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Normally, when people start talking about blogging or hosting a custom web application like Gallery or WordPress , they tend to think of hosting them on Linux. This has generally been the case for a long time. In fact, for a while, I even hosted my personal
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Today, checking my email via Outlook Web Access, I noticed a difference in how graphic inserts are handled in the email viewing window. Say you insert a link to a picture in your email from a public unencrypted web site. When you open the message in OWA
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I'm sure this might open a can of worms, but it's a discussion that needs to happen. As virtualization technologies come into maturity, customers are more and more leaning towards virtualizing all of their infrastructure services. This includes Active
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If you've been following the news (and by news I mean the important stuff like technology and virtualization, not that political stuff) then you know that Microsoft just realeased and new virtualization product called Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 . I
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I solved a little problem for a customer the other day and I thought I'd share a little about it with you. It involves some VBScript user manipulation in Active Directory, and yes: there will be a code sample. Let's start with the problem. For whatever
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Do you remember the days when servers for remote offices were under someone's desk or in a janitor's closet? How about in a reconfigured bathroom stall? (Yes, I've actually seen these) Are those days still now for you? The problem of securing remote branch
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Many papers and KB articles have been posted about the "old-style" SYSVOL replication, or FRS, dealing with the various problems and the difficulty of recovering from an FRS disaster. In light of this, the product group has finally come up with
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Since we are on the topic of DNS as it relates to Windows and Active Directory, I thought I'd bring up another issue that I have regularly encountered at customer sites. This has to do with the configuration of the DNS client settings on DNS-enabled Domain
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I learned something new last week. It has to do with DNS recursive vs. iterative lookups and how the client workstation handles them. First of all, for those who don't know, a recursive lookup is basically a name request that is forward on until a correct
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One of my favorite objects is the Wscript.Network object. It's a very simple way to access certain environment variables in a VBScript. To invoke this object, this line must be inserted near the top of your script (certainly before you reference properties
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Sitting in training today, the class topic was scripting. Now, most of you admins out there have done scripting in one form or another - whether it was batch or VBScript or even the new PowerShell. I've done it - I've done it a lot, but most of the people
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