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Given that the NAC (Network Access Control) market is one of the hottest segments in the industry (I think virtualization has that distinction at the moment) it is fitting to take a look at the variety of options available from Microsoft's Network Access
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One of the most compelling capabilities being added in IAG SP2 (which will also be available in UAG) is the 'virtual appliance' installation option. A virtual appliance is a preconfigured, ready to use Virtual Machine that already has Windows Server and
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One of the least known yet most powerful management features to ship with Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 is built-in Event Forwarding which enables large scale health and state monitoring of a Windows environment (assuming health and state can
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My name is Allen Stewart Team Lead of the Windows Server Customer Advisory Team in the Windows Server Division. We are a team of Program Managers that are experts in specific workloads/technologies. We work in the Windows Server Engineering organization
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One of the many enhancements in Active Directory Certificate Services in Windows Server 2008 is support for 2 node active / passive clustering. We have a great whitepaper, Configuring and Troubleshooting Certification Authority Clustering in Windows Server
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In most if not all enterprise customers most technology areas are driven by various teams responsible for a technology area. Some enterprise customers have more integrated technology teams then others. So how does this affect the common approach today
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Hopefully you get better presents than this, but if not, here are a couple of web casts I just did that you might be interested in: Certificate Services Updates Amesh Mansukhani, Senior Product Manager, speaks with John Morello, Program Manager, Windows
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Because CRL validity is so important to the functionality of your PKI, it's important to have proactive monitoring of the validity of your CRLs. Particularly in situations where you're using smart cards for logon, having a CRL go stale can be a very disruptive
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Pete Rivera is the Windows Team Lead on one of our DoD support teams and we've been working together on a NAP project. In addition to being a master of style and male fashion, Pete also puts together some great guidance for his customers. Recently, he
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A customer I work with recently wanted to have a scriptable method to take any given CRL and determine the total number of revoked objects it contains. Luckily, certutil combined with your favorite findstr / grep / regex application can do this quite
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Allen Stewart from the Windows Server Division (WinCat) team. I spend a lot of time with companies that are deploying a virtualized architecture for Datacenters and Branch offices. Some of the technologies leveraged in these scenarios, capacity planning
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Jeff Sigman (NAP Release Manager) just added a post I wrote to the NAP blog about an upcoming customer webcast. If you weren't able to make it to TechEd, you probably missed the session that fellow WinCAT PM Pat Fetty did with Hunter Ely, who is charge
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Most of the WinCAT team will be at TechEd next week delivering sessions and answering questions. Here's an overview of who's doing what when and where. Robert DeLuca (identity management) Working at the various Active Directory and Identity Lifecycle
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it's official, Windows Server 2008 (a.k.a Longhorn) was announced at WinHEC in Los Angeles. They keynote has a few cool demos and can be watched here (Windows 2008 details starts around 26 mins). Eweek has done a good summary of the launch; I love their
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Timing is everything. About a week after the TechNet podcast went live, the Channel9 video did too. Check it out at http://channel9.msdn.com/Showpost.aspx?postid=307679 . If you'd like to learn more about the PKI concepts I talk about in the video, you
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