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Here are the resources for Vista that we are discussing this quarter… Business Desktop Deployment Info BitLocker Drive Encryption Overview Vista Step-by-Step Guides for IT Pros Anti-Phishing Technologies User Account Control Overview Windows...

Here are the Exchange 2007 resources mentioned in the live sessions we are covering this quarter…. You had me at EHLO – Exchange Team Blog Exchange 2007 Beta 2 System Requirements Exchange 2007 Beta 2 Download Exchange TechCenter Home...

Michael Murphy, a most awesome co-worker of mine, interviewed Terry Myerson – General Manager of our Exchange group. They discuss the 64–bit imperative for Exchange 2007. Check out Harold Wong’s blog while you are at it!   Cheers...

I am a little late getting this posted!  These are session resources for the Exchange 2003 events we are delivering this quarter. Some of these are links from the slide decks. Others are links that are just good to have for Exchange and Vista. Don’t...

I am delivering a webcast next week on Securing Wireless Networks using PEAP. We will delivering this cast at 10am pacific on Wednesday the 16th. The actual title of the cast is “Secure Wireless LAN Solution: Microsoft’s Authentication...

MSNBC has an article on how Microsoft has given Vista to a large number of security professionals to “hack”. The effort is designed to reveal security flaws before Vista is released as a production product. My Opinion – I have to ride...

ugh. I wasn't going to write about this since it doesn’t actually change anything. But yesterday’s post was mildly therapeutic. Here we go…… Back in April, I booked a flight from SoCal to Seattle, through Orbitz. When...

I have decided customer service is dead. By dead, I mean it sucks. A couple of months ago I moved from one state to another. On one level I was excited to travel across country, see some places I have never been, and re-establish myself in a new community....

…but feel free to run it…   I was talking to some teammates about running and I mentioned a TV show I recorded about an endurance runner here in Seattle. He was showcased on a local program regarding his first attempt at running the...

….because I want to hang out with other geeks! Since I am new to the Redmond area, I would like to get involved in some local user groups. In the interest of transparency, I will state up front that working with user groups fulfills a work-related...

There are several events coming up you should know about… Windows Vista Technical Overview, Exchange 2003 Operations & Exchange 2007 Sneak Peak – I will be presenting this information on 8/15 in Portland, OR and 8/17 in Redmond,...

I am sitting in a Microsoft IT Pro Evangelist session listening to Scott Stout, Program Director of the Microsoft Technet Subscription program, tell us about some great new changes and offerings in the Technet Subscription program. Check this out….....

I have had an interesting time of late trying to identify a new ISP. Seems there is no single, unified place, anywhere in all of existence (that I can find) where I can provide only the service address and get a list of providers that service me....

One of the most common troubleshooting question I receive is regarding Group Policy. Usually because a policy does not seem to be applying to the user or computer as configured on the DC.   So let’s look at the basic troubleshooting for 2000/2003/XP...

….and just what is an AUV? It is an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle… About two years ago I met Christopher Carter at a Technet Event in southern California. He and I talked about a project he was working on with some colleagues to make an...

I have been tossing around the idea of creating some xCasts on different things for a while. What is an ‘xCast’? Just a catch all category for all the different types of “casts” that can be created these days. I recently hooked...

Here are some additional resources for the webcast I am delivering today. If you have not had a chance to sign up, head out to this link. EXC-05 Session Info on Technet Exchange Server 2003 Home Page Tools for Exchange Server 2003 Download the Exchange...

When was the last time you went out to Windows Update? I started setting up a Windows 2003 R2 Enterprise server this evening to add in as a DC to my home domain. I do this stuff all the time and have gotten pretty automatic with the process. I realized...

I am delivering a Webcast on Exchange 2003 Tips and Tricks this Friday at 11:30am Pacific Time. I will dive into some of the features of Exchange 2003 Server that you may not be familiar with or just don’t have an opportunity to work with on a...

I am delivering a webcast on above topic tomorrow. You can register here. Here are some supporting links and info that may or may not come up in the webcast - Microsoft Technet Site SCRM 2006 – Trial Version Download SCRM 2006 Home Page SCRM...

I just finsihed updating my blog server to Community Server 2.0. Fairly painless although it did take some rummaging around to get the MetaBlog posting working again with BlogJet. I won’t have a chance to dig into and enable any new features till...

I have taken the leap and started using Vista and Office 2007 on a daily basis. It has only been 2 days but I must say I am quite pleased. I have manged to get most of the apps that I run on a daily basis up and working with Vista. I have yet to put Office...

When I decided to get all gung-ho on blogging, I did it for all the wrong reasons. There was some perceived pressure from management that blogging would be an unwritten requirement to succeed come annual review. There was the competitive factor from seeing...

  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...