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21 April 2006
Hands-on Windows OS Internals and Advanced Troubleshooting
I received an email from David Solomon - author of Windows Internals this morning. By amazing coincidence, I happened to have a copy of it open and reading it just as the email came in. David & his colleage, Mark Russinovich regularly give courses Read More...
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22 February 2006
SMS 2003 R2 Public Beta
Just thought it was worth mentioning this - another "R2" joins the fold, hot on the heals of Virtual Server 2005 R2 and Windows Server 2003 R2. This time it's SMS which gets a refresh. SMS isn't really a product I can hold my hand up and say I know well, Read More...
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27 January 2006
IT Forum Highlights in Reading
For those of you who were unable to attend IT Forum 2005 in November, a quick reminder that there are two full-day events re-running some of the most popular content. This will be held on the Microsoft Campus in Reading. The registration links are below Read More...
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27 September 2005
DFS Namespaces and DFS Replication in Windows Server 2003 R2
Here's a link to a great overview whitepaper describing the Distributed File System Solution in Windows Server 2003 R2. DFS-N and DFS-R when used together provide a relatively simple and fault tolerant mechanism to access file, and is WAN-friendly. Read More...
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19 September 2005
Scripting with Monad
Monad is definitely a hot topic to watch in the future. I've just discovered that Jeffrey Snovers two webcasts about Monad are available for on-demand viewing. If you want to find out more about the future of command line scripting, these are a good place Read More...
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14 September 2005
ADFS in Windows Server 2003 R2
ADFS is "Active Directory Federation Services". ADFS is just one part of the R2 release coming at the end of this year. If you want to find out more, one place is IT Forum in Barcelona, November 15th to 17th, with a pre-conference day on 14th November. Read More...
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22 July 2005
Longhorn renamed - it will be Windows Vista
Yes, you heard right. I found out a little while ago and there's been a few rumours flying over the Internet this morning. However, now it's 2PM in the UK, and 6AM Seattle time, the announcement is now live on the Microsoft presspass site here . Read More...
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03 June 2005
KB 900076 - Windows Server 2003 SP1 as guest under Virtual Server
I blogged a week or so ago about issues when running Windows Server 2003 SP1 under Virtual Server 2005 . Two days after that, there was a knowledgebase article published (now why didn't that appear in my RSS feed off the support web site ?). The KB article Read More...
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09 May 2005
Windows Server 2003 R2 Customer Preview Program (CPP)
At the end of last week, the long awaited R2 Site on microsoft.com was launched where you can now also register for the R2 Beta 2 Customer Preview Program . I'll be blogging a lot more about R2 in the coming weeks, but for now, have a browse through the Read More...
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03 May 2005
Virtual Server 2005 SCSI Shunt Driver
It's rare you see something in a beta release which makes such a dramatic difference to performance. This is one such instance. If you want to save yourself over 5 hours when installing a Virtual Machine under Virtual Server 2005, read on.... Last week Read More...
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20 April 2005
How to sign up for the Virtual Server 2005 SP1 Beta
To participate in the beta program, you need to: Go to http://beta.microsoft.com . (Note: You need a Passport account to sign in. If you don’t have one, BetaPlace will help you create one.) Once logged into Beta Place with a Passport account, provide Read More...
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20 April 2005
Virtual Server MMS Announcement (1 of 2) - VS2005 SP1. Linux is OK :-)
I've just been listening to Steve Ballmer give his keynote session at the MMS (Microsoft Management Summit) and in particular wanted to tell you about some really significant changes to Virtual Server and Virtualisation in general which are happening Read More...
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23 March 2005
Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) Release Candidate is now available
Someone made a more appropriate choice of name (thankfully!) given some of the alternatives which have been on the table over the past few months. The next version of SUS (Software Update Services) will be officially called Windows Server Update Services Read More...
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22 February 2005
Access Based Directory Enumeration - markshareforABDE.exe utility download
Following the myriad of emails I received, here's a link to markshareforABDE.exe as used in my blogcast about Access Based Directory Enumeration a few days ago. Many thanks to DuWayne Harrison at Microsoft in the US, the author of this tool for giving Read More...
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14 February 2005
Blogcast on Security Configuration Wizard (SCW) in Windows Server 2003 SP1
The Aussies beat me to this one. If you want to find out more about the Security Configuration Wizard (SCW) new to Windows Server 2003 SP1, take a look at this excellent blogcast by Michael Kleef, a colleague and IT Evangelist from MS Austrialia. Nice Read More...
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