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JANUARY 2009

[11/13/2008]
Connections 2008: What If You Ran Microsoft?
- Posted by: Editors
There's not a person in the IT industry who hasn't daydreamed about what it might be like to sit in the CEO's chair at Microsoft. (Except Steve Ballmer, of course. He's already sitting there.) So we decided to ask some Connections 2008 attendees what they would do in the same situation as part of our "If I Ran Microsoft..." video contest. Here are a few of the more interesting suggestions taken from the WinConnections show floor: "If I ran Microsoft, I'd change the help. Right now I don't find it very helpful! We need more examples of code." -- Jim... READ THE ENTIRE POST HERE.

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Absolutely dump Vista - then dump that idiot Ballmer and finally dump Microsoft Arabia. The number o...
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VMworld 2008
NEWS, INTERVIEWS, VIDEOS, AND MORE FROM VMWORLD 2008 IN LAS VEGAS
Windows IT Pro Editors Michael Otey and Jeff James report live from VMworld 2008 in Las Vegas.

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VMworld 2008

JANUARY 2009

[9/18/2008]
VMworld 2008: VMware ESX 4.0 Coming Soon?
- Posted by: Jeff James
Alessandro Perilli over at Virtualization.info authored an interesting blog post before the start of VMworld 2008, including some speculation on his part that the next-generation of VMware's ESX hypervisor -- ESX 4.0 -- may possibly be announced at the show. VMware did reveal some information about new ESX features during VMware CTO Dr. Steve Herrod's keynote on Wednesday morning, including some of the features that Perilli speculated would be in the next revision of ESX. Here's a partial excerpt from ... READ THE ENTIRE POST HERE. MAKE A COMMENT

TECH·ED 2008
NEWS, INTERVIEWS, VIDEOS, AND MORE FROM THE TECH·ED 2008 FLOOR

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Tech Ed 2008

JANUARY 2009

[6/13/2008]
Tech Ed 2008--Microsoft IT Eats Its Own Dogfood
- Posted by: Sheila Molnar
Had a great conversation at Tech Ed with Barry Briggs, the Director of IT at Microsoft, about a classic Microsoft topic—eating your own dogfood. Basically, Briggs’s internal IT group runs prerelease versions of Microsoft products and files bug reports and provides other feedback. Microsoft has a history of putting prerelease software into production use at the company to work through tough problems at the enterprise level. Briggs says that the politically correct way to describe this internal testing is “the first and best” program. But everyone just calls it “eating your own dogfood” or... READ THE ENTIRE POST HERE. MAKE A COMMENT

FEARLESS SECURITY
LIFE IN THE INFOSEC INDUSTRY: TALES FROM OUTSIDE THE FIREWALL
No-holds-barred discussion and commentary on security and other IT matters.

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Fearless Security

JANUARY 2009

[10/26/2008]
Top Ten Net-Surfing Risks at Work
- Posted by: Tony Howlett
Sometimes, the biggest threat to your network security can come from within, either intentionally or unintentionally. In fact, many breaches comes from someone on the inside doing something unintentionally that "invites" some external exploit in. Here is my list of the top ten list of dangerous activities to be doing on the Internet at work. Share these with your employees and let them know that their Internet excursions could bring risk to the company: 1. Opening forwarded emails with jokes, videos, pictures, etc. These are emerging as the biggest new threat to internal network security. Many... READ THE ENTIRE POST HERE. MAKE A COMMENT

IT 911
EXPERTS AND RESOURCES ON CRITICAL ISSUES AS THEY HAPPEN
When Microsoft security fires flare up, when a crucial patch will affect your networks ability to function, when you need a single place to get all the information on a situation that could affect your network, make IT 911 your first and last stop. Windows IT Pro authors and editors will have all the information and provide expert insights and experiences to help you.

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IT 911

JANUARY 2009

[9/8/2008]
Troubleshooting a Slow-Running Windows Server 2008
- Posted by: Alan Sugano
We are in the middle of a major upgrade project for a new client. The client has two VMware ESX host servers running a variety of virtual server guests, including two domain controllers (DCs), File Server, Exchange Server 2007, SQL Server 2005, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 and Terminal Server. All servers are running Windows Server 2008 as the base OS with a mix of x86 and x64. All the servers were prepped for an initial Exchange cut over last Friday. Earlier in the week, on Tuesday, we completed training on Exchange and SharePoint for the client and the servers ran flawlessly. ... READ THE ENTIRE POST HERE.

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Any response from Symantec?...
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HEY MICROSOFT!
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Hey Microsoft! Blog

JANUARY 2009

[9/5/2008]
Microsoft Responds to PolicyMaker Questions
- Posted by: Karen Forster
Reader Comment: The PM console was broken by IE7, shortly after Microsoft purchased PM. Microsoft never released a fix. They finally documented a registry hack to disable the IE7 functionality:http://support.microsoft.com/kb/938611. . This was really aggravating at the time, but turned out to be a... READ THE ENTIRE POST HERE. MAKE A COMMENT

INDUSTRY BYTES
NEWS AND VIEWS FROM THE WINDOWS IT PRO EDITORS

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Industry Bytes

JANUARY 2009

[1/7/2009]
Computerless Email for the Technology Challenged
- Posted by: B. K. Winstead
For people who work in IT, fiddling about with the innards of Microsoft Exchange Server or Active Directory all day, it's hard to imagine anyone who doesn't own or work on a computer or even have access to email. Yet most of us probably know someone who falls into this category—an older relative, perhaps, or just someone particularly technology challenged. (I once had a boss who apparently put off an anti-machine aura; any time we had new hardware or systems installed, you could count on them breaking the first time she tried to use them.) So, how do you stay in touch with your email-less friends and family? Well, you could... READ THE ENTIRE POST HERE. MAKE A COMMENT

YOUR SAVVY ASSISTANT
THE MISSING LINK TO IT RESOURCES

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Your Savvy Assistant

JANUARY 2009

[1/6/2009]
Green Means Go
- Posted by: Christan Humphries
When it comes to being green, I can proudly say that my environmental consciousness is well pruned. I recycle everything that I can’t reuse, bring my own shopping bags to the store for locally grown produce, suffer through teenagers’ loud conversations about terrible music on my bus ride to work, and give an adequate amount of thought toward (maybe) starting my own compost pile. I find it quite easy to be green in my personal life, despite Kermit’s thoughts on the matter. But when the hot topic “green computing” started popping up in office conversations like SUVs in the '90s, I saw a whole new... READ THE ENTIRE POST HERE. MAKE A COMMENT

SECURITY MATTERS
A BLOG BY SECURITY EXPERT MARK JOSEPH EDWARDS

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Security Matters

JANUARY 2009

[12/31/2008]
MD5 Collisions Put PKI At Risk
- Posted by: Mark Joseph Edwards
A new paper outlines how it's possible to use MD5 collisions to spoof a legitimate certificate authority's (CA) certificate, which means someone could spoof the security of nearly any site - even banks. The basic problem is that two different blocks of data could have the exact same MD5 hash sum. That of course means that you can't totally rely on the MD5 algorithm to provide an adequate check and balance. Unfortunately some CA's still use MD5 to sign certificates - that's one of those "Really Bad Things ™" that we hear about now and then. Some of the offending CA's include (surprisingly) RSA Data Security, Verisign... READ THE ENTIRE POST HERE. MAKE A COMMENT

HYPERBOLE, EMBELLISHMENT, AND SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATION BLOG
TRUE TALES, SNAFUS, AND URBAN LEGENDS ORIN THOMAS

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Hyperbole, Embellishment, and Sys Admins

JANUARY 2009

[8/20/2008]
Systematic Paranoia
- Posted by: Orin Thomas
As a security administrator you do have to assume that “they are all out to get you”. Not you specifically, but the resources it is your responsibility to manage. They aren’t doing this because you are guarding the crown jewels of Denmark. Attackers are trying every doorknob on the street hoping to find one unlocked, not just trying the ones where they suspect there is a brand new LCD TV. As a good security administrator you need to be systematic with your paranoia. Not only do you have to catalog the threats you face, you need to analyze and prioritize those threats. You need to do this in terms of the likelihood that the threat... READ THE ENTIRE POST HERE. MAKE A COMMENT

YOUR CAREER
GETTING STARTED, GETTING AHEAD, GETTING BETTER IN YOUR JOB ORIN THOMAS

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Your Career

JANUARY 2009

[6/4/2007]
Self Paced or Instructor Led Training
- Posted by: Orin Thomas
There are two basic ways of studying for certification. You do it all yourself or you go to a class. Before I go any further I’ll point out that I write Self Paced Training Kits for Microsoft, so there is a bit of an incentive for me to push one method over the other. On the other hand, I’ve also run instructor led courses. Anyway, now that that is out there, on with the post… Each type of study suits a particular person. If you simply can never find the time to study out of hours, or you need someone to give you a bit of a push when it comes to motivation, going to a class can be your best option. Some people simply need the routine... READ THE ENTIRE POST HERE.</