Well, I guess you figured out my name is Daniel van Soest. I work for Microsoft NL as an IT Pro Technology Advisor, based in Amsterdam. Together with my colleague Tony Krijnen we work with the TechNet community in the Netherlands through TechNet events...

Everyone who uses SMS 2003 SP1 should deploy the SMS 2003 Inventory Tool for Microsoft Updates ! Systems Management Server (SMS) 2003 SP1 uses the Inventory Tool for Microsoft Updates (ITMU) to determine the update compliance of managed systems. This...

With every presentation about Virtual Server 2005 I get a lot of questions about Microsoft's vision regarding support of Microsoft products in a virtual environment. As far as I'm aware Microsoft published three Knowledge Base articles about this matter...

Yes! It's finally there, The Smart Way to Copy Files! SyncToy v1 Beta helps you copy, move, rename, and delete files between folders and computers quickly and easily. Increasingly, computer users are using different folders, drives, and even different...

I’m not an Exchange expert but I do know that in order to work properly the Exchange server needs a Global Catalog (GC) for name checking, etc. There seems to be an issue when you upgrade this GC to Windows Server 2003: After you upgrade the global catalog...