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It's been a quiet month blog wise, but very busy otherwise. On August 25-28th I was at Tech.Ed Australia 2006 presenting two sessions on IIS (Everything web administrator needs to know about MOM 2005 and IIS 7.0 An End to End Overview). In mid-August, my IIS Insider article went up on Microsoft TechNet. Then on September 5th to 8th I was ...

Something that came across my inbox a week back. At the World Wide Partner Conference, Microsoft announced their 2006 Partner winners. Accenture and Avanade took out the award for Global Enterprise Services and Technology Partner of the Year. You can see a list of all winners here. Good to see some Aussies in the list as well!

I recently received a nice surprise from Microsoft. A number of MVPs (and others) were given a Microsoft ACE award for their contribution to the VS.NET 2005 Beta. Mine got delivered a few days ago. Some pictures below (with Channel 9 guy to show size). There are some clearer pictures of the cube available on other websites (1, 2). Thanks ...

Registration for Tech.Ed Australia 2005 is open. Register before 30th June for $400 off the regular delegate's fee. For those who'll be attending and reading this (all two of you!), I'm currently scheduled to be presenting a session on IIS Troubleshooting and Debugging, including coverage of the upcoming IIS Debug Diagnostics tool ...

When using HTTP based authentication (e.g. Basic, NTLM, Digest, Kerberos), Internet Explorer (IE) will continue sending the same credentials for each subsequent request to the server until one of two things happens: either (a) the user closes their browser or (b) the server refuses the credentials with a 401 status code. This behaviour is ...

Well, this is the obligatory first post. Welcome to my new blog. Hopefully we'll get to talk a bit about Internet Information Services (IIS) and related web technologies, and maybe about a few other geeky things as well. Until then, take care.