IT_Prose

After a long development period we recently shipped our IPsec guidance -- check it out -- http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/topics/architectureanddesign/ipsec/default.mspx Let me know what you think. This work grew out of a issue we were looking Read More...

I am doing some work around communities and have found some data that IT Professionals are not a loyal bunch. They tend to use communities -- blogs, newsgroups, forums -- for finding information quickly but they seldom come back to the same community Read More...

I have been thinking about whether management -- you know, whether your systems are up and running, healthy, patched -- and security are really different or are they really different views on the same problem -- Reliability. Is reliability really the Read More...

Welcome to IT Prose -- this blog is going to focus on the team called Core Infrastructure Solutions or CIS. We are a team of about 70 people, most of whom have been or still consider themselves to be IT professionals. Our team sits in the Server and Tools Read More...