Matt's written an interesting article sharing his experience "from the coal face" gained during years of exerience advising the military and leading companies in writing more secure software. I share Matt's view that it's far less expensive to fix security...

Just a quick note to announce that SBS 2003 SP1 has released to the web. Download it here! http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/sbs/downloads/sp1/default.mspx...

...as noticed over on Susan's Blog , avec some sage advice. Looks like the weekend's going to be fun....

Hey, Scripting Guy! At work we need to use a proxy server to connect to the Internet; when I take my laptop home to work, however, I don’t need to use a proxy server. I know I can use the Internet Options in Control Panel to change between using a proxy...

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I felt very privileged to be able to attend a BCS (British Computer Society) event held last night, purely co-incidentally, at the Microsoft Campus in Reading where I happen to work. The event was presented by Tony Sale and about how he led the project...

Just gone live is Service Pack 1 for Small Business Server SP1. This builds on the Service Pack 1 release for Windows Server 2003, but is tuned more specifically to the overall capabilities of SBS and introduces some additional features in this really...

Rob Garrison has done and documented performance tests comparing SQL 2000 and a beta of SQL 2005 in his “OLTP Drag Races” post. Guess what the result was?...

SP1 for Small Business Server 2003 has just been released today: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/sbs/downloads/sp1/default.mspx or http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=39425 This service pack is a lot more than just Windows Server 2003 SP1,...

Version 4.0.1 was published just a week ago. (How did I miss it?!)...

Here's (IMHO) an interesting webcast I've just found out about coming up next week covering a topic many people ask me about. The webcast is on 25th May starting at 11:30 PST (which should be, if my timezone calculator is correct 19:30 BST). In the webcast...

New report out from Pew on the growing importance of the Internet in the daily healthcare of people: "Eight in ten internet users have looked online for information on at least one of 16 health topics, with increased interest since 2002 in diet, fitness,...

Internetnews.com reports on a study completed by Forrester noting "most IT users are not satisfied with their company's IT support, and users are "less than satisfied with their relationships with their IT departments." The big dissatisfiers were the...

Computerworld had an article on the impact that Sabanes-Oxley compliance is having on IT projects: "Jim Morse, program office manager at Meijer Inc., a Grand Rapids, Mich.-based retailer, estimated that Sarbanes-Oxley-related quality-assurance testing...

I just recently received an email asking for advice about college/degrees/classes for new upcoming infrastructure architects. (see below) ---------------------------------- Hi: I have an AA in networking from a two year college. I would like to know,...

Noticed an interesting article in Computerworld regarding IT and business alignment. Of particular note was the following quote: "Alignment is a moving target, not a permanent condition. Moreover, the likelihood of achieving it is slim at best unless...

I have been lax on the postings lately because I underwent Lasik surgery on my eyes to correct bad near sightedness. It was an interesting experience from a technology perspective. At one point they do a full refractive analysis of my eye -- how is my...

The .NET framework ships with a very flexible tracing feature provided through the Trace class in the System.Diagnostics namespace. Debug.Diagnostics.Trace.WriteLine("My Debug Output"); Whenever you need to write some debug output just use Trace.WriteLine...

With SMS to Spaces you can easily send text messages to your MSN Space even if you are not near a PC! There is no charge for sending messages to your MSN Space however standard mobile charges apply. So you can be out on the road and still post text entries...

Follow this link to access free webcasts from technical experts showing you how to get the maximum value from a range of Microsoft technologies including Security of course. Please give feedback to this post if there are topics you'd like us to cover...

A few people emailed me asking where they could locate the download for the webcasts I recently gave, such as on Windows Server 2003 SP1 and Virtual Server 2005. I had to ask internally to find them - unfortunately, it's not as intuitive as I thought....

As SQL server 2005 gets closer more and more people are asking how much faster is it than SQL Server 2000. Thanks to Rog Garrison here's one of the first tests I've seen http://www.sqljunkies.com/Tutorial/077C7BEB-EB31-4A07-923D-BE309F59D0F8.scuk Thank...

IMHO many of the most interesting security labs are actually listed under "Microsoft Windows Server 2003" in the labs - these include IPSec, Group Policy and Rights Management. I've listed the available sessions for both below - just incase my earlier...

Most Outlook users create new folders to store emails. But not everyone realises that you can add much more than just email folders. There are six different new folders types in Outlook as follows: (1) Calendar items, (2) Contact items, (3) Journal items,...

People often ask me when TechNet plan to host security events North of London. I was born in Yorkshire and hence am well aware that we should head outside of the South East when we can. Well as you may be aware the Technical roadshow has already visited...