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Off to Barcelona
Ok, I'm officially a geek but I couldn't resist. I'm in business class with Adam Carter on a direct...
Author: davete Date: 11/09/2007
Analysis of Windows Server 2008 – AD Snapshot Viewer
This feature is currently known as the “Database Mounting Tool” (DMT), which is better than the...
Author: davete Date: 10/18/2007
Silverlight Enterprise Deployment Guide
This guide is intended for any organization who would like to deploy, manage, and troubleshoot...
Author: davete Date: 09/28/2007
Windows Server 2008 Virtualization released at RC0!
What does this mean? You'll be able to try out using hypervisor. The biggest advantage of hypervisor...
Author: davete Date: 09/13/2007
Server 2008 Password Policies - PSOs
In Server 2003 or R2 one of the major limitations was the ability to only have one password policy...
Author: davete Date: 08/08/2007
Awesome Server 2008 Screencasts
I came across these from a fellow evangelist and I had to blog it. You can see how to setup server...
Author: davete Date: 07/16/2007
IIS7 on Server Core
Server core is a capability included in Server 2008 which installs the bare minimum to have one or...
Author: davete Date: 07/06/2007
New SSL FTP on IIS7 screencast
This is a sweet screencast on the new FTP included with IIS7 (I referenced it on my previous blog...
Author: davete Date: 07/02/2007
The facts - Vista is more Secure
I always like stuff like this when I can show people who are skeptical that Microsoft's OSes are...
Author: davete Date: 06/22/2007
SQL Server 2008 (Katmai) - New features for IT Pros
SQL Katmai was recently officially branded SQL Server 2008. The June community technology preview...
Author: davete Date: 06/18/2007
Forefront Server Security Management Console Beta 2 Released!
In addition to centrally managing Forefront Security for Exchange Server, Forefront Security for...
Author: davete Date: 06/07/2007
IAG runs ISA?
What is not obvious is the fact that the IAG appliance has the full edition of 2006 ISA standard...
Author: davete Date: 05/31/2007
Forefront IAG 2007 SP1
On May 21st, we announced IAG's SP1 - RTM expected around this August. I'll give a summary of the...
Author: davete Date: 05/30/2007
FTPS in IIS7 is sweeter
Yes, I'm not really sure why I chose the word "sweet" the first time around but I figured I might as...
Author: davete Date: 05/23/2007
FTP in IIS7 is sweet
The new FTP program that comes as a separate download from Longhorn server is sweet and a MUCH...
Author: davete Date: 05/17/2007
Vista code more Secure than Mac
This link on macworld.com was posted up on one of our internal aliases and I thought it rocked. A...
Author: davete Date: 05/03/2007
Internet Application Gateway (IAG) - Overview
Microsoft's Intelligent Application Gateway 2007 just released this February. It is a secure remote...
Author: davete Date: 05/02/2007
ISA 2006 versus IAG - Which one to use?
If you read the only two places where ISA is compared to IAG, it doesn't really give a simple and...
Author: davete Date: 04/23/2007
Announcement Rumor
Talk about EXTREME!! I can't believe that we are going to be doing this. Now we're getting into the...
Author: davete Date: 03/31/2007
Evangelizing "the internet"
Well, not really but what I'm evangelizing is related and I thought that'd be a catchy title. I...
Author: davete Date: 03/27/2007