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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

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