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You know… the kind of day where all of the hard drives fail on one of your domain controllers, and then the new sysadmin runs a script on your production AD environment that deletes all user accounts, and then a hurricane hits your backup datacenter and
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I just finished installing Service Pack 2 on my team’s SharePoint server, and the process went absolutely flawlessly (which is very different from some of my past upgrades). What made the difference? Reading the instructions (something we
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If you have been tasked with securing SharePoint, there are a lot of considerations to take into account. How do users authenticate? Does part of your farm live in an extranet or DMZ? How do you secure user-to-server communications? How do
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I’ve been waiting for this guide for a while (‘cause that’s how I roll), but if you are interested in guidance on when/how to use Active Directory in your perimeter network, the AD team has released a guide for that: Active Directory Domain Services in
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Just released, and only weighing in at 490 pages. You didn’t have anything better to do over the Thanksgiving weekend, did you? ;) Get it here. Brief Description This 490-page document covers the essential phases and steps to upgrade existing instances
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I was just reading through the SQL Server 2008 Compliance Guide that was just released, and it actually has some great information on taking advantage of the new features as part of your GRC program. Transparent encryption, policy-based management,
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It has been too long since I posted about the latest Solution Accelerators from my favorite team at Microsoft (er… the Solution Accelerator team). I have a couple of posts queued up in my head that I’ll write as soon as I have the time. In any case,
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After mentioning the new SharePoint Best Practices Resource Center, I see that they have also put up a Performance and Capacity Planning Resource Center for SharePoint Server 2007 . I am loving this Resource Center concept!
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In my last post , I lauded the SharePoint team for putting up a site covering their Best Practices, and mentioned that the other Product Groups should do the same. Ask and you shall receive… SQL Server Best Practices here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sqlserver/bb671430.asp
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Great concept! I hope that the other product groups follow suit and put their best practices all in one place… http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/office/sharepointserver/bb736746.aspx
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It looks like the Performance Tuning Guidelines for Windows Server 2008 document has been updated to include information on Performance Tuning for Virtualization Servers. As the Hyper-V RTM release is getting closer, this is good information to
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As I mentioned in an earlier post , the recently released Microsoft Operations Framework (MOF) v.4 is extraordinarily helpful from a practical standpoint in running your IT organization. I'm glad to see that they just released the job aids and templates
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I have been agonizing over this post for the last week and a half. I do my best in this blog to not post entries designed just to make me look smarter... I hope that you can use these posts to make your life easier, do your job better, and maybe have
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Because why wouldn't you? Best Practice Guide for Securing Windows Server Active Directory Installations Best Practice Guide for Securing Active Directory Installations and Day-to-Day Operations: Part 1 Best Practice Guide for Securing Active Directory
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Great post from Mitchell Ashley that accurately describes most demos I have seen (I've even been guilty of giving a few of these): Most bad demos are what I call "functional decomposition" demos. You know what I'm talking about -- after some
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