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April 2006 - Posts

First SWIUG meeting - it finally happens!

Posted Tuesday, April 11, 2006 8:34 AM by Ken
Tonight I attended the innaugural meeting of the Sydney Windows Infrastructure User Group (SWIUG) - a new UG devoted to discussing Windows infrastructure technologies and solutions. Jeff Alexander talked about DFS and storage improvements in Windows Server Read More...
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Are host-based software firewalls worth it?

Posted Friday, April 7, 2006 8:12 AM by Ken
Rocky Heckman (MVP - Security) posted a summary of a recent conversation on our local MVP discussion list. I agree with the thrust of Rocky's post. I'm just going to address a few additional points that were raised during the discussion. a) Outbound Read More...
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Everything a Web Administrator needs to know about MOM 2005

Posted Tuesday, April 4, 2006 8:46 AM by Ken
Received from Michael Leworthy at MSFT Congratulations, you have been selected to speak at TechEd 2006 in the Developer or Web Track **Please read email in full** With the sold out success of last year’s event, we expect a total of 13,000 attendees Read More...
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Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2 now free

Posted Tuesday, April 4, 2006 8:23 AM by Ken
First Microsoft cut pricing on Virtual Server 2005 R2 last November. Then VMWare announced that VMWare Server (to replace VMWare GSX Server) would be free when released. And now Microsoft has announced, effective immediately, that Virtual Server 2005 Read More...
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MOM 2005 - Placing computers into maintenance mode on a schedule

Posted Monday, April 3, 2006 9:38 AM by Ken
I was watching the recorded webcast of Jeff Alexander's Sydney presentation on Active Directory monitoring using MOM 2005, which he presented at the recent Security Summit roadshow. I think there was an unanswered question around putting computers Read More...
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Automate IE proxy settings config - the safe way

Posted Sunday, April 2, 2006 8:28 AM by Ken
See in the IIS Security newsgroup no less: Configuring Internet Explorer to use proxy server has never been easier: If you want to configure it from command line, look at: If you take a look at the webpage, you are offered the download of an .exe (without Read More...
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