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From time to time I see errors occur when services fail to register SPN's properly. What is an SPN? Its a Service Principal Name and represents a service account's way of logging on to the domain through Kerberos. Users normally have a UPN or a User Principal
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So heres the official word from us with regard to DST in Australia. Not sure if this again affects WA....by the below it sounds like WA is again different. Were always different. Why cant WA just be part of the rest of the country? <sigh> In October
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So now that Im here and nearly finished my first week of being a Program Manager Im slowly coming to grips with the plans we have coming up. As I promised if youre using any of the products Im working on youre more than welcome to send me email about
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In my last post I talked about Softgrid 4.5 on Terminal Servers as part of the screencast I did on configuring Terminal Server Gateway with ISA Server . Actually I only just slightly touched on it at the end so I thought for this screencast that Id show
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I was talking with a friend on mine, Ian, a few weeks ago - he was talking to me about security and approaches he was looking at. Without telling all the details, I talked to him about Terminal Services Gateway and how you can reverse proxy it with ISA
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My direct colleague Jeff Alexander and our chief security officer here in Australia, Peter Watson together did a podcast with ITRadio's Patrick Gray while at AusCERT recently. Jeff talked all about one of my favourite technologies, Network Access Protection
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Yep its true. NTBackup is gone....at least as you know it! You can have it back again with a download but its only so that you can read data from tapes or media you already have that you created previously. Its been replaced with Windows Server backup
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In my session today I spoke of the GP Preferences Client Side Extensions (CSE). These are required for the new preferences capabilities in Windows Server 2008. Good news is that they have recently released to microsoft.com downloads. More information
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Yesterday marked the start of the Windows Server 2008, SQL Server 2008 and Visual Studio 2008 - Sydney was the beginning. The was plenty of buzz at the event with Deeps running around with a video camera interviewing people, there was a Twitter feed and
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Finally its released! I've been waiting for this for a long time now to try in my server and AMD has kindly provided one for me to review :) For now I'm leaving the discussion of the "who's got a true Quad core" aside as I'm sure you already know that
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This came across my email today - we have released a lot of new training courses all totally free and much of it using Virtual machines. Theres SQL Server, Windows Server 2008, SharePoint, Office Communications Server 2007, Exchange 2007 UM, Developer,
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I'm keen to see who's doing some interesting work in Australia on Windows Server 2008 or on SQL Server 2008. Are you piloting it yet? After all we're now in RC0 for Windows Server 2008 at least! If you are piloting currently, can contact me about it and
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A whole bunch of IIS 7 webcasts just released. Yeah I know it all says 9:30am Pacific time - which means about midnight Perth time, much of Asia and worse about 2am in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane etc Im sure they will be recorded though for later viewing.
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Finally its released! SCVMM is a management tool that allows you to manage multiple Virtual Server R2 hosts and the images running on them. Keith Combs has done a few "screencasts" of these (that's what he calls them - sounds like a Hollywood movie thing...:)
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Ive had a few people interested in the process of introducing this concept of an RODC into a Windows Server 2003 Forest. In this blogcast I'm showing how you can use the Windows Server 2008 installation option of Server Core in combination with RODC to
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