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Implementing Secure Wireless Networking - Part 2

Continuing the configuration of a secure wireless network, this part deals with configuring the IAS server to recognise authentication requests from your wireless device. The first part of configuring IAS is configuring a RADIUS client. In this case, Read More
posted Thursday, August 17, 2006 10:59 AM by jhoward | 0 Comments
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Implementing Secure Wireless Networking - Part 1

So I've got a few blog posts which piece together something I've been trying to do (and finally got working) since moving to Seattle. Namely - set up a secure wireless network. Now, I did have a wireless network at home when I was in England, but it wasn't Read More
posted Monday, August 14, 2006 10:16 PM by jhoward | 2 Comments
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Secure Wireless LAN Solution Webcast: Microsoft's Authentication Infrastructure with Aruba Networks' Mobile Edge

This webcast coming up next week took my eye as I've recently put in a (hopefully) secure wireless network at home over the past few weeks since moving over to the US. There's a few blog posts about that and some of the pain which has been involved - Read More
posted Thursday, August 10, 2006 1:19 PM by jhoward | 0 Comments
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Windows Small Business Server 2003 R2

I've just noticed that Windows Small Business Server 2003 R2 will be available next month. Some of the more significant changes are the expanded Exchange mailbox limit to 75GB, Windows Server Update Services (WSUS). In addition, SQL Server 2005 Read More
posted Wednesday, July 12, 2006 10:45 AM by jhoward | 4 Comments
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Windows Server 2003 R2 Datacenter Licensing Changes for Virtualization

Announced to day at the World Wide Partner Conference, Windows Server 2003 R2 Datacenter Edition (DCE) has undergone some revisions effective from 1st October 2006: It will be available through Volume Licensing License rights allow an unlimited Read More
posted Wednesday, July 12, 2006 10:40 AM by jhoward | 3 Comments
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Internet Explorer 7 Beta 3

Just seen that this is now available for download from http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/default.mspx Cheers,John. Read More
posted Wednesday, July 12, 2006 9:32 AM by jhoward | 0 Comments
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Shadow Copy failures: Scheduled task fails with General page initialization failed, error 0x8007000d.

I've rippled through quite a few nagging problems since my server failure at home a few weeks ago. One of the more intriguing problem I only noticed a couple of days ago. One server had not been running scheduled Shadow Copies. When you schedule shadow Read More
posted Thursday, June 22, 2006 7:00 AM by jhoward | 4 Comments
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Webcast series on Virtualization

You know how sometimes you become so focussed on one thing, you can lose touch with everything else going on around you? So my apologies on this one, only just found out about a series of six webcasts this month around virtualization. The first two Read More
posted Friday, June 16, 2006 1:17 PM by jhoward | 3 Comments
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Microsoft Codename Whistler Advanced Server is alive and well

Well nearly anyway. Long story about how I found this one, but if you run the Windows XP SP2 32-bit winver.exe on a Windows Server 2003 x64 SP1 machine, you get the screen shot below :) Maybe I should file a bug? Cheers,John. Read More
posted Thursday, June 08, 2006 8:21 AM by jhoward | 0 Comments
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WSUS SP1 (Windows Server Update Services) download link

Just spotted that WSUS SP1 is available for download. SP1 now supports updating machines running Windows Vista, comes with a newer version of MSDE and supports SQL Server 2005. Gives me my weekend upgrade task at home :) Follow this link for the WSUS Read More
posted Tuesday, June 06, 2006 4:08 AM by jhoward | 0 Comments
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Installing Virtual Server 2005 R2 on Windows SBS 2003 with SP1

Hot off the press (released yesterday) is a document providing information about installing Virtual Server 2005 R2 specifically on Windows Small Business Server (SBS) 2003 with SP1 installed. Download link is here. Read More
posted Friday, May 26, 2006 5:07 PM by jhoward | 1 Comments
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Windows Vista Beta 2, Windows Server "Longhorn" Beta

I've just been watching Bill doing the keynote at WinHEC - you can view it here. Some announcements he made (apart from Windows Virtualization) were that today we're making Windows Vista Beta 2, Windows Server Codename "Longhorn" Beta and Office Read More
posted Tuesday, May 23, 2006 10:05 AM by jhoward | 1 Comments
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How to remove a failed server from DFS in Windows Server 2003 R2

This week has been a little strained, hence quiet on the blogging front. Apart from a hectic week at work (more to follow on that shortly), the reason was a "disaster" which happened late last Sunday evening - everything was working at home one moment, Read More
posted Saturday, May 20, 2006 8:12 AM by jhoward | 2 Comments
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Internet Explorer Tip - Open new window

Here's a tip I learnt a couple of months ago and meant to post up before - totally forgot. Maybe it's force of habit, but rather than opening a new instance Internet Explorer, going to the address bar and typing in a web page, it's quicker to do start/run Read More
posted Tuesday, May 09, 2006 6:18 AM by jhoward | 5 Comments
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DHCP Client service required for Dynamic DNS Registration

One of those oddities I discovered a couple of days ago after trying to tune down my IIS box which is configured with a static IP address. I stopped the DHCP Client service as I figured (incorrectly) that it wouldn't be needed due to not using DHCP for Read More
posted Thursday, April 27, 2006 8:43 AM by jhoward | 1 Comments
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