’t be started" "Could not start the Windows Installer service...

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