While on the subject of patching here is the home page for the newly released Windows Server Update Services (WSUS), the next generation of SUS. To find out more about patching, management and securing your networks, have a browse through Eileens or Steves...

Enhancing the configuration of my ISA server at 3AM this morning (couldn't sleep), I was trying to resolve an issue that's been nagging me for days now. I wanted to delete a couple of old network Web Listeners I had previously created for testing some...

You may have missed TechEd last week in the US. I did due presenting at the Technical Roadshow, but something rather significant caught my eye just now from an internal email, which I wasn't aware of before. Gordon Mangione in his security keynote mentioned...

OK, so Kevin beat me to this one. I've been busy in meetings is my excuse. Microsoft Update is now live. I've been using this for a while now and it is fantastic. You can patch not just your base OS (as in Windows Update), but Office (as in Office Update)...

“Okay… Windows Updates does my OS, and then I have to go to the Office page to scan for Office updates… and then I have to go to the Exchange page to find updates for my Exchange Server… and…” Yeah… It’s a pain. But your crys have been heard. Finally,...

I never thought I’d be posting so much about timezones; but in that spirit, I’m going to create a category for it in case there are other posts: http://blogs.technet.com/evand/archive/category/10087.aspx Microsoft released the Microsoft Time Zone utility...

TristanK has been playing BF2, and considers himself an uninformed expert....

Laks has posted a very good summary on how to implement host header mapping for authoring and production in the newsgroup which I would like to share with all of you: I had gone through some trouble in figuring out this need. With help from stefans notes...

TechEd 2005: Learn. Solve. Grow. Yep. We learned. We solved. And we growed. Here I am on the plane ride home. And judging from all the TechEd bags, VB.NET magazines being read, and funny ‘No, I will not fix your computer’ t-shirts, this is a plane that’s...

Here is a 4min 8sec blogcast showing how to add a multicast transform to a SQL Server Integration Services package (the package created in the previous blogcast). A multicast transform can create two or more replica data flows from one original data flow...

Wenn die zwöflte Tech·Ed 2005 Europe eröffnet, werde auch ich unter den tausenden Besuchern zu finden sein. Fast unser gesamtes Team ist in der Woche in Amsterdam und wird sich mit großem Enthusiasmus in die >400 verschiedenen Sessions, Hands-on Labs,...

Microsoft announced the new Architect Program at TechEd today. Are you a Superman MCSE and wondering, "Where do I go next?" Here's your next big challenge! Read all about it http://mcpmag.com/news/article.asp?editorialsid=811 !...

There have been some great successes in the labs. We've had an incredilbe job here, attempting to deploy over 120 labs over 8 tracks, a new interface, implementation of a bug fix/reporting process, pushing out updates and managing a 2 acres of workstations!...

OK, the wi-fi is simply not enough to accomodate the traffic. My blog post yesterday failed and I can't VPN. It looks like I'm going to have to write these as it happens and then try to post at night or later in the week. I'm working the Hands on Labs...

Here's a tidbit I learned about from Dave Kowalsky. Thanks Dave! http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=164300985 Summary: At its annual conference in SanJose, the PCI Special Interest Group detailed updates and extensions to...

I'm sitting in a bright yellow director's chair in a sea of cafe tables and chairs in Caribbean colors, just across the floor from the registration booth. Behind me the exhibition booths stretch for acres in the cool concrete underground room of the Orange...

Just a quick trip I took…...

I'm finding word of mouth networks / social networks incredibly interesting - the Geek Dinner being a classic case in point. Robert spoke about his experience as a blogger and the impact that such networks have had on him and the world at large. It was...

Boy, did I get an introduction to podcasting at Tech-Ed. By chance, the webcast team shared central control room with the Podcast crew. These guys were working, literally around the clock, to capture video moments of all sorts at TechEd. Leading the charge...

To view recordings(podcasts) of all kinds of interesting demos and interviews direct from TechEd USA click here Thanks to Paul Fallon's post for providing the URL of the site listed above. As Mike Hall explains "A podcast is an audio or video file that...

Jeffery Palermo has posted a nice summary of the myths Steve and Jesper dispelled @ TechEd USA. Like many of you I was unable to be there in person though I am going to TechEd Europe in July and look forward to hearing the session for myself. Jeffery's...

You need to give finance an ROI analysis for the budget ask for new PCs (pre-loaded with the latest software, so you don't have to spend so much time maintaining it), right? Intel has one for you. Use t he PC Refresh Analyzer tool to help determine the...

After my bad monday a few weeks ago with a corrupt hard disk, the good news is that I picked up my new laptop disk (finally!) yesterday and am for once having a reasonably good Friday. It's been a generally quiet day having been offline for most of it...

Check out these video podcasts from TechEd 2005 - they've been running around recording interviews with speakers, attendees, expo hall, and capturing as many demos as possible - a complete list of videos (including a TechEd 2005 Jackass video) can be...

Get your friends and family, all those folks that come to you for computer help once their machines have become hopelessly hijacked and infected by spyware and malware, to learn how to run as non-admin. Aaron does a webcast you can watch (passport sign-in...