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May 2005 - Posts
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One of my clients is undertaking a domain consolidation process, moving to a new Active Directory (AD) forest called companyname .com with two child domains - emea. companyname .com and americas. companyname .com. All of the user accounts from the various Read More...
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I normally avoid blogging about Microsoft's release plans for new technology as they tend to be out of date almost as soon as they are written; however, at last week's Microsoft Technical Roadshow , John Howard gave one of the clearest examples I've ever Read More...
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Last year I commented that network access protection (NAP) had slipped from a planned feature pack for ISA Server 2004 to Windows Server 2003 Release 2 (R2). Well, it seems that has changed. Confirming what I wrote last March, when I blogged about the Read More...
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In one of the SQL Server sessions at last week's Microsoft Technical Roadshow , Michael Platt showed the first three minutes or so from an MSDN Channel 9 video. In it, we saw one of the systems at Microsoft's labs in Redmond where ISVs and OEMs assist Read More...
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I was at a presentation last week where some interesting statistics were given about Microsoft's own IT operations: 300,000 devices for 92,000 users in 89 countries. 7,000,000 remote connections per month. 3,000,000 internal e-mails per day. 100,000 e-mail Read More...
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It had to happen - with music single sales falling and downloads incorporated into the official UK music charts (since 17 April 2005) one day a ringtone-derived music single (the inevitable evolution of a music single-derived ringtone) would outsell a Read More...
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So you thought that old version of your website was gone forever? It may have been a little naive of me, but I figured that once I put up a new version of my website, then that was it, the old one was overwritten. Not so, it seems - today I stumbled across Read More...
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Over the last few years just about every network administrator I've worked with has laughed at the idea of a Microsoft firewall in an enterprise environment (at least as a front line of defence - many organisations use Microsoft ISA Server behind another Read More...
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A couple of days back, I came across a forum post on things to ask your ISP before you sign up - looks like some good advice to me. Read More...
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At the danger of being flamed by Apple Macintosh fans everywhere (please don't) - I thought Macs were supposed to be simple. To be honest, that's one of the reasons I didn't get on with my iMac in the late 90s - it was too big a shift for me as a long-time Read More...
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Finding information on the Microsoft website is not always easy, but there is some good stuff buried deep there. Like the Windows Server 2003 TechCenter, with topics including: Best practices for security Active directory best practices Managing core Read More...
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Today has not been a good day for me and computer hardware. It all started a couple of weeks back, when I dropped the bag in which I carry the Dell Latitude D600 that I use for work. When I took the computer out of the bag, I had cracked the case on the Read More...
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I picked up the following advice for troubleshooting application of group policy objects (GPOs) from John Howard at a recent Microsoft TechNet UK event and thought it might be useful if I posted it here: Is the client operating system Windows 2000 or Read More...
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Earlier today, I blogged about some of the tools that are available for monitoring Active Directory (AD) enterprise replication and troubleshooting Windows authentication . Given that AD is so heavily reliant on the domain name system (DNS), it seems Read More...
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Unlike Windows NT domains, Active Directory (AD) domains have multiple masters and so all domain controller servers must be kept up-to-date with directory modifications made at other domain controllers. AD uses two forms of replication between domain Read More...
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A few weeks back I was at a Microsoft TechNet UK event where John Howard demonstrated the free tools provided by Microsoft to troubleshoot and diagnose account lockout and management issues for Windows NT, 2000 and 2003: acctinfo.dll (also included with Read More...
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In my last job, I managed the migration of a major fashion design, marketing and retail company's European business from Novell NetWare and GroupWise to a Microsoft platform. With a limited budget (none) for migration tools, only free utilities could Read More...
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After installing Networks Associates/McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator (ePO) for a client, I was mystified by the lack of a policy page for VirusScan Enterprise 7.x. VirusScan Enterprise 8.0 was there, as were competitive products (e.g. Norton Antivirus Corporate Read More...
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I was trying to track down the source of an IP address conflict earlier today and I came across two sites offering a search service for the initial 24-bit (6 digit hexadecimal) vendor portion of an Ethernet media access control (MAC) address. The IEEE Read More...
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I run Windows Server 2003 on my work laptop (largely because I'm getting up to speed with Windows SharePoint Services right now). I find that pretty much anything designed for Windows XP runs under Windows Server 2003, but there are some configuration Read More...
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There. Done it. Bought an iPod Mini on the way out of Heathrow this morning... (and my iTrip Mini should be in the post later today...) So I finally joined the iPod generation (and I'm well impressed). Okay, so the software setup had a few hiccups on Read More...
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Some people have commented that I may be a little biased towards Microsoft... and whilst at times that may be a fair comment, if you look at my computers I use various open source programs, I do criticise the software giant from time to time and, let's Read More...
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Just over a year ago, my private blog carried a post which gives a 10,000 feet view of Microsoft ISA Server 2000 . I haven't done anything with ISA Server since then but over the last few days, I've been installing an new ISA Server 2000 array into an Read More...
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One of the most useful web parts that I've seen for SharePoint is FeedReader , from Smiling Goat . It is, quite simply, an RSS and Atom aggregator for SharePoint sites, implemented as a web part that can consume multiple feeds and represent them in a Read More...
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I suffer from information overload. I don't read half my e-mails, and much of the syndicated weblog content that I subscribe to passes me by too. I'm a family man, with little time right now for much else apart from baby talk, nappies, mowing the lawn Read More...
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Sometimes, when I'm on a client site, I think that it would be really useful to have an Ethernet switch with me but generally they are too big to carry around (even my excellent NetGear DS108 hub is a bit on the chunky side). Then last week, I spotted Read More...
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I recently blogged about Microsoft Identity Integration Server (MIIS), which is Microsoft's platform for connecting directory enabled applications and facilitating identity management. For organisations that require flexible support for directory enabled Read More...
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