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I recently received an email asking – “How can I populate Internet Explorer Zones using Group Policy?”. I receive this email pretty frequently so I thought I would just blog it….
First, get into the Group Policy Object Editor then locate...
The first episode of the much hyped up NerdTV is now available for download…..This first episode interviews Andy Hertzfeld one of several people who developed the original Apple Macintosh operating systems.
I am an old Apple user myself so I have looked...
LCS 2005 with SP1 MP for MOM 2005 — The Live Communications Server 2005 with SP1 Management Pack for MOM 2005 monitors the health of computers running Live Communications Server 2005 with SP1 on Windows Server 2003 and alerts IT administrators about...
SharePoint Portal Server 2003 Word Breaker Update — This update includes seven word breakers for use with SharePoint Portal Server 2003. The word breakers are used to word break documents in the following languages:
Czech
Danish
Greek
Hebrew...
Wow. Learning a lot and we are only 3 hours in. We have a good instructor - uses a lot of good analogies to communicate concepts. I can finally separate some of the SQL 2000 info from SQL 2005 properly and will have a much better foundation...
I am getting into this blogging thing....In fact, consider this my replacement for all the FPS games I gave up a couple years back because they were just too addictive for me. (I did jump back into the fray for Halo 2 but I avoided XBox live with it.....I...
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I admit it…..I am a SQL n00b…..So I am taking a SQL 2072 course next week in Oklahoma City.
Go ahead…..I know you want to…..have your chuckle about how Oklahoma sucks and you...
I have been wondering about our (humans) dependence on technology a lot lately. Particularly electronic technology. Since these devices all rely on electricity, and solar power just isn’t up to snuff, what is going to happen when we do finally run...
I have received a number of requests for the slide decks from our Rock Solid SQL 2005 session so I have decided to post them here and refer people to the blog instead of flodding the MS Mail servers with a buch of decks.
Cheers!...
Using WSRM and Scripts to Manage Clusters — Microsoft® Windows® System Resource Manager (WSRM) is a feature that is included in Microsoft Windows Server™ 2003, Datacenter Edition, and Windows Server 2003, Enterprise Edition. This paper describes how you...
Visio Connector for MBSA — The Visio Connector for MBSA (Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer) is a Visio COM add-in that allows IT administrators to view the results of an MBSA network scan on a Visio network diagram.
Enterprise Update Scan Tool v2...
Anytime you wait for technology to refine itself and THEN jump in to the fray, you run the risk of not knowing what everyone else takes for granted. I have been learning this first hand with becoming a blogger. I am roughly 2 years behind the blog-rush...
Okay. I admit it. I like Karaoke. I have been going to Karaoke bars/clubs/places for 12 years now. I started gong with some acquaintances from a BBS I used to run in the Dallas area. For 5 years I only sang one song ever – Wicked Game by Chris Isaak....
ugh…….
Demonstrating a product can be a love/hate relationship. BillG knows this first hand from the famous and quite public Comdex 1998 USB Crash.
I like demos. In fact I prefer demos to all of the slides because, when they work, they seem to communicate...
I recently did a webcast on Windows 2003 Remote Administration and ran into a few issues (mainly me being long winded) and wasn’t able to complete some of the demos. As a result, I have received a number of requests for information on specific...
This nice little titbit regarding virtulization came across the wire today……
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Microsoft President, Steve Ballmer, stated publicly at the Microsoft Management Summit in Las Vegas on April 20th, 2005 that we see virtualization...
I will be delivering a webcast this Friday on Securing your Perimeter with ISA 2004. I have provided supporting links and docs below for what will be discussed in the webcast.
ISAServer.org
ISA 2004 SP1
ISA 2000 SP2
ISA 2004 Hardening Guide
Using...
I will be delivering an AD Diagnostics & Troubleshooting Webcast this Friday. I have collected all the working links for the important docs and utilities that will be mentioned or demo’d in this session.
Session materials
Designing...
***Updated***
***I added references to the tools that I was unable to demo due to time ***
I will be delivering a WebCast on the above subject tomorrow. I am doing Part 2 of the webcast while my most excellent colleague, Chris Henley, presented Part...
I happened to be on vacation in London when the bomb scares were going on. In fact, we arrived in London on the 21st, the day of the failed attempts.
We didn’t want to let the recent events deter us so we rode the tubes while we were there….
And one...
Being new to the blog-o-verse, I am learning the tools of the trade.
I spent the better part of today fumbling with a combination of BlogJet, Community Server, MetaBlog API’s, Windows 2003 NTFS Permissions, IIS Configurations, and finally, ISA 2004....
I am delivering some Live Technet Briefings next week in Santa Barbara, CA on 8/16 and Burbank, CA on 8/18.
I am delivering the same sessions in Irvine, Ca on 9/13 and San Diego, Ca on 9/15.
The subject will be SQL 2005 and will be a little different...
For the last few months I have bitching to myself about how when I mow the yard, my mulching mower doesn't seem to be mulching anything. So I make the call to get a new mower blade because when I bought the mower it did a very good job.
Now this isn't...
I went to an NPA mixer this evening and met some interesting folks. Going to remember as many names as possible....Phil, Jeffrey, Jay, Richard, Marc, Daniel, and Elisa. And thanks to Chris for inviting me out.
This particular mixer was for the San...
I delivered a webcast yesterday on Security Risk Management. I promised some resources and links to some of the items mentions in the webcast. Of particular interest were the following items --
Microsoft Security Risk Management Guide
National Instutute...